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    It's not that Tobirama doesn't want to cry. He's well aware lacrimation is the body's natural response to a range of emotions and generally has positive effects, such as the release of oxytocin and endorphins, that reduce stress.

    It's not that he doesn't want to cry. It's that Tobirama can't.

    Madara wants to help with that.

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    02 Feb 2026

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    Tobirama drops heavily - one knee to the floor, then the other, Madara’s hands on his shoulders and the moonlight cutting across his face. As few times as Madara has seen Tobirama like this, he’s watched him wear that same expression on every instance - faintly belligerent, a crease between his brows and a pull at the corner of his severe mouth.

    Awful. Lovely. Awful for how lovely he finds it, and how incredulously anyone else would laugh at Uchiha Madara declaring the white demon’s face beautiful.

     

    Two shinobi stagger their way through an undefined relationship and accidental kink over three turns of the seasons. Tobirama attempts to keep it scientific.

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    02 Feb 2026

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    In a moment of desperate clarity, as the world crumbles toward inevitable darkness, Tobirama attempts the impossible. Hurled backward through the fabric of time itself, he awakens in a younger body during the blood-soaked era of warring clans.

    With fragments of another's memories entangled with his own, Tobirama navigates the delicate threads of history he once helped weave. Each careful intervention creates ripples through a tapestry he thought he understood—strategies shifted, words measured, confrontations reconsidered.

    But when fate places him face to face with the very men whose paths he seeks to alter, Tobirama discovers an uncomfortable truth: changing destiny requires confronting the darkness burning within himself as fiercely as in those he once condemned.

    Some cycles, it seems, are not so easily broken.

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    31 Jan 2026

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    Tobirama couldn’t believe this.
    The manifestation of his soul, the sum of his inner desires, shamelessly cuddling up to Madara at night without his knowledge?

    Scandalous. Bad, bad soul. They were nothing more than ex-enemies and strangers to each other. Madara was going to hunt him down for the audacity any day now.

    (Elsewhere, Madara yawned. “Hn? Oh. Little cat.” He shuffled around in his futon and gestured for the snow leopard to come closer. “Well, settle in then. Futon’s warm.”)

    Au where people’s souls manifest as shadow animals and Tobirama’s soul is a menace to society just Tobirama.

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    28 Jan 2026

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    In the shadow of a village built on impossible dreams, two men find themselves bound by an arrangement neither sought. Tobirama, the accomplished alpha who carries his failures like stones in his chest, has exhausted every medical intervention, every desperate attempt to fix what his father's cruelty carved from him. Madara, the omega who makes alphas kneel, refuses to bend to a society that would see him broken before it sees him equal.

    When Hashirama's well-meaning machinations bring them together, what begins as mutual convenience becomes something far more dangerous. In the space between expectation and reality, between the roles they cannot play and the people they truly are, an understanding takes root.

    But some hungers run deeper than flesh, and the greatest intimacy may lie not in what bodies can do, but in the brutal honesty of being seen, truly seen, by someone who knows what it means to disappoint the world simply by existing.
    Sometimes the only way forward is to stop pretending to be whole.

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    23 Jan 2026