athenara



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    His mother told him the old stories.
    That Amaterasu breathed them fire and his flames bled black into their hair.
    Sister Tsukuyomi watched their journeys in the night, and her white eye painted them pale.
    And Susanoo, the last of the three kin, threw aside his armour and sword and granted Uchiha the right to call upon his shield.

     

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    -Sasuke faced the beast of black flame and ire and asked: "did you never think of the future?"

     
    I never had the opportunity.

    “Is this your opportunity then?” Sasuke asked it, bleeding from his eyes and wounds as his body tore itself apart forever. “Is this your punishment or mine?”

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    In his faith, in his clan, there were several important customs when it came to putting the dead to rest:

    1. Their custom was to burn the body and place the decorated urns in the Naka Shrine vaults, to be kept safe from worldly harm.

    2. Sasuke had to plant a seed in the earth for each fallen member of his family so that they could give back to the earth what the land granted to them when still alive.

    3. Flickering flames that held their shape for weeks on end were placed on the Naka River itself. To remind the clan, they may be dragons of fire, but they still came from the sea.

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    At eighteen, Sasuke returns to the village—withdrawn, traumatized, and unwilling to talk about the past. Kakashi is assigned to watch over him. He doesn’t expect it to turn into anything more.

    Within a week, Sasuke starts testing boundaries in physical ways, and Kakashi struggles with how to respond. Over time, their uneasy companionship shifts. What grows between them isn’t simple, but it is steady: trust, desire, and a kind of healing—for both of them. [COMPLETE]

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    “After my death, do not kill Madara. Uchiha and Senju must not fight each other ever again.” The peace is made but Tobirama and Madara might find the price to pay too high. Canonish AU

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    “Consider how this looks. The Senju proposes peace at the height of their power. The Uchiha, already losing, don’t have the resources to match the Senju. If the Senju provides us with food and armour, the Uchiha must become subordinate. Is that what you think of as peace, Senju? Over at the Uchiha compound, we call that subjugation by the most powerful.”

    “It seems that there is only one possible solution: the Senju must choose a symbol to subjugate itself to the Uchiha to balance out the scales. For that role, I volunteer myself.”

    The wise ones know: fires can warm and not burn; and rivers, if given strength and permission, will carve the land.

    (Or, the one in which Tobirama becomes Madara’s concubine, and peace is won and held through neither power nor love, but food, water, clothes, and medicine.)

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