The room was quiet, the only sound the crackling of the fire in the hearth. Hiruzen sat behind his desk, his hands resting on the polished wood, his eyes fixed on the door. He was tired, more tired than he had felt in years, and the weight of leadership pressed dow...
2024-10-13 05:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe air in the council room was tense, the weight of unspoken truths pressing down on everyone seated at the long, polished table. The Hokage sat at the head, his hat tilted back slightly, his eyes weary. Across from him, Homura and Koharu sat, their expressions ref...
2024-10-13 05:11:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe rain tapped against the windows of the Hokage’s administration building, a steady rhythm that filled the quiet room. The bookkeeper sat hunched at his desk, a nondescript figure among many in the dimly lit records office. To anyone looking, he was just another faceless worke...
2024-10-12 22:22:32 +0000 UTC View PostMukai Kohinata stood at the door of his son's hospital room, the pulse pounding in his ears, a dull, relentless rhythm. The messenger had come and gone, leaving nothing behind but words and implications enough to make Mukai abandon a mission halfway done. He pushed open the door an...
2024-10-12 21:32:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning arrived quietly, the clan waking with a kind of deliberate slowness. The hum of daily life began to stir—doors creaking open, distant voices calling, the shuffle of feet across cobblestones. The air in the Uchiha compound was foreboding. People went about their daily ...
2024-10-10 11:45:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fourteen: Turmoil
He stood in the field where the grass came up to his knees, wet with the dew that hadn’t burned off from the morning. The sun was a pale thing behind the clouds, the wind blowing just hard enough to carry the scent of rain. Shisui was still, listening to the world come alive around him. ...
2024-10-05 11:12:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind came down cold from the valley, sharp and biting. It tugged at my jacket, pulled the loose ends, like it was trying to rip me open. Down below, in the dim light of dawn, the hamlet sat quiet and small, as if the world hadn’t noticed it yet. Smoke drifted up from the chi...
2024-10-05 03:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt might have been a week since.
The room smelled of damp earth, like the stale air in a trench after days of rain. It smelled of exhaustion, sweat. The ceiling pressed low above us, and the walls felt close—too close. I hated places like this—dark, cold, the kind that remind...
2024-10-03 20:52:54 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s been three days.
The sky was still black, not yet softened by the break of dawn. A faint line of grey on the horizon hinted at morning, but the night held on with a fierce grip. I sat in the trench, knees drawn to my chest, hands buried in the mud, waiting for the ligh...
2024-09-27 13:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostBlood-stained in the rain,
Heads bow to the crimson earth,
A warrior's birth.
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He stood in the field, corpses heaped before him, mud soft underfoot, rain slow and cold, pattering against the earth. The murmur of soldiers shifted in the mist. ...
2024-09-25 03:11:15 +0000 UTC View PostMother shot me a worried glance when Father returned from his meeting without speaking a word. The man disappeared into his room for a few minutes before returning, his expression betraying little.
“Follow me,” he ordered, donning his flak jacket. “We are going sparring.” ...
2024-09-24 00:38:06 +0000 UTC View PostI stood in the fading light of my room, shadows pooling at my feet like something like some forlorn thing, without weight or tether to the world. Dust hung in the air, caught in the last slivers of sunlight, unmoving. I watched it float there, in the stillness, in the quiet that fel...
2024-09-21 11:33:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Sasuke Uchiha’s designs have ripened and borne their dark fruit. The Fourth Shinobi War has come, and with it, the threat to wipe Konoha from the annals of history. From all sides they rise—Sand, Stone, Sound, Cloud, Mist—pressing down like wolves at Fire’s edge. The Leaf, though she fights, can barely withstand them....
2024-09-18 14:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostChris adjusted the issued plate carrier, the weight settling like an old habit around his shoulders. The boots—standard issue—clanked as they struck the steel floor, catching the light that flickered above, fluorescent and sterile. Ahead, the door to the briefing room slid open wi...
2024-09-18 12:26:24 +0000 UTC View PostLittle oni's glare burns,
Red hair sways in mountain winds—
Hatred undying.
***
The march stretched long, the horizon offering no promise of reprieve. Dust clung to Gyakkyou's skin, turning his sweat into a gritty layer that only reminded...
2024-09-18 12:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostBlood-soaked fields of red,
Silent cries beneath cold skies,
Ashes drift like snow.
***
The narrow mountain pass wound through the valley like a serpent, flanked by sheer cliffs on either side, their jagged edges reaching to...
2024-09-18 12:22:36 +0000 UTC View PostWith adversity,
Pain will always trail behind,
Ever intertwined.
***
Two days.
It felt longer.
Gyakkyou’s legs ached, the muscles frayed from hunger and exhaustion, but still, they moved. They had to. His breath came in shallow ...
2024-09-18 12:21:42 +0000 UTC View PostFour Weeks Later.
I watched, expressionless, as Father turned to regard the ANBU standing outside the door.
“What is it?” Fugaku asked.
“Urgent summons, Lord Fugaku,” said the masked messenger. “The H...
2024-09-18 12:18:53 +0000 UTC View PostSomewhere
Since the assault on Port Nagoya, Guren found herself seemingly idle. In a strange, macabre way, she found herself bored. The war was in full swing: Iwagakure doggedly pushed into the Land of Fire, goaded on by Sunagakure’s increasing confidence in the south. Greed. To the north, ...
2024-09-18 12:12:57 +0000 UTC View PostKonoha
Hiashi sat in the dim light of the Hyūga compound, his hands trembling, knuckles pale as if drained of all life. The smell of blood and ash still clung to the air from the attack. Konoha had been left in ruins, but what was left of the village mattered nothing to him. The walls, the b...
2024-09-18 12:11:55 +0000 UTC View PostA.N.: Continuation of the last chapter(I was unhappy with the former ending)
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Clarke stood in the observation room, hands clasped behind his back, his gaze fixed on the one-way glass. Behind it, Christopher Alexander Newman stood shirtless, muscles tense beneath the clinical ligh...
2024-09-06 00:04:17 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
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Verse I
In westerly dawn, where cold winds did bite,
Stood Levi, the Gryphon, with valor and might.
From the hill’s lofty crest, he beheld the fair field,
Where Tristan, the Lion, would soon have to yield.Chorus
2024-09-04 06:03:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, Gryphon bold, thy ...
Kaede imagined herself to be an inferior breed of Shinobi.
This was a belief that had been disproved many times, directly or indirectly, by the few the girl looked up to: Her parents, her former senseis at the academy, her current sensei now…
Even the Hokage seemed to think her exceptional.
Yet, when c...
2024-08-28 07:08:34 +0000 UTC View PostWe are the silent bones beneath the fields,
The unsung, the unnamed, who lie in the fields, faceless and forgotten.
We were told it was for freedom,
For symbols and borders, for peace.
But we know now, in this shadowed silence...
2024-08-26 03:37:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Two years later.
“Wake up, beanpole.”
Gyakkyou blinked away the haze in his vision, his breath still heavy with sleep. The morning light filtered through the pall walls of his thatched home, creating a soft glow that danced across the room. The ligh...
2024-08-24 13:41:36 +0000 UTC View Post
"Hanpa-mono! Gyakkyou is a mixblood!"
...That alone is reason enough to kill an infant in its crib.
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In the civilized lands of the Ryū Dynasty, the Akaoni are property, the Kuroji are the blessed people, and the Tenshi are their divine masters.
... 2024-08-24 13:38:55 +0000 UTC View Post
