It's a little late (but still the 23rd,) but here's day 4 of the Ame Birthday Bash 2025 fics!
This one is called "Blood on His Hands" as the free space prompt for Ame Birthday Bash, hosted by @ame-trio-birthday-bash . It's also for MultiKonan week, hosted by @narutorarepaireventhub , with the prompt "Blood."
Note: it's NagaYahiKona (Nagato/Yahiko/Konan)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63353638
Summary: Nagato groaned in pain as he tried to slowly stand back up. His hands were still shaking from the adrenaline rush of the battle. The Akatsuki had known that Hanzo wanted to destroy them, but none of them had quite expected Hanzo himself to track them down all the way into their new hideout and go after their leaders.
It had been a long and dangerous battle, but the three of them had made it out alive in the end, having killed Hanzo and ending the fight between their factions once and for all.
And yet, Nagato felt strange about everything that happened. He felt relieved that he had killed Hanzo. Now, the Akatsuki didn’t have to fear Hanzo’s wrath. Now, the Hidden Rain was no longer under his thumb. At that point, Nagato didn’t feel any of the guilt he once felt after taking a life.
Was this how he was supposed to feel? Was it right for him to take someone’s life into his own hands and not even care about it afterward? Would that make him no better than Hanzo or any other shinobi?
How much of the blood on the ground was his? How much of it was Hanzo’s? How much of it was the blood of his loved ones? So much blood had been shed, and Nagato feared how much more would be shed in the future.
Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Blood and Injury, Blood, Character Death, Yahiko Lives, Canon Divergence, Polyamory, Guilt, Hopeful Ending
