Phlebas Writes

The writings of Phlebas AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Phlebas/profile Discord Server: https://discord.gg/xSQZYswwXk

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The Past Is a Foreign Country (They Do Things Differently There)

Summary:

Sometimes you see someone.

(That you knew all along.)

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Senju Tōka/Uchiha Hikaku Word Count: 1,064 (Complete)

Part of Prompts for Pride 2026, this story was written for greenchair who requested straight and cisgender femboy!Hikaku x butch!Tōka who had been previously mistaken as homosexual.

You gave me the prompt a year ago, and I finally wrote it!

"Hikaku?"

He turns upon hearing his name, a name he's borne through two lifetimes now, but only one in which he’d heard that voice.

"… Tōka-san." He bows but doesn't lower his gaze, carefully keeping his hands away from his sides to show he carries no weapon. "I did not expect to see you here."

"Here as in this country?" She raises an eyebrow, sardonic as ever. "Or here as in here?"

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A Work of Hearts and Time

Summary:

Izuna knows himself.

Inside and out.

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Senju Tobirama & Uchiha Izuna, Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 766 (Complete)

Part of Prompts for Pride 2026, this story was written for @lazuliofheaven who requested bigender Izuna, the same prompt that led me to write A Work of Hands and Time for Prompts for Pride in 2023.

As such it seemed only fitting to me to complete the final part of the series with their request.

"It's a pity your clan head isn't here, Izuna-san." The young noble opposite him smirks, not even bothering to hide it. "Especially when I went out of my way to visit him."

It's a ridiculous thing to say when nii-san is at the daimyo's court for sankin-kōtai, just as this fool should be, and Izuna has to force down the impulse to roll his eyes. Spending time with Tobirama has made the habit contagious, which is usually amusing, but he can't afford to show that much of himself in front of this particular audience.

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A Work of Love and Family

Summary:

Tobirama knows herself.

Inside and out.

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Senju Tobirama & Uchiha Izuna, Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 638 (Complete)

Part of Prompts for Pride 2026, this story was written for @lazuliofheaven who requested bigender Izuna, the same prompt that led me to write A Work of Hands and Time for Prompts for Pride in 2023.

The series was planned to be complete after I posted A Work of Hearts and Hands in 2025, but it turns out I had two more stories in me.

This is not the bigender Izuna story I thought I'd be writing for you lazuliofheaven, but it’s the one I had to write.

Content Warning: this story contains a miscarriage.

Tobirama curls up, keeping her breathing deep and even as she waits for the cramps to subside.

If she were back in the old house, under her father's watchful eye, she wouldn't dare show this much vulnerability, would force herself to stand straight and tall in the face of pain.

Even this pain.

The choice to give herself some ease, the ability to make that choice, is a reminder of where she is now, and the shoji that closes gently behind her is another.

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Hour 9: Dreaming in Darkness

Author: @kurakura0-0 Rating: Mature Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara & Uchiha Hikaku Other Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply

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Hour 8: Dreaming in Darkness

Summary:

Some truths can only be spoken in dreams.

(If they can be spoken at all.)

Author: Phlebas Rating: Mature Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara & Uchiha Hikaku Other Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply Word Count: 910 Part 2 of Lighting Your Way (To the Future)

Madara opens his eyes slowly, staring up at the roof beams.

The same room, the same tatami, the same kakebuton… but the late afternoon light filtering in through the partially open shoji make it very clear that this is not the same place he went to sleep in. It doesn't have quite the same feel of a genjutsu, but there's something there that's… familiar.

And nothing so much as the sight of the gentle smile that greets him.

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Hour 5: Eye to Eye (Father and Son)

Summary:

Some gifts must be more than appreciated.

(They have to be used.)

Author: @phlebaswrites Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Tajima & Uchiha Madara Word Count: 708

Part 2 of From Me to You (And Back Again)

With many thanks to @kurakura0-0 Jackie, @dawen, and @greencuttingmat for asking the questions that prompted me to expand this into a series.

Truly, it takes a village.

"Ah, look at you."

Izuna holds still as broad palms cup his cheeks, fingers dancing over his face in a pattern that every Uchiha knows. They are all trained in how to function when blind, a necessity in a world where each and every one of their enemies knows their dōjutsu as both the weakness and the strength that it is, and he's felt the touch of more than one elder as they see in a new way.

But not like this.

Because this is not some one who was blinded by an enemy, an eye thief - this is his father.

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Hour 2: A Fish in the Hand (Is Worth Two in the Pond)

Summary:

Madara loves his family.

No matter what.

Author: @phlebaswrites Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara & Uchiha Kagami Word Count: 289

For @kurakura0-0 , @dawen, @greencuttingmat , and @lazuliofheaven who encouraged this insanity!

Part 3 of Fishing (For Family)

"Oh, hush." Madara bounces the boy in his arms a little, resettling Kagami more securely even as he ignores his brother's muttered curses. "You've always fought each other to a standstill before, I can't imagine why you thought that would change now."

"But it was the medaka!" Izuna protests angrily. "And I caught it! Surely that should have counted as a win!"

"Not when he caught one too," Madara presses a kiss to the wildly curling hair of the boy in his arms to hide his amusement, careful not to dislodge the bowl Kagami is cradling so carefully.

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Phlebas Tells Tales Under the Lamplight

It’ll be our privilege to play host to @phlebaswrites, a prolific author who handles humor deftly and excels at flash fic.

Tales Under the Lamplight begins in 7 days…

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A Work of Hearts and Hands

Summary:

Izuna has made himself into who he is today.

But he's always willing to acquire another weapon.

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Senju Tobirama & Uchiha Izuna, Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 972 (Complete)

Part of Prompts for Pride 2025, this story was written for @lazuliofheaven who requested bigender Izuna, the same prompt that led me to write A Work of Hands and Time for Prompts for Pride in 2023.

As such it seemed only fitting to me to complete the final part of the series with their request.

" - why would he do this?!"

Izuna nods along to show he's listening even as he paints his lips a deep red, tracking his rival in the mirror as she paces back and forth over the tatami behind him like a caged tiger.

"And in the middle of the market, no less!" Tobirama throws her hands up in mingled bewilderment and exasperation, the furthest thing from the person he got used to facing across the battlefield, a man so determined to win that he barely seemed human, even to the Sharingan.

That he'd never realised she was a woman, even after replaying all his memories of her, was shocking, and it made him wonder if she'd developed some kind of jutsu to deceive his eyes. But no, it's simply that her gender was so irrelevant to the way she conceived of herself - he didn't see it because she wasn't a woman in those moments.

She was a sword.

And that's all she believed she was.

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Getting Along (To Get Along)

Summary:

The path of courtship is rarely smooth.

(But company can make it easier.)

Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Senju Touka/Uchiha Hikaku/Uchiha Izuna Word Count: 231 (Complete)

Part of Prompts for Pride 2025, this story was written for @titaniafaeriequeen who requested Hikaku/Touka/Izuna in this scenario.

"Shut up," Tōka-san slams her hands down on the table. "I agreed when you asked to court me - both of you - but I didn't agree to be fought over like some kind of object."

"… I'm sorry Tōka-san." Hikaku winces at his own behaviour, letting her see it. "I have not shown you the best of myself."

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Cuddling a Clan Heir

Summary:

Sometimes you have to do something.

Even if it means sacrificing yourself.

Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Izuna/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 346 (Complete)

Part of Prompts for Pride 2025, this story was written for @kurakura0-0 and DarkSideOfTheSwamp who both requested Madara/Izuna/Tobirama.

"I'm dying." Izuna flops over, moaning, and Madara tucks the edges of a blanket more securely under his little brother's shoulders.

"No you're not." He knows it won't have any impact, but it's habit to say it after all these years. "You're going to be fine."

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Shadows on the Moon

Summary:

Madara knows that some things are forever.

(Love is one of them.)

Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 333 (Complete)

Part of Prompts for Pride 2025, this story was written for @kurakura0-0, @n0pepng, and @little-serpent who all requested Madara/Izuna.

The sakura branches are bare, but the shadows they cast fall long over the engawa, and Madara peers through them at the silver moon that hangs high in the sky.

It's supposed to bring hope, renewal, but after a long winter of food shortages there's little enough of that for anyone, and spring isn't likely to make things any better, either. No, for a shinobi clan like them it brings the drums of war.

The snow melts, and the battlefields call them once more.

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Drawn from the statistics page of my published works on AO3, this is for 2025 only. It does not include stories written in previous years.

January: 4,408

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February: 6,194 March: -1

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April: 2,580

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May: 1,920 June: 0

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Prompts for Pride

It’s Pride Month once more, which means I am once again hosting Prompts for Pride over on my writing server on discord, the self made event that I've done for the last four years where I write flash fic (none of them more than 1.5K and most of them less) for anyone in the server who cares to leave me a prompt.

If anyone would like to join in the madness, please fee free to join us!

You can find the fills from previous years here:

Prompts for Pride 2021 Prompts for Pride 2022 Prompts for Pride 2023 Prompts for Pride 2024

[phlebaswrites]

Looking (Into the Deep)

Summary:

Tobirama has always been good at keeping secrets.

This is just one more.

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 516 (Complete)

The sequel to Seeing You (Seeing Me), this is my entry for MerMay 2025.

Tobirama sits on the rock and sips coffee from the mug in his hand. The wind is strong today, whipping the waves into froth that breaks on the beach, but he knows that won't deter the person he's waiting for.

And, just as he expected, a small seal drags itself up onto the pebbles that make up the shore before galumphing over to him.

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Knowledge and Koinobori

Summary:

Tobirama knows what it is to be one of many.

(He has brothers too.)

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara & Uchiha Madara's Siblings Word Count: 669 (Complete)

Entry for @asian-drama-tropes

May Cram school | Carp jumping the Dragon Gate | Children’s Day | Koinobori (carp streamer)

This story is for @petitcanard, whose art inspired it.

Tobirama picks up his papers, tapping them on the table to make a neat stack before sliding them into his bag. Next to him, Izuna stuffs the homework haphazardly into his own bag and Tobirama winces at the mess they make.

"Shut the fuck up, asshole." Izuna snaps, slinging the bag over his shoulders. "Don't like, don't look."

Tobirama follows him out silently, already knowing - even on just a single month's acquaintanceship - Izuna won't appreciate the protest that he didn't say anything.

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Sakura and Speeches

Summary:

Izuna knows how the first day of school is supposed to go.

(Senior high school is not that different.)

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara & Uchiha Madara's Siblings Word Count: 426 (Complete)

Entry for @asian-drama-tropes

April Hanami | Sakura blossoms | First day of school | School club

This story is for @petitcanard, whose art inspired it.

Izuna trots through the hallways, glad to finally be released from class and have a little time to himself before the family hanami party tonight.

The school entrance ceremony was full of speeches - they always are - but it was the same old thing, the principal and teachers encouraging them to be good students and work hard. He's not Taetaka-nii though, not calm and brilliant, and Izuna has other ideas about what he wants to do with his last few years of study before university.

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