#but sadder

[kkyos]

made an hunter with photobashing, his name is Kraltz

[princeofuchiha]

Silly little hc that has solidified its place in my heart over the last few weeks: I feel that when Itachi was young (5ish) he was exactly the type of kid to have those little glow in the dark star stickers on his ceiling.

[moonshade45]

So i decided to change quite a bit about the Wallowing Spirit (predacon) AU for Miko.

Instead of a random party she was invited to, it was her birthday party.

after she was banned from the base because of some angsty stuff that happened that she took the blame for. She got out the ground bridge and almost got both herself and another bot killed (bulkhead)

The ban was only temporary but she refused to go back after it was lifted because she felt she was a danger to the others for all the trouble she causes, she cancels her birthday for the others and just calls the bots to bring her to some random forest for her to relax, they hope this is her slowly coming back to base and they even plan to give her a late party.

Unfortunately, she's killed on the forest trail when she's chased by some creepy person and the man catches up and pushes her off the hill edge, she falls down the hill and hits a sharp rock down by the river head first, dying instantly.

She awakens in Primus's servos as he holds her closer to his face. He explains that this is what's meant to happen and that her destiny was to die upon those exact rocks. One of those rocks was a predacon skull that's been hidden for millennia.

The skull is the one that struck her when she fell, and is now the one she will become one with, being reborn as a spirit that holds a somewhat human form and some of a predacon. Slowly she will evolve into a full predacon/dragon and will be one with both worlds.

Stupid and angsty ik, but I wanted some major angst lol

[nicodrawings]

Meet Mary everyone. She helps her mother deliver packages to different people in town.

[numbersoftoday]

Ok so listen up, there is a secret jealously kept by the older generation jonin: back in their teens, Choza, Inoichi and Shikaku had a secret rock band.

It was secret because their old men would have gotten reaaaally pissed if they found out, but it being secret was part of the charm of the ISC concerts. To be honest, they were never that good, but their were cool, top guns young shinobis that also had a band, it was legendary among their peers and completely unknown to the adults.

It all ended abruptly when they were 18-19, when their dads were tragically K I A, and young Inoichi, Shikaku and Choza decided to gave up their radio, guitars and drums before taking the head of their clans.

For reasons they never discussed, but that were clear to everyone, they never ever brought up their rock band days with their children. Tsume Inuzuka, who used to be a regular at their concert, has made some comments from time to time that had Shikamaru and Ino wondering, but they never really had any other clue.

Choza told Choji later, when he was approaching his 80s

[neil-pxrry]

Picking up where Season 4 left off…

TW: Major Character Death, Suicide

Michael…

He shivers, coming back to himself and finally recognizing where he is. His own mind.

Oh, fuck.

Michael, Michael, Michael.

He hated the use of his full name, how his father addresses him, “What do you want from me, you dick?!?!”

I just want to talk. And I want you to listen.

“Why don’t you fuck off back to the Upside Down and leave me the hell alone? What do you even want with me, anyways? I’m useless.”

Oh, but you aren’t. Don’t you remember what he said?

Suddenly he saw Will, Will with his tearful eyes and passionate conviction, “Don’t stop, okay, you’re the heart, okay? Remember that. You’re the heart!”

The memory blinked away, but the words were seared into his brain forever.

He told you that. Him. He believes in you, Michael. He trusts you. And yet, all you do, all you’re capable of doing, is hurting him.

“What the hell are you talking about?”

You can feign ignorance, Michael, but we both know the truth.

A memory appeared before him. Two young boys yelling at each other in his garage on a dreary, rainy afternoon.

“You’re ruining our party!”

“That’s not true!”

“Really? Where’s Dustin right now?”

Young Mike paused, guilt-striken.

“See! You don’t know, you don’t even care, and he doesn’t either and I don’t blame him! You’re destroying everything and for what? So you can swap spit with some stupid girl?”

“El’s not stupid! It’s not my fault you don’t like girls!”

An agonizing pause. Present Mike winced with regret. Young Will looked betrayed.

“I’m not trying to be a jerk, okay? But we’re not kids anymore. I mean what did you think, really? That we were never gonna get girlfriends? That we were just gonna sit in my basement all day and play games for the rest of our lives?”

“Yeah, I guess I did. I really did.”

Young Will biked away, and Vecna gestured towards him as if to say, “See? See what you do?”

Mike opened his mouth to argue when another memory appeared. Blue and yellow lights, upbeat music, but the storm brewing in both their eyes outweiged all of the surrounding joy.

“Oh, so you’re mad that I didn’t talk to you? Seems like you made it super clear that you’re not interested in anything I have to say.”

“That’s just not true!”

“You called maybe a couple times! Meanwhile El has like, a book of letters from you.”

“That’s because she’s my girlfriend, Will!”

“And us?”

“We’re friends! We’re. Friends.”

“Well we used to be best friends!”

“Well then maybe you should’ve reached out more, I don’t know! But why is this on me? Why am I the bad guy?!”

Once again, Will deflates, looking shattered. The memory slowly dematerializes, and Mike and Vecna are alone again in the recesses of Mike’s head. The lump in his throat was tight, and it was only getting tighter.

But they weren’t done yet. Now appeared two boys in the back of a smelly pizza van, driving in the middle of the desert. One of them had tears in their eyes. The other looked positively lovestruck.

“So yeah, El needs you, Mike, and she always will.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah.”

He turned away, and only then could Mike hear the quiet sobs coming from the other side of the van. Vecna led him over to face Will. Mike froze. After everything Will had been through, the kidnapping, the nightmares, the possession, everything, Mike had never seen him cry like this, like the pain was choking him. He felt nauseous.

Do you understand now, Michael? Do you see how much you hurt him? How much you hurt my boy?!

“Will isn’t yours, you fucking twisted creep!! Just ‘cause you planted yourself into his fucking head doesn’t make him yours!!” Mike’s throat hurt from yelling.

You’re right, for now. Will is only mine if he chooses to be… but that comes later. Now, right now is the time to get rid of the one person who weakens him, who beats him down, the reason for his tears when he’s all alone in his room every night. His cries are so loud, they invade my thoughts. He couldn’t contain the pain right next to you. You do this to him, Michael. You can never say the right thing, can you?-

Mike’s panting now and his hands are balled into fists, nails digging into his palms, “SHUT UP!!”

-You bumble around like a fool until you hurt him again, you project your insecurities onto him like he’s a blank canvas that you get to paint. But guess what, Michael? He’s the artist. Not you. You weaken him. You distract him. He can never reach his full potential, can never be happy with you around. Haven’t you noticed that his best art was created when you weren’t there?

Mike remembered the painting. Him leading the party, heart on his shield, fighting a beautiful, menacing red dragon. The message behind it was lost on him for the moment, forgetting that he gave someone the courage to fight on, forgetting that he didn’t weaken Will, but strengthen him.

It’s about time you quit holding him back….

Don’t you agree?

Mike couldn’t find it in himself to speak. All he could do was stare vacantly ahead, eyes dead and drowning in self hatred, just like in his basement for weeks on end not so long ago.

If you love him, Michael, you will not let yourself hurt him again.

Mike stood rooted in his spot, all muscles tense with agony, but with no energy to sob like he wanted to.

Vecna approached him slowly, almost gently, until they were face to face, less than an arm’s length away. He lifted his hand and materialized a sword, a shiny, beautiful sword with a gold carved hilt, eerily like the one Mike had always imagined using in campaigns.

Vecna slid his hand down it until it reached the tip, and held the hilt out to Mike.

You know what you have to do.

A sob finally escaped his lips, and he nodded stiffly, taking the sword in hand. He allowed himself a moment longer to admire it, took a shaky breath, closed his eyes, and brought the blade to his neck.

For Will, he thought.

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“MIIIIKE!!!!!!!”

Will shook the body that had collapsed in the middle of the meadow.

“Mike, please!!!!” he screamed between wild sobs, hands trembling over the bloody throat. He was numb to his mother’s fierce hug, blind to his dad and sister and brother surrounding him closely.

All he could see were his own bloodied hands, and his best friend lying dead on the ground, eyes rolled to the back of his head, red sword that seemingly appeared out of thin air clutched in his stiff hand.

Mike didn’t succeed in his mission, his mission to stop hurting Will. In fact, it was the last thing he ever did. But Vecna was one major step closer to fulfilling his: Obtain Will Byers, and unleash his true potential. He would be angry enough, now.

[chaotic-anssiindustrial]

I should be asleep already, but I'm writing angst instead...

[uchihashisui-kun]

I've missed the way my brain runs and jumps from one thing to the other and leaves me with the task to link the dots.

SO. I'm here today with a new Akatsuki!Shisui AU that already makes me sad.

Shisui gets attacked by Danzo like in canon and he meets with Itachi on top of the cliff, but before he can give his left eye to Itachi kill himself Danzo's men arrive to take his other eye. Of course, Itachi fights to protect Shisui especially since Shisui is injured and poisoned and can't exactly fight very well, but one against many? Itachi is good, but even he has his limits and no matter how many ROOT operatives he takes down, there is always a new one arriving.

Eventually Danzo joins them and Shisui is like "Okay, we're actually screwed", because Itachi is starting to get slower and he's using his Sharingan a lot and he sent a crow when the ROOT operatives first arrived and no one is coming to help them

So. Itachi is losing, Shisui is in no shape to fight and Danzo is watching them with the most pleased and satisfied expression until Shisui decides that enough is enough and he does not want to see Itachi die protecting him, so he takes a very wobbly and unstable step forward, prompting Danzo to order his men to stand down, and makes Danzo swear that he won't kill Itachi if he goes with him.

Obviously, Danzo agrees because he wants Shisui's Mangekyo, and besides he already has plans to send Itachi away as a missing-nin so he doesn't need to kill him, the village will eventually kill Itachi for him, letting him technically keep the promise. Not that Shisui will know, because he will already be dead by that point.

And Itachi tries to fight Shisui's decision but he's low on chakra and the ROOT operatives are keeping him pinned on the ground and then Shisui looks at him and smiles at him before he's knocked out to be carried away and Itachi blames himself for it all because he should be strong enough to protect Shisui, he became ANBU so young and he's one of the strongest shinobi of the village and yet he's not even able to protect one of the people he cares the most about and Shisui will die and it's Itachi's fault

Itachi awakens the Mangekyo as Shisui is taken away, and between the Amaterasu and the Tsukuyomi he takes out the ROOT keeping him down so that he can run to Shisui, crying blood and feeling like he could collapse at any time for how little chakra he has, and he knows he might die if he's not careful but saving Shisui is way more important so he uses all he has against Danzo and his men.

And eventually Itachi wins, watching as Danzo burns in Amaterasu's black flames, Shisui's right eye gone with him, and he needs to make sure that Shisui is still alive, that he's still breathing and that he's safe but Itachi collapses before he can do anything else while Shisui slowly wakes up, finding Itachi there on the ground with more injuries than he could count and his chakra so fucking low it's a wonder he's alive at all, and in fact Itachi eventually dies in Shisui's arms.

And Shisui is left there alone, with charred corpses around him and Itachi's body growing cold in his grasp, until Tobito finds him exactly like that and when he approaches Shisui he doesn't move a single inch, his gaze never leaving Itachi's face.

And then Tobito starts talking, about how both the clan and the village left them alone against a dangerous enemy, about how the Hokage probably knew about what an awful person Danzo was and about how neither the village nor the clan deserve Shisui's loyalty.

And Shisui listens to him, keeping Itachi's body pressed close to him, and when Tobito proposes him to join the Akatsuki he actually thinks about it.

Tobito eventually leaves him where he is, because Shisui doesn't answer him. In fact, Shisui doesn't talk at all, and when he finally gets back home it's almost morning.

Shisui doesn't get out of his house for days, and when he does he never speaks. His right eye is now properly bandaged and he refuses to talk with anyone, even Mikoto or little Sasuke when they ask him about Itachi.

Danzo's body is actually never found because Itachi destroyed it with Amaterasu, and Itachi's body, too, is gone. After a couple of weeks Tobito approaches Shisui again to know what he decided, two days before the clan would attack Konoha, and Shisui asks Tobito's help to stop the coup in exchange for him to join the Akatsuki.

The Massacre is not as complete as in canon, Shisui makes Tobito swear to spare the children since they did nothing wrong, and he asks him to spare Izumi as well because that way she can take care of the children that will survive the night, but it's still a massacre. Sasuke doesn't catch him kill Fugaku and Mikoto though, because Shisui forces him asleep with the Sharingan so that he won't have to see something like that, because Sasuke was the person Itachi loved the most in the entire world and Shisui doesn't want to traumatize that much by making him see his parents' corpses.

And when the ANBU arrives in the compound, all the children sleeping deeply in their rooms because of the Sharingan and Izumi passed out in the middle of the road, they don't find a single body, and at first they have no idea who did all this until Izumi wakes up and tells them about Shisui.

While Shisui is leaving the village with Tobito to join the Akatsuki.