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The end of the war should be a time of peace, but peace is not so easy to obtain. There is something working in the shadows of the shinobi world, working to ruin the hard-won peace that so many died for. When Gaara returns from a mission in the west of Wind Country, his life is turned upside down and his only hope is a team from Konoha. As the plot thickens, the situation only worsens and Gaara is left with few options if he wants to uncover the truth and restore peace to the shinobi world.
Decided to say fuck it and just post my GaaLee Fest submission even though it is so far from done.
This is super late because of how much has been going on in my life, but I decided to finally get posting on my fic for the GaaLee Fest. I'm a few chapters in, so at least there's that! I'd like to give a shoutout to my beta, @new-endings! Thanks for putting up with my sporadic writing habits!
The prompts I used for this fic:
-political strife/assassination attempt
-“I know the border lines we drew between us/Keep the weapons down/Keep the wounded safe/I know our antebellum innocence/ Was never meant to see the light of our armistice day.” (song: antebellum, Vienna Teng)
-“Honor from death is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be so that others may live. Truly honorable death, the only honorable death, is one that enables life.”- Rae Carson, The Girl of Fire and Thorns
-“The true meaning of the 'samurai' is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.”- Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace
I have one more prompt claimed for something smaller, but I haven't started it. Also I'm sure it's obvious, but the title from this fic is based on The Art of Peace. In all honesty, this fic is an idea I've had for the last seven years, based originally only on the song Antebellum by Vienna Teng (which you should all listen to by the way). I never started it because I was more focused on Alliance, but decided I might as well use the GaaLee fest to finally write this. I honestly don't know why I decided to go for something so complicated for the fest, but like I guess that's my fatal flaw as a writer--always taking on way too many complicated stories at once. Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys!