Summary: In the future, Kurt and Blaine try out a simulation that allows them to meet each other for the first time again and again and again.
Here's all their "first" meetings.
Notes: Hello, hello, hello! Welcome to my Gleecember fic. This is just me writing a bunch of separate meet-cutes and putting them in one fic with a sort-of-overarching story. I initially planned this idea for the Klaine Advent, but that sadly came to an end. I wrote an introspection about my time with the Advent. I am grateful for all the years with that challenge.
Luckily, the Glee fandom is still around, and a new challenge has arisen. But this is a new challenge, so new rules! I don't know if I will do all the 31 prompts. I have a prologue, and epilogue, and a whole lot of meet-cutes as a middle, but I don't have enough for all 29 (yet?).
Still, I am excited to write this, and I hope you will enjoy.
AO3 | S&C
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SURPRISE
“Excuse me? Um, hi, can I ask you a question? I’m new here.”
“My name’s Blaine.”
“Kurt.”
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“I’m so happy I met you all those years ago.”
Blaine reaches for Kurt’s hand.
Kurt smiles.
“I am too.”
It’s led to all of this. This life worth living. Kurt and Blaine did it: they grew old together.
They’re both old and grey and sitting on a porch, watching the flowers bloom. They’ve both retired after a prolific career in the arts, they raised amazing children, and are the “best grandads ever” according to their grandchildren. They’re living long and fulfilling lives filled with warmth, hardships, love and all the other life stuff. And they did it side by side.
Oh, how would their lives have gone if they hadn’t met that day at Dalton Academy, all the way in 2010?
“Although, I can’t help but wonder what would’ve happened if we had met in a different way,” Blaine says.
Kurt raises an eyebrow.
Blaine looks alarmed.
“I am not saying I regret anything, love! I wouldn’t trade our reality for any other.”
Kurt lets out a laugh.
“I am not thinking you are.”
You can be curious without wanting to change things. Kurt gets that.
“Oh. Good,” Blaine relaxes, “Because… I may have a surprise for you.”
A surprise? Kurt searches his memory for an occasion, but he cannot think of one. Knowing Blaine, he’s doing this just because he can.
“You know how Sam and Mercedes’s kid is really into these simulation services these days?”
“Yes.”
Kurt and Blaine have seen a lot of rapid technological changes in their lifetimes. They were born in a time before the internet was common in households, and now the simulation service is all the rage. These days, you can take trips into a simulation. It used to be a luxury, and nothing more than an extension of the basic VR from back in the 2010s, but in the past few years, this has become more accessible to people. It’s seen as a form of wish fulfilment. You get to experience things you otherwise never would’ve experienced. And it feels real. It’s as if you really get uploaded into the worlds.
What does Blaine have in store? Why is he bringing this up now?
“Sam told me that there’s a new romance simulation!” Blaine says excitedly, “He and Mercedes already tried it. It lets you live out different first meetings with your partner!”
“Let me guess, you want us to do it?”
“Please?”
Back when they were teens, Kurt would often talk about Blaine’s ‘puppy eyes’. That’s how the look on Blaine’s face can be best described.
“I would like to meet you, in any scenario that is out there. Again, I would never want to redo our actual first meeting, but it sounds fun to try this.”
It does. And the simulation makes it so that it doesn’t erase what actually happened.
Kurt squeezes Blaine’s hand.
“You know what? Let’s do it.”
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Kurt and Blaine ask Sam for the address of the place where his son works, and they book an appointment. It takes a few days, since, again, simulation services are the biggest hit of the year, but since they’re retired, they manage to get a morning weekday spot.
When they enter the building, they’re greeted by an old man.
“Mr. and Mr. Hummel-Anderson?” he asks kindly.
“How did you know?” Kurt asks.
“… You’ve made an appointment,” the man replies.
Right. Of course. Blaine chuckles.
After Kurt and Blaine sign some paperwork, confirming that they are aware of the fact that whatever is about to take place is nothing more than fiction, they are led to a separate room. There are two comfortable chairs with some sort of headgear next to them on a table. The man explains that this will allow them to enter the Love Journey simulation, which is a tacky name.
“They are wireless these days, like everything,” the man hands one of them to Blaine, “But rest assured, they’re still connected to the main system. You can talk to me whenever you want. You can ask me to pause if needed, or turn it all down. I won’t be in the simulations with you, since that is a breach of privacy, but just know that you can ask me to interfere if you wish.”
“I though that we won’t be realising we’re in a simulation,” Kurt asks.
That’s part of the selling point. It’s supposed to feel real. This is partially why they had to sign the documents, acknowledging that once they leave the simulation, they accept that what has happened was fictional.
“The mind is powerful,” the man says, “If something goes amiss, you will know. But that rarely happens these days. Still, the communication feature remains just in case.”
“And… you will be conducting the Love Journey?” Blaine asks.
It’s clear that he is. No one else is here, and he’s the one explaining everything. But Kurt gets why Blaine asks it. This man seems like he’s as old as Kurt and Blaine. They had expected a younger person, since this is something the newer generation is gagging after. Most Conductors are in their 20s or in their 30s.
“Yes,” the man, the Conductor, answers, and as if he understands their doubts, he adds: “I have been working in the simulation field back when simulation was nothing more than Meta’s flopped Metaverse. I did not work on that one, though.”
That makes sense. Just because it’s new to Kurt and Blaine doesn’t mean it’s new to everyone.
“Now then, gentlemen, are there any more questions?”
Kurt and Blaine have none, so they follow the Conductor’s instructions and sit down. Kurt also gets one of those headsets.
“Alright. Commencing Love Journey in one… two… three…”
The Conductor keeps counting, but slowly, Kurt and Blaine lose track of the count. They feel themselves slip into something else.
“See you on the other side,” Blaine manages to say, before they fall unconsciousness.
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End notes: Back when I thought there'd still be an Advent, I was doubting whether I should create an overarching story, or just post 21 (or 24) separate stories. Of course, once I come up with something, the Advent stops. I didn't want to let go of the overarching story, but like Kurt and Blaine, all meet-cutes feel "real", as in, they stand on their own. All to say that the overarching story won't be that strong throughout the fic. But it's there, and in the epilogue, you will see why.
Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationship: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Robin Buckley, Chrissy Cunningham, Billy Hargrove
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Vampire Eddie Munson, Nurse Steve Harrington, Blood Drinking, Mild Gore, Vampire Jason Carver, Vampire Billy Hargrove, don't worry they both die, Minor Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler
Words: 6 827
Chapters: 2/2
Summary
In his mind Steve goes over the things he knows.
Eddie is a vampire. A vampire who killed another vampire to save Steve’s life. To save Chrissy’s life.
Eddie is dying. He may already be dead, but it looks like vampires can die again. Permanently.
Eddie wants his blood.
Hello, shippers & readers, we're back at it again with yet another of our voted and majority-chosen reads.
This time we, once again, found ourselves revisiting a very dear-to-our-heart fandom classic: Ghouls in my head, Fires Underground, a skilled surgical dissection into the experience of the "and they were roommates" trope with a heaping dose of an emotional cross-section of these two men trying to navigate sexuality, intimacy, and trust as written by the very talented liminalweirdo.
When we say that there were tears, yells and even at times speechlessness, we're not exaggerating. This fic was a hot and gorgeous study in a reader's reaction to being confronted with a reality where two people fit in all the right ways but insecurity, social cues and anxieties keep them at odds-- which is perhaps why our discussion excerpts are longer this time!
Rating: E
Summary: Shane ends up living at Ryan's and really, it's no big deal. Until it is.
Book Club Thoughts
I always know when it comes to this author that we're about to get long descriptions of either boys' psyche and the depth of feeling is always going to get uncomfortably close to home
it's almost strange that this was written in 2018 because it feels like a 2021 fic and then suddenly you hear an off detail and it's like, damn, how did they so perfectly capture their neuroses even back then. really impressive
i think this is the first fic we've done in some time that just sits us down and makes us vicariously experience the discomfort of deep insecurities and anxieties that come with being queer and in love with your best friend
There's something universal in there - of settling and not realising you are until you see what you could have 'cause the strung up glass is pretty and probably fun but god imagine having the whole window to look at. Glass fragments don't keep out the rain! The window does!
[the author's] metaphors though. Her prose gut punches but not in a sequential fashion. She gets you comfortable, at ease with exposition and dialogue that's snappy and real and rhythmic then she goes in
The author writes truly poetically and beautifully. The way Shane is described always pulling back and having trouble opening or saying what he really wants and how it always breaks down when he is around Ryan.
for me, this fic like, set a tone for what friends to lovers could be. the descriptions are incredible, especially when we get down into it, and there's so much introspection on either side
When we were doing the live read for the first chapter, we were talking about how good the dialogue is in this fic - and it really is excellent
I think it actually fucking rips me apart how incredibly beautiful it is when Ryan says he’s willing to take the time to make sure sex is pleasurable for Shane
i thought the pov switching was unbelievably adept
the nice...symmetry perhaps of them both having that family relationship. and they've reached a point by then when they are ready to open up emotionally about the real stuff and what's realer than family
there's a lot going on and a lot to think about, but it all sort of boils down to the magnetism and how they try to fight it, and eventually just snap together
I think it’s one of the most realistic characterization of Shane I’ve seen seen even thought a lot of fics get him right. But this one just feels so close for some reason? Ryan being the one that pulls him through is just chefs kiss
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This took forever. Mainly because I had to retrieve the links myself, but it’s finally here! I present to you the KakaSaku fanfiction recommended by this fandom through comments, messages and asks per my request. Thank you to everyone who sent in their recs and to those who recommended some of my writings. Happy reading! Find 50 fics under the cut.
I added a (*) next to my personal absolute favourites if you’re interested ;) Although I should point out I haven’t read everything on this list yet!
A Study In Movement by @ila-moon-beam | Ongoing | M
Sakura juggles taking care of her 12- year- old, working as a nurse technician and exotic dancer. It's not an easy life, but it's the best she can do given what she has. What she isn't prepared for is Sarada's handsome teacher who she meets at the parent/teacher conference, as well as his surprise appearance at the strip club she preforms at one night with his friends.
Private Practice by @alienwritesstuff | Ongoing | M
When nineteen year old Kakashi is injured during a mission, it's Sakura's job to see that he is healed properly. But, Kakashi is interested in a bit more than the healing she can give him. [Age Swap AU]
Nama-Stay Away From Me by @the-copy-mistress | Ongoing | M
When Sakura’s impeccable schedule keeps getting thrown by her gym’s ever tardy yoga teacher, she decides to give him a piece of her mind. Things do not go as she predicted. Modern AU.
Moment You Loved Her (back) by LindtLuirae | Completed | T
Some things are just worth breaking for. KakaSaku AU.
Hungry Hearts by @ila-moon-beam | Ongoing | M
Sakura is a single mom who works tirelessly to finish her bachelor's degree. She does what many other single moms her age do; they go to school, they work, they take care of their children. Except, things are different for Sakura in her last semester of her college career. Her daughter, Sarada, will be staying with her grandfather, she will be TAing for this mysterious new Professor at her university, and she will soon find a familiar face coming back to haunt her; determined to reconcile their family.
Everyone Goes to Tsunade’s by @mrssakurahatake | Ongoing | M
1920s AU, After their long term business partner forces them out, Tsunade and Jiraiya decide to open their own New Orleans speakeasy. Business isn't going well, can a new house band help them turn things around?
Into Darkness by @lady-otori | Ongoing | M
For Sakura, being the granddaughter of the head of the largest Yakuza clan in Shikkotsu wasn't easy. For Kakashi, being forced to consider marriage with the Fire Country's most spoiled Yakuza princess was worse. When the wolf and the dragon of the criminal underworld go head to head, bystanders had better look for cover. [KakaSaku] [Yakuza AU] [Arranged Marriage]
The Beginning, the Middle, and the Coda by @lady-otori | Complete | M
The beginning, the middle, and the coda to Kakashi and Sakura's relationship, in which it all begins when he expresses the most important thing in the most awkward way possible. A three-part series of interconnected oneshots, exploring three different stages of their love. [KakaSaku] [Fluff] [Smut]
Reciprocity by @sparkswithyou | Complete | M
On a mission gone wrong, one thing goes right.
Insatiable by @somnificsheep | Complete | M
Sakura tugs the covers back to reveal dark, pleading eyes looking up at her. “If you don’t mind it in the shower,” she says. “Some of us--” she leans down to nuzzle his forehead-- “have work to get to.”
“Maa, Sakura, anyone else might think you’re calling me lazy,” he drawls. “I’m simply taking advantage of having some time off, is all.”
House of Crows by SilverShine | Complete | M *
KakaSaku. War is coming to Konoha and Sakura is far from home, uncertain of her future. But one thing is for sure, Sakura will protect her unborn child at all costs, whether it be from Konoha's enemies... or from its own father.
Crowns Of Blood And Bone by @raendown | Complete | T
He hates and hates and hates until he loves her, slowly and in small pieces.
Daughter of Fire by JulietteDeschemps | Ongoing | M
Sakura got up and didn’t bother brushing the dirt from her dress. She had a feeling she was about to get even dirtier.
She looked at the memorial stone one last time, memorizing the characters without even realizing she was doing it. It would serve from that moment on as a reminder of her determination. She wouldn’t let Naruto and Sasuke join the names carved on that stone.
That was her nindo.
you'll never leave me behind by PersephoneHemingway | Completed | M
Sakura went ANBU and Kakashi hasn't seen her in a while.
They face certain truths.
Masks by madstoryteller999 | Ongoing | T
When Sakura walks home after sending Naruto and the Sasuke Retrieval Squad off, the last thing she expects is to be attacked. What she could have never anticipated is that evening changing...everything.
In which: Sakura's Inner is far more diabolical than anyone ever expected, crows demonstrate themselves to be cruel mentors, the complications of selfdom in ANBU are realized, and Sakura learns exactly how much she hates Kakashi (and how alike they are in the most terrible of ways)
Pink Clouds by CharredCitadel | Ongoing | M
Konoha has fallen to Danzo, and Sakura has fled far away...right into the arms of the Akatsuki. Who would have thought that life as a missing nin could be so liberating?
Wish I Knew You by LindtLuirae | Ongoing | T
A lost bet and a forced dare brings two lonely losers together. Sakura never thought something as absurd-sounding as the 'No More Lonely Losers' program would land none other than Konoha's hottest bachelor and her long-time crush in her lap. KakaSaku. Rating might be upped later.
Mariposa by WhiskeyBlair | Ongoing | M
It wasn’t until he found himself getting a face full of skull fragments and brain matter that he even realized he was being rescued
To Grow A Garden by Wolfy Tales | Complete | T *
"So what do you think about having a kid with me, Sakura?" - A family focused one-shot [KakaSaku]
Follow Your Nose by @tipsyraconteur | Complete | M
Sakura decides to find her signature scent. Kakashi "helps". Things get out of hand. (Kakasaku. One-shot.)
In Case of Blue Scroll by Leola Majora | Complete | M *
In Case of Blue Scroll the Hokage must lock himself in his office and pull his hair out as what he thought were memories of a long lost love turn out to be the memories of a mission he was about to assign his former student, Sakura Haruno.
Konoha Files by @mummapaintstheblues | Ongoing | M
Exactly one year since his partner's untimely murder, Detective Kakashi Hatake is forced back into active duty.
He is paired with up and coming Detective Sakura Haruno.
Through their work together, not only do they catch a killer, but Kakashi begins to see a fresh new hope to the dismal world around him. But is this new partnership enough for him to abandon the darkness altogether?
Kakashi Candyman by @xoxoendoh | Complete | M
"Just how much did you drink before coming down here?"
"Sakura," Kakashi murmured darkly, trailing his hands down her thighs as he knelt at her feet, "I'm still thirsty."
Kakashi notices that his wife could use a little 'de-stressing' before hosting the Halloween Benefit Gala…. —Swalloween2018, KakaSaku, NC17—
Adaline by @nikkigrand | Ongoing | T *
I would choose you in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I would find you and I would choose you.
I pecan U by merrrcurius | Ongoing | M
It all started with a twig and a razor. The pecans didn't count because they didn't work.
Kakashi's just doing his duty as Captain.
It takes them places.
Discoveries in Oil by @nikkigrand | Complete | G *
Kakashi always knew that he would always be there for Sakura, even when she belonged to someone else. Birth AU
The Fletcher's Heart Paradox by @Moonlady9 | Completed | M
They are familiar yet total strangers. She knew their names but not the kind of people they were in this moment in time, she knows who they are from her moment in time. 28 years is a long time for people to change, but how much will Sakura change? How long will her heart stay steadfast, now in this new time. Time changes people, and their hearts.
House Calls by Spoiled Sweet | Complete | M *
Always the Team Mom, Sakura opens up her home as a clinic for the hospital-phobic ninja of Konoha. At the same time, her relationship with Kakashi begins to evolve in a way she never expected. M for swearing and later content.
make it holy by faeritell | Complete | T
Neither Kakashi nor Sakura welcomed the names on their skin.
Duty Before Honor by SilverShine | Complete | M *
[KakaSaku] Sakura knew why Tsunade didn’t want a virgin on this mission. Things might get out of hand. Acts might be carried out too far. She was glad Kakashi was accompanying her, but right then she wouldn’t have minded the entire population of Konoha.
The Cabinet Door by @itslulu42 | Complete | M
It says something about her, she thinks, that the only thing tying her to sanity is a talking dog.
Everything But The Kitchen Sink by @itslulu42 | Ongoing | M
Kakashi must have angered a god in a previous life. Why else would his soulmate be such a walking cliché? A Kakasaku Variety Pack of Modern Day AUs!
Omega Erased by @ila-moon-beam | Ongoing | M
A shift in equality caused a change in the dynamic between Alphas and Omegas. With the emergence of Alpha woman, the hierarchy reflected as such. Alphas began to mate with Alphas, simply using Omegas for their respective heats and ruts.
They were seen as play things. As a means to an end. As anything but equal to an Alpha. It had been this way for the past hundred years, society punishing Omegas for bringing out the worst in Alphas.
It was an Alpha world, and Sakura was just living in it.
A dystopian omegaverse.
Double Edged by nimblnymph | Complete | M *
Seduction is like a double-edged sword. You never know when you'll go from being the seducer to being the seduced.
your most important person by @fineillsignup | Complete | M
Some people got their soulmarks on their arms or faces or some other place that was more difficult to hide. He remembered how Minato-sensei’s hair would sometimes be lifted by the wind enough to reveal “Uzumaki Kushina dattebane!” written boldly across the back of his neck in crimson. His teacher had sometimes laughed in his gentle way about it, saying that fate was determined to make things easy for him.
Your Most Important Person
Or, Kakashi tries to fight fate and fate fights back.
Or, how many ways can a soulmark screw you over?
Or, sometimes you just have to take what you can get.
the malady of solitude by moonvalentine | Complete | T
A few years after the war, they're still trying to regain their footing.
Friendship by Numbers series by Oroburos69 | Ongoing | M
Sakura's too young, Kakashi's too...different, and neither knows what to do with a real, live friend. Clueless and incompetent, they stumble down the path of friendship, accidentally getting naked and engaged along the way. Seriously.
Take my past and take my sins by @thekatthatbarks | Complete | M
Sakura narrowed her eyes at him, not wanting him to play it off like he always did. Her hands came up to his face. “You look like you haven’t slept in months, Kakashi.” Before he could respond, her hands went down to his waist and she tugged at the hem of his pants. Unsurprisingly, there was slack. “And you’ve lost weight.”
“Sakura –“ Kakashi started, grabbing the hand that was at his pants.
A thought crossed her mind, making her blood go cold as she realized. She cut him off with a glare, “You picked up the mask again, didn’t you?”
A Poor Imitation by leafygirl | Complete | M
Sakura is injured on a mission, forgetting everything she knew of life in Konoha.
The Samurai and the Oni Girl by selberias | Complete | T
AU KakaSaku set in Edo-period Japan. Sakura is the descendant of a red-haired foreigner as well as a merchant's daughter. Kakashi is a local samurai who has fallen on hard times, a man whose pride has been broken down to this point. Love comes after.
It's Something Unpredictable (But in the End is Right) by BasicallyAnIdiot | Completed | G
The problem was not that Sakura broke into his apartment.
It was that she had opinions about his defences.
Scar Tissue by @TipsyRacounteur | Complete | M
She comes to him on the type of day that he has way too often—the type of day that almost breaks a man—and she asks him to let her take care of him. And just like that, he starts to let her in, without ever even meaning to. (For KakaSaku Month 2018 Healing Prompt.)
Better Man by Kakashisgf | Complete | M
Sakura and Sasuke have been married for over a decade, but things are far from perfect, and Sakura's beginning to realize that maybe she deserves better. KakaSaku
Say it Again by @nyxako | Ongoing | M
A story in which Kakashi loses his hearing during a mission, only to later realize that the only thing he can hear anymore is the sound of Sakura's voice. [KakaSaku]
The Taste Of Fire by @alienwritesstuff | Ongoing | M *
**Hogwarts AU** Like a moth to the flame, Kakashi couldn't seem to stay away from her. He knows it's wrong, knows it's too dangerous. But, he's drawn to the fire. And fires like these tear the whole world apart.
Aposematism by @youngjusticewriter | Ongoing | T
Pretty things were dangerous more often than not. They had to be.
Don’t you know that the world has a tendency of yanking beautiful things up and leaving them to slowly die wherever they were taken to?
Dear fellow traveler by youngjusticewriter | Ongoing | M
“You’re thinking too much. Let me make you stop,” Sukea offered and, yes, his voice was different but Sakura liked it even if something about it made her mind inch.
“Okay,” she agreed before closing her eyes. She didn’t want to (see the world, she just wanted to wake up to find out the mission had been a bad dream) see Sukea and think on the things that she kept picking up on from him. All Sakura wanted was to be Chinami who was just a traveler just like Sukea was. A traveler who didn’t have people’s lives slip through her hands because she wasn’t good enough.
Destroy the middle, it’s a waste of time by youngjusticewriter | Ongoing | T
(You’re not good enough to keep working; you can’t endure like others do. You’re too young. You’re supposed to just wait around until your teammates get back because those who abandon their teammates are worst than scum.
And Sakura wanted to laugh despite the loneliness that had dug itself into her skin, and had made her bleed, so not to be shaken off.
They left - they left and now it was just her so why should she wait until they got back? She wasn’t a piece of cake that could be discarded.
Sakura had wanted Sasuke and now she wanted to be better in serving her village. Her crush, her teammate, refuting her didn’t stop her chasing after him even though she should have respected his choice. What was their opinions, strangers opinions, compared to that?)
Then I burn, were the words Sakura wanted to spill out from her tongue, to spew out as though they were poison she studied and used, and I get up from my ashes.
Don’t slam the door, Sakura thought as paws pressed into her hand as though to hold it. It (having to pay for another door) wouldn’t be worth it.
(Don't) lay me to sleep by youngjusticewriter | Ongoing | G
Sakura doesn’t need defending though.
Sakura smiled at the girl, because that’s what Ami is and what Sakura hasn’t been since her dreams started, with tired eyes (with eyes too old because that’s what happens when your soulmate is a jonin with a pretty painted mask).
You got to choose before the choice is pulled from you by youngjusticewriter | Complete | G
Kakashi didn’t greet her with an apology, a lie, or even with a hello. (He wasn’t too for gone that he had neglected himself to point he couldn’t sense her coming.)
That’s okay because Sakura doesn’t smile up at him, she doesn’t (lie) promise everything is going to be okay, nor does she greet her husband like she would have this morning if he wasn’t already out of the house. Sakura didn’t even take one of Kakashi’s hands into her own and give it a small squeeze in comfort, in a subtle way to remind him she was still here. No, instead Sakura exhaled the breath she had been holding in and it doesn’t remove the heaviness she feels in her chest.
“You need to come home.” Sakura doesn’t ask for him to do it for her even though Sakura had too lost their child. (We’re not dead, Sakura wanted to yell, and if you continue to keep your company with them, with the dead, then one day when you do come home we might just have become the company you prefer to keep. We might just become the dead you idolize because you were too late in life to realize how much your loved ones meant to you.)
Ceremonial by youngjusticewriter | Complete | T
With bloodied lips and sharp canines Kakashi smiles at the sight - it’s only for a night after all. In the past he had tried to shove it down, had never voiced that sin unlike the others (so many others) to the tombstones of his fallen comrades, but he’s dying now. He can have it just for a little bit. The air is hard to breath in, its too cold or maybe he’s too out of breath, and there’s clothe from his destroyed mask in his bloodied mouth but that’s okay. It’ll be over soon.
Twisted fingers - Kakashi could actually see a bone poking out of one - reach up to touch but it’s too late.
come through (like the sweetener you are) by exarite | Complete | M
Kakashi was not Sakura's sugar daddy.
(Or was he?)
It Wasn't Even Us In The End by tedthedead | Complete | M
How many years?
How many years had he been lovesick, a yearning child needy for her comforting touch, a desperate man aching for the soft silk of her skin?
Rating: M [for violence, there won’t be any sexual content]
Genre: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Family
Summary:
The great history book of Kaedwen details the life of the people in the court of Ard Carraigh. Sabrina Glevissig was one of them. In the beginning, they describes her as bright and pure as a goddess, shone like the light of a candle in the blackest night. She always supported the soldiers and tried to draw misguided ones on to the path of righteousness. Yet seems like they were blind to the light. It is written that they nailed her to a wheel. The brave knights of Kaedwen pierced her slender hands and throttled her narrow waist with a rope as the king laughed and encouraged his men to mock her. As the flames licked the wood from the pyre that was readied beforehand, their sneer and mockery turned into trembles because the fire would not accept her. Unmindful of the heat, the king himself scaled the flaming wood and pierced her heart. Thus’ marks the end of the fierce daughter of Kaedwen forest.
History as she has grown familiar with many years of seeing it unfolds, often contains half-truth, pieces of vision of some mere unknowing observer, not of those from the main subject of the passage. While it is correct that the day was her final battle, her end was not.
Genre/Tags: Alternate Universe - Actress/Celebrity, Strangers to Lovers, Notting Hill (1999) Inspired, Soul-searching
Summary:
"In the midst of chasing after shooting stars, she had lost herself in the abyss of the galaxy."
In other words; Actress Natasha Romanoff decides to escape from stardom, disappearing from the spotlight and eventually finding herself entangled in the life of Steve Rogers, a military veteran who has no idea who she is.
