#post-war.

[fusong]

@siixpaths​ -- ;

“It’s really you, isn’t it?” 

Fusou’s voice sounded so broken, even to her. But, how else was she supposed to comprehend everything she’d learned? Her boy--her darling boy, who she loved more than life itself--had no only been alive, but had caused untold destruction and had nearly succeeded in becoming a veritable contra mundi. To hear that her son had been responsible for so much evil broke her heart, but she loved him all the same. Even if Fusou wept for what had shaped him that way, of never learning what had become of him, of thinking he was dead. Was she a terrible mother for being resigned to that? For having stopped looking? For not being there to guide him away from the gentle boy he’d once been?

Even if it wasn’t, it felt like her fault, utterly and totally.

“I’m so sorry, Nagato. I really messed up by not being there for you, didn’t I?”

[kamaetachi]

@parcaes​ -- ;

“A train heist. Of all the things, of course it had to be a fuckin’ train heist.”

In the years since the war’s end, the Thunder Rails had skyrocketed in a new, peaceful world as the fastest and most efficient way of travel. No way he’d disagree with that. But, as another consequence of the war, legions of missing-nin had escaped their villages in droves; what made for easy pickings manifested as sore inconveniences in others. The Chinoike winced as the railcars screeched to a halt and the clangor of their ceased movements grinded gears and jostled others, no announcers on the PA yet as Jun’ya turned to the redhead in the seat across from his.

“A bit of friendly advice, but hide your valuables.”

[fusong]

@uchibito​ -- ;

It hadn’t felt the same since she’d been small, and she hadn’t been able to enter it since. It felt wrong, somehow, to claim her own Uchiha heritage despite the truth of the past. Of her younger days spent with her half-brother, her mother, and their extended family among the Uchiha since her father had since passed away. But now, her mother and other brother were gone, too, and there was no one left. Honoka couldn’t deny how lonely she felt, but... Wait, what? Trying to extend her sensory range, the young Uzumaki’s throat parched.

Wait... it couldn’t be! Was another Uchiha actually alive?!

[kamaetachi]

@ramenthings​ -- ;

“Huh, you here for the same reason, my guy?” With the world settling like dust in the aftermath of the violent war just a few years prior (that he’d been leagues away from, thanks), it came as little surprise that the existence of godly extraterrestrials was enough to send the world in the heights of panic. The rise in missing-nin, the tightening of collars larger hidden villages held, and all assortment of criminal activity meant that business was booming, but hectic. Hence why he was there, doing a little gang-busting that was practically the staple those days.

“These bozos have been up to zero good, but what else is new, eh?”