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picking up stardust - Chapter 2 teaser

Teaser of the second chapter of this!

Also, alternate version of the beginning of this.

One moment Madara is held against a wall by Tobirama’s fist in the collar of his robes, the next he’s pressed flush against a strong chest, a low rumbling right next to his ear.

He shivers from head to toes.

“Back. Off!” Kitsune snarls at the Senju, once more back in his masked shinobi appearance.

Tobirama blinks, utterly taken aback though his surprise and befuddlement are not really visible on his face.

“What?”

Madara would like to ask the same thing but he’s distracted. He can feel Kitsune’s growl through his back; can feel it resonating through his friend’s ribcage and reverberating in his own. Muscled arms encircle his waist and his companion has taken advantage of the one centimetre he has over the Uchiha to put his chin over Madara’s shoulder. This close, he can smells the dango they’d been snacking on earlier mixed with a windy scent and…ramen? Somehow, it suits him.

Kitsune shifts his stance slightly, pressing his hands against Madara’s belly, sharp nails pinpricking his skin through his clothes… Hold on, nails? Since when? The Uchiha is kept from freaking out about claws – which shouldn’t be this sexy – when Kitsune flattens his hands to bring him even tighter against his body. So close he can feel the light-weight armour sewn into the cloak and guess at the muscles hidden beneath!

If he wasn’t already utterly smitten and totally far past swooning, his legs wouldn’t be able to hold him right now. As it is, he can’t quite hold back a little whimper.

Or his blush.

A throat clearing brings him back to the present to realise that one, Tobirama is still here, watching with an arched eyebrow Madara makes a fool of himself and two, Kitsune is beginning to oscillate between rumbling and purring, obviously feeling proud of himself. And three, there is a faint flush high on Tobirama’s cheekbones.

Madara flails. With a screech, he puts a hand on his friend’s head to attempt to push him away. It doesn’t work. If anything, Kitsune’s embrace tightens.

The Senju is of no help at all. His only reaction is to straighten and his second eyebrow to arch as well.

“I caught him first. Go catch your own mate.”

Madara freezes. What?

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Wind Howls River Roars series part 3 teaser

Three* Times Someone Reacted to Tobirama Having a Daemon

And One Time Someone Reacted to Naruto’s Daemon

(I’m saying three because, right now, I only have three characters/reactions in mind. We’ll see if I somehow manage to find inspiration for two other characters.)

1.       Senju Shunsui

 Senju Shunsui is old. Not old enough to be considered an Elder of the clan but old enough to have a bit of standing despite being a bastard from an unknown father.

They are also old enough to acknowledge that what they think know about soulmate and Daemon is flawed and incomplete.

Take Shunsui’s mother for example: her Daemon changed.

They were seven when it happened. One moment there had been a snarling dog at her side, the next there was a tawny wolf. Everyone would have chalked it up to a late Settling – when the Daemon Settles its appearance during puberty or after a life-changing event – if not for two facts. One: the dog had been female and the wolf was male. And second: their names and personalities were different. For some unknown reason Shunsui’s mother’s soulmate had changed. She died two years later during a fight with the Hagoromos but…

But those two years had been the best of their childhood. Shunsui still shudders thinking of that mangy dog and even now makes a point of avoiding any and all dogs. That beast had been nasty. Always snarling, always growling and snapping and biting. Shunsui’s mother had often covered in a corner and flinched away from her own Daemon. Most of the scars of her body had come from the personification of her soulmate’s soul and not battles she survived.

Shunsui is glad that their mother’s new Daemon had been so calm and affectionate, making their mother’s last years of life a veritable heaven.

Even now, no one knows what had happened. Butsuma-sama had even gone so far as to send a messenger to the Capital to discuss the event with the Priests and the Daimyo’s scholars to no results.  No recordings of the event even exist. Each one made disappear a few days later. The only ones who know about it are the ones who lived it or are willing to listen to the story.

So Shunsui is aware that what everyone thinks they know about soulmate and Daemon is incomplete and flawed and subjects to change at any given time.

This is why they don’t treat their clan heir like a pariah or someone to be pitied just because he lacks a Daemon.

Tobirama is a sweet child toddling after his older brother. Then he becomes an older brother himself, taking his role seriously and doting on little Kawarama and Itama without hesitation. The lack of an animal changing shape at his side doesn’t change the fact that he is a child of the clan and growing up to be one of their best.

During those years, Shunsui takes time off mission to tell his tale again and again. Until the pitying stares cease. Tobirama is one of their best shinobi and their clan heir. Sooner or later, he will have a Daemon. Shunsui knows this.

Maybe this is why they are the only one not being utterly dumbfounded when Tobirama literally skips out of his brother’s house with a nine-tailed fox in his arm. They just nod sagely to themself.

(The whole clan goes completely gaga over Kizuna.)

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Naruto Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Senju Tobirama/Uzumaki Naruto Characters: Senju Tobirama, Senju Hashirama, Uzumaki Mito Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Alternate Universe - Daemons, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Fix-It Series: Part 2 of Wind Howls, River Roars Summary:

He never had a Daemon. He was born without one, contrary to everyone else he knows. He never had an animal constantly changing sizes and shapes at his size as he grew up. To all intent and purpose, Tobirama was born without the second half of his soul. He was with no soulmate. Until a fox, his Daemon, literally landed in his lap.

(It took less than two months for the Elemental Nations to fall and for the Shinobi to scatter to the winds. The world ended.)

Here we go. Corrected a few mistakes and added one thing or two...

Next chapter is almost ready!