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Just throwing this question out into the void: If I turned TVOTE into an original novel, would any of y’all show up to read it? 👀
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Just throwing this question out into the void: If I turned TVOTE into an original novel, would any of y’all show up to read it? 👀
RATING: Explicit
SHIPS: SasuSaku & NaruHina
SUMMARY: There is a place where two legends once fought, a valley that saw their lifeblood spilled. And in Konoha there is a monument, a stone face shaped out of the golden bluff, which honors the champion—the Second Hokage: Uchiha Madara. (AU in which the Uchiha rule Konoha.)
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I spent two hours today brainstorming with @mayimorr about taking TVOTE -> original novel. Which was fun in and of itself, but also gave me some ideas for the fic...
Hi:) big fan. Any chance you you’ll return to In The Valley of the End?
Yes :)
I FINALLY DID IT. I FINALLY UPDATED THE VALLEY OF THE END 😭😭😭
TVOTE News
I'm so close to finishing TVOTE Chapter 21. I'm on the last of seven scenes, and then I just have to edit. I'm aiming to post next Sunday if all goes well. Wish me luck, y'all!!
My TVOTE edits are coming along great! Also, it's been so long since I wrote the first half of this fic that many of the big moments are a surprise for me now 😂 my memory is shit
"ahhhh!! Sasuke just chidori'd the FUCK out of that guy for hurting Sakura!"
"THEY KISSED OMFG THEY KISSED"
"poor Kushina" 😭😭😭 "poor Naruto" 😭😭😭
"when do sasusaku smash for the first time?? chapter 9? yes it's chapter 9!!!"
Been liveblogging to @mayimorr pls forgive me, girl
The Valley of the End: Ch 21 Sneak Peek
When Sasuke was four years old, a thunderstorm hit Konoha. He’d only seen rain, never lightning, and the bright, branching flashes outside his window terrified him. Father would be angry if he found out. Even as a little boy, Sasuke knew that much.
He also knew that his mother was the safest place in the whole, wide world (a small world, actually, but he didn’t understand that yet).
Sasuke woke her in the middle of the night with a silent tug on her nightgown sleeve. Father was out of town on some important Hokage business, so he didn’t have to worry about getting caught.
“What’s wrong?” she asked, her question blurred with sleep.
“The storm. It’s…”
“Scary?”
He nodded.
Sometimes when Father was away and Sasuke had a nightmare, she let him sleep in the big bed, but this time she said no.
“Bad dreams can’t hurt you when you’re awake, but storms are real. When you’re scared of something real, you shouldn’t run from it. Running will only make you more afraid.”
That didn’t make sense to Sasuke, but she taught him in the best way he could learn: by taking him outside to see the storm.
A porch wrapped around the back half of their house like protective arms. That’s where she took him that night, where she picked him up and held him on her hip, telling stories about lightning and fire.
“You’re a son of the Uchiha,” she said. “This is who you are, Sasuke. Never fear that.”
He nodded, but the next jolt of lightning still made him flinch.
His mother hugged him tighter through the rolling thunder, then sat on the porch swing with him curled up in her lap.
“As long as I’m here, I’ll never let anything hurt you.”
That wasn’t true. She tried her best, but there was only so much a wife could do from within a cold-hearted Hokage’s shadow.
Maybe she hadn’t realized that on the night she held him in her arms, teaching him that not only was she the safest place in the world, she would shape his world to be safe for him.
She killed his fear of storms that night. As rain played music on the roof and lightning burned the skies, Sasuke discovered a love for something as beautiful as it was deadly.
Looking back, that should have been a warning sign, a lesson in and of itself. When he feels loved enough, he can look past a pretty lie. He can trust for the sake of comfort, even if real danger is barely hidden overhead.
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AN: I hope you enjoyed this sneak peek of Chapter 21! Fingers crossed that I'll have a full update to share soon.