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Naruto - Knots (KakuHidan)
Genre: Drama/Angst/Romance THEORETICALLY
Warnings: R. Maybe?
Fandom: Naruto
Notes: Ugh, this took long enough. I don't know how much of a ROMANCE it really is; sorry, Starstruck, I hope you like anyway. T___T
( someday all this bad luck you're storing up is going to come back and bite us )
Warnings: R. Maybe?
Fandom: Naruto
Notes: Ugh, this took long enough. I don't know how much of a ROMANCE it really is; sorry, Starstruck, I hope you like anyway. T___T
( someday all this bad luck you're storing up is going to come back and bite us )
Just wanted to say that I've never read a fic where BOTH Kakuzu and Hidan would be so IC as they are in yours. Actually, somehow they feel more like themselves than they did in manga ;). You brought out all that's inhuman and uncanny about them, and you did it so explicitly and convincingly that it's almost unbearable.
I'm really impressed how honest and uncompromising you are about these characters. You don't try to "soften" them, make them more human. It's true we know so little about them that spectrum of acceptable interpretations is rather wide, but most of these interpretations, including mine, are somehow flawed by fangirlism and wishful thinking. There's no trace of it in your fic. No improbable fluff, no sentimentalism. Your story is so harsh at times, that it's hard to read it. But it's so sophisticated and intricate that you just cannot not to read it.
And your conception of Kakuzu's character is just brilliant! &hearts Seriously, the best I've ever read. (BTW I love your little drabble about Kakuzu's masks you wrote a while ago (I'm not sure if I left a comment ^_^') Speaking of which, it's off topic, but I've spotted something only recently (looks like I'm not very observant ^_^'), so I'm still a bit excited about it. I'm speaking about a picture of Kakuzu in the manga, the flashback where he's ripping the heart out of one of his victims. He seems to have there only one mask on his back, and it's none of those he's using during the fight with Konoha nins. Aw, I just love these little shreds of backstory Kishimoto scatters here and there :)).
Excellent fic! &hearts I really hope you write something more involving these characters :)
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Anyway, I'm so glad these guys are in character, because sometimes I love me some softened-up Kakuzu and Hidan but it's hard for me to write them that way. The one I really have to struggle with is Kakuzu, because he seems more plausible "humanized" to me - Hidan just enjoys what he is too much. Whereas Kakuzu, well... I was reading the Zombie Combi arc again last night and he seems so melancholy sometimes. I pretty much have a running Hidan-monologue on tap but Kakuzu, I have to reach deeper.
They are harsh though... I don't know. Predator Hidan is my favorite type of Hidan. When he's enjoying himself. They're both so feral-seeming to me, in different ways. That's why I love them. <3
I loooove Kakuzu! It's so hard to get into his head. Oh, man. They're such great foils to each other.
Hopefully I will write more about these guys! I have lots of ideas I want to explore, together and apart. Plus I really want to write some Kakuzu/Yugito or maybe Hidan/Yugito/Kakuzu if I can figure it out, oh mannnnn.
Thank you for your wonderful comment! <3
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