In honor of Viz flinging new volumes of Naruto into the market - up to 41 in English now and I'm not yet caught up so please don't spoil me - octopedingenue has launched reread-no-jutsu, a group reread community for Naruto, the shounen ninja manga that charmed me with its portrayal of a young ninja losing his mind during the ninja written exams and then broke and healed my ( Read more... )

Title: Five Things Tsunade Didn't Save (And One She Did)
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None if you know who Tsunade is.
Words: 1350

Note: A gift for rilina-fic. Apparently prompted by a post she'd made hoping for Tsunade fic, I dreamed the title but no story to go with it. She suggested that I write it anyway, so I did. Enjoy!

( There was a time when Tsunade was proud of her scars. )

Fandom Meme* Name a fandom you know I know and I'll tell you ( Read more... )

This is the third in a non-chronologically ordered trilogy about the Sand Siblings.

Not a Grain of Sand has spoilers through volume sixteen (the conclusion of the chuunin exams.)

The Hourglass has spoilers through volume 31 (the conclusion of the first timeskipped arc.)

( Before he’d go on another mission with Gaara, he’d run away and become a missing-nin. )

Kiba has no secrets. If there’s anything that Hinata and Shino don’t know about him, it’s because they weren’t listening.

It’s different with Akamaru. They can communicate whatever they want with body language. When they were both puppies- when they were both young, since everyone in his family spoke fluent dog, it took Kiba a long time to pick ( Read more... )

Shino has a secret ( Read more... )

Enormous spoilers through volume 31. Do not click unless you've read that far.

( For Naruto, comfort is a bowl of ramen. For Rock Lee, relaxation is five hundred push-ups. )

Hinata has a secret ( Read more... )

Author's note: Posting from Venice, Italy. Whee, I have wireless!

I had meant to use the sleep deprivation of a long flight to inspire me to write about a certain insomniac character. However, sleep deprivation is not conducive to writing, and the story ended up being written in Rome, and about another aspect of travel.

( Everything had changed since Konoha )

For telophase, a riff on her own request for a story about a certain ninja.

( Ninja tell stories )