More kinkmeme stuff, hoshit.

[finnimbrun]

In the Middle

Rating: Mature
Genre: Drama. Not sure if the timeline is anywhere near right, but eh!
Characters/Pairing: Chiyo/Tsunade
Spoilers: I don't think there are any.
Disclaimer: Naruto is the property of Kishimoto Masashi. Standard fanfic disclaimers apply.
Notes: This is yet another 'fic I wrote which sprang out of redbrunja 's epic kinkmeme.

Comments

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[tl__dr]

She thinks of Jiraiya, that big idiot. When did he ever abide by that rule? When did Orochimaru? Or maybe Orochimaru has. Maybe he has too perfectly, she thinks with a flash of unnamed ache; no, never mind. Damn, she's got to get to work.

Ah, such a beautiful and contextual stray line. I love the interpretation of Orochimaru here - somebody who represses his human side to the point of psychopathy, it's so apt.

Also I haven't even gotten to the slash yet but I'm already finding Tsunade's bubbling-beneath-the-surface anger the hottest thing on earth.

A child such as me could run her fist straight through your stomach, Tsunade thinks. Bites her lips and holds her hands behind her back.

Just

Wants to tear off the ladies' dresses and tell them to get to work. Stop praying. There's a man with his chest open two rooms down.

YES.

And then, enter Chiyo.

The woman doesn't like her. Doesn't respect her. She looks up and down the length of her body severely, and Tsunade feels herself redden, and she can't say why. She must look so

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[tl__dr]

But Tsunade, still flush, still certain something was in her drink (did this woman slip her -- but no, that's absurd) beckons -- and Chiyo inches forward, joins her on the bed; hot press of two bodies -- two tools. This nin from Suna has hands harder and more callused than Tsunade's own, and she takes Tsunade's slim fingers and twists them; massages the chakra centres where the muscles have cramped.

Leans down and blows on them, as if they're fresh coals from a flame.

Hell yes. Ninja foreplay. The best kind of foreplay there is. Seriously: this is so weirdly sensual, and so right.

She of the lifeless, dry puppets -- carrying them like she'll someday carry her old bones, if she -- if they -- live long enough for that; drying away in the desert, where the blood and tears evaporate quickly. And those hands which manipulate the strings of the puppets are on Tsunade; they know chakra control, know how to draw these things out.God I just. Maybe I'll just quote back at you EVERY DESCRIPTION OF CHIYO IN THIS FIC, because they're all that

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[tl__dr]

I'm afraid to keep c/ping and rambling at you because I think I've probably already exceeded the comment limit AGAIN (after checking: yep, I did), so I'll just jot down some quick thoughts on the rest of this

late reply is late pt 3

[hieronymousb]

AWWWW WELL, thank you so much for leaving such a fab set of comments. Yep, this fic was definitely sort of my, I dunno, fanfic-treatise on the idea of Women Talking to Women and Women Sharing Women's Pain and Women Understanding Women. Because, well, here's where I get on my soapbox again, but there's entirely too little of this anywhere in fiction, and especially (unfortunately) in fandom. Women are human beings. They need to talk to one another, and they need to relate to one another. And what's more, fiction, I think, sometimes needs to address and show this, because there are plenty of stories/scenes dealing with men interacting with men or women interacting with men, but women understanding and talking to women (as human beings)? Sadly kind of rare, in my experience.

But yeah, /SOAPBOX. Point being, I do think stories of such a nature can be important and should, sometimes, be written, and it was my pleasure to write it, and I'm glad you enjoyed it so much!

late reply is late pt 2

[hieronymousb]

See, and the reason I wrote it as kind of raunchy is because -- well, two things. First off, neither of these ladies were young girls at this point. They'd been around the sexual block. A lot of femmeslash dealing with girl on girl seems to be girls who are Sakura's age or younger, and the sweeter, cutesier stuff is admittedly more suited to that age range.

But also, as a ... uh, gay-ish, probably bisexual-ish woman, I sometimes get frustrated with the fact that, as you said yourself, soooo much girl/girl is so ridiculously cutesy and pretty and romantic and pink and flowers, and... there's nothing wrong with that, of course, but there's no reason two girls can't have raunchy hog wild rutting sex and enjoy it and find it a fun/meaningful/sexy experience. I think sometimes society and girls themselves get a little, I dunno, freaked out by female bodies and female sexuality, and sometimes I just want to celebrate WOMEN'S SEX and WOMEN'S BODIES. The m/m world, and even some of the m/f world is totally down with the dick worship. Come

late reply is late pt 1

[hieronymousb]

Yeah, I really do think it would've been a disservice to Chiyo's character to "prettify" her. We saw her in the flashbacks, and even when she was younger, she was a hard-looking woman -- not a great beauty. She was, in a certain light, a very progressive character for a manga, and I love that about her.

Tsunade's anger: I did get the sense from the flashbacks with her and the Hokage over, say, the medic-nin stuff, that Tsunade always had to deal with being somewhat of the odd one out on a lot of issues, and Konoha's outlook on kunoichi isn't all that, well, progressive. :D So I was trying to work with that. I am glad you enjoyed. Moving on!