Title: Space Piracy: Lessons in Love, Ass-kicking, and Instant Noodles
Author(s):
sirona_gs and
prettypriestessPairing(s): Naruto/Sasuke, side Ino/Shikamaru, Sakura/Sai, Gaara/Neji, Kakashi/Iruka, Haku/Zabuza, past Naruto/Gaara, implied past Neji/Sasuke
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~ 64,200
Disclaimer: It all belongs to Kishi. No profit is being made.
Warnings: Violence, some gore, some crack, a creepy Kyuubi, m/m sex
Summary: Ninjas IN SPACE! Join Soragakure's pirate ship captain, Uzumaki Naruto and his crew of misfits on an epic adventure, spanning whole galaxies as they fight to gain control of a viciously dangerous viral mainframe, parts of which are contained in the cyborg bodies of nine men and women all over the known universe. Enemies become friends and friends become something more in a frantic race to outrun the unscrupulous Akatsuki organization and the corrupt Alliance of space cities and steal a weapon that may mean the end of creation as they know it.
Notes: This started out as a fun and silly 20K story, a word limit we were a little worried we might not make when we started off. And then we got to writing, and then it sort of ran away from us a lot. It's still a love story, though, and we had an almost obscene amount of fun writing it. There is a
fanmix created for this fic by the ever-wonderful
ryuutchi, who also made us the gorgeous banner below!
Additional, Priestess-only Notes: Sirona's totally too nice to mention it, but she did most of the heavy editing (and all of the final editing, which, as everyone who has ever written anything knows, is the worst part) and wrote the last, most climactic parts entirely on her own. She also fails to mention in the notes that we'd originally planned to make this only 10k for the chuunin challenge. And then we decided to bump it up to 20k.
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