FIC: The Art Of Love [Naruto].
Title: The Art Of Love.
Fandom: Naruto [manga].
Rating: R.
Genre: Angst. Full of annnnnngst. But with a happy ending. So kinda epic fail angst.
Summary: Prompt: "There were certain unchangeable rules for Team 10: Ino was the one who went out and got the good stuff. Chouji was the one who went out and got the bad stuff. Shikamaru was the one who ( Read more... )
Fandom: Naruto [manga].
Rating: R.
Genre: Angst. Full of annnnnngst. But with a happy ending. So kinda epic fail angst.
Summary: Prompt: "There were certain unchangeable rules for Team 10: Ino was the one who went out and got the good stuff. Chouji was the one who went out and got the bad stuff. Shikamaru was the one who ( Read more... )
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Okay okay okay do you know why I love this? Why? Because I love this so hard.
This is so deliciously subtle. I love subtle. ty. Subtlety. That's it. Yeah, I love the delicious subtle. (Look, I am drooling. I am sorry I am so incoherent, but I am DROOLING. I cannot help it. Your awesomeness renders me. drooly. Agh. And plus, you do not need me to write you a Shikamaru/Chouji fic, you wrote this and now I feel stupid and inadequate and gimmicky.)
ANYWAY SO THIS IS DELICIOUSLY SUBTLE. The way you half-hint at everything, the way the reader has to build the backdrop, I love it. Chouji in an abusive relacion? Yes. (Did I just say that in Spanish? What?)
I love the tone you have for this. It's quiet. Tense. Very full of unspoken things, rather like the story itself.
Plus, your characterization for Shikamaru = teh w1nz0rz. And his relationship with Temari? YERRSS.
Staying in Konoha: it was almost like safety; it was almost like cowardice. It almost made sense. To do work that he hated doing, for the sake of simplicity and that rare moment of blissful inaction, was the sort of thing that passed, just barely, as a typically Shikamaru thing to do. Under a little scrutiny, it held up.
Nara Shikamaru, underachiever extraordinaire, graded every paper early and handed them back on time; he walked in the woods outside Konoha twice a week and played shougi with himself on nights when he couldn't sleep. When he could sleep, he rose early. He never dreamed.
OKAY, FULL OF EXCELLENCE AND AWESOME.
The first paragraph, I completely love it, except I'd thought that Ino would've been the one to go out and get the bad stuff. I am probably brainwashed by fandom, though, so you can ignore me.
IN SHORT, YOU ME BABIES NOW.
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