Note: This is the last part of the first section. The second section is actually normal, so I've no reason to get rid of it.. :'D Gawd, I love normal shit.
( I shalt attempt an LJ cut! :'D )

Naruto soon fell so far into the pits of damnation and no-return, that his only saving grace was a total absence from humanity.

And so he took up himself, and wrapped his darkness around him like a cloak, neither seeing nor hearing, but living as a dead thing. Until all lines separating himself from the demon within began to fade, and he could ( Read more... )

Naruto wakes in what is left of a clearing, with soot stuffed up his nose, and his mouth full of blood and vomit ( Read more... )

The procession is carried over a river, and the lanterns echo darkness in the most eerie of ways.

Naruto has made the gravest of errors, and loved.

The girl he chose, who had laid with him in the softness of barnyard hay and warm flesh, is perched across the platform they carry, balanced on their shoulders.

It is the slab of wood she is to be ( Read more... )