Five times five times five times...five?
Ask me for five things about a particular character, and I will respond with a list or ficlet. (You know the drill: "Five times Arthur was rubbish at talking to girls," or "Five parking tickets Christina de Souza got")Fandoms: Naruto, KKM, FFVII, FFXII, Abyss, Symphonia, KH, Ocean's, PW, HP, Hetalia, KHR, Loveless, Shakespeare, anything else I've
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“I think I failed you,” Iruka says, when he’s sitting cross-legged in the dirt. Itachi is sitting with him, close enough that their knees are touching. Iruka’s body is mostly numb, and his mouth tastes like blood and vomit. When he talks, his lips tingle.
“Why?” Itachi sounds amused, always sounds amused, like Iruka’s telling a joke. Right now, though, Iruka can’t think of any jokes, and he’s sure he’s bitten his lip.
“I didn’t teach you well enough, maybe,” he says, “or maybe too well. Maybe I put too much of myself in you.”
“Oh?” Itachi asks, and he leans forward, and Iruka can’t look away from his eyes. “What of yourself?”
“I don’t know,” Iruka says, and it feels like a sob is ripping when from his throat when Itachi grabs his face, turns his head toward the sky, and says, dream, Iruka-sensei.
When he wakes, lying in the middle of the road, his mouth is full of blood, and he can still see the bodies of all his students.
and the way he did
The Akatsuki catch Iruka a week before they find the Kyuubi. There are a half-dozen chuunin clustered together, remnants of Konoha, and they’re slaughtered systematically, like unwanted dogs. When the Konoha ninja fight back, there is a great deal of screaming, and of blood, and very little time.
“Iruka-sensei,” Itachi says, and Iruka is clutching his side, blood sticky on his fingers.
“Your brother,” Iruka says, “and Naruto--” There is foam on his lips, flecked with blood. “They can’t know--”
“I’ll take care of it,” Itachi says, and when Iruka says, “that’s good,” he slits the teacher’s throat.
completely ignoring canon. :(
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I'm trying to find my favourite bit to quote back at you, but there's so much of this I love, it's proving difficult. I will say, however, when I first read this I went around my flat making high-pitched noises of glee and repeating I'm one of his students too to myself. I just. &hearts
I adore the "do they, sensei?" bit, all the first section and all the fifth section - the fifth section, there's something there that makes my heart bleed just right. Thanks so much for this!
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Thank you~
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That makes me so thrilled, I really can't tell you. Thank you~ :D And-- asf;j Thanks!
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