[Set a few years before the fateful chuunin exam where Hayako died and just about everything happened.]

( “Uzuki Yuugao!” she huffed and shook her hands at him. “You will apologize right this second!” )

Most of the time, Aki hadn't been aware. He'd been heavily doped up on painkillers and sedatives and such...but now he was on lower doses ( Read more... )

( D’you think it’s possible to make a statue out of all this? )

Night had fallen by the time they reached Konoha’s gates ( Read more... )

After strong-arming Kakami into some social interaction - if you could call looking for details on previous missions as social interaction - the two jounin ended up at the lounge after a trip full of traded insults and discarded cigarette butts. It was nice to be back in Konoha, Asuka felt, if only because there were people here she could harass ( Read more... )