At least there's still so many people in Naruto fandom, though - it's not like writing for, like, Gundam Wing, where barely anyone is still reading. XD
And OH NO ANGSTY FIC. ;_; I like happy endings. The promise of angsty fic scares me but of course I'll read it anyway. *cries into your shoulder*
I love this ;____; The elements of tragedy were handled just right, not too lightly but not heavy-handed. I am also smitten with Itachi's characterization, a maelstrom of anger and frustration and sorrow under that cool veneer. I always prefer a more aggressive Itachi; this actually has brought home to me how corpse-like I write him sometimes :\
My favorite scene has got to be the one at the shrine. The quiet sorrow and the sense of acceptance really got to me. And hey, despite all that, you still managed to give them a few moments of reprieve before the end. Wonderful work *sob*
(I wonder if I may have missed this on my first read, but how did Shisui learn about the MS if Itachi and Fugaku don't even know about it anyway?)
I also LOVE the FST. Oh man, an ItaShi FST, I could die right now. Were you listening to Stereomood by any chance, because I see a lot of familiar titles. Brian Eno's By This River has popped up on my playlists like a dozen times now XD
(You're not supposed to point out plot holes I didn't want to elaborate on! xD But, realistically, I think Madara would be the only way to get the MS into their power without Fugaku knowing. I mean, if he was worried Itachi had turned on them, if he knew about the MS, I really don't see him leaving that type of information around. I just didn't know how to write Madara at allll, so homeboy made no appearance in this story)
The Brian Eno song is guilty as charged from Stereomood, though I claim the rest. I heard it and that's what made me do a FST in the first place, it was like their goddamn wedding song. That, and the NIN song. I didn't even cheat and google songs about drowning though I did think about doing that >>;.
I'm so happy you read it ;w; I'm working on a ridiculously gay college AU one-shot for Shivi, now. I'm going to hell.
Old Hundred is actually a local band that I got to see live a few months ago. I bought their demo and ripped that song off it. I have a soft spot for folk xD Yay, Columbus.
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I came out of this all raw and reeling from Shisui's tenderness, which is an aspect I yearn to see him display in fic and rarely encounter. (I...am really ashamed to admit that my first real conception of Shisui was a vague blob that did nothing but give Itachi hugs and love him) You turned it out here COMPETENTLY, and I may or may not be hand-wringing in happiness.
I really, really liked the part where he went shopping (look at this, the more I like a story, the stupider I sound when commenting on it) That was fantastic, a way to bring the tragedy soundly into their quotidian lives, and it just broke my heart thinking about these teeny little boys going and BUYING GROCERIES in the wake of a great tragedy.
And the FST was duly plundered :) The awesomeness, you has it.
(Now go write that college AU, woman! Although high school might be nice too--I have this cheesy need for Shisui to take Itachi to the prom...hmm...)
Since Mai beat me to the prom, I've got something to scratch your itch I'll have posted by Friday. A few somethings. Fuck, all I could think about at work today was ItaShi /angst
As I mentioned to someone else, I think the grocery shopping was my favorite part. I wanted to skip around to all the monumental parts, but I slipped that little bit in just as a reminder that they still just want to be people, not even people, just little boys, but can't because all these adults are pushing ridiculously huge, viciously sadistic motives and pressures onto them.
I AWAIT WITH BATED BREATH. It was a happy day when I offhandedly mentioned my prom fantasies to her, oh yes, it was :D I am so happy about all these people writing AU's for this pairing at my behest, maybe I'm going to have to go neurotically track down and harass more good writers? Ahaha, this is what you do when you can't write goodfic for yourself :)
They really are very young. Shisui, at least, is Shippuden age, and Itachi is only a little older than the Konoha 12 in the first part :/ I don't think any of them have the kind of emotional maturity Shisui and Itachi did at this age, which is part of the reason I ship them so hard. I hate when writers foist them off as Naruto/Sasuke Redux, and I am so very glad you didn't do that here at all!
I think about this ship all the time. I think about it in class. I think about it writing papers. I think about it when I'm not thinking about it. Welcome aboard.
Why is it that the only ItaShi out there is so epic? <3 I love this one. Very believable. I do still think that the way Itachi 'killed' Shisui was something like this. It makes the most sense given what we know about Itachi's nature.
Nice twist with Danzou wanting Shisui killed though, I must say. I've seen Shisui being asked to keep an eye on Itachi or even kill him, but the Danzou thing is new.
The One for pain, two for sadness, three for sickness, four for madness. Shisui steps closer, tatami mats gleaming, Uchiha symbols bright and stark against the walls. Five for crying. Six for laughing....Seven for dying. part really disturbed me for some reason.
And your baby Sasuke... So true. XD
I'm saving this. Such canon angst written so well. <3
Danzou is interesting to me. With him having Shisui's arm and I, I'm already going to assume he had no problem rooting Shisui's corpse, and the fact that Danzou is the one who ordered Itachi to murder everyone in the clan is just screaming at me. Wanting Shisui killed specifically first would be a good way for him to take his arm and eye and if anyone actually cared, use Itachi as a scapegoat. Though I don't feel like Danzou knew about the MS.
All this vagueness, Kishimoto! Geeze!
The little rhyme thing, to me, was just a chant of what I feel like their relationship was. Mostly pain and anguish, a tiny bit of laughing, that was probably just insanity leaking out, and then just death.
Hrm... I never thought about Danzou not knowing about MS. It would make sense that he wouldn't know. I guess I never really thought about it either way. I want to know what really happened so badly, but I have a bad feeling Kishi will purposely keep everything about the Uchiha kind of vague.
Unhappy with recent Itachi development though.
It summed them up perfectly though, in a very eerie way.
He is <3. Such a pompous little snot, but a cute one.
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Really great fic 8DDD And it also makes my headcanon happy 8DDD
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I've got a terribly angsty one planned out for them, next. ItaShi is like a drug at the moment.
Thank you so much for reading ;w;
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And OH NO ANGSTY FIC. ;_; I like happy endings. The promise of angsty fic scares me but of course I'll read it anyway. *cries into your shoulder*
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My favorite scene has got to be the one at the shrine. The quiet sorrow and the sense of acceptance really got to me. And hey, despite all that, you still managed to give them a few moments of reprieve before the end. Wonderful work *sob*
(I wonder if I may have missed this on my first read, but how did Shisui learn about the MS if Itachi and Fugaku don't even know about it anyway?)
I also LOVE the FST. Oh man, an ItaShi FST, I could die right now. Were you listening to Stereomood by any chance, because I see a lot of familiar titles. Brian Eno's By This River has popped up on my playlists like a dozen times now XD
*fangirl*
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The Brian Eno song is guilty as charged from Stereomood, though I claim the rest. I heard it and that's what made me do a FST in the first place, it was like their goddamn wedding song. That, and the NIN song. I didn't even cheat and google songs about drowning though I did think about doing that >>;.
I'm so happy you read it ;w; I'm working on a ridiculously gay college AU one-shot for Shivi, now. I'm going to hell.
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I came out of this all raw and reeling from Shisui's tenderness, which is an aspect I yearn to see him display in fic and rarely encounter. (I...am really ashamed to admit that my first real conception of Shisui was a vague blob that did nothing but give Itachi hugs and love him) You turned it out here COMPETENTLY, and I may or may not be hand-wringing in happiness.
I really, really liked the part where he went shopping (look at this, the more I like a story, the stupider I sound when commenting on it) That was fantastic, a way to bring the tragedy soundly into their quotidian lives, and it just broke my heart thinking about these teeny little boys going and BUYING GROCERIES in the wake of a great tragedy.
And the FST was duly plundered :) The awesomeness, you has it.
(Now go write that college AU, woman! Although high school might be nice too--I have this cheesy need for Shisui to take Itachi to the prom...hmm...)
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As I mentioned to someone else, I think the grocery shopping was my favorite part. I wanted to skip around to all the monumental parts, but I slipped that little bit in just as a reminder that they still just want to be people, not even people, just little boys, but can't because all these adults are pushing ridiculously huge, viciously sadistic motives and pressures onto them.
;-; What have I gotten myself into.
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They really are very young. Shisui, at least, is Shippuden age, and Itachi is only a little older than the Konoha 12 in the first part :/ I don't think any of them have the kind of emotional maturity Shisui and Itachi did at this age, which is part of the reason I ship them so hard. I hate when writers foist them off as Naruto/Sasuke Redux, and I am so very glad you didn't do that here at all!
I think about this ship all the time. I think about it in class. I think about it writing papers. I think about it when I'm not thinking about it. Welcome aboard.
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Why is it that the only ItaShi out there is so epic? <3 I love this one. Very believable. I do still think that the way Itachi 'killed' Shisui was something like this. It makes the most sense given what we know about Itachi's nature.
Nice twist with Danzou wanting Shisui killed though, I must say. I've seen Shisui being asked to keep an eye on Itachi or even kill him, but the Danzou thing is new.
The One for pain, two for sadness, three for sickness, four for madness. Shisui steps closer, tatami mats gleaming, Uchiha symbols bright and stark against the walls. Five for crying. Six for laughing....Seven for dying. part really disturbed me for some reason.
And your baby Sasuke... So true. XD
I'm saving this. Such canon angst written so well. <3
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All this vagueness, Kishimoto! Geeze!
The little rhyme thing, to me, was just a chant of what I feel like their relationship was. Mostly pain and anguish, a tiny bit of laughing, that was probably just insanity leaking out, and then just death.
I love baby Sasuke ;w; He's a little brat.
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Unhappy with recent Itachi development though.
It summed them up perfectly though, in a very eerie way.
He is <3. Such a pompous little snot, but a cute one.
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