Title: The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
Author: yumi-maki
Rating: T
Genre: Romance/Angst
Summary: [AU] Sasuke doesn't relish being a heartbreaker.
Comments: So I wanted to write about Karin and I wanted to write a SasuSaku and I think it merged into this. The setting is the twenties but I suppose you can't really tell from what I wrote.

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Title: Back to Black
Author: yumi-maki
Rating: T
Genre: Romance/Angst
Summary: AU, Paris. We only said goodbye with words, I died a hundred times, you go back to her and I go back to, I go back to black.
Comments: A 30 flowers fic. An experimental piece. Inspired by the Amy Winehouse song of the same name and tons of pictures of black and white.

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Title: 4 in the Morning
Author: yumi-maki
Rating: K+
Pairing: ShikaTema
Genre: Romance/Angst (just a little bit)
Summary: Temari has something important to tell Shikamaru. Now if he'd only get up to hear it...
Comments: A
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Title: Before the Rain
Day/Theme: March 9th (Tenten's birthday!) - 'Beyond your reach'
Characters: Neji, Tenten, implied Nejiten
Genre: Romance/Angst
Rating: PG +
Summary: Tenten goes to meet Neji at their old training ground. 
Comments: Fourth story for Pictures of You. Inspired by Dido's Isobel.

Before the Rain

March 9th - 'Beyond your reach'

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Title: Walk in the Night
Day/Theme: March 8th - 'Alone in a crowd at night'
Characters: Naruto, Sasuke (non yaoi)
Genre: General/Angst
Rating: PG +
Summary: Naruto seeks solace from loneliness, of all places, in isolation. OR. Naruto, Sasuke and a snowy, deserted bridge.
Comments: Third story for Pictures of You. I'm a bit early I know. I don't love the ( Read more... )

Title: Someone Like You
Day/Theme: March 6th - 'You are everything I--'
Characters: Shikamaru/Temari
Genre: Romance/Humour/Angst
Rating: PG+
Summary: Shikamaru makes a declaration, Temari goes on the warpath.
Comments: Second story for Pictures of You - a ShikaTema - yay! This was originally supposed to be a 30 flowers fic but I thought it suited this ( Read more... )

Title: Love Save The Empty
Day/Theme: February 22nd - "My heart is hardn'd, I cannot repent"
Genre; General/Angst
Characters: Sasuke, Karin
Rating: K+
Summary: A simple question from Karin prompts Sasuke to do a little introspection.
Comments: Written for 31 days. Inspired partially by Erin McCarley's Love Save The Empty. I don't love the last line. What ( Read more... )

Title: Small Hours
Author: yumi-maki
Rating: K+
Characters: Minato/Kushina, Naruto
Genre: General/Angst
Summary: Kushina bids her life in Konoha, including her son good-bye.
Comments: Written for the 31 days community. Feb. 18th - "Infinite treasures in a little room". I finally wrote a Kushina fic - yay!!! Please comment and tell me what you think. I'm ( Read more... )

Title: This is the Dark Time, My Love
Author: yumi-maki
Rating: K+
Pairing: ShikaTema
Genre: Romance/Angst (in a big way)/Drama
Summary: Their last meeting, like their first, is on a battlefield.
Comments: Another 30 flowers fic. It's been raining a lot here - that might have something to do with this. A late Valentine's Day piece.

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Title: My Immortal
Author: yumi-maki
Rating: K+
Characters: Kankurou, Temari (not sandcest, eew!)
Genre: Family/Angst
Summary: After his death, Temari thinks about her soul mate.
Comments: Martin Carter + Evanescence's My Immortal + an overcast, windy day = this.

My Immortal

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Four months.

It was four months, almost to the day ( Read more... )