He was just trying to figure out if the kid was his son. He didn't expect to end up heading out on a cross-country road trip to find Peter's runaway sister. [Post-DoFP]
Zuko never confided the story of how he got his scar to the Gaang, but once the war was over and they took up temporary residence in his palace, the story was inevitably going to get out. [Kind of a companion to 'Skin Deep.']
If Thranduil doesn't want his son pursuing the captain of the guard, he has his reasons. Reasons that have nothing to do with her being "a lowly Silvan Elf."
"Though she supposed she should count her blessings, Tauriel found duty near the capital to be remarkably monotonous." As a young adult, Tauriel meets Legolas for the first time, and thinks about the future, and the world.
When Kanna left the Northern Water Tribe, she told herself not to think about the past. Coming here probably wasn't the best thing to do, in that case.
One morning at the kitchen table, George Weasley looked at his wife and, in a moment of uncharacteristic emotional honesty, said rather desperately, "I can't do this anymore."
An essay on the Unforgivable Curses and what their designation as "Unforgivable" says about Wizarding society. Also, a theory on how the Cruciatus Curse works, and my case for why the Imperius Curse is the most insidious of the three.
One summer, Faramir, Boromir and their cousin Elphir go to Mordor to watch a war re-enactment. Oh, and Aragorn and Arwen come too. Modern day AU, NFAB-verse.
All Shikaku wanted was to go down in a blaze of glory. Pity no one else shared this dream. Shikaku, Inoichi, Ao, Mabui. Spoilers for 613. AU. Mock fic.
"All of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will... Where do you want to start?" Doctor Who drabbles and oneshots. Characters, pairings and word counts may vary. See each chapter for more information.
"Is this the part where it's starting to sink in that everything you knew for ten years was a lie?" Temari, Gaara. Spoilers for 546-548. Gen. Angst. Warnings for adult themes. Two-shot. Complete.
"They say God takes care of those who take care of themselves. If that's the case, God stopped paying attention to Inoue Sora a long time ago." 20 drabbles. Sora, Orihime. Gen. Canon-compliant. In-progress.
Bleach drabbles. Characters, pairings and word counts will vary. See each chapter for more information. .: The Glasses Come Off: Intimidating things shouldn't involve a teenager taking his glasses off. :.
The Raikage's decided that Uzumaki Naruto is what you get when you take the worst qualities of children and add a God complex and histrionic personality disorder to the mix. Spoilers for 541. AU.
It's for her sake that he's ventured into the unknown, it is she that leaves him raw and strangely unafraid, and it is her ghost that haunts him in the end. AU. Angst. Kakashi x Yugito. Pre-series. Multichapter.
-Harusame, Utakata- At the first, it's the promise of ham in wax paper that gets the boy to talk to him. Spoilers for anime-only "Tsuchigomo Kinjutsu" arc.
Anakin was perhaps a bit overconfident. Or, maybe, he was very overconfident. He'd have to be, to think Padmé would actually be impressed by that. AoTC fic. AU.
He was all set for bloody revenge until Karin got one of her infamous bright ideas and gave him a business card she'd picked up in the last village. AU.
-Arthur, Percy, Penelope- This wasn't how Arthur had expected—or wanted—Percy to declare his loyalties. Slightly AU. First installment of the 'Prodigal Son' series.
-Penelope- She was a Ravenclaw. She was supposed to be clever. But she wouldn't die a Ravenclaw. She would die Penelope Clearwater. Second installment of the 'Prodigal Son' series.
-Hiashi, Hinata- "You did what?" Hiashi exclaimed sadly, understanding what he wished he could not. Meanwhile, Hinata only looked away, biting her lip.
-Finduilas, Faramir- One day, Finduilas will be able to go home. And when that day comes, she'll take Faramir with her, and they'll both go see the sea.
-Ichigo x Rukia, Orihime- Orihime can't help it if her face isn't the right one. She's so clumsy around him, and it's impossible to think of being with him without guilt. Spoilers for Deicide arc.
-Gaara x Matsuri- He had green eyes, the color of sea foam, or maybe pale jade. That was what she first noticed. They were nice eyes, Matsuri decided. Kind, for all their reticence.
-Ishida x Orihime- Ishida decides the universe is trying to tell him something when he reads the message in the fortune cookie. /Maybe I should buy lottery tickets too./
-Ryuuken, Uryuu- Ryuuken would never see the resemblance, but his son looked exactly like him when he slept. Careworn and tense, as though he never allowed himself to relax.
-Kabuto, Sasori- The only irony left is that the most feared puppeteer Suna has ever produced has the appearance of a delicate child. The rest is hollow and naught but dust.
Everyone knows that Inoue Orihime's cooking looks lethal. But the one question on everyone's mind is: Does it taste as lethal as it looks? Rukia has to know.
It would take forever to learn about her, then he would step back and realize that he hadn't even scratched the surface. Case in point: Orihime likes cucumbers. Who knew?
I will push your tide back, and chase you away. I will banish you as if you were nothing more than a bad memory. Konan, Madara. Drabble. Spoilers for 508-509.
Sometimes, he just listens to her breathe. /And sometimes, after she's gone, he still waits for the sound, and wishes for some way to reach her./ Byakuya x Hisana. Drabble.
This is what happens to Nanao in one day, one night, and the next morning. Her strength shows through in so many ways. Ukitake x Nanao, slight Shunsui x Nanao.
"I stared down at the pile of ash in my hands. Then, after some hesitation, I leaned down close and blew it all away." Spoilers for 353. Ulquiorra x Orihime.
Out of the wilderness comes a cry that can't be heard. From the falling shadows of memory and time comes a story that can't be told, a truth that can't be found. How did it come to this? GinRan. Spoilers for 416.
It's easy, from this standpoint, to see where he went wrong. But that doesn't mean he would change what went wrong if he could. GinRan. Spoilers for 412-415.
The reasonable can see that there is a time and a place for avenging wrongs done, and that there will always be another day for such things. Spoilers for Hueco Mundo arc.
The story of a child who's still learning how to feel, and of three people who love her. .: Ishida x Nemu; Nanao, Ukitake :. Three stories within a story.
/Ishida x Orihime/ The story of a girl who's afraid to speak and a boy who holds everyone he loves at arm's length. The only comfort they can find when they can't go back and haven't come home is this.
Every time he questioned why he was doing this, he recalled the sight of the blood on her clothes and the bruise on her cheek, and he would remember how much he hated this man. GinRan, Aizen. Spoilers for 414, 415.
AU. Rukia licked her dry lips as she stared down at the wan, listless face that looked just like her own. The woman lying on the tatami mat was asleep. "Hello?" she called softly. Sequel to 'Revelations of Hunger'.
His only hope now was to throw himself on the mercy of the court. Though, judging by the way the one man "Court" was glowering at him, he was probably screwed. Isshin sighed. He knew he shouldn't have come in through the window.
Maybe now Rangiku would choose to utilize some common sense, though secretly, Gin wasn't too optimistic, as black blood spilled down her ivory throat. GinRan. Spoilers for 412.
What she had set in motion could not be reversed. Somehow, she had gone from being an inconvenient speck on the edge of his existence to a presence he did not know how to ignore. And in truth, he did not want to ignore her. Ulquiorra x Orihime.
The colors had shimmered all around, sending out tentative feelers towards him. Though Gin did not remember the names of his parents, he did remember all of the colors.
Garak certainly hoped that the second impression he made on her would go a little better than the first. It wouldn't do to scare away a potential customer, after all. Garak, Ziyal. Gen.
The silence was resounding, as Tatsuki wandered the eerie, empty streets of Karakura Town. Somehow, she knew Ichigo had something to do with this. Spoilers for 408-409.
It doesn't matter how they came together, only that they are. /Naruto pairing drabbles. Pairings will be strictly het, updates sporadic./ Spun Glass: There was blood seeping from the right hand side of his mouth.
/NaruHina/ Naruto has something he needs to take care of, concerning three words spoken to him in the grip of despair by a girl who has loved him for as long as she can remember.
To err is human, especially when the Ishida clan is put in the position of having to deal with each other. Sometimes, however, they manage to get it right.
Ukitake has not appointed a lieutenant since Kaien's death because he already has a replacement in mind. The only obstacle? Said replacement's older brother.
"Wound to the pride," Yumichika commented, eyes opaque over the glass of sake he'd just been handed. "Runs a hell of a lot deeper than those cuts ever could." Gen. Spoilers for 206.
The sorely ill-matched snowball fight from Outer Heck meets the quest to build the perfect snowman. No, seriously. Ichigo, Ishida, Rukia, Orihime, others. Holiday fic.
They tell you to light a candle for the dead. There aren't enough candles in the universe for Alderaan. And you'll never forget what you saw, when your world was snuffed out without a word. Drabble, Leia-introspection.
Parenthood is equal parts joy, sorrow and fear. At least, that's how it's supposed to be. But nothing is ever that simple, and when the heart goes dead, joy is the first thing to go.
Aizen remembered Hinamori as the bit of cord he had held in his hand, until he had picked up the scissors and started snip, snip, snipping away. Dark fic.
He wanted nothing more than to drag her down from that high place. The line between love and hate is very thin indeed. Onesided Nnoitra x Neliel in subtext.
Isshin knew Ryuuken still cared, even if he had an extremely difficult time showing it. There were some things that no father would allow to happen. Spoilers for the Arrancar Arc.
Rangiku was running, and she wasn't sure why. She knew all too well what was waiting for her at the end of that long stretch of road, and she was afraid to find what had become of him, what was left of him. Spoilers for 404.
AU. Minato was an eighteen-year-old boy, and she was an older married woman. Not happily married, but married all the same. It could never be what they wanted. Minato x Mikoto.
NaruKarin, AU. On the battlefield, Naruto finds himself learning the importance of living, the lesson taught to him by the last person he would have expected.
“If this is the afterlife, then why aren’t you in hell?” Itachi only smiles cryptically. Death is a destination, the afterlife a series of paths. Gen. fic, oneshot. Jiraiya, Itachi, others.
/Slight KakaShiz/ She was sure that everything would be alright when Tsunade woke up, but that didn’t stop her from having a contingency plan, and Kakashi half-wished it didn't involve him.
It was the first time Ibiki had ever lost control of the direction of an interrogation, and he knew that if he had to continue questioning her, it wouldn't be the last.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? Mirror, mirror, with eyes that see, do you see what's inside of me? Karin wishes she couldn't see it.
/Team Gai-centric/ There are many things Neji doesn't know about his teammates. /Because when a genin doesn't talk about the parents, you don't ask./ Neji, Lee, Tenten.
What if Sasori didn't defect? Even without defecting, Sasori somehow got involved in every plot, conspiracy, scandal, controversy and drama that involved Suna for the next twenty years. Extremely AU.
At four years old, Kushina knows that nothing will ever be the same again. /And she watches, as her homeland, the land of her heart, is consumed by a pillar of smoke./ T for safety.
I am alone, more alone than I have ever been before. My sins are laid out before me, and now my last and only hope for redemption is to build a better future than the past.
While waiting for the year to fall, Gaara never knows he's being watched. /Maybe it's better if I just stay dead./ Dedicated to Megii of Mysteri OusStranger.
Pretty soon she's going to have to choose, choose between her would-be lover and her best friend, and when that day comes everything may well fall apart. /She's damned if she does, damned if she doesn't./
Sometimes at the end of the day, Karura is just too tired to tell if it's a good thing or a bad thing. /And despite everything, the stars still shine./
Kabuto/Shizune. "We never change," Kabuto muttered. The soft mist and heavy, acrid smoke cast a pall over the battlefield. Shizune knelt near the treeline, almost glad she couldn't see the full carnage left behind.
You're making him keep a promise that will ultimately kill him. If that's not cruelty, I don't know what is." Tenten hears a fragment of a conversation, and acts accordingly. The power of misinterpretation, and a study into into the nature of cruelty.
Jiraiya tracks Naruto down to a decimated battlefield one cold morning, and finds a broken man. Sidestory to go with Ayien's The Nine Broken Mirrors. Contains spoilers to NBM. T for angst, slight swearing and Jiraiya's humor. You have been warned.
It was the end of an era. They were possibly the only ones left alive to remember. Two people who were at once enemies and friends meet after long, scarring years, unable to deny that they have both changed, watching the sun set on their era.
Upon hearing that his sister's health has declined further, Yashamaru visits his sister, wanting to do something to help. But instead he makes a vow that will one day shake the shinobi world.
His eyes fell on the woman again. The yellow light spilt on her face, bathing it in an unearthly glow. He was sure he knew her from somewhere, but where? Halloween fic.
She was having the same dream, over and over. It was the desert, it was night, and wherever she went she heard the cries of a baby, carried on the wind. Rated T for swearing, angst, and character death.