Stories by Nia River

Maybe, in another world, Orochimaru spent the week in village. Maybe, in another world, Tsunade was alone as Dan Katō bled out. That is not this world. / "Tsunade?" Orochimaru prodded. She remained frozen. Battlefield shock? In a medical situation? He looked at said medical situation – at Dan, her lover – and hissed. "Sentiment," he cursed, and lunged towards Dan. / (Oro/Sakumo)

Human interactions weren't Orochimaru's strength. Fortunately, Tsunade was willing to answer questions. The jōnin station wasn't the best place to ask, but he'd just have to deal with the lack of privacy, Jiraiya being a nuisance, Tsunade mooning over Katō… and the distracting presence of the subject of his question – and object of affections – Sakumo Hatake, just across the room.

COMPLETE. If duty to his clan's ghosts didn't rest so heavy on his shoulders, Sasuke would grab the nearest blade, press it to his throat and— he was somewhere strange and new. There was a man with messy dark hair. His heart lurched, but it wasn't another Uchiha. No Uchiha had vivid green eyes. "I'm the immortal wizard," the man said. "And I have an offer for you." (GEN, oneshot)

COMPLETE. Orochimaru first met Tobirama Senju when he was six years old. For such an important figure, the Nidaime was oddly indulgent of a tiny child rudely demanding he share his knowledge with them. (Gen, oneshot)

COMPLETE. When Dudley appeared in the living room at Grimmauld Place, Harry just stared for a bit. It was he who'd given Dudley the emergency Portkey, but he'd never expected him to actually use it. He certainly couldn't have predicted the conversation that followed. "What do you know about the Italian mafia?" Dudley asked. It didn't get any less weird from there. (GEN, oneshot)

COMPLETE. It was considered a terrible fate to be Flame-Sealed. Better to die, some said. Timoteo told himself it would be fine – Tsunayoshi knew nothing of Flames, and had been Active bare moments after falling from that tree, and he was young, so he would forget. It would be fine. …It wasn't fine. (In which actions have consequences.) [GEN, oneshot]

COMPLETE. When Draco caught Harry talking to a snake, he didn't react well. Harry, sympathetic to his lover's Voldemort-related trauma, knew he'd do whatever it took to make things better. "Did you know," Draco said, flushed and breathless, "that when speaking parseltongue, your tongue vibrates?" (Harry/Draco, SLASH, oneshot)

COMPLETE. Madara returns home from a mission to find his lover waiting in their bed. They make love as the sun rises. OR: Tobirama wanted lazy morning sex. Emphasis on 'lazy'. Madara would have to do all the work. Fortunately for Tobirama, Madara was willing to indulge him. (MadaTobi, SLASH, oneshot)

COMPLETE. Tobirama inwardly cursed the fact that Hashirama had sent him out with Madara of all people. Because that little shit of a poison specialist they'd just fought had gotten Tobirama with what he recognized as sex pollen. (MadaTobi, SLASH, TWOSHOT)

COMPLETE. The only one buying into Madara's denial is Madara himself. Then he's partnered with Tobirama to go undercover at a circus. Denial only goes so far when faced with skin-tight, barely-there, glittery, sequined outfits and shimmery, dramatic makeup. To say nothing of what should be considered an illegal amount of bendiness! (MadaTobi, SLASH)

COMPLETE. Madara's eyes caught on the ribbon around Tobirama's neck, and a thought occurred to him, making his breath catch – bows usually went around presents. Tobirama smirked. "I would've tied it around my cock, but I wasn't prepared to be that forward." (MadaTobi, SLASH, oneshot)

COMPLETE. Izuna couldn't be blamed for the fact that his mission report kept lapsing into tangents about Touka's many virtues. Touka was terrifying – it was amazing. Possibly not as terrifying as her little cousin though. Sleep-deprived Tobirama bore an uncanny resemblence to the walking dead – and also cats? (IzuToka, MadaTobi, HET, SLASH, oneshot)

COMPLETE. Bilbo stared. Thorin was nothing like a hobbit, but oh, he was lovely. Broad and muscled – and why had Bilbo ever found soft, round hobbits attractive? For that matter, why had he ever thought hair belonged only on heads and feet – clearly, the thick, dark pelt on Thorin's chest was the erotic ideal. (Thilbo/Bagginshield, SLASH, oneshot)

COMPLETE. On their way home from a mission, a young Hashirama and Tobirama make a bet as to who can catch dinner first. Tobirama wins … until Hashirama gets a look at the fluffy rabbit and falls in love. It all goes downhill from there. But Tobirama will get his revenge! (GEN, oneshot)

COMPLETE. Standing in the centre of the room, bare but for the restraints holding his arms aloft, Tobirama made for a lovely sight. Madara made sure to memorise it. Behind his lover, an identical man did the same. (MadaTobi, SLASH, oneshot)

COMPLETE. First times do not always go smooth. (Wherein the sex is a comedy of errors, but fortunately for Madara, Tobirama loves him enough to find that endearing.) [MadaTobi, SLASH, oneshot]

COMPLETE. It was a terrible cliché, the idea that passion of one kind lent to passion of another—but one moment Madara and Tobirama were arguing, and the next, clothes were being torn off. (MadaTobi, SLASH, oneshot)

COMPLETE. It was a day like any other when Tobirama looked at Madara and thought: I love this man. The revelation was sudden—except for all the ways it wasn't. He'd been falling for a while, slow and easy and inevitable. Determined to keep and be kept, he embarked on a slow, subtle courtship. It went well…until Madara clued in. Then it went fantastically. (MadaTobi, SLASH, oneshot)

COMPLETE. Tragically, when it came to looks, Madara was exactly Tobirama's type. Thank gods for the Transformation Jutsu. Discretely getting laid was the perfect distraction from his ill-advised crush. Now if only he—she—could figure out why her casual hook-up's grin looked vaguely familiar… (MadaTobi, SLASH, HET, genderfluid!Tobirama, oneshot)

COMPLETE. For Tobirama, Madara was more than willing to be patient. More than willing to take his time, to make Tobirama understand he was genuine, and this was no passing fancy or mere curiosity or shallow lust. Tobirama was worth it. Still… three months of dating was an awful long time to wait for a kiss. (MadaTobi, SLASH, oneshot)

COMPLETE. Master of Death? Less a title of power and more of a job description. (Gen, MoD!Harry, oneshot)

COMPLETE. Wherein the Mirror of Erised proves to be the ultimate Deus Ex Machina.

COMPLETE. When Voldemort came to, he realised he was completely stark naked … in the middle of King's Cross Station … which was illogically silent and empty save for himself and a grinning Harry Potter. This was just a bizarre dream, surely. (Gen, MoD!Harry, oneshot)

COMPLETE. Ever since Voldemort's near-defeat three years past, Hazel Potter's health has been in steady decline. After much searching she finally discovers a possible cure. It's … unexpected to say the least. Meanwhile Lucius Malfoy, three years widowed, is searching for a solution to his own problems. Mayhap they can help one another. (Fem!Harry/Lucius, arranged marriage, TWOSHOT)

COMPLETE. Wherein Ginny thinks Heidi needs to get laid, Hermione make so many charts, Lily wants grandbabies, the romantic prospects sometimes verge on the horrifying, and James Potter just wants to know what's so wrong with Heidi joining a convent! Heidi never knew husband-hunting could be so perilous. (Fem!Harry/Theo, Potters-live-AU, oneshot)

WIP. Alice Lily Potter survived the war, but not unchanged. Pursued by those who regard her new prophetic ability as a valuable resource, and aren't willing to take 'no' for an answer, Alice makes a difficult choice which sends her tumbling into the unknown. There, she finds a whole new world to explore… and love just waiting to be found. Fem!Harry(aka Alice)/Jasper.

COMPLETE. Hattie Potter is consummately professional on the job, even if her bastard ex-husband is a co-worker. Nonetheless, circumstances conspire against her and she finds herself put on paid leave against her will. Andromeda thinks this is perfect, and sends Hattie off to southern Italy with orders to sunbathe, flirt with cute boys and maybe have a summer fling. Fem!Harry/Blaise

COMPLETE. The other children in class stared at the teacher. Then they stared at Harry, then back to the teacher, then at Harry, in a never-ending loop. Harry found he couldn't blame them. Everything from the bespectacled emerald eyes to the messy black hair—the resemblance between them was uncanny!

COMPLETE. I wasn't the Lavender that could have been … I was no Gryffindor. (A realistic attempt at an SI fic, attempting zero Mary-Sue-ishness).

COMPLETE. A war-weary Harry, destiny fulfilled, decides he deserves to be selfish for once, even if he has to defy fate to do it. Meanwhile, and some time ago, a teenage Sirius receives some shocking news from his parents. Sirius/Harry. SLASH. (No longer a oneshot.) (Oneshot with bonus chapter?) (Let's go with that.)

ABANDONED. Thanks to a sacrifice by his closest friend Neville Longbottom, Harry is given the chance to do it all again. What will he change and what will he keep the same? And more confusingly, are his feelings for Neville more than platonic? Harry/Neville.

COMPLETE. The odds of temporal displacement were tiny, too infinitesimal to count, and yet… The Harry Potter luck striking again, he supposed. So now there's an older, wiser, more mature Harry (well, the older part's true at least) stuck in the past. And he's determined that if he's going to change things, he'll have some fun doing it. (OR: Time travel minus angst equals this.)

COMPLETE. Everyone knows a fairytale must have fantastical happenings, a great romance and a happily-ever-after. Technically speaking, Abigail Jenkins's life fits all the requirements. And if her fairytale is less than conventional? Well, it's only to be expected really: Abby was never a normal girl, even by fairytale standards. (OFC/Jenny, OFC/Jenny/Jack)

ABANDONED. An unexpected find in the attic of Grimmauld Place changes the course of Harry's life. Except not, because it's not 'this' Harry who'll be affected. Rather, everything is about to change for another Harry, from long ago and far away.

Odds and ends, and bits and bobs. False starts and story ideas that fizzled out. Mostly Harry Potter, but some other fandoms too.

ABANDONED. After the disastrous end to 5th year Harry is alone at Privet Drive contemplating the losses in his life. When he discovers a time-turner he decides to go back to the beginning and set things right. Naturally, things don't go according to plan.

Inspired by my discovery of a HP pairing generator. Step 1: generate a random pairing. Step 2: write something for this pairing, no matter how unlikely the couple seems. Step 3: repeat the previous steps whenever the mood strikes me.

COMPLETE. He stared at his journal, a creation into which he had poured his memories and dreams, his heart and… soul. Now, to send it to where it needed to be. Time-travel, redo fic. Darker, more ruthless Harry. Sirius/Harry SLASH.

COMPLETE. When Harry is called to Gringotts Bank to meet with the goblin Boneclaw regarding financial matters, things go unexpectedly. Harry is furious. Will Boneclaw come to regret his actions? Goblin bashing. AU after OotP. Oneshot.

COMPLETE. Challenge to self: Write a HP story containing as many HP clichés as possible. List of used clichés to be included in separate chapter . Oneshot. Parody.

COMPLETE. Casting off his haze of grief over his godfather's demise, Harry Potter decides it's time to take action. He won't be alone; Mad-Eye Moody, Emmeline Vance, Tonks and Bill Weasley will be there to help. Not to mention the entire DA. Harry/Bill.

ABANDONED. A place for me to store my HP drabbles. Drabble 15: "Stalker Tendencies". Two of Harry's would-be-suitors take their obsession a bit too far.

COMPLETE. Charlie, needing a break from his mother, goes for a walk around the paths beyond the Burrow. He runs into someone odd. Charlie/Luna friendship. Oneshot.

COMPLETE. Harry had reached his limit. He'd put up with Percy's attitude for quite long enough already. It was time to do the Gryffindor thing and confront him. Harry/Percy. SLASH. Oneshot.

ABANDONED. Voldemort is defeated and life continues on. But while his friends have found their paths, Harry feels lost. No job, no special someone, and no idea what he wants to do… until he meets a woman who unwittingly inspires him in a new direction.

COMPLETE. In the aftermath of a visit to a planet where the flora lowers inhibitions, things are awkward between Rose and the Doctor. Will the encounter bring them closer together, or tear them apart?

COMPLETE. "But I'm telling you, if we don't act now, we'll have an evil Jelly Baby army on our hands!"

COMPLETE. Post Journey’s End, and many years into the future, Rose is less changed then expected, and yet very much changed at the same time. Watch as she meets up with a familiar face from her past.

ABANDONED. The war drags on and those remaining loyal to Harry fall one by one. In the end only Harry and Neville are left standing. So, when an unexpected opportunity arises to start over in another world as brothers, the two jump at the chance.

ABANDONED. Freaky connections aside, does anyone else think it strange that Harry survived a Killing Curse with little more damage than a scar? Well, what if he hadn't come through so unscathed? And what if the other damage was more mental than physical?