Aru Shah and Aiden Acharya have not spoken properly since the night of Brynne's Diwali party. She's been fine. She's been absolutely fine. She has a curry plant and a job and two best friends who only ask about him every other week now, which is progress. Then Mini and Rudy announce they're getting married in Hampi, ancient ruins, sacred river, the exact city where Aru and Aiden once stopped being enemies, and suddenly she is a bridesmaid and he is the wedding photographer and they are going to be in the same place for seven days and she has no plan whatsoever. She never has a plan. That's always been his job. Told in two timelines, the present, a wedding week unraveling every unresolved thing between them, and the past, five summers of trips across India that built a friendship that quietly became something neither of them had a clean word for: Every Place We've Ever Been is a story about how far two people can travel together while still managing to miss the point. It is also, unexpectedly, a murder mystery. Because on the second night in Hampi, a body turns up in the temple ruins. A stolen divine artifact is missing. And the only two people with the knowledge and the clearance to do something about it are Aru Shah and Aiden Acharya, who can barely look at each other without two years of unsaid things rising to the surface, which makes the enforced proximity either the worst possible timing or, if Sheela's cryptic non-prophecies are to be believed, exactly the right kind. Somewhere between solving a murder, recovering an artifact that could enslave half the mortal world, and watching their best friends get married in a city that remembers everything, they are going to have to decide whether they're brave enough to say the thing they've been almost-saying for five years.

Just a series of oneshots & headcanons from the Aru Shah series! It will mainly focus on Aruden, as I love them a lot, but I will also include some Mindy (Snake of Death) & Hiryyne as well! Feel free to ask for requests, as I will gladly take them!

"I had seen those eyes before, and once sworn they would be the death of me." ✧ "She was my light in the darkest times, I never meant to hurt her." Arundhati Shah had a few goals for college - graduate with exceptional grades, keep in touch with her close friends, and most importantly, forget about Aiden Acharya. But what will happen when Aiden enters her world once again? Will she let herself recall how he'd left her heart a broken mess, or will she let him in one last time?

Aru Shah's life get's absolutely upturned when she has to move from her beloved mother's house to her aunt's orphanage. Not choice, but need. But there, she finds true companionship when she meets Mini and Brynne who are also stranded in the place. And the mysterious, closed up, Aiden Acharya: beautiful, perfect, ethereal. And silent. He won't talk to her, anyone, and no one knows anything about him. As Aru navigates the true secrets behind her sentence to the orphanage and helps Brynne understand her past, she finds herself drawn to the cold boy who keeps everyone out.

I randomly thought up of this while humming "Never Acting at All" by Melina KD. Yes, I just created Song of the Sea, for those of you who are here because of one of my other fanfics, and I haven't finished any of my other Aru Shah fanfics, but I got an idea, okay? Aru Shah's an actress. No, not a famous one, but enough to make money while she works on her (not yet published) books, just enough to live in a small apartment, afford groceries, and also own a small laptop. Aiden Acharya's an actor, hard at work, working to become a photographer. He's pretty famous, mainly for his looks, but he also works on only small plays...all of which get sold out quickly once people figure out that he's acting at that play. What happens when they both try out for, "The Little Mermaid" musical, and they get cast as Eric and Ariel? They both know that a relationship is unprofessional when you're both in a play together. But what will happen? What if they fall in love? (All characters, that aren't characters I created, belong to Roshani Chokshi, I think that that's her name, I forgot, and this is a human AU! The cover isn't mine either-it's the cover for the album "Playing Adult" by Melina KD, I just added the "Never Acting at All" at the top, and the, "BY: Parker88" at the bottom.)

Sixteen-year-old Aru Shah has never belonged anywhere: not in Atlanta, not in Hyderabad, and certainly not at Acharya Gurukul, India's most ruthless elite boarding school, where old money runs the hallways and the ranking board updates in real time like a scoreboard for a game nobody officially admits they're playing. But Aru isn't here for the Houses, or the gambling rings running beneath the east library, or the children of billionaires sharpening their knives on each other's backs in pursuit of Ivy League seats. She's here because both her parents were students at AG, and both of them are dead. Two accidents. Two closed files. Seventeen years of silence, and a sealed letter she's been carrying for six months without the courage to open. The answers are inside the Parishad, AG's nine-seat student council, locked behind seventy-seven years of legacy exclusivity that no scholarship student has ever broken. To get there, Aru needs rank , and at AG, rank isn't just grades. It's social influence, faculty favor, and the ruthless art of making sure the people above you have fewer reasons to stay there. What she doesn't need is Aiden Acharya. Rank one. Parishad president. Heir to the family whose name is carved above the front gate because they built the gate, the school, and everything inside it. The first person who spoke to her at AG. The boy connected to the letter she hasn't opened. The boy she is absolutely not thinking about. As Aru climbs through sabotaged study groups, gambling tables, and alliances that cost more than she expects, she uncovers a secret dangerous enough that the people who buried it are watching to see if she gets close. The Board keeps updating. The clock keeps running. And Aru Shah, 387th rank, daughter of two dead people and zero useful connections, is realizing the game she came to play is much bigger than she thought. Winning it might cost her more than her rank.

Aiden Acharya was not up for getting engaged. He was graduating high school, his whole life ahead of him, and it was all getting burned down in one day. Or was it? **PICTURES ON COVER ARE NOT MINE**

Aru Shah has amnesia. She remembers literally nothing about her life. And years after the traumatizing accident that caused her to lose her memories, she finds her old diary. With it, she manages to venture back to her childhood house. But the home she returns to isn't home anymore. 🇦🇱🇱 🇹🇭🇪 🇨🇭🇦🇷🇦🇨🇹🇪🇷🇸 🇧🇪🇱🇴🇳🇬 🇹🇴 🇷🇴🇸🇭🇦🇳🇮 🇨🇭🇴🇰🇸🇭🇮. 🇹🇭🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇦 🇫🇦🇳🇫🇮🇨🇹🇮🇴🇳 🇦🇳🇩 🇦🇺 🇫🇴🇷 🇹🇭🇪 🇵🇦🇳🇩🇦🇻🇦 🇶🇺🇮🇳🇹🇪🇹. 🇩🇴 🇳🇴🇹 🇷🇪🇵🇴🇸🇹 🇴🇳 🇴🇹🇭🇪🇷 🇵🇱🇦🇹🇫🇴🇷🇲🇸 🇼🇮🇹🇭🇴🇺🇹 🇲🇾 🇵🇪🇷🇲🇮🇸🇸🇮🇴🇳.

Yamini Kapoor-or, as her classmates call her, "Topper Mini- is a huge outcast at her school. No school friends, focused on studying, and no fun outings either. Just. Studies. What happens when Mini decides to join her classmates on a trek to climb the Bhuta Parvat, and she tries to really fit in? Rudra Sarpa-nicknamed "Rudy" by the school- is the most popular guy in college. His family situation sparks him to long to explore the world, hence this trip. When he meets Mini on the train, their friendship doesn't really take off- Mini's boring. Will these 2 evolve? Dunno. Guess you gotta read to find out :)