Somedays the sun shines and the birds sing. Somedays they do, and no one notices. Except you. You look, and you listen, and you know. Everything you are beholds peace and bliss, a sanctuary of love and all things loveable. Your every breath is a burst of stardust and love, love, love - you are the world and and the universe and all it is, wrapped up in a single, beautiful life. You were made to love and be loved. This is for you. ♡ ♡ ♡ ft. @catsandapplepie and @tiddlefrack. I am chronically late.

In which Yosano Futaba learns to bake and not much else, choosing to spend her time idly nudging the events surrounding one Hatake Kakashi into disarray and being a sufficiently depressing person. She claims she's trying to out-emo him. She's just shy. Notes: Kind of SI-OC and canon divergent. Mostly comedy. Not to be taken seriously. - Discontinued.

There is a voice screaming in her head that won't let her give up. For once, she can't hear the numbing reiterations of shinobi mandate - there is only fire, blood, and a desperate, desperate will for vengeance. --- Kaede has the blood of innocents on her hands, of those she failed to save and those she never tried to. Her greatest nightmare is buried six feet under and that is more than enough for her. Yet, at the end of it all, she wonders if she could have done more. Yuzuha is lost to history, her identity decayed alongside her mother's corpse. A shinobi she may not have been, but the fire of her clan burned just as brightly within her, only to be snuffed out by a wayward breeze. She died for nothing. And, yet, here she is. --- OC-centric, Warring States Era, Canon Divergence, Genfic. Mostly Everyone Lives AU.

Not everyone's the hero of the story. Not everyone can rise to the top. Because those who stand at the peak as the elite require many more to fade away so they may acquire a mound of bodies that they can climb to get there. And the knowledge of it doesn't make it hurt any less. ••• 3rd Place in the General Naruto Category of the Naruto Watty Awards, 2016.

As Shinobi, we must be prepared to fight, not for our own dreams, but for another's. As Shinobi, we must be prepared to be blind followers to those above us. As Shinobi, we must be prepared to become empty shells to satisfy our master's needs. As Shinobi, we must be prepared to die at any moment, for any reason. As Shinobi, we are nothing but their playthings. ••• Contains two sets of multi-shots set in the Narutoverse. Short reads. Warning: The works within are usually unedited 1 a.m. drabbles that may or may not burn your eyes. You have been warned. { 2016 }