Through the Lilac Haze (Naruto)
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.
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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.
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OC-centric, Warring States Era, Canon Divergence, Genfic. Mostly Everyone Lives AU.
