damnfooltalk | February Wordcount (Reply)

Total February Wordcount: 8919 words

Posted: NUTHIN, but getting closer! I intend to have a solid backlog before I start putting anything up that isn't a oneshot, because I write out of order and am in recovery from several years of not being able to write *at all*, so I really want to have a lot of room to accommodate possible writers' block or life stuff happening without feeling pressure to churn out more words, because experience shows that that will just make it worse.

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Founders Era fixit (Naruto): 8919 words

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> Founders Era fixit <

She moved her hands forward, armor snapping over her between one breath and the next as a blade settled at her collarbone.

"Undo that technique," the voice behind her said.

Her armor? "Absolutely not." Haruka kept her voice level, but inflexible as the power shielding her; some concessions she was willing to make, but this precedent was not one she was willing to set.

"I will not let you lay your hands on my comrades while you are prepared for combat! You-"

Haruka broke in, holding herself rigidly poised as she cut the shinobi behind her off. "Then you have a decision to make. Any strength I use healing myself I cannot use healing your family. Already you have made it obvious you are too jumpy to control yourself. I will not accept being attacked without reason just because you are nervous."

Her voice carried easily through the hall, filling the space from habit as much as out of a desire to make herself clear. Katashi-san's voice was quiet by contrast, if no less firm.

"Madara-sama."

Haruka glanced over her shoulder, finding Madara closer than when she last looked, looming over them.

"Katashi-san."

"I'm already a dead man, Madara-sama. I don't regret spending my life for the Uchiha, but I'll accept the risk."

The edge of the sword at her throat trembled minutely where Haruka could just make it out in her peripheral vision, but held firm.

"Asatora, fall back."