damnfooltalk | March Wordcount Tracking (Reply)

Total March Wordcount: 1462 words

Posted: nix, but soon? Tax season is ending and all things are possible

IN PROGRESS:

Founders Era fixit (Naruto): 1236 words - Been doing more structure and plotting work on this than actually getting words down, but! This is titled now! This project is now "There's a place I've seen where the soul burns clean"
Orochimaru Spitequest (Naruto): 226 words, bleh

Sneak Peek:

> Where the soul burns clean <

“The healer is coming with us.” He eyed Tobirama, daring him to argue.

“Does she know that?” Tobirama turned again to regard Haruka directly, pointedly dismissing Izuna. “Whatever he told you, you are not actually obligated to go with them if you would rather not.”

Haruka glanced between them and stepped up without a single change of expression, her motions slow and deliberate as she moved to stand equidistant from Madara and Hashirama, turning the invisible line between the two clan heads into a triangle with herself and her brother at the third point.

Well. That was fairly blatant, as statements of intent go. And possibly an indication of social standing? Hmm.

“I do know, thank you,” she said. Her eyes flicked over Tobirama’s face, and she added, “I wasn’t- ” she paused, frowning faintly, “threatened to go along, if you were worried about that?” Her tone made it clear that she didn’t think he’d been concerned but was too polite to tell him outright to take his posturing elsewhere, with his implied offer of putting the travelers under Senju protection if Haruka chose to turn her back on the Uchiha after all.

Of course he couldn’t pass up an obvious chance to try to draw a wedge between the Uchiha and an unknown, potentially destabilizing factor. Izuna would have been disappointed in his rival for letting the opportunity slip by, otherwise.

Tobirama turned his eyes to Izuna for the merest moment, somehow managing to convey with his mostly expressionless face that he was thinking judgmental thoughts that he knew better than to share. Izuna was doing the same, so he ignored him.

> Orochimaru Spitequest <

Cacophony in two parts descended again, both Naruto and Sakura shrieking with outrage over being so cruelly de-aged, with the accompanying line of Sakura being appalled at agreeing with Naruto, and Chisaki attempted to drop back to walk with Kakashi. He stopped her with one palm on her back, voice smiling mirthlessly as he told her, "You started this" and shoved her back up to the epicenter of the chaos.

"And here I thought the torture wouldn't start till after I arrived," Chisaki muttered.

"Foolish of you," Kakashi agreed.

Sasuke had not made a sound through the entire ordeal, and was walking a loose enough patrol around the edge of the group and looking fixedly enough away from them that one could ostensibly mistake him for being unconnected with their group at all.

~~

They were on their way into the onsen when Naruto- well, Naruko, she called her girl-self- chirped, "So this whole thing with you getting to work with Oro- ow! With Anko-nee's sensei means we're all friends now, right?"

Chisaki lifted her eyebrows at Naruko, who beamed back at her, retaliatory swipe from Sakura already forgotten. "Don't push it, kid. I've still got a lump on my head the shape of your little baby fist."

Naruko pouted and Chisaki ducked around her, slipping through the door into the changing room for the onsen.