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Somewhere in the house, wooden floorboards creaked. Ghost's eyes snapped open, his head up and silent as he listened. There, again, below him. The distinctive groan of old floorboards under boots. One of his hands moved to his holster, the other to his radio.
“There's a mouse in my house.” He whispered to Johnny. He followed the sound of footsteps through his floorboards. He was so focused on the door, on listening to that footfall get closer and closer, that he forgot about his six. He forgot about the open window at his back, the one she had just crawled through, silent as the wind. He felt her before he saw her, before he heard her, felt the muzzle brush against his neck.
“Don’t fucking move."He turned, and she nodded to the floor, “On your knees.”
Ghost clenched his fists, “Say please.”
She raised an eyebrow at him before making her way closer to him, “On your knees, please.”
He couldn’t help the curve of his lips under his mask, “Good girl.”
He lowered himself to his knees, eyes on her. She took two steps to him, hands fisted.
She smiled down at him sweetly, “Thank you.”
Her fist connected with his face.
Blood sprayed.This is a love story.
Eventually.
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08 Dec 2025
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She may have been his best friend, he may have even loved her once upon a time, but she had betrayed him and the village. For that, he couldn't forgive her. At least, that's what Kakashi keeps reminding himself. It was easy to pretend that there had never been anything between them after Seiki had deserted the village. It's much harder now she is back.
Uchiha Seiki had been banished from the village, framed for involvement in the Uchiha coup d-etat and forced to join the Akatsuki. When she is finally given a second chance she finds herself back in the orbit of Hatake Kakashi, a place she thought she had left forever. With a war looming, Seiki tries to ignore her ridiculous attraction to the copy-nin, re-integrate into village life and prevent her brothers from killing each other. Easy.
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07 Dec 2025
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Saya Sato is not who she appears to be.
Once the younger sister of Shisui Uchiha, she was sent away before the clan’s destruction, spared from the fate that claimed the rest of her clan. Years later, with her true heritage buried and her Sharingan kept hidden, she returns to Konoha seeking training, not knowing that the village she’s come home to sits on a truth that could shatter her.The Third Hokage assigns her to Kakashi Hatake, recently withdrawn from the ANBU, a man as cold and precise as the steel he wields. Their partnership is meant to be practical, but in the tension of missions, guarded exchanges, and unspoken trust, something begins to grow.
Yet in a world where secrets are currency and shadows cling to every name, neither of them can escape the weight of the past forever. And when the truth comes for her, it may burn everything they’ve built… in the wake of ashes.- Language:
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Akina Murasame was born to a legacy of contradiction—her mother a Hidden Cloud defector, her father an ANBU captain who gave his life protecting the Fourth Hokage.
She has always stood on the knife’s edge between loyalty and suspicion. Between healing and breaking.
Between memory and forgetting.
And Konoha hasn’t forgotten.
It remembers the massacre. Remembers that she stood beside Itachi Uchiha until the night he destroyed everything.
The day she left the ANBU was supposed to be the day she started healing. She traded missions for medicine, kunai for chakra scalpels, thinking maybe the hospital would quiet the ghosts that the mask could not.
But ghosts don’t care where you work.
And as Akina struggles to piece herself back together, there’s one man who keeps finding the cracks.
Kakashi Hatake—the lightning to her storm. The one man who sees her for who she is. And the one man who might break her all the same.
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The war is over and Hermione Granger is haunted by loss. She spends her days going through the motions, following routines to keep it together. The sounds of her neighbor's nightly piano playing slowly stitches her broken heart back together. When she musters up the last of her Gryffindor courage to thank them, a familiar face opens the door.
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