The Kiri delegation arrived at the boundary outside the Fire Daimyo’s palace in the middle of a downpour. Gaara stoically endured the change from sunshine to rain. Utakata tossed his hand up to use his sleeve to shield his hair, lip curling in distaste.
Aiko made deliberate eye contact with a drenched man who was vaguely familiar. He was at the head of a small group of armed men who loo...
2020-03-23 05:26:55 +0000 UTC View PostShe waited until they were safely back in the diplomatic housing to beckon Kakashi past the door.
“So, why do they hate you so much, and should we leave?” She asked. “I now assume this is why you’ve been acting so weird since we came here.”
He gaped at her. His jaw opened and shut, and then he seemed to struggle it down.
“Saaa, you don’t know?” He was att...
2020-02-23 13:29:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The scene where he helps her with her obi and thinks to himself, in a John Mulaney voice for some reason "I'm an adult. I know how knots work."
"MAKE A BIG-ASS BOW!- and then... oh no."
"Not enough fabric. So we pull it through here, and then tuck that ugly end over here..."
Regina did not notice a damn thing.
Plus her house, with extra details on h...
2020-02-18 11:44:33 +0000 UTC View Post
You asked- I answered! (Badly, probably.)
The questions are taken from volunteers in our discord chat, and then I took what was probably an infuriatingly long time to answer them (two weeks.... for me, not so bad lol).
I'm gonna start off with the one with the most chaos energy, from meatiermeatball:
1. Will Regina, Gai, and the Hyuuga lady form a throuple?
This one blew...
2020-02-16 10:58:38 +0000 UTC View PostFor those of you in the chat who asked questions about Great Lakes, how would you like me to answer?
2020-02-13 02:26:20 +0000 UTC View PostThey were summoned to dinner at six, Kakashi tailing Regina in her kimono.
‘He switches modes so easily.’ She was a bit envious. He’d just stood up, put the book away, and suddenly behaved like a cold-faced professional- complete with different posture and attitude. It was almost bizarre. ‘I had to take two hours to get myself ready, and I’m still not sure I...
2020-02-12 15:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostRegina woke up the morning of her trip with both boys in her bed. Naruto was protectively hugging her still, even in his sleep.
Sasuke’s little fingers were entwined in her hair.
‘This is going to be hard to get out of.’ She gently moved her head away from Sasuke and felt her hair pull uncomfortably tight. ‘Well, they got what they wanted. I can’t ...
2020-02-12 06:31:53 +0000 UTC View PostRegina arrived at the restaurant at exactly 7:30, wearing the same thing she’d worn to work- her red top/dress cut like Tsunade’s with black and white trim, black thigh-high leather boots over black pants, and a white jacket. It was a limited color palette, for sure, but if there wasn’t a point in trying to hide her relationship to Jiraiya, there was some limited cover in embracing it.&nb...
2020-02-11 06:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostRegina was relaxed. Regina was, for once, not in physical pain or under incredible stress.
Regina was also feeling super not into going back home.
“Whyyyy do we have to go back?” Naruto whined. He shoved another cheese-flavored snack into his mouth. She’d banned fish-based food on the way out.
‘Man, I don’t even have the heart to argue with you right ...
2020-02-09 05:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostAt the bottom of the pile were personal correspondences- from her father, Orochimaru-san, Tsunade-san, and one from the land of Iron. The big-ass seal on top was kind of a giveaway that it was probably from Mifune-sama.
She decided to open them in descending order of perceived stressfulness- first, Orochimaru’s weird brand of negging/mental horror interspersed with social niceties and e...
2020-02-08 15:21:20 +0000 UTC View PostProfessor Maki did indeed see them to the door, and waved politely until they were out of sight. She told them to come back at any time, and she might have meant it. She and Elathor had had a brief conversation about the leadership structure of the College, which implied that after all their self-defensing, Professor Maki might be eligible for other promotions in the near future. Bes...
2020-02-04 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post‘You know, it is super fucked that Naruto literally spends every birthday at a festival about kicking that fox demon’s ass.’ She tried not to grimace as the boys rushed from stall to stall, playing games and begging coins off of her to get their butts kicked at catching fish.
A giant wooden fox sculpture had been erected in one of the larger streets, which children took tur...
2020-02-04 09:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Can we have that?” Elathor asked. It was not the first time he had said that.
Lilli sighed. She did not bother to say no, because she knew how this was going to play out.
“Of course, it’s ours.” Igni picked the silver decanter up delicately, pinching it between two enormous fingers. She put it in the Loot Bag, aka a bedsheet that they had also stolen and ...
2020-02-04 04:12:59 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s not the amount of chakra that’s wrong.” Despite knowing that, Aiko couldn’t resist fiddling with it some more. No matter what she tried, the chakra lock stayed stubbornly shut.
Seabirds wheeled overhead, calling loudly.
The solution was pretty easy to see from the design of the door, but she just didn’t like it. She shivered, not used to the chill th...
2020-02-04 00:53:17 +0000 UTC View PostHe had barely left the relative safety of Rejina-hime’s office before his eye was assaulted.
“Hello, Hatake-kun. How was Rejina-hime? You know, after I rolled all over her paperwork for thirty minutes, she finally said she bet that she could bounce a ryo off my ass and agreed to go out to dinner with me.” Genma grinned as he leisurely flexed his biceps, perched on someone’s cabine...
2020-02-03 10:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostAt the end, she had so many questions. Like, ‘what, really?’ and ‘why are you all like this, as people?’, and importantly ‘wtf is an energy fox monster, and why does it hate you almost as much as I do right now?’ but the most pressing one was-
“When can I tell him?” She rubbed at her temples. The infodump had really taken its toll on her brain.
He leaned back a...
2020-02-03 10:55:25 +0000 UTC View PostRegina began her morning the usual way- she knocked on the boys’ doors on her way upstairs, and she stretched with them before doing her own separate workout while they reclined on the floor with juice boxes until it was time to get ready for work and school, respectively.
She entered the Hokage Building by 9 as usual, dressed and cleaned up, to find a note attached to her door.&n...
2020-02-02 14:11:29 +0000 UTC View PostRegina began her morning the usual way- she knocked on the boys’ doors on her way upstairs, and she stretched with them before doing her own separate workout while they reclined on the floor with juice boxes until it was time to get ready for work and school, respectively.
She entered the Hokage Building by 9 as usual, dressed and cleaned up, to find a note attached to her door.&n...
2020-01-31 15:54:58 +0000 UTC View PostUp close, this new person was as large and intimidating as they had seemed from across the room. They looked down at her with surprisingly tired-looking eyes. Despite being made of a shiny blue stone, they somehow communicated absolute exhaustion.
She reached up.
The other person reached down and touched their palms together.
“You’re cold,” Lilli said, surpri...
2020-01-31 14:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostLilli felt the air grow colder and more damp as she carefully climbed down the slick stone stairs. It was dark, and silent but for the occasional dripping of water.
Oddly, while there were occasional landings, there seemed to be no doorways.
‘I guess I just keep going deeper.’
The cold was starting to seep through her clothes, causing her to shudder. She cli...
2020-01-31 14:51:14 +0000 UTC View PostRegina ruthlessly denied most of the requests that day- no longer caring about whether they liked her one bit.
‘If they’re unnecessary, improperly done, or otherwise unacceptable, they get the block.’ She thought, stamping a denial on yet another request from Mitarashi-san for housecleaners.
A beautifully filed piece of work was in the pile today, though. <...
2020-01-27 15:52:29 +0000 UTC View PostI put an extremely sophisticated chart in the chaos fiends discord chat three days ago, so that potential stories could be suggested from the format “Aiko (kidnaps)(is kidnapped by) (accidentally proposes to) [Hinata] [C] [Gai] and (a very large amount of money) (a religiously significant bird) (a monument to somebody we hate) is involved.
When Ikemoto-san called them all down for dinner, Regina waited for Sasuke to run down the stairs before entering Naruto’s room and shutting the door.
‘It looks like the work of a highly localized typhoon.’
The stuff from the boxes was everywhere. Blankets and cushions and decor and books and… ‘a fucking kunai on the floor? Not okay.’
He was...
2020-01-17 06:42:25 +0000 UTC View PostShe dreaded the dawn and the aftermath of the meeting the day before- but today was also the day that they’d be moving into their new house, sooo…
‘It’s a real mixed bag. On one hand, I am now a symbol of nepotism or corruption for the village. On the other hand, I move into an ostentatious, customized, and gated castle today with my two very adorable carpet sharks....
2020-01-13 13:37:41 +0000 UTC View PostShe escorted Hatake out, but he followed her into her office.
‘Oh, no.’
“Saaa, you prepared a presentation against me?” He asked, sounding miffed even as he tried to drawl it out. “You made me do so much work, I thought you supported me.”
The absolute gall made her jaw drop. He was upset with her, for doing her job?
‘Don’t engage....
2020-01-06 05:03:14 +0000 UTC View PostShe escorted Hatake out, but he followed her into her office.
‘Oh, no.’
“Saaa, you prepared a presentation against me?” He asked, sounding miffed even as he tried to drawl it out. “You made me do so much work, I thought you supported me.”
The absolute gall made her jaw drop. He was upset with her, for doing her job?
‘Don’t engage....
2020-01-05 17:26:06 +0000 UTC View Post“There’s something off with him.”
Asuma snorted and flicked his cigarette. “What isn’t?”
Genma heaved a huge, put upon sigh, like the drama queen he was. “He’s taking initiative for missions. If it was anyone else, I’d say he’s trying to expand his international reputation, gunning for some type of political assignment. But.”
He didn’t have t...
2020-01-03 07:47:41 +0000 UTC View Post‘He did not give up, no way. Nobody wants to do their job if he’s the one standing in front of their desk, and that did not happen by accident. ...But things are definitely different. He didn’t try the usual arguments. And that creepy little eye-smile and wave… Would Keiko-san have any idea about what that meant?’
She felt on edge throughout the rest of the work day. St...
2020-01-02 12:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostHe had a nice, early night, because he had a mission in the morning. He had been planning to phone it in because he didn’t care about it, but that was the attitude of the old, wrong Kakashi. This version woke up feeling the most cheerful and alert he had in weeks.
He gave his best grin to the gate guards on his way out. Kotetsu gave a gratifying shiver and looked, wide-eyed, for help. K...
2020-01-02 12:51:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe next time that he came into the office, he did not wait for any power games. He stalked to the office of the ridiculous woman who barred his way to the Hokage and slapped his materials down on her desk. He ignored the child napping on the couch.
“Good morning Jiraiya-hime, this is what I’d like to talk to the Hokage about in my meeting today.”
She lifted her he...
2019-12-31 17:22:46 +0000 UTC View Post