Summary: In the last days of the Cold War, a conversation between Alfred (US) and Toris (Lithuania). Also, US-kun really needs to pay attention to his history.

( and your hands on the balcony )

Tags: gen, hetalia, one-shot
Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: The Tea Party - Psychopomp

This is pretty much my longest attempt at a multi-part. WTF, right?

Act IV, set to Kenna - Hell Bent

( you're losing me )

Tags: mixfic, multi-part, naruto, wraiths and strays
Current Music: Dropkick Murphys - The Green Fields of France

Plz to be telling me I'm not the only one all unf unf unf over the last few chapters? Because I am. >D (Also, don't expect this sudden run of things coming out at a decent pace to last; the inspiration is flowing, yes, but tomorrow is Moving In day, and it's just the beginning of my favorite clusterfuck of all time: re-situating. Alas!)


Act III, set to Tom McRae - The Boy with the Bubblegun.

( if words could kill i'd spell out your name )

Tags: mixfic, multi-part, naruto, wraiths and strays
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: the mountain goats - maybe sprout wings

I'm still alive, kids. This has been close to finished for some time, but with the moving and all I haven't had time to get to it -- that, and I kind of forgot that I was trying to keep these bits short, and I was trying to fill it in. Bah.

I dislike using honorifics in English language fiction, but it's pretty hard to get away from them where Itachi and Naruto are concerned, you know?

Act II, set to A Perfect Circle - Passive

( it's your right, and your ability, to become my perfect enemy )

Tags: mixfic, multi-part, naruto, wraiths and strays
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: a perfect circle - passive

So, this was actually the first Naruto fic I ever started writing. It's been molding on various hard drives since about, gee, 2003. You'd think that after four years, I'd somehow manage to come up with some truly inspiring opus, but there was a reason that it sat there. I'd look at it from time to time, half-finished as it was with bits that I was totally pleased with, and just not know how to get to the end. Surprisingly enough, I ended up pulling pretty much all of those parts, because I've learned a lot about characterization in that time, and I've learned a lot about Kakashi as well. I also discovered that I prefer writing present-tense to past-tense.

Originally, it was titled 'Bad Guys', and was supposed to be follow a conversation between Kakashi and Naruto over morality and Zabuza and Haku's villain status. The end product, however, deviated considerably, and while I still wanted to follow that thread (and may at some later time), it became a lighter piece on Naruto's first real encounter with mortality and reality as he never imagined it.

Inspiration via Portishead and, uh, Dan Fogelburg. (SHUT UP DON'T JUDGE ME. D:) Naruto is not mine, and I'm totally making no money whatsoever with my fandrivel. Comments are appreciated -- I wonder if you can tell where I picked it up?

( where the morn meets the dew and the tide rises )

Current Mood: listless
Current Music: SHEARWATER - SEVENT FOUR SEVENTY FIVE