She snapped awake in the dead of the night. A siren was ringing. The high-pitched sound was coming from the walls of her room itself. She slid her wand out from under her pillow and pointed it stra...
2025-11-02 21:23:56 +0000 UTC
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XXXXX- SIX WEEKS LATER
“A visitor for you, my lord” One of the dozens of serving boys that now called Bloodstone home said, walking into my solar.
“What flag did they fly?” I a...
2025-11-02 21:01:08 +0000 UTC
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“I would rather die, and so would Susan” her aunt spat back, and Susan found herself nodding along. She could never imagine working for someone so evil. So cruel. It hut evil and cruel, but the...
2025-11-02 20:28:16 +0000 UTC
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To Kushina’s credit, her chains were already moving to wrap around me the second I’d tossed Minato away, but that was still far too little, and far too late. I reached for one of said chains, g...
2025-11-02 20:02:25 +0000 UTC
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He tore through the next two creatures that assaulted him so quickly that Susan hadn’t even been able to tell what they were. And then he went for her aunt. He smashed through the cover she hid b...
2025-11-02 05:50:12 +0000 UTC
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Just like him, they didn’t believe me when I said they were free. None of them moved forward to attack Declan. They probably saw it as a test of the loyalty or something equally inane. If only I...
2025-11-02 05:32:07 +0000 UTC
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XXXXXXX- THREE MONTHS SINCE THE ATTACK ON KONOHA
We had finally broken ground on the new tower. It had taken a while to secure all right families and their reallocations, but that had not be...
2025-11-02 05:14:21 +0000 UTC
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And then he felt the pull at his soul as the teapot began to eject him. He landed on the ground, crouched, feeling aches all over..
But he was an abbot of the Wind Temple. Pain was an old fi...
2025-11-01 18:12:30 +0000 UTC
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“Is everyone here?” I asked Declan. He nodded. I turned to the line of former slaves. The people whose freedom I had purchased only for them to be enslaved by my man. As far as th...
2025-11-01 18:11:15 +0000 UTC
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She watched as he admired the various statues and paintings that dotted Bones Manor. He was taking his time, enjoying himself like he was an invited guest on a tour and not an intruder who deserved...
2025-11-01 18:09:43 +0000 UTC
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Perhaps I should have made him suffer more before I killed him, I thought to myself as I looked at the stack of communications that had been exchanged between one of my most trusted Cap...
2025-11-01 17:49:00 +0000 UTC
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And so he continued his investigation. He moved his eye from street to street, and when he reached the hospital, it took a large amount of willpower for him to continue. In the sand outside the hos...
2025-11-01 16:52:30 +0000 UTC
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“Blindspots?” I asked.
“The other villages: Suna, Kusa, Ame, Kiri, Kumo, Taki. With some preliminary training, they will be able to act as competent spies. Some will begin lives as civ...
2025-11-01 09:09:45 +0000 UTC
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Because if he thought mocking me about Corlys, a man whose death I had gotten over a long time ago was going to give him the chance to take the advantage here, then he had another thing coming.
2025-11-01 08:01:57 +0000 UTC
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“Susan, I need you to listen to me carefully.” Her aunt said, drawing her closer and grabbing her head by both hands.
“This will be the last time we ever speak—“
“No”
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2025-11-01 07:31:11 +0000 UTC
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“That’s impossible” She heard her aunt say before her eyes could even adjust to the sudden darkness. The light fixtures had gone off in the earthquake.
“Auntie?” She called, seeing...
2025-10-31 23:17:58 +0000 UTC
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Where Toshiro had seemed to stroll into the room, comfortable in his skin, Shiba seemed to lumber. Every step he took seemed to weigh more than the last. Not with a physical weight, but a metaphysi...
2025-10-30 22:10:40 +0000 UTC
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The one to my left, Declan, attacked first. He had a pug face, nose clearly broken one too many times to heal right, and a sneer on his face. He swung his blade at me. I ducked underneath it, and s...
2025-10-30 22:09:15 +0000 UTC
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She snapped awake in the dead of the night. A siren was ringing. The high pitched sound coming from the walls of her room themselves. She slid her wand out from underneath her pillow, and pointed i...
2025-10-30 22:02:59 +0000 UTC
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XXXXXX- THE THIEF
“Did you get it?” his benefactor asked as he walked into the cave.
“I still don’t see why we have to keep meeting in caves. You have the gold to pay me. Surely...
2025-10-30 08:04:59 +0000 UTC
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The day the seventh month died began like any other. I woke up and stretched, preparing myself to head out to begin the day’s first duelling session. After weeks of training—more like months wi...
2025-10-30 07:57:00 +0000 UTC
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“Arghhh,” I screamed as I felt the wood of his lance shatter against my shield as mine failed to make contact. I kept riding, turning at the last moment to see that my opponent had done the sam...
2025-10-30 07:44:15 +0000 UTC
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“My Lord? The meaning of this is that you shall surrender yourself into our custody now that you have delivered yourself into our hands”
“You would betray guest rights?”I asked. I did...
2025-10-30 07:20:20 +0000 UTC
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XXXXX-
“Now what do you think is the most important part of a spell?” Nicholas began our spell learning session of the day with a question.
“Intent” I said instantly, it was ba...
2025-10-29 17:55:51 +0000 UTC
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“Most of them managed to make it to the general genin corps. But from there, their fates diverge widely. Some of them manage to make it onto chunin squads and die in their second or third C-rank....
2025-10-29 17:28:34 +0000 UTC
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“But then I got the position, and the clearance level to see numbers that I’m sure everyone who’s held this chair before you would rather remain hidden”
“Hmm? A scandal of some sor...
2025-10-29 16:58:20 +0000 UTC
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XXXXX—
It only took twenty minutes after Shika had left for my next appointment to be at the door. I had Retsu bring hum in while I waited patiently behind my desk. While the meeting with ...
2025-10-29 16:50:17 +0000 UTC
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“It’s not just about making them like me, Shika. It’s more than that. What do you think the civilian to shinobi population split is?”
“Accounting for casualties?” She asked.
...
2025-10-29 16:05:49 +0000 UTC
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I flicked my wand, creating the sound of clapping thunder to draw his attention. Is head snapped to me, the expression of shock on his face, comical.
“What’d you do that for?” He asked...
2025-10-29 03:34:31 +0000 UTC
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I waited for the bread and salt, thinking things through as I did so. Was he the thief? Probably. But I had no proof or evidence, and beyond that, I wasn’t sure enough to push on regardless. Woul...
2025-10-29 03:32:33 +0000 UTC
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