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The first time it happens, Hashirama misses it by ten minutes. The second time it happens, Hashirama mistakes it for something else. He misses it entirely the third time, the fourth time, the fifth time. It's easy to miss, because Tobirama makes it a mission to hide it every time. It's still no excuse.
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refractions in still water by thegracious for isamagicdragon
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
14 Oct 2024
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Four perspectives on Senju Tobirama, God of Shinobi: all skewed, all imperfect, all inaccurate, but all of them true.
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“I wish that our clan isn’t at war,” Hashirama tells Madara quietly, eyes fixed on the treeline past the river. No man’s land and Uchiha territory. The worst of the battlefields. “If there was peace, Anija wouldn’t have to fight. I know he’s strong, but it hurts him every time. He’s really sick. Every time he leaves to fight, he comes back worse.”
Madara doesn’t say anything. Not right away. He skips a few more stones across the river, back tense, and abruptly he folds down to sit next to Hashirama. He fiddles with his cuffs. “Izu-nii hasn’t been the same since he started fighting either,” he admits, voice gruff. “Not since Nee-chan died.”
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Sokka is invited to a tea party! Unrelated: Azula is cleaning house.
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- Part 3 of it's not the waking, it's the rising
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let your hands linger (so soft and tender) by thegracious for Red_Clegane
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Feb 2024
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Mornings in Waterdeep are the easiest Astarion's ever had, and the hardest.
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the heat that drives the light (the fire it ignites) by isamagicdragon, thegracious
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
16 Aug 2023
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“You must know the pain of losing a favored child. By sacrificing your own!”
Slowly, Father bows, until his forehead is touching the ground in respect. In obedience."If the Fire Lord commands it,” Father says, his voice ringing in her ears, “it will be done."
Or: Azulon asks Ozai to kill his daughter instead of his son. Ozai is loyal and obedient. His children, faced with a murderous father, are not.
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- Part 1 of it's not the waking, it's the rising
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it's not the waking, it's the rising by isamagicdragon, thegracious
Fandom Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
30 May 2024
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Wolf used to have wolf ears.
That's it, that's the fic.
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24 Jan 2026
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The first time Hashirama sees the Hiraishin in action, he hardly knows what it means, let alone what it is. Tobirama tries to explain, but all Hashirama knows is that his brother is there one moment and gone the next, more elusive than the smell of petrichor during Fire Country's summer season. Still, Hashirama is nothing but resilient like the trees he so easily bends to his will, and there is something important in the little kunai and its seal.
Or, a snapshot of Hashirama and Tobirama's relationship through the creation and founding of Konohagakure told by the Hiraishin.
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- Part 1 of Hiraishin Chronicles
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30 Sep 2025
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With terrible intrusive thoughts invading his mind, Tobirama is driven to drastic action.
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Madara accepts Hashirama’s offer to heal Izuna. Izuna is upset at the Senju alliance when he wakes up, but ultimately backs up his brother in the efforts for peace. With two emotionally stable Uchihas, Zetsu turns his efforts to the isolated and emotionally neglected Tobirama instead.
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12 May 2025
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An Ever-Fixed Mark by AMarguerite
Fandom Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
28 Oct 2017
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04 Mar 2025
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Tobirama is — resplendent, in an argument. Obnoxious, too, but Madara generally finds Tobirama’s worst qualities to be more attractive when aimed at a third party. There’s a steel-cut sharpness to how he debates, an unblinking patience in how he lets his opponent talk just enough to hang themself before launching a counterattack. He’s like that in combat, too — though Madara doesn’t expect to see him fight in earnest for, possibly, the rest of their lives.
Tobirama says, often enough, that if Madara has the time to feel guilty, he has the time to make sure the eggplants don’t die. Hashirama has claimed that he’s only given them plants that a particularly bright toddler could grow — which doesn’t bode well for the two of them, considering the state of the vegetables in the greenhouse.
Madara replies that Tobirama can talk when he learns how to feed the chickens on time. You’d think that the inventor of several dozen jutsu could do chores at the same time every day, but apparently not.
Tobirama rolls his eyes and tells him that birds always like Madara better, anyway.
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05 Oct 2024