the tale of akina murasame
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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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- Part 1 of the tale of akina murasame
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Kakashi is Hokage now.
Akina is… still not entirely sure how that happened. One minute they were surviving the Fourth Great Ninja War, and the next, the only thing trying to kill them was paperwork.
Some days are harder than others. But most nights end with his head in her lap and her fingers in his hair, and that’s enough for them.
They don’t know what comes next.
But for once, they have time to find out—together.companion/sequel to headlock (in progress). contains light spoilers for future headlock arcs.
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- Part 2 of the tale of akina murasame