Arys_Nightshade
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A New Love for the New Year by Arys_Nightshade
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
28 Feb 2024
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Dan Heng decides to accept Jing Yuan's invitation and attend the Luofu's New Year's festivities instead of joining the rest of the Astral Express on Penacony. He had anticipated busy festivals and the chance to learn more about his homeworld's culture. Little did he know that he'd enjoy more than just the festivities during his stay.
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Honkai: Star Rail Whumptober 2023 by Arys_Nightshade
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
01 Nov 2023
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Here's my attempt at Whumptober this year. Some chapters will have relationships that can be read as either platonic or romantic. Look at the chapter notes for the specifics of each chapter. I'll try and add warnings on any chapters that might need them.
Prompt 1: "How many fingers am I holding up?"
Prompt 2: Thermometer
Prompt 3: Solitary Confinement & Journal
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Sometimes the hardest battle isn’t enough to change a heart, sometimes all the war and blood in the world isn’t enough to shift a single destiny.
Sometimes a simple touch is enough to break down the strongest of barriers, sometimes a single word is enough to make the world quake.
Sometimes the most reaching of changes comes in the form of a little boy sad enough, strong enough, and kind enough to make friends with a monster.
Sometimes one change makes waves.Naruto has been hearing the rumbling growl in the back of his head for as long as he can remember. He’s seven when he tries to talk to it for the first time. He’s the dead last, the failure at everything, so he doesn’t actually expect to succeed.
And when he’s suddenly standing, knee deep in murky water and face to face with a demon, he has no idea what to expect.
As it turns out, the world could use something unexpected.In which Naruto discovers the real meaning of the word monster, Sasuke discovers power and strength and learns the difference between them, and Sakura discovers that being herself is not as selfish as she thought.
Where Kakashi learns to fight again for what he loves, and Obito never stopped.Series
- Part 1 of Against the Sky
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- 247,273
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- 37/?
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17 Nov 2025
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Canon Divergence where Naruto and Sasuke decide to stick together as orphaned kids and build from there.
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15 Nov 2025
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He can see ghosts, which means he still has family. Still has Shisui, and all the aunts and uncles and cousins and distant relatives he didn’t even know before. Still has mother, her kind smile and her knowledge. Still has father, as well, although Fugaku stays distant most days, wallowing in regrets and things that make the air around him terribly cold.
Sasuke is glad, selfishly, for that small mercy.
He could have lived without the ghost drama, though....
Or: the one where Sasuke can see ghosts, and things aren't as bad as they could be.
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- English
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- 44,388
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- 9/?
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- 19
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09 Nov 2025
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Even with the power of the Sage, the sun and the moon on their palms, Naruto and Sasuke weren't strong enough. They had, somehow, managed to keep Sakura and Kakashi alive, just barely. The two teens looked at each other, the connection they shared allowing them to talk through thoughts. The Sage had showed them another way.
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- Part 1 of turn over a new leaf
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- English
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- 304,940
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- 46/?
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- 42
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Bookmarked by Arys_Nightshade
08 Nov 2025
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Originally, Gaara thought the plan - brought to him by a desperate and shaken Naruto on the last holding place of the world's few remaining shinobi - was both insane and impossible.
No one ever accused Gaara of being sane, nor sensible, so he agreed anyway.
He hadn't really expected it to work.- Language:
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- 39/?
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31 Oct 2025