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    Every summer, Naruto visits the sleepy beach town of Oceanview. Easily the best part of the trip is the carnival, set up for three days at the end of August. As summers pass, Naruto finds himself coming back again and again to see the boy at the end of the boardwalk. First, he wants to win the game the boy runs, but it turns into wanting to win Sasuke's heart instead. For some reason, Naruto just can't get him out of his head.

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    20 Aug 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    Naruto takes a job at a remote weather station on the coast to clear his head. He needs to put distance between himself and a life that no longer feels like his own.

    The station is not empty.

    Sasuke is there. He is quiet and strange. He feels familiar in a way that Naruto cannot explain.

    The weather is wrong. The data logs are too personal. Some part of Naruto already knows this is not the first time they have met.

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    07 Aug 2025

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    “Alright, kings,” Naruto says, at a house meeting nominally called for “finances.” “So I slept with...a dude.”

    “Was it Sasuke,” Neji asks. He sounds bored.

    “What! I mean, uh, no?”

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    23 Jul 2025

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    There have been no more tears.  No waves buffeting Kurama’s feet; no boiling rage to draw him out.

    There is only a cold, terrible resolve.

    Naruto smooths his thumb over his eyelids, traces his face.  Whispers things that Kurama tries, for whatever reason, not to hear.

    It’ll be alright.  I’ll be there soon.  You won’t be lonely.

    Resolve.  Terrible resolve.

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    28 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 66

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    Sasuke is here. In his dream.
    That isn’t unusual: Sasuke has been in his dreams more nights than not since he can remember. Fighting Sasuke and winning, fighting Sasuke and losing, chasing after Sasuke and never catching up. Sasuke as a little boy, as a genin, as an old man.
    But here, now, this dream―it’s one he hasn’t had before.

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    28 May 2025