the_road_I_know



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    She saw him in the mornings, guarding the shadows of Konoha. She saw him in the evenings too, on her way back from the hospital.

    And sometimes—only sometimes—she wondered what he looked like beneath all his masks.

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    “Lie to me, then."

    It’s easier than it ought to be, he thinks.

    “You’re the worst thing in my life,” he hears himself say.
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    Kakashi can never bring himself to be honest with Sakura.

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    The cherry stem sits on a wet napkin. It’s knotted almost perfectly, leaning slightly to the side as she pokes it with a toothpick.

    “That,” she says frankly, “is fucking disgusting.”

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    The inn smells like the sea.

    Or the one where Sakura tries to work out some feelings.

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    23 Nov 2024

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    The only type of dating geologists are good at is radioactive carbon-dating. The rest goes completely over their heads.

    (Viktor and Yuuri are geology professors leading a field course in Western Australia. Chaos ensues.)

    Alfred shifts awkwardly. Looks at Viktor and Yuuri, and asks, “So, uh. Are you guys dating?”

    Yuuri greatly misunderstands, and Viktor panics.

    Of course we are, Yuuri says. Rather critically, he thinks to himself: why else would he be here, in the scorching, godforsaken heat, surrounded by a hundred kilos of rock, if not for the purpose of radiometric dating?

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    04 Aug 2024