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“You can touch her,” Itachi’s gaze was cool and level. Just as imperceptible as it’d ever been, and Kakashi hesitated. He reached out, and touched Itachi’s shoulder. Not the one that she slept against, but the other one. The one free of a tangle of red hair and flushed skin.
Through the thin fabric of his shirt, Itachi’s shoulder was boney; birdlike beneath his fingers. They have hollow bones, Itachi had told him, stroking the head feathers of a crow that’d ducked obediently at the ministrations. They’d been young, out on a mission that neither of them were old enough for. Flight bones.
Would Itachi fly away too, once he’d been healed?
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Somewhere in the land of fire, there’s a village called Shirakabagakure. It’s a quiet place, where the people of clan Kuroki take in injured ninja and help them disappear. When Kaede Kuroki carried Itachi Uchiha home from a battleground of scorched earth, she didn’t expect him to survive, let alone to come with baggage that’d threaten not only their way of life, but the fragile suspension of the world that they live in.