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Cross-post from my archive.
Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Chiyo, Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Hyuuga Neji, Kankurou, Maito Gai, Rock Lee, Temari, Tenten, Tsunade, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: In which Gaara is taken by Akatsuki and Kakashi's and Gai's teams are sent to aid Hidden Sand to get him back.
Meta: Drama, Action, Fluff, I-4
Wordcount: 6494
Sasuke gave up on logic, as he so often had to around Naruto and just shook him. "Shut up and listen to me," he said, low and deadly. "I am not letting you run yourself right into ambush. Understand? Not by those bastards and not because you were too unbelievably bullheaded to Stay. With. Your team!" Three more hard shakes punctuated that, and Naruto finally blinked at Sasuke like he knew who was in front of him.
Read: It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Ten
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Date: 2011-09-30 04:30 pm (UTC)I love all the practical realism you're bringing to a story about, essentially, magical reality-warping ninjas. :-) Like the kids sharing intelligence and picking Kakashi as the person to bring their thoughts to higher authorities. Or the way both Sasuke and Naruto occasionally need someone to yank them back to rationality... and they get that support, because their teammates know their triggers and are ready to provide it. Or Hidden Sand very sensibly sending trackers and a retrieval team of their own after Gaara (which, yeah, seriously, why didn't that happen in the manga?). Chiyo explaining about the extraction procedure, because of course that's how Sand gets Shukaku into the... whatever it is they keep him in. (I want to say a teapot, but that sounds ridiculous. My memory, it is a sieve.)
I can't wait for the cliffhanger to resolve next week.
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Date: 2011-09-30 04:35 pm (UTC)It was a teakettle. Yay for random folkloric moments in high-ninja-tech stories. *wry* But yes! I mean, it's standard in shounen that the fifteen year olds, for some reason, wind up doing all the biggest fighting and saving the world, but we see just enough of the adult politics that I wanted to know more about them. (And, dude, Kishimoto was /seriously/ stretching it when he tried to say that a measly two Akatsuki and one mole sufficiently destroyed Hidden Sand that no one could go after Gaara; so I added another two and figured on tracking teams at the /least/.)
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Date: 2011-09-30 11:46 pm (UTC)But then again, this is folklore; it doesn't have to make sense. *grin*
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Date: 2011-10-01 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-01 12:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-01 03:38 am (UTC)(And one more vote for you being a cruel fic-tease, in case you wondered.)
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Date: 2011-10-01 03:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-30 08:56 pm (UTC)Typo: [...]Naruto’s beside manner [...]. :)
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Date: 2011-09-30 09:39 pm (UTC)*claws at typos* Wretched things! Thank you.
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Date: 2011-10-01 12:15 am (UTC)Although how much do I love Sasuke thwapping Naruto back into common sense, and the team snuggling, and Kakashi being freaked out by Tsunade's thoughtful looks?
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Date: 2011-10-01 12:17 am (UTC)And, of course, this is only the /beginning/ of Kakashi's problems. Poor schmuck.
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Date: 2011-10-02 01:32 am (UTC)Another great chapter! I love the inter-team bonding at the beginning, and the reasonable explanation of why their cohort is definitely not the norm, and Sasuke telling Naruto not to run off without backup, and Naruto healing. Also, where you chose to end the chapter is definitely evil. ^_^
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Date: 2011-10-02 01:56 am (UTC)Their cohort is /so/ not normal! I mean, you look at most of who's at the chuunin exam, and they're lots older! I figure Naruto's as good an explanation as any.
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Date: 2011-10-07 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-07 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-14 12:15 am (UTC)Almost immediately, as he’d half expected, he had a teammate snuggled up on either side. D'awwww, team seven. D'aww. <3
And Fuunotora is back! \o/ Most awesome OC. And Lee getting to be awesome.
Also, out of curiousity, is this in the same universe as you BB fic? Cause your Neji. Mmm.
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Date: 2011-10-14 12:22 am (UTC)*grins* I do think Shikamaru and Sakura are totally into the "we are brain-geeks together" solidarity thing. And definitely also the "oh thank god s/he will get it" thing.
And oh goodness, I /love/ getting to write Sasuke being possessive. He's so cute about it! Especially when he's trying to pretend he's not, because it's true, he's /really bad/ at that. Everyone goes "awwww" over him and he gets all grumpy and lays his ears down flat, and that just makes everyone go "awwww!" even more.
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Date: 2011-10-14 09:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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