[Fic] It’s Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Nineteen

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Cross-post from my archive.

Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Jiraiya, Sai, Shimura Danzou, Tsunade, Uchiha Madara, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Kakashi takes Sai under his wing and Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura help Sai start to find his emotional feet. Just in time for Madara to make his move on Konoha.
Meta: Drama, Angst, I-4
Wordcount: 5447

"Shinobi are the weapons of their villages. Their nations. Their employers. True enough. But a shinobi without the will to evaluate orders, and even modify them if field conditions demand it, is a blade without a sheath. And members of ANBU are ground to a sharper edge than any others. That's what you've been waving around your own village, Danzou."

Read: It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You: Chapter Nineteen

Comments

[branchandroot]

*hearts* Sai is really kind of alarmingly good at what he does. It's no wonder he and Kakashi wound up bonding. And Naruto and the fox were just /fun/ to write as they started sharing more. Honestly, it really /is/ like a huge, furry, ancient Sasuke inside Naruto's head.

*bounces* All the stuff with Danzou came through, good! Yeah, he's /seriously/ broken, and I didn't want to hammer the point but I did want to make it clear that Danzou is kind of exactly what can go wrong with powerful, dedicated shinobi. He and Kakashi are in some ways opposites, and in some ways mirrors. *laughs* And, man, seriously; Madara's sales pitches are just a testimony to how far around the bend all of Akatsuki really is.

(Argh! Spellcheck, I hate you, that wasn't what I said to do! Thank you, yes, that should be Utatane.)