within-the-shadows

Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura, the last remaining members of Team Seven, as well as the last ones left in their world. They had killed Uchiha Madara and ensured that he was gone for good. However, that was not without a heavy price. It had gone wrong somewhere, leading to the deaths of all the ninja of the Shinobi Alliance. Now they have the chance to go back and change their fate, to save their friends and family. What would they do? Would they ever attain peace? Or would this be an everlasting cycle of them constantly going back, only to achieve the same results? DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or Naruto Shippuden. Any pictures used are not mine. They belong to their rightful owners.…

within-the-shadows

Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto, the son of the Yondaime Hokage....That was a complete folly.Naruto was never related to the hokage or his wife. In fact, he had been stolen from his home in Iwa by said man. He had subtly dubbed the two "cradle-robbers" ever since he learnt how to speak in complete sentences when he was barely two. The thing was, due to the particular nature of his kekkei-genkai, Naruto had always had perfect memory. That was so even when he was only just born. This was why he knew that Minato had slaughtered his real parents while his brother ran away before Minato could see where he went.The kekkei-genkai of the child, however, was not what made the Konoha shinobi steal the boy, for he did not know of the stronger component of the boy's kekkei-genkai. No, the man had taken him as a hostage from Iwa before his wife decided to adopt him. On the night of the attack of the Kyūbi, Minato sealed it into his recently adopted son.They did not know that their supposed "son" had known from the start that he was not from Konoha.They also failed to realise that their little boy was really the precious younger brother of an S-rank nuke nin, Kagami Deidara.No one knew what was the meaning behind his surname, which unlike his fitting name, did not suit him at all. However, they were going to find out.DISCLAIMER: Any images used are not mine. I obviously do not own Naruto or any of the characters in Naruto, Shippuden or otherwise. I do not own Death Note either.…

within-the-shadows

Everyone in Konoha knows Naruto. The dead-last, the idiot, the prankster, happy-go-lucky, a dumb blond with a hopeless crush on Haruno Sakura.What about Sakura? A hopeless fangirl of Sasuke's who cannot fight to save her life, with loving parents who care for her. Sasuke? An emo avenger who does nothing but brood over the end of his clan, power-hungry and willing to do anything within his power to kill Itachi.The list goes on.However, not everything is as it seems. Every person, be it consciously or unconsciously, has a mask that hides their true selves. Their lives are not nearly as happy as they seem. This story is one of truths well hidden and lies well kept. And also how truths, no matter how well hidden, will always come unburied.DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or Naruto Shippuden. Any pictures used are not mine. They belong to their rightful owners.…

within-the-shadows

Asura and Indra. The sons of the legendary Rikudō Sennin, also known as the Sage of the Six Paths.Asura, the younger of the two, was a pacifist. He believed in his father's ideals, that peace is achieved through bonding with others. By having an understanding between people. However, Asura was no born prodigy. He was a genius of hard work, strong in his own right.Indra, the older of the two, believed in his grandmother's ideals. He believed that humans are incapable of achieving peace, that it was best to force them into submission with a much stronger entity as their ruler. He was a prodigy, born with his father's eyes, albeit a degeneration of it. Unlike his father's metallic purple dōjutsu, his eyes were blood red with three black tomoe. He called it them Sharingan.At first, Indra had been easily able to beat Asura in their spars. It gradually got harder, until the brothers started to tie in their fights. Indra could not accept that his good-for-nothing little brother had reached his level. He just couldn't.Indra was even further enraged when his brother was chosen as his father's successor instead of him. He believed that as the elder and stronger, it was his right. And so they fought, only for it to be an unbreakable draw.These two brothers had a lot of chakra. When they died, they never truly did die. They continued to exist in the world, their chakra occasionally latching on to that of one of their descendants when they are born.And so their feud continued as they were constantly "reborn" in a sense. They never had any memories of their pasts. They only knew that they were supposed to fight a member of the opposing clan. They only knew that their goal was to defeat their rival. The clans eventually forgot the meaning behind their battles, eventually just fighting for the sake of fighting.What if the cycle was broken?What if their memories were retained?DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto. Pictures used are not mine.…

within-the-shadows

The Fates hate him.He is Percy Jackson, Twice Saviour of Olympus, Hero of Olympus, Defeater of Kronos, Slayer of Gaia and too many titles to list.He gave his everything to the daughter of Athena. He plunged into Tartarus, held up the sky and refused godhood for her sake. He gave her his heart and would have exchanged his life for hers in a heartbeat.Personal loyalty, his fatal flaw.He should have known. Everything came full circle. First was Luke Castellan, who betrayed them to join Kronos in the Second Titan War. Luke's saving grace had been the fact that he had regained his senses and sacrificed his life to end the war he started.Yet it was different this time.Annabeth Chase had stepped on his feelings and spurned his devotion to her.He was not stupid, no matter what she thought.What was he to think when he found his girlfriend with the god of erotic love, affection and desire? He realised that she never had any feelings for him from the start. Their impassioned joining and the way Annabeth cried out Eros' name was sufficient proof that the one she loved was not him.Even then, he would not have been upset.It was fine even if it was not him.He would have been satisfied as long as she was happy and stepped aside.However, she told Eros something that Percy did not want to believe was true.Annabeth had been using him.That was the breaking point.Something within the hero snapped.Trouble was brewing and, this time, he refused to be the dog of the Olympians. He would fight for himself and those who never abandoned him in this time of need. Since when had he been loyal to the gods?As the world falls into chaos and gods turn on each other, he will fight for himself and the future he envisions.Perhaps, he will find that there was more to it than he had thought.warning: polyamory, homosexuality…