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    “I have a message from the God of Death,” Choi Han says quietly. “He wants you to watch this human more carefully. There’s something strange about him.”

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    Alver is a barista at the Last Dregs, a small café between Life and Death where souls can rest before reviving or moving on. Returning customers were thought to be impossible, but a soul named Kim Roksu proves to be an exception.

    i.e. “Coffeeshop” AU where Roksu keeps almost-dying and Alver is sick of seeing this dumb bastard… haha unless…?

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    Umino Iruka regarded the man standing before his shop counter with what was probably poorly-veiled irritation.

     

    "Yes, thank you," he said. "I know how a triple-layered chakra lock works."

     

    Long years of experience kept Iruka's tone even: losing his temper meant losing customers, even if there weren't very many people in Konoha who did what he did.

     

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    The canon-divergent au in which Iruka graduates the academy, does 3 D-rank missions, and then retires, because his leg was badly crushed in the kyuubi attack—so he re-trains as a locksmith and makes chakra-manipulated locks.

    A story about systemic structural power imbalances between shinobi and civilians and the various ways in which expectations of physical strength and implicit ableism are detrimental to community trust. In which Iruka finds himself stuck between worlds, all because Sharingan Kakashi demanded the impossible, and Iruka made him a quadruple-layered chakra lock.

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    23 May 2025

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    “Hokage-sama!” he calls as he shoves the door open without waiting for a response. A very exasperated voice replies.

    Iruka, you said you wouldn’t call me that anymore.”

    Iruka stops short, holding the door to the office open and just staring at the man behind the desk.

    “Captain Kakashi?” he asks hesitantly.

    “Oh. This could be a problem.”

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    22 May 2025

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    There are benches near the gates of Konoha where people wait for their loved ones to return from missions. Kakashi is used to ignoring them; it’s been a long time since someone has taken anything more than a professional interest in his comings and goings.

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    21 May 2025

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    He already vowed to himself to do everything he could to save Sanji. The fact that he’d gone feral alpha shouldn’t change that, even though it meant something completely completely different now.

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