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Naruto hadn't renounced to his future and his friends to save the world, not even to save a few lives. His decision had been purely selfish. It had been an opportunity to start anew and to break away from everybody's expectations.
He wanted to create his own path, very different from the one that Kurama had shown him– married to a girl he didn’t love and trapped with a job he hated–, and to give Sasuke a true chance at happiness. The first step was to leave Konoha right before the Chuunin exams. Now Sasuke and he must find out Itachi's whereabouts and together, the three of them, embrace a new path full of danger, emotions, recriminations and love.
But where will this new road lead them?
**Updated after a 2 years hiatus**
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For the love of my father by anzu_brief
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
19 Dec 2021
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In a universe when A-Yuan retains all of his memories things will undoubtedly be different. He is still saved by Lan Zhan but when he is brought to the Cloud Recess he recognizes some faces – faces of the men and women who were there the night his family was slaughtered, men and women who took part in the slaughter. He’s terrified of them, but as the years go by, that fear will give way to something else: a burning hatred, a desire for revenge.
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Happy Ending by anzu_brief
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
09 Jun 2019
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Charles knows how all this ended before, and a part of him is frightened that it will end up in the same disastrous way. He knows that the demons that hunt him today are as real and dangerous as the ones which hunted Erik in the past. But Erik is here; he made the effort to track him down and now he is inviting Charles into his home… and unlike Erik all those years ago, and to his own surprise, Charles discovers that he is ready to accept the help that is offered.
(Perhaps, despite all the pain they have been through, despite the terrible losses and mutual betrayals, their story can have a happy ending.)
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Choices by anzu_brief
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
28 Apr 2019
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For a moment Steve wishes he could turn time back, he wishes for another chance; but by now Steve understands that time travel doesn’t work like that. He and Peggy were happy, and despite everything, he can’t bring himself to regret his choice – that would feel like betraying her. And yet, he is jealous.
They fuckers already try to screw up our ship in Civil War, but now they'd taken it a step too far in Endgame. I never expected Steve and Bucky to become lovers, but for Steve to leave Bucky like that - alone and friendless, in a time that isn't his? I cannot take that. So I am angry. I am angry with the Russos, angry with the movie (which was great in every other aspect) and angry that the world feels so threatened by an honest, loving, platonic relationship between two males that they have to break it up. This is my attempt to fix it (and to punish Steve for his carelessness).
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Fin'lly home where I belong. by anzu_brief
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
17 Feb 2018
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When the world ends, when the heroes die, Steve stands alone against an enemy he had no chance to overcome and prays to the God he no longer believes in for Bucky - for a chance to save him, to see him again. Miraculously, the Tessaract listens and makes his wish come true.
Coming home from the war with a missing arm is hard shit. Bucky struggles to recover from the memories of the battlefield, to cope with his PTSD and to come to terms with his disability. Steve tries to be supportive and to help Bucky as much as he can, all the while sorting out his own feelings and what Bucky’s kiss and last words meant to him.
However, building a stable relationship with his best friend in a world where homosexuality is punishable by the law is not easy, and Steve knows his time is limited. One day someone will knock at their door and demand for Captain America to fight a war that Steve won’t necessary approve of, and he knows what he will do when that happens.
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A series of "what if...?" scenes set in the same universe of my fanfic "Because now I know-. All my roads lead to you."
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when your need is greatest by Bookkbaby
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon)
30 Oct 2025
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When the Wen Sect attacks Cloud Recesses, Lan Wangji is forced to summon a creature that the clans sealed away long ago; the Yiling Laozu, a huli jing bound inside the Stygian Fox Amulet.
But is the Yiling Laozu truly the monster others claim he is? And once the war is over, will Lan Wangji be able to bear sealing him back inside the Amulet?
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02 Nov 2025
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After years of marriage when Sheng Shaoyou dies, he doesn’t expect to wake up. Certainly not on the day he would meet Huo Yong and Shen Wenlang. Now finding himself thrown back in time with knowledge of everything to come, Sheng Shaoyou decides to indulge and play with his lover by changing his choices and moves. After all, why let his enigma have all the power and control if he can play with him more?
In other words: Sheng Shaoyou gets thrown back in time and decides to make different decisions, choices which throws a certain enigma off completely.
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In You I Trust by Angelswing for doralupin, theladybeatricecrawley
Fandoms: Downton Abbey
30 Jan 2024
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After the biggest trauma of her life, Mary finds compassion and support from an unlikely source.
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Write Sorrow by DostoevskyBrosK
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
26 Feb 2025
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Elizabeth and Darcy have been married for six blissful months. Darcy cannot believe how empty his life was before His Elizabeth became such a key part of it. And now he cannot imagine his life without her.
Georgie has flourished and become fast friends with Kitty who has proven to be much improved.
Jane and Bingley moved much closer, and they have remained wonderfully close.
But one day, Elizabeth gets thrown from her horse. She is fine, except she did get a head wound. When she came to, her last memory was leaving Hunsford.- Language:
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09 Oct 2025
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Glenn had never been taught to be wary of perverted older men.
Boys didn’t have to worry about those kinds of things, especially boys that were big for their age. Standing exactly six feet tall at the age of sixteen, no one messed with Glenn. He wasn’t even particularly strong, in fact, it’d be more accurate to describe him as scrawny, but his height made a difference in how people perceived him; how he perceived himself for that matter.
He’d never been targeted by bullies or creeps. He’d always been the one to step in when anyone was messing with his friends or siblings. He was a protector by nature, he didn’t need protecting.
It’s no surprise there was no one there to protect him when he needed it the most.
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- Part 1 of A Lamb in the Woods Trilogy