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Nara Kuren was supposed to be a footnote—an afterthought in a clan of legendary tacticians. Born with Kekkai-Shōran, a rare degenerative chakra-prion disorder, her chakra attacks her own neural pathways unless perfectly regulated. It's incurable. Her life was discipline and silence: deliver the scroll, log the encounter, vanish back into the Root that raised her.
But Orochimaru had other plans. He always has Favourites—Anko, Sasuke, Kimimaro. He’s never seen a case stabilize like hers. He doesn’t just want her; he wants her disease.
It starts small. A glance held too long. A word too soft. Then come the invitations. The lessons. The riddles passed like secrets between teeth. Knowledge offered like intimacy, and intimacy like a transaction.
Kuren, trained for torture, genjutsu, and the violence of Root, wasn’t prepared for this—softness.
He doesn’t hurt her.
He doesn’t need to.She knows. She’s being studied, cultivated. She knows she should run.
But he makes her feel like the most dangerous—and desired—thing in the room. And that feeling is addictive.
Even if it’s not real.
This isn’t a romance.
This is a fall.