drifting_melody
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of butterflies, cats, and swords by drifting_melody
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime)
17 Jan 2026
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Kanao has had the dreams as long as she can remember. They're characterized not by their content - she never remembers them when she wakes - but by the emotions that sit in her chest afterwards: grief, love, longing. A strange, lingering ache that tells her something fundamental is missing.
She doesn't know what to do with it. She never has. So she picks up her bokken instead.Emotions are difficult. Training is simple. Until one night, when she wakes thinking of the sunrise.
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Or, in which Kanao is beautiful and deadly and gentle, and Sasuke is angry, small, and fundamentally unequipped to handle any of it. -
dreams of spring by drifting_melody
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga), Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
15 Jan 2026
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Danzo has been taken down. Not through a dramatic fight, or a subtle infiltration, or even a knife in the dark - but through ledgers. Accounting. Numbers. The steady, relentless work of a year, tracing funds through accounts, matching ghosts to names.
It had happened faster than she’d expected. But not fast enough.
Hatake Hikari, once Sansa Stark, knows what it is to grieve what has been lost. Victory tastes of ash; justice never feels the way stories promise. In the wake of the Uchiha Massacre, she grieves as she once did after the Red Wedding - for families undone, for children left to carry the weight of their elders’ sins.
But grief, she has learned, is not the end. It is the soil from which something new can grow. Because living, she’s learned, is not about forgetting the fire - it’s about learning to bloom after it.
(sequel to ashes of the direwolf)
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- Part 2 of elegy of the unbroken
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ashes of the direwolf by drifting_melody
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga), Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
31 Oct 2025
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In which Sansa Stark dies and is reborn with chakra in her veins and grief in her soul. A story of loss, defiance, and the strength to shape a future built not just on survival, but on joy.
Where two broken people, both always the ones left behind, find each other in the unlikeliest of ways and - slowly but surely - forge a path onwards
Or: Sansa Stark heals, grows, and also dismantles Shimura Danzo through the power of paperwork
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- Part 1 of elegy of the unbroken
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the moon weeps in silver by drifting_melody
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Jul 2025
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In which Luna Lovegood dies, and Nara Tsukiko is born.
A fall through the Veil, a breath between worlds, and then - light.
She is reborn into a land of shadows and chakra, in a quiet village where children grow into weapons and silence is a second language. Her eyes open too early, her thoughts are too old, but she learns to smile anyway. For her father, who grieves quietly. For herself, who remembers everything.
And when she meets a silver-haired boy with eyes like a shuttered sky, something in her finally begins to root.
(or: Hatake Kakashi and the Terrifying Ordeal of Being Seen)
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Red like fire by drifting_melody
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
03 Jul 2025
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When Dr. Harry Evans saves a skinny blond boy from getting beaten up, she wasn't expecting to ever see him again. She wasn't expecting him to become one of her closest friends. And she definitely wasn't expecting to develop feelings for him - but that was later. Much, much, later.
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elegy of the unbroken by drifting_melody
Fandom A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV), Naruto (Anime & Manga)
15 Jan 2026
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In a world obsessed with killing and dying, Seiko is mostly concerned with chasing off her boredom. The Academy wasn’t exactly intellectually stimulating, but dying in the second shinobi war sounded like a long walk off a short pier. Everyone is always so stressed about avoiding attention, or min-maxing skills in situations like this.
Seiko is of the opinion that those people need to chill the hell out. Maybe play a little shogi. Death comes for them all anyways. Better to enjoy this all while it lasts.
(genius self insert stumbles into disrupting a timeline with the intentionality of an elephant trampling a very fancy tea shop.)
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25 Jul 2025
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Uzumaki Naruto lived a good life. She had achieved her dreams, reached her goals.
She had been happy.
Until she wasn't anymore, so she left.
Now she had to make sure that Uzumaki Naruto could do the same with his goals.- Language:
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01 Feb 2025
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Harry Potter was sure he had a concussion.
He had just gained awareness of the world around him a moment ago and everything was so – disorienting, not to mention he couldn’t recall anything recent. His sight was blurry and almost black – not that his eyesight was good before, but he wasn’t blind, alright?
He was pretty sure these were all signs Hermione mentioned before.
So yes, Harry Potter had a concussion and he couldn’t move any of his limbs and that probably had something to do with the concussion he had previously mentioned. Weren’t concussions just hits to the brain anyways?
“She is beautiful.”
Fuck.
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Harry Potter woke up as Shikamaru's younger sister and he would be damned if anyone thought he wasn't going to do anything about the freaking system where everyone thought child soldiers were perfectly fine.
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- Part 1 of Harry Potter's many personalities
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02 Feb 2025
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The war has come to an end. Madara won. In a world destroyed by his power, a dying Obito uses his last strength to give the last other person alive the chance to continue living.
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Six years after the fall of the resistance, Sakura is sent to an alternative universe to save her life. A universe in which everyone she knew is not dead anymore, with the exception of Tsunade Senju, who never existed and, therefore, never created medical ninjutsu. A universe in which medicine is almost fifty years behind, ninjas die like flies and Sakura is the only one who knows how to cure them.
A universe in which she becomes the slug sage.- Language:
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27 Jan 2025
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With the belief that reincarnation is a plausible thing to happen, I wasn't exactly surprised to find myself being reborn. However, surprise took place when I found myself being reborn as Nohara Rin out of all people. Perhaps fate has a strange sense of humour. But nevertheless; I am Rin and I'm definitely screwed. SIOC.
Cross-posted in FFn
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26 Jan 2025