Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Gaara
Rating: G
Word Count: 173 words, complete
Timeline: After manga ch.281/vol. 31-32
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

Author's Note: Gaara without Shukaku makes me sad for some reason, and I still haven't decided if it's necessarily a good thing that Shukaku has been extracted from Gaara. For naruto_contest, theme: Control. A character study of sorts, though I'm dissatisfied with the way this came out. I envisioned it better... perhaps I'll come back to rewrite it one day, when I have time.

( Residue of Control )

Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Shikamaru/Temari
Rating: PG
Word Count: 769 words, complete
Timeline: Open for anytime after the Sasuke retrieval arc (around manga ch.238+)
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
Summary: Temari realizes some things quite suddenly and unexpectedly.

Author's Note: Digging around my computer sometimes yields the strangest things I've forgotten about... in this case, some really really old fics I tried my hands at and never really thought was good enough to post at the time. Here's one of them, written almost two years ago on May 6th, 2006. *_* Reading it again now, I'm reminded of why I stopped writing ShikaTema even though I love the pairing to death. I really have a knack for writing boring fics on the two. -_-;

( Revaluation )

Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Inuzuka Kiba/Hyuuga Hanabi
Chapter: 2 of ?, In Death the Sun Shines (776 words)
Rating: PG-13, T
Timeline: Undefined future, no spoilers
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and most definitely not me.
Summary: In Team 8, there were certain things you simply don't speak of. Perhaps it was because of this that he never really knew her at all.

Author's Notes: Here be the next part of "The Paradigm of Understanding" - ah, goodness, the title is such a mouthful. I suspect the next part will be a while solely because I'm busy with work, and anything I'm posting these days were really written last month while traveling anyway...

( The Paradigm of Understanding - part 2 )

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Neji (Neji/Hinata implications if you want to squint)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 265 words
Timeline: Undefined future, no spoilers
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and most definitely not me.
Summary: There was a time when Neji had openly cursed his destiny. He hoped now that it wasn't what people would remember.

Author's Note: Originally written for naruto100's "Abandonment" challenge, with a bonus for rain, but I never got around to posting it by the deadline for various reasons. Honestly though, I'm not sure where this came from. I never really thought I'd write a Neji fic. Just goes to show you never know what I may end up writing. :p Btw, I don't necessarily see this as a Neji/Hinata fic, but fans of this pairing can probably let their imagination run if they squint hard.

( Destiny Freely Chosen )

Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Inuzuka Kiba/Hyuuga Hanabi
Chapter: 1 of ?, A Razor's Edge (804 words)
Rating: PG-13, T
Timeline: Undefined future, no spoilers
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and most definitely not me.
Summary: In Team 8, there were certain things you simply don't speak of. Perhaps it was because of this that he never really knew her at all.

Author's Notes: Every time I lie down on the bed, I would get these "snapshots" in my head... like flashes of conversation, scenes, or just brief moments of something. I suppose you can say it's when my muse likes to visit me the most. As a result, that's where the basis of my stories generally come from. The following is a product of one of those flashes, pieced together on scraps of paper throughout the trips I had to take for work this past month. Like Simply Unspoken, it's Kiba/Hanabi, though these two fics are definitely not related in any way. This one has way more angst and much less fluff.

( The Paradigm of Understanding - part 1 )

Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Sakura/Gaara (subtle)
Timeline: Post time-skip, likely right after Gaara's rescue mission
Word Count: 500, flash fic, complete
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and most definitely not me.
Summary: Actions speak louder than words. Or in Gaara's case, sand speaks the loudest.

Author's Note: The last paragraph of this fic was actually written on a scrap piece of paper almost a year ago. I accidentally found the paper earlier today, hence the birth of this ficlet. I'll warn you now that the style is littered with tons of run-on (and probably grammatically incorrect) sentences. It's also angst-free, nothing deep, and with a likelihood of OOC. :D Written very quickly, without much editing, but all in good fun. It is, however, the first Gaara/Sakura anything that I've ever shared with the public though. Can't help feeling a little nervous about that.

( Sand Speak )

Never mind overused. These should never be used. Period.

I may seriously injure something if I come across one more Naruto fic that's littered with "he gazed at the pink haired beauty" or "the red headed hottie smirked."

And can you ever ever imagine characters like Gaara or Shikamaru saying stuff like "hey baby" or "I love you babe"? I shudder just quoting that.

Please stab self repeatedly now.

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi
Rating: PG
Timeline: Future fic
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and most definitely not me.
Summary: They left her behind, and she finds herself living the lives of the dead. A stand-alone and one-shot sequel to The Strongest. (481 words)

Author's Notes: This piece takes places roughly 2-3 years after The Strongest, though I didn't originally intend to write a companion "sequel". The reason this came out is mainly because there's a plot bunny that's been chewing at my brain for the past year, a Gaara/Sakura fic, and this was then written as an experimentation that may (or may not) eventually serve as backstory.

( Paths of Deaths )

Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Kankuro, Gaara
Timeline: After manga ch.281/vol. 31-32
Word Count: 100, drabble
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and most definitely not me.

Author's Note: Written for naruto100's "No Longer" challenge, with bonuses for window and two Sand sibs. Been wanting to participate in one of the challenges there for a while now, and thought I'd finally give it a go. My first try at writing a fic with an exact 100 words count.

( A Worth Beyond )

Fandom: HYD, Pictures on the Wall
Theme: Nao and Mo playing house as children
Requested By: lovadevil
Characters: Nao, Mo, Rie
Rating: G (868 words)

( A Necessary Household )