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「いつだって君には私がいるから」
Iruka woke up one day and found himself confined underneath a crazy woman’s home, hidden within a dark, dingy crawlspace, with his hands tied to a rusty water pipe above him. Worst of all was the younger boy right next to him, suffering the same fate. He never thought of himself as the self-sacrificing type, but the moment Iruka looked into Naruto’s terrified eyes, something within him solidified, and he knew that he would do anything to keep this boy safe.
To get this boy home.
And so Iruka refused to let their situation corrode away his determination to protect and fight for Naruto, and kept his promise to always be there for him.
But getting free and keeping his word was only the beginning of everything, and Iruka would find that he was made of stronger stuff than he thought possible when faced with a world he no longer recognized. His life would change for the worst, then for the better, and at the end of a long road of recovery and struggle, Iruka would find that he was made of rhodium.
And within the hands of Hatake Kakashi, a man made of rhodium was far more precious than anyone could imagine.
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“I beg you, eat me up. Want me down to the marrow.” ― Hélène Cixous
It began with the sound of rattling bones, and would end with the rustling of the lion's mane.
After Iruka is saved by the mysterious family that lives within the Inari shrine he'd found sanctuary in, Iruka slowly but surely adjusts to this new life he'd been given, but is haunted by visions of a terrifyingly gentle Gashadokuro when he sleeps or daydreams. Hatake Kakashi, who is a family friend of the Uzumaki's and frequents the shrine, similarly haunts Iruka's waking hours.
As the years pass, and Iruka's first step into adulthood nears, he finds his heart reaching out for both man and beast. But every time he reaches out, those pale white bones, that soft silver hair, step out of reach, and Iruka knows it's out of hesitation and fear. The fear of a monster who is scared to love and be loved.
He's far from deterred, however, as he takes on the mantle of a lion and gives chase towards the man, the monster, that has captured his heart.
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- Part 2 of Want Me Down to the Marrow
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If you were to ask Iruka what scared him the most he wouldn't say revenants, or demons, or goblins and ghouls. He wouldn't even say it was the dark itself, and what the imagination could twist it into. No, what scared Iruka the most had a very real face, one that said it was his family but then locked him away like a dirty secret. He was absolutely desperate to get away from that face that was as unmoving as a Noh mask, but just as uncannily emotive and terrifying.
So when Iruka claws his way to freedom and runs for his life, the tragic irony of him being discovered by a literal monster of legend isn't lost on him. It was almost funny, how he escaped one monster to wind up found by another, but the joke fell flat when he lost consciousness in the oddly gently grasp of the beast, and woke up alive and well in an unfamiliar but welcoming room.
Iruka would come to learn that, sometimes, it's the actual monsters in the world that are the safest to be around, while those who hide amongst us humans were the ones to be truly feared.
And sometimes...sometimes falling in love didn't always start with seeing a beautiful face, or hearing a charming laugh.
Sometimes it began with the sound of rattling bones.
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- Part 1 of Want Me Down to the Marrow
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After the fight with Pain ends in ressurection, Naruto returns to his people to find that he, for the first time, is being celebrated by the people he had sought to protect. Iruka watches his boy go from the village outcast to their savior, their hero, and though he is overjoyed that Naruto is finally acknowledged by everyone...he can't help but wonder whether or not he still fits into Naruto's world.
But when a hero begins, it's not in the arms of strangers. It's in the arms of family.
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The Road of Life normally was full of bumps and dips and riddled with potholes in the case of Hatake Kakashi, which was why he didn't have a problem using said road as his scapegoat more often than not when he was late to something; it never worked as an excuse, but he had to take his little pleasures somewhere, somehow. Then he finds himself drawn to one Umino Iruka, and without him even noticing, the path he's travelling down slowly but surely begins to smooth out, take less sharp turns, and becomes more of a pleasant stroll than a difficult hike. That doesn't mean there aren't moments where the road disappears beneath his feet and leaves him unmoored, lost, but Iruka's hand is always there to reach out to him and guide him back.
So perhaps it shouldn't have been so surprising that Kakashi would start to hunger for something more, not even realizing he was starving until he got a taste, but even he had his blind spots and Iruka occupied all of them.
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The Unreality of Time by Dokkaebi King (PsychopompSentinel), PsychopompSentinel
Fandom Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Superman/Batman (Comics), Superman: The Animated Series
22 Apr 2019
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In a multiverse where the rules of time and space bend and contort to do impossible things, Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent would find themselves in the midst of such impossibility as they each delve into the other's past, experiencing their lives from new perspectives. One will save many, one will save none, but in the end and in the middle of it all they'll save each other.
Thus begins the unreality of time.
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When a young Iruka escaped the horror that was Umino Anago, his uncle, he thought himself the unluckiest person in the world to be caught so soon after by an actual horror. A monster of legend: a Gashadokuro. But, to his ultimate surprise, he awoke the following day of the encounter to find himself whole, safe, and being cared for by the kindest, if not the strangest people he had ever met. Through these new people that he would come to think of as family, he would learn that, sometimes, it wasn't the actual monsters that he needed to fear, but the ones who were merely ordinary humans with pure wretchedness in their hearts. And the real monsters were the ones he could trust, could love, if they gave him the chance.
Iruka would fight for that chance, especially with one Hatake Kakashi, whose touch reminded him so much of that Gashadokuro he met...
If the Gashadokuro followed the blood to find him, then so too would Iruka become a monster of his own, a dancing lion, and chase the beast right back.
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The Burden Of Choice by Fantasyinallforms
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 Apr 2024
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Thorin Oakenshield is the crown prince of one of the strongest kingdoms in Middle-earth, but over the last year, the kingdom has struggled to maintain its position among the ruling powers of Middle-earth. Erebor was held under vicious siege by the dragon Smaug, who terrorised the land and wiped out the nearby human settlement of Dale. The hardship forces Erebor into a difficult position, creating no other choice but for King Thror to seek alliances with other kingdoms and races through the bonds of marriage. Will Thorin see this as his duty to his kingdom, or take another path entirely?
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A Most Unlikely Dance Partner by Fantasyinallforms
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
10 Dec 2023
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Erebor holds a masquerade ball. Another thinly veiled attempt by Dis to get him to find his One. Despite her good intentions, Thorin sees this as a pointless endeavor. He has no One. Little does he know that things have been put in motion far beyond his understanding that may lead to this being the most memorable masquerade ball of his life.
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Not The Same Hobbit by withatwistedlyre
Fandoms: The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types
29 Jan 2025
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Nineteen years after a cautious Bilbo Baggins left his home to follow a king across a continent, the world-weary hobbit finds that he can hardly bear to be in his home for a week. He has spent almost two decades traveling across Middle-earth, chasing the elusive feeling of belonging that died with the King Under the Mountain and his heirs. As he prepares for yet another journey, Bilbo makes a painful decision to leave behind his awful, lovely golden ring. And everything changes.
A time-travel fix-it where a hardened Bilbo Baggins is offered the chance to change a tragic story, perhaps at the cost of his sanity and his life. He doesn't even hesitate.
Edit: Newly updated in April of 2025. Thank you for all the support. Your comments and kudos mean the whole world to me.
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Nesting and Digging by daemonbreath
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
24 Jun 2025
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Bilbo and Thorin both think they're far too old for any of that soulmate business. They were just forgotten by their respective gods, and it's fine.
Things become a little less fine when they both start gathering things very clearly meant for someone else.
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Child of the Earth and Sky by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Hobbit (2012), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Jun 2013
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Certain events in Bilbo’s life were always destined to come to pass, but the will of Belladonna Took is not to be trifled with, and her choice may yet change the lives of many.
This is the story of how Bilbo became the kin of the Eagles of Manwë, and all that happened after.
(Original idea and prompt from Ewelock’s amazing art, eva4art's gorgeous follow-up piece, and reddresscloudysky’s excellent speculation on tumblr).
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- Part 1 of Homeward Wind 'verse