Hour 6: Monsoon

Hour 6: Monsoon

Summary: With an unseasonably late monsoon sweeping through the compound, the Uchiha are too busy to light the bonfire at the end of Obon that would light their ancestors' path back to the Pure Lands. One unfortunate accident later, and the bonfire is late for sure.

But Izuna has some concerns about the ghosts of his ancestors getting lost - or, worse, staying here with him. While he's alive.

Author: Dawen Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Family Other Tags: Warring Clans Era (Naruto), Canon Compliant, Uchiha Clan-Centric, Obon, Ghosts, Natural Disasters, Rescue Mission, Angst with a Happy Ending, Kid Izuna, in which two clan civilians are Rescued from a Flood, paying proper homage to your ancestors, calamities which seem so much more severe when you're like ten Word Count: 1,853

Izuna took a moment to wring his hair out, water flowing in a steady stream to puddle on the engawa before dripping through the cracks between the boards. The urgent tasks were done – elders and young children taken up to the healing ward, which was built on high ground specifically so that the injured wouldn’t need to be rescued during monsoons. Their food stores were secured. Most of their livestock had been taken from the pastures; the chickens had fled to their coops, which teams of shinobi had raised to be a bit higher when the rain started. Izuna’s job, checking on the civilians under evacuation and offering help to anyone who could benefit from a touch of chakra to get through a waterfall’s worth of rain, was nearly done. He’d just finished checking this house; the family had already evacuated.

One last family to check on. With a sigh, he braced himself and ran into the rain again, suppressing a flinch at the heavy drum of incessant water on his armor.

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And remember: To be continued, under next year’s Lamplight…

Hour 3: Seeing You (In My Dreams)

Summary:

Madara has always wanted to see his brother again.

He never expected it to happen like this.

Author: @phlebaswrites Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara, Uchiha Hikaku/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 1,029 (Complete) Warning: Canonical Character Death

Madara grips the shinai in his hand tightly, too tightly in fact, but he can't seem to let go.

He used to spar with Izuna like this, but that was when they were children, true children, long before they began to handle live steel.

Before Hashirama, and the dreams that came with him.

But his hands are the ones Madara sees every day, bearing the callouses of gunbai and kusarigama, and the hair which cuts across his face is long. Most of all though, he looks at Izuna through the red wash of the Sharingan… and his brother is blind.

Because his eyes are in Madara's face.

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