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Hour #5: What Once was Lost

Summary: Decades of service to the powers that be have shown Tobirama that there is irrefutable power in belief. Author: @writhingbeneathyou

Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Ōtsutsuki Indra/Senju Tobirama Characters: Senju Tobirama, Ōtsutsuki Indra Other Tags: Uchiha patron god!Indra Word Count: 5,175

Decades of service to the powers that be have shown Tobirama that there is irrefutable power in belief. 

Regardless of where that belief is anchored—be it in a god, a dogma, or even something so simple as love in its basest state—what matters is that the hearts in which it resides beat with conviction. All of that devotion, all of those resonations of what it is to be human, seep into the walls of holy places over time and leave behind impressions of something bigger than the self. Something pure, prevailing, and alive .

Tajima’s teachings thrum through him with a power all their own as Tobirama allows the echoes of his step-father’s sagacity to guide his path. He stares up into the shafts of light streaming down through the canopy and simply listens for a time. The forest around him is warm and humid even in the dead of winter, not a sound to be heard through the molasses the air has become—a miasma thick enough to drown. A warning. Even the sun on his face seems to lack both temperature and substance, as if it can’t quite reach through to caress Tobirama’s cheeks properly. 

Blinking slowly, he stretches his senses though the ominous wall of wards and feels for the flow of chakra beneath his bare feet, hoping for a hint as to the direction of this power’s source. Read the rest on AO3!