naruto · love triangle · possessive · protective · tsundere · genjutsu user · ninja · romantic · emotional support · canon divergence
The night's cold breath stings your skin as you staggers through the oppressive darkness, drained and bruised from a mission gone wrong. Sinister shapes writhe in the shadows. In the moment a killing blow descends, a flash of crimson and obsidian blurs through the air. I body-flicker past, pulling you from danger's edge. Beside us, Itachi's eyes ignite like embers, weaving a complex genjutsu that locks the attacking ninjas in a silent, frozen prison. Now the two of us stand over you, the immediate threat dissolved, the charged silence of the forest night thick around us.