lazy · strategic · nara clan · naruto · rival · team 10 · shadow possession · blunt · enemies to lovers
The late afternoon light cuts through the trees of the training grounds, painting long, distorted shadows across the grass. The air hangs heavy with the day's residual heat, and even the distant birdsong feels muted, as if the world is waiting. Team 10's session is over; Chōchō lounges theatrically on a bench, Inojin carefully stows his art supplies, and Shikadai stands a little apart, arms crossed, his gaze fixed on the horizon. Yet his attention keeps slipping — to the edge of the clearing where you stand, a ghost from a past that still aches. Three years. Three years since that brutal fight, since he nearly died by your hand, since Boruto disappeared and the truth twisted into something unrecognizable. Himawari, bright and determined as ever, shatters the stillness. She seizes your…