"You can't always win. Sometimes circumstances are outside your control, sometimes you suffer losses. If we don't bend, we break. A shinobi endures. Do you understand?" His life the prize in a game with stakes too high and odds too long, Naruto learns that survival is its own form of victory. Sequel to Patriot's Dawn. AU.

Hatake Kakashi was a shinobi, and as a shinobi, the only people who could give him orders were his military superiors. The idea that a Council made up of civilians and peers was under the impression they could give him orders...displeased him. Or: He was ordered to pass Team 7. He was fine with that, until they actually passed.

Once ANBU, always ANBU, and Kakashi embodied that more than anyone else. Now he's been tasked with training three green cadets, to mold as he sees fit. He better hurry. Five cutthroat nations stand with knives at each other's backs and unknown to them all is the tinder beneath their feet, waiting for a single ember to ignite the flames of war. AU

Born of demonic lineage, Naruto is the perfect yet unwilling host for The Kyuubi. Cunning and ruthless, his control over the beast's power and his own hereditary talents will make him a force to be feared by all. However, none of it is worth the cost of constantly being hunted by those who seek to claim that power. Will he find a way to rid himself of The Kyuubi without dying?

The war for dominion is a subtle thing waiting to erupt as the Old Gods and their agents begin to awake. The night is dark but not filled with terrors, it's filled with shinobi who will discover that Chaos is so much more than just a ladder. A response to pudgypudge's "Oblivion CHALLENGE." Pairings undecided.

Torn from a desolate future, Harry awakens in his teenage body with a hefty debt on his soul. Entangled in his lies and unable to trust even his own fraying sanity, he struggles to stay ahead of his enemies. Desperation is the new anthem of violence.

(Being rewritten) Naruto's chakra is warped at birth. Instead of strengthening his body and mind, it shrieks and wails like wind through his coils. Thrust into a war of ruthless shinobi and roaming Bijuu, he'll need the resolve to fight through his greatest weakness and survive- or, the determination to make it his greatest strength and win. (Lovecraftian AU)

Kakashi never wanted to be a teacher. Sarutobi insisted. And so, exploiting the very lax definitions of the Genin testing parameters, fought back in the most brutal way he could think of. And so, team Seven was born in blood, tears, and pain.

There's a saying, amongst the men and women of the Land of Fire: You can be a hero, or you can be a Shinobi. There's a response, amongst the men and woman of Team 7: Fuck that. AU.

It was gone. Two years of death had taken everything and Shepard had no clue how to get it back. He was falling, and she wasn't there to stop his descent. A novelization of the events of Mass Effect 2. Sequel to Shell. Rated M for sexuality, language, violence.

One lesson Uzumaki Naruto taught the world was that glass ceilings are fragile, and limits are only for the fools who believe in them.

There's something to be said for keeping the past as it was - makes it predictable, malleable. Naruto never bought those arguments. He's always been the one to power through adversity rather than wait it out, so why would now be any different? He'll do what has to be done, even if he steps on a few butterflies along the way.

"The universe as she had known it began and ended with the same four gray walls and a window that looked down on a world loath to her existence." Stand alone work focused on Jack around the time of her ME2 loyalty mission. For Ironman088.

A man's past is not past. His actions in his younger years are what shape him, guide him, and define him today. It is his choice, however, as to whether the darker moments of his life control his future.

Who said they had the right to live in peace, bitter and torn people left in their wake. Even the demons hurt. Some can even make you hurt with them. Take your other half, destroy your face, kill you without even shedding your blood.

An unexpected obstacle in the Expanse brings Archer face to face with an enemy more powerful than the Xindi: his own fear. Rated T for language and disturbing images.