At first it was about preventing tragedy. For Cloud it soon becomes a fight to protect new bonds, tread untrod paths and find happy endings. Second chances aren't always easy in a time where ghosts live and heroes are human. [ Time Travel, Eventual Slash ]

Dark is a creature driven insane by an ancient curse, and a blissfully unaware Ordon Village just welcomed him in. Now it's up to Ilia to teach a monster how to be a hero.

Sakura finds herself thrown back into the past and appointed as a young Gaara's caretaker. At such a fragile time in the boy's life, will Sakura's devotion to Gaara alter his future into a much happier one, or has a painful fate been set for him since his birth?

Chihiro is 20 and at university. Her brush with the spirit world still influences her life today... (Extract- moved to wattpad. See my profile for details.)

Kimimaro x Sakura. Because some things you feel in your bones.

Hibari wakes up in a room much similar to his own but that's because it's his. He's pretty sure that Mukuro doesn't belong there, though. 6918.

Six years after the Promised Day, Selim is Homunculus and child. As he studies alchemy, Selim realizes it is possible to resurrect his family. The Homunculi deserve the same second chance that he was given, but while they struggle to embrace their newfound humanity, an unknown player comes with a deal that divides them. Post-FMAB with bits from 2003 series. For Homunculi-lovers.

Six years old Cloud Strife was only minding his own business, but randomly getting an older brother was kind of awesome. Even if he now lived inside his head and claimed his name was Cloud Strife too. Time-travel with a twist, slow-building SephirothxAC!Cloud.

He'd found him. But something's... not right. He could leave him to take care of his own wretched self... or lend a helping hand. A narrow escape from death left Kakuzu to face a whole new road of challenges. Rated T for swearing and a bit of gore. AU in Naruto universe. Naruto characters belong to their respectful owner, Kishimoto Masashi.

The world seems black and white at a glance, but the truth is never so easy. Where one draws the line between human and monster is a lot less clear when motive and deed don't match, and a change in form is only proof of something that has been there all along. (Angel's Wings rewrite, Crisis Core fix-it.)

It would have nice to say it was destiny, but that would be lying- Really, it only was the product of certain aspects piled up together to create some sort of propinquity between the two of them. [Mursakaibara/OC]

At last, fate decided to play a trick on Uta and send the worst possible human in his art studio. In the middle of a life-and-death crisis and his heart yearning for one he should not taint, Uta will have to learn to survive.

By a strange series of events, the Avalanchers find themselves travelling through forgotten and dying worlds, on a journey that will lead them to the origin of the Cetra... and Jenova.

A single choice can change everything. Lightning sets out to save the people for a new world, but when she accepts the one who destroyed it as her reluctant ally, what was to be quickly comes spectacularly undone. ["what if"/full game rewrite]

When Envy passes through the Gate to escape Gluttony's stomach along with Ed and Ling, his experience makes him the envy of Father in a whole new way. He is tasked with watching Winry under the guise of protecting her, while Father plots in the darkness. Envy/Winry

Ituko sighed as she straightened from the doorframe, crossing her arms under her full breasts, "Beauty is a woman's natural weapon. Which yours," She flicked a hand at Sae, "is now littered all over the floor. Shame I walked in at all." Sequel / MadaraxOC

X4 prequel. People are practicing politics with the new Repliforce. The fallout includes a newbuilt Iris, who believes she's damaged goods- which puts her in good company, since Zero's always thought the same about himself. Complete.

Isaki Naizen believes in mostly everything scientific. But when she meets a strange boy named Prince Belphegor from Italy. Everything goes wrong. [DISCONTINUED]

Part two of Cry Havoc. Even monsters can be human. Of confrontations, choices made, and a small change that could very well shake the foundations of the world.

Cloud's first thought on waking in the Shinra training grounds..."Where's the hidden camera?". What is one supposed to do when they find themselves inexplicably in the past? Become a terrorist four years early, of course. And look up a few old friends.

AUs. Unconnected drabbles that never made it into proper one-shots. Chapter 11: Stargate AU—a stargate is a device that allows the establishment of a wormhole that can connect it to another stargate anywhere else in the universe, i.e., people can travel to other planets. Alma, Lenalee, Kanda and Lavi are a team of explorers who use this stargate to explore alien planets. LaviYuu.

Having outlived many of his allies and even his own family, Raiden chooses to withdraw from military service. Many years later, he wakes up in a post-apocalyptic future that is dominated by cyborgs. Recruited by the dwindling human populace, he finds himself fighting a new kind of war. Slight RaidenOC. COMPLETE

Alfred F. Jones is a navy captain, capturing law disobedient individuals at the governments bidding. One day, this brings him across a very special belonging to one such villain. A merman. Which he is to bring across the ocean without any misfortune. /AU

Part one of Cry Havoc. Naruto isn't the only one in the village to earn the title "monster". At the age of six, he meets a collared Orochimaru and makes a most unlikely ally. Mentioned slash.

They built their kingdom from earth and fire and blood, upon fragile pillars of glass. HashiMitoMada. Narutoverse prequel.

A very dark reformulation of the X story. X's long hibernation had two objectives: first, to ensure that X had an ethical grounding before he woke up; second, to delay X's awakening until some future time when the world might better appreciate intelligent robots. The first objective was met. The second was not... oh, was it ever not. Complete.

Sabaku no Gaara lands in the past to a time where everyone fears him and his father is still alive. He realises regaining everyone's trust will be difficult, especially when they still think he's a blood-thirsty psychopath. No pairing. Time Travel.

(Uni!Lock) AU: When depression threatens to turn John Watson's life upside down, things seem to only get worse when his tutor assigns William Sherlock Scott Holmes to help him with his studies: then again, they often say that opposites attract. With someone as unpredictable as Sherlock in his life, John starts to realise that maybe 'upside down' is exactly where he wants to be.

Rin volunteers for his sister Gou in the 58th annual Hunger Games. He is drawn out from District Four with his friend, Haruka, and together they make their way to the Capitol. Rin cuts ties with everyone, determined to come home to his sister once again, until he meets Aiichiro Nitori, who follows him around like a lost puppy. Maybe alliances aren't that bad after all. RinTori

This is the story of Jane Daly- the best Finder the Order possesses- and her adventures within the story of D. Gray Man. PS- I am writing this as I reread the manga, so if its not eye to eye with the anime I apoligize. Eventual KandaxOC- but, I mean, its Kanda people, it always takes a while to crack his nut shell.

Hinata is loud. Hinata is annoying. Hinata is also passionate and sunny and bright, and so full of joyful energy that he brings out the best in everyone around him, even if they occasionally want to slap his head to make him shut up for awhile. When a split second of violence threatens to take all of this away, Karasuno responds with a fury.

Atoli was completely at ease with her place in The World, including her now close friendship with Haseo. When Haseo proposed to meet up offline, she should feel even happier, had it not reminded her of how devastatingly big the gap between her online and offline self was. Post-Redemption, HaseoxAtoli.

Tattoo and flower shop AU. Oneshot. The first time Lavi sees his florist neighbour, it became his dream to ink that body. LaviYuu.

Deanna Bryant upon just moving into her new apartment, has a brief run in with a monstrous being named Venom. She tries to get the memory to leave her mind, but finds that the creature keeps popping up. Soon it occurs that she may be closer to this beast than she thinks.

Knowledge previously unknown to Lightning gives her the ability to defeat Caius in Valhalla, but she must become his immortal companion to stop him for good and he must go with her to New Bodhum. The future is now fraught with unknowns, with a new government and rising tensions between Cocoon and Pulse - made no easier by Caius and Lightning now sharing the Heart of Chaos.

It is a widely-acknowledged fact that John Watson – doctor, army captain, flatmate/bodyguard/buffer for the world's only consulting detective – is loyal to a fault.

"I've been feeling something lately. Something that has been bothering me. It's been driving me crazy, tugging at my heart every day. A-and I'm afraid. I'm afraid everyone will hate me. I just feel different. I feel...like a girl." In which Nitori Ai becomes the first female student to attend Samezuka academy.

A retelling of the tale of how King AZ built the weapon that destroyed the world, though AZ's POV

Somehow, somewhere along the way, Orochimaru falls in love with his teammate. This…changes things. Canon AU, Jiraiya/Orochimaru.

Being a Maverick Hunter is depressing work. The hours are long, the job thankless, the mortality rate sickening, and the pay terrible. But there are times when it's not too bad... like when it's time to break in some newbies. Newbies that don't appreciate just who, or what, X and Zero are. Complete.

Zero. A priest. A corpse. There are far more questions than answers surrounding this tangle of bodies. It's not a good combination for an android who prefers things simple. In his stubbornness, Zero will venture far outside his comfort zone to find answers. Just don't expect him to be happy about it. Complete.

Without a family, you have... nothing. Without a family, your life in the Italian underworld will be short and surely painful. Moments from death, Tsuna finds a family in an unexpected place. AU, slightly dark.

The day she turned thirteen was the day she met Matsuoka Rin. It was also the day she almost died. [Ties in with canon]

A series of one-shots or chapters chronicling the many times Sherlock's been called a freak and one time someone defended him. Rated for mild language and drug use. (*All rights to their respective owners*) NOW COMPLETED!

At school, Gilbert makes fun of Matthew, and Matthew just wants to be left alone. But then when the hot days of summer roll around, and they have nothing but free time, things happen that NO ONE could have planned for! Enjoy, and please R&R!

A "Beauty and the Beast" inspired story! When Orihime Inoue is mistakenly led to the forgotten and cursed kingdom of Hueco Mundo, she is brought face to face with the prince of it's castle- a heartless beast named Ulquiorra... Ulquihime and some Grimmhime!

Isn't it just grand, to see but cannot smell, to look but cannot eat, to hear but cannot comprehend, to touch but cannot feel? He thought it was.

This is the story of a kingdom in the desert, fiercely protecting the only oasis for miles around. This is the story of a servant boy, bewildered by the presence of royalty. This is the story of how two races mingled again, despite hardened differences. This is the story of a great drought, which sent a noble on a hopeless trek for water. Rintori, some MakoHaru, NagiRei, and GouSei

It's painfully obvious who the monsters are when the Wall comes crashing down and blood paints the streets. But when one of the monsters rescues them from the jaws of death, everything these children know is flipped on its head. And when Humanity cries out for their savior's blood, is it really so easy to tell who is a monster and who isn't? Titan!Eren AU. Rated for safety.

It takes Forte a while to warm up to the newest member of the family. Rated T for swearing.

Yeul is a blazing Phoenix and Caius wishes to tear the heart of her rebirth right out. "This Yeul is eleven, and she dies at thirteen, and she never smiles again in the two years inbetween."

The Mist was a solitary figure and it was always alone.

Sometimes we see most clearly through the eyes of a madman. DeiHina.

Ulquiorra/Orihime. AU. They say he's a clinically diagnosed psychopath, but she thinks he just lost something along the way.

There was a glow in his eyes, but from something different than mako. She couldn't place what it was, but it seared her to the core. What was it in this child that captivated her so? The young buddings of fate, perhaps, or destiny? Sephiroth centric

"I must complete my Focus." Lightning is given the chance to reset the timeline by preventing Caius from receiving the Heart of Chaos, but only by traveling to Gran Pulse's ancient past and befriending him. Meanwhile, Serah and Noel struggle through the strange future left in her wake and find an entirely new timeline awaiting them...

Kakuzu's been sent on a rather...small time mission by the Akatsuki: to pick up some supplies after their mole got captured. It might feel like nothing more than a waste of time, but what he finds in the small village, near their current hideout, is nothing like what he expected. Namely one Haruno Sakura. KakuSaku. Oneshot. For Asai24 (requested).

She is trying to tell him something and he has no idea what. Uzumaki Mito, Senju Hashirama, Uchiha Madara – It takes three lives to raise a village. Story in twelve parts.

In a promise to Zack, Cloud has vowed to get Sephiroth to smile. The thing is, there's just not that much to smile about these days, and Cloud doesn't even know the man. What's a desperate infantryman to do when nothing seems to work?

Winters are particularly harsh for the residents of the Resistance Base, especially for a certain human, but Zero has found a solution. (contains references to another ficlet I wrote, "Gifts.")

Mukuro is desperate to know Tsuna's weak spot and decides that the best way of doing so is to impersonate those that interact with the brunet daily. Sadly, this doesn't go very well. 6927

Raiden's spent a lifetime on the battlefield, but that's poor preparation for the perils of Careers Day at John's new school in New Zealand. One-shot, complete. Set after Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, contains spoilers.

AU. Actor, business man, even singer and fashion model when it struck his fancy, Sephiroth had a schedule worse than the President's, enough whims to put a pregnant woman to shame and a demanding and largely overbearing personality. For his personal assistant Cloud Strife, he was a nightmare. Then there was that creep Hojo on TV, blabbering wild stories about mutants... CxS

An innocuous meeting. A heartfelt gift. When she learned what he'd done, she could never tell Sakura that for her, it had never been Sasuke. "A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely un-happen."

When missions go awry and Reploids get wounded, it's the medical staff who go through the most stress. Lucky for Zero, he has a certain someone help out in case of such emergencies. /Zero/X, AU, Human!X/

What happens when the Sand Sibs get shipwrecked onto a deserted island during a mission? Especially since Gaara is still a murderous psychopath. Temari and Kankuro are the only ones stuck with him. The worst part... It was no accident. Sand Sibs

He had never been fond of horror stories and here he was acting one out… All for the love of a dare. Matthew would never live it down if he turned back now but some monsters are real and Gilbert is one of them.

A demon who lives on the outskirts of the village has an unusual guest one day: a blind human girl from the town. Being unaware of what and who he is, she stays with him for a time, saying that even though she lost her way and wandered to his home, the next time she came would not be a mistake; he is a lovely person, she says. He almost wants to laugh when she says this. Almost.

N wants the world to realize they need to free Pokemon. But for some reason, he wants a young man named Touya in particular to listen and understand... N/Touya

Pre-War of Transgression, spoilers. Caius and Yeul. Things eternally begin and end for those who are immortal, but for Caius, those words have lost none of their weight.

Sir Aaron awakens in modern Sinnoh along with Lucario, summoned by Arceus to stop a threat of destruction of the world. Given a new purpose, and a new name, Sir Aaron explores the modern world, with Lucario traveling alongside with him. R&R please

"Just remember, if he's half snake, then he's half human too." A romantic mystery in the Noah's Ark Circus. Snake/OC. Rated T for language, suggestive themes, and slight yaoi. 1886. Yana Toboso owns Kuroshitsuji; I don't. Hiatus.

As part of his recovery after an accident, Cloud takes up sculpting. All was well until he fell in love with his own statue, that statue came to life, and isn't at all what he had imagined. S/C. Birthday fic for Tobirion.

Canon. SasuSaku. Red was the color of passion, womanhood. Pink was the shade of little girls and delicate things. Next to Karin, Sakura felt like a washed-out imitation.

It is modern Hyrule- the humble Zelda is the only Hylian left in Hyrule. Or is she? Link returns in a highly unexpected incarnation- a giant merman! Contains ZeLink and fluff.

Aerith was prepared for a lot of things when she started volunteering at Midgar Hospital. Death, blood, guts. . .surely not a front row seat to the weirdest romance story she'd ever seen. After all, chocobos and porcupines just DON'T mix. Clack AU

-AU- College brings 20 year old Inoue Orihime to the US, where a sudden tornado dumps her in a world at war. Now it's up to her to save Oz, with a talking cat, a cowardly munchkin, a traitor, and an untrustworthy heartless man at her side. -UlquiHime-

Where the sky meets the sea. USUK AU. American fighter pilot Alfred Jones crash-lands in Occupied Denmark and finds himself entangled with a voiceless merman. For Sweethearts Week over at Special Relationship on LJ!

You know me. I'm the greatest ninja that ever lived. Well, I was. One careless moment and I can no longer hold a shuriken, or walk, run, or- you get the point. Vince says that now I talk more than he ever deemed possible. Jerk, wasting his life with me.

Before truths tore friends apart there were just three young men. Two country boys, a poet and a friend, full of dreams, and a lonely general. Fate dictated their crossed paths, but how did such an unlikely bond form? Angeal looked at him and saw a man.

AU Vincent, the chaos apprentice, a demonic man who is paid to escort Lady Aerith, a Cetra Scholar, to the Land of the Ancients. Her kind heart makes him feel human for once in his lonely life. She sees the human within the beast. AerVin/one-sided AerRed

Cloud has an accident with a Time materia. There are people to save, and for that, some people need to die.

Mukuro hates the mafia while Tsuna is a mafia heir. First love is never all that easy. Or pretty. 6927

Zack and Sephiroth are left to deal with the repercussions of Angeal's betrayal, and the stress is wearing them down. An innocent act proves to be the breaking point for them, sending tempers flaring and hurtful words fracturing a budding friendship.

It was ironic that in comparing her friends' lives to soap operas, Ino's own life would suddenly become as surreal as a daytime talk show. Ino. Deidara. Crackfic.

OCxSeph, all in our universe, on Earth. (THIS STORY WILL BE REVISITED, so don't be too disappointed if you read it and find it to be sub-par.) An enraged Sephiroth escapes Shinra's headquarters and doesn't stop before he ends up in a forest, about to bleed to death. There, a girl stumbles upon him who thinks he's a crazy costume player. Only in the beginning, though.

It's a big risk, Ciel knew. But if she didn't tell him, she was afraid she'd burst. MMZ-one shot.

-One-Shot. MMZ, MMC hints.- Six months after Ragnarok, Ciel happens upon a collection of files on time travel, signed by none other but Dr. Albert Wily. With the world’s future looking bleak, she decides to take a chance.

Complete. AU from 309 onwards. Following a botched mission, Sakura is made a slave by Sound, a position that could very well alter the future…especially concerning a certain familiar missing-nin. SasuSaku.

Being rich, smart, & pretty doesn't make being a mutant any easier. While juggling dual roles as the Avenging Angel & an average college kid, Warren Worthington III discovers that despite his best efforts, he can't keep living life as a recluse. AngelOFC.

It only took a single wish to crack the mighty trunk of that tree...NarakuKagome

KandaLavi. "You...stabbed me, Yuu...chan..." Yuu Kanda has always been in control, but the day he loses that equilibrium, he makes the biggest mistake of his life. Last chapter posted!

Naruto had been bragging all day that his new jutsu was his best yet. Sakura and her new situation beg to differ. Post timeskip. DeiSaku.

The Sequel to A Little Mal de Mer. They have to get home, after all, and that means another three days on a boat. Vincent isn't even going to fight it this time, but Tifa is.

They suggested befriending some locals to help build her cover. They certainly didn’t expect she’d accidentally choose a wanted criminal instead. Dei/Ino

Deidara knows it's all about presentation. DeiSaku of course!

Yuffie wasn't fond of Vincent when they first met. Actually, she wasn't even convinced that he was human.

Even since that fateful day, Kakuzu has made sure he never got close to anyone, afraid of more rejection, hiding behind his mask. Hidan is sick of guessing and decides to ask him straight out. Slight KakuHida

It was a fact of life Kakuzu had come to accept. When you were as good looking as Hidan, people tended to treat you like a god. Funnily enough, Kakuzu couldn't recall ever getting the same treatment.

[yuffentine] [oneshot] “You are not shaving my hair off to sell to a wigmaker.” Yuffie and Vincent and a day in Costa del Sol: on butter suns and shoes cum bullets, pretty foreheads and fashion advice. On how to say goodbye, and why not to.

With the war looking bleak, the Golden Trio, Ginny, Draco, and Lavender go back to Tom Riddle's 7th Year to destroy Lord Voldemort once and for all. What Hermione DIDN'T count on, however, is a shared common room, a curse, and a crazy little thing called love.

It was incredibly rare to find a person so pathetic and deprived of love and affection that they’d turn to someone like him for comfort. Love, Zetsu realized, and humanity’s selfish desire for it, had bestowed him with a sense of normalcy.

AU. Hojo gives Vincent one last chance to change his fate. Vincent accepts. Yuffie x Vincent.

Once upon a time, in a land not too far away, a man with scissors for hands was found by a group of children. Finished.

OLD. YV. AU. When a demon begins to terrorise the village of Wutai, the frightened townsfolk try to appease it the old fashioned way. Yuffie is sacrificed to Chaos and taken to its lair. Can she survive the demon?