To make a tragedy, you break something beautiful and frame the pieces. To make a victory, you break something mighty and rebuild it piece by piece. To make a life, you glue the pieces together and hope for the best. Kurama's still getting the hang of this ‘human’ thing, but given that he’s 30 years back in time with catastrophes to prevent and a blond brat to save, he’ll have to figure things out on the fly. Luckily, living with Naruto's been good for his ability to improvise, if nothing else.
"Will you tell me about your fight against Sato... Sa-to-ru?"
Sukuna inhales with annoyance, almost on the verge of tearing the brat apart for making useless requests.
"Do you want to hear for the thousandth time how I killed him?"
Naruto smiles so brightly that it almost gives him the feeling that he has a heart. It's disgusting.
"Suku-nii is amazing, I'll be as strong as you! Beleave it!"
"Don't call me like that."
"Suku-nii!"
Sukuna only puts up with it because he needs the child's body to be at the top of the world. He needs him to grow up, mature and become stronger. He doesn't care about him for anything else.
He doesn't.
"It's time Hinata, no more waiting." Hiashi orders and she withers under his stare, knows her time is up. Though she's known about this day for years, she'd been wishing, hoping he would change his mind and not give into one of Konoha's oldest and cruel traditions. When a suitable girl comes of age and the bribe isn't made, you're sacrificed to the village's jinchuriki…Canon AU
