"It isn't the red ribbon that binds us together. The root that unifies us does not derive from a tree on the wall. This bond knows no genetics. Friendship is a peculiar seed. No matter the season, the weather, nor the time of the day. When planted on a nourishing soul, it will always bear fruit."

As his country threatens to fall into the hands of a tyrannical conqueror, Athrun Zala sail towards a distant kingdom to save what was left of his home. There, salvation is a cold princess and her formidable army. Medieval AU.

It took years, a katana, and the Uzumaki kids for her to accept fate.

A collection of loosely related drabble oneshots about So Yi Jeong and Chu Ga Eul. IV. FORGET ME NOT. You can never forget.

People quietly swoon around them, watching as the star-crossed lovers gaze at each other with such loving candor. AU.

She goes by many names and many faces. She is many things to many people—a desire, a ghost, an enemy and a weapon, a mark, a hostage, a deadly threat, a sister and a friend, a woman, a daughter, a thousand other else. Careful, she is as silent as the messenger of death.

Matsumoto Rangiku and the sadness in her.

"I love you. I'll come back to you."

She hugs him tight, not saying a word for once. He buries his nose in her hair, smelling that long missed familiar scent of her, holding her in his arms, not letting go for fear that she'd vanish and so will the fantasy. No words or thoughts come to form as he embraced her with all those years worth of regret - and yet, it still isn't enough.

Naruto as he conquered back that which he had lost.