Shikamaru makes a single, different choice at the beginning of the chunin exams. With it he makes a mortal enemy of Orochimaru and must try to outmaneuver the sanin. Adventure/humor/romance.

Sometimes it's easy to see the familiar in the faces around you. Sometimes it sucks to figure out why.

I have a singularly impressive talent for messing up the plans of very powerful people - both good and evil. Somehow, I'm always just in the right place at exactly the wrong time. What can I say? It's a gift.

Long ago the Forests of Valbonë were closed to wizards and all were forbidden to set foot within them. So when, at the end of his second year, Harry becomes disenchanted with his life at Hogwarts, where else could he and his unlikely band of cohorts want to go? Join Harry on a trip into the unknown, where the only certainty is that he has absolutely no idea what he's doing.

There is no way I can make this sound original, ever. An attempt to write a believable RrB/PpG in high school fic. Rated M because teenagers use terrible language. "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Camus

Life doesn't quite work out like we hoped. For Ranma, he's a warrior without any wars. For Anko, a Jonin stuck in limbo. When you ride your horse for 1,000 li, you learn about its strength. Ranma 1/2 Naruto Xover. Ranma/Anko Mitarashi. Complete. Epilogue possible.

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.

Harry Potter is not standing up in his crib when the Killing Curse strikes him, and the cursed scar has far more terrible consequences. But some souls will not be broken by horrible circumstance. Some people won't let the world drag them down. Strong men rise from such beginnings, and powerful gifts can be gained in terrible curses. (HP/HG, Scientist!Harry)

...and very surely I do not dream"- Poe. Uchiha Itachi died. Then he woke up chained in a cell, in a Sound stronghold. Having fought his way free, he encounters some people he knew were dead, and some who when previously met have tried to kill him on sight, but now show concern. Is this an elaborate genjutsu? Or something else?

Once the possibility of chakra migrating through time and space has been accepted, the soul is only a lunging step away. Two legendary lovers escape to the past in order to save themselves, each other, and maybe the world- if there's time. A story of transmigration, yandere tendencies, and far more spiritual incest than Naruto ever signed up for. (Time Travel) (Naru/fem!Sasu) (AU)

Harry was never the only person with a penchant for tripping into the most absurd of situations. Reincarnated!Hermione. Somewhat darker than the usual take on Naruto. Political machinations. Character progression. Strong friendship, no romance.

Fate is a fickle thing. Time and time again, the Once and Future King has woken from her slumber to aid her country in its time of need. The World could not refuse her plea, her prophecy, but it has entered a never-ending loop as a result. Fed up, Alaya sends one of her dogs to fetch the key to a new Guardian. Fuses myth & FSN. Very Slow build. Cowritten with UniverseCreator.

You'll believe Taylor can fly.

... How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cruciatus. Albus Dumbledore always worried about the parallels between Harry Potter and Tom Riddle. But let's be honest, Harry never really had the drive to be the next dark lord. Of course, things may have turned out quite differently if one of the other muggle-raised Gryffindors wound up in Slytherin instead.

(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)

In one world, after defeating his brother, Itachi Uchiha dropped dead, victim of a mysterious disease, and the future of the ninja world was set for the worse. However, in another, Itachi was not sick. From this small difference, many changes will spring, and many plans will be overturned. The path of the last of the Uchiha, and the world itself, will be altered forever.

There's something in the Shinra computer system that doesn't belong to the time. Accidentally sent back into the past as an artificial intelligence, the ghost in the machine is not happy, but what can be done but make good of a bad situation? (Time-travel!Cloud)

The war drags on after Voldemort's defeat and the Order of the Phoenix is fighting a losing battle. When Harry is hit by yet another killing curse, he wakes up years in the past and in an alternate reality. As an unknown child in a foreign world, Harry has a chance to change the outcome of the war - while dealing with new magical talents, pureblood politics and Black family drama.

Our heroes did not come from a future where everything has gone horribly wrong. They did not travel back in time to save the world from a bleak or miserable fate. As a matter of fact, all they want to do is find a way back home as soon as possible. [cracky, epilogue-compliant time travel fic] [Now has a TV Tropes page!]

Naruto has always carried his father's legacy, in more ways than one. When an attempt to replicate the Fourth's greatest technique sends him to times long passed, he must take up that legacy, far more directly than he ever dreamed.

From Hogwarts' historic pitch to the famous stadiums of Europe, Harry fights to earn his place amongst the all-time greats. The stakes are high, and sheer talent is never enough. It's more than just a game. A Quidditch story.

Killer. Psychotic. Clown. Turk. Titles seem to follow Reno everywhere, but this day, he's dubbed with the least likely one. Guardian Angel. (Now with new instalment: A Day in the Life of Reno 2: Day Harder)

The Planet isn't willing to let death take away its greatest weapon. If Cloud can't save the past, then he'll be damned to watch history repeat itself. Time travel, SxC, ZxA.

Hiccup didn't see the point in stopping Astrid as she ran off towards his village—towards his father—with his most desperately protected secret. He was leaving anyway. A coming-of-age tale. Deviates from movie. Borderline bromantic-comedy.

My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I am a shinobi by profession, an advisor by chance, and a warmonger according to my enemies. My story started with a death god, ended with an empire, and struck up a revolution somewhere along the way. [AU background]

Why is Harry Potter considered the worst firebender in Gryffindor? Why doesn't he want to be noticed? Probably the same reason he dreams of drowning every night. [Harry Potter characters in an AU with magic replaced by the elemental powers of Avatar: The Last Airbender / Legend of Korra. Full summary inside.]

A minor change can lead to much greater ones. Harry is able to respond to his Hogwarts letter, leading him along a very different path. Starts with Year One. Now in Year Two.

Caveat lector. Just when you think you have reached the summit, another mountain appears. Once nameless, once called 'Boy', he finds fame as Dracule Mihawk. Part XV: Having encountered pirates of all kinds, Mihawk meets his match in the Blind-eye pirates and a prediction of certain death.

On the day that Lord Voldemort fell, at dawn, Harry Potter obtained the last of the Deathly Hallows. In that moment, stretching into endlessness, he faces the Doomsman - and the choice of his life. Fate beckons on the sound of an endless symphony.

Nobody suffers the weirdness, and sometimes poetic justice, of fate quite like the sexually promiscuous. This is what Tony Stark and Morrigan Aensland found out after one too many late night trysts. *Currently undergoing revisions. Chapter 2 rewrite posted.*

Cowritten By Materia Blade & Ozzallos. Two Men, eternal rivals, wake up together knowing no one, in lives that are not their own. May the world weep in joy and terror, for chaos has returned. A Ranma x Sailor Moon Crossover.

Szayel Aporro Granz,' the Octava said, graciously brushing his pink tresses off his forehead. 'Here to shake, rock, adapt, and, more pointedly, electrify your world.'

Sometimes, a ninja goes missing. Sometimes, a ninja tells lies.

AU. After the Third Angel, Shinji Ikari finds himself living alone, when Misato is late to arrive, and Section Two takes actions into its own hands...

Here's a shadow of the future. Not the terror and end of Third Impact, just a rolling landscape of sameness.

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

Even Light’s plans don’t take spontaneously changing gender into account. Fortunately, he can adapt.

Several years post ROTJ, Lord Vader finds himself with a new role to fill-Grandpa. Extremely AU. If you've ever wanted to see Vader vs. Toddler, this is your story. : Humorous longshot. Cover courtesy of LV Writers image library.

Memory lost. Memory Forgotten. Shadows dance under the light of the moon. Ranma Saotome thought that he was invincible. Nothing in the world could best him until someone close to his heart was taken from him.

While searching for Jusenkyo, Genma and Ranma get a wee bit lost.

Pre-Hogwarts. The stuff of legends, myth and majesty were the realm of the Fey long before wizards named him Boy Who Lived. Maeve of the Unseelie Court has decided to take one of wizarding kind's myths, to shape as her own. Vastly AU.

AU. After Third Impact, Gendo Ikari gets his own chance to go back and change things for the better. But things do not go as planned this time around, either.

A Pokemon trainer and a Gym Leader walk into a bar. Ash and Misty, ten years down the line and neck-deep in things too awkward to say. AAML, futurefic, romance/humor/angst/general wtfery.

On Permanent Hiatus: When Kakashi becomes Team Seven's jounin-sensei, he expects a lot of things. However, this Team Seven seems determined to prove him wrong on every single assumption. AU

Come on already, get up! So you were outwitted, so what? Take it like a man and strike back. You're not dead yet, Saotome. You won't really let an Amazon, a white witch and a demon army get the better of you, right? Yeah, I thought not.

Not all of James died that night. Not all of Harry lived. The Triwizard Tournament as it should have been and a hero discovering who he really wants to be.

Reformed or not, there are simply times when Vegeta's notion of an appropriate response is not in line with a 'good' person's.

Forty five years after the Fall of Gaea, all of Vincent's friends are old, dead, or missing. When a new evil emerges, he must set out on a journey to find a long lost ally and to better understand himself and the disease that has ripped the Planet apart.

They dodged bullets and bombshells and bounty hunters and everything else the world threw at them, long enough for regimes to crumble and gray to sprout in their hair. The inevitable ending.

She should have guessed, Yoko thinks, later. She should have known. The harshest loss comes only after the battle is over. WARNINGS: Spoilers right to the ending, mild AU, hinted sexuality, character death. Simon/Nia

AxS So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye? So you think you can love me and leave me to die?

What happens when the last two people on Earth can't stand each other?

I wouldn't turn my back on my shadow at any time...and since your shadow seems so keen on rarely being empty, I certainly wouldn't if I were you, Hero. [post Twilight Princess] [cuz a busted mirror is so totally not going to stop anything, silly Midna]

Episode I of "The Unseen War." Shadowy forces pursue Luke and Mara across the galaxy, Han is pressed back into service with the New Republic military, and Leia has only herself to rely on as she combats a corrupt new government. AU, 10.5 ABY, L/M, H/L

There's enough stories going around about this prisoner that she's beginning to doubt men and firepower. The Joker waltzes away, and Harley Quinn follows. Postscript to The Dark Knight. Part three posted. Really finished now.

A mysterious civilian's presence changed the course of Iruka's destiny, and through him, that of the world. Iruka becomes a reflection of what he could have always been, and brings out the same in his students. Naruto/GTO/Hokuto Shinken/Azumanga Daioh

He always knew his past would cost him, but he never knew the price. She always knew her future would catch her, but she didn't know how fast. Love isn't always beautiful; that doesn't stop the want of it. Winner of two 2009 Genesis Awards.

Yuffie, Cloud, Land Worms and donuts. Oh, and of course the sex. Birthday gift for seventhe. COMPLETE

Gotham City's crime bosses vie for supremacy even as the Batman races to halt the Joker's latest killing spree. Robin is left to his own devices as he struggles with a new gangland killer: the mysterious Red Riding Hood. Story completed.

AU Harry Potter & Ranma 12 cross over. Harry Potter and Ranma meet later in life. Both bear scars from their own battles, but who suffers more? Is it the person that has to let go, or the one who has to start over?

Vincent loves Yuffie. Now all he has to do is convince her of it. Dark Yuffentine. Vincent is not a nice man. He made into the Department of Administrative Research on his own. Side TifaCloudZack

Yuffie tried to let it go. She really did, but some wounds just don’t close and she just kept pouring on in that salt. Yuffentine. Kingdom Hearts.

At the end of his life, it's time for Ichigo to become a real shinigami, but with death comes unexpected challenges—not the least of which is that presented by seeing Rukia again for the first time in years.

Kakashi keeps accepting Gai’s challenges because he likes to pretend that they still make a difference in the tally of their Eternal Rivalry. Because, really, he knows that he's already lost. Gai is too kind to bring up the worst challenge of them all.

On why Aerith Aeris has a hole in her stomach. Why Cloud hasn't smiled for a while, why Cid fingers that same pack of cigarettes. Also, why Yuffie is digging for coffins.

Ishida lies, wounded, in Hueco Mundo and lets his mind wander. Ishihime, Ishida and Renji friendship. Rated for language.

When fourthseat Nanao has to transfer to a new division, the Eighth is her last choice. Still, these things happen...somehow. She doesn't want to be there, and her new Captain's not quite sure she belongs there. Sake! Paranoia! Random art history!

[Oneshot] The world moved on while Sasuke slept.

[oneshot, Team 7 gen] When you get Naruto drunk, he makes everything sound really, really deep. I mean...whoa, you know? [drunk Sasuke pov...]

In the end, Ichigo breaks. Rukia tries to pick up the pieces. Loss, sacrifice and forgiveness all bear a price. Set after the Winter War. RukiaxIchigo

In which Yuffie delivers many a digressing love declarations, and Vincent, in a strange departure from tradition, speaks. 'You bring out the sunshine underground.' [yuffentine] [oneshot]

Draco Malfoy turns himself in after a very successful career as a Death Eater, then enlists Harry and Hermione to help him in a scheme to bring down the Dark Lord. DHr. A story of forgiveness.

She’s only wanted to be different from everyone else, but he keeps on bringing her back down. One of these days, this has to end. [Haruhi centric, KyonHaruhi]

[Yachiru x Byakuya] He always says no, but sometimes his no means maybe and sometimes it means yes.

There's more than one way to be a teacher, and there's more than one way to love. KaienRukia, KaienMiyako. Very, very preKarakura.

Look at me. I'm right here.

Kakashi takes a moment to wrap his mind around equating Ino’s chest with enemy shinobi while Asuma begins beating his head against the table and groaning about how he didn’t sign up for this. Rated for language and the general horror that is puberty

Heroes are expecting to sacrifice what they cherish and accept what they lose. Even of them, however, there is such a thing as asking too much.

Urahara joins some old friends for a longstanding tradition. Post Soul Society arc, preArrancar.

Death and Dream, back when Egypt went on forever.

Hitsugaya Toushiro is called a genius, the youngest Captain in Soul Society. What path did he walk to claim that title? See author page for spoiler warnings.

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

A story about one of Mankind’s oldest dreams, and one of Shampoo’s dearest dreams, and a primary focus of Saotome Anything Goes Martial Arts. When all these elements come together, Nerima—and particularly Ranma—will never be the same again.

Shunsui and Rangiku, drinking their way round the Gotei Thirteen.

Five years after Meteor, Cid finds that some dreams are harder to chase down that he thought. One troubled relationship, one unwanted vacation and one nosy teenager later, things start spinning out of control. CidxYuffie, COMPLETE

Post book 7. Snape is good, but now he's dead, killed in the final battle of the wizarding war. Despite much controversy, a memorial was erected for him on the Hogwarts grounds...a very special memorial. In fact, some say...

The Eleventh Division’s 20 rules of living and dying like a thug.

Batman brings a new recruit into the JLA ... but there's something he doesn't know ...

There's more than one way to die. Each of the shinigami has learned this the hard way.

AU during the First Season. Zuko has finally captured Aang and returned to the Fire Nation. He couldn't be happier. Really, he couldn't. Warning: Very dark. Rated M for violent themes.

Rukia asks Ichigo to help her understand the meaning of a word. Poor, poor innocent and very flustered Ichigo.

Abarai Renji, Hisagi Shuuhei, Iba Tetsuzaemon, Madarame Ikkaku. Four thugs, twenty truths.

Is there anything worse than committing seppuku on account of a piglet? If so, Ranma is sure to find out, the hard way. R12 and A!MG crossover.

Vincent knows it is a very bad sign when he finds her cutting out hearts for use in target practice. [oneshot, VY]

Humorous guide to writing like a neurotic misogynist Englishman. Not that I think all Englishmen are neurotic misogynists. I freely admit that all the neurotic misogynists I know are American. Complete with one or two expansions.

Gimli son of Gloin never forgot the Lady Galadriel. But love can find you in the most unexpected places and the strangest ways...An unusual thing in this section: A Gimli story which does not, repeat, NOT contain any elves. At all.

Nine years ago Vernon Dursley brought home a certain puzzle box. His nephew managed to open it, changing his destiny. Now, in the midst of Voldemort's second rise, Harry Potter has decided to recreate the Lament Configuration... and open it... again.

Rukia is broken, Ichigo is lost. Not all happy endings are so simple. [Post SS AU, spoilers up to chapter 178]

Calvin is all grown up... how has the passage of time affected him and those around him? My first nonStar Wars fic!

Two brothers, both alike and dissimilar. During their last meeting, Sasuke realizes that he understands Itachi not at all. One-Shot.

[complete] The Sanji-torture fic. Sanji makes a mistake, and Zoro may be his only chance of surviving the consequences.

Short Sannin fic set preseries, Jiraya and Orochimaru. A discussion on snakes.

Yuffie Kisaragi gets into trouble, and her whole life changes when she is maimed. Sentenced to death in a matter of months, the only person she can rely on is Vincent Valentine. Finished.

What if, Ranma had been born during the 1600's, and on his visit to Jusenkyo, he fell into the spring of Drowned Young Girl. Now, when he is splashed with cold water he turns into a 12 year old girl that never ages, and the only way for him to turn back is with nearly boiling water.