Stay Reckless.

Title: Poison
Author: nisacharakj 
Type and Genre: Het/Yaoi; Romance/Hurt/Comfort
Rating: T
Characters: Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Itachi
Summary: How long will you watch and wait while your heart is breaking in front of you? Itachi does right by his family, and Shisui ends up paying the price for it.
Warnings: They're quite OOC here. RP-based so it's a bit off. I was frustrated with how things were going and had a scenario play out the way it would under the RP dynamics that we had going at the time.

He’d been avoiding speaking to Itachi alone that day, but there was no escaping the subtle glances that came by his direction from the man.

"That's warm enough." His fingers leave the surface, wet and shaking droplets off them. She coos and reaches out for the water with her little hand, perched in the safety of her Daddy's arms.

When he stands she spots the bright yellow duck in the corner of the bath, sat next to the big orange starfish. "Peep peep!" He laughs, nuzzling her soft curls and gingerly steps in over the wall of the tub, holding onto her tightly lest either one should slip and fall.

The water's barely up to his ankles, but it rises when he settles in. She slips down from his grip and slides down his chest, taking a moment to free her foot from his swim shorts. She crawls over to where his feet touch the other end of the tub and reaches for her toys. All it takes is an excited little yank to send the duckies and the fishies tumbling into the water with a splash.

He laughs some more, wetting her shoulders with water from his cupped hands. The ducky squeaks, and she turns to look at him, sending him a single-toothed grin. He smiles back, and sends her a kiss. She sends him one too, then hugs that duck.

Her Daddy pulls her back to him where he can clean her face. There are protests when he cleans her nose, and she screws her eyes shut when the water rains down on her curls and into her face. He does his best to wipe anything that tries to get in her nose, just so she wouldn't breathe it in. "That wasn't so bad, was it?" A smile is his reward, and he kisses her wet hair.

Bath time with Daddy was always fun. He'd pretend he was Godzilla trying to eat her ducky, and she would squeal in terror and laughter, all at the same time. He had to catch her every time she slipped en route her escape from the mighty Godzilla, each one of those catches ending in a raspberry to her tummy and more giggles.

And sometime later she would crawl up to him and shower him with kisses. "Dadadada~" He holds her close, then presses a kiss to her forehead. "Hn?"

Then there is that look— The one where she puts that little finger in her mouth and smiles like a kitten about to pounce on the fish in the bowl. "Pee~ pee~"

It is too late when Shisui lifts her out of the water.

"You little rascal," he mumbles, shaking his head, his baby girl still in mid-air as he holds her up. She kicks her legs, giggling, the duck squeaking whenever she tightened her hold on it.

"Itachi!!!"

…He can hear the distant hum of the vacuum cleaner turn off. Then: footsteps. "What now?"

"She did it again."

That face she sends her Dad only convinces him of her naughty little misdeed. But despite all that, he'd break into a smile and take her from her Daddy to seat her in the sink. "Little trouble maker." It is murmured into her hair soon after he kisses those wet locks.

Shisui kisses his shoulder in passing, out to get a clean sponge from the closet.

Of course, this is just a little list I'm making-- because it occurred to me that I should~ Most of the themes deal with not-so-light instances, though, sadly. Oh well, here goes:

Shisui
With Shisui, the main theme that has been bugging me lately would have to be death. I wouldn't mind playing out whatever form: suicide (canon or AU), terminal illness, mortal wounds, old age/natural death. I've always considered a military or police force AU in which Shisui ends up working to protect a person or ideal using himself as the ultimate sacrifice. It wouldn't be a spur-of-the-moment case, though, and may involve long time planning and mental preparation for what is to come, keeping secrets and fulfilling promises with a twist. It doesn't have to be romantic at all, and could even be a one-sided thing as far as he is concerned. I'd just love to play out the slow acceptance of fate and the end of things; how he, as a human being, learns the real meaning of letting go all that he has lived and worked for.

On the topic of selflessness and sacrifices, I'd also love to play out something in which he has to cope with being contented to watch the one person he loves the most spend their lives with another person, either happily or unhappily.

Kotoamatsukami has also been nagging at me for quite a while now, and having to play something with him using it to manipulate somebody he cares for deeply would be awesome, I think. He would never consider resorting to manipulation when it came to somebody he loved, but perhaps he would have to do it in order to protect said person? How he sees himself or judges his self worth after having to use such a technique on another person would be interesting to explore.


Hashirama
For Hashirama, I guess, falling apart would be something I would love to look into. I guess this would need a Madara, or somebody as equally powerful as himself, where all his plans for a better and brighter future somehow crumble while he is still alive and he has to watch it all happen. He would obviously desperately try to fix things, but since he usually is the character to always have everything go his way, I suspect it’d be fun to play out a scenario in which everything went wrong for him.

Then there’s that little question mark that won’t stop nagging me: the part where he lets Madara live after the battle at the Valley of the End. He obviously would have known that Madara was not dead at the end of that battle; my question is ’What really took place between them that day?’ All the what if’s~ I’d love to play it out :3 <---Okay, so this has been lightly touched on in canon, but I would still love to explore their relationship in general, as friends and visionaries.

And then, of course, in general, his relationship with Mito. Just—omg are there any Mito roleplayers out there?


Mito
Again, with her, I’d love to explore her relationship with Hashirama. I’d like to put her through a loss of some sort, like the loss of a child after the kyuubi has been sealed within her. Mito gets a whole lot of loss to deal with, unfortunately, and I’d also love to play out her reaction to Hashirama’s death… Ah, poor girl.

Another little thing I'd love to play out would be how she learns to cope with the Kyuubi inside her, and how, with the help of her husband, learns to contain that vessel with love. A bit of an abstract approach would be a fun thing too.



Sasori
With him I’d like to explore the concept of transience (OU or AU), something he tries so hard to deny. I’d like to play out a moment in which he is forced to tap into the human side of himself, which would throw him off to an extent. It’d be a conflict I’d love to explore. He needs some soul searching.



Tobirama
Always the younger brother and in the shadow of the eldest; I would love to explore the relationship between Tobirama and Hashirama, and also between him and Madara. I've always believed that it was never just his upbringing that made him cling to his father's ideals (to some extent) and also to suspicion. He would have had to try hard to be completely acknowledged by his brother, someone who acknowledged an Uchiha as a brother and an equal instead.



Rin
What if Rin never died? I'd love to play out her relationships with older versions of Kakashi and Obito. Would she still love Kakashi? Would she grow to love Obito?