#kakudan

Also teddy:

   “  and where do you think you’re going ?  “  the man is quick to stop the other in his tracks ,  actually grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and lifting him up the ground for a little bit before the younger of the two is back on standing for himself again .  “  it’s late ,  and you know the students shouldn’t be out of the dorms at this hour .  “  and that was why he wasn’t in his room yet ;  since that accident at ground beta and kamino ward but we won't mention that ,  toshinori had been more careful around the class ( not just izuku ,  no ) than ever before .

Summary: A chance encounter leads to an unlikely bond between heart and soul.

Pairing: Kakuzu/Dan Kato

Rating: Gen

Warnings: Injury/Blood loss/Stitches, a grizzled pre-Akatsuki rogue Kakuzu, Second War Era mindset, rating may change

For @narutorarepairweek​ Day 2 - ‘Meet Cute’

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He looks harmless enough at a glance. A disarming smile, glacier white hair and eyes the color of the most sacred cenote in Takigakure give him an appearance that is almost angelic, but the Kato are anything but that, and most of the shinobi world has forgotten this. Only those of advanced years and experience can remember a time before the Hidden Villages, when the most dangerous of clans were rooted out because they were simply too dangerous to be allowed to live. Then Konoha gave the last of them a home, stirring further contention among the smaller villages and those most at risk when the war drums beckoned and beckon still.

At the sight of the wounded young man, common sense and the oldest superstitions clash within Kakuzu’s mind. One false move and he might find himself possessed, doomed to rot from within at the touch of one of the deva-touched wraiths, these cursed beings wrapped in human skin. He should just cut the Kato’s throat and be done with it, but some lingering restraint holds him back.

A cold sweat prickles the back of Kakuzu’s neck as he attempts to fashion a way to ensure he might kill the young man's body before the younger shinobi has a chance to enact the jutsu, but then one question remains if what the old tales say is true: that a Kato without a body can steal your own if they so choose.