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lyircs || song

a city of crossroads that never lead home would be about a verse where Shikako arrives just in time for the Grass exams and native Shikako died somewhat recently. Maybe Danzou sent a different ROOT agent on the Land of Birds mission – or sent a partner with Sai – and they killed her to ensure the Watari nin wouldn’t settle in land of birds, or to keep her from further subverting Sai. Sai… might also be dead. :C 

Shikako would be caught at the Grass exams, maybe by Kakashi. Maybe by Gaara. Maybe both. She’d be asked to stay, but she knows this isn’t home, and she hasn’t figured out that she needs to Split yet.

but….. hey… ALSO for this song…

a voice that was echoing mine would be about Shikako landing somewhere where native Shikako gave a second sealing lecture series and she listens to the recording and read’s native Shikako’s notes and people keep telling her things native Shikako told them.

a shadow who’d stolen my face would be about a verse where native Shikako managed to replace with Sasuke in the Forest of Death and got bitten by the cursed seal. She fucks up big time, gets taken by the Sound 4, and Orochimaru is now going around wearing her body. The verse would probably open with Shikako being mistaken for Orochimaru.

pepperdoken:

Catastrophize

lyrics | song

So when my thoughts take off may I breathe deep
Lord, hold me strong when old loss comes to meet me
Keep my fingers crossed, keep my knees weak
Are we all such fragile things? 

lmao this ended up having almost NOTHING to do with the song but:

Crows hold grudges. Crows hold grudges very well.

When Danzou attacks Shisui – a crow summoner – he raises the ire of even the regulars crows in Konoha, and they begin to target him and his underlings.

Crows are also prone to bringing gifts to those who befriend them – and with both Shisui and Uzume gone, they start bringing their gifts to Amano. A bloody scrap of hair with scalp still attached. A Konoha forehead protector. A tongue with a seal on it.

…the crow summoning contract.

Amano signs the crow summoning scroll as a way to stay close to the memory of Uzume and Shisui. He doesn’t expect to find out Kansoku has one of Shisui’s eyes – but only one of them.

Because after Shisui committed suicide, Itachi went to Uzume to ask to sign the crow contract to have a place protect Shisui’s remaining eye. And he told Kansoku that Danzou has the other one. So now Amano knows.

And Amano – well. Amano picked the crow mask when he joined ANBU for a reason.

Now he has a target he can actually reach.

When gardens!Shikako stops by Konoha to see if she’s home, it’s to find a murder of crows – and ANBU Crow – attacking Danzou in public.

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lyrics || youtube link for listening

God what a good choice. You know I love this song and that it’s the Amano Mood post-Uchiha Massacre:

In this country at any given time
There are two million empty houses
And one of them once was mine
Yeah there were twelve million spirits drifting
Through twelve million empty rooms
Waving their ghostly arms at the stars
And howling sad songs in the light of a crescent moon

Yeah they claw at the air and they scream
But they don’t make a sound
They should’ve exercised their demons and their secrets
While they were around

In the Gardens verse one of them once was mine (once mine verse?) Shikako would come across Crow (Amano) and Wolf (Kakashi) fighting Itachi soon after the Uchiha massacre when the Sandaime was still going through the ‘we’ll capture or kill Uchiha Itachi’ motions.

I don’t have it in myself to kill any of Amano or Kakashi’s teammates (bc yikes) so I think that this was supposed to be surveillance only in preparation for a more coordinated strike but Itachi made them. Amano and Kakashi are covering their team’s retreat.

Shikako jumps into the fight with shadow sight to keep them from getting Tsukuyomi’d and Itachi gets away when the fight heats up. Amano wants to pursue and doesn’t even care where Shikako came from as long as she’ll help them end Itachi. He gets, uh, emotional about Uzume and Tokimi. Shikako ends up dumping the Real Deets of the Uchiha massacre on Amano and Kakashi, probably.