Title: The diplomacy of monetarism
Characters: Kakuzu, Yugito, Hidan
Words: 1298
Summary: In Cloud. Yugito is requested to become a spy.
Author's Note: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." is a quote by Robert Frost.

( Of tyrants and freedom... )

Title: Cherub
Characters: Jiraiya, Tsunade, Konan
Words: 1685
Summary: Jiraiya and his relationship with women. In general as well as in specific cases.

( Litotes, pleonasm and everything in between... )

Title: Lance
Characters: Kakuzu, Yugito
Words: 235
Summary: Shogi and types that encompass almost all of reality.

( Ranging pieces... )

Title: Isolation
Characters: Hidan, Yugito, Kakuzu
Words: 681
Summary: An exhausting journey and fraying patience.

( Ambivalence... )

Title: Despot
Characters: Hidan, Yugito, Kakuzu
Words: 1051
Summary: The trio visits cloud. 
Author's Note: Imagine how Kakuzu might react to food coated with leaf gold. I most certainly don't dare to ponder that.

( Of freedom and currency... )

Title: A sense of demise
Characters: Hermione, Snape (Dumbledore, Ron and Harry)
Words: 3711
Summary: That death-defying acceptance of death.
Author's Note: In grateful to my patient beta valady who weeded out all my typos and grammar mistakes and about half of the dashes.

( Apostasy... )

Title: Adder stone
Characters: Yugito, Nibi
Words: 357
Summary: Character study. The relationship between Yugito and the Two-Tails.

( Functional superstition... )

Title: Rose quartz
Characters: Hidan
Words: 274
Summary: Character study. An animate world.

( Enchantments and heeded callings... )

Title: Amber
Characters: Kakuzu, Yugito
Words: 341
Summary: Character Study. Dominion both mental and physical. The moments in which Yugito forgets.

( Emperor and hierophant... )

Title: Onyx
Characters: Hidan, Kakuzu
Words: 415
Summary: Character study. All the knowledge that is only supposed and a pragmatic world view.

( Axioms and mortality... )