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The epilogue is now getting started!!! Although, at this point, perhaps it would be smarter to say it's something like a part two or continuance? Thanks for the kind words!
(Please prepare for even more angst.) but there will be sweetness in the end.
You should read “What Should Have Been Mine” by Katie Madison on AO3. She posted the last chapter today. SNS with a lot of bitter and a touch of sweet. She is promising an epilogue, which should be compelling. This story gave me all the feels.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16116641/chapters/37649180
I am so honoured!!! Thank you so much for writing a beautiful, insightful analysis of my story's themes and recommending it.
One of the best and most heartbreaking SNS stories (here) was updated tonight and completed. It offers one consideration of how Konoha was embroiled in a war caused by its own contradictions and still failed to
1) stop training child soldiers
2) acknowledge the Uchiha, most particularly Itachi, and what the village did to them
3) bring the main house of the Hyuuga to accountability for the caged bird seals
4) create a future for its two heroes that did not involve bad hair, bad parenting, flat affect, and loveless straight marriages.
We all know Konoha is built upon contradictions. And we all know that the only way for it to survive those contradictions was to create hypocritical and morally ambiguous defenders of its shinobi (looking at you, Kakashi). Katie Madison in this story shows just how much of a mind-fuck it would actually take for the village to maintain so many of its old ways in the wake of the war.