Odds and ends, little rabbit trails of the mind. One shot stories, histories and essays concerning the oddities you never knew you wanted to know until you read them. Odd laws? Unusual foods? Traditions long forgotten but still kept? Every culture is peculiar to those who live outside it, in that regard the Wizarding World is the most normal culture of them all.

Konoha needs to protect and train one of their strongest resources, the young Nine-tails Jinchuuriki. Naruto is young and needs a friendly face. ANBU guards are expensive and impersonal. The Hokage finds a solution, providing his favorite Jinchuuriki a guardian and caretaker in the personage of the 'Eternal Genin'-Maruboshi Kosuke. Alternate Universe.

Where will flattery, pride, fear and paranoia take a ruler? A short story of Canute: King of all England, Denmark, Norway and some of the Swedes. C. 1016/17 A.D.-For reference, Hogwarts was established in 990 and the Statute of Secrecy was ratified in 1692.

A young girl molds chakra to her will and find herself torn between two worlds. Is one of the worlds more real than the other? Can one of the worlds truly be called evil? Alternate Universe; Future; (no-longer) One shot.