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1. He who hunts two rabbits catches neither by HopefulFirefly

   Fandoms: Mortal Kombat - All Media Types, Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   15 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Hanzo Hasashi | Scorpion/Kuai Liang | Sub-Zero
   • Johnny Cage/Takahashi Kenshi
   • Minor Johnny Cage/Takahashi Kenshi
   • Minor Liu Kang/Kung Lao
   • Minor Syzoth | Reptile/Tomas Vrbada | Smoke
   • Hanzo Hasashi | Scorpion
   • Kuai Liang | Sub-Zero
   • Raiden (Mortal Kombat)
   • Shang Tsung (mentioned)
   • Quan Chi (mentioned)
   • Johnny Cage
   • Takahashi Kenshi
   • Takahashi Takeda
   • Enenra | Revenant Smoke
   • The Kombat Kids (mentioned)
   • Fujin (mentioned)
   • Tomas Vrbada | Smoke
   • Noob Saibot | Bi-Han
   • Jade (Mortal Kombat)
   • Revenant Jade
   • Jackson "Jax" Briggs
   • Sonya Blade
   • Hydro (Mortal Kombat)
   • Liu Kang
   • Kung Lao
   • Goro (Mortal Kombat) (mentioned)
   • Baraka (Mortal Kombat) (mentioned)
   • Syzoth | Reptile
   • Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Conflict
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Eventual Comfort
   • Breaking Up & Making Up
   • But it'll be a while
   • I'm Bad At Summaries
   • Bad Times Ahead
   • Good times too
   • just way further up ahead
   • subscorp
   • Sad with a Happy Ending
   • Temporary Character Death
   • kind of a give away but just so you guys don't worry too much
   • lolol
   • just realized I should add
   • Slow Burn
   • also also
   • chapters get longer
   • it just sort of happened
   • Pining
   • Mutual Pining
   • Which is kind of funny if you think about it

   Summary

   Raiden explained that once the artifacts had been retrieved they would be able to revive a few souls that had long since departed from the realm of the living. He expressed this intention with the mind of freeing a few of the revenants and had said as much.
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   As though this news did not turn the very axis of Hanzo’s entire world completely off kilter. With those artifacts, they could revive his family.
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   He loves Kuai Liang deeply. But he cannot forsake his family. He had failed them before, and now he had the chance to make it right. And even though it would pain him to make this sacrifice, sometimes sacrifices had to be made.

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

   15/?

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