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    Kimimaro x Sakura. Because some things you feel in your bones.

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    09 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 69

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    For Sakura, the future was a luxury never allowed and peace was a finite resource.

    Forced back to Konoha and into Anbu, she must confront the echoes of the girl she was while facing down the monsters of the present. But the most dangerous battle lies within: to build a future, she must first believe she deserves one.

    This is a story of learning to dream under a dark sky.

    Book Three of "Whispers of the Soul"

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    02 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 90

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    After the war, Sakura leaves Konoha, hoping distance will silence the ghosts of her past. But Uzushio has ghosts of its own. The ruins whisper with memories, and the dead do not rest as quietly as she’d hoped.

    When she comes face-to-face with those she never expected to see again, she’s forced to confront a question she’s spent years avoiding:

    What do you do when the past refuses to stay buried?

    This is a story of reckoning, acceptance, and the struggle of letting go.

    Book Two of "Whispers of the Soul"

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    02 Dec 2025

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    Sakura has always known that she's broken, unlike all the other kids. Emotions? They don't come naturally. Blood, pain, and loss don’t shake her. But the war breaks her in ways she didn't think possible.

    Assigned to Team Four with Neji and Sai, Sakura faces more than just the external battles of the world. Sakura’s journey is a haunting exploration of what it means to be human — even if she isn’t sure she is one.

    This is a story of survival, struggle, and self-discovery, where the hardest battles are fought within.

    Book One of "Whispers of the Soul"

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    26 Nov 2025

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    Biological imperatives are the needs of living organisms required to perpetuate their existence: to survive. The urge to procreate is an involuntary and unconscious biological drive which first emerged as an inherent property of living cells and is echoed in the upper levels of organization of multicellular organisms. And so how could an Overwatch doctor expect to be immune, really?

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    24 Nov 2025

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    Where Sakura becomes better acquainted with Zabuza's sword, Kubikiribocho.

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    14/?
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    09 Nov 2025

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    Saved by a mysterious shinobi as a child, Sakura wishes to find them and thank them. Her only lead? The uncommon eye color that had been peeking through the holes of their terrifying mask.

    Thankfully, Shisui finds her before she can annoy any more of his Uchiha clanmates.

    Or: tiny Sakura decides to become a shinobi much earlier, leading to a closer friendship with certain members of the Uchiha clan. Follows from Academy Era and beyond Team 7.

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    19 Oct 2025

  8. Public Bookmark 11

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    No one remembers exactly how it began-only that one night, the sky over Kazdel turned the color of molten glass, and the next morning, the city was gone. Not destroyed in fire or flood, but crystallized-buildings, trees, even people-frozen in jagged silence. From the ruins came a sickness: blood that hardened into glittering splinters, pressing outward until it broke the skin. A beautiful, agonizing curse.

    She was one of the few who survived.
    The girl who walked out of Kazdel with shards blooming along her arms like thorns remembers very little. Just heat. Screams. A hand letting go. And then waking up in a sterile white facility, where voices whispered about cures, containment, and failure. They gave her a name she doesn't remember choosing. They told her to rest. To heal. To forget.
    That place, too, is ash now--another memory burned out before it could settle.

     

    But the crystals still grow. And she has a promise to fulfill.
    Even if she doesn't remeber.

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    Currently on Pause
    Stand: 15.12.2025

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    14 Oct 2025

  9. Public Bookmark 94

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    Sakura Haruno is ten when she first sees Konoha. And her feet are planted firmly for the first time, spreading roots among the trees and people that feel like home

    Yet still...

    A hunger gnaws deep within her chest, pushing and pulling at the pit in the bottom of her stomach, searching for something she can't quite name. It rumbles and burns in her belly, leaving a sickening sweet taste on the inside of her cheeks.

    Sakura is ten when she comes home for the first time —her father wrapped in a blanket and a hollowness in her chest— and the trees rejoice with her happiness. And burn with her anger. And wail with her despair. And beg her to reach out and satiate her hunger.

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    05 Oct 2025

  10. Public Bookmark 46

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    Sakura does not know what being a shinobi means or even truly meant. Or if she wanted to be one. She barely knew herself however she will try to. What she wants and what she is. It all starts with the feeling of uneasiness toward a Kunai.

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    31 Aug 2025

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    She always heard the whispers of them, among the forests, with her team, when she's alone. Especially when she's alone. She would always listen, and try to call back, but it would never work.

    Until now. The trees had never listened to her before, but this time she begged and pushed. This time, both her and the trees listened and heard each other and worked in tandem.

    Or, Haruno Sakura hated how useless she was while Sasuke and Naruto fought the Kiri-chunin. So she decides to use Mokuton to pin them to the trees. This has consequences.

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    27 Aug 2025

  12. Public Bookmark 70

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    Sakura's first (unsupervised) foray into sealing on the eve of her 13th birthday doesn't go as expected, sending her careening over a decade into the past. The consequences change not only her life, but the lives of everyone around her.

    (SakuRin Time Travel AU, written for Sapphic Sakura Week 2025)

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    18 Jul 2025

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    In which Sakura remembers her speech in the Forest of Death. She remembers what it’s like to fear for her life and to fight with every scrap of her strength only to realize it’s not enough. She remembers her promise. And she follows through.

    Because people don’t change on their own but if she has to become Konoha's newest chakra control specialist to keep up with her team, she’ll fucking do it.

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    07 Jul 2025

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    Arya Stark is reincarnated as Haruno Sakura.

    That's it, that's the premise.

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    15 Jun 2025

  15. Public Bookmark 77

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    After the wave mission, Sakura thinks back on how Sasuke looked and starts to think on what she could do. (A rework of my first fic)
    Inspired by Pulling my Weight by itsthechocopuff and Dangerous Habits (Dangerous Girl) by Dovey

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    11 Jun 2025

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    07 Jun 2025

  17. Public Bookmark 88

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    See, being raised civilian and deciding to become a kunoichi was a tricky situation in many aspects but the top three, for Sakura, were:
    1. Having no proper knowledge of chakra;
    2. No previous training or fitness regime;
    Lastly, and the one that eventually caused all her problems,
    3. Sakura had no idea about proper shinobi etiquette. She hadn’t known that clans with hidden techniques guarded their secrets as tightly as any other with a bloodline limit. She had no clue that recreating one of their jutsus would be considered disrespectful and treasonous.

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    That time Sakura reverse-engineered the Kagemane-no-Jutsu to impress her friend but ended up exiled as a traitor instead.

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    01 Jun 2025

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    Sakura is born in the heart of the flower district.

    No father waited outside. No clan name to greet her. No elders to speak blessings, no family crest stitched into swaddling cloth.

    “Haruno” is what Mebuki writes on her academy form.

    It’s still not her name.

    Sakura is the daughter of a prostitute.

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    26 May 2025

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    The third shinobi war ran on. Sakura was drafted like any other child who had potential. She was sent off to die, however she survived. Now she must learn to live once more.

     

    She sits at her desk. She is in the very back, it keeps her back to the wall.

    She is trying to pay attention to her sensei. She is, she promises. He is drowning on about the effect of the war, the political effect mostly. He tried to call on her, attempted to have her speak about her time on the field. She had stared at him blankly before he moved on.

    She knew better then to say a word of what she had seen during her time on the field. Especially with almost 7 clan heirs in her class and the hokages only son. All of whom had been kept from the war.

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    Chapters:
    45/45
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    25 May 2025

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    The sudden realization was that she just had to take some small steps towards progress. That was it. Plain and simple just like her and her ordinary life.
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    Unbeknownst to her, small steps eventually spiral into something grand.

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    Chapters:
    56/?
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    116,871

    22 May 2025

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