"Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it." A seventeen year old is reborn as Hana Inuzuka, and the world shifts two feet to the left. No one with power stumbles through life with bloodless hands. Still, a girl has to protect her pack somehow, and if that means that I must live with the taste of blood on my tongue then so be it.

Every action has a consequence. It took one girl to screw all of Orochimaru's plans up, and nothing will ever be the same. "Look at you, such bloodlust. Darkness is a lovely shade on you, my dear." Major AU [Morally Ambiguous Dark(ish) Sakura] R&R! Mid-Chunin Exams onward. R&R

Sakura Haruno is three when she looks into the eyes of Orochimaru and decides to be a hero.

If one were to ask Uzumaki Kushina how a certain Namikaze Tomoe came to be, she would have flushed to the roots of her hair. In truth, Namikaze Tomoe came to be in a very strange, unique way, one that she did not quite understand herself, one that scared her to the very core of her being.