After 2 years, Sasuke returns to the village where friends anxiously await him. Still troubled by the mysteries of Kaguya and his personal guilt, Sasuke is split between friends and his journey. Troubled by rising casualties and international dependence on her abilities, Sakura is torn between her love for Sasuke and her duty to her village.

In love and loss, it often comes back to family, and Team 7 had always been fated, hadn't they? Deny it as she may, Sakura finds her heart strung to them with an uncanny reverence and the weight of their ghosts. Sakura-centric. Heavy, heavy angst. Slow burn Sasusaku. Canon pairings. Lots of friendship feels. Eventual (consensual) lemon.

Sarada discovers an old love letter addressed to her mother and asks her father about it.

"Sakura held my hand. Some would argue that we were holding hands. But Sakura and I both know. She's always holding my hand." Sasusaku. Epilogue to Entropy.

Every time he wanted to apologize, she would reply, "We were too young, we were too selfish and you were too lost." It had taken two words to shatter their bond. But it took many more to heal it. SasuSaku

Whether it's love or hate or something in the middle, his pupils dilate when he sees her. — Sasuke/Sakura

/SasuSaku/ They were nineteen and nervous. They were twenty and hormonal. They were twenty-one and crazy about each other. This is the evolution of their bond after his return. Post-canon. Oneshot.

SasuSaku. Three-shot. Sasuke has been brought home after five long years, and as time goes on an evolution begins. Sakura's kind to him, when she finally stops ignoring him, but not overly so, and Sasuke finds that being in her presence is something of a novelty. She's different from what she used to be, and he's indifferent, as always. "Welcome home, Sasuke-kun." "Aa."

La storia dei Malandrini - da dove sono venuti, dove sono andati, e cosa è successo loro lungo la strada. (La traduzione italiana è di Laura Kanuka)

Qulcosa nei tuoi occhi mi fa sentire come se mi perdessi e non sapessi più chi sono. Qualcosa nella tua voce mi fa vibrare come la corda di un violino.Non sai quanto sono stata sola prima che tu mi offrissI la tua amicizia..."