she was married, but that wouldn't stop him. modern.

Mai Taniyama's transfer application to Cambridge University says she wants to study Parapsychology. Not on the application: a secret transfer that will bring Mai and Naru together and simultaneously tear them apart. Japan's SPR follows Naru to England...

Story follows Sakura on a path that could've been taken if some things had been different. Mainly, if the talents she'd had in canon were noticed and honed sooner, Team 7 was not the team she was placed in, and Inner Sakura's violence and temper were shared by outer Sakura too. (semi-au; Sakura is a prodigy, OCs, canon-divergence, chap 32 contains mentions of homosexuality)

Sasu/Saku. Tsunade once told me that striving to be the best, to be acknowledged, to be renowned, also had a series of disadvantages. But I would have never thought that one of them would send me to Otokagure, serving under the man that once left me on a bench, in the middle of the night, after breaking my heart and killing what was left of my spirit.

//SasuSaku// AU She should have known better than to extend her help to him. Now, she has to deal with the many temptations clawing at her with the undeniably sexy street racer in her home. “Are you seducing me?” “…Are you seduced?” “N-No!” “Then no."