During the mission to Wave, Sakura realises that she has to become a better ninja for her teammates' sake and be someone they can depend on. She vows to take her training seriously, and receives help from the most unlikely of sources; Genma Shiranui. The two form an unlikely bond and stick together through thick and thin, while Sakura improves and meets other people along the way.

"Can you imagine copies of our world? Where our lives differ because of decisions we make?" Sakura asked. Itachi nodded. "Well, Hokage-sama, that's the Alternate Universe theory. You're alive in this world, and you're dead in mine. In another, I'm preparing for bed. In another, I...end up here." A series of unrelated one-shots of AUs and ideas I like, mostly featuring Sakura.

Blind loyalty is simple. The problem only begins when the world makes you open your eyes. Sakura-centric, AU, pre-timeskip.

I started out as a girl without memories in a foreign land, and life took a turn for the worse after that. Sakura-centric.

At the end of the Fourth Great Ninja War, Sakura takes an unexpected trip into the time of Konoha's Founding.

If you lost everything in a future destroyed by war with demons taking over the world, would you try to save it? Lucy did and made her own destiny. Now, she's back to her past with a mission to save Fiore. Living on limited time has its drawbacks but Lucy has the gifts of the stars watching over her. Unfortunately, it's not easy saving a world against change. Time-Travel AU.

It's time to stop waiting for other people to save you. A story about fear, resilience, and Sakura.

Yato is killed by his own father. But just as hope of the stray god ever coming back is lost, Yukine finds his reincarnated form, young and defenseless. Growing up story.

Sakura finds herself thrown back into the past and appointed as a young Gaara's caretaker. At such a fragile time in the boy's life, will Sakura's devotion to Gaara alter his future into a much happier one, or has a painful fate been set for him since his birth?

She is the girl that has no heart, and he is the man that unknowingly stole it. "You will become my tool. You will fight for me, aid me when I call upon you. And in exchange, I will ensure that you become the most widely-revered kunoichi of your time."

Born at a Jashin temple, Sakura had been exposed to the Jashinist ways since she was young. A few days after her ritual of choosing and obtaining Immortality, her temple is attacked, where she is the only survivor and is taken in by Konoha. There, Sakura struggles to fit in and understand the value of life and the beauty in living, instead of simply surviving.

The Haruno clan are known for their unique relationship with the dead. To them, hearing whispers, seeing the ghosts wandering the planes and having their bodies taken over by spirits are common occurrences. However, once in a hundred years, the 'Reaper Child' is born. The chosen of this century, Sakura can walk the land of the dead at will, the limit to her powers unknown.

"Now you next… Any likes, dislikes, hobbies, dreams..?" "Yo, I'm Haruno Sakura. I don't have a lot of likes or dislikes… I don't have that many hobbies either, but one day, my dream is to become the next God of Shinobi..!" (Adopted from Kisara White)

Sarutobi had trained three students before, but each one strayed from his ideals and left Konoha. In the twilight of his years, he decides to train and pass down everything he knows once more to one final apprentice. What impact will this have on The Ninja World as The God of Shinobi becomes a sensei once again? Read and Review

(AU) There are many things that make a great ninja. Sakura Haruno may not be physically strong, but she is quite intelligent for her age, and she wants to be a great kunoichi like Tsunade. While practising her espionage skills at 10 years old, she uncovers Naruto's dark secret...which may very well lead to a more coherent Team 7... (No Sakura-bashing here. Don't like, don't read)

Prince Zuko quits his hunt for Aang to look for his mother instead, but when the reunion with Ursa doesn't go well, Zuko goes through a metamorphosis to find a new path. Meanwhile Gaang are forced to realize the world isn't black and white. Dragons, friendships, and major changes to plot.

[Modern AU, Drabble Series] Hashirama thinks it's time Tobirama got a secretary/assistant/bodyguard/someone that will put him in his place when he needs it/someone to keep that ego in check, basically the ultimate right-hand man... and he has just the right (wo)man for the job.

When Harry comes home after his fifth year, still reeling from Sirius' death, only to find that the Dursleys are mistreating yet another child, he decides to take his young cousin Sakura and adopt her himself. [Inspired by the original FFN story by RuneWitchSakura, which was reposted on AO3 by Ookamijudge.]

Sakura is forced into a game where losing means losing your soul. As she participates in the chuunin exams she fights off other players and comes to terms with a darker side of herself she never knew she possesed. Can she escape from the game?

Reincarnated as the firstborn of the Uchiha main family, she must do everything in her power to protect her loved ones at all costs as enemies arise from the corners of the world, each one deadlier than the last. [sakura-centric] [shisui & sakura] [inspired by monstersinmind's figures]

It's easier to break than mend. And so, for everything she learned to heal, Sakura learned a thousand times to end.

Her plan was flawless. Save Shisui. Save the world. Time-travel, Sakura-centric AU

It wasn't supposed to be like this. She was only supposed to go back five minutes in time. Instead, Sakura wakes up in a dark room surrounded by people wearing black cloaks with red clouds on them. The worst part? She doesn't have a clue who she is.

Right after making chūnin, Haruno Sakura is assigned a long-term mission to be an assistant nurse to a certain Hogwarts healer in preparation for a certain tri-school tournament. The job seems easy enough—that is, too easy. Who knew that wizards could be such weak pansies? Shānnarō! [GEN, set in Fourth Year]

Kakashi knew to expect the emo that reminded him of himself and the Obito-wannabe that looked like Minato-Sensei. He was even expecting a Rin-stand-in. Instead, he got Haruno Sakumo, who reminded him of his late father a little too much.

After the war, people celebrate their victory over Kaguya, the White Zetsu army, and the breaking of the Infinite Tsukiyomi. But not Sakura. Sakura had a job to do. For Naruto, Kakashi and Sasuke were the heroes, not her. Set after Fourth Great Shinobi War.

Konoha and Iwa sign a truce and agree to an Exchange Program between recently promoted genin to "bolster village relations." Fortunately, if anything were to go wrong, Haruno Sakura was just average enough to risk losing.

AU OOC Sakua finds an old book with a warning not to leave it open in the dark. When Sakura dose she finds two of the boys from inside the book in her living room, what happens when even more possessive guys come out, all pinning after her?

Civilian born and bred, Haruno Sakuya has no great aspirations in the world of ninjas. Yet here he is, the dead last, on a team with Namikaze Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke, the top two Academy graduates of the year. Sakuya proves to be more than his Dead Last label, but just being good isn't enough when it comes to his high-profile teammates. Male!Sakura AU Non-massacre

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When a careless deity snips the thread of Haruno Sakura's life too soon, he patches up the problem by transferring her soul into another universe. 12 years later, seemingly ordinary Fuyuno Sakura must hide her identity as the mercenary 'Shi no Kage' from both L and Kira, even as her very existence tampers with the fates' original plans for these men. SakuMulti, Sakura-centric.

It was a popular topic that civilians liked to gossip about whenever they were short on drama. And the subject of their lingering scrutiny was always, where exactly Haruno Sakura had inherited her pink hair from...For the Haruno clan was old and proud and could keep secrets just as well as any shinobi. Retake on Naruto with a very different Sakura!

Her sentence is short, and simple, but she packs so much power and love and intelligence behind it, that N stops moving for a second. "Just because I raise Pokemon differently than you," Touko says slowly, "Doesn't mean I love them any less." She looks at him again, and N thinks that the battle, from here on up, is going to be a hard one. But maybe, just maybe, it will be worth it.

The girls have come together once again to reveal their pasts to their newest member, Serena. First is Team Rocket Leader Seleafina, or Leaf for short. Leaf tells of how she goes from being a mob boss' daughter to becoming a respected leader of both Kanto and Johto. Terms such as good and evil become meaningless - it's simply a matter of perspective and circumstance.

"My name is Haruno Sakura, I hate... I like..." Her usually blank face softened and a small smile appeared on her beautiful face. "I just want to be with my beloved Onii-sama..."

Sakura finds herself trapped in the past and discovers a new family along the way, however unwilling she may be. Time travel. Fix-it fic. Sakura-centric.

Three mutants with very different pasts come together to abolish their common enemy: the Mutant Investigation and Control Unit. No mutant will ever be safe until the unit is destroyed. No pairings as of right now, though some may develop in later chapters.

The girl was certainly strange. Soft pink hair and the clearest green eyes Deidara had ever seen. The small girl clung to him and depended on him so much. But Deidara didn't mind. Call him conceited, but he was quite content with how it was. Content with the girl with the shadow that looked only to him. (FIRST CHAPTER RE-WRITTEN).

Three years ago, the monster known as Mukade made his bloody debut. Now, he continues his one man war against the CCG. But when the feared Centipede encounters Anteiku, will the carnage spread or can redemption find the shattered man that is Kaneki Ken? (Au where Kaneki was born a hybrid and terrorized Tokyo as The Centipede) Hiatus until I catch up on the manga

One Shot - Something I've had on my mind for a while: What would Yukine do if Yato reincarnated?

The secrets of their world may be hidden by a thousand years of deception, but Orochimaru fervently believes that it will be he who casts the truth into the light. All he requires is a loyal assistant to help him with his dream. Mentor!Orochimaru, Apprentice!Sakura.

Civil war thrusts Sakura and her small family out of Iwa and into the warm arms of Konoha. With only tiny mementos left of her precious memories, she tries to live on with a smile. But wars stain a person forever, no matter how hard they attempt to hide it.

Lucy vowed to protect her Guild, her Family. Even if she has to die by the hands of E.N.D, the person she loves the most... AU, after they have defeated Tartarus, a War against Zeref happened; a titanic war between the Mages of the Light and the Mages of Darkness. But the Celestial King has a backup plan, one that will require the sacrifice of a single person to save the many.

Useless, weak, failure... but not anymore. I won't look at their backs any more, I refuse. I will get help in any way necessary to become stronger, to be of use to my boys, to my country. Everybody is in for a shock. Non-mass. Criticism welcomed.

He may be a supposedly dead missing-nin but he was raised a gentlemen, helping the crying pink haired girl was just proof of that...too bad he got attached to her smile afterwards. -Starts during the wave arc- (Update: pending Rewrite 27/5/18)

Sakura rides with an all girl gang of bikers called the Harpies in the city of NewDestruction where rival cyberpunk gangs made up of monsters like the Uchiha and Akatsuki chase her tail. With a taste for danger, sometimes Sakura runs too close to those monsters.

It's so hard to let go of the past, even when you don't remember it.

Sakura's parents died during the Kyuubi attack. Kakashi comes across her in the mess of things. She latches on to him. Sakura becomes a Hatake. And Kakashi becomes slightly less lonely. Slightly.

After a violent demise, Haruno Sakura is reborn into the Uchiha clan as none other than her murderer's twin sister. (rewrite coming soon!)

[FANOWRIMO CHALLENGE, Sequel to The Eyes Have It] Thanks to certain efforts by certain people towards sewing discord and uncertainty amongst the other nations, inter-village politics convene in the Land of Iron months earlier than they might have without 'help'. Team Eight, against all odds, is dispatched as part of Konoha's contingent.

Sakura wakes up after her disastrous Chuunin exam match and starts re-evaluating. But nothing would have really changed, if Akatsuki hadn't come to Konoha early.

When two jutsu clash, Sakura, injured badly, is sent careening through time to the past. Blind, she has to survive alone in the form of a child. Until she helps a man. And then her peace is destroyed and he won't leave her alone.Rated M just in case.

War between the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Sound had never been more fierce. Sakura spends her days in underground fights with her best friend Naruto and her honorary brother Hidan. But when those two are conscripted into the ANBU Army, she takes charge and follows after them. They aren't dying in the war on her watch. Non-canon. AU. (BEING EDITED AS OF AUGUST 8, 2016)

It's said there infinite possibilities, and those not explored in one universe or dimension are explored in others. Haruno Sakura was destined in one universe to be a talented chunin level medical ninja with an unhealthy love interest, out of control temper and just happens to be the Godaime's apprentice. In another, she's destined for greatness that rivals that of her teammates.

By a sick twist of fate, the mission to Wave ends in disaster for Sakura. Terrified of her own home and the people she should trust the most, she finds herself on the run. When real life seems stranger than fiction, is there any way to carve out a normal life?

Leaf is afraid of Gary; she doesn't know why, but he scares her. She was also kidnapped when she was a little girl, and all she can remember from then, is a boy with red hair. She goes on her journey so that she can find him, fighting Masked characters from her past, but somehow is drawn closer to the one she fears. Will she fall in love with Gary? (Leaf x Gary/Leafgreenshipping)

He stays in Laverre City waiting for the days when she swoops in to visit. (Team Flare Grunt x Serena)

Team Plasma transforms an unwilling grunt who only wanted to disappear in the forest of identical grunts into a monster sent by an even bigger monster to either warp White and her ideals until she supports Team Plasma and is unrecognizable or take her life. The unlikely love story of a Champion in the making and her assassin. - WhitexTeamPlasmaGrunt (Rated for violence.)

She threw a tree at him. A TREE.

Every shinobi lives with the scent of death on their hands.

Light is about to learn one of the little-known secrets of the Death Note, and things are about to get very ugly. Sometimes the worst outcomes are the ones you didn't intend...

In another life, they could have been brothers...in another life, they might have been friends. But in this life, Light is a criminal, and L is Justice. L wishes it weren't true- but nobody ever really cares about what L wants.

Because she was the glue that held them together, and she would do anything for her boys. Warning: Character Death, hints of Team Seven x Sakura

[FANOWRIMO CHALLENGE] Most people seem to think that developing a doujutsu is a wondrous, unspeakably lucky occurrence. Considering that she now has to deal with an ability she has no idea how to use, family drama, fashion crises, and the world's most rude and vulgar doctor, on top of getting to know her new genin team just after graduation...needless to say, Sakura begs to differ.

"Well, he did just give you his first born son, after all." There's nothing like unplanned parenthood to make you grow up fast, as Sakura's learning. Especially when you're ten.

From his birth to the Kira Investigation, L Lawliet had been set apart from the rest of the world. He's been shunned, he's been hated...he's been loved. This is his story.

What happened inside Domo, doesn't stay in Domo. Sakura's stay with possessive, psychopathic males is a haunting affair. Sakura multi

Sakura Haruno is an extrodinary dance instructor, but is that all there is to her? The men she teaches don't seem think so and they're determined to learn more about this mysterious blossom. MultiSaku

Very mild WhiteChristmasShipping if you squint. Although she was a lost human and it was a broken shell of a Pokemon, they shared one thing in common: they knew the pain of feeling incomplete and the longing to feel just the opposite.

Naruto promises to bring Sasuke back, and Sakura wants to know how.

It would grant knowledge and power to those who ate of it, and they would become as gods. But any who partake of this fruit will surely die.

SaiSaku. Sai and Sakura are sent to a distant country on a mission while Naruto is off again training. As the near year-long mission filled with magic and mystery plays out, they discover an all-too-familiar plot to rule the world. Harry Potter X-over

Haruno Sakura that actually caught a glimpse of the real world and woke up to smell the blood. Basically a 'what if' preview of what could have happened if Sakura didn't revert after the Chuunin exams. No princess to be rescued here. No pairing.

Have you ever wondered how powerful the words “What if?” truly are? What if Sakura Haruno had flourished a bit early? What if Neji Hyuga hadn’t grown up alone?

Sakura is the timid girl in the back of the classrom, that happens to have a deep love for Shakespeare. She didn't know that in her new high school it would get her this much attention with the guys. Sakura many

The path of revenge, she realizes, is lonely indeed. But sacrifices need to be made.

Sakura a girl with a secret life, a secret passion, a secret past. At night she's an underground boxer risking her life or what's left of it, by day a school girl.Will one of her new friends earn her trust and shatter her secrets? Sakuracentric

The Hidden Village of Konohagakure burns with the stench of smoke, blood and death. Its fate dangles above Evil's dark maw. When Sakura saw the signs, she knew the end was near. To prevent it, she reveals a power forgotten by man. Post-Ch.423.

Sakura can remember what it was to see in black and white. And she wishes with all her heart the colors would fade away.

She was support. Background. Their teammate, never herself. So she trained. Sakura centric.

Sometimes, Silver wishes that he has a family. Slight spoilers through Vol 13 of the Pokemon manga, Japanese names

They made assumptions about what the girls were born to do. There was some truth in their misconceptions.

L Lawliet was just a smart little kid living in England. Always thinking, never seemeing to fit in. But things change. Fate changes. What made L the detective he is. Read and review.

He takes a tentative step into this world that she calls her mind. Sakuracentric, Kakashi's POV.

Blue and Silver have finally escaped from the Mask of Ice, and began the search for their parents. But the journey is more difficult than expected when Team Rocket and the other mask children become involved.[chosenshipping][cowritten with CEM]

Sometimes saving lives is harder than taking them. A Sakura centric fiction.