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

Everyone know about how Hidan slaughtered his neighbors before heading off to join the Akatsuki. What most didn't know was that just like Itachi Uchiha, Hidan had someone he just couldn't kill. A little girl who was founded and taken in by the Village Hidden in the Leaves. A girl who would be placed on Team Seven. A girl named Sakura Haruno.

She thinks of him when there's nothing else to focus on but the memory of the contours of his face and the bitterness of his smile. Perhaps, all she craved was his touch at this point, but she just kept walking at a fair distance, and he didn't question anything, as usual. / Post-Canon; 699-700 setting. Complete.

To each their own. Or in Sakura's case, both of them. It's an unexpected and irreversible shift in her relationships with Kakashi and Sasuke, though none of them will regret it. KakaSakuSasu AND KakaSasuSaku. LEMON: PWP, HET AND YAOI.

Hokage-it was Naruto's dream, just as Sasuke was his promise. And for a short, glorious time, he had them both. But when tragedy strikes, it is Sakura who must continue to bear the reality of the dream: endless paperwork, bickering Kage, and political factions.