When first he laid eyes upon her, he thought her the very personification of spring. He watches, from the depths of shadow; waiting to steal her away from the land of the living. Waiting to make her Queen of the Dead. Hades/Persephone retold. SasuSaku.

Even though it had been a one-night stand on a mission thousands of miles from home, the idea of having the elf prince's child was not nearly as repulsive as the idea of once more coming back and telling him about it.

By night, she dreamed of killing him, of playing her hand all at once and going out in a blaze of glory. By day, she kowtowed with just enough stiffness to show him her fantasies. In return, he forced her moves like she was just a piece on his shogi board - and she was. Kakasaku, Spoilers up to Manga 452

When in Middle Earth, do as the Middle-Earthlings do: Sakura finds herself in the midst of Middle Earth, immersed in a war she has no part in, saving a world and people she doesn't know, and why? Because Naruto would be disappointed in her if she ever got back and told him she hadn't...

A chance encounter, an unshakable sense of valor, a mission of her own choosing. A new world of possibility is open now, all one has to do is act on it.

Sakura has literally fallen into Middle Earth, without a clue of how to get back home. Now she's stuck in a mess she can't seem to get out of, what with dark riders want to slice her into little pieces, a dark lord hunting for her friends. I mean, really, how much worse can it get? "Sakura, you have to get on the horse." "... You have got to be kidding me."