His voice cracks and his eyes stare at something beyond her. She feels the always-there ghosts that linger between them. They swirl around, clouding them in uncertainty, filling in the blank spaces, drawing in all the air until they both suffocate. - Companion piece to Sharp Edges. AU.

Tifa dreams of the day she won't have to hide who she is. Cloud does his best to survive in a city that wants him dead. One wants freedom; one seeks revenge. Both wish for a better world. But the merciless shadow of Midgard swallows all; will they be able to stand as the fight for change beckons? - Sci-Fi/Dystopia AU

[Saku/Sas] - AU - Slow Burn - Life as an associate at Konoha's most revered law firm was hard enough without Sasuke Uchiha showing up . . . .

AU: Sakura is a princess. Sasuke is leader of the largest military unit. Their marriage is arranged by Sakura's father, King Haruno. Though enraged by this, she is helpless in changing her fate, her duty to her dynasty preventing it. She had naively believed she would marry Prince Naruto. Sasuke however, is benefiting just as much as the king. Slow burn.

And in this new photograph, was a new smile-with new beginnings. A series of oneshots spanning the entire compilation, in no particular chronological order. CloTi.

"So what you're saying is; you had a one-night stand with some yakuza lordling and now you're pregnant with his baby?" SasuSaku. AU.

SasuSaku. Non-Massacre. For the past 11 years, Sakura was positive Sasuke wrote her off as a love interest. Until one fateful night, Team Seven stumbled upon a full moon. (Ratings will vary to M)

As children, they connected. As teens, they married. After four years of separation, Cloud and Tifa reunite when he shows up injured at Sector Seven's train station. Can husband and wife mend their shaken marriage and fight against ShinRA, Sephiroth and meteor? Takes place during the events of FF7. Direct sequel to 'What It Means To Be Living' by The-Ocean-Deep.

Immediately post-war, Sakura is traumatized-she experienced the deaths of those who died when connected to her chakra during the war, including her parents. She accepts a long-term Anbu contract to get out and forget. (Sasuke hasn't seen Sakura in years, not since she left home. Then he finds her in the place he least expects, with startling new power and a new attitude.) Sasusaku.

The shinobi nations had been burnt down to the ground by the Ten Tails, but Sakura had been given a chance to change everything. To make everything right. However, and as years passed by, things would turn out to be so much more difficult than she'd ever imagined. Not your regular Time travel. Sasusaku. MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH

After her father dies of black lung disease and her mother sinks into depression, Katniss is forced to do the unthinkable in order to keep her younger siblings alive and out of the community home. Now, with the unexpected help of the baker's youngest son, she has to figure out how to go from just surviving to thriving in poverty-stricken Twelve. In Panem AU.

/SasuSaku/ He never meant to hurt her, but he did. He never meant for things to fall apart so bad, but they did. And now, even five years later, as he holds the Hokage seat and finds himself juggling more responsibilities than he can bear, Sasuke still tries to find a way to make things right. Hokage!Sasuke AU.

"I'm actually not married...well...I mean...I guess I'm engaged..?" I felt my laughter turning into nervous chuckles. Edward hadn't really made things very clear the way we left things off...it was dreadful trying to explain to Granny what had happened. As usual, Ed had turned it into a conversation based on Alchemy...although he was trying to come off as sincere. ROMANCE/DRAMA NOW

Swords are kinky, said no one ever. /One-shot/

Sakura just wants to get her adult life together, but life rarely does things the way you want it. She finds herself being put under the care of Sasuke Uchiha in the Witness Protection Program, an aspiring detective that she had a one night stand with years ago. Is this fate giving her a second chance? Sasuke doesn't even remember. Or does he? SasxSak

She was an otherworldly being of healing. An absolute nymph of spring. He was an otherworldly being of destruction. An absolute god of war. In a world where war makes him death and chaos she will be the life and love his people will talk of for years to come. AU x Warring States Period.

SasuSaku. Sakura disappears to take a lifelong mission in exchange for Sasuke's post-war acquittal. To give her the upper hand over her new targets, the world must believe Sakura is dead and gone - but that couldn't be further from the truth. Sakura seeks the power she needs in Shikkotsu forest, while Sasuke seeks the truth about her death, and Kakashi tries to keep her secret.

When Sasuke mysteriously vanishes during his two-year quest for redemption, Konoha launches a rescue mission to bring him back. / SasuSaku, Post-Canon

The Hohenheims are royalty and Central is their kingdom. For years, Edward's family has held the city in it's grasp. But wherever there is power, there are those who wish to take it. In a city full of criminals who can you really trust? Gangster AU. Edwin plus other pairings.

Cloud had untangled my hand from my phone and intertwined our fingers. Our eyes met for a second. I would have believed that my heart would flutter at that. Instead, it felt like someone had planted a knife in it and twisted it mercilessly. —AU, contains triggering elements/themes.

/SasuSaku./ And with every moment together, they get just a little closer, a little more comfortable with each other. Fall a little more in love. Post-war. Pre-epilogue.

After the war, Sakura suggests a new therapy to help Sasuke heal and get better sleep. The recovering Uchiha is uncomfortable with the implications of the healing and what the fluttering in his stomach means. Cannonverse, after the war, pre-Gaiden.

With Konoha on the verge of destruction, Sakura is sent on a last-resort mission to save her world by travelling to the past. Join her in coping with her old body's shortcomings, testing the natural laws of time, falling in love all over again, and rediscovering who she is. Time-travel. SasuSaku. REAL publication date: Jan 2015

It doesn't matter the time or the place. She will always be a part of his world, and he will always be a part of hers. Collection of short works set in alternate universes (AU).

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.

It's a world of walking ghosts and living shadows, a world where colors are forbidden. Who knew a blossom would find the way to flourish with the touch of darkness? Modern/Wartime AU.

His nightmares are torture. Her memories are painful. Somewhere beneath that tired façade, the truth lies in waiting. With a dangerous group of SOLDIERs targeting their makeshift family, Cloud and Tifa will have to find strength in each other in order to protect the life they've made together. It just might take the danger of losing each other to finally break those walls down.

The most important aspects of any knight is the loyalty to his king, his honor, and of course, his sword and shield. An epic tale of kings and queens, lords and ladies, knights and squires, revolution and war. AU. SasuSaku. Other minor pairings.

'Modern/Apartment AU.' A look into the awkward, exciting, and unforgettable adventures of our favorite FMA characters living in booming Central City. Series of endless one shots. WIP.

Everything ends, eventually. Eight years after the war, Sakura's unhinged and Sasuke's obsessed. The fields are filled with corpses. AUish, canon-divergent, Sakura-centric.

It's how you play the cards you're dealt. AU

There was something bittersweet about the white, whimsical snowflakes dancing against the black, looming sky. [CloTi]

"My father can crunch numbers all he wants. I know that if I survive my next two reapings I will not be working in the bakery." Peeta and Katniss are not the tributes for the 74th Hunger Games, but it doesn't make their love story easy. Non-reaped Everlark/canon-divergence. Cover by Ro Nordmann.

While at college, Zelda and Link meet at a class about Hylian Food and History. A modern AU oneshot with lots of fluff and food. Zelink. Rated T for an adorable drunk.

The King demands that his youngest son receive a thorough sex education to prevent ridicule from the nobles at court. Who else should help the young Prince but the Lady Haruno Sakura and his teacher Hatake Kakashi.

She was a dove in chains. Hidden away in a tower and left to rot, without hope or dreams of salvation. She didn't mind however, because she'd rather be his prisoner than his loyal subject. SasuSaku, Dark.

Then his spell ends and before Sakura even realises where she is and what has happened, she is crying and she is hurting and she feels Sasuke's strong arms pull her towards him and they cry together, and Sakura thinks that maybe, just maybe, they will be okay.

However gloom his world had been, she had always been there to lift his spirits. When his future had seen hopeless she had given him the opportunity to move forward. She had given him a home, a leg, an arm and all of her heart. Whatever he had to offer, it would never be enough. (one shot)

This is not where it started. These Exams aren't the beginning of Sasuke and Sakura. But, important things aren't defined by their place in life; they are defined by their influence. This is a roller-coaster of doubt, angst, and pure romance all bundled into one incredible adventure. Grow with us. Learn with us. Join us for The Jonin Exams. [Post "The Last" *LEMONS* *SPOILERS*]

Pain can be masked. Life can be celebrated. Art lives to disturb the comfortable, while comforting the disturbed. This is a story about art. A story about life, about hardships, about love. For what could show more passion, more devotion, more pain, and more resilience… than a tattoo?  -EdxWin AU, rated M- Complete

She gave him names to kill, in order not to be killed herself. But having blood on her hands was turning out to be much worse than dying. "…There's still round 2…3…4…" When does this game end? She asked. "Don't you see, Sakura?" He said, "It never does."

Tifa began to forget. Post ACC.

"You," Sakura snarled with bared teeth. Sasuke gagged for air, clutching at her forearm, but she only pressed harder into him. Her green eyes crackled, and she wished she could burn him alive with the heat of her anger. — SasuSaku

SasukeSakura—There's more to marriage than living together and having kids. Like sharing meals, or splitting chores, or being in love. Sakura has always known this, but she doesn't mind waiting for Sasuke to learn it too.

He's dreamed about finding the girl with a sun marked on her right palm since he was old enough to understand what soulscars were. For a boy whose mother was loneliness, the idea of a soulmate—a person meant to love him, to be his family—was impossible for Naruto to ignore. (Soulmates AU. SasuSaku and NaruHina.)

I think, in a way, I was always looking for them. Trying to figure out who that little girl was, and how we could possibly be the same person.

He created rules, she broke them. He ran with CEOs, she ran with lions. He felt trapped, she embodied freedom. She welcomed him into her world, they knew he couldn't stay. Only...in their wildest dreams.

Capitol photographer Peeta Mellark has one job. Meet, and photograph, the current Victor known as Katniss Everdeen. Capture her image in her natural environment in District 12, follow her progress along the Victory Tour. He's not meant to fall in love. Not when the stakes are high and secrets are being kept. (Set during the timeline of CF and MJ).

Imprisoned and alone after the war, he was forever resigned to an avenger's peril, but she stretched out her hand, and suddenly the truth split through the darkness of his scarlet irises, and she became alight in his redemption.

There was no reconciliation between the Senju and the Uchiha, and a place called Konoha was never founded. But there is a chance for peace for the first time in a hundred years, and it will be sealed with a marriage. SasuSaku.

"I need you to help me with something," Sasuke said calmly, staring Sakura straight in the eye. She smiled and held out her hand for him to take. She knew he wouldn't take it, but the gesture had to mean something to her former teammate. "Whatever it is, Sasuke, I'll help you." "I need you..." He turned his head away and folded his arms. "To help me rebuild the Uchiha clan."

The Gardener crumples with the budding of frost and blooms with the newly sloshing mud. Sasuke doesn't know her name, but he knows she lives and dies young again and again.

And the heart is hard to translate. NaruSaku!friendship/coworkers; SasuSaku

Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha have nothing in common except for a daughter named Sarada.

SasuSaku. Post 699. It is a quiet love that blooms between them. It is a love shared between trivial conversations, and passing intimacies. It is a love expressed through gentle stares, and timid blushes. It is an unspoken bond, tied up in history, and it is a secret that everybody knows about.

It is then that he realizes he loves her, when he sees her hands covered in blood, hears the wailing of a newborn, and she is hurt beyond repair. Whereas Sasuke's hands have mostly brought death and destruction, Sakura's have the talent of bringing life into the world. This is their path to recovery.

Katniss "convinces" Snow, and is forced to marry Peeta. AU.

I know that we were meant to break. —Sasuke/Sakura.

Sakura wakes up away from the battlefield. In a world where things are different. People that are long dead walk the streets of Konoha, she finds memories of Haruno Sakura that are not her own, memories with Sasuke. And the longer she stays, the more she forgets who she really is. And for some reason, she can't seem to remember: that this is actually the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

AU / Fire had burned away her old life and made her anew; he'd spent his whole life in a shadow. Back to back, they fight their battles, but the war never ends.

The ten years and ten separate times that Uchiha Sasuke catches himself staring at Haruno Sakura's back chronicled his descent into a maddening, consuming and achingly prosaic lunacy he fearfully acknowledges as love. [SasuSaku. Canon-verse and Postcanon-verse.]

Uchiha Sasuke was no romantic, but here he was, breaking his probation, jumping into a decrepit canoe, and paddling tenaciously downriver to see his pink-haired lover.

(AU Post-War) They don't immediately revert to their old ways because the old ways didn't work anyway. And learning and re-learning and un-learning things have always been the hardest part of the challenge.

In which Sasuke tries to be a casanova, and Sakura is just Sakura. What's your excuse for bad behaviour? — Sasuke, Sakura. AU.

AU. Peeta and Katniss and the American Civil War.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am 16 years old. I live in District 12. My best friend has just won the 74th Annual Hunger Games. AU. Rating has changed to "M".

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."

"The list that Dr. Aurelius and I had made together was burning a hole in my pocket. A list of triggers. A list of things I should avoid." Peeta comes home. First installment of The Ashes of District Twelve Series.

"You're an awful wife, sweetheart." He's said worse, and so have I, but something about this, maybe the fact that this is the second time I've been told the same thing in one day, makes me burst into tears. Katniss discovers that being married is hard. Second installment of The Ashes of District Twelve series.

SasuSaku. AU. One-shot. She is lucky, she thinks, to have Sasuke as her first client. He's handsome, rich, and everything else she's not, and that is exactly why she's here, in his room, giving all of herself over to this stranger she just barely met. She only hopes Naruto never finds out. It would kill him if he knew she was selling her body to keep them alive...

Setting out on one of the most difficult missions of his life, Sasuke knew he'd need some highly skilled teammates. When the Hokage appointed Sakura and Karin to assist him, he had to wonder what she was thinking. Post-canon SasuSaku. One-sided SasuKarin.

"That's Katniss Everdeen," he says. "That's the Mockingjay's daughter, Peeta." AU.

What if Katniss won the 71st Hunger Games? Three years later, it's time for the reaping and Effie Trinket chooses a person she never wanted to see in the Games. What will she do to make sure he gets home alive?

She's the youngest of seven princesses and a powerful sorceress in her own right. But during a seven day festival in one of the most wild and remote parts of the kingdom, Zelda awakens more than just the guardian spirit of the woods...

"I have a secret for you," he says, his breath warm against her cheek. "The top floor," he whispers. "If you hurry, you might be able to stop it." AU. Katniss makes a deal with Snow that changes everything.

Katniss alone wins the 74th Hunger Games to return to her family and home in District Twelve. But the admiration of a dangerous suitor changes her life and plans forever. Banner by Ro Nordmann: h t t p :/tinyurl . com /6p9jjln delete spaces

How a boy from the Seam and the baker's daughter healed old wounds, baked bread, and found poison berries in District Twelve. AU.

Cloud’s a lawyer focused solely on furthering his career. Tifa’s a single mother desperate to keep custody of her son. When Cloud is assigned to work Tifa’s case pro bono, things get complicated when he finds himself falling for his client. AU Cloti

How Katniss and Peeta fell in love without the Reaping: in a Panem dictated by a violent Peace instead of twisted Games, Katniss and Peeta Mellark try to piece their lives together as they watch another girl catch fire.

Cloud and Tifa, backwards.

After hearing an alluring piece of Folklore, Sakura becomes devoted to proving herself equal to the man she desires most. Sasu/Saku

Sasuke/Sakura. Non-massacre. You don't need to be extraordinary to have an extraordinary story.

in honor of the North America release of Dissidia 012. SPOILER ALERT! There are plenty of reasons they shouldn't. In the end, it doesn't matter. Hearts will lead where hearts will and neither of them want it any other way. Cloud/Tifa

for some, obsession is a way of life. Dissidia Duodecim: Cloud/Tifa

Life. Sasuke is back, her team is always gone, and the hospital is a grave. Sakuracentric. Updated weekly. COMPLETE!

"How do I treat hypothermia?" Sasuke asked, hands on his hips. Sakura was glad she didn't giggle out loud at the fact Uchiha Sasuke had to play nurse. Slightly AU, SasuSaku, Lemon. Bonus Chapter added!

AU. World War II. Cloud thought going off to war was the hard part. When he comes back broken, he finds it's living that's the real battle. Cloud/Tifa with guest appearances by Zack, Jessie, and others.

It is his namesake. (rewritten)

They weren't always the saviors of the planet

In which Sakura wants to be most precious in someone's heart, and Sasuke tries to oblige. Not all love stories are romances because some are better. [sasusaku] [oneshot]

Two steps may seem small, but it only takes two steps to change a life...two steps to make one of the biggest decisions ever.

She seemed human in that moment. Something so small, so insignificant sent him into a world, a world of dreams. Reality is his mind, and the present doesn't matter at all.

It is a world plagued with an incurable disease where broken heroes try to find their peace. Friends have seperated, death and mako reigns and his sanity is slowly disappearing behind a haze that demands of him only one thing: blood.