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

Sakura grows up in a shinobi household. Haunted by a broken father, she ends up on Team 7 a different person.

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

when eighteen-year-old, post-war Sakura is thrown back into her tiny, pre-Academy body, she makes a decision. she'd had a childhood once already, and this time, she's more interested in Not Dying when the inevitable shit hits the proverbial fan. so she will work harder, care less, kill more, and smile when she's done. (Time Traveller!Sakura, ROOT!Sakura, Mokuton!Sakura)

[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.

After the Forest of Death, Sakura comes to realize that being weak is no longer an option. However, she finds that change is sometimes painful and that truth doesn't always come easy. Luckily, she'll have some help along the way.

[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.