AU Sasuke defected to Orochimaru. Naruto left to go train with Jiraya. Kakashi started taking ANBU missions again. And Sakura? Well, she's not quite sure yet.

She is in between death and not yet, and as the door is suddenly thrown open, she weakly turns her head to the intruders and when she sees him, she thinks that in between death and not yet, she has found hope. She has found solace.

"And he was in the darkness, so darkness he became." [SasuSaku AU]

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.

There's no true weight to emotion anymore; rather, an emptiness is spreading throughout his chest and he's not sure now if he can, or even wants, to stop it. TW: Depression focus

" have you ever had" she asks quietly - because some things cannot exist beyond the shadow and the soul. "Have you ever had someone else's name written on your skin?"

You watched my precious heart shatter before your mismatched eyes, smirked your cocky smirk, and lamely tapped my forehead while offering an empty promise of 'See ya when I get back.' ONE SHOT.

Raising a child without a husband by her side was hard, she wanted to give up, to flee from it. But, with someone to support her, Sakura did it. She didn't care if this someone was alive or not, she still cherished it with all her might. It was a balm to her bleeding heart.

And the road gets tough I don t know why... Sasuke comes back, one last time. -Please read and review ! (Title is song Born to die by Lana del Rey)

The remorse swirls up inside him again, threatening to drown him, but Sakura doesn't leave his side. She murmurs softly in his ear, mostly nonsensical repetitions of "It's okay. You'll be okay." [Part of the Legacy of Fire series]

We're born, we live a little, and then we die. That's just the way things are. (AU. one-shot.)

Exactly what the title says. Rated T, because I said so. And as always, NO ROMANCE!