According to Maxim magazine, the best way to pick up girls is by having a puppy with you. Kurenai's team, no spoilers.

The hardest person to accept is the one staring at you in the mirror.

Among other things, Gaara is protective of his ice cream. Sand sibs oneshot.

Neji's wounds are far from being healed [NejixHinata]

On Thursday, Sasuke realized he loved her. [SasuSaku]

...Fine. If you wanna die so bad, it's your call. But you gotta prove to me you're worth the effort. I'll let you fight my sister... but first, you gotta get through ME. Kankuro x Tenten [finished]

Hidan and Itachi have to work together to assassinate their target, and due to circumstaces beyond their control, have to crash a wedding to do so.

Nobody told Tobi that out of all the calendar holidays, Valentine’s Day was the last one to be passionately celebrated in the company of seven homicidal men. Crackfic.

It was incredibly rare to find a person so pathetic and deprived of love and affection that they’d turn to someone like him for comfort. Love, Zetsu realized, and humanity’s selfish desire for it, had bestowed him with a sense of normalcy.

It was a fact of life Kakuzu had come to accept. When you were as good looking as Hidan, people tended to treat you like a god. Funnily enough, Kakuzu couldn't recall ever getting the same treatment.

They meet on a playground. This is where it begins. [NejiTen]

Team 7, legends in the making. Their lives will weave an epic once more. Part Five: The Jounin Exams are under way, and in the midst of the chaos Kakashi's team will be thrust into once more. [SasuSaku, NaruHina]

Kakuzu is a slave to bargains, Hidan likes the spice of variety, and a dingy little restaurant provides a quaint intermediate between the two. Crackfic.

Ennui is an unavoidable feature in a summer spent taking care of a rehabilitating brother. Never did it occur to Temari to think that finding a pen pal in an eccentric soldier on the other side of the world might help cure it. AU.

A sasusaku: on common spaces, and lack of common spaces; on where they paralleled, and how they've never quite. On letters, and time, and patience, and homecoming.

He refused to believe that this opponent would best him. He was an Uchiha. He possessed the Sharingan. Nothing was too difficult for him to accomplish, pass, or defeat. [One Shot]

There is a saying among Hyuga mothers – Your first child is lost to duty, and your second to despair, but your third is your own. Implied NejiHinata.

Let me also wear such deliberate disguises... In Ino's world, people look, but never see. Ino, Chouji.

SasuSaku, oneshot, Now that they are all older and on their own, Sasuke finds that his willful hermitlike behavior has only driven Sakura away from him. . . and into the arms of someone else! Not if he can help it. . .

Sakura meets Sasuke...and it is not love at first sight. SakuraSasuke.

[SasukexSakura] Sasuke is being Sasuke and Sakura is being Sakura.

Sakura accidentally throws a crumpled sheet of paper at Sasuke's direction and all her hidden desires... er, deep feelings are exposed. Erasers, anyone? [SasuSaku]

In which Itachi, Team 7, a laptop, and the joys of discovering adultffnet are included. [crack!fic]

Itachi visits his nephew, and small talk happens. [Implied SasuSaku]

[SasuSaku] Oneshot songfict. She's dying, and all he can do is hold her and watch...