Pushed into its Pages (How to Save a Duke's Life)

by connectedfeelings

She just wished to go home after a rough day, but Sakura Haruno's luck runs dry, and she gets caught in a car accident. By some miracle, she wakes up in an unfamiliar room, and meets the man of her dreams. But Sasuke Uchiha was supposed to exist in fiction, the duke written in her favorite book series, the same character who's supposed to die in two years. (Cover by mai doodle)

1. Prologue

Note: Listen I have no impulse control.

Last edit: 10/11/20

Tags: Romance, Isekai, Fantasy, Drama, Humor, Adventure

Main Pairing: SasuSaku

Side Pairing(s): ItaIzu

More information below.

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Prologue

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Reality is conceived as nothing more than the disappointment brought upon the world, nothing ever living up to its potential, nothing ever lasts. Just like life, it comes and goes as the creator pleases. Now, who people believe as the creator is all up for debate. Some don't believe in such a thing at all. Others devote their entire existence to the creator, to their one God or gods to help them make sense of the world that surrounds them. To most people, reality is the hand that grabs your rose colored glasses and smashes them onto the ground revealing the grey and the mundane.

Though nothing is for certain, we still cling onto the desire for the things untouchable. There are people who want to walk the path of wealth. There are those who desire someone they can never truly have. And then there are those who want something beyond reality, something that can only be described as fantastical. Usually those thoughts come out of wanting to escape the dreary world they were born in, or perhaps a daydream to distract them from the dull and ordinary. Dull and ordinary, that's what people have grown to believe as the definition of reality.

But what if that perception is wrong? What if it is what they want you to think?

Eyes covered by a black hood watched as a young woman with pink tresses packed up her things, placing the book she was reading back into her bag and the paper wrapping of the sandwich she had consumed crumpled up and tossed into the nearby trash bin, she noticed her emerald eyes squint ever so slightly. A sign. It was almost time.

The cloaked body, invisible to the students littered all over the building, followed the young woman as always. It'd been done since long ago, and her fate was about to arrive. Only a few more hours left.

The sun gave way to the moon, and the young woman was walking back to where she'd been residing for years. As the moon peaked high above the observers, the shadow knew.

All she needed now was a push.

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B E E P

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Tires gliding on the asphalt road.

A woman's lifeless body on the ground as blood pooled beneath.

Panicked bystanders' eyes filled with shock.

That was the reality, at least to most.

"Her reality here may have ended, but her truth is about to begin."

A truth to be laid in what she thought as fantasy. Not a perception, but the genuine thing.

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Note:

Yet another project born from my lack of motivation to write the next Eternal chapter. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I was heavily inspired by isekai manhwas, specifically The Reason Why Raeliana Ended Up in the Duke's Mansion, Doctor Elise, and Lucia. I've also been kind of inspired by Outlander.

I've created a map for the world Sakura gets sent to in this fic and you can find it on my Tumblr (connectedfeelings) and Twitter (cxtwithclxws) as well as the ao3 version of this fic, which also contains some aesthetic-y pics for this fic.

Hope you like it!