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    Begins after the Sound and Sand Invasion.

    Recently orphaned Sakura realizes the bridge between her teammates and captain is too strong to bear. With nothing keeping her in Konoha, she leaves them behind without looking back.

    In other words, Sakura is the one to leave the village instead of Sasuke, and the rest of the world gets to deal with the aftermath.

    Earlier chapters updated and edited as of 4/2025.

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    A depressed and sleep-deprived college student ends up isekai’d, transmogrified, de-aged, and left scrambling to survive in a world vastly different from their own.

    At least it’s one they recognize.

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    Every Uchiha has a pyromaniac side, Madara Uchiha wouldn't be an exception.
    Between choosing to enslave a fox with tails capable of levelling mountains or a giant fire cat, he found himself with a difficult choice.
    Where Madara uses Nibi instead of Kyuubi in the fight against Hashirama, leading Matatabi to be the bijuu sealed in Mito Uzumaki.
    Many years later, Naruto Uzumaki has a giant necromancer cat in his belly.
    They say that it takes a village to raise a child. Naruto has a flock of ghosts in need of therapy, an ANBU with PTSD who knows how to manipulate an order of distancing, an academy sensei who could take over the world and a giant cat who likes to control the dead.

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    The mission in Wave country goes pear-shaped, the genin were all unprepared but none more so than Sakura. After Wave things start to change little by little, an unexpected sensei turns up and things take interesting turns.

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    Even with the power of the Sage, the sun and the moon on their palms, Naruto and Sasuke weren't strong enough. They had, somehow, managed to keep Sakura and Kakashi alive, just barely. The two teens looked at each other, the connection they shared allowing them to talk through thoughts. The Sage had showed them another way.

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    One day Sakura woke up after another intense day of gaming, and saw a blur in her vision.
    Although it was not a blur but a video game interface.
    What will tiny Sakura get up to when her life literally turns into a video game?

    ❀✿❀✿❀✿❀✿❀

    The Gamer AU inspired by the au's over on fanfiction.net, starring baddie Sakura

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    Kakashi wasn’t entirely sure he wasn’t hallucinating. Or suffering from heart failure.

    “I thought you were dead,” he said blankly. He might’ve been going into shock.

    Obito winced and rubbed the back of his head with a sheepish grin. “Yeah,” he said, tone stilted. “There’s actually quite the story behind that.”

    “I should hope so,” was Kakashi’s bland response.

     

    (First Chapter of the Sequel is now out!)

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    "Maa, did I do you some kind of favor without noticing, kunoichi-san?" He finally asked, intrigued despite himself.

    She took a pen out of her forearm bracer and twirled it between her fingers with a predatory smile. "Oh, no. I just thought I'd prepare it in advance so you only have to sign it."

    "Oh, and why-ever for?"

    She flipped the pen over so that he could easily take it from her hand, 'coincidentally' pointing it straight at his nose in the process. She shot a quick sideways glance at Sakura before her eyes came back to his and smiled in a way that scrunched her nose cutely. "You sign it, and I take care of your... problem for you." She answered him with a tasteful eyebrow waggle. Kakashi had no idea how she managed to make eyebrow waggle tasteful, seduction specialist sure were something else.

    Or: Kakashi is despairing about Sakura's habit to wear civilian perfume, and well on his way to becoming canon Kakashi. Except a chunin kunoichi sees it and decides it's an excellent Opportunity to get Kakashi to owe her one

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    If Kakashi hadn’t seen Naruto living in squalor and Sasuke’s personal trauma shrine and whatever civilian fuckery was happening at Sakura’s house, he’d have at least tried to fail them even if logic told him the Elder Council would never let it fly. Screw the Hokage for that.

    * * * * * * * * * *

    When the Sandaime showed him Naruto’s apartment, he didn’t think that was going to be the tip of the iceberg that was the shitshow of his soon-to-be team. But as it turned out, Naruto wasn't the only one with a less-than-optimal home life. And as it turned out, Kakashi was apparently the only person in Konoha who cared.

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    The Fourth Hokage's body was never found, but they never suspected that was because he hadn't died.

    Minato Namikaze wakes up six years after the devastating Kyuubi attack, alone in an overgrown clearing with not a scratch on him. Disoriented and confused, he does exactly what any father would do in this situation. He fights through the pain, gets up, and goes to find his son. He trudges through the pounding in his head and forces himself to move-- to go and find him, because that masked man was still out there, and Minato is willing to do anything to protect his little ball of sunshine.

     


    Needless to say, the blonde kage wasn't expecting so much time to have passed. Nor is he very impressed with the way the village has been treating his son all these years.

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    Kakashi wakes up in an alternate dimension .....shenanigans ensue

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    Once upon a blue moon, a soul managed to escape death's cold grip and descended back onto the mortal plane.

    Tobirama's duty might not be as done as he thought - but it's pretty hard to change things when you have been reduced to a ghost.

    Luckily enough, there just happens to be a blond child who seems so similar to his beloved brother.

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    29/?
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    In a very different universe, Sakura finds herself in very similar circumstances. She becomes a Genin and gets two powerhouses for teammates and a Jounin teacher who overlooks her in favor of them. It made sense that he'd ignore her, since he was handpicked for them. She's ready to slip through the cracks where, if she's lucky, she'll be a paper ninja for the rest of her life.
    That destiny is put on hold when Kisame Hoshigaki is chosen to be the new teacher of team 14. He's always wanted to be a Jounin instructor and he's determined to take care of all three of his kids, not just the ones with important connections. He's always rooted for the underdog, after all.

    An AU where Sakura's family immigrated to Kiri instead of Konoha

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    20/?
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    Hatake Kakashi died in the middle of a battlefield - an over powered fire jutsu through his heart, courtesy of leaping to protect an ally. He is 36.

    Hatake Kakashi opens his eyes to find himself kneeling over his father's still-warm body, hands sticky with blood. He is 6 years old.

    He doesn't know how it is he has traveled 30 years into the past, but he isn't questioning it. It's just a new facet of life - he was once 36, he is now 6, and he is going to save Konoha from the terrible original fate that had befallen it.

    Or he will die trying.

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    12/?
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    Aikawa Toshiro is born anew on the heels of the third shinobi war. He's clanless, average in strength, and is alive on luck alone. But he's here. And he's about to make it everyone else's problem. Life beget change, and if Konoha is so frequently likened to a tree, shouldn't it be expected to grow?

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    Continuation of Swapped Patterns.

    Or

    An epos on how Uchiha Ren is an idiot, Inuzuka Hana and Shiranui Genma deserve the world, Rookie Nine are adorable, Hoshigaki Kisame is the best friend there is and Ren really, really does not care for actual canon because she's here to attack people and she's having so much fun right now. Also her luck might need counseling, with just how severely bipolar it is.

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    77/?
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    It started, as most things did in Kakashi’s life, with a mission gone wrong.

    (In which Kakashi accidentally acquires an emotionally healthy coping technique.)

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    Fukitsu Hoshiko, aka ‘Gurīnsutā’, is something of an enigma in Konoha, but everyone stands and watches when she becomes the assigned jonin-sensei for Team Seven.

    or: Team Seven get the jonin they deserve, and it changes everything.

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    14/?
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    The Chunin exams and the invasion are over. The consequences are still happening. But Team Seven will continue on, closer and stronger than ever, and they will not be separated. Kakashi will die before letting his team be broken apart or taken from him.

    Things get easier and yet harder the stronger you get.

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    1/?
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    Sakura makes a few observations, and she and Ino end up with goals other than 'Sasuke will be mine' a lot sooner.

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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    4
    Comments:
    52
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    1,752
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    172
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    20,341

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