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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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    20 Feb 2023

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    In which a mission goes very badly and Sakura is left to pick up the pieces. The Shinobi world has no place for weakness, and with every second that passes Naruto and Sasuke only race further ahead.
    Its about time she caught up.

    **Currently on hiatus

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    24 Jan 2023

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    Konoha's gates emerged on the horizon, tall and imposing. Sakura swallowed. This time, she would be entering the village not as friend, but as foe.

    And no one could know.


    Sakura is back in Konoha – as Akatsuki's spy. What secrets will she discover in the shadows of the greatest of the Five Villages? Will her sense of self hold strong in the place that once destroyed it?

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    02 Jul 2022

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    The world of shinobi is a harsh one, filled with blood and death. Sasuke dies, and Team 7 shatters. Sakura is left without purpose, fading into the background as her friends move on without her. Her loyalty to Konoha wavers until it breaks. Determined to find a better purpose, Sakura abandons Konoha to figure out how to live in a world where morality is merely a line in the sand. But her path is soon changed when she is summoned – by the leader of the Akatsuki.

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    01 Jul 2022

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    There's been a storm brewing inside Sakura ever since Sasuke left to seek out Orochimaru, and the growing realization that she might not be half the shinobi her teammates are. She's always been the one that held back and let the boys finish the job, but it's clear she can't let herself be the weak one any longer. It's time to take her fate into her own hands.

    It started with breaking into a library. But after a slew of what could be arguably called bad decisions, Sakura puts together an unlikely team of shinobi and decides to take on several impossible goals: defeating Akatsuki, keeping her loved ones safe, and, the most impossible goal of all: the unification of the shinobi world.

    Sakura's not going to be the weak one of Team Seven anymore.

    (A pre-Shippuden divergence AU. Returned from hiatus!)

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    27 Jul 2021