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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Jiraiya, Nine-tails, Tsunade, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: The shinobi world starts to settle down again and reach for new equilibrium, and our heroes all get on with their lives.
Meta: Drama, I-3
Wordcount: 4336

"What's so surprising?" Jiraiya asked, brows arched. "You're the student of my student. That makes you my grand-student, so it's part of my job to look out for you." While Kakashi was blinking at this line of logic, he rubbed his chin. "Hmm. You're also Sasuke's teacher, so you're my teacher-in-law also. Two significant bonds! I don't see what you're startled by."

( It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You: Chapter Twenty-One )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Hinata Hinata, Nara Shikamaru, Nine-tails, Sai, Shimura Danzou, Tsunade, Uchiha Madara, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Madara attacks Konoha with the aid of Zetsu and Danzou. Foxes, demons, dragons, tailed beasts, generations old grudge matches, and other kinds of hell break loose.
Meta: Action, Drama, I-4
Wordcount: 13401

Alarms were ringing through Konoha's night, hurrying the civilians to the shelters, raising the lights in the village center, calling the close patrols in to defend their homes. Shinobi of the village ran to guard the wall and ranged through the training grounds beyond, searching for the attackers.

( It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You: Chapter Twenty )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Jiraiya, Sai, Shimura Danzou, Tsunade, Uchiha Madara, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Kakashi takes Sai under his wing and Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura help Sai start to find his emotional feet. Just in time for Madara to make his move on Konoha.
Meta: Drama, Angst, I-4
Wordcount: 5447

"Shinobi are the weapons of their villages. Their nations. Their employers. True enough. But a shinobi without the will to evaluate orders, and even modify them if field conditions demand it, is a blade without a sheath. And members of ANBU are ground to a sharper edge than any others. That's what you've been waving around your own village, Danzou."

Read: It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You: Chapter Nineteen

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Jiraiya, Shimura Danzou, Temari, Tsunade, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Sasuke attends his first Council, called to deal with Danzou's actions, while Naruto and Sakura figure out how to heal the Nine-tails. That second turns out to have risks none of them quite realized before-hand.
Meta: Drama, I-3
Wordcount: 7922

Under other circumstances, he might have enjoyed being here, his first Council as the acknowledged head of Uchiha. But he didn't want to be here today, looking at that smug bastard Danzou across the table. He wanted to be with his team, helping Sakura and Naruto research what it was already self-evident would be a dangerous procedure. And making sure no one made another try at Naruto.

If there was one thing he'd learned as a child, though, it was his duty as a son of Uchiha, so here he was. Not killing Danzou even a little, either; he hoped everyone appreciated his restraint.

( It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Eighteen )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Hinata Hinata, Nara Shikamaru, Sai, Tsunade, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Yamanaka Ino
Summary: Most of the Konoha contingent ingathers to deal with Sai's attack on Naruto and its implications. In the wake of this, Naruto proposes his new plan to Tsunade.
Meta: Drama, Angst, I-4
Wordcount: 5994

The only reason Sakura didn't kill Sai immediately was that Ino got in her way.

( It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Seventeen )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Jiraiya, Konan, Nagato, Nine-tails, Uchiha Sasuke, Umino Iruka, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: In the aftermath of the attack, Naruto talks with the Nine-tails, Sasuke frets over Jiraiya, and Jiraiya has to deal with Nagato and Konan (kleenex advisory).
Meta: Drama, I-4
Wordcount: 7071

Naruto scowled, folding his arms stubbornly. "It's not right! It's not right to keep your chakra unbalanced like that! I don't care how important it was to stop you then, it isn't right!" He set his jaw. "I'll convince her."

After a moment, the fox snorted and settled back down beside him. "Somehow I'm not surprised."

Naruto grinned a little and leaned against his shoulder, ignoring the growl he got for that. "Good. You're learning."

( It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Sixteen )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Hinata Hinata, Jiraiya, Kitsuchi, Nagato, Nine-tails, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Naruto and his yearmates face Nagato, who seems unbeatable until Naruto negotiates again with the Nine-tails and releases part of his seal.
Meta: Drama, Action, I-4
Wordcount: 4966

"Whatever peace you may have made with your beast does not change the actions of your village," the man said in a weirdly classroom-lecture kind of tone. "They sacrificed a newborn to make a weapon of the land's spirit and further sacrificed your life every day after that to their own fears. Is that not so?"

( It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Fifteen )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Aburame Shino, Akimichi Chouji, Haruno Sakura, Hinata Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, Jiraiya, Nara Shikamaru, Nine-tails, Sai, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Yamanaka Ino
Summary: Naruto is figuring out how to work with the Nine-tails, but Akatsuki is getting bolder. Shikamaru brings them word of the attack on Fire Country and when the new Akatsuki team finds the Island Turtle Jiraiya is the next to pay for facing them.
Meta: Drama, Action, Angst, I-5
Wordcount: 5163

Naruto sighed. "Nine-tails keeps glaring at you; it's distracting. Though it is kind of funny when you both get pissy about my technique and he gets all pained about having to agree with an Uchiha," he added reflectively.

( It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Fourteen )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hinata Hinata, Hinata/Neji, Hyuuga Neji, Sakura/Sasuke/Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Shamelessly anachronistic clubbing fic. Neji and Hinata out dancing. Or sparring. It's a little hard to tell which. Set just after the end of "Cloud Hands".
Meta: Not Exactly Porn, I-3
Wordcount: 799

Sparring could be a lot like sex, for some shinobi. And there was no question that most ninja out dancing were more or less sparring to a beat. But this was the first time Sakura had ever seen two people dancing, sparring, or having sex so intensely without ever touching.

( Iron Under Water )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Aburame Shino, Akimichi Chouji, Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Hinata Hinata, Hinata/Neji, Hyuuga Hanabi, Hyuuga Neji, Inuzuka Kiba, Jiraiya, Nara Shikamaru, Rock Lee, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Yamanaka Ino, Yuuhi Kurenai
Summary: Hinata has long been inspired by Naruto, and watching his determination helps her find her own. Seeking a way to help her clan and herself, she turns to Hyuuga's history and finds old strength and new thoughts there, courage and hope. In the end, she even finds her way back to an older love.
Meta: Drama, Action, Romance, I-4
Wordcount: 17677

When Hinata was fourteen, she gathered all her courage in her hands and walked into the training hall while Neji-niisan was working, and asked to train with him. Quietly, face shadowed by the wooden slats of the window, he agreed.

That was the year she began to wonder whether she could change fate, too.

( Cloud Hands )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: B, Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Jiraiya, Nine-tails, Tsunade, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: The larger ninja world starts talking about Akatsuki, and what to do about them. Naruto is hustled off to the Island Turtle with his team, where he meets B and reaches a certain cooperation with the Nine-tails.
Meta: Drama, Angst, I-5
Wordcount: 9778

Warning: Features a brief section of suicidal thoughts.

Kakashi slid past the Hokage's door rather warily and waved a handful of message-paper strips at her. "Latest batch from the relays; Shizune asked me to bring them up with me." He swapped himself reflexively with the coat hanger as a cup went hurtling past where his head would have been and smashed into shrapnel against the wall. "I can see why she did," he added.

( It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Thirteen )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hinata Hinata, Sakura/Hinata, Tenten, Yamanaka Ino
Summary: The young women of Sakura's age cohort go out for a night of bonding, and this winds up with Sakura taking Hinata home with her. Takes place between Chapters Twelve and Thirteen of Half Without Another One, when Hinata and Sakura are seventeen or eighteen.
Meta: Porn with Characterization, I-4
Wordcount: 2743

Sakura eased off the soft, lavender coat Hinata favored and hung it by the door. Without it, in only her mesh shirt and dark pants with nothing hiding her full figure and sleek muscles, Hinata looked older, stronger, considerably more dangerous.

( A Cup of Sugar )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Hatake Kakashi, Namikaze Minato, Uchiha Sasuke
Summary: Kakashi achieves the Mangekyou Sharingan, turning to his past to do it. His past visits him while he recovers. Takes place just after Chapter Seven of Half Without Another One and "And We'll Laugh About It".
Meta: Angst, Drama, Angst, Fluff, Did I Mention Angst? Also Gore, I-5
Wordcount: 4848

The Sharingan's greatest single use to him was not expanded perception, or the ability to copy others' techniques, or even intimidation value. It's greatest use was as camouflage. No one had to wonder why the man with a thousand jutsu kept winning; the answer was self evident.

It was also wrong.

Read: Up on the Angel's Shoulders

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Chiyo, Gaara, Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Kankurou, Maito Gai, Temari, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Gaara is revived, and Naruto and Sakura take Sasuke home to recover.
Meta: Drama, Angst, Fluff, Light Porn, I-5
Wordcount: 5931

Sasuke didn't know what he wanted to say until he heard the words, "I really loved my brother," coming out of his mouth. Sakura took in a quick breath at that and wrapped her arms around him. Sasuke was glad for that; it kept the shaking in his stomach from taking his whole body. "I loved him," he said again, slowly, painfully. "And then he turned into... that."

Read: It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Twelve

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Hatake Kakashi
Summary: Kakashi isn't blood of Uchiha, but he was permitted to keep a closely guarded clan talent. A look at the potential reasoning of the Uchiha.
Meta: Drama, Angst, I-3
Wordcount: 1788

"There might not be a choice, you know. The Uchiha clan has heard about this, and there's a summons waiting for you as soon as you can get out of bed again. You know they won't want their bloodline talent in the hands of someone outside their clan."

( Without Fear or Favor )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Deidara, Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Hoshigaki Kisame, Hyuuga Neji, Maito Gai, Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Sasuke faces his brother again. Fortunately, Sakura and Naruto are there for him, and he finds the space in his head to do what he has to do. Involves character death.
Meta: Drama, Action, Angst, I-5
Wordcount: 5888

Sakura gripped his shoulder hard. "Are you all right?" she asked, low. Sasuke took a slow breath and yanked his thoughts back into order. Naruto was going after Gaara's body, and Kakashi would take care of him. The Sand teams probably had Sasori in hand. He was here, with Sakura and Gai's team, and Itachi was in front of them. He had backup, today, to go with opportunity, and his brother was standing in front of him. Now. The time to take Itachi down was now. That was all he needed to think about.

Read: It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Eleven

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Chiyo, Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Hyuuga Neji, Kankurou, Maito Gai, Rock Lee, Temari, Tenten, Tsunade, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: In which Gaara is taken by Akatsuki and Kakashi's and Gai's teams are sent to aid Hidden Sand to get him back.
Meta: Drama, Action, Fluff, I-4
Wordcount: 6494

Sasuke gave up on logic, as he so often had to around Naruto and just shook him. "Shut up and listen to me," he said, low and deadly. "I am not letting you run yourself right into ambush. Understand? Not by those bastards and not because you were too unbelievably bullheaded to Stay. With. Your team!" Three more hard shakes punctuated that, and Naruto finally blinked at Sasuke like he knew who was in front of him.

Read: It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Ten

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Homura Mitokado, Nara Shikaku, Shimura Danzou, Tsunade, Uchiha Sasuke, Utatane Koharu, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Sakura has to debrief and deal with the backlash of her time at Orochimaru's side. Fortunately, Naruto and Sasuke are there for her. Once that settles, though, Tsunade has to deal with the resistance of the Elders to promoting the three of them.
Meta: Drama, Angst, Fluff, I-5
Wordcount: 8443

"He didn't call me by name, for a long time. It was always 'kunoichi'. But when..." she had to swallow, "when I demanded more tests on the last version of the seal, more tests on other people, because I knew it would give me more time to gather intelligence on the bases, then he called me by name."

"And if he thought all along you were a plant," Miuhara completed her logic coolly, "it follows that he was seeking to draw you into just that position, where you would be complicit with his atrocities. And he rewarded you for it."

"Yes," Sakura whispered, arms curling tighter. "And it worked."

( It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Nine )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Orochimaru, Sakura/Sasuke/Naruto, Tsunade, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Yakushi Kabuto
Summary: Sakura and Orochimaru conclude their bargain, and their betrayal. Sasuke and Naruto do their best to catch Sakura as she falls out of this mission. Character death.
Meta: Drama, Action, Porn, I-4
Wordcount: 7660

"Good," Orochimaru purred, eyes alight, and Sakura knew her own were glittering back at him. She could feel the air on her bared teeth. She loved this, that he would expect her, prefer her to attack him from behind, to test him exactly the way he tested her.

( It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Eight )

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Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Hatake Kakashi, Tsunade, Uchiha Sasuke, Umino Iruka, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Takes place during Chapter Seven of Half Without Another One. While Sakura is gone her boys fret and try to distract themselves and take care of each other.
Meta: Drama, Angst, Humor I-3
Wordcount: 4272

The third time Naruto blew up his study room trying to separate out the fox's chakra from his own once he'd already expressed them, Tsunade didn't even yell. She just gave him a narrow look, hands planted on her hips, and called for Iruka-sensei.

Read: And We'll Laugh About It