A Single Step

Naruto trained and worked, day in and day out, but when he had time to himself he would clasp his hands and focus in on that green butterfly. More often than not it was fluttering in the same location. She was Konoha. He didn’t know how he knew, but he just did. It wasn’t until […]

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From Chapter 7…. But where Sakura should have been blisteringly mad, she was…confused. Something about that laugh, those colors…. It was all so strangely familiar….  And then it hit her. Her breath hitched and her grip loosened just as a voice rumbled through the air— “Sakura-chan….” She knew, before he’d even stepped out, she knew […]

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Sakura dragged the back of her dirty glove across her forehead and blew back a few locks of hair. She smiled toothily at the mess in front of her. Plumes of dust clouded the training field…or what used to be the training field. But she could still hear Tsunade’s praise from far beyond the wreckage. […]

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5 – Unshakeable Bonds From then on his mornings in the containment cell were vicious and taxing. Naruto really couldn’t classify it as training — it was more like survival. Often he had to summon his own well of kyuubi chakra just to get through it. Which always took its toll long after the he’d […]

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4 – A New Opponent For Naruto, the days and weeks melted together. Every morning he would watch Sasuke disappear down the long, damp hall towards the labs, then he’d trudge off in the opposite direction for solitary training. Sometimes he would encounter the white-haired medic, busily delivering trays of medicine to and fro down […]

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For Naruto, the days and weeks melted together. Every morning he would watch Sasuke disappear down the long, damp hall with Kabuto, then trudge off in the opposite direction for solitary training. Sometimes he would encounter the white-haired medic, busily delivering trays of medicine to and fro down the corridors. With that fawning smile, Kabuto […]

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Author’s note: A preview of the next chapter of “A Single Step,” in which Naruto leaves Konoha with Sasuke and goes to train with Orochimaru. So in writing this chapter I’ve realized that some of my events don’t mesh with the manga. So to keep this fic more believeable, Naruto did not go off with […]

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He’d lost so much time already. But if she knew something else, then it was worth going back. Besides, he had to make sure she wasn’t gone too…. That decided it. Kakashi peeled off from the small recon group without a word and sped back to the village. The boys had been gone three days. […]

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A Single Step — Chapter 1, Leaving Author’s Note: Another little fic I started. A little change of pace from A Voice in the Wind. More focus on a swiftly moving plot, less on the immersive descriptions. Just trying a different style for this one. It’s multi-chapter, AU-ish, and NS. Yay! Summary: “You should come […]

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