09 Jul 2021 12 Comments
Sakura heard muffled voices in the darkness. For a moment, she was completely disoriented. She shook her head and realized she was on the ground. There was a dim light from beyond the edge of the cavern wall, and she remembered the cave…the explosion…. A deep, male voice was speaking somewhere in the darkness…. “That […]
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11 Apr 2021 2 Comments
Author’s Note: Because there is a new NaruSaku Zine coming out, I’m dusting off my entry for the first fanzine. (I’ve expanded it to six chapters from the original one-shot in the zine.) After that, I’ll post the fic from the second NS zine, an AU fic where the Konoha gang are racecar drivers! Last, […]
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17 Feb 2021 10 Comments
Sakura heard muffled voices in the darkness. For a moment, she was completely disoriented. She shook her head and realized she was on the ground. There was a dim light from beyond the edge of the cavern wall, and Sakura remembered the cave…the explosion…. “That was a little much, don’t you think, old woman?” She […]
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23 Jan 2021 4 Comments
Shattered Bonds, Chapter 17 – The Road to Kage Traveling to the Waterfall country was the first hurdle for Naruto in his training to one day become a Kage. He tugged at his collar, hot and itchy from the unseasonably warm day. But it wasn’t even the civilian clothes or the snail’s pace they traveled, […]
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01 Jan 2021 No Comments
Author’s Note: Happy New Year! This racing-themed one-shot first appeared in the 2019 NaruSaku Zine, featuring all AU fics and art. When the orange race car finally stopped rolling it was upside down, roof dented in, with a crack across the windshield like a bolt of lightning. Beyond it, a jet-black car sped away toward […]
10 Dec 2020 No Comments
Chapter Notes: For a chapter called “We Move as One,” it has an underlying theme of secrets. They become more united as a team, but the reality is they each still have a lot of secrets that can come between them. And for Sakura, life-changing moments have happened when she’s separated from her team…. So […]
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25 Nov 2020 10 Comments
They worked through the year, but they still were not a team. The chunin exams were approaching, and Kakashi warned them if they didn’t figure it out they wouldn’t make it through the exam. They would most certainly be killed. But even his most stern warning didn’t get through. And after a small mission went […]
by tricksie in A Voice in the Wind
17 Oct 2020 No Comments
Team 7 flashback continued: They worked through the year, but they still were not a team. The chunin exams were approaching, and Kakashi warned them if they didn’t figure it out they wouldn’t make it through the exam. They would most certainly be killed. But even his most stern warning didn’t get through. And after […]
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25 Sep 2020 No Comments
“The Odd Ones” is a play on the statement that “Kakashi had a nose for those odd ones” from the beginning of the manga (from the first chapter, I think). But, which ones are odd? Are all of them? Some of them? Kakashi’s pretty odd too, lol. So it fits. And Sakura’s perception of them […]
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11 Jul 2021 4 Comments
49 – Notes
Chapter Themes • “Master and Student” — So, on the surface, ‘Master and Student’ refers to the version of Chiyo and Sakura from the manga, where she’s a powerful-but-nutty old woman who imparts her knowledge to Sakura. In the middle of the chapter, the meaning twists to represent Chiyo and Sasori, and that she withheld knowledge […]
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