People are always surprised when they find out that I am a queer person who’s favorite couple in Naruto is SasuSaku. But I think it makes sense?
Yearning, mutual trust/losing that trust, trying to put what you believe is your DUTY over love but failing, loving one another but having trauma from your life getting in the way of that. I just think they have so much there. Glad you are one of the few who seem to get that!
yeah i think they share a lot of themes with sns but you have to like. be perceptive of them because kishimoto left the crumbs there and did nothing with them. and he hates women.
most people prefer to just stick with sns since they are the ones who got the bulk of the writer's attention which... fair enough!!! an iconic m/m ship is an iconic m/m ship
hi anon, i'm so sorry it took me so long :( here you go, under the cut
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close to home by dances.with.sunflowers
Something in his eyes told her, it was always you.
// this is my absolute favorite get-together ss fic, i don’t see it on rec lists very often and it’s such a shame because it’s so great?? the most realistic one i’ve read so far. if op wants to post those bonus chaps 10 years from now i won’t be mad! //
equilibrium by @psalloacappella
We bear the whispers of stories we didn't write, and the burden of becoming legends we never desired. All we do is keep chasing one another in circles, endlessly wanting.
Everything has changed; nothing has. Team Seven navigates life after war.
// the fics in this series go beyond sasuke and sakura’s relationship, they explore the complicated dynamics and push and pull within so many others, and do such a great job of depicting every gray area. so unique. love it so much. about sasusaku especifically, i adore sasuke’s devotion to sakura in each and every fic they’ve written. do check those out! //
unspoken by silentvoicescryingout
Years had passed between Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura. It took them time to re-learn each others' silent language
// this fic is full of miscommunication and angst and it’s so good, so incredibly well written //
in times of peace by @southsidestory
The war is over, and like Konoha, Team 7 has rebuilt itself from the ground up. Everything has changed, but Sasuke and Sakura remain much the same. Eleven years, she thinks, is a long time to be in love.
// ok this author is put on rec lists all the time as she should and for good reason!! i love her characterization of both characters, they’re so messy and angsty and so GOOD //
satoru by pudgypanda.
A series of vignettes set chronologically over the course of the years Sasuke and Sakura spend traveling together - and a story of how two hurt people reaching for each other can grow back together again.
the garden by @catflorist
Sasuke left Konoha for a cottage in the woods. One day, Sakura arrives injured at his doorstep. They recall their past and think about what comes next.
Slow burn, post-canon about how Sasuke and Sakura grew close again.
// one of my fave ss authors, appreciate how they become friends again before anything romantic happens, and fics addressing the injustices in konoha’s system are so important to me!! plus they garden together!!! //
heat by @lady-otori [on-going]
Sasuke’s temperature has always run higher than most, and Sakura has always, always burned for him. Moments of heat, spent together in the time after his return.
// the ust is so thiiiiick, definitely one of the hottest ss fics i’ve ever read //
i follow rivers by @diwatafolk
Sasuke and Sakura throughout the Blank Period. Also, in this universe, they own cats.
// love this author. they’re written with so much care and tenderness //
one-shots
(we bloom during) Hanami by sparklyfaerie
He wants her to say it first; he wants her to take the burden from him and put voice to what’s growing between them. It’s the only way, he knows, that he won’t feel like he’s being selfish and pressuring her into anything.
tender by pain_somnia
He ignored freckled shoulders and winsome smiles meant just for him. He ignored creamy thighs and slender fingers that pinched at the back of his shirt. Those tender feelings weren’t meant for him to explore.
// i adore this author’s writing. their blank period trilogy of sorts is so fluffly and achingly sweet. finally and nightly visit //
open my chest and colour my spine by whirpoools
two weeks by @kuriquinn
Why do you stay with me?” she asks quietly, tentatively. She's never asked anything this intimate before.
He clears his throat, letting the question hang in the air. Thinking of what to say to that. If he could ever put it into words and say those out loud. He thumbs the curve of her waist. “Why do you keep me?” he asks. He feels her shift to burrow her head deeper on the crux of his throat. “There’s no one else,” she answers. He exhales. “There’s nowhere else,” he answers.
Two weeks from now, Sasuke Uchiha will fall in love for the first time in his eighteen years.
// legendary author. one of my favorite sakura / sasuke characterizations out there. i think miso soup everyday also fills this prompt, do check it out! //
the burden of unknowing by @anthropologicalhands
Unexpectedly, Sakura joins Sasuke on his travels. There is something weighing on her. He will wait until she's ready to tell him.
// sakura finding out about the uchiha massacre is a favorite of mine. she deserves to know, it’s so satisfying to see her allowed to get angry. and well, if it’s written by this author it’s guaranteed to be good 🥰 check out their other stuff!! //
pockets by miyachondria.
They've been beginning for quite some time.
interim by stannide
Sasuke lives with Sakura in the weeks after the war.
Ok ok I'm normally not a person that would do this but I have thoughtts that have been eating me feom inside and I feel like ur insane enough (/pos) to understand this but like
Have ur ever got the energy Abt sasusaku being like tragic? I not really into them bc I never got the right vibes for them to really appeal to me so I never really cared or paid attention to them in a romantic sense but after seeing some ppl talking Abt them divorcing put this ideas into my mind of them clearly loving caring respecting and trusting each other but being together as in married or commiting ina relationship doesn't make them happy or it even makes them unhappy but the idea of letting go especially now it's so painful that they stay and even when they try to break it of they end up back together bc staying with each other is always a better option then being without the other even if they know it's not doing the good
But idk um a sucker for divorce and doomed tragic relationships and am being a bit delusional lol
i do think there is a lot of tragedy around sasuke and sakura's relationship, yeah. there is so much grief there, with sasuke's history and trauma and sakura's complicated feelings towards him, so many years of waiting and all of it festering.
i like to think that with time, patience and the love they undoubtedly share they're able to figure it out, and thats part of why i like them, how complicated their relationship is - but just as easily there is a possibility of them not being able work it out, of course. and that's also interesting.
i can see it going the way you're pointing out, especially if you consider how sasuke behaves in boruto, which i personally don't because i find it ooo. in that universe, divorce is the answer yup. god, they'd grow to resent each other so much, it'd be super toxic.
all in all, for sasusaku to work out, there has to be a lot of healing on both sides, so much maturity and grace in both of them. i could see sakura making herself smaller for sasuke, as she often did when she was a child, and sasuke being emotionally unavailable, and taking and taking from sakura. i could see them being stuck in that dynamic, loving each other so much still, unable to let go.
that is tragic indeed, but in my interpretation by the end of the manga neither sasuke nor sakura are those people anymore/they are well on their way of leaving those people behind, and that's why i place my bets on them figuring it out 😝
sasusaku is about crippling grief, it's about yearning and heartbreak
like sasuke wasn't able to reciprocate sakura's feelings because he was a 12 year old blinded by trauma, but he wasn't immune to her. he absolutely opened up to her in his own ways. the end result was that he hurt her and broke her heart so many times, he left her waiting and alone for years, with all that love that had nowhere to go. and sakura went on to achieve great things while carrying all that love and pain inside her, thinking she's so pathetic because it's been years but. if anything, her feelings have gotten deeper and she can't help herself.
whewwwwww anyway. i see what kishimoto thinks he was doing!!!
I heard in Boruto they killed Naruto and that's been weighing on me heavily. I'm supposed to just accept that all of the OG team 7 just accepts that? That Kakashi and Sakura and Sasuke are just like "yeah okay that happened?"
damn i'm glad they put him out of his misery. i'd rather he be dead than be an absent father amd shitty hokage tbh
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