SasuSaku Fanfic Index
{Organized by genre + tag types}
last update: 02/13/2022
Indulging in my desire to have everything organized properly, here’s an index of my SasuSaku fics. Non-SS fics, of which there are a few, will be in a separate post 🥰
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Sections:
AU - Alternate Universe
Blank Period
Smut
Heavy Angst/Character Death/Characters crushed by Shinobi Politics
Team 7 Dynamics
Complicated Relationships - SS&other pairings
Series Index
Snippets Index (coming soon)
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[AU] Alternate Universe
Sirens | WIP - ongoing | Modern AU Rating: Mature (stretching to Explicit in specific chapters) Tags: Haruno Sakura | Late Night Radio Host; Everyone has issues; Obsession; Drama; Crazy Clan Shit; Cat and Mouse; Mystery; Soulmate-ish
“So you’re his best friend.” A statement, not a question. “Crazy handsome, kind of a jerk?”
He only knows her as the voice that accompanies him while he works overnights; it’s akin to an obsession. The night she takes a seat at the bar, their lives will never be quite the same.
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show me how | Episodic - ongoing | bodyguard/driver!Sasuke; heiress Sakura Rating: Mature Tags: In which Sasuke is a driver; and Sakura plays no games; and Sasuke thirsts for that ish; Dominant Haruno Sakura; Sexual Tension; Jealousy
“Don’t play coy,” she says. “Tell me what the quidnuncs on the street say, gossiping over their limp salads and lackluster lives.”
“I’ve heard you’ve run every driver out of town.”
“Yes, that’s fair. The last one quite literally; he was terrified, in the end.”
The first rule of fight and club and the first rule of crushing on your boss are the same; you don’t talk about it.
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la fuga | twt timed writing challenge - ongoing | Partners in Crime Rating: Mature Tags: On the run; Experimental Style; timed fic; Illegal activities
Her sob cracks, splits as fire kindling, as glass underfoot. Incapable of love-story soothing, he runs fingers over the frayed locks left and murmurs reassurances like incantations, warding off the evil of the necessary deed.
“Is this the end?” she whispers.
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watch the world explode, from underneath your glow | Assassins AU | Smut
Rating: Explicit Tags: Assassins and Hitmen; Explicit Sexual Content; Shower sex; Closet sex; Cunnilingus; Unclear Motives
Sasuke snorts, glancing up briefly at the barrel pressed to his pretty temple. “Is this your way of courting me? Seems aggressive.”
“I’m not going to kill you if you say no.”
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Chiaroscuro | Modern AU | Artist Sakura; Disillusioned Office worker Sasuke Rating: Mature Tags: Love at first fight
She’s marked him so the universe can see — she has marked him for change.
(n.) Chiaroscuro - in art: the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold, affecting a whole composition.
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the horses are coming, so you better run | Greek Mythology AU Rating: Mature Tags: inspired by a novel
Their language of silence is legendary, spoken only in glances.
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sparks will fly, they ignite our bones | Modern AU | Festival Date Rating: Mature Tags: Pediatrician Sakura; Nervous Sasuke; First Dates; Wooing
Lips burning against his, mouthing soft words in the detonation din.
(In which Sakura has the better aim.)
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this city’s burning, it’s not my burden | Wartime AU Rating: Mature Tags: Combat Medic Sakura; Soldier Sasuke
In these dim and flickering emergency lights, he says,
“Marry me.”
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but I think I’m a believer, I believe in something new | Space AU | Rating: Mature Tags: Space Opera; Rebellion; Drama; Romance
“By the time this finds you, beloved, I’ll be a fragment of a star.”
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Blank Period:
à deux | death anniversary Rating: Mature Tags: Healing; Grief with a joyful ending
“Cold,” he croaks, like unhinging an old metal joint. Instead of the weight of unused years, it’s the weight of unshed tears. The strain in his voice zigzags, lost, falls into its baritone groove. “You always are, when it rains.”
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scherzo | SS traveling - Hangry Sakura, Amused Sasuke Rating: Mature Tags: Bonnie and Clyde outlaw vibe
“You miss him — don’t deny it! You’re a softhearted man.”
“I plead the fifth.”
Quiet laughing, shared only in a small clearing at the edge of the world, filthier than they like but close to the salt and earth and sea, nothing in between them but love and a basket of peeled fruit.
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sotto voce
Rating: Mature Tags: Confessions; Hair-washing
Could he tell her that when she lays her hands on him, touches his scalp that tender way in which she unravels his hair soaked with salt and sweat and travels, he finds himself catching his breath? One of the few times his limbs find the level and tranquilize, luxuriate in the chillbumps that sweep from the base of his neck down the spine?
That he’s considered lifetimes in scattered astronomy-dimensions in which all they do is this?
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reprise | Sasuke is released from prison - acclimation Rating: Teen Tags: Hurt/Comfort; Prison release; team as family
So then, so now. In the simmering tangerine heat, she stands waiting in knee-high boots and the skirt he’s glimpsed her in so often, and he commits her shape to memory through each stage of the return of his sharp sight.
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poco a poco | Lover’s Quarrel Rating: Mature Tags: If it’s orange it’s poison yo
Underneath the dense foliage of a magnificent, custodial beech tree, they sit quiet for a bit, apologizing without moving their lips — in the buzz of insects, the nostalgic trilling of toads, the whispering of tree leaves.
Sasuke watches her in profile; then, with an unexpected tenderness, tucks her hair behind her ear, dark eyes on the split skin of her cheekbone.
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tenerezza | Headcanon: Sasuke does Sakura’s laundry Rating: Mature Tags: Cuddles, bittersweet ones; head surgeon Sakura; Hurt/Comfort
He keeps his comments to himself: That she has staff for a reason, that their ex-sensei-turned-Kage works her too hard and he’d made a curt mention of it when reporting back, that perhaps someone could take the task of laundering bloody work clothes off her hands. Their responsibilities even in this delicate period they call peacetime still weigh heavy, principle baked into their bones.
In the future, their children won’t know the world quite like this.
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tempo rubato | They bring home a baby Rating: Mature Tags: Falling in love; Love and Duty; Team as Family
They speak of scars, this one that one, from the one they called Sasori she breathes, his fingertips tracing a swift cleaving crescent, from him, he mutters, and he knows she’ll know which man simply by the smolder in his sloe and violet eyes.
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Perigee | Sasuke reflects on love, in 2nd person POV Rating: Mature Tags: Experimental Style; post-war; Astronomy theme; existential musing
In the future you’ll emerge from pilgrimage as three, clutching a girl new and fragile marveling at it all, the love you never thought you’d have, of which you were so sure you were not capable.
But you don’t know this now.
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we’re in danger, sleeping with a friend | Of love and slugs Rating: M Tags: Blank period shenanigans; one night stands; gossip / eavesdropping; the kid are all dumb; and Sakura’s the least dumb; overpowered kids run this village
In the library, being lectured by a slug, plagued by a kinked neck.
In which Katsuyu speaks out of turn and Sasuke sulks.
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Smut (as the focus, or included heavily)
Red | Office Cunnilingus Rating: Explicit Tags: Sakura gets a new office; shut up and love her
An old dress, a new office — Uchiha Sasuke offers regards to both.
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Pink | Office Blowjob Rating: Explicit Tags: Orgasm Denial; they’re in love, your honor
Hems, hips — her hair, those lips.
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Gold | AU - College/University Rating: Explicit Tags: Art Class - live model drawing; Sakura in pursuit; Sasuke has issues; sexual tension; Deidara’s a teacher fresh out of prison Background: past NaruGaa; onesided NaruIno
Contrary to the urban legend, painting the body in full won’t cause imminent death for the model. Sasuke inherently knows this.
But as he watches her skin drown in shimmering gold, transcend the human shape in gentle whorls and bends, piercing green eyes daring him to move — he believes suffocation is still a distinct possibility.
(Alternatively: Sasuke’s sprung, Naruto’s in crisis, and their new art instructor just got out of prison.)
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Peril | Sasuke scared and horny Rating: Explicit Tags: Choking
Six months past a world war, two weeks post-prison, and all he’s been dreaming of are her dangerous, beautiful hands.
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and I came here to make you dance tonight | bars, jealousy, an ugly flower Rating: M Tags: canon divergence; jealous Sasuke; wall sex
It’s garish, ugly, gold without its shine. Saffron without its luster. Clashes with her pink hair and appears to him to be craven semaphore bobbing in the dark sea of the dance floor, catching the light in a flippant way no nicer than giving him a crude gesture.
In the language of flowers, he’s so very sure Sakura is telling him to fuck right off.
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See Also: watch the world explode, from underneath your glow ↠
Heavy Angst &/or Character death &/or #fucktheshinobi state
Embark | Blank Period Rating: Mature Tags: Curses; Fate and Destiny; Angst
When he comes home from a mission or arrives after a debrief, he appears at her office window lingering as a beast, a bat. The lovesick trope, a tale as old as time.
I was gone too often. Again. I was given a second chance, and squandered it.
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Dun | SS as State Traitors Rating: Mature Tags: Post-war; Treason
They reunite at the edge of the world, surrendering to the universe on the dark side of the moon.
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al niente | Blank Period Rating: Mature Tags: Starcrossed Lovers; Terminal Illness
Her breath catches as she rolls to face him, insides roiling and dizzy as the sea. From the floor she meets his dark eyes and whimpers,
“Don’t go. Not tonight.”
His mausoleum pause could halt the axis turn of the universe.
“Please.”
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I’m lost, so lost, I’m lost at sea you see | Blank Period | Shinobi Politics Rating: Mature Tags: Canon Divergence; Angst; Bittersweet; Nod to Equilibrium
The sun’s setting - it may never rise again.
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give me a long kiss goodnight, & everything will be all right | Shippuden Rating: Mature Tags: Canon Divergence; Tragic Romance; Stalking
Copper tang between them, blood and sweat and salt. Both loathing the way they want each other, entangled, love and hate and the will of the state all in one divine knot.
grace note | post-war angst; Konoha falls Rating: Mature Tags: Amnesia; Angst; Arranged Marriage
But now she purses her lips at the shadow left behind, the clear imprint of a ring previously worn. “Do you know where my husband is?” This is the way the world ends: With a man claiming his wife.
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Team 7 Dynamics
Fare il Prezioso | Implied One-night stand; rumor!mill Rating: Teen Tags: Team as Family; Jealousy; Bar room brawl
When Sasuke, looking drunk, angry, sick, or some combination of them all, recoils from the anticipated touch, Naruto changes tack by pointing at him, then at the back of Sakura’s head, and claps his hands together messily, like he’s squeezing an orange.
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Tremolando | T7 lives together, SS FWB, chaotic AF Rating: Teen Tags: self-hating Uchiha; Angry Sakura; Drama; Jealousy
Placing her hands on the sides of his face, she whispers, “I’m scared. I’m scared of us, of this.” A beat. Her touch burns in the most wonderful way, but it doesn’t couch the awful way she finishes, speaking it into his lips like a secret. “Sometimes I’m scared of you.”
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Stretto | The morning after | T7 + Kakashi bonding Rating: Teen Tags: Conspiracy; Jealousy; Disassociation; Unhealthy coping mechanisms
“I’m moving,” Sakura says abruptly, dreamily. She’s sunken into the couch, chin on her chest, staring into space. “Anywhere. A lonely underserved village. A castle. The bottom of a well. Change my name. I’ll kill someone otherwise.”
“That’s dramatic,” Sasuke says drily, without changing tone or expression.
“Did you just make a joke? Sakura, what did you do to him?”
Kakashi leans in closer, voice low. “Are all of you quite sure you haven’t taken anything funny?”
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Epoch | T7 officially gets back together | Mentor/Protege Rating: Teen Tags: Conspiracy; Drinking; Team as Family; Overpowered children; Implied/referenced Rape/Non-Con
Team Seven seals their fate and returns to active duty. Sakura keeps secrets. Tsunade prepares for next steps.
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Affrettando | FWB mess | Shinobi Politics Rating: Teen Tags: Stalking; Trauma; Drama; Complicated Relationships; Belligerent Sexual Tension
If it’s half of what he feels, a touch could erupt them in an instant, a lit match to a tinderbox. She stays silent. Her movements reflect the dance, and he wonders if she thinks a detail ever escapes his gaze.
Arms unfolded now, his fingers signal something universal.
“Come.”
(Perhaps this is what you’ve been terrified of—how she breathes life into you, and holds you up to the light.)
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L’anima | Sakura’s attacked at the hospital
Rating: Teen Tags: Political alliances; Shinobi system critique; blood and injury
Defying him, at a time like this. In her worst moments, or perhaps her best, she is difficult to bend. A habit now ingrained, he rubs a thumb across her cheekbone, a fixation, like it will bind her to the earth and to him.
The hospital is infiltrated; they face the unknown specter of betrayal.
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Ostinato | Sakura gets eaten out in a closet | Alliances falling apart Rating: Teen Tags: Lime; Closets; Shinobi politics; complicated relationships
Departing in mutual weakness, culminating in the end of the world, and returning to a hurricane. Always in the eye of her, some complicated but honest peace.
Sasuke and Naruto blow off steam. Sakura gets what she wants. Strangers come to visit.
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Fuocoso | Team 7 goes rogue & Sasuke falls in love (officially) Rating: Mature Tags: dai-nana-han, T7 has issues; Sakura is the glue of this team; shinobi politics; friendship
A crackle in the dirt, the energy of his dear children, he swears, prompting the earth to shudder underneath their feet.
“They’ll come for you in seven days.”
Time ticks away. Reunited, Team Seven prepares to depart for their first mission, but not without ensnaring one another, and those that love them, into their convoluted myths.
(In which they learn about what they’ve missed, and how to come together again.)
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Fics involving other pairings &/or complicated relationships:
fission | Alternate Universe - Arranged Marriage | SS & SakuIno Rating: Mature Tags: Drama; complicated relationships; POV 2nd person
The reception’s gaining steam and congratulations are coming soon. Your wedded is six champagnes deep and flickering her eyes at a handsome member of the event staff. All your cousins know you fought for a flower but in the end, bent the knee.
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Appoggiatura | Friendship, maybe, tilt your head and squint | Post-war Rating: Teen Tags: ShikaSaku friendship; SakuIno friendship; a ton of pining from every corner; Drama; Shinobi Politics
In a moment she feels them trying, futilely, to fix it all. Everything they broke.
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Series Link Index:
Equilibrium Genre: Post-War; Blank Period; Canon Divergence Rating: Mature
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.
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Chromatic Genre: Smut; soulmate stories. Rating: Explicit
Love in every shade. SasuSaku.
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fix me with your grace Genre: Blank Period Rating: Mature
All entries for SasuSakuBlankPeriod2021 event. peep hashtag - #SSBlankPeriod2021
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Particles Genre: Varies - check above for individual listings Rating: Mature to Explicit - check individual story
Scraps of things that have no home. Loosely edited. A cemetery, a playground.
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this for the hearts on fire Genre: Varies - check above for individual listings Rating: Mature to Explicit - check individual story
All entries for SasuSaku Month 2021 Peep hashtag - #ssm21
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Updated: 02/13/2022
