An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Haruno Sakura/Hatake Kakashi, Haruno Sakura/Sukea
Characters: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Sukea (Naruto), Tsunade (Naruto), Yamanaka Ino, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Unreliable Narrator Haruno Sakura, Haruno Sakura-centric, POV Haruno Sakura, Aged-Up Character(s), Not Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hokage Tsunade (Naruto), Anbu Hatake Kakashi, Medic Haruno Sakura, basically i wrote this for myself but you can read it too, Community: kakasaku, kakasaku - Freeform, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Pining, Alternate Universe - Post-War, Angst with a Happy Ending, Eventual Happy Ending
Summary:
For the past three years, there is only one person Sakura hasn’t been able to talk to. It would have been easy, to just move close to him when she sees him, chalk up the courage to say something witty that he’d easily respond to.
Like before…
And yet, he runs. He always does.
When a stranger starts to show up in Konoha, his camera at the ready for landscapes and skies, and acting as if they’d already met before, Sakura tolerates him at best and is on guard at worst.
But is it really this easy to get close to someone new?
The Scarecrows and Cherry Blossoms Discord Server Presents: KakaSaku Week 2025, Time To Fall In Love, September 22nd-28th.
Prompts for KakaSaku Week 2025: Time to Fall in Love are live!
Each day has two options for an autumnal setting for your art/fic to take place in, followed by a smattering of prompts to choose from. Feel free to use one, two, three, or even all four prompts given for the day! Use as little or as much as you’d like. Fics, art, moodboards, songs, we want to see them all! (It's understood that some of these may require a little more explanation, so see below the cut for details.)
Rules:
Art or fics must be centered around our favorite couple, Kakashi and Sakura of course.
Art can be as detailed as you want! Sketches, outlines, vague ideas or full creations–all are welcome!
No minimum or maximum word count. Write whatever your heart desires and is inspired to write.
Please tag all NSFW and DD works appropriately so consumers can cultivate their reading/viewing experience to what they like. No content is banned, but we do ask that if it is in the NSFW or DD realm, to please give appropriate CW labels.
No AI works, art, fics, or anything that is created using AI will be accepted for this event.
Have fun!!!
An AO3 collection will be made once the week arrives to gather all the fics created, and be sure to tag the blog for any posts made here on tumblr! We’ll be using the tag #KakaSakuWeek2025 to look for people’s creations for the week!
Have questions? Want to brainstorm with others? Need to gush about KakaSaku in general? Send us an ask.... or come join our Discord! We're open for ONE WEEK starting today, ending next Monday (9/08), approximately 9:20 PM EST.
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See below the cut to read the prompts listed out separate from the flyer!
Time to Fall in Love Prompts (September 22nd-28th)
Day 1, Monday, 9/22–Autumnal Equinox Day or Outdoor Movie Night
🌸Pumpkin spice
🐺Hoodie
🍂 Line Dancing
🍃 “I can’t do this without you.”
Day 2, Tuesday9/23–Chilly Nights Around the Bonfire or Pumpkin Patch
🌸 Cozy reading time
🐺 Body Swap/Role Reversal
🍂 Sharing Secrets
🍃 “What have I gotten myself into…”
Day 3, Wednesday 9/24–Corn Maze or Apple Bobbing
🌸 Holding Hands
🐺 Cozy Socks
🍂 Coffee Order
🍃 “Not in front of the kids.”
Day 4, Thursday 9/25–Soup/Chili Cookoff or Leaf Pile Diving
🌸 Confessions
🐺 Touch Starved
🍂 Sweater Weather
🍃“No one will believe you.”
Day 5, Friday 9/26–Farm Hay Rides or Flea Market
🌸 Scarves
🐺 Mulled wine/cider
🍂 Sunset
🍃“I don’t think she would approve.”
Day 6, Saturday 9/27–Trick-or-Treat or Farmer’s Market
🌸 Forbidden Jutsu
🐺 The Witching Hour
🍂 Red String of Fate
🍃 “When did you get that?”
Day 7, Sunday 9/28–Costume Parties or Harvest Festival
🌸 Clan Traditions
🐺 Pumpkin Soup
🍂 Suburban Legends
🍃 “Don’t be so dramatic.”
In which Kakashi aka Rokudaime disguises himself as Sukea to indulge his bibliophile self in a local library where he regularly meets Sakura and ends up with a book party every time.
A submission for kksk bingo by @scarecrowsandcherryblossoms with sukea x “this is my first time” x rumor theme (and hokage x gift too if that includes it.)
And the prompts for KakaSaku Week 2024: Falling For You are live! Come explore our favorite couple in different seasons of love. Each day has two prompts to choose from to go along with the theme for the day, taken from unused trope of the month prompts suggested by the lovely members of our discord and other suggestions from the mods.
Feel free to fulfill one or both of each day's prompts. Fics, art, moodboards, songs, we want to see them all! (It's understood that some of these may require a little more explanation, so see below the cut for details.)
Have questions? Want to brainstorm with others? Need to gush about KakaSaku in general? Send us an ask.... or come join our Discord! We're open for ONE WEEK starting today, ending next Saturday (9/07), approximately 10 AM EST.
CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE SCARECROWS AND CHERRY BLOSSOMS DISCORD!
Falling For You Prompts (November 10-16, 2024)
Day 1-Slowly, Then All At Once
(Think about how a leaf falls from a tree, slowly, then quickly once it touches the ground. Kinda like a good slow burn romance that hits you with the feels once the characters realize that oh—they're in love)
🌸Fake Dating
🐺Gods and Mortals
Day 2-Forbidden Love
(Give me your best Montagues vs Capulets, enemies to lovers, Twilight, power imbalance dynamic, star crossed lovers etc. scenarios you can think of!)
🌸 Forced Proximity
🐺 Secrets
Day 3-Unrequited
(The angst, the heartbreak, the crying that happens in the midnight hours when one has an unrequited love. Sometimes it's not as unrequited as one thinks, but who's to say we'll ever know? 👀)
🌸 Blind Date
🐺 "oh my god they were roommates"
Day 4-It's Always Been You
(There better be so much pining a forest has sprouts in the background of the love story shown. Is the pining mutual but of course they don't know it? One sided?)
🌸 Hanahaki Disease
🐺 Firsts
Day 5-Accidentally In Love
(Think Shrek. Someone you're not supposed to fall in love with, or they were never supposed to be on your radar to begin with. Marriages/relationships of convenience, if we're not married by 35 let's marry each other! type situations.)
🌸 Fears
🐺 Love Letters
Day 6-Second Chances
(What if Kakashi and Sakura were exes? How do they get their second chance romance? Or they were almost lovers but circumstances ripped them apart and now here they are with another chance?)
🌸 Biggest Fan
🐺 Love Triangle
Day 7-5+1
(Remember all those fics about the five times a character did something or didn't do something and then the one time they did? Yeah? Well this is that. ie the fives times they almost kissed and the one time they did, or the five times they lied and the one time they didn't, etc. The possibilities are endless!)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter Title: “the first thought of change”
Excerpt:
It is unusually quiet at the library today.
Most days, pages are being turned, the murmurs of students bounce back from the far corners; there is a quiet hissing of arguments, the level pronunciation of words just learned. Some days are chaos—books fall to the ground, groans echo, papers fly past, Umeda-san’s heels click; the buzz of electricity as lights switch on during a day of storms.
Today, Sakura’s heartbeat fills in the silence.
It doesn’t ache today. Her heartbeats are solid, but it doesn’t burst out of her either, not like those times of budding passion or anger. Only the type of beat that’s enough to capture her anticipation, curiosity—of finally getting the answers she’d been asking for days.
“H-Here.”
The hands of the boy in front of her trembles slightly as Sakura looks down. If it had been a busy day, she wouldn’t have even noticed it. Yet, as the coolness from yesterday’s storm sets inside the area, the little tremors sober her from all the stirring she’d felt for days. She’s already known whatever it was that was waiting for her—what else could she expect to find in the library anyway?
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter Title: “ghosts in the day”
Excerpt:
One moment, Sakura stands at her apartment, looking out the small window by the sink. In the next, she’s taken someplace else.
Somewhen.
Like that’s even possible.
It isn’t the first time. Ever since that one fateful encounter in the winter, it had taken up her dreams, her waking moments, haunting her like ghosts in the day. A stubborn hope dwells inside her as the days drag on, that everything will fade into the wind’s course and pass in haste, but months later, it remains as heavy as it is the previous day, grabs her by the throat when she least expects it. Sakura wonders if this has become her norm. If she needs to let herself be accustomed by it.
