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SasuSaku 18th century AU

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#doujinshi #married sasusaku #pro sakura uchiha

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[아구찜] - reposted w/ permission

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I Almost Do, Pt. 2

‘You’re like the police force!’

Sasuke’s light sleep was disturbed when a familiar, blue-tinted paper brushed against his fingers. He extracts it from the pile and his eyes fall on the calligraphy immediately - Naruto's unmistakable and messy chicken scratch.

He unfurls the parchment, and his eyes skim Naruto's enthusiastic scrawl. He reads updates about Konoha, tales of their old friends, and a smattering of typical Naruto-like complaints. Yet the postscript roots Sasuke in place: ‘Sakura misses you, you know. A lot.’

The words pierce him, stark and incisive.

She still thinks of him. Sakura still talks about him. Sakura might still care about him. Sakura might still love him. Deep within, Sasuke knows that Team 7 will always tether him to his hometown. But Sakura... her silence stretches out endlessly. Maybe Naruto embellishes, but the mere suggestion that a future with Sakura might even still be a possibility sends his heart into overdrive.

'Why am I this way?' He thinks, the thought gnawing at him, burgeoning into full-blown frustration.

He feels haunted by the bridges he's incinerated, the anguish he's inflicted, and the connections he's deliberately evaded. Naruto’s words on the page pulse, uprooting childhood memories of comfort and family. A past with Itachi, back then. A present with Team 7, now.

A wayward thought adds: “A future with Sakura… if you reach for it.”

Sasuke waits for the overwhelming pain, the tidal wave of grief to wash over him. It’s so normal for him, Sasuke can predict the drowning feeling: blood rushing, oversensitive nerves running throughout his exposed skin, shortness of breath, his Sharingan activating. He waits.

But Sasuke doesn’t transform into a live wire. Not this time. The love of a family long lost no longer disables him. The pain dulls, doesn’t take away his breath anymore. There’s new space now. Space to breathe. Space to live. Space to love anew.

Maybe Sasuke wasn’t afraid to be involved anymore.

Inhaling sharply, Sasuke’s body pulls him towards Konoha before he ever consciously acknowledges what he is doing. Cobblestone streets transition from the rustic browns of the outskirts to the worn gray of familiar roads beneath his feet. Their textures whisper tales of a time gone by: too new, too smooth, rebuilt. Devastation, attacks, attempts on his life; a whole lifetime of surviving but not letting himself truly live in the mundane present. A mundane calm he wants to share with just one person: Sakura.

Her name has echoed through his mind for so long. Sakura. Sakura, who might still let her be his. Sakura, who still thinks of him fondly despite his distance and silence. Sakura, who might still want this – want him. Sasuke thinks she should know. Sakura should know that he always loved her. Sakura should know that he still loves her despite it all.

His brain clouds with hope. Hope, that Sakura will say yes to running away with him. Hope, that Sakura wants his complications. Hope, that Sakura wants his groggy mornings and bedhead. Hope, that Sakura wants his dreary Mondays. Hope, that it’s all worth it for her. Because it’s all still worth it for Sasuke.

Even if it isn’t a guarantee, even if this is all in his head, even if Sasuke is only going off hopes and dreams and a fantastical future reignited from one throwaway line written by fuckin’ Naruto of all people, he knows nothing safe is worth the strife.

Konoha's walls finally loom ahead of him, instilling a pang of nostalgia so profound he feels both heavy and light in his step. With every step forward, Sasuke can see the vestiges of old memories follow him around.

That’s Training Ground 4, where Kakashi helped him train to master his Chidori for the Chunin Exams. Here’s the hill where Naruto gave Sakura a birthday card, celebrating that she finally joined them in being teenagers. This is the clearing where a genin Sasuke was too exhausted after team training that he joined Sakura in taking a nap under some trees and the endless summer sun.

'Home...'

The memories wrap around him. The nostalgia no longer chokes him like a noose; in the absence of that pain, Sasuke instead feels the past wrap around him. A warm welcome with every step forward he takes.

The village lies swathed in the tranquility of not-quite-morning-but-hours-past-midnight. The sky is transitioning from the depth of night to the resplendence of a spring morning. He navigates the labyrinth of streets to Sakura’s apartment—a path he knows surprisingly well.

Sasuke knows the way. A turn west after the trinket shop, go straight past the main campus of Konoha’s hospital, take a slight right at the bakery. If you get to Takahashi’s Sweets Shop, you’ve gone too far and need to turn around. Sasuke doesn’t remember where he picked up her new address. Could his subconscious mind have plucked the information from old letters? Kept the information, knowing that a future Sasuke would always return to a future Sakura? Mapped out the exact moment where Sasuke’s life leads him back to her front door?

Sasuke stands there. Trepidation bubbles up as he flares his chakra signal, announcing, 'Here I am.' He gathers his resolve and knocks.

The door creaks open, revealing Sakura. A tiny gasp, almost imperceptible. And then, she starts, "Welcome home, Sasuke."

Her voice sounds like a ghostly whisper of their past, laden with a mix of disbelief and burgeoning hope. The faint glow from her entryway paints her in a soft luminescence against the breaking dawn. Evident fatigue in her shimmering eyes.

"I’m back, Sakura."

It takes no time for the greenest gaze he’s ever laid eyes on captures him. There’s a flickering hope there. Just one moment for their twin flames, two fire signs burn with hope. And Sasuke knows. He knows. He’s so sure. It’s not an impossibility.

And then, she shifts her eyes, breaking the intimate contact. Sakura masks it all, preemptively tamping down the wildfire churning between them lest he do it himself.

She’s saying something to him. Something about inviting him in. Something about having no time for breakfast, and an early shift at the hospital. Sasuke sees through her attempt to shield her emotions. As he steps in, the sweet scent of her apartment envelops him—a blend of cherries and old balsam parchment, reminiscent of countless memories they've shared. He sees pink hair strands in the corner of her living room carpets. Her laundry is half folded on her couch. Used mugs litter her coffee table.

Sakura’s calm and mundane, willingly offered. Only if he is strong enough to speak up.

Sakura still shares the narrow corridor of her entryway, eyes not making contact, but the tension hangs thickly between them.

She is still talking. "I haven't heard from you; are you here to see Naruto?"

Sasuke hesitates for a moment. Then, with deliberate slowness, he reaches out, using his only hand to gently coax her face upwards, locking onto her eyes. A lavender calm meets a confident jade. He wants to convey the storm within him, the myriad emotions, the weight of years apart trying to be a better man.

He shakes his head, his voice a mere whisper against the weight of their shared history, "No, I'm here to see you."

Her features warm into the same blushing hue of their youth. A cascade of memories flood back—the innocence, the laughter, the pain. In her blush, Sasuke sees the beacon of undying love and resilience. It’s the same. Sakura never stopped loving him. Not for one second did her heart turn away from his.

Swallowing hard, emotion lacing every word, Sasuke confesses, "I am here because I love you, and that's all I truly know."

The water rushes in, and Sasuke finally gives in to the heavy gravity between the two of them when Sakura pulls him in. His lips brush against hers and suddenly, her hands are in his hair, his arm wrapped around her waist. And just this one time, maybe the moment’s right for Sasuke to move forward.

THE END.

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lowkey want to post on here again

#i just don’t like tagging #it’s so time consuming #oh well

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Kakashi: What's wrong?

Sasuke: Sakura's drunk.

Naruto: What?! I love drunk-Sakura! She's like regular-Sakura but way more fun!

Sakura, on the top off a table: Who wants to see me cut my arm off and solder it back?!

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~TRCG update

Hello dear friends,

Hope everyone is doing well. 💕

I stopped by to let you all know that I’m alive (haha) and that I miss being here with you. Unfortunately, life circumstances are keeping me away from tumblr, social media, and most (if not all) of my hobbies. 

Within the last six months, I was diagnosed with a few conditions which I briefly mentioned before but I won’t go into detail – it’s certainly life changing but not threatening if I take care of myself, and I’ve been working on that since then. But on top of that, both Mr. Red Converse and I were laid off recently, within a couple months of each other. The tech layoffs caught up to us it seems. 😭

Anyway, while I’m trying to put my life back together, I just wanted to say hello and that I’m not away because I want to. Hopefully, once this rough patch is past us, I’ll be back with full force, filling your timeline with endless rec lists and new fics to read. 🙏🥰

I’m grateful for everyone that still lurks around my blog and likes my posts - it’s heartwarming to see the notifications, and sometimes it’s what makes my days brighter. (Ugh, I’m sounding so broody and sulky that I’m sure I could write some good angsty fics if I could stop to channel this feeling into a blank page lol).

Hope you are having fun with all this official SasuSaku content and the new fanfics & fanarts that are for sure being posted following all the Retsuden saga. 🍅🌸  

I wish everyone a great week! 🤍

Stay Safe,

xoxo

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omg hello 😭 haven’t been on here in forever

#oops #im alive #LMFAO

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Naruto: Hey, Sakura you're smart, tell me what would happen if I chugged 3 gallons of chloroform. Sakura: Have you ever been to a mortuary? Naruto: Yea, my family lives there. Kakashi: That is the worst response to that question.

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sasuke: i want to wake up with you every day for the rest of our lives sakura: i wake up at 4:30 AM sasuke: sasuke: i want to see you at some point every day for the rest of our lives

#sasusaku #pro sasusaku #uchiha sasuke #sakura haruno #pro sakura uchiha #sakura uchiha #sasuke uchiha #incorrect naruto #incorrect naruto quotes #incorrect sasusaku #uchiha fam #naruto

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when sakura fans had their photos posted without consent and with racist, ableist, and homophobic slurs, they were accused of faking drama by naruto and boruto fans and said that sakura fans deserved it

but now that the same thing is happening to hinata fans, everyone is quick to blame sakura stans lol where was that energy when the sakura fandom was going through it

(i'd also like to reiterate that posting photos of someone in a derogatory manner is okay and will never be okay. i'm just pointing out the unfair treatment that the skr fandom got when this came up months ago)

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VOTE SAKURA HARUNO #NARUTO99 !! this is a daily thing, keep voting!!

#NARUTO99 #VOTE #GET HER TOP20 🙏 #sakura haruno #pro sakura haruno #pro sakura uchiha #sakura uchiha #sakura #Naruto #boruto #sasusaku #pro sasusaku

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sometimes i sit back & think about how they fully just called BB 'backup' in wammy's and i feel like in that sense he was pretty justified in going Absolutely Feral because literally how degrading is that

its like saying 'oh, him? yeah, that's my spare son just in case anything happens to my other one' LIKE HELLO???

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Do you think SS ever had a "formal wedding"? I always thought that they're just naturally became a couple on their journey and dont really care much about the formality etc. I think its only when they back to konoha with baby sarada did they finally announce to everyone that they're married and thats probably when they're taking care of the paperworks (if there's any) to legally registered Sakura as an uchiha.

I love this HC though. I think it feels more intimate and suit SS more compared to another couple with their "normal way". What do you think?

If you were to ask me, I’d imagine they decided to get married a year after their travels began, but I definitely agree with you that they didn't care about the formalities. They wouldn’t have had a standard wedding ceremony, but I’d imagine they had one held in a sacred grove at sunset. It would be just them and one other person, maybe someone who they met and helped, and subsequently befriended. That person could conduct the ceremony.

Maybe, just maybe, I could also imagine Aoda and Katsuyu in attendance at the ceremony, sort of leading the other animals and beasts who were present at the grove ^_^

#awww #sasusaku

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Sasuke: Why do I always find you annoying?

Sakura: It's your love language.

Sasuke: Hn, I don't think so.

Sakura: Then why don't you stop doing whatever you're doing first and we can continue this talk later?

Sasuke: *cotinues peppering Sakura's face* You're so annoying.

Sakura: Yeah, yeah, I love you too.

#sasusaku #incorrect naruto #incorrect sasusaku

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hello sasusakus from twitter, I know it's been kind of crazy, nerve-wracking on the other side but I'm excited to see you guys here!

let's be just as supportive of the artists and writers in the sasusaku fandom here as we are on twitter !! REBLOG posts so that they can get all the attention! tumblr is built a little different, posts don't make it to others' feed if you don't reblog!!

leave comments of appreciation, talk about the art and fic, threads and other posts, and also pester tumblr with me to bring back groupchats ahaha

#sausaku #ss fandom

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