Title:  Last One Standing
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Naruto wiped his hands on the grass, awkwardly trying to remove most of the blood and grime.  Beside him, Kakashi spoke quietly into his headset, relaying co-ordinates for hunter-nins and the Komugigakure police force, not bothering to do anything about the spreading redness on his left sleeve.

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Title:  Last Embrace
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Sakura moved restlessly against Sasuke’s thigh and pulled him closer.  It was going to happen this time, she was sure of it.

She only got a bit of resistance as he drew down beside her, not directly on top of her like she’d wanted, but the way he cupped an arm around her head and breathed hotly into her ear made up for that.

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Title:  Teacher's Pet
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Title:  Fighter
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It was when Sakura screamed that she hated him that Sasuke finally realized he was trapped in a genjutsu.

He quickly tried a dispelling technique, and when that didn’t work, he flipped a kunai in his hands and made a quick shallow slice across the top of his thigh, the pain and disruption of chakra snapping him back to reality immediately.

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“Zip me up,” she said, turning and lifting her hair so Naruto could slide the tiny zipper up the back of her dress and secure the clasp at the nape of her neck.

There was a moment of hesitation which surprised her.  Then she felt his fingers, careful against her skin, one hand resting on her spine to steady her.  She leaned back into it and felt ( Read more... )

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Sakura didn’t really like clinic duty.

Sure, it was a hell of a lot safer than being in the field, patching up broken limbs, treating burns from exploding tags, and dodging shuriken every five seconds.  But at least when she was in the field she didn’t have to put up with awkward chuunin trying to lie to her about their latest sex- ( Read more... )

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It’s her first miscarriage since she began taking over Tsunade’s regular patients at the clinic.  Sakura washes blood and amniotic fluid from her hands, and then from the child, revealing pale bluish skin under the bright-red and pus-yellow.

Primary colours, like the nursery of the hospital, with dancing rabbits and bears on the walls. 
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