Chapter 19 - Outstretched Hand - (AO3 Link)
A package arrives for Sakura from Karin containing copies of Orochimaru's lab reports, which is the most that Karin can do to help for the time being while she searches for more leads.  Sakura goes through the reports and is immensely disturbed but unable to make much headway. She decides to consult Sasuke ( Read more... )

Chapter 15 - First Steps - (AO3 Link)
Inou and Karai set out for the chuunin exams, and Inou's team discusses their plan of action.  Sasuke's team of genin manage to make it through the written exam, and Go'on nearly collapses with nervousness until he realizes that the next part of the exam takes place in the Forest of Death, which fills him with ( Read more... )

Chapter 4 - Spotlight Shift - (AO3 Link)
A few months after the incident in Tamina, Sasuke returns home after informing his students that he wants them to participate in the chuunin exams that year.  He learns that his youngest daughter, Karai, has also been chosen, but is distracted by his second son, Takeru, greeting him and leaving with him to ( Read more... )

Chapter 1 - Duckling Row  - (AO3 Link)
Sasuke receives a genin team to train and complains to Naruto about it, and is given one last chance to gauge their skill in the form of a mission in the Land of Rice.  He then goes home to complain about it to his wife, Ino, and his youngest children, Inou and Karai.  Inou gets in some trouble for reading a ( Read more... )