Includes mature content, emotionally intense moments, and occasional fluff. This story is strictly for readers 18+. I am tagging NSFW chapters with 🌸 ❤️🔥🍋 emoji. But in between there is so much more softer, but still intimate scenes. Sasuke returns to Konoha a stranger to peace, haunted by war and unsure of his place. Sakura stands at the edge of his silence-with patience, with strength, and with a love he's not ready to name. What begins as a slow unraveling of guarded hearts becomes something deeper: messy, healing, passionate, and real. Love, after all, was never supposed to be easy. Loosely based on canon with AU twists, character growth, and alternate paths not seen in the original story. 03/05/2025 ✅🥇 #sasukelovestory 05/06/2025 ✅ 📚10K total reads 09/06/2025 ✅🥇 #sakuraxsasuke 06/07/2025 ✅ 📚20K total reads 06/07/2025 ✅ 📚1K votes 23/07/2025 ✅🥇 #naruhina 09/08/2025 ✅ 📚30K total reads 13/09/2025 ✅📚 40K total reads 15/09/2025 ✅🥇#roughlove 28/10/2025 ✅🥇#sasusakufanfiction 28/10/2025 ✅🥇#sasukefanfiction 01/11/2025 ✅📚 50K total reads