He cracked his knuckles before playing, and her hair was always up.

I've known Hidan for a long time before I met my demise. To me, he was just a fool who praised a god who didn't exist. But when I became a Shinigami and read the story of Hidan's life, I realized that I was horribly mistaken. He wasn't all that I thought he was. Hidan of the Akatsuki was a man who wanted to give everything up for the only person he would ever love, but, maybe I was right on some parts. He was a fool- but the special kind. @NarutoWattyAwards Summer 2014 Third Place Winner in the Akatsuki Category!

Four year old Sakura and the Akatsuki. (BEING EDITED)

My past was nothing. It's as if I fell from the sky, falling, falling and landing in a land of color. Except this was a land of painted colors. Nothing, nothing was real in this world. Nothing was real now and in my future. I accidentally smeared some color and it faded away, only to show that underneath the world that I had thought was beautiful and amazing to be black and white. I am not fake. I am real. But everything here is fake, and I can't help but think maybe I am too. Maybe I just hit my head really hard and forgot everything. My heart tells me that is a lie, like the world I am in. But in every lie, there may be some truth. I just have to look for it. In this world, truth comes in the form of a boy who is physically black and white, but at the same time so full of color. He says his life and himself is as plain as black and white. I say he is the meaning of color itself.

Years before Team 7 was formed, Hatake Kakashi was a member of ANBU. During this time he found it hard to find pleasure in anything, the faces of his dead friends haunting his every moment. It was this that caused him to begin to draw a line between himself and those surrounding him. Sometimes, however, lines drawn are crossed by the most unlikely of people. She has no name, nor does she have a past. She simply exists to follow what others tell her to do and to be passed from person to person under the orders of a man that she'd rather have nothing to do with. She doesn't talk- there is no need for it. It's not required for someone to speak when they follow orders. One day, however, the existance she's known is shattered as a white-haired ANBU shinobi shows up, under orders to bring her back to Konoha. For the first time in her life, she feels curious. Curiosity leads to pushing against this stranger's boundaries and seeing just how much one, small existance crossing a line can change the lives around them. **Prequel to Painless** **Cover made by Arctic_Sky**

‘This time, I won’t get hurt.’ Asari Kazue is a shinobi who doesn't know pain. It's not that she's had a soft life- no shinobi does- she's simply physically incapable of feeling it. From the day she was old enough to understand, her family has been teaching her what can hurt her the same way a normal child is taught to read and write. Her cousin, Noriaki, has watched over her the entire time, becoming the protector her blind-brother never could. As she and her teammates are entered in one of the hardest tests of their lives, however, and she meets a person who seems to be an anchor in her unpredictable world, one thing becomes frighteningly clear. Just because one can’t feel pain doesn’t mean they can’t be hurt. *** ‘I’m not going mad, not yet.’ Kurama Jun has lived his entire life aware that one day he’d probably go crazy. To those who know him, he’s just another ticking bomb. In an effort to keep his freedom he pretends to be unaware of it all, as if the world around him isn’t as fragile as cracking glass. As the darkness within him grows stronger, however, it slowly becomes impossible. He can only hope that when it shatters, he’s the only one to break. *** ‘He said I could play family- but he never said I could stay.’ Miki has been taken into the Gekko family and has done her best to put her past behind her. As a result, she puts on a carefree attitude and to most of those around her, it seems as if she’s fine. The darkness that threatens Konoha, however, starts to shatter the world she’s built around herself. When an old enemy returns, she’s forced to confront not only feelings that she’s buried deep within her regarding the past she’s left behind, but also a different set of feelings. Ones that could shatter the fragile friendship with the one person she’s not willing to lose. *Book One in the Senseless Series* *Cover by AnimeFanToTheDeath*

Hi, this is practically a collection of SasuSaku short stories. It may have one-shots or two-shots and it may include both ninja and modern world. Hope you enjoy~ >>By @Kikaraaa<<

[Modern AU] Sasuke Uchiha X Reader: Her day started out as usual, however, as at work a new guest - Madara Uchiha - along with his grandson, Sasuke Uchiha, arrives, the young nurse is unwillingly dragged into the flow of a long lost fate - the will of two lovers, who kept on believing "Maybe in another life". But with the encounter, it all turned into "Maybe in this life", if the maybe even has a meaning at all...

Itachi has been my friend ever since I were just a small toddler, and now that I've reached the age... Hidden deep in my heart I've noticed that I fell in-love with him after all the long years. Who knows what will happen once he finds out the thought of me wanting him, the need I feel every day. The dragons that fly around in my stomach. The thoughts curling inside my head just from one glance at him. His silky black hair oh so soft. His eyes dark as the darkness itself, so hypnotizing and mesmerizing with his beautiful carved face. Just the thought of him left her twirling with want. The things I wish is for him to love me back as deeply as I love him, to care for me as someone he loves. Just one day hoping that he will always be with me forever. Deep in my heart I will always be there for him. Hopefully the same for him, as to me. Non-Massacre - Alternate Universe (Will Be Editing for Mistakes/Misspells Later in the Future)

Long before the war, two children met by accident and held a friendship like no other. These same children grew up and grew apart, their naivety of the real world slowly burnt into ashes and one faster than the other. However, no one seemed to remember the story of their innocence. Their story before the world fell apart before them. Now, before you is their young lives in a few short chapters. The lives of a boy named Sasuke and a girl named Hinata. The lives they had before reality decided to burst their bubble of childish dreams.