The story of how an ordinary girl, through an extraordinary chain of events, grew to become one of the fastest ninjas ever to come out of the village hidden in the leaves.

An Au wherein Sakura is placed in a team with Nara Shikamaru and Aburame Shino. There are those who fight with brawn. There are those who fight behind desks and command others. There are those who fight using their years of experience. There are those who fight with their instincts. There are those who fight with all their might with or without a plan. And there are those who fight with calculated steps and patterns. Here we have 3 fresh graduates that were appointed to a team that only came once every century: A combat team that can engage battle with a particular fighting style that most would consider weak: 'Smart'. Pairing: Unknown yet

Sakura, who is often sent on solo diplomatic missions on behalf of the Hokage, makes an unlikely ally on her travels. itasaku (note since y'all keep complaining: I also ship SasuHina so SasuHina is in this story. It's in the tags. I don't care if you ship them or not, this is literally a crack ship fic. Quit being an asshole.)

➷wherein Uzumaki Naruto would never trade Uzumaki Shira for anything else. To him, she was that constant in his life that he would never want to disappear. ("Acts1-33: Under Construction")

Mito Uzumaki was born first-yet the world never bothered to remember her. While her twin brother carried the Nine-Tails, she carried every beating, every bruise, every sin the village threw at him. And when she was five, dying in the dirt for a prank she never pulled, a boy with onyx eyes saved her life... and unknowingly claimed her heart. Now she fights like a Namikaze, thinks like an Uchiha, and moves with the blinding speed of Shisui's legendary Body Flicker. She has died for her team, bled for her brother, and awakened with a fury that even Orochimaru didn't expect. But the world is changing. Sasuke wants her beside him. Itachi wants her to survive. And fate-cruel and unrelenting-wants her to choose between the two brothers whose shadows shaped her life. Mito isn't a jinchūriki. She's something far more dangerous: The twin who refuses to break.