They survived the Mist, but now the team of rag tag hero students, ninjas and whatever the 3 adults are is facing a new challenge, and this one will test all of their courage to the breaking point...
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Gaara's peace cohort, now known as Team Zoe, are making their way to Iwakagure, or Stone Village.
After the success of their last Village visit, the team (composed now of the Sand Siblings, the DJs, Team 10, Team 7 including Sai, Hinata Hyuga, Tenten. And the heroes Todoroki, Yaoyorozo, Bakugo,and Camie, the villain Dabi, and adding Hanabi Hyuga [and Rock Lee]) is in a good mood, but, Stone Village throws them a lot of unexpected curve balls, and throws some other things at them also.
While things heat up on the political front, the team's internal relationships continue to either fray, or deepen as they spend more time together.
Sasuke is still there, but his war with himself gets only more and more intense as he continues to consider if his place is even with Team Zoe, or if he should strike out alone again.
And is his bond with Naruto and Sakura changing?
Shine and Wally sprinkle all this with a healthy dose of teaching and funny anecdotes as they try to keep a group of 20 teenagers from tearing each other, and the shinobi villages, apart.
Things have never been this bleak for Gaara's mission, will he end up having to go home in disgrace? Or will he find a way to persevere?
[This story serves as a SOL/action style exploration of the events that happen between Naruto and Boruto. All ships are canon or unconfirmed off canon. The story follows the "Way Into Mist Village" and "New Way of Ninja" stories on my profile, and is before the "Way Above Cloud Village" one. All stories in the saga can be read separately, but will make more sense if you go in order. ]
Cover art by Julianna Gardner
Au- Blank period, set a month before the Hanabi rescue mission.
Everything all began when Sakura was sent on a solo mission; the mission was to investigate a village. However, the mission took a complicated turn; at first, everything was okay and going smoothly, but as time pressed on, the mission began to get complicated and more questions than answers appeared. Sakura was stuck and could not find any new intel until she found something that she was not meant to find.
The mission had turned into something bigger than she expected.
This includes
Horror
Angst
Gore/ suspense/ thriller/ romance if you look closely.
Sasusaku( already together)
Saiino( together)
Naruhina ( slow burn)
Nejiten ( in spirit)
Shikatema( together)
Kibatama( together)
Shino x isabri( a filler character from the og series, not together yet)
Leeyaku( Yakumo is from a filler episode in the og series, and is not yet dating Lee)
( I don't want oc+ canon together, so it's filler+ canon)
Set during the blank period
Before the last movie, but playing with the timeline, were the novels,
( but done differently, if you are like me, who liked naruhina but wasn't a fan of how they got together, And liked the movie but found it had lots of issues, then you came to the right place)
Au-
Konoha 13(Neji in spirit) are an elite squad of shinobi known throughout the shinobi lands. All earning their title.
They include Neji even though he's dead.
Og team 7, apart from the Konoha 13, is the new sanin.