Sometimes it's easy to see the familiar in the faces around you. Sometimes it sucks to figure out why.

/AU-ish/ "You're my brother. That's got to count for something. Right, Zuzu?" If Azula and Zuko had always cared for each other, how different would their live's paths have been?

There is no way I can make this sound original, ever. An attempt to write a believable RrB/PpG in high school fic. Rated M because teenagers use terrible language. "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Camus

Are Tamao's feelings for Yoh symptoms of an innocent crush or the warnings of a dangerous obsession? Over the course of two months, he discovers exactly how she feels, including everything she's willing to do for his love. Alternate Universe. T: violence, mature themes, sensuality, language

put your war paint on, we've got an army to run. (Or, Sansa wakes up in Beacon Hills and proceeds to charm the pants off everyone).

Five teenagers leave home from Konoha on the path of gym badges and the Pokemon League. Challenges and adventure await them, and a darkness in the form of the Akatsuki follows them, and slowly, one of these things proves equal to, or greater than, the other. Some violence within, pairings to be decided.

They have sex. That's literally all that happens here. — Mako/Gou.

The game has changed, not ended - and by the time they realise she's playing, it's too late to stop what she's set in motion. Or, How Sansa and Arya Save the North Despite Being on Different Continents.

AU. I propose a road trip. Like, right now. So ladies, pack your clothes, makeup, and junk food, and don't forget the IDs! Oh, and, uh, some gas money would be nice.

Hunger is all that No-face knows. And around Sen, he is ravenous.

You, you, you, you. Four could have beens, and one that was. — Senshi/Shitennou.

She's got the looks and I've got the time. — Yoh/Anna.

They've gone back to the past. They've gone too far back into the past and they just don't want to wait around years and years, so they figured they might as well start early. Team 7, gen, time travel. Angst/Drama/Humor.

We grow up and the world turns us into broken, angry things. — Zuko/Katara.

Orihime realizes several things. — Orihime, ichiruki.

There was just no escaping Bro Nights. — College AU; Mihawk, Doflamingo, Crocodile.

Disney movies made Sakura feel all warm and gooey inside. Sort of like boogers and pancake batter and Sasuke, only not. — Sasuke/Sakura.

As we walk along the shoreline. — Ichigo/Rukia.

On three Christmas Eves, Zacarías de Santangel calls upon the powers of Santa Esperanza to make all his wishes come true. Ami/Zoisite, set in an AU world loosely influenced by medieval Spain, written for Advent Drabblender 2011.

The spirit can endure what the body can not. Neru/Haku centric, some one-sided Miku/Neru and possibly Dell/Neru if you squint hard enough. Warning for very dark themes throughout.

I hate you. Not sorry, bro. — Ulquiorra, Grimmjow.

Because Harry is the most beautiful boy she's ever seen, all black hair and green eyes; and she's only ever felt pretty when he's looking directly at her. -Hermione/Harry. EWE?

NaruSasuSaku OT3. Sequel to Teamwork. Training, house, baby, Kyuubi, Itachi, oh my. What, you thought life would be easy? ABANDONED, detailed summary of the ending linked in my profile.

"We're all stories in the end." A look into Harry's emotional recovery after the final battle. HHR.

Sakura nearly dies on the battlefield, and when she opens her eyes again it is not to the same Konoha she knows. — narusaku.

They were in a cave in the middle of nowhere, freezing to death, with little hope of rescue. As Sasuke pressed his face into Sakura's sweet-smelling hair, he realized he didn't want to be anywhere else. Pre-Shippuden Team Seven. SasuSaku. One-shot.

The man fell like a brick, twitching and groaning in a heap on the ground. Madara frowned, putting away the Nerf gun he'd been holding to his back. "I don't think he's unconscious." Sakura bashed the man upside the head with her frying pan. "Now he is." [AU. Crack!fic. Language Warning. Prequel to "Operation: EDUCATION."]

AU. Sakura falls in love with a book, Kiba's trapped inside one, and Sasuke's all that can bring them together. This is a typical love triangle, but the real story is anything but traditional.

Smoker doesn't notice her watching him, already he was too enthralled in the other woman's smile. -Tashigi/Smoker-

AU. SasuSaku. I vow not to let Karin win. I vow not to get shitfaced every night. I vow to get revenge. This is no fairytale, people. This is WAR.

Sasuke/Sakura. AU. "I don't care what drugs they injected you with. You are Sakura, and you are everything I value, so I'll do everything in my power to save you—whether you want it or not."

The quintessentially odd pairing of all time: sane person and star-haired maniac. With bratty daughter.

Naively manipulated into believing his death may be imminent, Naruto starts to enforce his will while he's still alive… much to Sasuke and Sakura's dismay. Slightly AU since Sasuke has returned. Rated for language and lemon SasuSaku

One of Draco and Hermione's arguments' get a little 'heated'. One shot.

Kenpachi's sword eventually talks to him. But not all she has to say has to do with strategy, tactics, and slicing up spirits which might need it.

Five years after the Hundred-Year War, Fire Lord Zuko is hit with an assassin's dart, and falls into a coma from which he cannot wake. A week passes, and his prognosis is grim. But Katara could swear she hears him in her dreams...

The road to forgiveness is long and arduous...just ask Zuko. Season 3 Zutara, following the episodes past 312. Rated M for Mature.

Both are on a mission to destroy the other, but when a little bit of lust gets in the way, how will either accomplish such a task? DeiSaku

In another world, Azula was born first. In another world, Azula wasn't the favorite. [Permanently incomplete.]

Harry recalls that a pale little girl called Sally-Anne was sorted into Hufflepuff during his first year, but no one else remembers her. Was there really a Sally-Anne? Harry and Hermione set out to solve the chilling mystery of the lost Hogwarts student.

COMPLETE. Chihiro spends a long, hot summer in a tiny seaside community, minding an old auntie's store, but a legend whispered by locals leads the young woman on a quest of rediscovery. A small story with small chapters.

That was not her name. That was not her face.

Akatsuki & Sakura. After a moment of shock, Sakura realized that two fully grown, fully naked men were sitting squished uncomfortably together in her bathtub.

The Cullens finally see a psychoanalyst. Edward is hallucinating - he thinks he's a vampire. What lies behind his bizarre delusions? And what dark secrets are the Cullens hiding? The requested sequel to The Serpent and the Mirror.

Dr. Dumbledore suspects that Harry's hallucinations about Hogwarts and the Dark Lord hold the clues to a terrible family secret. What are the Potters hiding? And what is Harry's relationship to the shadowy Voldemort? Now COMPLETE.

"-Sometimes Gai wonders when it all started to blur together.-" Eleven things Maito Gai wonders. Based on the twenty truths format. Slightly Darkfic.

As a half bird experiment born in a laboratory, Sakura is a prisoner. As a half human, she wants to be free. As escaped prey she will be hunted by predators. As an intelligent, flying creature, Sakura must trust herself to find true freedom. MultiSaku

' i have loved you everyday.'

AU. Tenten stares into the mirror and she doesn't really know what she sees in herself anymore.

At the time, asking Sasuke to take her with him when he left Konoha seemed like a great idea. The outcome of that decision, though, throws Sakura into a predicament which leaves her at the mercy of the one person she would never have expected. ItaSaku AU.

Crookshanks can be a pest sometimes.

One-Shot, Because the honest truth was that without Meiko around to watch out for them, things would have gone to the dogs for the Vocaloids. And they would have anyway, if Kaito wasn't around to keep Meiko sober enough to watch out for them.

Anna waited. And waited and waited and waited. They never called back. She never heard from them again. COMPLETE

When Hermione is killed during torture at Malfoy Manor, she becomes a ghost, invisible to all but her killer. In order to pass on herself, she is set with an impossible task: she must first make him experience love. AU HG/LV Sequel to “Just Let Me..."

Chihiro grows up.

She was already hopelessly late for her court appointment; the last thing she needed was to run down a member of one of the city's most dangerous crime syndicates. Ino. Hidan. Crack AU.

It started as many things are prone to: With a bet and the Akatsuki. Women are always right. Therefore, whatever happened, it was all his fault. One-Shot Crack

Tenten uses her stealth skills to text Sakura about how itchy her dress is...

An AU story, 500 years later. Sequel to "The Blue Rose". Zuko is now destined to unite the barbaric land of Acchai, while Katara faces her own struggles. As they find their way back to one another, will love conquer all? Zutara, Taang, Jetzula, Sukka.

Deidara & Sakura. He was peculiar and a little too observant for her tastes, but he was also alone, just like her, at the fault of this supercilious war. So she would dance with him, just until they could both forget how much they had lost.

When Zuko’s burned, branded, scarred, Azula smiles because it’s the expression most familiar to her, and she doesn’t want to think about what she should be doing instead. — Azula, Zuko

Minako finds something she shouldn't in Mamoru's apartment. His secret revealed, he and Minako have a confrontation that could become lethal if a certain someone doesn't intervene.

Ichigo and Rukia, in a closet, with all the time in the world to figure out how to undo a bra.-oneshot- p.s. This has nothing to do with the Chronicles of Narnia.

Sakura accepts the most critical and dangerous mission of her life, but the price of success may very well be her soul. When your entire world turns upside down, how do you keep from going under? DeiSaku.

Naruto had been bragging all day that his new jutsu was his best yet. Sakura and her new situation beg to differ. Post timeskip. DeiSaku.

Zoi likes his coffee. A lot.

When the girls get together, watch out! They're making lists and checking it twice. Are the guys in or out? Shika, Neji, Naruto, and Sasuke are now declared 'undateable' by the girls. Who does that leave? Rated T for language.

Sesshoumaru does lots of things he thought he never would. Sess/Rin Paternal

The myths of Molly Pitcher both intrigued and inspired Sakura Haruno. That explained a lot right now. It didn’t quite explain, however, why that strange Deidara person had come out of nowhere and started shooting at her with a very big gun. DeiSaku.

Alternate universe. Hundreds of years later, the Earth Kingdom, now called the Union, dominates the world; to discover the truth behind his name and escape the forces of the Union, Zuko flees to a land known as Acchai. Zutara, Maiko, Sukka, Taang, Jetzula

KibaSaku. The first time he sees her she is crying and dirty and alone, and Kiba never thinks he might fall in love with her.

Jaken learns a lesson about friendship. This was written for Inuyasha Quotes Week One prompt. Rin/Jaken Friendship, Implied Sess/Kag

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Sakura, Deidara, and Hidan.

[SasuSaku] I wanted to be your last love—but I’ll settle for being your biggest regret.

Everybody always assumed Tenten was deeply in love with one of her teammates. ...They just didn't know which one. With psychologist Neji, Stages Of Denial, and clumsy attempts at matchmaking. Of course, Tenten is convinced this is not going to end well.

The love story between Ami Mizuno and Yukio Akane, how it changed them, and how it changed the lives of those around them. [AmixJadeite] [Written for the shitennou 2007 ficathon.]

A not so short account on short girls and whether or not they are hot or not. [IchiRuki] For my short girls out there, especially you Rukia!

It came from the bed. It was tired of being chained to the bedpost. It wanted to watch the Weather Channel. It wanted sex. The only question is: will the stove explode and set the surrounding houses on fire? Kisame and Sakura.

In a place where neither of them belong, they both find room to belong to one another. Deidara and Sakura.

Smile for the camera. Dialogue style. Various gen het yaoi pairings.

31 drabbles based on a set of prompts. The Gotei 13 at the hot springs.

Nobody told Tobi that out of all the calendar holidays, Valentine’s Day was the last one to be passionately celebrated in the company of seven homicidal men. Crackfic.

It was incredibly rare to find a person so pathetic and deprived of love and affection that they’d turn to someone like him for comfort. Love, Zetsu realized, and humanity’s selfish desire for it, had bestowed him with a sense of normalcy.

Obviously you NaruHina, NaruSaku and SasuSaku fans are dead wrong. Sakura and Hinata belong with each other, and this is why. Ahh, Sarcasm. It's what's for dinner.

Hating one person, truly hating one person, he learned, required hating everybody else. Sasuke tried to early on and failed miserably.

While watching the sun rise, Zuko comes to a realization: He's in love. [zutara, fluffy]

The Eleventh Division’s 20 rules of living and dying like a thug.

It's indecently hard to get privacy on this ship. Luckily, nobody wants it. Nobody ships like Nami ships: Merryshipping.

In which Yumichika, Ikkaku, Renji, Hisagi and Iba discuss Kira's love life amongst other things. Oneshot.

Ichigo escapes the Visoreds in his fullblown Hollow form and Rukia fights him. Winner of the Spring 2006 IchiRuki contest on livejournal.

Sakura and Naruto don't belong in Sound, and Sasuke will not have them there.

Naruto has loved Sakura since they were fifteen, when she punched the ground and created a minor earthquake. Written for the 20 truths lj community.

[AU] Kagome and Kikyou Higurashi, rivals in every way, both find themselves in love with their King. But when a man at court brings Kikyou's scandalous past with him and threatens her life, Kagome must choose between old loyalty and a passionate new love.

The Bleach boys are hot. Thoughts on some of their finest assets.

Although he never gave any indication of caring, Gaara always observed and learned from the delicate and confusing relationship Kankuro and Temari shared.

postfinale vignette. On the tiny boat going South, Zuko and Iroh have a lot to talk about.

Yachiru wonders why Zaraki doesn't like Unohana. [Zaraki x Unohana]

NaruSasuSaku. Why are Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura waking up in the same bed anyway? What has got the Council so freaked? How will Team 7 cope with the repercussions? OT3, not love triangle. With plot! COMPLETE

Because they are men and bound to notice.

Hey, sunshine, you're a genius, aren't you? Help me with this crossword. Oneshot.

Born of a queen and king who loved their daughter long before she was concieved, I live my life in the shadow of a child who never existed, who was destroyed by my creation. Will they ever love me as they loved Small Lady?

Rukia dreams and Ichigo stands watch, calling himself a million kinds of fools. [Ichigo x Rukia]

ONESHOT. This is a letter written by Nuriko to Kourin, his beloved sister, when he was in Genbu...yes, before youknowwhat happened.

A variation on the 'Bulma dies' genre of B/V stories. Bulma is dead ... but how long can the afterlife contain a stubborn, blue-haired genius determined to reunite with her loved ones? GT spoilers.