Standing up and moving forwards feels a lot more like picking yourself up and trudging onwards. Continuation of FMA1 where Ep51 finishes. Alt ending, not based on CoS. Plot!Fic. All characters. Please enjoy!

-SasuSaku- -Complete- It was almost time, Orochimaru was going to take his body as a vessel. He hated being used...he refused to be used. With that thought, he took the kunai in his hand and slashed across his eyes.

Branded: Chapter 4 - Re Conditioned Responses - Part 1; Winry tries to break Ed of his milk aversion - any way she can... Picks up where Learning Curve left off...

A guide to all things Akatsuki, including our internal rules and regulations. Written by Akatsuki members, for Akatsuki members, and subject to approval by senior management: Pain and Madara. All edits are final. Dispute at your own risk.

They are kunoichi first, women second. But in the end they are human and not even they can resist their inner desires. Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur. Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. Kunoichi character studies. REVISED.

Look inside you, they said. Naruto looked – and got a lot more than he bargained for. Canon meets AU... and they change places! Sasuke/Naruto Please R&R!

He wanted to bring her pleasure or pain or whatever it took to narrow her world until there was only him again. Sasuke. Sakura. Naruto. Love, hate, and ties that bind.

Sasuke knows all kinds of loneliness, but he has never felt as lonely as he does now that the war is over and he has returned home. Sasuke-centric; implied SasuNaru

A collection of FMA character studies. Nov update: Sheska and Lust added Reviews much lusted after. Updated twice after a damn long hiatus @ @

Everyone thought Edward was dead. But when someone tries to resurrect him, no one's prepared to deal with the soulless look alike that's created instead, or its hurt and anger when his original half unexpectedly returns from the other side of the Gate

Naruto and Gaara are the only ones left who understand.

Gaara is sick, but he doesn't know what's wrong. Can Naruto help him sort out these new strange feelings? GaaNaru NaruGaa

When Gaara awoke, it was slowly, by degrees; nearly half an hour after he first stirred, he raised his head and looked at Kankurou. “I dreamed,” he said softly. “And it was like the rain.” Yaoi, Kankurou x Gaara, incest

The night before Naruto's team returns to Konoha, Gaara has one last request.

Leaves turn naturally toward the sun, and the Leaf-nin turn naturally toward their golden sun. When the sun is snuffed out, emptiness takes its place.

Kankurou is terrified when he walks in on Gaara in the bathroom. Then he tries to give his little brother The Talk after seeing what Gaara is up to. Not the smartest idea. KankyGaarGaar brotherliness.

When Ed loses something precious to him, he would give anything to reclaim it . . . However, is what he gains worth the price of what he has to give up? Talk about equivalency . . . [RoyEd, Mpreg]

Kushina Uzumaki is insane.

The sounds and tremors of the Kyuubi carried to the Hokage even where he stood in a hallway at the hospital, so lost in his own thoughts that he couldn’t even bother to wonder what part of his beloved village was being destroyed.

When one ritual dies, another is born. [SasuNaruSasu] Yaoi.

When it looks like everything might be taken away, Gaara can at least be grateful that he doesn't have to meet his challenges alone. Now if he can just hold things together for long enough to figure out where Naruto went . . . GaaSaku, Finished!

The battle for normalcy and acceptance isn't only Gaara's. His siblings are struggling, too. These are the thoughts and feelings of Temari as she deals with the problem of the brother that she never had a chance to love.

Gaara and Naruto watch the snow fall. NaruGaara fluff.

Change is hard. For Kankuro, seeing it might be even harder. A Sand Sibs fic. [After the Sand-Sound invasion. Companion piece to "Firelight"]

[Sandsib gen fic] Because Kankurou just had to be a jerk, something they thought they had lost for good was reborn.

Sometimes it's just a matter of one day after another. Ino/Sakura.

Oneshot. Naruto is shaken up after finally getting Gaara back from the Akatsuki at a terrible price. But the redhead isn't doing so well himself, either. Can the two tortured souls help each other?

Gaara doesn't sleep, but it's not always Shukaku's fault. [NarutoGaara] Yaoi.

Love may come at a cost, but it will always be equivalent exchange. [A collection of unrelated Elricest ficlets. Corny fluff & angst ahoy!]

[NarutoGaara fic] The people of Konoha take their water for granted. Gaara shows Naruto how Suna practices water conservation with surprising results.

[SasuSaku] ”Things are different now. We’re not the same as before.” Oneshot.

No one sleeps. A Sand Sibs fic. [After the Sand-Sound invasion. Companion piece to "Refraction"]

“But of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” [Religious Themes and Elricest]

Edward Elric returns with amnesia. He has lived the past four years as Auric, a Gatekeeper. But there are some battles that only he can fight. Will his friends be able to awaken Ed, and what happens to Auric if they do? RoyEd. Eventually.

[NarutoGaara pairing] The Kazekage has a problem and Naruto is called in to solve it.

After saving Roy from an attempted assassination, Ed returns Al to his body. But because of an imbalance in Equivalent Exchange, Al is slowly being drained of life. The only one that can save him is Ed. Too bad though Ed died bringing his brother back…

Noa can see into Edward soul, but is she prepared for what she finds there?

Deviating from manga ch 282. Tsunade loses her argument against the elders: Naruto is restricted to Konoha. A curse evolves into a blessing in disguise as Naruto grows close with an old friend and mentors a new one. Sai & Danzou don't exist. KibaNaru.

[drabble, postmovie] Anyway, it didn't matter which world they were in...

[A collection of Ed and Winry shorts.] She should be a pro. She's been studying one for years.

Tomorrow, when I'm gone, I'll want my heart back. [SasuSaku]

A ripped shirt. That's all Gaara communicated with, sending one every time his siblings attempted conversation.

CHAPTER 2 PREVIEW UP Ed’s got a plan, Winry finds out, angst ensues… EdXWin

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

An assignment to snow country under Colonel Mustang is bad enough for the damper it puts on the Elrics' search for the Stone, but downed supply lines lead to cut rations, and Ed discovers that he can't take the deprivation as well as he'd like to pretend.

Since when has life been a spectator sport?

While observing a storm one night, the lights disappear along with Kankuro and Temari’s caretakers, forcing the siblings to face the vulnerability of the fatal, forbidden anomaly that is Gaara.

Not all of Konoha's heroes have their names carved in stone. Kakashi, Yondaime, Sakumocentric.

As both her creator and her creation, she both hated and loved him more than anyone else in the world. Warning: dark, noncon, spoilers to episode 47.

Something happened to Roy Mustang when he was just eighteen, before the Ishvar campaign ever began. Why does it only now begin to haunt him, and what will it drive him to do?

GaaNaru. When Naruto visits Sunakagure, he brings storms with him.

Naruto is sent on a mission to the Hidden Sand. There, he meets Gaara once more. (Spoilers for up to manga chapter 246; goes AU after that.)

On Thursday, Sasuke realized he loved her. [SasuSaku]

Promises are what shape a ninja- or perhaps a clan. HinaSasu, one-sided HinaNaru.

Temari questions her importance and whether her brothers need her, but she soon realizes she has her reasons to stay. And apparently...being there to cut Gaara's hair is one of them.

Kiba has a present for Hinata. Assuming he can actually give it to her. (Fluff alert)

Temari drops by the Leaf with a much more specific goal in mind than last time. TemaShika.

Team 10 stumbling along the way to adulthood. Threesome.