"They say the only thing to fear is fear itself. That, and a motivated Nara." Shikamaru is born with his father's intelligence and his mother's work ethic. The world is turned sideways.

Being stuck at a masquerade ball meant to arrange a marriage to the Crown Prince is the last thing Momo Yaoyorozu wants. And after a night of horrible events, Momo meets a mysterious stranger looking to escape as well. AU TodoMomo

The only light in her bedroom is the moon. Its silver glow paints the floor and edge of her bed. All she can think about are a pair of violently purple shoes and mismatched eyes. She spent the evening learning how to lean on his arm. Maybe he could teach her how to let go. Todomomo. Quirkless AU.

Lately, she has been going to him twice a week. He will recover, she is certain of this, because she knows she would recover. Rivamika drabble.

After the war ends, Eren and Armin succumb to the Curse of Ymir. Mikasa struggles to find her way in a peaceful world, loneliness and a broken heart her only companions. But when she crosses paths with the former Captain Levi, Mikasa feels something other than numb for the first time in years. Desperate, she resolves to live again instead of simply surviving.

We don't really understand time, she'll say. And you won't really understand what that means, but somehow you'll understand what she's saying.

Jellal has paid for his peace with a pound of flesh. The life he left behind wasn't ever supposed to come up the mountain path to find him again. But one does not simply ignore a royal summons from the Queen. Jerza. Complete.

During her training with Tsunade Sakura starts to have very vivid daydreams about Naruto and herself on his training trip. Meanwhile, Naruto has to deal with the fact that whenever he uses his Shadow Clone Jutsu an irritable Sakura appears. Narusaku

Shouto has never considered what he might be worth to a girl. Sitting above Endeavor on a throne made of ice would be his greatest accomplishment but when Momo smiles he feels something else. Something new. Can he make her smile? Maybe. If he tries hard. She makes him want to try. Todomomo. Complete.

On June 19th, Riza Hawkeye falls asleep at approximately 11:28pm. On June 20th, she doesn't wake up.

Or Tsunade and Sasuke's Excellent Adventure. Sasuke was doing just fine on the road of atonement when Tsunade ran him over. He never could just walk it off.

The words came out in a breath but he froze. Even with her syrupy, oozing thoughts Erza could feel his surprise... and indecision. She would let him have that. If he wanted to leave, he should. Jerza. Complete.

The ones that hurt the most are the ones you never think will leave. A look at Tsunade's loves and losses. Tsunade/Dan, Tsunade/Jiraiya

In the game of seduction, maybe not only one has to win.

Erza's tradition of getting quietly drunk, alone in her apartment on New Year's Eve was broken three years after she started it. Jellal had probably moved on by now, and she couldn't hold it against him. Jerza. Complete.

With loving parents and plenty of friends, unease is the last thing that Naruto should be feeling. But it lingers in the back of his mind, clouding his sight with suspicion and paranoia. Why do his dreams feel so real? Why does he remember things that never were? [COMPLETE]

Mornings bring unpredictable days, the fear of unknown things to come. Now, she is here. She is beside him. She is safe. He wishes he could keep her here, but he knows he cannot. [Post-series. Oneshot.]

"Now, usually I don't do this, but uh..." Tsunade gets hot and bothered when Jiraiya relays some shocking new information regarding the Akatsuki cases.

AU. The Uzumaki have long been renowned for their exceptional life force.

Politics, Relationships, Love and Shogi. Written for a contest. WARNING: Underneath all the jokes, angst, infrequent swearing, and occasional back handed comment about common tropes found in erotic literature, at the heart of this story is an intimate moment between two consenting adults. Younger eyeballs and those with a prudish disposition... You have been warned

A delicate mission requires both a shinobi of the highest talent and a medical-nin capable of creating antidotes on the fly. Unfortunately, there's only a few medical-nin capable of filling that role - and only one that's available... Kakashi/Tsunade

5 Years after the Pein attack, the 4th Shinobi war is over and Tsunade get an unexpected visitor.(Completed!)

COMPLETE. For the sake of his pride, Jiraiya's going to imagine that his double went out in the bed of some voracious and lusty twins—no, make that triplets, with everyone wildly satisfied and a smile on his face. The whole alternate universe thing is easier to swallow that way. Mentions of slash.

After a particularly loud morning between mentor and apprentice, Shizune challenges the pair to a different kind of competition. "Why don't we see who can last the longest without breaking something? Or someone." This surely this wouldn't last long. Short Story.

She doesn't know which is harder, missing the living or the dead. -Sakura, Tsunade, Rin

grief doesn't end in a moment. it's a slow and steady march into the future. sakura discovers this in the aftermath of the fourth shinobi world war.

A Team Seven moment as seen through the eyes of Kurama. A silly one-shot. Swearing because it is Kurama.

Of lessons in humanity, the wisdom of drunkards, the people that keep you whole and finally having that chat with your partner. Sort of. The Avengers show affection unconventionally. ClintXNat, TonyXPepper, implied torture

One of Konoha's greatest enemies is long dead, but Akatsuki lives on, and a new threat to peace is rising in the shinobi nations. The question is... who are the heroes, and who are the villains? AU. Follows One Small Kindness.

Rin Nohara wasn't as perfect as everyone thought. A five part story and epilogue. [ObiRin] [Tiny hints of future ObiRinKaka OT3] [AU as of Chapter 629]

Natasha wears a strange smile. It's not an unusual smile. It's not cold or humorless, or the kind of smile he hasn't seen on her a thousand times before.

Natasha is nine months old when she speaks her first word in the relative silence of a nursery. Natasha is four when she first speaks to another person. Natasha is ten when she decides Natasha is too girly a name. A character study featuring fem!Tony.

"There she is again."

Working with a partner is new for both of them. Working with a partner who mere weeks ago was an adversary is more than new, it's terrifying. Surely carrying around incriminating photos of each other will be an excellent trust building exercise... right?

It was all so funny. Funny because she wanted this almost as badly as he did - maybe even more. She needed this, needed him to be an anchor in this hallowed existence. Her anchor. A Steve/Natasha drabble.

Rather dark-ish examination of what Clint and Natasha mean to each other from the pov of each of their teammates-Thor, Steve, Bruce, Tony in that order. Post-movie but non-specific time. Now translated into French by the awesome Hakiru-Chan.

Orochimaru captures Sakura to get to Tsunade. Both Orochimaru and Sakura are unpredictable in this kind of situation. Can the Hokage risk trying to save her apprentice? Despite the certain threat to Sakura's mental and physical health, even with her life hanging in the balance, there is an underlying duty to Konoha that must be upheld by its Hokage... but can she let go?

"My husband and son make me want to drink." Tsunade grumbles as she pulls her largest bottle of sake from her drawer. Naruto's explanation of his family. Somewhat following the story line of Shippuden.

Shikamaru went to great lengths to avoid reaching his potential. But what if he had to choose between avoiding trouble, and growing strong to protect his friends? From out of the shadows, a new light will appear. Starts canon, ends very AU. *COMPLETE* *SEQUEL UP*

Stories and secrets of Konoha, dreams and whispers, tears and laughter. A collection of drabbles, mostly Tsu/Jir but there are others. Daily Update, completed.

None of them ever cared. Sannin fic.

Loose sequel to "The Perils of Dwelling". It had to happen eventually. Tsunade is faced with the ghost of her grandfather staring at her from the eyes of one of her ANBU.

Tsunade and Orochimaru have maintained a secret friendship over the years. Adventures ensue. M rating is for strong language and violence in later chapters... Hidan doesn't much like censorship.

Uchiha Mikoto takes the hand of an outcast child, and with it rewrites the destiny of her clan. AU. *SEQUEL UP*

When summer comes and the monsoon season begins, someone she loves is brought back to Konoha. Tsunade, Sakura, and too many similarities. OneShot.

When Naruto's father met his mother, his only impression was that a village out there must have been missing its idiot. Minato/Kushina.

When Kakashi was 5 years old his father defended him, and when Kakashi was 20 years old he defended his father. And then a fiery woman named Sakura bashed her way into his life and when Kakashi was 50 years old he was glad of it. Parallel views of a life. Crossposted to Ao3

Jiraiya is hurrying home to Tsunade, his head spinning with plot bunnies, on a personal mission to reveal his feelings for her as well as start trying to live out the happy-ending of his newest rough draft of a novel. Crossposted on Ao3

The first piece of advice that Nara Shikamaru's father gave him when he was preparing to leave home was 'don't work too hard, remember where you come from and never, ever fall in love with a Geisha.' Shika/Tema long historical oneshot. R?R

"I am not your mother's lesbian lover, so don't even go there." Tsunade warned him but he couldn't help but tingle all over at the revelation. Rated T to be safe

ANBU Captain Uchiha Itachi had things well planned out, until a medic-nin with ridiculous hair went and made herself interesting. Sakura insisted she was just doing her job, but Itachi didn't quite see it that way. Non-massacre. Sakura/Itachi.

PLEAD INSANITY: Instead of prison, you get hell. At least the company is entertaining. ShikaTema; AU; rated because of language and imagery.

Running Konoha is like herding cats. During a tornado. Is it any wonder the woman drinks? Crack.

They first stopped trainning with her, than slowly she was pushed out of the missions before she vanished from their lives. Now seeing her stronger than ever they couldn't stop but feeling guilty.Will their friendship blow up again or will this be the end

Sakura's been working hard under Tsunade and Shizune, now you can read a quick little bit about it! During time jump.

AU. JiraTsu. Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

The rain was mocking her. But what she felt for him was far from love or friendship, and this, she wished, he understood perfectly.

Jiraiya/Tsunade - Out of all the scars on his body, half belonged to her.

The men of Sarutobi have a long history of nicotine addiction, facial hair, and death in the battlefield. Konohamaru shaves each and every morning.

Tsunade thinks that history was kinder the first time around.

[character death] See, sometimes you lose people, and it hurts, but people are always losing people. Get it? It’s like…well, you love people, but love isn’t everything, because it ends. Ends like when you’re done kissing someone.

It is never a good idea to get Tsunade drunk... Unless you're Jiraya. Shizune is on a mission to find out exactly what happened and finds a little more than anyone bargained for. JiraXTsu

[Sasuke and the Sannin.] His is not a happy ending.

And there is one less person that can smile at you and make you think that your job is almost, almost, worth it, if only for a second.

Thump, thump goes Tsunade's necklace on his chest. And Naruto is human. Oneshot.

Tsunade's thoughts as she heals Naruto. Prize fic-let for Preventor Squall. TsuNaru

Neji has a tendency to think of things in terms of numbers. [oneshot, slight NarutoNeji]

What do you get a Hokage for her birthday? Naruto thinks he knows.... Oneshot, Tsunade and Naruto friendship.

Oneshot, JiraiyaxTsunade. Before the three year gap, Jiraiya goes to Tsunade's office and talks with her directly about Naruto. The possibility of taking him from the Leaf to train him for years is discussed, as well as something she'd long forgotten.

Most people live their lives in a straight line, but they've all walked a circle with too many dead ends. Memories, regrets and the death of a friend. Sannin fic.

Asuma and Kurenai have something special. Or do they? RandR.

Then the echoes of the past are gone. And one last name has been etched onto the memorial stone. Rated for character death.

[a shizunextsunade songfic] Shizune's working at a bar and studying to be a doctor when she crosses paths with Tsunade, who's everything she thought she didn't want and is nothing more than what she really needs. [AU]

If Ibiki sits at one table by the teashop entrance, face in shadow but turned so he can see every person walking down the street...well, that's just doing research. [Oneshot]

The universe is infinite and everything you can imagine is real. TsunadeJiraiya, except when it's not.