Five Petals

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Series Begun:
2018-04-05
Series Updated:
2026-04-02
Description:

Several things happen all at once in less than a minute’s time.

Sakura’s elbow slams into Sasuke’s side from an angle he doesn’t anticipate, sending him tumbling end over end off the branch.

Sasuke rights himself just a second too late and without checking where he’s going to land– When he does his knee twists, he feels a lightning bolt of pain shoot from his sole to his head, his leg gives out.

And Orochimaru’s teeth sink down to the gum in Sakura’s shoulder.

Notes:

Stories are positioned in the series in rough chronological order. The core story of the fic is in Five Petals and Yamazakura. Anything else is either recommended or non-required reading.

Re: What is canon to this series - Simply put, the only hard and fast canon that I have told myself that I 99% have to adhere to and work with or around as best I can is the Naruto manga Chapter 1 up to Chapter 669. Any canonical facts I don't adhere to covered within that span of chapters is either a special case that I will try to explain or I just forgot about/never knew about in the first place because to put it simply the way I consumed the base Naruto story after the first arc of Shippuden was kind of. Weird, and involved skipping a lot of episodes/chapters, so there are things I missed and have only discovered in hindsight as I work on the fic.

Outside of that, anything introduced in anime original content, movies, light novels, the manga after chapter 669, Boruto, and etc. I am considering free game to either use or discard as I see fit.

Stats:
Words:
547,523
Works:
4
Complete:
No
Bookmarks:
423

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