Saving Grace
Characters/Pairings: Sakura-centric. Vaguely future Kakashi/Sakura, and vaguely past Kiba/Sakura. Naruto, Sasuke.
Warnings: …Let’s see. Sexual innuendo, dark and disturbing content, and the narrative character going insane. Oh, and character death.
Summary: After a disastrous mission, Sakura must fight her ghosts as she slowly slides into insanity, while attempting to discover the person responsible for the disaster.
Comments: This is much darker than I usually like, and I’m hesitant to rec it because of that. As a general rule of thumb, I feel profoundly discomfited when the narrative character is going insane. But…it’s also very well-written and well-done. The author is apparently a nursing student, so she get a lot of the details of Sakura being a medic-nin right that a lot of people would just gloss over. A lot of the characterization, in Sasuke in particular, is a great deal darker than I’m used to seeing, and a lot less optimistic, but it fits the mood of the fic. And I’m fascinated in seeing what on earth is going to happen. It’s just not usually my type of fic.
Multi-chapter, incomplete.