Love Like Winter

“A love as cold as the first snow of a winter evening.”

Title: Love Like Winter
Author: mitsuki0tennyo (Mitsukino Tennyo)
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: SasuSaku (Uchiha Sasuke x Haruno Sakura)
Rating: T although ratings differ per chapter (Mature content is marked with a M)
Warnings: Violence, language, adult content
Genre: Romance/Family
Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto nor will I own it. It belongs to Masashi Kishimoto, Shueisha, Weekly Shōnen Jump, TV Tokyo, etc. I just borrow the characters (and sometimes the world) provide by Kishimoto to write about and draw. If did own it I would changed several things starting some characters outfits. Starting with *shivers* Sasuke’s first Shippuden outfit.
Summary: A series of 50 non-chronological oneshots about my take on the “what if Sasuke allowed Sakura to come with him” plot.

While the main theme of the story is the complex relationship between Sasuke and Sakura, I also spend time addressing the growing relationships inside Taka. For example Sakura and Suigetsu get off on the wrong foot while Karin who originally views Sakura as rival, reaches out to Sakura when she realizes they aren’t so different which becomes root of the girls’ friendship.

Moreover LLW chronicles is how Sasuke and Sakura as well as the rest Taka adjust to parenthood during a the Fourth Ninja War despite their young ages. Yet the more mature plots involve themes such as the decaying of Sakura and Sasuke’s own moral codes, a result of the cruelties they faces under their respective teachers tutelage and the war. In future chapters Sakura will confess to Sasuke it becomes far easier to torture every single time she does it while Sasuke confides to Suigetsu and Jugo that some of his (rapidly growing) darker urges scare him.

As LLW lacks a chronological timeline which I admit can be confusing at times, each chapter has it’s own summary from which guess their ages a bit. Also if you scroll down the Extra’s section you can find a timeline.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 01 ~ Louder Then Thunder
• Chapter 02 ~ Fair as Spring
• Chapter 03 ~ Set Fire to the Rain
• Chapter 04 ~ Rolling in the Deep
• Chapter 05 ~ Follow Me

• Interlude I ~ Skyscrapper

• Chapter 06 ~ Master Passion Greed
• Chapter 07 ~ Here We Are
• Chapter 08 ~ Rebirthing
• Chapter 09 ~ Animal I Have Become
• Chapter 10 ~ Breath Into Me

• Interlude II ~ Family Portrait

• Chapter 11 ~ Make Me Wanna Die
• Chapter 12 ~ Victims of Love
• Chapter 13 ~ Blood On My Hands
• Chapter 14 ~ Girl’s not Grey
• Chapter 15 ~ Addicted (M)

• Interlude III ~ I Write Sins Not Tragedies

• Chapter 16 ~ Temptation (Asha3’s request)
• Chapter 17 ~ Miss Nothing
• Chapter 18 ~ You’re All I Have (Halfkyuubikat’s request)
• Chapter 19 ~ Call Me When You’re Sober (me_ninjakitty’s request)
• Chapter 20 ~ The Bird and the Worm

• Interlude IV ~ Dahlia

• Chapter 21 ~ Somebody That I Used To Know
• Chapter 22 ~ Too Lost In You (kawaii_rei_chan’s request)
• Chapter 23 ~ The Ghost of You
• Chapter 24 ~ White Robe (HasiVA’s request)
• Chapter 25 ~ Breath Into Me

• Interlude V ~ Untouched

• Chapter 26 ~ Shattered
• Chapter 27 ~ 7 Days to the Wolves
• Chapter 28 ~ Killing Loneliness
• Chapter 29 ~ Stairway to the Skies
• Chapter 30 ~ Animal I Have Become

• Interlude VI ~ This Is Your Life

Extra’s

• Timelines (Text, Graphic, Image)
• Misc. Scenes (Deleted, removed and scrapped scenes)
• Music (Soundtrack, character songs, etc.)
• Downloads (Includes Information Guides, Soundtrack and a Image Package)