Arranged Marriage SakuraUchiha gift for @beyondthemoor because she’s amazing and deserves this. Hope you enjoy friend! Sorry for the rush edits and typos I’m sure I missed along the way. 

She broke the night with the clashing of metal on metal. The fire was hot and glowing an angry red behind her as she brought the hammer back down to the anvil with another ring. Again and again she fashioned the form out of something formless until the end result was a blade hungry for moonlight and war.

“She who is adored by the poets, she who heals, and she who smiths bid me so that I may know what face do you wear for me tonight?”

Sakura looked up from her blade, now cold to the touch, and frowned at the figure just beyond the reach of her forge’s protective ring. The imp crouched low but threw its voice to appear elsewhere. It should have known better than to provoke her when she worked.

Returning her sword to the working table she trekked out to the edge of her  forge and undid the ties around her sleeves, letting them fall free over her hands where her magic might be concealed. The imp shivered but did not retreat, not his first mistake but likely his last.

“Return to your shadows and take the fruits from your markets elsewhere. I do no welcome you to my lands. “

The imp chittered to itself in stressed glee. “Dear oh dear oh dear, oh dear, she bids me fleeeeee.”

Sakura lifted her hand and an older blade, larger and longer than any man’s arm might dare to wield hung suspended in air just beyond her fingertips. She twitched her pinky and the blade leveled horizontally, edges shining in moonlight.

The imp’s chittering cut off on a strangled gurgle of fear.

When she spoke her words were darker and calmer than well water. “Return, worm.”

It sprung from the shadows and stretched itself out on the ground, prostrate. “Exalted one! All respects to the goddess of the forge, the spring, and the healing, all respect to the triple goddess, all respect be brought to thee. We seek to humbly beg a seat at your wedding table for our master.”

Sakura’s ire wavered and then returned full force. Her fingers flexed and the blade impaled the imp through his body, cutting him neatly in half before he could regret the folly of his words. Her sword swung under the moonlight, dripping with black ichor she blew off before returning her sword to the world she kept it for.

“The nerve of some of these parasites.”

I’m an admitted serial Sakura shipper. If there’s a single man in Konoha (or outside of it), you can almost bet I’ll find a way to somehow ship them. But honestly, even if I don’t necessarily ship them, I may find the story beautiful and put it here for others who ship them. Most are in the Naruto-verse but will be stated otherwise if not. 

Most, if not all, are Rated M. So be warned that almost all of them contain smut/adult content of some kind. I’m trying to branch out and read things that don’t contain smut but it’s a little challenging. I like steamy reads. 

Happy Reading!

So much exciting stuff is going on in the fandom these days, but have you had the chance to read these old multi-chapter KakaSaku “classics”? All were written in 2010 or before and were plenty popular (just check out their review counts!).

Will of Fire by cynchick (M, 222k words, complete)

Respect and Understanding by ronny-of-yore  (M, 93K, complete)

His Fault by ronny-of-yore (M, 52k, complete)

Feeling You by cutecrazyice (M, 65k, complete)

Dirty Deeds by Serenanna (M, 250k, incomplete)

Fated by leafygirl, @leafytoo (M, 125k, complete)

A Lesson in Chemistry by leafygirl (M, 73k, complete)

A Poor Imitation by leafygirl (M, 89k, complete)

The Nature of the Game by leafygirl (M, 112k, complete)

The Last Hirameki by leafygirl (M,168k, complete)

Coffee Shop by leafygirl (M, 28k, incomplete)

Duty Before Honor by Silvershine, @silvershiner (M, 157k, complete)

The Window by Silvershine (M, 165k, complete)

Seven Days by Silvershine (M, 69k, incomplete)

House of Crows by Silvershine (M, 401k, complete)

Scarlet Scroll by Silvershine (M, 95k, incomplete)

Simple Things by Caitiy (T, 224k, soon to be completed)

Stripped Bare by J-Pop Princess (M, 295k, complete)

Some Light Reading by J-Pop Princess (M, 46k, complete)

Double Edged by nimblnymph (M, 347k, complete)

Winner Takes All by clearheart (M, 98k, complete)

Underwear by thatreevesgirl (M, 47k, incomplete)

A Marriage Inconvenienced by lulu42, @itslulu42 (M, 101k, complete)

Sinch in Time by Blade Rewind (M, 298k, complete)

Fade In by hasu86 (M, 69k, complete)

What the New Year Brings by Shippertrish (M, 140k, complete)

Which have you read? Which do you want to check out now? Let me know! And don’t forget to leave reviews for these OG KakaSaku authors! :D

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2Ar0KEq

by Oxford

Words: 5143, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo Baggins

Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, bagginshield - Relationship