#sand cousins au

[sea-owl]

with gaara's kidnapping, y'know how itachi told deidara and sasori that they'd be able to tell who the jinchuuriki was bc they'd be the loud dramatic one or whatever?

imagine sakura seeing deidara sitting on her faVOURITE COUSIN and immediately going apeshit and ruining that system of identification. deidara immediately nopes out, scared and a little turned on (bc hey, he can appreciate anyone that can harness that much destruction) and feels a little guilty about abandoning sasori to his fate at the hands of a rampaging jinchuuriki (until the next time he meets itachi and finds out that no??? it was just one (1) pissed off 15 year old girl)

(he may or may not say something to sasuke along the lines of 'thank god you're not the pink one' when they have their fight later on, sasuke is both proud and somewhat annoyed that this famous missing nin thinks that sakura is the scary one)

Sakura would've broken any oath as a medic right then and there if she got her hands on Deidara. This puppet freak will have to do as an outlet for her rage. Oh just wait until she gets her hands on the other one.

Deidara is so confused when Itachi tells him no the Nine Tails jinchuuriki is in fact not the pink haired girl but the blonde boy who chased him.

Sasuke wonders what Deidara did to piss off Sakura. Sasuke knows Sakura is scary, all the boys on Team 7 knows she's scary and should not ignite her temper. When he remembers years later he asks her. Sakura kisses him when she realizes Sasuke killed the bastard that killed and sat on her favorite cousin like that. It was kinda sexy.

[sea-owl]

on the sand cousins au, thoughts on sakura being in line for kazekage (it was hereditary, right? I can't imagine they'd elect gaara.)

also sand siblings with an intense ass grudge against sasuke lol

ur meeting ur gfs fam and u tried to kill her cousins, they've tried to kill you, and ur gf could've been kazekage, if she wasn't born in konoha.

You know I don't know. Was the kazekage position hereditary? Wouldn't surprise me if it was.

I don't think Sakura would be in line for it, though. In my head, it was always Mebuki and Karura, the sand siblings' mother, who were related. How closely related is up to you guys.

But lmao them having a grudge against Sasuke. Maybe that's how they ended up on the retrieval arch (seriously they had to he close for them to come to the rescue like that. Sand and Leaf are canonically three days journey from one another) The sand siblings were coming to visit and oh hell no. This dude made their cousin cry. Where's he at? Don't worry Sakura we'll go help Naruto drag him back to the village. Years later Temari sends a message to Kankuro and Gaara to hurry their asses up to visit Konoha. Not only do they got Shikadai to visit but Sakura came home with Uchiha and they have a baby. Gaara and Kankuro both curse because now there's no way of getting rid of Uchiha. Sakura why? Bad enough Temari procreated with that lazy ass Nara. They could have found you a nice guy in the Sand village.

Sakura is also pissed off when the Akatsuki took Gaara and poisoned Kankuro. You poisoned her cousin and then KIDNAPPED HER FAVORITE ONE?! Oh, someone was definitely gonna die. Her taking out a missing sand nin was just a bonus to her cousins' village.

Sakura didn't leave Gaara's side for three days after he got back to the village. She claimed it was to make everything was okay medically since he came back to life an all but really she was kinda scared to leave her family member alone.

Now fair warning I do actually like Matsuri and do ship her with Gaara. I think it's cute. I know some of you get weird about it. So stop here if you don't want to see GaarMatsu. You get weird about it I will use the block button.

At some point during Sasuke and Sakura's journey they make a stop in Sand where almost the whole time they're there Sakura is teaming up with Kankuro to match make Gaara and Matsuri.

Gaara will never admit it but Sasuke kinda helped in this area. Both Gaara and Sasuke are more reserved in their emotions. During one drunken night Gaara asks Sasuke how he was able to let go and show his love to Sakura. Gaara doesnt say it but he wants to be able to do that too with Matsuri. To he able to show her he loves her. Sasuke admits he is still learning but it's a process he's working on together with Sakura.

The next day during one of Kankaruo and Sakura's schemes that involve poor oblivious Matsuri Gaara listens to Sasuke's advice and takes the first step in showing his love to Matsuri.

Sakura is ecstatic, Sasuke is happy Sakura is happy.