Cycle of Hatred

The world of shinobi is cruel, and Uzumaki Naruto was born too late to change it: or, the Uchiha Affair goes differently. This is an exploration of a Konoha at war, and the story of a different Team Seven. AU. Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and Kakashi. Even a generation of failures has its dreams.

This is a reupload + continuation of the work linked below, as I've started updating it again on ff. Sorry to everyone that followed the old version, I hope some people are still interested in picking it up again! I will definitely not orphan it again, even if I get slow about updates at some point. But for now updates should come fairly normally again. This is a massive AU, starting from the Uchiha coup-d'état attempt. Came from wondering what the Naruto generation would do if they lived under the circumstances of basically every other generation before them (aka: if there was an actual Fourth Shinobi War). Will be told primarily from Sakura's perspective, though it's possible that there'll be some interludes from some other characters. All of the Rookie 12 will play a role of some kind in this story, as will many other familiar faces from canon – war doesn't mean that Akatsuki will just stand by on the sidelines. Kaguya does not exist. There will be some relationships, but they are not the focus of the story.