The Quiet Between

From quiet childhood friendship to battlefield allies, Sakura and Shikamaru's bond grows in the spaces between missions, secrets, and scars. When Sakura uncovers an abandoned Root experiment built from her own DNA, they're pulled into a web of clones, buried truths, and the terrifying question of what makes a person real.
As war looms outside, something more dangerous is waking beneath Konoha.