Fanfic Recommendations Go Hawaiian

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katlou303's Time Flies Like an Arrow is not the most serious Naruto fic, or the most filled with plot and dramatic tension - it's basically "Kid Sakura solves everything with laser-guided adorabombs" - but it's not completely without such moments, and entertaining enough if you just want something mostly lighthearted to fill a few hours, or before bed, etc. There is some gore in there, future-Sakura was a medic and they're living in a world where very literal child soldiers (with the mental issues of that being one of the recurring plot threads) are the norm after all, but nothing too gut-wrenching or explicit. The basic premise is one of those "future self ended up in past self's head" numbers, but it doesn't waste time with the hows and whys, or chapter upon chapter of the returnee freaking out about being a baby and how much it sucks having to learn to walk and talk again, complaining to or about some entity responsible for the deed, and so on, just the young version getting fragments of memory and deciding to do something instead of hesitating and shying away. If only more SIs and Peggy Sues would follow suit!

Currently about 273k words; it's been running since 2017 and just updated in April, too.