To Mend and Defend

Naruto returns to Konoha with one Uchiha Sasuke, but Sakura, feeling the force of her own inadequacies and desperate for the power to protect, instead takes the path intended for him. Where exactly it leads, though, is into the company of people so strange even her wildest dreams couldn't conjure them all. (eventual ItaSaku; rating may go up to Mature)