An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Words: 5,298 SasuSaku Team as Family SakuIno friendship “I’m s-sorry I keep killing people.”
“Stop. You save people.” Defying him, at a time like this. In her worst moments, or perhaps her best, she is difficult to bend. A habit now ingrained, he rubs a thumb across her cheekbone, a fixation, like it will bind her to the earth and to him.
(You’re not worth saving, you never have been.)
❦
The hospital is infiltrated; they face the unknown specter of betrayal.








