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Sunny Side Up

~  “There’s always a first time with you.”

SasuSaku Month 2015

Week 3: Interlude Day 18: Out of the Woods

It felt like such a huge weight was lifted off her shoulders when she realized that they were no longer on opposing sides of the battlefield, no longer enemies and once again comrades. It was like a storm finally cleared.

They spend more time together than apart nowadays. Days spent training, in the hospital, or just being just flew by. That weekend he was staying at her apartment, Naruto and Kakashi were in Suna for Hokage duties and although Sasuke insisted it wasn’t necessary they all knew he didn’t want to be alone at night.

It was a Saturday morning when she woke up to the smell on breakfast. For a moment she had forgotten Sasuke was even there and after a small trip to the bathroom she headed for the kitchen she was pleasantly surprised to find him there.

“It smells delicious.” She says as she takes a sit in a small stool knowing full well he wouldn’t like her meddling in the kitchen.

He scoffs in response and she holds the urge to roll her eyes at him. “It’s simple breakfast.” He replies and a light blush takes over her cheeks. Eggs and toast, but they really did smell wonderfully.

“It’s been a long time since anyone’s made me breakfast.” She smiles over at him and the soft expression on his face makes her heart speed up on her chest.

He returns to his work in silence and somehow he makes cooking breakfast seem interesting. He works somewhat awkwardly with his single arm but it’s like he’s following a mental recipe by the way he does things. She can’t help but wonder whether it’s his mother or his brother the one he’s remembering.

He serves their plates and even orange juice before settling across from her in the counter, eating on his feet.

It’s not only after a few minutes have passed when he decides to speak. “I’ve never made anyone breakfast.” She can only turn to him muted by his words by the realization that he was too young back then. “But I guess there’s always a first time with you.” He adds, a smirk making its way to his lips.

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Healthy Competition

~ He settles for glaring because how dare he.

SasuSaku Month 2015

Week 3: Interlude Day 17: Raw

Word travels fast, but he travels faster. He makes his way back to Konoha the moment he hears Konoha’s heroine is taken, he’s taken aback by the word. What a shame they say you don’t find a woman like that twice in a life time. Sasuke can’t help but agree with the strangers.

Sasuke sets eyes on the competition the moment he enters the hospital, he scoffs. Nothing special. Civilian, dark eyes, dark hair, no real expression on his face. It’s no competition to him and for a moment he can’t believe he was actually worried.

But then he seems to say something, too quietly from him to hear among all the other people, and she laughs. That amazing laugh of hers and his gaze turns to the competition with a glare.

He keeps talking, as if not feeling his glare burn a hole in his back and her smile widens while a blush creeps to her cheeks.

Questions start to race around his mind, petty questions. Like, how long has it been going on? How dare he even look at her? How dare she smile at him like that looking so beautiful? He knows half his questions would be met by a glare from her part.

So he settles for glaring over at the little scum, because how dare he.

He walks over their direction before he even notices what he’s doing, hands balled up into fists ready to scare that little wimp back home to his mother so badly Naruto would probably have to kick him out the village.

He steps between them before thinking it twice and Sakura is too stunned by his sudden presence to react. “What do you think you’re doing?” He asks as his glare intensifies. The boy, not yet a man, opens his mouth to speak but nothing comes out. His eyes widen and Sasuke’s never been so glad that his reputation as a criminal precedes him.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing Sasuke-kun?” She asks snapping him out of his trance. He turns to her slowly bracing himself for the glare and sure enough it’s there, but there’s also an amused smile playing at the corner of her lips.

“You belong with me, not him.” And suddenly he sounds like a spoiled little kid. She chuckles and turns back to the boy.

“Riku, you better leave before Sasuke-kun here gets the wrong idea.” She tries to hold back the smile, but Sasuke can see it, teasing him. The boy practically runs out of the hospital. “What has gotten into you? I love you.” And the way she spells it out to him makes him feel silly.

a/n: For anon! It’s late but I needed things for SS month, hope it was worth the wait. Jealous Sasuke is too amusing. :P Thanks for reading! :)

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Someone is Waiting

~ The worst is behind him.

SasuSaku Month 2015

Week 3: Interlude Day 16: “Even the Darkest Night will End and the Sun will Rise”

During the short year he’s spent in Konoha after the war he’s realized that the worst is behind him. There’s no need to be alone anymore, to face the world by himself and that somehow he is loved.

He doesn’t understand the ‘why’ but he knows this to be a fact.

“You didn’t have to come all the way here to walk me home.” She tells him rolling her eyes at him, he knows how silly he must look doing the most trivial of things only to be in her presence. “I’m a big girl.” She chuckles going a few steps in front of him.

He’s left to watch her back and his eyes roam over her form, she is breathtaking. Her hair is up in a messy pony tail, her posture tired, and the shirt she wears to protect herself from the cold a little too big.

She turns to him then, suddenly, and he does nothing to disguise the fact that he was staring at her. “Are you even listening to me?” She sighs, probably deducing his answer because of his expression. “I was asking you if you’re ready for tomorrow.”

She does well disguising the sadness in her voice, but still, it doesn’t go past him. “Aa. I just need to pack a few things.” She nods but doesn’t speak and instead bring their walk to a halt.

For the longest time, she doesn’t say anything, her gaze upward, staring at the moon. “I’ll miss you.” She finally says, her voice a mere whisper.

The moon illuminates her face and makes her eyes shine and for a moment he just stares at the sight, a memory to take with him when the nights seem bleak. There’ll be someone waiting for him.

He walks over to her and when she turns to him he can’t help but be aware of how close they really are. He opens his mouth to speak to tell her what he knows to be true but he finds that the words don’t come easy.

Even if it’s the truest, most purest thing, he’s ever felt they stick in his throat and he’s unable to utter a word.

“I’ll come back to you,” He says instead. “I’ll come back home.”

He realizes under a starless night while looking into her eyes.

The best is yet to come.

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Nightmares with a Name

~  And lately she’s the only real thing in his life.

SasuSaku Month 2015

Week 3: Interlude Day 15: Eye of the Storm

It takes a long time before he can get used to being on the side with no bloodshed, of dealing and accepting the blood on his hands, and the almost complete erasure of the Uchiha name. In result he gets no sleep.

Whether is insomnia or nightmares he’s always awake and darkness is no longer a refuge.

For the fourth time that night he wakes up in screams and before he can calm down she’s there rushing through the door to his side. It’s dark but her features illuminate the room and her voice helps him calm down if at least somewhat.

“I’m here.” She says, her voice reassuring, her hand wrapping around his; and lately she’s the only real thing in his life. “What was it this time?” She asks knowing that every one of his screams has a name. “You don’t have to tell me.” She adds after a moment of silence and Sasuke can only look at her his hand holding on to hers tightly.

He opens his mouth to speak, but doesn’t say anything. Instead he raises what remains of his arm and brings it to her chest where her heart is. She only stares at him with a question in her eyes.

“You.”

He can see it in her eyes, how with only a single word she understands. “If you need to talk, I’m here.” And there is no pressure in her words, no reproach, just understanding that he doesn’t think he deserves.

“Tonight you died.” The words don’t come out easily, she frowns but nods in response, nothing else needs to be said.

“Sasuke-kun, I can help with the nightmares.” She tells him and suddenly she’s back to medic mode. “There’s this technique where I can use chakra to relieve you of the stress that causes the nightmares-”

“There’s no need.” He sighs but there she goes opening her mouth to protest.

“But-”

“I said there’s no need, you’re doing more than enough.” His worse are harsher than intended, but she remains unmoving and unfazed by his tone of voice.

“I’m not doing anything…” She tells him not noticing that she’s doing everything without doing nothing at all.

“Your presence is enough to chase away the nightmares.”

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Tomatoes and Baths

~ “My face is probably as red as a tomato.”

SasuSaku Month 2015

Week 3: Interlude Day 14: Hunger

“We should get out before the heat gets to us.” Kakashi reasons looking lazily over at his two male students. Naruto shrugs his shoulders while Sasuke just sinks deeper into the water not paying the gray haired ninja any attention. “You guys heard me?”

“Fine, it’s not like this is any fun.” Naruto replies his lips setting into a pout. “You know with Sakura being hidden by that damn wall.” The blonde turns to shoot the partition dividing the baths a dirty look.

Kakashi can’t find it in him to blame him and his disappointment, a mixed bath would have been way more enjoyable, that’s something all male members of Team 7 can agree on.

“Let’s go grab a bite to eat.” Naruto declares as he turns to Sasuke who is silent, even more than usual. “You listening teme, aren’t you hungry?”

Sasuke’s gaze turns to Naruto. “Aa.” He breathes before submerging once again into the water and making bubbles with his mouth. Naruto and Kakashi both shared a look of amusement at Sasuke’s expense.

Sasuke only stopped his foolishness as he heard a very distinct voice from the other side of the partition. It was unmistakably Sakura. “I should probably get out soon.” She groans and he turns to glare at the wall between them quickly taking a stand from the water.

“My face is probably as red as a tomato.” Sasuke only heard the last word in her sentence and all his mind could coherently put together is that he was hungry, starving, and there was a tomato somewhere. A ripe, red, juicy, and delicious tomato waiting just for him to sink his teeth into.

Tomato.

He doesn’t understand why Naruto is yelling at him the way he is as he climbs up the partition, wasn’t he the one that said they should grab a bite to eat?

To-ma-to.

And he certainly doesn’t understand why Sakura looks so in shock. “What the hell are you doing?” He didn’t deem her question important enough to answer, wasn’t it obvious?

“Sasuke-kun!” She yells, slightly snapping him out of his thoughts, at least enough for him to actually look at her. “You shouldn’t be here.” She tells him, hiding beneath the water and covering herself as much as possible, blushing nine shades of red.

“But why? You look good enough to eat.”

a/n: For honeyvonbunny, I don’t even think you remember I owed you this. It’s ooc as fuck but it finally turned out as I wanted it.

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Already Gone

~ Only a small moment in their hands to share.

SasuSaku Month 2015

Week 3: Interlude Day 13: 2am

When she sees him in the distance she’s sure it’s only a figment of her own doing, a manifestation of her desires. The way the moonlight illuminates him makes him look unreal, so she doesn’t trust her eyes. But she can feel his presence strong and suffocating in the air around her.

“Sasuke-kun!” She calls just loud enough for him to hear, his reaction doesn’t hurt her as much as it would have years ago.

His body tenses at the sound of her voice, like he recognizes her immediately or at least that’s what she wants to think. That maybe he remembers her as she remembers him, and just maybe at two in the morning their feelings share a connection.

But he runs.

So she runs behind him.

.

.

.

Their interactions are based on the touch, on the taste, on the sound, but they don’t speak. They lie on a small bed in a small room, with only a small moment in their hands to share. She still feels his touch all around her, she can hear her own heart beating in her chest threatening to explode with pure glee.

She doesn’t ask how much it will last because she knows the answer. It’s an answer she can see in his too dark eyes as well as the confirmation that his feelings don’t mirror hers.

All they can hear is their breathing and the mismatched sound of their heartbeats.

“Sasuke-kun…” His gaze is guarded and again his body tenses at the sound of her voice. She reaches out her hand to his cheek almost to see if her dreams didn’t turn a little more imaginative.

But before she can reach his arm takes a hold of her wrist, his hold is gentle yet firm and although she could overpower him in a second, she doesn’t. She doesn’t want to be his enemy, not there, not now.

“I love you.” She tells him and as she does he puts an invisible wall between them while his eyes regard her in a careful manner. It’s not like she’s an enemy, but a danger.

“Sakura…” She holds on to the sound of his voice, to the look in his eyes and to the unspoken words she sees in them. And once again she doesn’t know the meaning behind them.

.  .  .

The moment she wakes up she knows she got too close.

He’s already gone.

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There’s no Rising From that Low

~ No longer Sakura and just Sakura.

SasuSaku Month 2015

Week 3: Interlude Day 12: White Flag

They meet under a sky that knows every twist and turn of their story, that knows their every success, their every failure. It has heard hushed words of love, has seen the hidden expressions, and knows better than they do how it’ll end.

Face to face, but further away than ever before, it’s a tragedy waiting to happen. The day’s light shines upon them, not a cloud in sight, the sky will cry later when it’s all set and done.

She holds a weapon at his back, just inches apart, a thrust away from ending his life. But there she is, frozen in place and unable to move.

And in his eyes she’s a traitor, ready to stab him in the back with words of love falling off her lips. A stranger in the mask of a loved one. His heart, a heart he didn’t know he had, breaks at the realization that she’s just as bad, just as sinister as the rest of them. He can see the Sakura, his Sakura, in her eyes, he can see the love that she preaches in her green depths, feel her presence behind him one he knows so well.

But it’s no longer her.

It’s a liar and he’s fallen for her every word.

“That’s when it all began though…you and me…”

Suddenly she’s no longer untouchable, no longer Sakura and just Sakura. He remembers her teary eyes her voice as it broke at the end. He turns, head throbbing, everything in him telling him not to but he does not listen.

“If you were to leave me I would be as alone as you.”

His hands wrapped around her neck, pulse quickening under his touch, all he sees are patches of color, that remind him so much of her, of that little girl that he could not touch the one he needed to protect.

And her lies, every little one of them can’t erase the reality of his feelings. His anger doesn’t help him forget her words, it’s only for a single moment that he feels he can’t do it.

But he does.

His hold tightens around her neck

“I love you with all my heart! I would do anything for you…so please stay with me!”

By the time she’s out of his grasp, staring at him from a safe distance, he sees it all in her eyes. All that was then, is there still.

It is then that he knows he’s a monster.