I know its been a while and I would like to start this off by apologizing those out there that followed the stories I uploaded here. I've been going through a tough time that has made it impossible for me to write anything. Recently, I've been getting reviews on fics, and I have to say that seeing some people are still enjoying my work, asking me to continue stories that they love has really helped me and given me the push I needed to write again. I don't know of this is good or bad or anything at all. But it's Sasusaku. So there's that. As for my other stories..I'm trying, and will definitely continue some of not all of them soon.

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LIMERENCE

You never made me any empty promises. Never used words to soothe my worries. But you never pushed me away either. I look upon you now, older, more messed up than when you left. And I still want it. I want you to make empty promises. I want to be soothed with words. I want to feel your lips, your breath, your fingertips on my skin.

So why have I frozen? I see a lifetime for us in the breath of a moment. But you're not there. Our moments are fleeting and disappear like a fog being blown away. Your eyes, those eyes that never miss a thing, haunt me, taunt me of things that could be. And I surrender. Dreams, long forgotten, are written in my heart once again and I light up, the shadow finally breaking away from me.

You stare down at me, waiting for an answer that's on the tip of my tongue, threatening to slip out. Why don't I just say it? You can ask me again and I'm shaking. My throat is dry. Speak to me, say it again so I can carve it into my mind. Your voice swims in my mind long after the silence stretches out between us. I want you to embrace me. Me who is stilled for the first time by your words. Clouds pass like hours. Sakuras wilted like the time and distance between us. You wait patiently for that one word, unmoving in my onslaught of quiet emotions and I stand under the downpour, falling into you and in your arms, I bleed light.

And with that one word, in a world that belongs only to me under those all seeing eyes that are now fixed steadily only on me - I rise again.