desperate—sasu/saku
One would not associate the word desperate with her.
No, Haruno Sakura is a tough and prideful and headstrong, with a resolve solid as brick, with will burning like fire. Maybe it does not burn like Naruto's—bubbling and just about steaming, ready to burst into an explosion of hot lava, but it endures, and she has endured long. So, no, with all her responsibilities, with everything she has to do, Haruno Sakura does not have time to be desperate.
Except she is.
Because in the darkest and coldest of nights, during this war, her mind would constantly drift to places—or people—that borders with the desperation abyss. Like, for one, the black-haired boy who keeps waltzing in and out her life like it's some kind of a door. She'd scolded herself, numerous times. Countless, even. She shouldn't hang on—there are others, there will be others, and for the time being, she's needed, by her other best friend. And the entire shinobi world.
But as she sees him and as her name slips out of his lips, she feels herself falling all over again, she feels herself grabbing desperately to the last string of love and adoration she's devoted to him for years. She knows that eventually, one day, she'll still have to move on. And maybe, one day, she'll be able to.
But for now, she thinks helplessly, she'll keep holding on a bit longer, cherishing the small exchanges a bit more, and loving every part of him for a while. A desperate little part of her wishes and thinks and hopes that maybe, just maybe, one day she won't have to move on.
Maybe he's the one that will come around.
author note: so i just discovered an old playlist that i really liked (and still like) which i used to make an anthology in the past. aaand then i thought to make a song-challenge drabbles or whatever, but alas, i can't exactly do drabbles man i just go on and on and on and an average three and a half minutes doesn't really cut it. then suddenly this anthology is born.
stories will center around sasusaku or naruhina and their relationships, take place after the war, with shifting point of views for every stories. they'll mostly be romance/angst/hurt-comfort (because i'm an angst junkie that way...and this is a bedtime playlist full of sappy, sad and mellow songs) with ratings up to t. ehehe. hope you enjoy x