For: sundance1989
Prompt: skateboard
Pairing: SasuSaku
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto.
a/n: This was originally going to be a prompt series, but I loved this one by itself so much that I wanted to make it a oneshot. Sorry if it's too short! Enjoy!
KALEIDOSCOPE
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She rides her skateboard on the sidewalk, a blur of spring. Pink hair and green eyes that reflect like sunlight off a lake is all passersby see as she races past them, her smile too beautiful, too beautiful, too beautiful to be fair.
She doesn't see him.
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He walks to work every morning, because driving is too much of a hassle when his blond-loud-mouthed-stupid-idiotic-person-thing-enemy-rival-best friend insists on waking early each day (surprisingly) and stealing his car to escape to his fiancé Hinata's house for the day, before he, the blond's dark-haired-sarcastic-cold-genius-beautiful-enemy-rival-socially-retarded-best friend, catches him.
He sets down his briefcase for a moment to check his phone, ignoring the eyes of the women around him who watch him like he is all they will ever want.
He doesn't see her.
"—Hey, look out, stupid!" she screams, seeing him too late, too late—
They tangle together, a twisted mess of limbs and black eyes and pink hair and green eyes and white skin and first impressions.
His first thought is that it's like being thrown into a kaleidoscope.
He has never been attacked so viciously and intensely with such vivid, heart-stopping color. It's like realizing that his whole life was monochromatic until he fell into a rainbow and remembered what it was like to remember what he thought he didn't need.
Her first thought is that it's like everything simply drained of color.
She has never seen such striking white and black—dark blackness that's somehow still a color and isn't death. It's like realizing that her whole life was full of color until she saw what she thought she'd never miss, because black and white were never colors that she didn't know she didn't have.
And then she realizes that he's studying her, so intensely that she thinks she might burn.
"I'm sorry for crashing into you, you know," she says eventually. "I didn't see you."
He sits up, still looking at her. He can't get enough of how full of life she is, how different she is from him.
And then he comes back to his senses and look away. He silently gets to his feet, a man who has just realized that he wants what he can't have.
"…It's fine," he mutters finally. "I didn't… see you either."
All they'd both seen were colors, and the sounds of their lives colliding with heaven.
I never saw you until I truly saw myself.
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