Characters: Sakura, Ino
Summary: Can a trust once broken ever be repaired?
Pairings: SasuSaku, SasuIno
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
It's an issue of trust, and what destroyed "them" in the first place is that Sakura so quickly forsook all her trust in Ino, abandoned all her faith, and chose to live on assumptions. Chose to believe that Ino had some deep, dark motive for not telling her she had a crush on Sasuke.
And maybe, maybe Sakura regrets that. If she does, she won't ever say anything to Ino, or to anyone else. She's got too much pride to go back and admit that she was wrong.
Can a trust once broken ever be repaired?
This is what Sakura asks herself, when she glances Ino from across the street and a grief with a song like an aching siren starts to shine melodies within her. There's been grief before but this is new, this feels more real than any of the others.
This is grief for what she threw away, something she discarded thoughtlessly without ever knowing its value.
Can she ever get it back?
Sakura frowns and muses and looks down at her hands and feet. It happened years ago; years as a gulf makes any apology inadequate and unable to convey the depths of her feelings. There are no words she can muster now, nothing that can just make it all go away.
If there is to be healing, it will have to be initiated by Sakura. She's the one who opened the breach; it must be her who starts the process of closing it.
It's been too long. They need, desperately, to be able to trust each other again.
Sakura will save this friendship. She'll resuscitate this friendship. And she'll inject trust back into it too.
Because a friendship without trust is as dead as a nin stuck full of kunai.
