Dislcaimer: I don't own Naruto

So here's a new oneshot series! I mean, there are quite a few of these, I'm sure, so thanks for clicking on mine. You may have seen me around from 'Pearl Eyes and Moonlight', but if not then it's a series of NaruHina oneshots. Shameless self-promotion aside, I hope you enjoy this new series! :)

Oh, the angst! Oh, how it burns within the SasuSaku relationship! Whelp, I'm not one to change that now, am I? Enjoy!

005. Fear

The eyes of the Sharingan had long been a weapon in war. So valued were they, that eyes would be stolen from another living person's face, in order to merely see as the Uchiha did. So treasured were they, that entire families would be slaughtered just for the bloody red eyes.

Many people looked at the Uchiha with fear, for their red eyes and their blank faces, holding calculating minds. And when the entire clan was wiped out, they were glad. There was a collective sigh of relief from the village as the threat of being placed into a red and black coma left them. But there was still one boy left.

They feared he would do them wrong. They were right.

She was the only woman who would look at him brazenly without a shred of fear in her eyes, when they were young. But as they grew up... That faded, and fear was all that pervaded her emerald eyes.

When he came back to the village after the long war finally ended, she could not look at him, not when those red eyes had made her see him stabbing her. Not when because of those red eyes, she'd thought she was dead.

But he coaxed her round, despite her mind's willing. He promised that he wouldn't use his eyes on her ever again in a snowy park, in December. She smiled at him, shyly, and nodded. Ino gave her such a lecture that night, and Hinata and TenTen understood how it felt to love that deeply, but they too looked at her with troubled faces. They too, didn't trust this man. They all looked at him with fear; fear over what he could do to her. And she was grateful, but her heart was not. Her heart wanted for her to click her fingers, and everything to change back to how it used to be. How she liked it being.

Naruto too tried to dissuade her, what with his serious face and earnest eyes that always seemed to disarm her. She wasn't used to this sincere Naruto, she was used to the joyous, effervescent Naruto, jumping around in bright orange.

"Sakura, he's my best friend, but I worry about you." He said gravely, cerulean eyes looking down at the thawing ground. "He showed you him killing you last time, and he has tried to kill you before. Who knows what he could do." He warned, speaking as though he were recounting a premonition. He must've seen the torn, painful look on her face because he took her out for Ramen then, and they didn't talk about it again. But she teased him about Hinata as much as she possibly could've.

Despite all their advice, she trusted him anyway. She spent her days in the hospital and her nights in his arms. She was happy, but the shreds of fear still remained in her eyes, slowly shrinking day by day.

Until finally, she wasn't scared anymore. She was happy - happy with to be with him. And her joy bloomed alongside the flowers of summer.

In the depths of the short nights, when the world finally cooled to black, she shot awake, and woke him up too amid a heavy sweat and tossing and turning.

His eyes glowed red in the darkness of their surroundings and she couldn't feel anything, see anything, smell anything or hear anything of her world anymore. All she saw were the falling petals covered in thick red blood. Blood, that she felt slide down her body tortuously slow. She heard a thousand swords being drawn, over and over, and she smelt his blood, the scent that burned and stung her nostrils, as he threw himself before her, over and over.

She didn't know how long that lasted. It felt like days, maybe weeks.

She awoke in a hospital bed, bright white sheets and walls and lights stinging her eyes. And all she could see as he stood over her was the bright red star no longer in his eyes, and the falling bloody blossoms.

The whole hospital heard her scream of fear.

So there we are! I hope you liked it, even if it did end on that note... Please review if you'd liked, and follow for updates. Thanks!