Too Little, Too Late.
Sasuke + Sakura
Sakura + Kakashi
Normal PoV
The two of them stood there , side by side as they watched the newly married couple dance softly in the distance.
The woman, in her late thirties, looked over to the man beside her and smiled before looking back at the now kissing couple.
He then looked over to her, sighed and said, " she will make a great addition to the Uchiha clan."
"Yes, I suppose that my daughter will. Sasuke."
Silence overcame the two as they stood, staring now at the couple as they laughed at a joke the father of the bride was currently saying.
Sakura smiled warmly as she watched her husband take their eldest daughter and dance. Sasuke looked at her and sighed softly before cupping her face in his hands and staring into her eyes, " Sakura, I love you"
No reaction.
" Sakura, I lo-"
"NO!"
Sakura immediately pulled away from him, from his words. " you, I , we, we can't Sasuke you know that."
Sasuke stared into her eyes as anger quickly flooded over him and he looked over to her husband, Hatake Kakashi.
" Is it because of him Sakura?" he asked, no demanded.
Sighing she looked at her husband and whispered , " I came here today to witness my daughter unite with the man she loves most, nothing more Sasuke."
Silence once again reigned over the two before Sakura decided to break it.
" I gave up on you, a long time ago. You should already know that. Whether or not I was married, you couldn't have expected me to still love you after what happened."
The two of them stared hard and long into each others eyes as they both knew that what she said was true. How could he expect her to love him after what he had done?
"wouldn't you care what Kori thought about your feelings?"
'sigh' " my wife died 5 years ago Sakura, you know that. Even in the living she knew of my feelings."
This time Sakura couldn't look him in the eye. She turned around preparing to walk away, walk away from him, from the pain.
' I have to tell him, so he will know' she thought.
" I love my husband Sasuke, I want you to know that."
" As much as you love me?"
She turned around to look him in the eyes, " As much as I loved you, Sasuke and probably more."
Sasuke couldn't help but flinch as she said loved.
The two of the stood there, looking into each others eyes for a moment before Sasuke grabbed her hand.
"Sasu-"
"Please,"
"please what?"
"Love me"
Silence
"Sakura, please, just this once. That's all I will ever need, please. Say it once and I will leave you to live with your husband and your children. I promise"
"Sasuke"
"Please,"
She couldn't bear it any longer, the way he looked at her. It just broke something inside of her ' I won't be like him. I give him this goodbye' and in an instant the two of them were in and intense embrace as they kissed the other passionately.
Minutes later the two of them broke apart, Sakura whispering 5 words that Sasuke had been waiting to hear for almost 18 years. ( they both are 38, he returned when they were 19 with a wife and a baby)
As the two of them broke apart they both went their separate ways,
"I'll always love you, Sasuke-kun"