disclaimer: naruto - nor any of it's characters - is not mine. it belongs to kishimoto masashi-sensei.
Checkmate
I see them sometimes. Together. Holding hands. Smiling.
Happy.
Yeah. Turns out even Uchiha Sasuke can be cheerful once you've gotten past the cold exterior.
When he's with the right person.
She didn't accept him straight away, though as her best friend I could tell she was dithering inside. It isn't easy to completely forget the utter adoration you've held for 'just some boy', especially if you're seventeen-going-on-eighteen and the adoration in question has lasted since you were five years old.
It came eventually. He softened up, she soften up…A match made in heaven. They rekindled that little spark they had before, which blossomed into love…
The rest, as they say, is history.
Now I get to listen to her babble about how furious her parents were when they found out she was dating Mr traitor-to-the-village, and about how romantic he could be, and about her dreams - her not-so-secret-dreams - to become Mrs Uchiha Sakura. I have to plaster a grin on my face and attempt to lose myself in upbeat chatter about her future.
A future that could have easily been mine, if I hadn't been so proud.
Sakura thinks she's won, but she hasn't. She can dimple up at him and sing out-of-tune love songs while most of the village girls whisper about how somebody so…Sakura-ish could be with, and I quote, 'the most perfect guy on earth; a walking God', but I live with the knowledge that I'm the real winner.
I had to pretend I'd forgotten about my adoration for him when it was declared that he would be killed on sight. I had to distance myself from my feelings when it became clear that he was getting into a bad place, and that I had to put my duty as a shinobi first.
How many times did I wish to invoke Uchiha Sasuke's romantic side? How many times did I dreams of becoming Mrs Uchiha Ino? No. For the sake of the law, all that had to take a back seat, and now it comes back to me every time I look at them.
Haruno Sakura cannot be the perfect girl for Uchiha Sasuke because she does not know of certain things that I will have to live with my entire life.
Loss. Pain. Heart ache.
I have won this childish 'game' we started back when we were kids. Checkmate.
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so i don't really like sakura all that much, and ino has become one of my favourite characters…plus this idea wouldn't leave me alone. voila.
oh, and m-chan, if you read this, i'm sorry the fic count is now on an odd number. i couldn't help myself.
reviews would be nice ^-^