Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto, but I do own my song.

Note: The song is titled "Midnight Dream." Kinda corny, but I can't think of anything else right now. Please enjoy; this fic took me 20 minutes to write, but I haven't posted a SasuSaku in ages. Enjoy, and please don't kill me for the canon pairing!

Let me Dream

Kyuubi Seitenshi

Because life is complicated enough as it is. Because forgetting is easier than remembering. And because their story had always been told… even before it happened.

Romeo and Juliet were their names; whether left in their Shakespearian form or given to their masters in the Japanese tongue, it mattered not. They were the very representations of Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura.

Close your eyes,

And hold out your hands;

Nightmares are raining from the heavens.

She was ANBU. He was a missing nin. Why she never brought him back or reported their meetings, he still did not know. Though familiar, their walks of life had taken nightmarishly different paths, and yet she could still find the courage to do something… like this… Just simply holding his hand. Walking through the woods in the rain.

In a mist of falling tears

Our hearts are being torn;

Sweetheart, can you mend the pieces?

Mist drifted around their ankles, and left water on their toes. Grass shuffled noiselessly beneath their boots. Her voice would drift softly to him, but would die to others; the rain holding them in, as a shield. Her words? Sometimes he would forget, losing himself in only the tones that cascaded over his ears. Of course, matters of importance were strictly off limits. Only inconsequential things, if anything at all, were shared.

Don't whisper the fateful words;

They're what put us here…

Darling, don't say "I love you,"

When all the walls have ears.

"Sakura…"

"Almost time to wake up, isn't it?" They both know what she means. This is the little piece of dream, inside the waking nightmare they are living. Forlorn gray-green smiles sadly at the sky, rain streaking down her face in place of tears. She had forbidden herself from crying. "Stupid dreams… they always end too quickly."

"… I know…"

Don't wake me up;

Don't dispel the final dream.

Don't say the words I want to hear;

They'll be the last of this fading scene.

In a midnight dream…

Where we meet…

A feather-light brush of his lips against her cheek, and all that is left, is his memory. If one were to cast a glance at the ground, there would be but one set of footprints, and the path would only show that one person had passed through the embrace of the leafed branches.

Sayonara, sanity.

Dreams are my favorite reality.

Don't bring me to the waking world;

Leave me… let me dream…

AN: Whee! Angsty SasuSaku is definately the best SasuSaku. At least in my opinion. (cacklez) Please enjoy and review, minna-san!

Midnight Dream (c) The Nine-tailed Angel Projects 2007