hi! haha this is my first so be nice...or else :
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto :(
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She ran, panting, down the dark street. Her feet pounding the ground lightly, perspiration making her pink hair cling to her forehead. The darkness wrapped around her slight pale body, shadows twisting across her skin. She ran blindly with no thought other than her goal. Her heart raced along with her feet, as she thought of the person she was racing forward to. Racing to save him, to stop him, to love him.
Her heart twisted with familiar pain, as she rounded a sharp corner. She loved him, but he did not love her. Her teeth clenched together in anxiety. Would that be enough? Would her love be able to stop him? Her determination hardened and she increased her pace.
It would have to be enough…
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He stood in the moonlight gazing down, his eyes searching the small framed photo that rested on his desk. He clenched his backpack tightly as he raked the photo ruthlessly with his ebony gaze. A small mirthless laugh escaped his lips as he realized that no matter how many times he searched the faces of his comrades, frozen forever in a moment of happiness, he could no longer find a reason to remain here. Here where he woke up each day to weakness. His weakness. Here where no matter how hard he trained, no matter how much his muscles strengthened, no matter how much his chakra increased, it would never be enough.
His eyes lingered one last time on the faces of his closest and only friends in the whole world, naruto with his idiotic toothy smile, kakashi sensei with his face half hidden, somehow managing to smile with his eyes, sakura…
He turned his face sharply away from her sweet grin and slammed the picture down smartly before turning on his heel and crossing the floor of his small apartment in quick easy strides. The door clocked closed softly behind him as he turned his back on all that was familiar and safe. He slipped unnoticed down the streets of konoha, relieved and at the same time a part of him was disappointed that no one was around to stop him…
He shook the thought off quickly. He didn't wish to be stopped.
Not tonight…
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Her heart beat painfully against her chest as she rounded another dusky corner and came face to face with her goal.
Her feet slowed, her heart stuttered, her breath stopped. His hard dark eyes clashed with her pained emerald ones. Her breath finely found her as his gazed pierced her and she gasped. His pack was filled and secured around him, as well as the kunai holster in its usual place.
"Why are you prowling around here in the middle of the night?" he asked shortly
She flinched slightly. Her panic was overwhelming but she managed a reply, "I knew you would come this way…if you were going to leave…so I came."
His eyes never left hers as he said, "Get lost…go back to sleep." His voice was empty of any emotion.
Panic was taking over now. She was loosing him.
He moved forward and smoothly passed her, close enough to brush her clothes. She closed her eyes and breathed in the scent of him. The scent she loved. It was of pine needles and wind and all things wild.
She squeezed her eyes shut. Afraid that if she opened them the tears she had been holding in would break through and he would remember seeing her for the last time as a blubbering little fool.
His footsteps moved steadily away form her. She dug her fingernails into her palms, grateful for the distraction of one pain to lessen another.
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His footsteps echoed
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She flinched with every step, biting her lip to keep from crying, screaming.
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She only had to endure a little longer. Blood flowed from where her nails bit into her soft little palms.
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Suddenly words burst from between her lips, "I may have friends and family…but if you were to leave…"
His footsteps halted. She almost cried out in delight.
"To me...it would be the same as your loneliness" the words just kept coming now and she let her tears flow as she turned to face the boy she loved. The boy who only thought of her as a nuisance. Annoying.
She could care less. "I love you with all my heart!" she shouted the words she had been so afraid to even whisper before…so very afraid.
"Stay with me," she sobbed, "or take me with you if you can't stay here." She really was blubbering now, sniffing and hysterical wiping at the tears that would not stop coming.
"You really are…" his voice was low and steady.
She stopped wiping at her tears and looked up at him as he turned to face her with that heartbreakingly beautiful face of his. Her hopes soared.
"Annoying." He smirked that familiar smirk. Her green watery eyes widened as her hope died in flight.
"Don't leave!" she shouted. She was all panic now, anything to keep him from leaving. "If you leave I'll scream!"
He moved, faster than she could follow. She felt his presence behind her. She breathed in his wild scent and felt his warm breath on the back of her neck.
"Sakura…Thank you." His lips moved next to her ear so close thy brushed her skin when he spoke, a lovers whisper. She reveled in the feeling…
A sharp pain in the back of her head, and she fell into darkness…
"Sasuke…"
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I woke in a cold sweat with his name still on my lips. My lip quivered and my eyes stung with tears. I hated myself for it.
I sat up in the moonlight and buried my face in the sheets, rumpled from my restless sleep. Why couldn't I forget about him? It had been over seven months and still the thought of him brought tears to my eyes. I was weak.
I clenched the sheets with knuckles bruised from lady tsunade's demanding training. My body had gotten strong with her help. All my girlish softness had been turned into lean muscle and my powers of medical jutsu were growing as well. I had grown tall and I was very cunning in battle, using all my strength to their greatest advantage. Yes my body was now strong but inside I was still so weak.
My sheets absorbed the last of my tears. I laughed bitterly as I looked at the dark stains they had left. My conscience wasn't kind to me.
"Sakura you idiot, why do you waste your tears on him? He's forgotten all about you"
"I know… " I whispered to myself. I felt a familiar surge of anger bubble up inside me towards sauske. My jaw tightened and I flew out of bed, pausing only to pull some shorts on to accompany the black tank top I had slept in. I had been through this damn cycle too may times by now and i knew I would get no rest tonight.
I grinned slightly at the thought of prowling konoha in the dark with only the moonlight and the wind in my face. i needed a release for this anger and the best way I knew was through training. I ruffled my short hair and stretched to wake myself a little, glanging at the clock that sat on my nightstand.
3:45 am.
Good. Nobody would be around at this hour. I had the training field all to myself.
Throwing open my bedroom window, I leaned out onto the windowsill and welcomed the night with its cool breeze and calming skies. There was just a sliver of the moon left tonight but my eyesight was keen. It would be enough.
I paused only to smile at the thought of the oncoming night before I lept out my window, away from the bad memories and towards the thrill of the sleeping city streets below me.
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Hope you liked it! I had a lot of fun writing this and actualy put a considerable amount of time into it so please be nice! Im not against constructive criticism though...