This was a request fic done for mistyladybug on LJ. I don't own Naruto. Have a good day.
'Thank you...' was what he'd said back then, and she hadn't forgotten it. With just that, she'd known he'd return someday.
Over the years she'd gotten stronger, in mind and in body. She'd waited, trained, and suffered silently those years, her love never fading, and in the end, it all paid off.
Nobody expected Uchiha Sasuke to simply walk back through the gates of Konoha unbidden, blood caked on his clothes, in his hair, peeling in tiny dried flecks off of his ivory skin. But shouldn't they have known by now to expect the unexpected?
She'd been waiting, and he'd finally come home to her. 'I did it...' he said, as she clung to him tightly, and he let her. 'I'm ready now...' he whispered, and she gave herself to him as she'd been wanting to all these years.
Tears were kissed away by lips not quite as soft as she'd expected, but they were his, and that was what mattered. Years of invisible wounds and scars were healed and smoothed over by rough but gentle hands she'd waited her entire life to feel, warming her from the inside out and sending shivers down her spine.
They needed no words to convey their feelings, their actions speaking clearly enough as she pulled him closer and he gave her everything of himself. His fingers twined carefully through soft pink hair as skin met skin, heat met heat, breaths and heartbeats tangling together in the small space between them as lips danced over offered skin and they gave in completely to each other, deeper than they'd let anyone ever before.
And as they lay there in the aftermath, a mess of limbs and sweat and other things, she lovingly stroked his messy raven hair and smiled. 'I love you, Sasuke...' she told him, and even though he didn't say it back, she knew that he did, too, and that he just wasn't ready to voice it yet.
She was whole again, now that he'd returned, and she realized that this was what happiness really felt like.
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