TITLE: A Night's Reminisce
WORD COUNT: 355
NOTES: 1st person in Sakura's POV. From 482 onwards, but does not follow canon. Thank you Anime Siren, for her wonderful beta-ing.
SUMMARY: I wish that morning never comes.
It isn't every day that I get to see such a childlike, innocent, and peaceful Sasuke-kun. He's sleeping next to me, all defenses are down and I know that he is the same boy that I fell in love with during my childhood.
Three years fleeted past us and before I knew it, everyone was leading different lives down the road of life. But when I think about it, nothing much has really changed. I am still Haruno Sakura, the girl who is head-over-heels in love with Sasuke-kun. I still love Sasuke-kun, no matter how much I try to deny it. As well as Sasuke-kun still being the same boy who carves his own path with his ambitions.
I've already spent a week with his team. Although it was my choice to go with Sasuke-kun, I feel scared, unprotected, and misplaced. Karin loathes me; often pulling tricks to deliberately harm me, and her other two teammates make no attempt to help me; as if I am invisible to them.
When Sasuke-kun sleeps, I feel as if we are team seven all over again. When he sleeps, he looks less like a stranger – a monster—than he is during daybreak. It is when he is asleep that I feel close to him, as if I can actually reach out to him. When he is asleep, I know that I've made the right choice in not killing him.
Awake, we are strangers to one another. I am the girl who foolishly went after the boy who "died" so long ago, and he is the calculative, manipulative man who uses me to heal the team's wounds. Night is the time when ambitions do not take place. There is no Uchiha – there is only Sasuke. No revenge. There is no Konoha. No team Taka.
Of course, like Cinderella, when morning comes, he will be Uchiha Sasuke again. Like a broken spell in a fairy tale, the image of the sleeping innocent boy will shatter, and he will transform back into a monster.
As for me, I will watch him from the shadows, healing his team; once again wondering how he isn't feeling pain with such a burdensome goal and if not killing him was the right choice.