Bring Me Self-Confidence
She'd always admired him from afar. Had always seen him as someone she could love, but could never receive love from. She knew she would bring him down were she to end up with him, her shy, quiet nature suppressing his bubbly, happy self-confidence. And yet she doubted she would ever be with him, because she did not deserve him, a wretched, lonely creature like her. So she would do her best, push her limits, and work hard to be good enough for him, because only then would she be capable of not pulling him down.
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He knew she loved him, he wasn't as dense as people believed him to be, but he also knew that if he went to her, instead of waiting, she would stay in his shadow forever, never gaining self-confidence of her own, only drawing on his. He'd seen her start to step up at the Chuunin exams, but she still had a ways to go when it came to people.
Often, when he was by himself, he would want so badly to run to her and tell her that he knew how she felt, and that he felt the same, but he knew, if she didn't do it herself, she would never feel she was good enough, and she would never be able to stand on her own. And so he waited, watching her until she'd learn to stand up to him and make him listen. Only then could he let himself listen.
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-Squish Phillips
"There's no escaping me..."-Surrender, Evanescence
A/N: A request I agreed to fill, there you go!