Overview: This will be my home for short pieces and fragments dreamed up by my muse. Nothing is set in stone.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor do I make any money by the writing of these stories.
Uncertainty
It was the thank you that troubled her more than anything. It was the infection that ate at the wound preventing it from ever truly closing. Festering with untold possibilities. Waking her in the dark taunting her.
It would have been easier if he'd just left. If he had walked out on them without a backward glance, moving without hesitation out of their lives and into that other world, but he hadn't, and sometimes, she cursed him for it.
Why the thank you?
What did he mean?
What had she ever done to merit his gratitude?
They had been team members, but she couldn't say that they had ever been especially close. So why, when he had already made up his mind to abandon everyone he knew, and betray all that they had been taught, did he take that one moment to stop and thank her?
Maybe this was what her wanted after all?
Maybe he wanted the to haunt her?
Maybe he knew that leaving her with a token of affection, something she had longed for, would eat at her and start to tear her world apart?
Part of her wanted to think that he wasn't that cruel, but other parts of her weren't as certain.
She wanted it to mean something, wanted it to be some sort of sign that no matter what happened no matter what he did that he still cared. That they still meant something to him, that walking away tore at him and left him with a matching wound, but there was no way of knowing that.
It was the uncertainty that plagued her, the lingering questions that fueled her restless nights, and stalked her weary days.
Author's note: This came to me today out of nowhere, so I decided to take the chance, and write it down. Thank you to those of you who took the time to read this. I haven't abandoned anything I've been writing, despite all evidence to the contrary. If you have some time I'd appreciate your input on the poll on my home page. I'd like to know if there is one story in particular that anyone would like updated first, it would help give me a little bit of much needed focus. Thank you very much to all of my readers, and reviewers it means a lot to me.