Hold me
::Kakashi x Sakura::
Sing for me, she said. Sing for me and make the monsters go away.
I don't know how to sing anymore, he replied, eyes sad and defeated and broken.
Then tell me a story, she pressed. Tell me a story to make the pain go away.
All the stories I have to tell, he murmured, are of death.
Silence then, as she didn't know what else to say. The man seemed adamant, so very sure of what he was, what he had been shaped into. And so she reached out her wide, young arms, green eyes hopeful and naive. She held out her arms and said, Hold me.
The man didn't know what to do, so he started to walk away. The girl continued to stretch out her arms, though. Hold me, she said again, Hold me and together we'll make the monsters go away.
And because the man was weak, and because he was broken, he did. He held her and she held him, and even as some of their worries thawed in the glow of the other, the man knew that it was only a short amount of time before this joy, this light, went out too.
E.N.
Will I ever write a light-hearted, funny Kakashi?
Will I ever write something happy?
Stay tuned to find out.
Riza