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Summary: Because… this could be her last tomorrow.
Author's note(s): Gift-fic for Shadowed Mist-chan. Simply because you're so awesome. Cheer up! This one's for you!!!
Time
By: slstmaraudersjple
You watch her as she sleeps.
You mentally note the way she tends to shiver just the slightest if there's even the smallest breeze floating through her window, and you silently move and shut it in a way that it doesn't wake her.
Not that it matters, since you know – and Tsunade-sama told you – that she won't be waking up any time soon.
You glance back at her and notice the way she sleeps; she curls up into a ball, as if she's waiting for someone.
That someone being you. But you were such an ass back then; now that you're older and wiser (much wiser), you realize what you threw away, those precious foreverlasting bonds of friendship, and that it's (almost) too late to get them back.
No, you're not stalking her. You're just watching her.
Watching the fact that the room she's in isn't even her own room; it's a private room in Konoha Hospital.
Guarding her.
You were assigned her guard for doing this to her in the first place. But it's been two years. And she still hasn't woken up.
Protecting her.
From what?
An invisible enemy.
Not a person.
Not a thing.
But an invincible enemy, one that cannot be defeated.
Not even your brother, the one who you despise to kill so much for annihilating your clan, your precious family, especially your beloved parents.
But time.
Time is your worst enemy right now, and you're afraid you won't have enough.
Because, deep down, you know…
You won't have enough time.
You never will.
You're afraid that the very second, the very moment you your eyes off her, she'll be gone. And you'll have no one to blame but yourself.
Because you caused her so much pain and anguish in the past, and you want to make it up to her by protecting her future.
Because you never know…
Because…
This could be her last tomorrow.
FIN.
A/N: Ahhh! Please don't kill me! I don't DO endings like this, not usually. But I just couldn't think of a better way to write this. I hope you like it, Shadowed Mist-chan!
