My first SasuSaku fic in a while...Honestly, I wrote this over a year ago. Oh well SasuSaku:3
My boots slide on the hard cement and I crouch down to bring myself to a halt. I stand quickly, dashing down the corridor and towards someone I've been chasing for much too long. Naruto is far ahead of me, and the kyuubi chakra is causing him to begin to lose control.
"Sasuke-kun!" The sun light nearly blinds me as the hallway ends and Naruto leaps at his former teammate, fire in his eyes. Sasuke doesn't respond much, simply whopping his arm out and smacking Naruto back towards the ground. I catch his now limp body and clutch it close. Sasuke jumps down from his perch above, now only feet away. My heart is pounding, adrenalin taking over.
"Still protecting him...Sakura...?" The cold voice sends a shiver down my spine, though the day is warm. "Whatever happened to your precious sediments...? "I love you", and "I'd do anything for you." Where did your enthusiasm go...? You were the first girl I cared for since my mother. And now, you can't even look at me without fear in your eyes!" Sasuke hisses. I am struck speechless by the force of his words, and I cling tighter to Naruto. He who betrayed us...is angered at me.
"How...?" My voice quivers slightly with my weak whisper. Sasuke steps forward again and I flinch.
"What was that?" Sasuke's voice is cruel as he asks his question.
"HOW, Sasuke-kun!? How?" My words are filled with passion and I pour the little strength I have left into saying what I feel I must say. "You're an idiot, a fool. You create bonds with people and then you break them and hurt the people you love. What good does that do you? You are simply hurting yourself. I LOVED you! You could have been happy! Now what will you do? No one will ever love you like I did. Even if you do kill Itachi, your clan will not live on. By betraying us you crushed your own dream."
Sasuke's shock was obvious as his eyes widened, and tears leaked slowly from mine. "I do love you...I'd do anything for you. Why can't you see that? Yet, I would never leave the other people I love. Naruto, Kakashi-sensei, Ino, my family...As much as I love you, I WILL NOT HURT THEM! No, not even for you." I force my voice to keep from shaking. I set Naruto on the ground and stand, eyes on Sasuke. I take a step closer to him. I know he could kill me right now, and I'm unprepared. "How do you feel?"
Sasuke opens his mouth to speak, and his eyes drop to the ground slowly. The feeling is strange as I watch him mutter words I never expected. "Sakura, you were the first girl I was able to accept. You accepted me and loved me for who I was. I was scared, because it didn't make sense. So I ran..." He walks closer to me, and I fear he can hear my racing heart. He reaches his hand to my face and presses it to my cheek. He brushes away my tears and leans down, his eyes half closed. His lips over, centimeters away from mine before I close my eyes and he kisses me.
His touch is strangely gentle. The kiss is tender and different. How is that possible? If anything I expected something almost violent. This is nothing like what I expected. Someone who had tried to kill me, who had broken friendship with one of the most important people in my life...how could he kiss me so softly?
"Sasuke-kun..." My voice is a bit off centered. I've never been kissed before, and I honestly have no idea what to do, or to say. I feel light headed, like I might faint soon. "Thank you."
"You too, Sakura. You too."
My eye lids grow heavy and dull after he speaks, and I wobbled on my feet. Before I faint, however, tender arms catch me. For the first time in the longest of times, I feel content.
Aaaaand there you have it. xD Not much, really.