Listening to coming-of-age songs from the hit TV show I've loved since I was a kid, when it first aired, Kim Possible. :D This is a three-shot, so nothing on a grandscale. Just each moment that counts in the lives of three favorite couples, set in modern day...
I own neither the songs, the characters, or either fandoms of Naruto and Kim Possible. They belong to their respectful owners. Although I own Hanaru, the OC.
Chapter One
I.C.U And My Heart Just Stops
She hadn't dressed up like a fairytale princess since she was a little girl, and that one time had been Cinderella, so now when she stood at the top of the staircase of the Uzumaki-Namikaze penthouse, it was déjà vu all over again. Both her family, the Uchiha, and several others they knew were there. And down there was also a certain someone waiting for her.
Everyone was down there for the night, because it was Halloween. Both the Uchiha and her family, being longtime friends and sometimes enemies, hosting it together. It was her job to see this responsibility. She'd raised her younger brother and managed caring for him with her job at the Uchiha business, because Fugaku and Mikoto had been friends of their parents since before they were born. That also meant she and Naruto knew the handsome Uchiha brothers for the longest time.
Sasuke Uchiha - a teenager who was in his big brother's shadow and had an attitude that made her want to slap that face much of the time. Sometimes she wondered why her brother was best friends with him, but what could she do in the end?
He was here, and in a garb that was similar to the Beast's - blue, black, white and gold accents. Beside him: Sakura Haruno, whom Naruto used to have a major crush on in middle school, was in a ballgown of wine red with a white bust. Clusters of crystal flowers in those colors cascaded around the bustier and down to the skirt; in her bubblegum-colored hair was a headband of white silk flowers with pearls and crystal red blossoms. Hanaru spited that girl at the time because of how word would reach her ear that her baby brother was mistreated by a girl he was trying so hard to care about, and her attentions were on a guy who thought she was so annoying. And I wonder why he even thought to be friends with her after he accepted her "feelings" for Sasuke.
If you asked her, the best girl for her baby brother was Hinata, the girl who was three years her junior like Naruto, but all of them had been close for as long as Hanaru could remember. There was her brother dressed up like a ninja - a cute, blond one at that - in black beside the holiday bride herself in her corset gown of black over purple, vines also crawling around the chest and below, sparkling with amethyst gems. Black flowers gathered all over the hem of the billowing gown. Accenting her lavender-tinted raven hair was a crown of purple flowers on either side, the circlet itself silver filigree and centered with a smoky amethyst.
Both couples were happy to see her - well, the majority excluding Sasuke who only tolerated her as she did the same to him - and she greeted them all with a small embrace before wishing them to have the best Halloween...even though Minato, Kushina, Fugaku and Mikoto would be missed.
They deserved to be here.
But then she saw HIM standing there when she was done greeting much of everyone. At the same time, the dancing and the passing of finger foods would begin.
He was in a long dress coat of black with red and gold accents - like a vampire lord in western culture. Long black hair framing the side of his face and tied below the back of his neck, even though she couldn't see it from where she was standing, but it was his signature he never parted with. His eyes appeared dark and cold, but shining with a warmth she'd known since childhood.
He was the picture of a girl's sexual fantasy in Gothic romance: dark, mysterious and addictive.
But there was one problem. She wanted so long to tell him how she felt about him after all the years of knowing him. Working for him since her parents died, then his to follow after the murder-suicide. It was hard on him and Sasuke as it was for her and Naruto. All of them had been through thick and thin, so it was natural that she would develop these feelings.
But would he return them?
She was anxious about the results. He made it clear he cared about her, but they'd been friends much of their lives. Would he want to make that into something...complicated?
Feelings are wonderful...but why do so many break up these days because they either tried too hard or tried less?
A few strands of curls from her updo were about her face, and she pushed them aside. It was within a delicate golden mesh of jewels in shades of blue and clear, but some of her mane was too stubborn to stay in place. His piercing onyx eyes watched her action as if it were more attractive than anything else.
Her heart just about stopped in its tracks when he started walking her way.
~o~
He knew her since they were young, but then years later, both their parents were killed. Hers in an accident, his via murder-suicide which left his brother traumatized as much as he had been. Sometimes he hated Fugaku for doing that to his own sons; why would he do such a thing?
The police could never think of a good motive, unless their mother tried to leave him and it was in vain. Sometimes Itachi couldn't understand, after all these years. When he confided in Hanaru, she was just as devastated - and pissed off which was an understatement. When she was mad beyond the limits, she would say she would want to deliver a punch or a kick to the balls to her liking. She had a foul temper on her mother and grandmother's sides. She wasn't like the other girls who fawned over him and his brother.
When she was left in charge of caring for her brother who was still in high school and she was still in college, he offered her a job within his family's corporation. She was his assistant, but now something complicated was arising within himself that he doubted she noticed, and tonight had only gotten stronger.
He was certain they were feelings for Hanaru Uzumaki, now that he saw her on Halloween tonight, which was usually hosted by her parents, but they were gone now. She was in charge, and it couldn't have been easy for her. Yet she managed to care for herself, her brother as well as their penthouse which had been their parents'.
It hadn't been easy for him managing his younger brother while also running the family corps. In fact, he and Sasuke weren't as close as they used to be. Otouto had a girlfriend now in the form of Sakura, who made him very happy by the looks of it, and who was working to get into medical school and then her man would work beside his brother - but first he was going to start low and work his way up. That was how it was; if you wanted to be on top, you had to earn it.
On second thought, Itachi wanted something better for his brother than wanting to be like him. This field was asking too much of him. Sasuke, by his standards no matter how much he'd grown up, was still the child he cradled when he first came into the world. Which beyond infuriated the younger.
Sasuke, no matter all the years of "knowing" Hanaru, never showed immense care and was thus forced to tolerate her. Although, he wasn't volatile to lash out against his best friend's sister.
And his attention tonight was on her right after she greeted and was greeted by her side of the family and his - and he saved himself for last, because he wanted to tell her how he felt. Although he was anxious, because it could do something to their friendship and working relationship that he didn't wish...
...and on occasion, he would see that twinkle in her eye his mother used to talk about. The one she said that a girl would have for the one she loved. That alone sparked some hope.
To see her at the top of the stairs in that gown, regal as a princess in western fairytales, in gold swagged with royal blue around the skirt which was also tiered with pearls; royal blue and creamy flowers also decorated the top of the corset. She wasn't a princess really, not the sense that a young girl would think was simply handed to them just because they wished it - but the one who was unaware that she was appreciated enough to deserve the title.
If they'd been in a simple fantasy world, he'd be the king and she his queen. He'd gladly take that opportunity in a heartbeat.
She was alone and without a dance partner, and so was he. Which was why they stood before each other, black eyes peering into blue. All the while, the song in the background began, and it seemed to have been made just for them.
I can't believe the way I fell for you
I took one look and you were all I knew
I'm just so taken with you day and night
And in between, I only see your light
They could have said hello to each other, but why was it necessary? He just held his hand out to her, and she put hers into it. She accepted without words. He led her out there, her hips gently swaying against his that it was electrifying.
Why was it hard to speak now? Mother said it's difficult to form words when your soul connects.
Hanaru looked up at him with wide eyes shining the way he always knew them to.
It's the way that you touch every part of me
It's the way that you get in the heart of me
It's the things that you do when you hold me close
It's the things I become every night our love grows
All the things that she did...it was purely simple just by being with him. She then surprised him by leaning into him, burying her face into the space where his neck and shoulder met, unable to make skin contact with him because of his jacket in the way.
I see you and my heart just stops
Just one look and I'm with an angel
I see you and I see my world
Every time that you hold me, girl
I see you and my heart
My heart just stops
"Hanaru, please, don't cry," he urged, putting one hand on her back and the other on her soft chin, raising her face to meet his. She never wore makeup, so nothing smeared on her fair skin. Her eyes were glistening with tears she was struggling to keep in, and one slid down her right cheek. They were a myriad of pain, fright, and the one that he only anxiously waited for.
If he could only remove that hairpiece and let her red-gold curls fall down her back, to illuminate that emotion brighter than it was now. She was too beautiful to need something like this adorning her nature.
I lose my breath when you walk in the room
Like when an angel calls your name too soon
And when you touch me, I just lose control
'Cause when I hold you, I can see your soul
He really had to hear it from her now, because if she was unable to keep her emotions in anymore, it had to be now and worry about the rest later. That included their positions at the office. "Hana-chan, please talk to me," he coaxed, nobody hearing except the two of them.
In my mind, I just go where it's me and you
In your arms, I just know where we're going to
In my heart, I can feel every crazy beat
And I'm lost in your eyes every time our eyes meet
She cracked then and there just as the part that meant the most within the song returned.
"I...I love you, Itachi."
I see you and my heart just stops
Just one look and I'm with an angel
I see you and I see my world
Every time that you hold me, girl
I see you and my heart
my heart just -
Stop me if I'm going under
Take me all the way with you
Heaven is the place you take me to
She said the words - the words which sealed it all - and he bowed his head down to kiss her. Nothing else mattered: not their brothers, not any eye witnesses who were gawking at the scene. Nobody was in his world except her.
The song itself appeared in a snippet at the end of "Crush", early in season one of Kim Possible. It takes my breath away still. :'3 I was crying when I finished this.
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