Promises
"Don't worry! I'll bring him back! Promise of a lifetime!"
Sakura watches Naruto leap off into the Konoha forests after Shikamaru and the others, the image of Naruto grinning his head off with his thumb up still burned into her retinas.
Lee comes up behind her, watching the genin fly through the forest without him, and feels useless as he never as before. He looks around for something, anything to do, and sees Sakura huddled in on herself as she watches the only person as close to her as Sasuke run off to save their teammate without her.
He comes up behind Sakura and stands nearby enough to be comforting, not threatening. "Naruto said it with the 'nice-guy' pose," he says, smiling happily, "This…this will all go well."
Sakura looks up at him with tears streaming from her eyes, remembers what happened the last time someone tried to live up to a 'nice-guy' promise, and tries to ignore the sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach.
A/N: This was based off of chapter 183, or part of it. It's my first attempt at trying to limit myself to 100 words, which obviously didn't work, since it's somewhere close to 200. Not sure how this is, drabble-wise, so any concrit will be good.
I seem to be liking present-tense lately. I'm not sure how I feel about that.