Day One:

Trampoline AU

Title: Moments

Pairing: SasuHina

Summary: He fell in love through her smile, her breathless laughter and how real and ethereal she is. For him, she is more than enough.

It was a mid summer's dream when he saw her wild indigo tresses flouncing around with the sticky humid wind.

She was young, breathless and full of love and fervor. It's like the sun has sucked out of its rays and blessed it upon this small, cheerful and happy little girl bouncing on the trampoline at Konoha Park.

Sasuke was only six years old when he fell in love.

He was six years old when he realize that one day he will anything to be with her and just like the rubber of the trampoline and the weight of the little child jumping on it, life decided to take its up and very very dark downs.

Right after the massacre of his entire clan, his life turned a sharp 360 degree. Everything seems to be much more sharper, harder and filled with hatred.

He's only eight years old when he learned that he will kill and destroy his older brother that he once loved and admire.

He passed by the park on a cloudy afternoon when he saw her again. Her short bobbed indigo hair flutter with the wind as she jump up and down on the trampoline, holding the tiny hands of her little sister who's copying her movements.

He knows her name, he sat across her during their Ninja Academy class.

Hinata Hyuga.

And its lie life has taken him back to the first time he noticed her, he fell in love with her smile once more.

Sasuke was ten years old when he noticed the pests called 'fangirls'.

Sasuke scorched in both anger and frustration, his head is pounding mercilessly as he remembers the annoying banshee like screams of hi fangirls.

'Damn them, I hope they rot in hell.' He thought cruelly.

He passed by at the park and did not find the trampoline that used to reside when he was younger, he scanned across the vicinity and didn't saw a single trace of it.

"Maybe it was taken out, kids must have gotten tired of it."

He walk towards the abandoned forest, as he plans on hiding there for the rest of the afternoon and practice on his kunai training. Then he heard a sound of spring squeaking and a force that is bouncing up and down, he crept closer towards the sound and there he saw the trampoline in the middle of the forest.

And Hinata Hyuga was jumping on it, up and down, up and down like a rhythmic pattern and a small smile on her plush pink lips.

The summer's sun rays glowed around her hair like a halo.

Anger left and replaced by fascination.

Then he stood there just watching her in awe.

It was his last full day in Konoha, it's time to leave this village and follow the footsteps of revenge.

Sasuke was thirteen years old when he realize that life isn't turning out as what he used to plan it to be.

He's laying down on the worn out, old and tattered but still strong and usable trampoline abandoned in the middle of the forest. He rarely saw Hinata visiting here, if she does she never jumps on it anymore instead she lies down and rests.

He's doing the same thing now, except all his thinking about is how different his life would be if Itachi didn't take everything away form him in a single night.

Would he be here laying down on a trampoline thinking about revenge?

Would he find someone that he will fully love with no merits or hesitation?

Would he be in a path of salvation and become someone heroic?

His thoughts are interrupted when a small creak of a wood and delicate footsteps on the mossy grass, a shadowy figure of a short girl wearing a bulky jacket and a smile on her face.

She approached him like he's an old friend, she smiled shyly at him like she knew him beyond his she whispered,

"I-I lay down on the trampoline because it helps me think. I-I'm glad you did the same thing too."

She stepped closer and stared at his passive and emotionless face and continued,

"I know you're watching me from afar Sasuke-san."

"Hn."

Then she continued "I-I jump on the trampoline because it helps me forget, c-can I help you forget your problems?"

His eyes widen and stared at her with disbelief and confusion, then she reached for his hand. Their weights are on the rubber trampoline and like they're taken back to time, they jumped up and down on the trampoline.

Again.

Again.

And again.

Anger become laughter. Worry become assurance. And everything seems to be perfect.

Then Sasuke learned to forget his worries and hatred for just one moment in his life. As he tightly clutch his hands with hers, it was more than perfect for him.

He was sixteen years old when he almost regretted joining Orochimaru.

When he left Konoha and lived three years with Orochimaru all he can think about is Hinata, Itachi and the road of vengeance. He's in another village scouting for more prisoners and experiments for Orochimaru.

Did she enjoyed the trampoline without him?

Is it still there?

Will she remember him when he's gone?

And wild thoughts disappeared like vapor when he saw her, she's next to her teammates for a mission and her clothes are still loose, ill fitted, her indigo hair become longer and silkier and her smile is still same as before. In fact everything about her become more beautiful and ethereal.

He can never touch her, not from this distance.

Not form his situation and path he choose.

After the war, after the chaos and after the death.

Sasuke is back in the village, walking on the streets filled with strangers. the sky is in a picture perfect shade of blue, everything seems to be calm and normal.

Passing by the abandoned forest there he saw Hinata Hyuga standing on top of the rubber trampoline, looking at the trees and the sunlight illuminated her skin like dripping gold.

Moments passed and then she turned around and smiled gently at him.

No words are spoken, just smiles and the summer breeze. Moment has passed and another weight is placed on the worn out trampoline, this time life isn't in its drastic ups and downs.

it beame steady, with their hands interwined and their smiles are at peace.

Everything become steady and assured.

It was more than enough.

That moment was more than perfect for him.

Author's Note: Hello guys! I haven't posted for months, university has been keeping me very busy :( Anyways i decided to join SasuHina month, majority of my fanfics are posted in my tumblr account ( .com). Some of these fanfics are snippets of upcoming fanfics I will post here and if guys are interested in a continuation of a certain one-shot please tell me! Thank you for reading :)