Genre: Romance, angst, uncommon pairing

Who: Neji/Sakura

Rating: PG for a small reference to sex

Disclaimer: I (sadly . ) do not own Neji, Sakura, or anything else related to Naruto…It all belongs to Kishimoto-sensei…

Note: Ok, Ok, I KNOW it's short, but it gets the point across, ne?

Neji would never forget that one night of ecstasy. He could remember the taste of her lips and the softness of her skin under his own. The impulse to take her to his bedchamber. The rapture as he made love to her, as she allowed his body into hers. The way she would look into his eyes with her own stunning emerald ones. The song that escaped from her heart each time she uttered the words, "I love you…" Her insistence to be with him and only him. No, Neji could never forget this, not even as he tried to drive it from his head. This girl had given him a feeling he had never felt, a happiness he longed to have again even for a moment. This would never be. Only one sunrise after that glorious night, she was called away on a C-ranked mission. Something went terribly wrong. She came back a corpse. Neji could not drive that image of blood, her blood, out of his mind. He retreated back to the cold shell he was once in before. Her name was Haruno Sakura.