City of Glass - Open Skies
Summary: A collection of drabbles and one-shots, centering around the Naruto characters and their life of running.
I was playing Mirror's Edge, okay? And I just recently got into the Naruto fandom (shh, i know it's terribly late, but i'm here now!) and immediately thought of the runners like modern day shinobi, just without the jutsu. So that's the birth story of this fic.
Not everyone will be a runner though - it's not exactly the most popular of professions after all - I've split the runner characters into four different "Cells;" Angels, Wolves, Ravens, and the Fae. Feel free to guess who's in what cell until it's revealed (or who's even a runner for that matter, you'll only meet one in this chapter). As for everyone else? You'll have to wait and see where they fit in in the City of Glass.
Also, there's a heck of a lot more pairings in here than what ff allows me to show. So you've those mysteries to look forward to as well.
A gentle breeze bent the grass down to tickle her nose causing Sakura to sneeze, momentarily jarred from the peaceful imagery surrounding her.
She raised a hand to brush the overgrown greenery aside, holding it down with the palm of her hand as she gazed skyward. The leaves above fluttered in the wind, dancing along the branch of the tree. Past that was the sky, blue with fluffy clouds of white crawling across the ocean suspended above.
It was beautiful, and quiet.
Something she desperately needed after staying cooped up in classes most of the day. She still had one more as well, barely ten minutes away. Which meant she would need to leave this little bit of paradise soon enough. To be swallowed back up in the chatter of the hallways, droning voices of the professors, and the cars that raced by on the streets.
Still, it only took her three minutes tops to get to her classroom from here, a garden hidden in the heart of the university enclosed on all sides by high concrete walls. The only way in and out was the windows-
A shadow passed over her and she blinked, her lips slipping into a grin a moment later.
Well, for most people anyways. There were a few people that used the rooftops to get here as well.
She sat up in the grass, watching as the figure gripped the edge of the building before letting go and dropping down to a ledge below only to turn and launch themselves from the wall into the top branches of a tree. Bits of bark flew from the trunk when he slid down to the dirt below before turning to face her. "Were you waiting for me, Sakura?"
For a second she continued to hold her breath, seeing how he moved always did that to her. There was an undeniable flow to his movements, a beauty to it that not even nature could hope to match.
She let out the breath she had been holding. "Actually, I was taking a break from the university. You being here is just an added bonus. So, how did your last delivery go, Sasuke?"
He gave a shrug of his shoulders. "It reached it's destination like all the others before it." Twigs and fallen leaves crunched beneath his feet as he walked to her. "You really want to talk about my job right now?"
Her cheeks warmed as he leaned toward her, his face inches away from hers as he crouched in the grass next to her. "No," she breathed just before his lips met hers and she lost herself in the feel of his lips on hers.