I can't change who I am. I tired, really. I tried. Tried to be perfect, perfect for you, in your eyes. Sasuke-kun I tired.
All these years, I've been fighting, fighting everything I am just to be perfect for you. I used to be a painfully weak, prissy, useless girl. Why?
You. It was for you.
I thought that you, Sasuke-kun, would like that kind of thing. I always imagined you saving me, the damsel in distress. You would be my knight, my one and only knight. But the feeling…always watching your backs…I couldn't stand it. Naruto, you, everyone, always saving me. It didn't feel as glamorous as I had originally thought. Not as glamorous, nor as romantic, or idealistic.
Life isn't meant to be glamorous, romantic, or idealistic, is it, Sasuke-kun?
My love was supposed to be enough. I was supposed to be eternally devoted to you…I tired! I tried, Sasuke-kun, I tried! Remember all those years ago, when I was still a silly little girl and I told you that I loved you? I meant every word.
I st-still like you, Sasuke-kun. I love you, I still do.
But I can't forgive you. I can't forgive what you did to Naruto. Yeah. I'm talking about Naruto. The dobe. Well, I'm sorry Sasuke-kun, but Naruto has something that even you don't have.
I don't know what, but it's there. I can feel it.
After all these years, I finally realized that I've been confused all along. Confused about what to feel, what to say, what to do, who to be.
Naruto is no longer the idiot loud-mouth you know. Or knew, I should say. My Naruto is different, so different. So different from you.
AN: this is told from Sakura's pov in this chapter. next chapter we'll be from sasuke's pov. then...they meet! i haven't decided what should happen, so tell me with a review, k? (i actually read them! seriously, all of them!)