Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto in any way possible.
Author's Notes: Finally, I'm starting a personal collection of drabbles/finger exercises. It'll help me stay alive. Haha.
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Like a sudden surge of chakra, he invades her.
She feels him course through her arteries, and her heart is caught in an arrest. When she finally sees him – his back facing her – she pauses, mobilizes her lips, and attempts to issue the words she has never thought she will say ever again.
"Sasu…ke-kun?"
She asks not because she hesitates to think that the man in front of her is Sasuke-kun. She asks because she knows the man (too much that seeing not his face but his back does not reduce him to dusts in her memory) and desires to know in return if he shares the same recognition.
"Sakura, huh."
Perhaps there is a part of him urging him to face her fully, but he opts to turn his head ever so slightly because he still recognizes her voice. He recognizes the woman he was so close to killing before. And he does not know what he has done to deserve such constant treatment: she still calls him Sasuke-kun after everything.
He is not ready to face her and promise an apology. But he will…he will. For on this battlefield, she will never have to be alone again.
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