Title: Fragile
Disclaimer: don't own, not claiming to, not making money off this! so don't sue!
Pairings: implied Sasunaru
Genre: shounen-ai
Rating: PG
Warnings: implied shounen-ai
Notes: the plotbunny for this fic quite literally attacked me while I was eating dinner. it was carnival night (meaning we had corndogs and onion rings and cotton candy and fun stuff like that), and I had just sat down on the floor with my dinner (because they'd removed all the tables). and this idea just...ran out and tackled me, and kept on growing and growing and wouldn't leave me the hell alone, I'd left my notebooks and pen in my dorm because I didn't feel like bringing my purse with me so I had nothing to write it down on, and the insane clown circus music playing in the background wasn't helping, and I actually had to get up and leave dinner and all but run back to my dorm for it to leave me alone.
Summary: Naruto's fragile, and Sakura knows it.
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"It's okay, Sakura!" he shouts with his usual enthusiasm, grinning wildly. "I'll make myself some ramen later if I get hungry."
And Sakura forces herself to smile and nod, even though she knows he won't.
Because, in her own little fantasy world, Naruto will eat ramen later, because he's still Naruto and that's what Naruto does.
In that fantasy world she finds herself retreating to far too often recently, Naruto is still a hero; he's not brittle, not fragile.
And he's certainly not going to break if they don't get Sasuke back.
Soon.