Author's note: Just a little mini story I thought up while I was on the road to my preview at UF, hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own. :3
The reason why
The reason why she loved him had nothing to do with his bad boy personality or enticing onyx eyes. She saw him for who he was and where he went wrong. She was there that day, her mom sent her to run an errand and she ended up in the Uchiha clan territory. She was young and naive, she had the curiosity of a cat with no lives to spare. She ended up in someone's backyard picking cherry blossoms off the ground.
"They're called Sakura" her mother would say.
She would smile and reply, "My name is Sakura too!"
They would both giggle and her mom would tuck one of the blossoms in her hair.
The sound of something breaking scared her and she hid herself by one of the entrances to the house. Inside she saw red.
Red, red, red. The color of their blood as it was splattered all over the walls painting a different picture for the artist's eye.
The poor girl didn't know what was going on but she knew something wasn't right. Her mom always told her people getting hurt is never good, we're these people getting hurt?
The sound of a piercing scream and the gargle and choke of the last breath answered that question. Now what was she to do? She had to hide! Looking around all she found was a big tree but before she could run to it the slide opened. Standing before her in all his bloody glory was the eldest Uchiha. Silent as the night he stood before the little Haruno who wore her little burgundy dress. Those white circles have never looked much like a bull's-eye until now. She cowered and fell backwards.
Before she realized it she was crying, she was scared he was going to do to her what he did to the other people. Instead he smiled and placed a hand on her head, then left. She gasped and stumbled to her feet running away. She found herself behind a building, peeking her watery emerald orbs around the corner she spotted Itachi once more, this time with Sasuke. The boy she went to school with, the cool one with the hair.
"Who's that?" She asked her friend Ino.
"You don't know him? Why that's Sasuke Uchiha, the coolest and cutest boy ever, he's smart too. Straight from the Uchiha clan, he acts like he doesn't have time for anyone though, so I wouldn't waste your energy."
After that she finished her lunch, he was never discussed between them again, of course...that didn't stop them both adoring him, Sakura in her own way.
He seemed to be in pain, did his brother hurt him? Hearing the younger Uchiha yell as his brother mocked him, made Sakura shiver. She watched as his body fell limply to the ground, almost lifeless. She was terrified, when Itachi left she ran over to Sasuke. She shook him frantically as tears poured from her tiny eyes. When she realized that she couldn't help him she picked him up and called for help and ended up bring him to a nearby hospital, she told the doctor not mention her name, she didn't want Sasuke to know.
The reason why she loved him wasn't because of how cool he looked or even the hair on his head, not the coal black eyes or bad boy style. She loved him because she knew his pain, she could see it in his eyes every time he looked at her and she never forgot that day, it was her little secret. Her little reason why.