A/N: SasuSaku. I love this pairing to death. Flames will be eaten.
Pain
This was the first time he'd seen her in years.
He forgot how to breathe for a moment. He hadn't realized how beautiful she was before.
He thought that it must be a fairly recent development.
His heart stopped when she glanced his way, but she didn't see him, even as her eyes passed directly over him.
He'd never felt so deflated in his life. He realized then that she'd changed, and that the love she had promised him forever had melted away. He had hoped when he came back she would remember it.
She pretended not to see him, pretended she was blind to his pain. When really, it broke her inside to do this, but she had to.
She didn't want to get hurt again.
So she tried to close her heart to the love she still carried.
It didn't work. Closing it off made her remote, made her feel like she was underwater, watching, as her friends grew up, fell in love, got married, and started families.
She found herself sitting on that bench one day, remembering. And she realized she couldn't do it anymore.
But she couldn't confess either.
