''By
the light of the moon
She rubs her eyes
Says it's funny how the
night can make you blind
I can just imagine''
Naruto hung back, gazing at Sakura. He watched her silently as she cried, overlooking the chaotic, ruinous surface that was the ground of Otogakure. No doubt she was thinking about... him.
He kept
himself concealed behind a dying tree, only able to watch her. She'd
told him, rather explicitly, not to follow her when she left the
campground.
Normally he'd listen, assuming she was going to go
relieve herself.
But it was different this time. Her eyes were red, and her voice and overall demeanor spoke of implicit sadness and despair.
But as he heard her soft whimperings and came across this sight, he couldn't bring himself to advance any further.
''And
I don't know
What I'm supposed to do,
But if she feels bad
then I do too
So I let her be.''
He kept his eyes fixated
on her, wanting so much to go over and take her into his arms, to
comfort her. But Naruto knew that this was the kind of thing she
wanted adamantly to face alone. As if it were a test of strength.
So
he did nothing.
''She sits down and stares into the
distance
And it takes all night
And I know I could break her
concentration
But it don't feel right''
He forgot how long he'd been sitting, slumped against that lifeless tree. Minutes? Hours?
She was quiet now. She'd stopped crying.
But Naruto still stayed, and even though he couldn't sit there right next to her, he settled for the next best thing.
''By the light of
the moon
She rubs her eyes
Sits down on her bed and starts to
cry
And there's something less about her
And I don't know what
I'm supposed to do
So I sit down and I cry too
But don't let
her see''
Naruto was mourning their shared loss too. At the
very moment he was reminiscing, recalling those long lost halcyon
times.
And it hurt.
It hurt so much.
But, not wanting to add to her pain, he kept it to himself.
''She shuts out the
night
And tries to close her eyes
If she can find daylight
Then
she'll be all right
She'll be all right,
Just not
tonight''
Naruto stood and brushed himself off.
Sakura was
so strong. It was one of the reasons he respected her so much; the
world would throw anything at her, and she'd just throw it right
back.
That's why Naruto knew she'd be okay, one day.
He turned to leave, a sense of confidence suddenly filling him.
'She'll be fine one day. So I need to make sure that when that day comes, I'll be okay too.'
He cast one last glance at her, then left with a smile.
''And she says
Oh, I can't take no more
Her
tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me
down
'Cause I can't help her now
She's down in it
She tried
her best and now she can't win it
It's hard to see them on the
ground
Her diamonds falling down''
'I... we lost you, Sasuke,' her inner mind spoke.
The stale air covered her skin like a sticky film. It seemed that the whole land was dead, not even the crickets singing their lamentful dirge.
Sakura gazed up into the onyx sky, which was dotted scarcely by a star here and there. It looked like someone had taken thousands of diamonds and just threw them into the sky, but they never came back down.
She sighed. Naruto was probably worried sick about her. She even got a creeping feeling that he was coming her way that very minute.
She sat up and glanced over her shoulder, seeing nothing but the wall of dead treses she'd come through.
She felt too alone then.
With a shudder and a final look at the diamond-embedded sky, Sakura rose to her feet and began her lonely trek back to the campsite.
'Poor guy's probably so lost... I should probably try and go comfort him.'
She said that to herself, trying to cover up the fact that she was really the one seeking comfort.
Sakura was looking forward to his smile.
Author's Notes:
Song and lyrics for ''Her Diamonds'' (c) Rob Thomas.
I was
listening to the song and I was like, ''OMG, I have to make this into
a songfic!''
It's my first, so I don't think I did this song much
justice, but I still hope you enjoyed.
Now I'm thinking of other songs I could use...