A/N: This is just a Hinata/Sakura short story. If you aren't into lesbian fiction, you might not want to read this, multi-chaptered, updates daily until completion…really only a few K works in length total.
Face Forward
Chapter 1
How many times had she stood still,
unable to move,
eyes wide with horror?
How many times had she just wished she could take a step forward,
reach out,
and change everything with just a few simple words?
How many times, had she failed?
Letting her team,
her world,
fall to pieces?
She watched Naruto walk away, and her soul sustained another crack. Another man in her life, gone. Another gamble, and this one was entirely her fault.
Sasuke was gone, too, and Naruto's promise trapped all of them. He said he's bring Sasuke back, but, now that Sakura thought of it, that was asking a lot...it was asking too much, and for the next two years, Naruto would be gone, becoming a better man, and a stronger ninja.
The words she said to both of them fell to ash, because love was such a fickle thing. She couldn't hold onto it anymore. Not even with the best training, not even with the best jonin leader. Not even with all of the resolve in the world. It didn't matter what she did, so she had to take a step forward.
Simply because, and she hated to admit this; if she waited, life would pass her by.
Leave the shadows,
the failures,
and sins,
behind.
She wasn't standing alone, as right by her side a trembling woman with her hands held in prayer waited too. Licking her lips, she forced a smile. "He'll come back, Hinata, he always does."
Forcing the worry away from her face, Hinata swallowed tightly. "I-I have to go train."