A/N: This is a gift fic for Toboesgirl Sayuri who is the bestest reviewer evers. Now please forgive me for any crapiness that may ensue, for I have never written anything like this, but if you like it, than I am very glad, it is the least I could do for you.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto.

Pairing: SasukexSakura

Prompt: Sasuke discovers that Sakura is cutting.

Specifics: They kiss, Sasuke comforts Sakura.


Sakura pressed the blade against her bare skin and increased the pressure watching as the blood pooled around the blade and began to slowly trickle down her inner thigh. The pain that she had kept inside slowly seeped out of her through the cut. Her pulse beat sluggishly through her and she let out a sigh of relief as the blood flowed freely, allowing a strange euphoria to engulf her. As she slumped against the wall she let the blade fall from her limp fingers.

Sakura was jerked from her euphoric feeling by what she could only describe as a sudden case of weightlessness and then her body coming into contact with a hard surface. Her eyes fluttered open to see Sasuke standing in front of her holding her against the wall with a rage filled expression on his face.

"What the hell do you think you are doing Haruno?" Sasuke began to yell at her shaking her slightly.

Sakura looked at him through glazed over eyes and a sorrowful smile. "Why do you care Sasuke? You never did before."

"I came back for you, didn't I? And now I find you like this, I thought you were stronger than this Sakura." Sasuke turned his back on her ready to leave when he heard a heart wrenching sob from the girl at his feet.

"LIAR! You didn't come back for me. You came back because you had no where else to go. You even said so yourself. I was never anything to you; you've proved that over and over again. All you do is lie." Sakura body was racked by the enormous sobs escaping from her small frame.

Oh Kami he had really screwed things up. He had come back to Konoha with the intention of making amends to his team and changing his ways, but it had been difficult to turn from what he knew and open himself up to the one person he had missed the most. All he had done was manage to cause her more pain, and now here she was, bawling her eyes out in a pool of her own blood from a wound she had inflicted on herself, all because he was a stupid prick and couldn't tell her how he felt. Smooth one Sasuke.

Sasuke grabbed some gauze off of Sakura's dresser and kneeling besides her; he gently placed a piece over the cut and used the rest to bandage it. Tilting her chin up, he kissed the tears from her face placing a tender kiss over each eye. He then cupped her face in his hands and gently kissed her lips, when she wrapped her arms around his neck and tilted her head back he deepened the kiss. He poured all his feelings for her into that kiss; his inaction had caused her pain, he only hoped his action would heal it. He slowly pulled away to catch his breathe.

"I never meant to cause you so much pain. I was foolish not to confess how I felt when I first came back. I really did come back for you, I love you Sakura." Sasuke ran his thumb over her cheek and gazed at her intently waiting for her reply.

"I know that now Sasuke, it was in your kiss." And at that their lips met again.


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