fantastisk

title: bloody beginnings
pairing: sasusaku
prompt: beginnings, boo-boo, ITACHI.
word count: 654
rating: K+
summary: Sasuke's cheek is planted right into the asphalt, resulting in a boo-boo. "I'll kiss your boo-boo better, Sasuke-kun!"
a/n: For LJ's fanfic100. I also used prompts from LJ's a prompt a day community. Also, fantastisk means fantastic in Norwegian. If I can finish it, there will be 100 drabbles/oneshots to this. 8D But… I warn you pairings may vary. Except that SasuSaku will be like 80% of this. xD The other pairings that might exist is: KakaShizu (MAJOR!) MinaKushi, FugaMiko, KakaRin, ObiRin & InoSai. No other pairings - unless I announce another pairing in another chapter.

When Sasuke first met her, they were six. Her eyes were as big as plates, and they shined like the stars on a black canvas. Her hair was cropped short – choppy strands that framed her face lightly. Her white sundress blows around her small body, and it makes it look too big for her. Her shoes are light pink – he notices that it matches her hair – with white, lacy socks.

"Can I play?" She asks, her emerald orbs shining with glee.

Sasuke is playing basketball with his brother. Itachi turns around to see a pink-haired girl staring at his otouto with big eyes. Her mouth lets out little, squeaky and badly articulated words.

"N—"

"Of course you can," Itachi replied, looking at his little brother sternly and winked at him. Sakura thought nothing of this exchange. Itachi kneed on the floor, coming eye-level with the girl. "What's your name?"

"Sakura!" the girl exclaims happily. "Haruno Sakura!"

"Oooh. Nice name, heh, Sasuke-chan?" Itachi turns to Sasuke, who is frowning and crossing his arms like a spoiled child. Itachi gave a chuckle and held his hand out for the little girl to hold. "We're playing basketball. Do you know how to play?"

"No," she replies curtly, looking at the orange ball under Itachi's arm with curious eyes.

"Well…" Itachi muses for a second. "Just try to get the ball from Sasuke over there," he points to Sasuke. "and throw it in the basket over there." He points to the net.

"Okay!"

"Where are you in all this, aniki?" Sasuke asks – speaking for the first time since Sakura's arrival.

"I'm thirsty. You don't mind if I go home – which is just over there – to get some drinks, right?" Itachi smirks as his brother nods slowly. "Play nice, okay, Sasu-chan, Sakura-chan?"

The two nod.

-

When Itachi is back, and he is just watching the two children from afar, he sees Sasuke dribbling the ball lightly – occasionally losing his hand and the ball slipping out, but his otouto quickly catching it again.

All the meanwhile, Sakura was chasing after him with her arms outstretched in front of her. There's a rock in front of her, and in one moment, she's on top of Sasuke's back and Sasuke is crying out, "ITAI!"

Itachi wants to move and help his brother, but he sees Sakura getting up from Sasuke's back and tending the wound carefully already. He decides to go home to get bandages.

-

Sakura's chubby hand caressed his face as Sasuke winced. Sasuke had a tear or two that leaked from his eyes, but they dried up already. Aniki is gonna be proud of me for not crying, he thinks happily.

"Wah! I'm sorry, Sasuke-kun," she wails, tears streaming from her face as the guilt rushes through her small body. "I didn't mean to hurt you! You're bleeding now, Sasuke-kun, bleeding! I'm so sorry! It's all my f—"

"I'm okay," he replies curtly.

"But you're bleeding! That icky red stuff is coming from your boo-boo! Doesn't it hurt? Wahhh! It's all my fault, Sasuke-kun," Sakura cried, the palm of her hand colored with a bit of the red liquid.

When she pressed a bit more into his wound, he hissed and flinched away from her touch. "Ow," he hisses.

"Uwaa! I'm so sorry!" she apologizes again, and she has stopped crying now. "You know… when I get a boo-boo, my mommy kisses it."

"So?"

"I'll kiss your boo-boo if you want me to!" Sasuke blushes and looks away, his wound facing her. Sakura takes this as a sign that he wants her to.

Sasuke freezes when he feels a pair of warm lips pressing against his wound. A warm feeling shoots through his body – he smiles. When he looks at her again, she is grinning brightly like the sun itself… and he knows then—

"You're all okay now, ne, Sasuke-kun?"

--that this is their beginning.

a/n: Drabble much? Is it? I dunno. Shortest thing I've ever written. Have fun ~