naruto and hinata;
(you're invisible but you can't help but hope he'll really really really see you one day.)
Maybe she can reinvent herself. A stronger, better version of Hyuga Hinata.
Maybe instead of being transparent (people see through her) she can repaint herself in brilliant-bright-exuberant-showy colours.
Maybe she can create a new her, with sparkly fairy-light eyes like Sakura Haruno has.
(She doesn't like the ones she has now. They aren't the Hyugas' translucent milky-violet, they're washed-out and almost see-through.)
Maybe instead of fading away into the wood and marble and concrete of her family mansion, she can show people she's not worthless.
Maybe she can fill up every corner like she's light itself…
…but she can't.
But that's okay, because being invisible is pretty convenient for watching the blonde boy-of-your-dreams.
(Except when Kiba decides to be extremely embarrassing.)
sakura and sasuke;
(it's not that he doesn't love you, he just loves revenge more.)
She's wasting her time.
(it took her two years to give up.)
She's wasting her emotions.
(she'd really be much better off with Naruto or Lee or–well, anyone else, really.)
She's wasting her breath.
(Because–
because…
I love you more than anything!)
But he's such a beautifully broken waste.
And she knows that if she wants to waste these things–these wishes, these hopes on anyone,
he'd be her first and only choice, no questions asked.
And yet all she has left of him is a photo–
he isn't even smiling in it, for God's sake–
and hauntingly beautiful (but mostly heartbreaking) memories.
shikamaru and temari;
(he's allergic to hard work, you're his allergy shots.)
"Have you ever worked for anything in your life?"
The words are thrown like sarcasm-tipped darts.
And he keeps watching the clouds.
"I am TALKING to you."
He rolls over onto his stomach with all the lazy contentment of a cat waking from its nap.
"Sure I have."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah, once I couldn't find this cloud in the shape of a dog chasing a toad around and I had to look for it for…three hours, I think?"
"Lying on your back all the while. Yeah, I can see how totally exhausting that must be."
"HEY. Do not insult the sacred art of cloud-gazing."
She glares at him.
"Wanna start learning it?"
"No sex for you," she hisses, as he pulls her down onto the grass with him.
So I'm really kinda upset that I only got two reviews for my last Naruto drabble. 'Specially since I really did work hard on it. But oh well. You know what they say. Practice makes perfect. But of course I'll need to know what my readers think, too, right?
Yeah. So you know what to do :))))