Scars

A NaruSaku Drabble

Keyword: Scars

AU: A drabble for the Heaven & Earth drabble contest.

Sakura loved watching Naruto sleep.

Ever since they had started sharing apartments she had insisted on spending the night in the same bed. It was warmer she'd say, or more comfortable then the couch. But she really did it so she could watch him sleep.

Nothing would happen though instead she would lie awake and watch him sleep she'd reach out and touch him. Gently brushing her hand across the whisker marks on his face, across his full lips, down his muscular chest and smooth abs. All the while her face would blush pink as Inner Sakura had dirty thoughts that belonged in one of Jiraya-Sama's books.

She'd noted that his skin was flawless. Soft and smooth despite being tanned and spending as much time in the sun as he did.

Even after all the beatings, and injuries he'd taken in his career as a Ninja—Many of which she'd healed herself—he had no scars on him what so ever.

Save one. A fist sized spiral scar on his upper right breast that matched a similar one on his back. A scar where a friend had stabbed a lighting chakra enhanced fist right through him.

As tears welled up in her eyes she studied the scar with a medics trained eye. She knew she shouldn't but she always did every night. Her hand brushed over the scar, as her mind analyzed the injury which for some reason the Kyubi never healed like it did the other scars.

It was a lethal injury. For anyone else it would have been a slow painful death as their lung collapsed and they drowned in their own blood.

But somehow he'd survived. The Kyubi had saved his life and so here he was lying beside her. For oncee she gave thanks to the "Bastard Fox" as her Naruto described it.

This injury though was just one of many. She knew he'd had a hard life, and that the flawless skin on the outside concealed the scars that no one could see. The scars that no medical jutsu could heal; only time and love could heal those scars.

Finally she lay down and wrapped her arms around him snuggling into him. She allowed the slow rise and fall of his chest and the steady beating of his heart to lull her to sleep.

As she drifted into slumber she had one thought on her mind.

"I'll heal those scars no matter how long it takes Naruto. I promise."