Dis: I don't own Naruto or the song, so don't ask.
N.
"Do you love me?"
The question took me by surprise. "Of course I do. You know that, Suki." I nuzzled closer into his chest and listened to his heartbeat in my ear. Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Thump-thump.
"If I left...would you miss me?"
"What do you mean by that?" I sat up in the bed and he sat up too. I looked into his eyes like dark pools of night.
"If I had to go away for a long time, would you miss me?"
"Of course I would. You're my everything."
His eyes seemed to brighten in the half light, the black showing up well against his snow white skin.
"Do you mean that?"
"Yes."
He pulled me closer. So close I could feel the warmth of his breath on my cheek and smell his peppermint breath.
"Really?"
"Really really."
He kissed me. Gently, as if I was the most beautiful, fragile thing in the world. Barely the whisper of a ghost against my lips.
"I love you."
He lays back and I lie back, with my head nuzzling into his neck, smelling that smell that is seductive. Natural.
The smell of Sasuke.
"Sing to me?"
"...what?"
"I don't feel sleepy yet. Sing to me? You have a pretty voice."
"..."
"Come on. Please? It'll make me happy.
"I don't sing."
"Ah come on. You sing better than anyone else I know. Come on."
He doesn't say anything for about a minute, and then he opens his mouth, and out comes a voice that an angel would die for. And my heart stops because I know the voice is just for me.
Hello there, the angel from my nightmare The shadow in the background of the morgue The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley We can live like Jack and Sally if we want Where you can always find me We'll have Halloween on Christmas And in the night we'll wish this never ends We'll wish this never ends I miss you, miss you
I miss you, miss you
Where are you and I'm so sorry I cannot sleep I cannot dream tonight I need somebody and always This sick strange darkness Comes creeping on so haunting every time And as I stared I counted Webs from all the spiders Catching things and eating their insides Like indecision to call you and hear your voice of treason Will you come home and stop this pain tonight Stop this pain tonight Don't waste your time on me you're already The voice inside my head (miss you miss you) Don't waste your time on me you're already The voice inside my head (miss you miss you) Don't waste your time on me you're already The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you) Don't waste your time on me you're already The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you)
I finally begin to feel tired. I yawn and curl closer towards him, pulling the blanket tight over me. My head is on his hard chest. His skin is icy cold, but he makes a better pillow than anything else.
"Promise me something?"
"What?"
"Promise me you'll never leave me."
Sasuke doesn't answer.
"Suki?"
"...I promise, dobe."
"I love you."
"I love you more."
I close my eyes, listening to the thumping noise his heart makes.
No. I think, smiling. My heart.
And then I fall asleep.
S.
I look down at the sleeping body curled up against my chest and take it all in. Take in the sunshine hair, the whisker scars, the tanned skin. He's smiling in his sleep.
I look down on it all and know that I won't be here again. Not for a long time. Not in the same room as Naruto.
It's moments like this- looking down at his sleeping figure, as peaceful as a warm day at an empty beach, that make me not want to leave.
I lean down and kiss him on the lips. Gently, so I don't wake him. He doesn't react.
I guess part of me wants to stay. To just crawl back under the covers of my bed with the one I love and sleep. But the part isn't big enough. The nagging voice in the back of my mind, telling me that I'm being stupid, it's too quiet.
I've packed everything I need in my backpack. Clothes, kunai, a sleeping bag, and underneath everything else, a small black photo album. My present for my sixteenth birthday from Naruto. It's full of photos of the two of us. In bed, at the beach, in the mountains. I left everything else behind- all the sentimental stuff- but I couldn't leave this, because for the next I don't know how long, happy memories will be all I've got.
A single tear trickles down my cheek an drops onto his. He mumbles incoherently and scratches the side of his face absentmindedly. So cute.
"I love you, Naru-kun" I whisper, then I creep out of the window and into the night.