AN: My first Naruto fic. A very overdone pairing, but hey, I still like it. Sasunaru.. fluff I guess. Slight shounen-ai. 300 word drabble.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Go figure, ne? Rawr.
Step right, left. Step forward. Careful, don't fall. Step, breath, balance. You can do it. It's not hard. Well, it is. And you know it is. But you wish it wasn't so you say it's not. Balance is easy. It's natural. It's animal instinct and you're an animal if ever there was one.
He can balance. And he does, perfectly. Right in front of you, in fact, with a little smirk on his face, eyes full of not quite laughter and his holier than thou attitude shining like the sun in your eyes. He's taunting you, just out of reach. Come and catch me! But wait. You can't, can you?
Then all of a sudden he's falling and your falling and your arms are wind milling like crazy and he's got his arms tight around your waist and you land on top of him, eyes wide. His are wide, too. With something else, though. His are wide with pain (obviously, you both just tumbled from the top branch of a not so small tree), and there's a glimmer of something else in there, and that damn smirk is still firmly on his face, not jostled in the least.
Your shirt has bunched up under your arms in the fall, and he scrapes his nails down your bare skin lightly, quickly, before he thrusts you off and you're both to your feet in one fluid, practiced motion, ready to keep going and pretend to forget what just happened. Because Sasuke doesn't fall and Naruto doesn't need to be saved and neither of you felt that shiver run down your backs at his hands on your sides.
Hands ready, feet in position. You'll get it this time. Spring, land. Or maybe you wont. Maybe you've been doing it all along, and you're just looking for the wrong kind of balance.
AN: so what did ya think? Good? Bad? Meh? If anyone wants to suggest a pairing, Ill give it a try at writing, yaoi, yuri or het, it makes no difference to me.
