My only excuse for not updating like I promised is that I'm a college student and had a ridiculous amount of things due these past two weeks. Real life wins over the internet.
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, I don't own it. If I did, would I be working my butt off in school when I'm obviously making stupid amounts of money from sales?
Sai lifted his eyes from his latest painting as he heard the splitter-splatter of raindrops hitting his window.
It was hard to imagine only three short months ago, he had been hanging onto life by a thread. The chakra Sakura had been furiously threading throught his battered body. Literally holding his life between the palms of her petite hands.
Time seemed to have slipped by. Had it really been three months since that fateful day under the rain? The Hokage had taken him off of active duty for some time, and then given him relatively easy missions since then. He hadn't seen Sakura in weeks, maybe months, save for a few glimpses of pink hair.
He wondered how she was doing.
He missed baiting her, the fire that would explode into her eyes when he got her riled up enough.
Published May 13, 2011