Drabble
#2
Words: 1,311 (Wow.)
Title:
Ordinary Words
Summary:
He was just an ordinary boy, but his dream was the heart of her.
Characters:
Naruto, Sakura (Requested by Anonymous A.)
Song Recommendation:
Ordinary Day, think of Naruto, and
if you love him enough, you will cry.
Just a day, just an ordinary day,
Just trying to get by--
She remembers the first time she saw him.
All hair and bowed shoulders, and his eyes were broken and hurting.
(--She had her own problems, fighting Ami, fighting the world--she's ugly, can't you see that? )
Stop looking at me, she wanted to tell him, fighting back the lump in her throat. (The weight in her heart.)
Stop looking at me as if I'm going to love you--
She cries when she walks away.
Just a boy just an ordinary boy--
He's stupid she tells herself, as she glances to the left, (God, didn't Sasuke look gorgeous in the sunlight?)
He's annoying, he's retarted, his whiskers are too weird and his smile is too cheeky.
But there was something heart-stopping about a boy of only twelve standing against the sunset, eyes closed and a grin on his face, turning to her and whispering, "One day, you and me are gonna watch this from the Hokage's Tower."
--But he was looking to the sky.
And as he asked if I would come along,
I started to realize--
Life was never boring when you're the only girl on a team.
There's bugs, and awkward situations where you might have to talk to the boy you're madly in love with, (he won't answer of course) and there's that annoying blonde boy in the corner who won't shut up.
But then there were the moments where he'd open his mouth--and there was something in his voice, something in their eyes, something beyond anything she'd ever known.
All when that blonde boy opened his mouth.
"To be Hokage. That is my dream!"
Whenever he throws himself in front of someone else.
(And it's often, and why are you so stupid? Why aren't you more careful?!)
There's something about the way the light shines in his eyes, as he says so passionately,
in that husky (since when was it so strong?) whisper,
"I'll protect you with my life, dattebayo."
It's like watching a life being reborn.
--Everyday you find, just what he's looking for.
Like a shooting star, he shines.
And he said, Take my hand,
live while you can,
Come with me, he seems to whisper to her, although it's more like a shout whenever he opens his mouth.
But his eyes, (ohgodhiseyes--) they are so soft, and so tender, that her heart cracks because who the hell loves like that?
Don't you feel the dreams that I write, in the palm of your hand?
You know what you want--he tells her in his glance, in the sad expression on his face as yet again, a cold refusal hits her like cold water soaking her shoulders. (Sasuke-kun isn't a people person, hahah..)
I can make you so so happy--believe it!
Sakura tries her hardest to look away from those beautiful blue eyes.
(Because once she does--)
--she'll never look away.
And as he spoke, he spoke ordinary words,
though they did not feel, no,
She's twelve.
She's on a bench.
And her heart is breaking.
"..Please...bring him home..." (IlovehimIlovehim--but--)
He seems to drown himself in fake-plastic happiness, because she knows, that he loves her too much to show anything else but a thumbs-up, but in his eyes burns a promise, in his eyes she saw a pink-haired girl standing proud and tall and free of restraints, free of tears and free of sorrow.
"I promise!"
I felt what I had not felt before,
you'd swear, those words couldn't heal.
"N-Naruto?"
He stares in blank shock at the girl on his doorstep, her sobs vague hiccups and she's clutching a pink blanket with her slippers on. It's three-o'clock at night and he's wearing a ridiculously strange dog-cap.
"Sakura-chan?"
She was scared he was going to leave her. They were all going to go away, Sasuke left her. (He always hated her.)
Kakashi would die someday on a mission, (he was too reckless) and she would end up alone, useless, a princess without her loyal (maybe one) knights.
"...I..I don't want to be alone.."
And as I looked up, into those eyes,
his vision borrows mine, and to know he's no stranger
Harsh broken sobs wrack the girl's body as he suddenly clutches her against his chest,
and she can imagine his impossibly blue eyes, hurting for her.
"All along.." She croaks miserably, and he's confused, but she can only
marvel against the tears and the blankets how warm and how perfect,
she fits against him in his protective arms. (Slippers, pajamas, hat and all.)
For I feel like I've held him for all of time.
And he said,
Take my hand, live while you can,
don't you feel the dreams that I write in the palm
of your hand, no, in the palm of your hand..
--Please come with me, see what I see--
Moments in time, moments where she'd spare a laugh.
Spare a cheeky grin or join his brassy voice in chiming, "YOU'RE LATE!' At the top
of their lungs.
touch the stars for, time will not flee
time will not flee, can you see?
"I'm coming back stronger, " He tells her on the day before he sets out.
And she can only laugh. Because it seems like the whole world is spinning with his strength.
Just a dream, just an ordinary dream,
as I lay in bed--
She's fifteen.
And she's waiting.
Her heart is still patched up in bleeding places,
still struggling to beat properly on its own.
But she's waiting, she's still hoping.
And that boy, that ordinary boy,
was it all in my head?
She scans the crowds,
because how hard is it to tell orange clothes and blonde hair apart?!
Did he ask if I would come along, it all seemed so real--
She looks at the sky with exasperation--(wait, the sky--)
--something, arms raised, black and orange--blonde hair, staring down at
'his future village' (her hero's comeback.)
--eyes like fire. (heart starts racing)
And as I looked to the door I saw that boy,
Standing there with a deal.
"Naruto."
She doesn't remember running,
but she knows this isn't the first time
he made her heart skip a beat.
And he said, take my hand--
live while you can--
Fifteen still, gazing at each new strand of hair,
each fragment of each other they've missed.
Every sleep-over they've failed to plan.
Suddenly he's her prince of sunset again,
as they walk as a newly created Team, (bells in all)
towards the bridge.
Don't you feel the dreams that I write,
He offers her his hand.
Come with me, he whispers to her softly. (All these years.)
Come and join my dream. Come with me, Sakura-chan.
(--and I'll make you happy.)
In the palm of your hand?
In the palm of your hand..
And Sakura, tears in her eyes, whispers 'Yes.'
just a boy just an ordinary boy,
but he was looking to the sky.
Because Naruto heals hearts.
Gasp-pant. Hell of a drabble. Well, if you have a prompt and a pairing request, please review it for me. Hope you liked this. I won't write this long next time. If you have a request or a prompt, remember, PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW!