Incadenscently
Chapter Two
Prompt: Something More
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He came to visit her often, whether people knew it or not. Whether she knew it or not.
Sasuke didn't remember when he began to do this, but he did remember why. When he first left the village, he left her with nothing but a fleeting, loving touch to her forehead that promised that he would return sometime in the near future. What he didn't expect was for himself to want to come back home - to her, so soon.
It was only a little over a month in his travels, that he began to feel something within himself. At first, he found the sensation to be very irritable. He didn't understand why this feeling came about. It didn't make any sense to him. He couldn't grasp where this feeling was coming from, or what could possibly evoke it so strongly with each passing day. It was only when he would stumble across petals of cherry blossoms floating in the air or dangos being sold at small cafes that he came to the realization that it had something to do with a certain rosette that he had left behind. The same feeling would envelop his entire being whenever he would overhear civilians or shinobis talk highly of her and her medical expertises.
When his mind had finally come around to comprehending the feeling, it had him frozen in the middle of the forest, on an empty trail with his hand over his chest, eyes widening in shock.
He had missed her.
Sasuke missed her.
And that was all it took for him to turn around and head back to where he came from.
But that was some many months ago. Now, it was halfway through the winter season. The weather had dropped significantly since the last time he came back. Gone where the hot summer breezes and bright evening skies, replaced by face numbing chills and grey, moody nights. Winter time had also meant that Sakura ended up staying later than usual to help and assist all the new patients coming down with a cold or flu. Sometimes, she even slept in her office instead of going home.
And that was where he found her.
As he slipped in through her office window, he closed the window shut behind him as quietly as possible in fear of waking her up. Before he entered, Sasuke had made sure to mask his chakra. Being so perfect with her chakra control, if he had so much as let it flair even a tiny bit, he knew it would have alerted her with his presence. Which was something he didn't want.
The moment he passed the village's gates, he could sense her flickering chakra. Judging from how late it was, he figured she was deep in sleep from a long day of healing. And he wasn't wrong.
Taking a blanket that he knew she kept in the cupboard on the other side of the room, he draped it over her sleeping form. He then turned off the lamp light on her desk, leaving nothing but the blue light coming from her computer screen to illuminate her face. Giving her desk a once over, he couldn't help but smirk in amusement. Her desk was even worst than Naruto. Paperwork and files littered the entire surface of her desk as well as the occasional chocolate wrappers. He knew that she had a major sweet tooth.
Leaning down towards her sleeping face, Sasuke gently wiped away a smudge of chocolate on the corner of her mouth. Not removing his eyes from her sleeping face, he found that she looked a lot like she did in their younger days. So innocent, so naive, so pure. Fingers touching her blossom colored hair, he noticed that she had began to grow her hair out as well. He liked that. She didn't need to cut her hair short in order to prove that she was strong and no longer the weak girl that everyone knew. Because Sasuke knew she was always strong. She didn't need to prove it to him.
As he sat there on the window sill later on that night, he couldn't feel as if there was something more to why he kept on coming back to visit her, even without her knowledge. Glancing back at her sleeping form over his shoulder, Sasuke had an inkling to why, but he was afraid to allow his thoughts to wander that far. He knew Sakura would be thrilled to have discovered these thoughts and feelings of his. And he knew that she would be there to welcome him back completely with open arms. But he didn't deserve her. At least not yet. He had a long way to go before he deserved someone as amazing as her.
{A/N}: I'm definitely not following the holiday theme at the moment but I'll get there~ Anyways, hope you guys enjoy this second prompt. If you did, let me know what you thought with a review!
Thank you to: EphemeralSakura and a guest anon.
