A/N: GASP!!! My first Sasuke/Sakura fic! Bet I'll screw it up.
Sleeping Kunoichi
She was so beautiful when she was sleeping.
Sure, she was beautiful when she was awake, too, but for some reason Sasuke just loved watching Sakura sleep. He knew he was a bit of a bastard to her sometimes, but he really did care about the pink-haired medic-ninja. He just had no idea how to say it.
He'd gotten used to girls throwing themselves at him over the years and hadn't really noticed Sakura out of the many girls in what Naruto called his "fan club". And during the first few months whilst she was in his squad, he'd just seen her as an annoying distraction. He'd tried to avoid her (nearly impossible considering how she kept finding him no matter where he hid) but after talking to her properly a few times, when she wasn't trying to impress him and was just being herself, he'd found out that she was actually kind of interesting.
Her parents were great and respected ninja in Konoha and she desperately wanted to live up to their legend. But was unsure how to do it because she considered herself incredibly weak by ninja standards. Sasuke had found himself comforting her, pointing out how she was great at chakra control and ninjutsu. It was just her taijutsu that needed work. She wasn't one of those people who were cut out to be good at hand to hand combat. He suggested she try becoming a medic ninja.
And now, nearly five years later, she was seriously respected as one of the best medic-nin in the entire Village. Sasuke smiled as he reached down and brushed pink hair away from her face, gentle in a way he probably would never show her if she was awake.
"See," he whispered. "I knew you had it in you." And he realized then that his words actually meant something to him, weren't just meaningless platitudes that he was saying because he had felt he should.
He rolled his eyes at that thought – he didn't normally sneak into peoples' rooms at four in the morning to mouth platitudes. If he was gonna do it all he was gonna mean what he was saying – duh!
Sasuke smiled again, and bent down quickly to press his lips lightly to her forehead. "Sweet dreams, Sakura," he murmured as he left by the open window he had come in through. Sakura smiled in her sleep and rolled onto her side, dreaming quietly of a quiet dark-haired, dark-eyed ninja who wore blue and constantly surprise her…
A/N: well that didn't go too badly. It could have been much worse. Much worse. (don't ask how please, I'm trying to get the images out of my head.)
