It's really a situation worthy of a soap opera.
It started out a hell of a lot more simple, I guess. He liked Sakura, who liked Sasuke, and I liked Hinata who liked him. It wasn't particularly serious- notice I use the schoolyard term of "like" as opposed to "love". Because we were kids- just kids. Schoolyard romance, puppy love, all that crap.
But then he had the audacity to fall in love- actual love- with that… that… that cold-hearted, stony, emo, village-deserting (although at the time we didn't know that) son of a bitch. Uchiha Sasuke… bleh. And then, of course, I had to fall in love too.
With him.
And then Sakura was in love with him too, but also apparently had a crush on Sai, just like Ino, and Sasuke had that redheaded chick- Karen? No, Karin, that was her name- Sasuke had Karin and the freaky dude with the teeth, Sui-something, and I couldn't help but wonder if, just maybe, I was reading him right- or rather, not reading him wrong- and Naruto- sweet, gentle, kind, fiery, protective, clumsy, awkward, oblivious, adorable Naruto- was maybe, just maybe, attracted to me too. Maybe, for once in my life, the person I was in love with could even love me back.
And then he nearly got killed and Hinata confessed to him and SHE nearly died but Sakura saved her and then he ran off to try to save Sasuke (again) and for some reason, Sakura wanted ME to go with her to find him and I had to sit there and watch her confess to him as an attempt to get him back home so she could kill Sasuke- not that I didn't want the bastard dead, but could she have not toyed with his heart to do it? My poor Naruto doesn't deserve that- and I was confused, damn confused, because what the hell was I supposed to do after that? What if I told him how I felt and he said I was lying to myself? I wouldn't be able to take it! So I didn't even try.
And now he's about to reach the thing he's dreamed of as far back as anyone can remember: his inauguration to Hokage is in three short hours. The war is over, everybody's okay, blah, blah, blah- all I want to know is how the hell I'm going to stand up to- and best in order to gain Naruto's heart- the person he risked his life for repeatedly, including coming so close to death that he still can't walk on his own, almost two months later, and… and… and loves, dammit, loves enough that he almost succeeded in killing himself in order to bring this beloved person home after repeatedly being betrayed, rejected, made fun of, and narrowly escaping death at his hands?
All I know is that it's complicated.
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Yaaaay! Numba two :3 As you can see, KibaNaru versus SasuNaru, from Kiba's perspective. It's not really connected to the last one… it could be if you want it to be, I suppose, but I wasn't intending them to connect when I wrote this. So.
Ehehehe :) Anyway, once again, drop me a review for reviews=love! 'Cha!
-Dawnstep