This one was meant to be put up yesterday, but I lost the file among my many long long files in my computer's memory. Seriously, I found this story's file like about...two hours ago? Yea, depressing for someone who believes in tidiness lol.

Besides that I have nothing much to add. Please review if you enjoyed and have a nice night/day/afternoon/morning/evening. :)

Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Kishimoto...I'm too irresponsible to own a manga lol.

"Dark and light are opposites, but one without the other, they cannot be complete."

Theme 4: Dark


It was always rumored that people with bright eyes always seemed to show their eye color at its best in the dark.

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As shocking as it may sound, she really thinks that the darkness of the night brings out the best in Naruto's features,especially his eyes. She cringed at her own inner thoughts, but as she kept staring at her blonde teammate crouching on the tree trunk next to hers, the more she was believing them.

With a full moon out and shining brightly over the forest they were currently hiding in, he looked almost god-like, like a creature that didn't belong in the human world.

She tucked a loose strand of her pink her and licked her dry lips. She returned her attention back to the quiet surroundings of the forest. Only minutes passed by before her attention drove her back to look at Naruto. His blue eyes focusing on everything in front of him and nothing around him, he was oblivious to his pink haired teammate's thoughts about him.

She scowled in her lack of concentration on their mission and at Naruto for causing her to enter deep thinker mode. She shifted quietly against the old bark of the tree trunk she crouched on and released a sigh. Her eyes wandered over to Naruto again, who seemed to be having his own battle over staying awake or just collapsing on the tree and drifting off to sleep.

She was scaring herself really. Staring at him behaving in almost his usual way, she still saw the god-like creature leaning on that tree trunk. His blonde hair seemed to glow differently than before, a gold like shine. It almost look like he had decorated his hair with gold liquid.

How was it possible for a young man to have multiple shades of golden blonde hair?

Then his face. Her green eyes intensified as she stared at his drooping eyelids and his lips seeming to move to speak words she couldn't hear. The whiskers seemed to become highlighted in the pitch black of the night and the bright cream-colored light of the full moon. They seemed longer and for some reason, the night made the whiskers seem almost natural against the tint of his skin. Like the whiskers belonged there all along.

She jumped as he jolted from his spot on the tree. He blinked, bewildered for a moment. He turned his head to look at her and he sent her a reassuring grin. He was awake, and was most certainly not sleeping. He nodded at her and turned back around to return to his previous intense and attentive stare at what was in front of him.

She sighed and shook her head, letting a small smile appear on her lips. Her smile disappeared as she noticed the intense color of blue staring out into the night.

The Naruto she was always used to had an abnormally bright eye color. Sometimes she thought his eyes were brighter than her own. His hair resembled a bright mid-afternoon sun bearing it's color down onto the earth. Everything about him during the day just shouted out bright. Even his clothes still had the signature color of orange he was always seen wearing. His words and peppy attitude were just as bright as his physical appearance. Than...

Why did she seem to think that the darkness of a late summer night brought out his best features?

When everything about him was bright?

His eyes most especially were driving her more into her agitated mood. She had said before that his eyes were a bright...sky blue. Now, in this forest where you could hardly see a thing without the beam of the moonlight, his eyes seemed to have turned into this deep and beautiful shade of royal blue. Or perhaps a mixture of cerulean and navy blue.

Sakura shook her head. Mission, that's what her head should be saying at the moment, focus and mission. Still, her green eyes remained on the still figure of Naruto as his eyes seemed frozen in one spot.

He looked mature crouching there on that lone dark tree branch. His body seemed leaner and more taller than before. And the wind wasn't helping either.

Sakura grunted silently as the breeze swept through their part of the forest and caused Naruto to move just an inch. He looked like some damn epic hero preparing to rescue the princess in distress.

"You and your damn bi-polar physical appearances." Sakura complained in a hushed tone.

Naruto turned his stare at her and asked innocently. "Did ya say something Sakura-chan?"

Sakura grunted again and turned to look at him. She swallowed any words she was going to say as she stared at him.

Those eyes of his looked so...bright...which was surprising her. The lack of light was making his bright eyes...even more bright?

She held her head, she was confusing herself with the overuse of the word bright. Her green eyes stared at him for a moment longer. He was smiling at her, waiting for her reply. His gaze seemed kind and comforting. And those damn blue...dark bluish...whatever color they are, were making her blush. Hard.

She whipped her head around, hoping he didn't spot the tinge of red covering her pale cheeks. She coughed and folded her arms across her chest haughtily. She scowled as she felt his stare becoming confused and questioning.

"N-Nothing! Shouldn't you be focusing on our scouting mission instead of listening to whatever I'm saying?" she hissed at him as she stared at the dark trees ahead of them.

Her blush intensified in color as she heard his deep chuckle. She pouted and threw a small pebble she had found lodged in her boots earlier, at him. She smiled victoriously as she heard his small whine as the projectile made contact with his head.

"Ne, I'm sorry Sakura-chan! You didn't have to throw that pebble at me." His voice sounded soft and childish as he rubbed the sore spot on his head.

"Serves you right." She reprimanded him as she twirled around to face him properly.

She was surprised to find him in the same position staring at her with a small pout, but his eyes still as mystifyingly annoying as ever.

Her blush smaller now, she rocked her legs back and forth, looking at him and then at the ground below.

It was a fact now. No doubt about it. As strange as it still sounded to her, the fact was Naruto lived up to his unpredictable ways. The dark surrounding them made his features stand more and he seemed more in place here than in the light where he pretty much belonged in too.

"You're just one big contradiction Naruto." She mused to herself out loud.

Naruto stared at her with confusion. "I...am?"

She shrugged off the question and smiled, her blush once again intensifying. "You know...has anyone told you Naruto that your eyes look so much brighter and...more intense at night?" She mumbled and bit her lower lip. "Well you know in case not...they look...nice." she felt life a stuttering idiot now.

Tense seconds passed by as Sakura stared at her legs, both rocking back and forth rapidly. She can hear him shifting and she can see his legs beginning to rock back and forth in time with her own. She looks up to stare at him as he calls her name.

"Ya know Sakura-chan..." He smiles at her as they both make eye contact with each other. "I was thinking the same exact thing...weird huh?"

It was too dark, but they were both blushing as the last of Naruto's words disappeared with the wind.

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It was always rumored that people with bright eyes always seemed to show their eye color at its best in the dark.

Both Sakura and Naruto heard the rumor on the same day.


I feel like one of those corny writers who doesn't know her own limit on over the top fluffy romantic moments that make it that much more corny. lol
Woot! Go me and my corny-ness :P I'm more of an angst romance writer than anything really. fluff isn't my speciality...as you've all clearly seen XD Oh well, I tried.
Review please, because cheese cake matters and as such your opinions as well.
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