Frank: blunt or direct
Uchiha Sasuke has never been tactful. Yes, he can talk his way out of most situations, but he's always been direct and to the point, and the Rookie Nine has always known this.
So why are they so shocked when he asks – no, orders – Sakura to marry him?
When Naruto demands the reason, he merely shrugs and replies that he needs to repopulate his clan, and she has the chakra control that he wishes his children to have.
There is no hesitancy in his voice, no guilt. There is no regard for Sakura's feelings, but she smiles and agrees.
And despite Naruto and Ino's best efforts, they have the smallest wedding in the history of Konoha that day.
(A small part of Sakura dies then, but Sasuke doesn't want fuss, and she'll do anything for her Sasuke-kun.)
In the day time, he acts no differently than before – in fact, he is the epitome of coldness – and all of her friends shake their heads.
But at night, in bed, he is loving and gentle and caring, and for this she is grateful. Even if he is pretending, in the dark she can tell herself that he loves her and not have his actions contradict her.
But he never says once that he loves her, and in the morning he is always gone.
Just once she longs to wake up with him beside her, but knows that it is only a dream, a far-off hope, a wish.
The only way that she will ever wake up beside him will be if he dies in his sleep.
(Or if she dies, because maybe in Heaven he will love her in both the day and the night.)
And though she knows he will be gone in the morning, she wraps her arms around his sleeping form and hopes –
What is it for which she hopes?
A response
tears
affection
a confession
Heaven
Hell
forever
his heart
dark eyes smoldering with emotion
a warm body beside hers when dawn breaks
dreams
the fantasy of a young girl's mind
for him to turn around and tell her that it's a mistake
his love
She hopes for death.
End.