Talk, Static, Split Screen.
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Disclaim ownership of course material
This is another AU set in my mind with Sakura and Sasuke talking and having a half romance in a place I sat one. Enjoy it I suppose. Lyrics are from a smattering of songs. My tense slips everywhere, I'm sorry.
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Your sick, I'm tired, let's dance, dance, dance.
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It began like this.
The branch over hung the stream. Sakura had her basket with a book, packet of chip and thermos of coffee. She had walked there with no real thought. The spring-almost-summer air spurring her on till she found this alcove of nature down a strange looking path. She smiled widely, took her shoes off, took the chequered picnic blanket to tie it to the branch. She stuck her shoes on top of the basket, went to base of the tree and began to climb out, pulling the basket by the blanket/rope so it was close by. She took out her packet of chips and began munching, feet dangling over the clear stream, humming a song to herself.
"What are you doing here?"
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Stay with me, lay with me
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She looked up, smiling.
"Eating, what does it look like?"
The boy who could be not much older than her frowned from behind midnight dark hair.
"This is my families land, you can't be here."
She frowned back.
"Well you aren't using it right now, so is it really a problem?"
"You can't just go onto other people's land like that. It doesn't matter how big the Uchiha property is…"
"Look I didn't realise this was your land. I came out here because I needed to get away, if it really bothers you I can just go. Or I could be a guest who brought food and you could join me on this branch."
He stared at her and she smiled widely back. He shrugged and came up next to her, she gave him the thurmos to sip out of and held her packet of chips up to munch on.
They didn't say anything, just looked out in the same direction, down the stream till it turned a corner from their sight.
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You must give your life away.
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It began like this.
"Why are you still here?"
"What?"
He turned to her, his eyes were so much older than even an old mans.
"Why are you still here?"
"Because I want to be."
"You can't be here, if anyone finds you…"
"I'm guest aren't I?"
"Yes but…"
Sometimes straight forward logic is infallible.
But they were looking in the same direction and never at each other. Sometimes she'd look down, at the stream with the dragonflies that would skim across the top, sometimes he would look up at the sky, at the dragonfly shapes the clouds would make.
It was all the same really. Up and down, side to side, front and back. It all just went in a circle.
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It continues. They meet, sometimes saying a lot of times, sometimes saying nothing.
Once his brother comes to meet her and she smiled widely at his cold impassive face. She tells them she doesn't have a brother, or a sister, just a mother who bought the cottage down blocks down.
(You know the one? With white roses in rose out the front, looks like a fairy house? That one? Yeah. I want to get a bird cage and get two white doves.)
One day she brings her closest friend along. He and the blonde haired boy do nothing but fight and she firmly tells them that they are too stop this pissing contest right now.
(What are you?! Cave men?! Grow up a little, and if you keep doing that you will both fall in and take my shoes with you. I will take one of both of your shoes if that happens.)
She ended up having to take their shoes.
It is her favourite pair.
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It occurs to them one day that they don't actually know each others names.
"I'm Sakura by the way, Sakura Haruno."
"Sasuke, Sasuke Uchiha."
"I knew you were an Uchiha."
"Still. Can't just say Sasuke, you might think I am a bastard or something."
"Nah, I'm a bastard kid. My Daddy was a pilot that left after a night. You don't have the same look that I do, you aren't bastard."
He shook his head and they kept staring down.
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The beauty of Grace is that it makes life not fair.
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She pulled the scarf with bells around her against the wind that was blowing after the storm last night. He politely ignored the bruises on her shoulder that the shawl was there to hide.
"Did you really have to wear one with bells, its annoying."
"You find everything annoying Sasuke."
"…hn."
"It's starting to get colder Sasuke."
"Yeah… it is."
"Do you like winter?"
"Sometimes."
"Why only sometimes?"
"Cause no body likes something all the time."
"That's not true."
"What do you like all the time then Sakura?"
"…You"
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Not trying to show you apart of my no one else can find.
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For the first time, Sasuke brought something to their meetings it was a thermous of tea. They both drank it quickly, then because he could waste the money he dropped it into the stream, watching it bob away and they wondered idly where it would end up. He likes the way she smiles.
So he continues to bring her gifts. The day she doesn't come, he brings her a flower. He sits for the normal time they normally do, drops the water in and leaves.
The second day it happens he endevours to find what is going on, he finds the fairy house (the one with white roses out the front) along with his brother. Its small compared to the other big ones in the street, the statues that littered it where old and some where covered in ivy.
He walks forward, his brother behind him and knocks on the door. He hears some sort of scuffling behind, footsteps and then the door opens, and he sees her green eyes and that shawl over her shoulders again, without bells but with pretty beads that catch the light. He can see how hard her pulse is beating in her throat. A woman appears behind her with shocking red hair, but the same eyes, same look. She stares at him then her brother behind and turns to go up the stairs of that small little house.
Sakura smiles at him and he knows that her hand being kept on the door knob to stop its shaking. He'll just blink and pretend he didn't see anything.
"I - we - brought this for you." He lifts up his next present to her, a cage with white doves in it. The look on her face is not something he has ever caused before. She grins so big and painful and she might have been crying but he really couldn't look.
She takes the cage from his hands and stares at the two birds. He doesn't know if she'll name them. Instead she begins laughing at sets the two birds on the veranda floor and gives him a kiss on the cheek. "Thank-you Sasuke-kun"
He knew then he had to leave. She told him and Itachi good-bye and thank-you.
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It began like this. She was sitting on the tree branch, holding the empty cage.
"Where'd they go?"
"Mum made me get rid of them."
"Oh."
"I called them Pretty and Promise."
From behind her ear she pulled a snow white feather and gave it to him. "Present for you Sasuke-kun."
He noticed vaguely how tiny her wrists were.
"I'm tired Sasuke-kun, so so tired." She looked down, watching those dragonflies. She sighed. He blinked at her. She kicked off here shoes, watching them splash and then go down, rolling across the rocking bottom through the clear water. She sighed and took off her red and white striped jacket, her collar bones stuck out under the straps of her white dress, She began to slid off the branch, he watch as her dress slid up, exposing the backs of her thighs and then she went down, down, down into the water with a splash, stumbling forward on her uneven landing.
Her dress twisted out around her, she said something to herself, she sat down in the water, it came up to her neck and she tipped her head back so she was fully submerged staring up at him. He stared back down between his feet.
She smiled. He half smirked back.
She sat up in a gasp for air and her dress was tight and clinging to her. She looks so innocent, a fairy.
She turned to look at him.
"Summers going soon Sasuke-kun, I've gotta go again."
He knew he wouldn't see her again.
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As far back as it goes, we've watched the time roll by.
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End.
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Yeah, so that was weird and didn't actually make a lot of sense. Hope you enjoyed.