NotesNotesNotes: Good day, people. How have you been? It's been a while, I know. For the long while I was gone, writing hadn't been in my mind so much. It'll take me a long while but I'm pretty sure that I'll eventually finish my stories so please bear with me. Huzzah!

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Little by Little: Scenes of Life

Scene Ten - I

Summary: "You're my soul mate." - "I know," Sakura said, her eyes softening. "And I wish you were mine."

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"Sakura, come on."

"Sasuke, dear," Sakura turned to him, pausing from her packing. Clothes strewn about on Sasuke's bed. "He's my soul mate. And I'm apparently also his. The Mirror Lake doesn't lie."

"You're my soul mate."

"I know," Sakura said, her eyes softening. "And I wish you were mine."

"Sakura," Sasuke sighed. "You're being ridiculous. I don't really care about this soul mate crap. Many couples have been together who are either soul mates on one side only, or neither are at all. It's never mandatory." He's on the edge. It was mandatory, and he knew this, but he'd be damned if he wouldn't fight for it till the last.

"You love me like this only because I'm your soul mate. And I'm sorry it had to happen to us. But soul mates aren't exactly just one person and one other, for sure. One person can have many soul mates. One person can, uhm, not have any – but I'm not saying you don't have!"

"Sakura, shut up," Sasuke sat on the bed and tugged on her – none too gently – and made her sit beside her. "That's not my point. You two just met. Do you really even love him?"

"He's my soul mate, Sasuke. Our laws say that when two soul mates meet, they must get together. Besides, again, we are soul mates. We'll eventually love each other. That's what soul mates are. Really. It's why, even for your super grouchy personality and antisocial tendencies, you love me, fell in love with me."

"It's nothing like that," Sasuke said, his voice low, feeling down because she's obviously misinterpreting this whole thing. Somewhere along the silence she resumed packing and eventually finished.

"Sasuke," she called out softly. He turned to her, now resigned to the wad of stupid emotions exploding through him. "I really do love you and if it weren't for our laws, I'd stay with you forever."

He saw her tears but with the anger of injustice in his heart, he turned away.

Scene Ten: to be continued!

MoreNotes: Hi! Yes. I know. But I've decided to write short chapters and just put them in parts if they become too long. They'll be just a few parts, however, and they won't always go after each. Like I may not actually post the continuation of this in the next chapter but instead a different drabble altogether. Probably the case.

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