Sakura/lee
She wonders how he can be so blind- for all his self-professed love her there's so much he doesn't know. He doesn't notice that she doesn't need protecting anymore and worked damn hard to not be that girl from the chuunin exams anymore. That she's changed. And maybe it's not all for the better damnit but it happened. And he doesn't ask her things, he just sweetly assumes (that she loves the hospital and wants to become a med nin and be just like her shisou, that she'll be over Sasuke, that she's perfect and a lady and she wonders where he gets all this from, where does this fictional Sakura exist? How does she exist?) And even when she's the one doing awful things to him he just apologizes to her. It's maddening really. If he doesn't get angry how can she? He just manages to... flip everything.
Sometimes she hates him for all his enthusiasm and how good he is- because she isn't and he still refuses to acknowledge that about her. Absolutely refuses to see anything about her as less than perfect and there's something awful about that because at some point he's going to have to realize it and it's going to crush him like it's crushing her (like she wants to crush him sometimes). Because she tries, she does, she tries so hard it hurts, to be perfect for him, to be the girlfriend he wants and deserves, because he treats her like she's perfect (and again how did he get that idea? Clearly not from the team that knows her best because they could set him straight). That's not her (sweet and quiet and demure and beautiful and tender and girlish and shy—she's the girl who can punch holes through walls, who has such snarky rude and often mean inner thoughts and yes she tries to suppress them but they're still there, she has a vindictive streak a mile wide sometimes and if you hurt one of her 'precious people' to steal Naruto's phrase you are fucked, and she's not some blushing virgin anymore, her hands and body are calloused and scarred, and she used to be okay with all this because she worked hard to be noticed and acknowledged and now sometimes she's not so sure) and it's driving her insane. That's all she was (is?) and all she was left (after they abandoned her and she's an equal now!) and he just can't take that away. He needs some sweet civilian girl to cherish and protect and shelter like a tender reed because she's damn well had enough coddling and she's worked hard to get through it and he isn't going to sideline her because she has ovaries. Oh no no no.
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A/N:
you may be able to tell but to me this pairing is one of the no just no pairings. because yes it's cannon that he likes her but why? he doesn't know anything about her.
To my readers would you still be able to see/search for this fic if the rating moves up to M? It's possible it may for references and language. If you like the story but don't set your filters so you can see M rated stuff feel free to follow the story. I have no plans for actual explicit content and i will give warnings if any chapter contains such (unlikely)