"I'm moving in with you."
He rose a brow at her as she drew his blood, the syringe slowly filling up with what was too too often spilled. "Hn..." What makes you think that?
"You almost always call."
"Hn." He adverted his eyes grumpily.
She finished and removed the syringe, wiped the wound and went to grab some tape and a cotton ball. "Besides, your place is better than mine."
He wondered that. He pondered how his place could be so much better than hers when she had a regular paying job while he didn't. While his house had holes in the walls and rodents in the walls that tried to sneak out at night. While he never had a half full refrigerator. Just how bad could her place be?
"It'll be good for both of us." She gave him another attempt at a smile and he ached again. He regretted again. And he blamed himself again.
"Where do you live?"
"No where important."
"Sakura..."
"..."
He hated that silence. More specifically he hated the silence that came blaringly loud from her. From one of the two people that should never be quiet. From one of the two people that were supposed to always annoy him. From the only person left of those two people.
"Me and N-Naruto-kun shared an apartment after his got... became unavailable and after my house was... gone. But..."
She had taped the cotton ball on his arm and now had nothing to distract her, nothing to give reason to her twitchy movement. No escape.
"Well... It's, it's just not right to live there anymore... So I don't."
"Sakura..." He was growling and she hesitantly lifted her eyes to his.
"I don't... really much live anywhere...Sasuke-kun." She rushed on, quietly, softly, hoping he wouldn't hear, fearing his reaction but all the same needing to say it, so desperately. "I don't much live anywhere anymore... Sasuke-kun."
"You're moving in with me."
In a knee jerk reaction her head flew up, almost banging into his as she wondered when he had gotten so close and how he had turned this whole conversation around on her. His commanding voice left no option and she almost, almost smiled.