Forgiveness.
It's such a simple word. Eleven easy letters, three plain syllables. The action for this simple word, however, is not so easy. To forgive someone of hurting you, of making you cry and bleed and damn it, hope, that is not easy at all.
You struggle with your inner conflicts, of weighing the good and bad of the persons actions in you mind and deciding from there. With this one person, although, I find myself giving in to my heart more often than o should, because no matter how many times he hurts me, no matter how many times I cry because he's gone, I'm still going to forgive him.
And that just hurts me even more, that my common sense can see what I'm doing and still let me dig my grave even deeper.
I love Sasuke, so that's why I would do anything for him.
"Sakura. I'm going back you know." It was a statement from him that I knew was coming, and I still couldn't shield my heart from the blow. My windpipe started tightening. He jumped off of the ruined rooftop, and gave Konoha a glance. The village was almost destroyed, many fires still running rampant.
"You have already killed your brother though, why would you leave?" My q2uestion brought his eyes to mine, and I saw nothing in them but emptiness. He felt no love, no joy, or any sadness.
He was hollow. He had no emotions left after his twisted childhood ripped everything away from him. He killed his brother, whom he loved, and it destroyed him even more.
He was gone. Nothing I could do would ever bring him back from the coldness he sought.
These thoughts brought tears streaming down my cheeks, but only for a moment., because a moment later, I captured his lips in mine in a movement you couldn't see. He didn't move, he didn't even blink.
"I love you Sasuke-kun, but ….go. I know you need to." He shot me a glance, full of confusion, and he patted my arm awkwardly. The touch of affection meant more to me than all the smiles and declarations of love in the world, it meant he was at least, still human.
I could forgive him now.