Title: Too Long
Summery: Naruto returns to Konoha a different man.
Pairing: Naruto/Sakura, one-sided?
Word Count: 226
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Huzzah to that, yo!
A/N: kinda…weird (?) but not as much as my last NaruSaku…at least that's my opinion. Anyway, sorry to disappoint that it isn't about a taco (haha), but I am toying with the idea (now that school's out and I get my life back thanks-very-much-AP-classes.) (and since I'm totally sluffing out on classes senior year, I shouldn't disappear again in two months! Woohoo! xD)
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It's been so long since I've seen him.
But now there he is…standing right in front of me. He is surrounded by our friends, all of them welcoming him back just like I should be.
He has changed, and it's confusing, comforting and frightening all at the same time. I can see it in him; he's practically glowing with his maturity. He glances up just long enough for our eyes meet for a split second, but then someone calls his name and he turns away. Not soon enough though; I saw the change in his eyes. They were different than before: his deep, bright blue eyes held a different emotion than when they met mine that last time so many months before.
I don't wait to get an explanation to the change, I'm too afraid of what I might find. Instead I silently leave the room, and walk home, rubbing my arms against the night chill I imagine to exist to keep myself from thinking about the new him that I'm too frightened to meet. It's not until I've changed into my pajamas and brushed my teeth and gotten into bed that I let myself realize that it's been too long since I've seen him: too many memories…too much change in the both of us. It scares me and comforts me and confuses me in one terrifying moment of revelation.
And it's then that the tears begin to flow.