A/N Soooo much shorter than what i usually write but i think i got the message across.

This innocence is brilliant
I hope that it will stay
This moment is perfect
Please don't go away
I need you now
And I'll hold on to it
Don't you let it pass you by

-Innocence by Avril Lavigne-

She has an air of innocence about her in sleep.

He thinks as he stared at her sleeping face, his chin propped up by his hand. In sleep her face relaxed, little wrinkles disappearing, dark lashes resting upon suntanned cheeks, hair spread out around her head in a halo effect, in sleep she didn't look like the spit-fire woman she was instead she looked fragile.

She was beautiful.

He supposed the reason he hadn't noticed it before was because when she was awake she was in almost constant motion, sure he'd acknowledged that she was no longer the clumsy awkward girl of their gennin days and he'd acknowledged she moved with cat like grace because that was obvious. And sure he knew she was pretty, but before this she hadn't seemed spectacularly beautiful.

Sakura beautiful?

It had never crossed his mind.

But looking at her asleep in the grassy part of the training grounds after a long day, he wondered how he had ever missed it. She was stunning and he was oh so glad she was his. He bent down and kissed her forehead before relocating her head into his lap.

He supposed this is what first love feels like, the innocence and the beauty and the twists and turns of this brand new flame as it captures you in its grip and holds your heart in a vice, strange how if it was anyone else he would be running for the hills.

But here with Sakura he didn't care about keeping up barriers and practiced masks because she was cuddling into him, snoring lightly and he doesn't know what he did to ever deserve her love but he wasn't going to question it.

"SASUKE-TEME."

Sakura stirred and Sasuke hinged at the waist to glare at the annoying blonde.

"Leave Dobe."

Naruto for his part tried to protest ("But Sasuke-teme you said you'd train with me today! HEY wait is that Sakura-chan? Sasuke- teme what the fuck?") but finally left when Sasuke threw a few well planned kunei at his head that were probably a little to close for comfort, well the Dobe's comfort anyway.

"Sasuke-kun I love you..."

She yawned, and stretched arching her back like a cat, before rolling over and curling deeper into his lap, he smirked lightly and ran his hands through her petal pink locks.

Yeah, he supposed he was in love.