Title: Let Me See
Author: Killaurey
Word Count: 500
Rating: T

Written for Day 6 of the 2013 Last Fan Standing Challenge on KakaSaku's Dreamwidth community.

Prompt: Prophecy

Sakura keeps a diary. Actually, she keeps two. One is for the everyday stuff.

The other is for what she Sees.

When she's younger, it's something of a dream diary, though all the dreams she writes down happen when she's awake.

While shelling peas with Mom, I Saw a man with silver hair, one eye, and a mask. He looked really cool.

Then, because she's eight and her world revolves around her parents, Ino, and Sasuke, she adds:

Not as cool as Sasuke-kun though. And way, way too old. Yuck.

When she's nine she writes:

I saw Ino-chan falling out of a tree! She fell and fell and didn't move when she landed.

Because Ino is away on vacation with her family, Sakura cries herself to sleep that night, terrified over losing her best friend. When Ino gets back, unharmed, a week later, Sakura cries again.

Ino falls out of a tree three months later and is in a coma for a week.

That's when Sakura starts paying attention to what she Sees instead of dismissing them as flights of fancy.

Some times what she Sees really is just little things. Twice she Sees her parents kiss each other goodbye in the morning, which always strikes her as ridiculous and a waste of her ability because she sees them kiss each other goodbye in real time, every morning.

By the time she's twelve and graduates to become a kunoichi, Sakura has Seen twenty-four visions of Sasuke (which get progressively grimmer), thirty-nine visions of Naruto (about which half are really scary and the other half are really lovely), and nearly a hundred of Ino (most of them are little, everyday things but some a very sad and some are happy; like Naruto, Ino is a mess of extremes, wherever the future will take her).

She's also had fifty-seven visions of the silver-haired man.

When he becomes her sensei, she's not that surprised.

(Though she is extremely disappointed by how uncool he is. He always seemed cooler when she Saw him.)

Sakura is sixteen the first time she Sees herself kissing her sensei. She yelps, flings herself away from the kitchen sink, and stares at it like it's a viper.

Once she's over her shock, she finishes the dishes, writes down the vision, and makes a note that it will never, ever happen because ew.

She tells Ino about her vision, though she calls it a true-dream instead, and they have a good laugh about it over ice cream.

When that first kiss happens, Sakura is twenty, wearing her formal medic-nin uniform, and tired and dirty from an emergency shift at the hospital.

The kiss is soft, sweet, and exacting.

She steals another one.

(He doesn't mind.)

Sakura rereads her Sight diary every now and then. When she finds her note about kissing her sensei, she amends it.

It's really very nice.

And there're a lot of things in her book that aren't.

The good needs to be remembered.