SasuHina Month 2018 #2: Yin and Yang
Inspired by Mulan 2, "Lesson Number One," and the whole damn movie in general. Cue more Mulan-Hinata and General Shang-Sasuke.
It would be cheesy to say that she completed him. Or that she was his 'other half.'
Even if that were true.
Most of their friends were surprised when they found out they were together. Sweet Hinata and sour Sasuke?
"They could never work," they heard whispered between closed doors.
"He's only going to hurt her."
"Her father would never approve."
"They're as different as day and night."
"You two are complete opposites!" Kiba had accused loudly (and his words had hurt her and Sasuke knew she was disappointed that one of the closest friends she had considered a brother would say something so unsupportive. He had been one of the ones to try to get Sasuke back, after all.)
That was also true. In a way.
But they were more than that.
Hinata was soft, where he was hard — as in, she had flexible, limber curves, where he was all lean muscle. He was fast and quick like lightning, moving like the swiftness of the blade he wielded, bursting as hot as the flames he spewed out of his mouth. Her speed was agile and graceful, her movements fluid like water as she utilized her clan's revered taijutsu in battle. He often made decisions as rapidly as one thought flickered to another, and she took her time, thinking and calculating carefully, hesitant before she struck. She was gentle, while he was rough and abrasive, in both personality and expression. Sasuke was a summer boy, born of the sun, and she, a winter princess, born of the moon.
She was light where he was dark, not just with their eyes, but with the secrets they held within them. He was almost constantly shrouded in the darkness of his past. Though she tried to hide hers with her light (her starry eyes, her radiant smile, her positivity, the goodness that was so completely and entirely her), there was always that shadow of suffering even she couldn't completely forget (the way she would need to stop and rest because her heart rhythm has not always been regular since her fight with Neji, the knowledge that her father would always prefer Hanabi and that her clan still thought her weak and unfit to lead). And she showed him that if he searched in his own darkness, he could find light. That if he looked in the deepest and darkest of nights, he would always find a shining star.
And he did. She was his light.
If anything, they were the balance between two opposites.
And together, they were complete.
They were yin and yang.
"As there will always be death to complete the circle of life, or in silence there will always be sound, or how the earth and sky go together to create wonder that is our world — it's two separate things that make something whole. And you," Hinata had reached out to entwine their fingers in reassurance. "Make me whole."
"That's the thing with yin and yang." She smiled at him and planted a soft kiss on his cheek. "You need both together."
