UNCERTAINTY
Sakura didn't know if it was the hickey on Naruto's neck or Sasuke's soft smile at the blond, but she suddenly got it.
And then she tripped on a wire and the next thing she knew, she was hanging from a tree and Naruto was laughing at her.
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She stumbled upon them one day. It was a hot day and she was looking for a stream to bathe in, far from Kakashi's perverted eyes. When she started to remove her clothes, she heard a noise. About to throw a kunai in that direction, she remembered when Naruto nearly killed that bunny on the way to the Wave Village. She put her dress back on, and crept quietly to the noise. She heard murmuring and quietly peeked through a bush.
Naruto's back was against the tree and Sasuke's arms were around him. They were so close together. And the way they were looking at each other made Sakura feel like she was intruding on something unimaginably special.
She saw Naruto murmuring something and she strained to hear it. She saw the results before she heard it.
"I love you."
Such tenderness she had never seen before in Sasuke's eyes! And that smile. She knew that smile would only be for Naruto. And she saw what Sasuke mouthed back.
"I love you too."
And when Sasuke reached to kiss Naruto's smiling face, Sakura backed away and ran as fast as she could, back to her little stream, not caring who heard her.
Sasuke…so the one who could thaw your icy heart was not me or Ino…but Naruto…--
It was two days after that afternoon and Naruto and Sasuke were leaving after the mission. They left together, Sasuke with a perfectly calculated smirk on his face. Naruto was laughing at nothing, just the sheer delight of being alive and with the one he loved.
"Kakashi-sensei…" Sakura asks tentatively, her hand to her suddenly aching heart, "Kakashi-sensei…do you…"
Kakashi adjusts his mask. "Yes."
Sakura isn't surprised. The man who said nothing knew everything. "But…why…why do they…"
Kakashi looks off to the setting sun. "It's the only way they know." And he bends down to Sakura's eye level. He smiles gently. "Don't worry anymore, Sakura-chan. They'll be alright."
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So Sakura stopped worrying about it. At times, she would wonder what was happening between the two, which bothered her enough to go check on Naruto to make sure Sasuke didn't hurt him with his gruffness. But never did she find Naruto upset. He was always off somewhere…off somewhere with Sasuke.
A/N: I wasn't sure if I wanted to post up my Naruto fics on this account...but then I just thought, heck! Why not?
This is unbeta-ed so some of the tenses might be screwed up.
I think I'm going to do a sequel. It'll be up in a few days to a week.
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C.L.