Comprehension
There's a girl who waits in Konoha. Pink hair and starry-eyed and all the things that he should have wanted. But he does not want her, or, at least, cannot want her at the time. He stole away in the night and abandoned her at the village's end with a simple thank you before he knocked her out. It's not her threat to tell on him, but her very existence that could have stopped him in his tracks altogether.
One more word might have done it. He knows this; but he's smart and calculating and understands the importance of his ambition must come before all else. There's a man who haunts his thoughts each day and devours his soul at night. He thinks his revenge will be his salvation. It's only now that he starts to understand he left salvation out in the cold on the last bench in Konoha.
There's a girl who waits in Konoha. Pink hair and starry-eyed and all the things that he has always wanted. And he wants her more than anything else because he can't have her, or, at least, she won't have him. He disappeared in broad daylight and left her at the village gates with a grin and a promise that he intends to keep. It's not the smile that lights up her face, but the tears trailing down that gave him the strength to go.
He doesn't know it, but he's sweet and never backs out on his promises and he never wants to see her sad again. There's a boy he must bring back for her sake. He hopes that his determination will prove his love for her. Some day he'll realize that it only made her love that boy even more.
There's a girl who waits in Konoha. Pink hair and starry-eyed and all the things that make her beautiful. And she wants a boy who lost his way and vanished for three years without so much as a goodbye. She learns her lessons and works so hard; like the other boy that she cannot love, she believes that she can bring him back. She smiles for the world and looks forward because he always was the one to walk ahead of her. It's not the fear of the past that's keeps her gaze where he should be walking, but the fear that she will miss seeing him if she looks back behind her.
She's in love with someone who needs his revenge more than he needs her, or so she thinks. She's intelligent and knows the odds, but she's also young and sometimes fails to remember to take other factors into consideration. She assumes that his revenge is all he has left in the world, but forgets to count herself into the equation. If they meet again and she doesn't ask and he doesn't say, then she may never realize that she's the one thing that keeps him wishing he had changed his mind.
This was just a little something I typed up after I thought about the "Ring Around The Rosy" song. I figured it would be a good little way to introduce myself into writing again as life settles down just a bit. I know; it's very short (only about 500 words), and I'm just a little ashamed.
Anyway, thanks for reading. All comments are welcomed. I think the A Collection will end up being a fanfiction compilation for Team 7.