Disclaimer: Uzumaki Naruto isn't mine; he's Uchiha Sasuke's. Naruto the manga is Kishimoto-sensei and anyone who's rich enough to buy the license.
This drabbles is my gift to Yum2, the first person who wrote a coherent review on my fanfic 'Yin & Yang'. Good knows how difficult to write a coherent review and I'm thankful for her to write one.
This piece is loosely tied with 'Yin & Yang' and take place just before the pair departure.
Sheera's Greywolf 2005
Smile!
A Sakura muse; LeeSaku and future SasuNaru
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For Yum2
Sakura was among them who gave the pair a good bye party and also among those who watched their departure. A year was very long for a safeguarding mission, and as a good ex-teammate, she had to make sure that she would see them at their departure.
She had given so many good byes to friend and comrade alike; many were able to fulfill their promise and return, some were lost and remained only in her memory. And now, here she stood again and giving good byes and farewell and detested it even more.
Sasuke-kun good byes were curt and as formal as usual; the said Uchiha only loosened up with Naruto it seemed to her. But he hugged her, albeit friendly, and that was enough. Strange wasn't it? Years ago, she would have died only to receive such hug from Sasuke, but right now at the moment all she felt was a foreboding wariness. Even Inner Sakura was unusually silent.
She was someone else's and content for it.
"Take care Sasuke-kun" She murmured in his ear, loud enough for Lee ears but not enough for anyone else's. Then she whispered, this time for his ear only, "...and watch Naruto's back for me onegai? He's always too reckless for his own good." When she pulled back, she saw a faint tinge of pink on his alabaster cheeks and cheered inwardly; Inner Sakura's fist pumping the air in glee.
"Ha" That was all Sasuke had for reply before he turned away and walked farther from their party. For once Sakura didn't mind the cold shoulder, ever all things started to look up for her; his blush was the proof.
"Bye Sakura-chan! Take care of yourself and Lee!" Naruto came into her view and the pink-haired shinobi laughed, pulled her other teammate into another friendly hug.
"You too Naruto. Kami knows you need more common sense than I do." She gave another smile and added in smaller tone "...please be there for Sasuke-kun, he always listens to you. Promise me Naruto, onegai?"
"Sure I will Sakura-chan! Someone needs to make him less bastardly anyway!"
And she let go, praying silently that she would see them safe and sound next year. Naruto with his big bright smile, waving cheerily at her and ready to tell her thousands of stories from afar and Sasuke with his usual calm and serene expression beside the energetic blonde; hopefully with their hands linked together.
Kami knows how much they deserved it.
Sakura smiled and waved back at Naruto last parting wave, giving another silent prayer as their back turned. 'Please let them came back safe, sound and happy...'
She sighed and gave Lee's hand a squeeze as they stood side by side, happily tilted up her head before giving her fiancé a grin of her own, mischief back into her eyes.
"Don't you think they'll make the cutest couple Lee-kun?"
Lee's answering smile was brighter than any sun.
...I notice that my muses are mostly Sakura's or Sasuke's... Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Eyes-of-the-truth: I hope you don't mind, but your choice of drabbles would've to wait several days. Writing a KakaIru is a tough one for me since I reckon that none of my muses is Kakashi or Iruka or both... I think need to stay more in the bathroom for this. Thank God I didn't use my parents' anymore. I would never hear the end of it if they knew that I dragged my laptop to the bathroom...
Yum2: There you go, drabbles of your choice. I'm so very sorry this piece turns out to be more of a LeeSaku rather than your choice of SasuNaru. I hope it's still up to your satisfactions...
sHeeRa+
who runs off to bang her head against the wall in order to force a KakaIru muses to come out