Title: Love Me
Author: myinukoi
Pairing: One-sided implied SasuNaru, one-sided implied SasuSaku, implied NejiNaru, one-sided LeeSaku
Warning: Yoai/Shounen-ai, Het, unrequited love, serious OOCness, unbeta-ed, language (swearing), heavy lime (because I refuse to believe that SasuSaku was my first lemon. Nope, not gonna believe it. -shakes head vigorusly in denial-)
Disclaimer: The characters portrayed in this story do not belong to me, but to the Naruto anime/manga series by Masashi Kishimoto. This is all fiction; No profit was made from this story so hence, I bear no responsibility for anything you may claim of this story.
A/N: Not for people who love a happy ending. Unrequited love is admist.
C h a p t e r 2: I Can Try
A mighty pain to love it is
And tis a pain that pain to miss
-Sakura-
I come and my body shudders with the impact.
"Sasuke!" I scream your name and it vibrates off the walls.
"Naruto..." you groan out into my neck.
As you pulls out of me I whimper.
"Goodnight, Sakura." you whispers, and my name sounds dead coming from your lips. You turn to the side, not facing me. Never facing me.
You called out his name again. I winced at your tone. You called out his name, called it out with so much love, so much passion! Emotion!
None that you could ever show for me.
I can understand why you would love our ex-team mate. It only makes sense. Naruto is perfect. In every way one can be. When things go wrong, when something's needed, you call on Naruto. Even now, when you, my lover,cries out his name during our most intimate moments, I still cannot find it in me to loathe the blond. He's the hero. Always has been and always will be. It's what it always comes to when we play our parts.
The selfless yet naively adorable saint.
The brooding gorgeous friend/lover of the hero.
The tryst between the inevitable romance.
But how was I not to fall in love with the moody boy? Did I mess it up that badly? Something's wrong. This isn't right. The way that we're working... isn't normal.
There can be more, can't it? It can't be simply deduced and chopped up into simple parts! The world doesn't work like that!
Sasuke...
Please, let me make you... I can make you...
I shudder with a surpressed sob.
Fall in love with me.
Sometimes I wonder if I bring these things on myself. I knew you didn't love me. I've always known. It was always him. I'm not blind! I'm not stupid! My eyes take in everything. It was only to obvious the way you would gaze at him...
Talk to him.
Tease him.
Protect him.
Laugh with him.
All for him.
And I watched. I was jealous. I had to act fast.
I asked you to marry me.
It would get him off your mind. I would be there to wipe all his traces away.
And you agreed.
So now Sasuke, I will live the rest of my life for you. Everything I do, will be dedicated to you. I'll spend years, decades erasing his memory.
Though I bet it's engraved in there, huh? Irremovable?
Then I'll be him for you. I'll act like him, dress like him, talk like him!
I will make you accept me, Sasuke!
I will make you love me!
The crystilline tears are streaming down my face before I can stop them.
Or at least, I can try.
I can always try.
But of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, but love in vain
-Abraham Cowley
A/N: Review. Chapter 2/5.
Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto