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 4: Everything and Anything
Yeah, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
Fucking high
-Lee-
"Sakura..."
I moan out your name in the closed, dark confinements of my room.
"Why..?" I wonder aloud.
The Uchiha.
Uchiha.
Uchiha.
Always him. It doesn't matter what I do, how hard I try...
It's always the Uchiha.
I asked for your affections, beat him to a pulp, proved my loyalty and endless devotion to you and yet...
I'm still left abandoned.
He doesn't love you, Sakura! He doesn't and you know so!
When I confronted you of how he might have affections for your blond friend, Naruto...you slapped me. No matter what I do, even if I upstage him...
What more do you want from me, Haruno?
Why do you stay with him? Why? I constantly tell you of how I could be better, how I can look more handsome, how I will be more broody...
All for you, my dear Sakura.
I'll change everything, even go against my ninja way...for my feelings to be returned.
I shudder and draw my knees up against my chest, pull the blanket up to my chin, and hold my half-empty (or half-full, but I'm feeling quite pessimistic today...) bottle of sake, protectively.
I can't sleep for every time I close my eyes, countless images of you and him -holding hands, sharing food, making love- zip through my brain at a fast pace not unlike an old film.
It hurts so much, not only that you are with him, in love with him, but that he is not keeping you happy. He hurts you and yet you force me to stand by and watch it all happen.
I hear a knock on the front door from downstairs and hear Gai-sensei call my name through the thick wood. I try, but I can't force myself to meet him, greet him, in this state. I keep quiet and wait for him to depart.
I wait avidly yet silently for my persistent sensei, thirty minutes later, to leave. I truly hopes he gets the hint, if not...I'll be dealing with his commotion all night.
I sigh and close my eyes, pictures of you playing underneath my eyelids.
I remember the first time I asked you out. Ouch...bad memory.
When you were rooting for me in the Chuunin Preliminaries. It was not my ninja way, but rather you, who kept me going.
The time after the Chuunin exams when I was heavily hospitalized and you brought me a bundle of flowers, while encouraging me to go through with the surgery.
The time you came to me crying after your husband-
Shudder.
- left to band with Orochimaru for his own selfish needs, never once considering how you or his other loved ones would be affected by his rash decision.
And then you asked him to marry you and my heart broke.
And here I am, alone in my tiny bed, in my bare room with only my precious dull sake as company...
...And away you are, in a lavish mansion, in a large plush bed with the most wanted man in Konoha...
And no matter how different our past stories and influences are,
And no matter how unlikely our paths are to cross again,
All three of us -Uchiha, Sakura, and I- suffer the same ruthless torture of the heart and continue to carry the familiar unyielding burden of unrequited love.
And I don't think that I'll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last till the end...
-You're Beautiful; James Blunt
A/N: Review. Chapter 4/5.
Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto