Title:
Itch
Rating: G
Pairing: Lee/Sakura
Word
Count: 194
Warning/s: It's, um, Lee/Sakura:ducks:
Summary: Sakura likes analogies.
Notes:
Another request fic; the lovely link no miko asked for Lee/Sakura
with the keyword "itch." I was happy to oblige!
I actually really like this pairing, although sadly I think it's extremely unlikely. Sakura doesn't know what's good for her, poor girl. (Although I am tempted to wonder how she got so strong while Naruto was away; maybe Tsunade wasn't the only one she was training with...)
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On one of Team 7's first training missions, Sakura stumbled into a patch of poison ivy and spent the next week scratching her legs raw and slathering them with lotion and chucking explosion tags at any plant that looked even remotely menacing. Somewhere along the way, she finds herself remembering that time, remembering the maddening pain and the way she couldn't stop scratching and the way she was so terrified Sasuke would find her red legs disgusting.
Sasuke, she decides, is like poison ivy. Lush and green and beautiful to begin with, but after you touch it its poison seeps into you and drives you mad.
Naruto is the itch. Annoying and obnoxious and irritating as hell, but as long as the itch is there you know your skin's trying to heal yourself; sure it hurts, but you know it's going to get better.
And maybe Lee is green, and maybe he's annoying, but still Sakura can't compare him to anything but the lotion that cooled the burning pain and eased the raw red sores and finally let her sleep at night.
So when Lee holds her, she can let herself relax at last.