Fearing the Loss of You

Summary:

Sakura fears she may lose Sasuke... the one person she couldn't stand to live without.

Based off a prompt from a tumblr request. (Losing you.)

"Please don't. Don't do this to me. Don't leave me!"

It was the first time in her life that Sakura had felt such desperation while trying to heal someone. Even when the nine tails had been extracted from Naruto, she hadn't felt this fear. There was nothing compared to the feeling and the fear of losing the one man she just needed to live, even at the cost of her own life.

Months into her travels with Sasuke, her worst nightmare had become a reality. They'd been attacked while they both slept in their tent. It just happened to be the only night neither of them stayed up to keep watch. Things around them had been quiet for weeks. They'd let down their guards, they'd let themselves forget everything else besides each other, and they'd foolishly fallen asleep after quite the blissful night together.

Sasuke had been stabbed in his sleep, and him coughing violently and blood splattering all over her was the only thing that had woken her up from the deep sleep she'd been in at the time. She knew it was bad, several organs had been damaged and he wasn't able to get up after that.

It had been left up to her to fend off the bandits that sought to murder them in the night and take all their belongings. Sakura couldn't for the life of her believe that it had happened, not even after the fight was over and she was still doing everything she could to stop the bleeding, to mend his wounds and to bring him back to consciousness.

"Please, Sasuke-kun… I need you." She sobbed, tears blurring her vision as she continued to work on him.

Working from the inside, out was a task on its own, and he'd already lost a lot of blood by the time she was able to start healing him. She'd had to defend herself first, just to be able to be here to try and help him. But she feared it could have been too late, even though she would have never accepted that. She would never stop healing him. His heart was beating, faint as it was, and that was all the will she needed; if her love for him hadn't been enough.

Their life together had only just started. They hadn't had enough time, nowhere near enough. She needed him like the air that she breathed. She loved him with every ounce of her being. She would not let him die. He would not die on her. He just couldn't.

His organs healed, and bleeding stopped… there wasn't much else she could do. Sasuke was still unconscious, and her tears would not subside. His breathing was still slightly labored and his pulse was weak. She didn't know what to think, or what to do. All calm she'd had over her life had left her the instant she'd seen him like that. Even now, drained of chakra and having nothing left to do, she was trembling all over and begging him in her mind to wake up, to look at her.

If anybody had to live, it was him.

He was pale as snow, and cold… so cold. She'd bandaged and covered him up while she sat with him still in their bloody tent, contemplating what else she could do. His body needed time to recovery, even if she'd healed him. It had taken her hours, even skilled as she was, but now it was all left up to him. She told herself he would be okay, and deep down she knew he would, but she'd never been so afraid. That fright was what kept her loaded with anxiety and doubt.

Sakura could not handle Sasuke being so helpless.

"It should have been me." She whispered brokenly while stroking his cheek affectionately. "I can't stand the thought of losing you… I can't."

A grunt sounded from him as his face moved towards her hand until she was cupping his cheek. "You're… so annoying." He croaked. "I'm not going anywhere."

"Oh, Sasuke-kun!" She cried even harder, leaning down to press her forehead against his. "I was so scared."

That quickly, he'd lost consciousness once again, but Sakura laughed through her tears in relief. He was going to be okay. She'd made it in time. She would not be losing her soon-to-be husband. As panicked as she'd been just moments before, she'd never had a feeling of such relief.

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