One Day

by Fangirltbh

(This story take place after the fight between Sasuke and Itachi and before the Six Tails arc. (Episode 152 for reference) if you haven't watched these episodes, there will be spoilers.) Naruko receives a note at night and decides what to do with it. Her emotions control her but her ninja way won't stop her. Will Naruko make the right decision or will everything fall apart?

11. Double the Heat

Sasuke's POV:

The sun was rising and I was looking right at her sleeping face. My mind tends to wander to thoughts of her when the sun is coming up. I never really understood why. Her eyes blinked open slowly and she stretched out her arms, reaching for me.

Her hand slid around my waist as she inched closer to me.

"Naruko," I whispered.

"Hm."

I brought a hand up to her face brushing the back of my fingers against her cheek.

"Let's go outside."

"Okay."

I got up. Naruko lifted herself up slowly and with a lot of effort. I gave her hand to get up.

We walked outside and there it was, the rising sun.

Her hand squeezed in mine and I glanced down at her. She kept her gaze locked on the horizon.

"It's different, right? After all this time, and here we are. I thought it'd be harder than this. I thought I'd be half dead. But here I am, next to you, like nothing ever changed."

I smiled, sliding my hand out of hers to move it around her waist.

"But everything has changed."

Her face flipped into a frown, confused.

"I've never felt this way," I whisper.

Her hand reaches up to my cheek and I close my eyes.

"My feelings never changed."

Now it was my turn to be confused but she kissed me too quickly for me to react in any way.

Naruko's POV:

We sat on the top of the rock that formed the cave a lot. The sky was open above and it was high enough, you could see the horizon through the thinning of the trees.

It was so simple to forget about the world outside of us. We were inseparable now.

The time we were stuck with sticky stuff was annoying but it was as if we had that on us now but you couldn't see it.

The air was cooling down because the sun was setting.

I was leaning back in his chest. His arms locked and rested around my waist. I rubbed his arms as we watched the sun go down.

"I think about you when the sun sets," I blurted out thoughtlessly.

"You do?"

I realized what I said and tensed up, trying to hide my burning blush.

"Oh did I say that?! I meant-I said I think about manju! Haha!"

His fingers grabbed my face and turned my chin towards him. He kissed me slowly.