Number 11: Illusions of Grandeur
He smiles up at her gratefully after she heals him, and lets himself think for a moment that it will be this time, this time please, when she realizes that when she saw him fall, wounded, her concern was rooted somewhere deeper than just friendship and comradery. For really, there's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters love.
Number 12: Vanity
When he reflects on it really, what does this situation matter for what he is. A beautiful young woman walked into his life, too young, too pure and too perfect to be worth his while(right?) He falls deeply, madly irrevocably in love. Or does he? Maybe, he reassures himself, it was only a childish infatuation, or some brief moment of vanity. Than why does it still sting?
Number 13: Thieving
The hardest lesson Sakura ever learned was that she couldn't EARN someone's love. Sasuke, she realized now, had made a complete and utterly perfect example of that. So when Kakashi, with a tone bordering somewhere on desperation(or possibly a head cold, it was impossible to tell with him) told her that she had "stolen" his heart, she couldn't help but laugh. His downcast expression had quickly changed when she'd cheerfully responded "Thank goodness. I thought I was the only one who got robbed," and pressed a quick kiss to his cheek.
Number 14: Simple
It would be so much simpler, Naruto decided, after years of watching Sakura suffer quietly at Sasuke's heartlessness when he stood so willingly to the side, if we could choose who we fell in love with. Of course, he thought smiling down at the pale face of his darling Hinata, and remembering exactly who it was who had managed to scoop up the pretty medic, then it would lose all its magic.
Number 15: Blame
"It's your fault," she mumbles grumpily at him the next morning, decidedly still against him, utterly hung over. "Ah, my darling Sakura," he assures her, "seduction only convinces you to do what you were already thinking about anyway." A hard smack, a beat, and a quiet inquiry for an aspirin (something for this goddamn head-acheā¦) and suddenly his complacent nursing makes up for the entire night before. Besides, she thinks to herself, it's not like I can remember it anyways.
