Summary: She hadn't known he was there, that day. She didn't know he could see her, in another man's arms. She didn't know she had ruined his life. And she couldn't possibly know what she had done to seemingly alter the universe. [SasuIno] [SasuSaku] [SasuHina]
A/N: This chapter was mostly written to Clint Mansell : Death is the Road to Awe. Awesome song.
Two Wrongs Make A Right
Chapter One
Author: Alley-Oop
Beta'd By: xpeekaboo
It was the perfectly cliché thing, and it started at the core of Sasuke's disbeliefs. It did not really occur to him until much later, when they had been dining together with her parents. It had been a nice supper – chicken, rice, green beans, and bread, he could remember – that Ino and her mother had made for Sasuke and her father. The Yamanaka family, along with Sasuke, had sat at the plain, but not unattractive, wooden table, eating. Sasuke had mostly kept out of the conversation, as was his way, but he had listened to everything being said around him.
"So, explain to me how you met," Mrs. Yamanaka had said, ever the prudent and nosy mother. Not that Sasuke minded. He would not have cared what his mother would have been like if he had just gotten to keep her. But life was cruel in that it often took away what one held most dear. And yet fate always seemed to do this with a smile on its grim, crooked face, as Sasuke had discovered.
"It was love at first sight," Ino had stated with a flutter of eyelashes in Sasuke's direction. She smiled at him before continuing to tell about how he'd come in to the Yamanaka's shop to buy flowers, though she did not reveal the occasion, for which he had been grateful. The flowers were for his parents' anniversary. There were only three occasions for which he had ever entered Ino's family's shop, and those were his parents' wedding anniversary, the anniversary of their deaths, and the anniversary of his older brother's death – the same older brother that had murdered those parents.
Yet, Ino's opening statement rang in his ears. Love at first sight. Sasuke didn't even really know what it meant. That was before he had realized just how ridiculous the concept was, and it was not long after that epiphany that he cut off his relationship with Ino. She had been a sweet girl, but something about her had always irked him, he realized. Maybe it was just that one statement, or maybe it was a compilation of things, such as her clinginess, or her habit of constantly having to know where he was (would that be clinginess or paranoia?). Sasuke didn't care either way, but he wasn't sad to let Ino go. It felt right, deep in his chest, that they weren't together. He had always felt like he'd been suffocating in Ino's grip.
And so ended the chapter of his life involving Ino…
And so started the chapter of his life involving Sakura.