Acceptance
Sakura walked back into the room where Yuki was. He rose slowly looking uneasy at how irritated she seemed to be.
"Can I trust you not to run away or cause any trouble?" Her voice was rough, strait business and brisk.
"Where would I go? What would I do?"
She nodded and guided him from the room and out onto the streets. She seemed comfortable even in the almost complete darkness. They walked through a white building and into a small apartment like space. There were no walls separating the kitchen from the dining room from the bedroom from the living room. The bathroom was a small thing off of the area that could be a living room.
Sakura threw a pillow and thick blanket onto the couch, "Don't think because I'm a girl you can pull anything over on me.
He didn't hide his smile but nodded and laid down on her couch falling into an exhausted sleep while she lay in her own bed wakeful while thoughts of destruction played in her mind. Destruction of the past, the ones that had come before, would these new comer bring the same destruction with them? If that was the case she would not sit by idly and let them send her world into fire and then return to their own world. She would stop them, but if she was being honest with herself she couldn't see half of them wanting to destroy her world, Yuki seemed different and somehow unique. When sleep took her she dreamed of fire, but the fire of passion.
Sasuke and Tohru;
Tohru was going to drive Sasuke crazy. Not in the sense that she didn't stop talking, on the contrary she only talked to answer his questions and that was the problem she never said anything, she jumped at every sound and her eyes were genuinely afraid. There was nothing about her that was threatening.
He threw a pillow and blanket onto his own couch and scowled at her, she didn't make eye contact with him but cautiously scanned his room without making it obvious it was clear she was trying not to offend him.
"You can have my bed." He said at last, she looked up at him and smiled a little. It wasn't heart breaking but it was cute and touched something a little deeper in him than what he wanted it to.
"I don't mean to cause trouble for anyone." Her voice was a tentative whisper.
Sasuke did say anything but watched her crawl into his bed. He lay down on the couch and later woke up to muffled sobs, without sitting up he looked over towards the sound hoping maybe it was someone outside. Tohru was sitting up with her face in his pillow trying not to make any noises. After a few minutes he got up and walked over to the bed and sat down beside her. She looked up from the pillow the moon illuminating her tears and the deep sorrow in her eyes.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." He didn't say anything but wiped a tear from her cheek. "I just happened so fast." She bit her bottom lip to try to steady her voice.
"What happened?" He was genuinely curious about her and the story behind the tears but wouldn't let it show in his voice, couldn't.
She shook her head as if trying to dispel the unhappiness but it didn't work her tears just came faster. "My mom died, no one wanted me but my grandpa took me in but he had to fix his house to make more room for other family that was moving in with him. I only had two friends but they both have so much to deal with I didn't want to bug them so I went to live in the forest."
"By yourself?" He asked casually while inside her took in her build and sensed she wouldn't do well in that situation.
She nodded, "The Sohmas took me in when they found me. I was getting sick but I wasn't giving up. They took me in. They were so nice, but it didn't replace that emptiness." She had stopped crying and was looking down at her hands on the pillow. "I was so ashamed because I wanted someone to be close to but I couldn't find anyone, the closer I got to other, the farther I got from my mom, I promised her I'd never forget." She suddenly looked up as if just realizing she was talking to someone.
Sasuke was watching her intently. "So you were ashamed of yourself because your mom died and you promised her you wouldn't forget, but remembering makes you sad and you wanted love but the closer you got to having it the more you forgot?" she nodded, "so you pulled away from whoever was going to love you?" she nodded again, smaller this time. "You can remember without being sad. You just have to find the right person that will help you be happy when you think of your mom."
She smiled sweetly. "Yes. That's exactly it. Thank you." He got up to go back to bed when she asked, "What is it that makes you sad?"
"What do you mean?" He turned back to her unease prickling up his spine.
"Your eyes got sad when I told you my mother died. You lost someone too? What makes you sad?" Yes he wanted to tell someone, deeply wanted someone to know. But no one had before seen his sadness. He himself had stopped seeing his own sadness, pretending that it wasn't there he had convinced himself that he wasn't sad, but she saw. This girl from some faraway land saw what he wanted to deny. He sat down on the bed and searched her face.
"I did lose someone." He said at first. His voice was strong, cold, distant. "My brother slaughtered them." He saw shock in her eyes before she covered it. "I was the only one that survived, it took me two years to track him down and have the strength to kill him." His voice was bitter. When had he become bitter?
She nodded and her eyes searched his as his had hers, "You didn't want to though." It wasn't a question. It was a statement. "You didn't want to kill your brother, you still loved him because as a child you looked up to him and on that day he betrayed you betrayed you in the worst way, but you lived you stayed strong. You did what you had to do, and now you're here. But you wish you hadn't have had to. Wish you could go back and stop him from doing what he did." She hit the nail on the head and he could only stare.
After several long moments of their eyes being locked and Sasuke feeling something ease inside of him, come up and out with his breath and just blow away, but leaving it was a hollow point that was filled with something else. "Get some sleep. We'll talk again tomorrow." He got up and lay down on the couch.
"Sasuke,"
"Yes?"
"Was I right?"
"…Yes."
"Good night." She didn't sound happy that she was right.
"Night," It was strange to hear someone else voice his own feelings. Feelings he couldn't voice himself. What should I do now? He braced his hands behind his head and stared at the ceiling. She didn't look down on him for feeling what he felt. For doing what he did. It left him with an unknown sensation of being accepted for what he was. Maybe Tohru could help him and he for her in turn. He'd never let anyone in before, maybe it was time.
A/N: I'm not really sure I did Sasuke that well. I tried to stay as close to charecter as I could on all my characters but my mind got away with me a little bit. So PLEASE let me know how I did or if theres anything i can work on with any of the characters so far. Thanks.
