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Just in Case You Missed It: To quote the brilliant forthright, "This is a story in snippets, so if you believe a proper tale cannot be told on a small scale... flee now, before you are taken in!" All of the chapters will be one hundred or two hundred words.
This is an exercise in experimenting with new writing challenges, especially with a format that I've grown very fond of due to a favorite author's work, and it will not change. :) I totally understand if the short chapters are not for you! Just please don't ask me to lengthen them.
Bail Out X: Little Secret & The Promise
"Come on, Sakura-chan, it's not like teme's even going to care about—"
Needless to say, her death glare was fierce.
"On second thought: Got it. Mum's the word." He zipped his lips and threw away the key.
"I'm not kidding, Naruto," she waved a threatening finger. "Mum. You drop even so much as an inadvertent hint to anybody, and you can consider yourself worse than dead."
"You worry too much!"
"Naruto, I mean it—"
But she couldn't finish; Naruto was suddenly a mere inch or so away, smiling.
"It'll be our little secret," he vowed, almost reverently. "I promise."
Her breath hitched right where it was her in her throat, but she forced herself to swallow it down. Stupid autumn air; she was probably already getting hay-fever.
"You mean that?"
"Well, when I say 'our', it's technically yours, mine, Ino's and Sai's, so the intimacy is lost, but I guess it will do."
"Naruto," she ground out.
"Calm down, Sakura-chan—it's the promise of a lifetime, just you wait! See you in a few hours!"
And as he went—Skipped? Sauntered?—away, Sakura still didn't know what the hell had happened.
Original Posting Date: December 5, 2011
Story Prompt: "the flexibility of Haruno Sakura" by cutecrazyice
Word Count: 200 words