#6: A Kunoichi's Capabilities
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Sakura-centric, implied Sasuke/Sakura
Rating: PG
Word Count: 251
Summary/Description: It is worth the wait.
Warning/Spoilers: None.
A/N: And again, I make with the angst. It's becoming bloody integral, I tell you.
She can take the pain.
It is no worse than the beating she took to protect his and Naruto's lives in the Forest of Death; cuts no more than the guilt and resentment of self that secretly sliced through her confidence when she failed to. Each scrape and bruise garnered on every B-class and C-class mission is tantamount to this hurt; each staggering step to her budding strength and betterment stings much more.
Because she can stave off the longing.
Self-control is one of the things that she has learnt anew, and perfected in every nuance of her actions. She does not allow this feeling to eat at her heart like it thinks it has the right to; she can control the yearning. The long years of her unrequited love run parallel to this, is even greater, if anything at all. The tears are suppressed; the screams are silenced in her throat. Nothing can seduce her into losing the guardedness that lurks behind her strength and Inner Sakura's fierce temper.
Because it is worth the wait.
She will not give up on him. Until he comes back, until she finds him, until the day she or Naruto can drag him home to Konoha and make him see what he's done to them; until the day that she can look at that handsome face and feel whole again. Until then, she will wait. She will take the pain, she will hold off the longing, and she will wait.
Because she loves him.
A/N:3
Murr?