-Never there-

She wondered how it was possible for him to tell her he loved her and expect her to return his feelings…When he himself had single-handedly destroyed every last shred of them.

He had never been there when she needed him the most…

When Naruto left he disappeared into an abyss of constant missions, dismantling what was left of their once Team 7.

When her mother had died, leaving her without any family he was absent as well. He didn't show up for her when it happened or to the funeral.

When she cried he told her to stop being a baby and move on.

She had been twelve then…

Had had her heart broken by a dark haired boy…

Was left behind by a hyper blue eyed blonde that aspired to be Hokage…

Had lost the person she most loved in the world…

When he had told her what he did, she felt as though something had covered her entire being in a cloak of something she could hardly describe.

Cold, perhaps…

Dark, maybe so…

Numbing…Yes, that was the right word.

She had stood from her knelt position in front of her mother's grave, where only a few moments ago she had been sobbing as if with every tear the pain would hopefully dissapitate.

And turned to look at the man who was now before her.

"As you say, Sensei," she whispered curtly before she used a Jutsu to disappear.

Since then on he still had never been there when she needed him.

But somehow he found ways to be around her when she wanted him away or had no reason for him to be around.

He was there when she wanted to be alone to let darkness overcome her.

He didn't leave her home when she decided that she wouldn't train anymore when she reasoned that she was just too weak and would never become stronger.

He made her get up and become strong anyway...When she didn't want him to and therefore din't need him to.

She supposed that now that she had no heart, and could feel nothing for anybody, that he had taken his cue to feel for her when he shouldn't have…Because that's when he was always there…when she didn't need him, want him, or feel anything for him.

So years later when he told her his feelings she only smiled biterly and told him that he should move on…His own advice as she recalled.

Wow, I don't know where this came from...c:

PS: I own nothing.

-cf-