11) Over (NaruSaku)
The ground came so fast and Naruto realized with painful clarity that it was all over. Sakura had fallen beside him and Sasuke wasn't doing much better and Naruto knew it was over and that there was nothing more he could do.
Kyuubi howled with laughter as Naruto felt tears sting his eyes and as his hand placed itself over Sakura's delicately.
12) Engage (NaruSasu)
They weren't play fighting, Sakura realized dimly as she trained with Kakashi-sensei. They weren't even rough housing they were actually attacking each other, hateful words and blood-filled roars of agony. She stopped briefly when Kakashi decided he'd better take a look at the duo and they both just stood there watching as Naruto and Sasuke tried to seriously maim each other. Sakura fluffed her hair and scoffed after a while of watching it and Kakashi pocketed his book once again.
"They're sure engaged in their battle…" Sakura murmured as she, herself, engaged a sparring session with Kakashi-sensei.
"I wouldn't expect less from those two," Kakashi grumbled from behind his mask, "always going at it, they are."
Kakashi just smiled perversely to himself when he saw the blush spread across Sakura's cheeks.
13) Voice (SasuSaku)
She had a voice. It was broken and fragile but she had a voice still and that was all that mattered. She would smile, pink lips curved up and forming cute little dimples, "It's not your fault," She would whisper, voice cracking and breaking.
Sasuke reached out and brushed his fingers across the bandages on her throat and he made a grim face; but the silence lingered.
Her icy-green eyes just looked at him and she brushed her finger tips over his lips, and she could only mouth what she wanted to say next because her voice was gone, "I don't blame you."
14) Pauses (??)
A simple pause sufficed all the opening he needed and suddenly they were pressed close despite the screaming and cursing and it felt more like home than a bed ever could.
15) Soothe (NaruSasu)
Calloused, war-weary fingers ran over the bandages that he kept around his neck so when he looked into anything that cast a reflection he couldn't see the tiny puckered scars of the senbon that… Naruto smiled and Sasuke just looked put-off, like he always did, "What're you doing, asshole?" Sasuke grit out, keeping his eyes on the doorway that Sakura was supposed to come in through at any moment now.
Any moment.
Naruto brought his hand away and just grinned eat-shit at him and winked, "What do you think I'm doing, Sasuke?" He taunted, wiggling his fingers around, "I can't believe that you've actually covered those up." Maybe Sasuke was imagining it, but Naruto sounded a little upset. But it was the wind, it had to be. And it was also just the wind that made Naruto's little caress soothing to his mind.