title: mcdreamy moments
pairing: SasuSaku
author's notes: bahaha, i am such a freak. i promise there will be some NejiTen! Eventually...but yes. Sasuke is slight OOC because, honestly, the chances of Sasuke ever making an Epic Love DECLARATION is in the negatives people. THE NEGATIVES.
disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Grey's Anatomy.

Two weeks after the NaruHina Incident, resulting in the couple officially becoming an item, Sasuke began to get worried. He hadn't seen Sakura at all…ever. Nowhere. It was as if she had vanished.

So, he resolved to corner her. Which he did, outside of the hospital, before she could start her six a.m. shift. Once Sakura realized it was him blocking the doors, she stared at him like he was an escaped zoo animal.

And then her left eye began to twitch.

"How dare you just waltz up here and—,"

"So I come home from training one night," Sasuke interrupted, overriding her completely. Sakura was so startled that she forgot to get annoyed. "I'm eight years old and I come home from training. I run through my Clan's Compound and everything is quiet. Silent. Dead. And I keep running towards my house, knowing what's coming but not wanting to believe it and trying so so hard to just be strong. So I keep running, expecting to see my family dead. What I don't expect to see is my brother standing over them, the sword that ended their lives in his hands."

Sakura winced, and Sasuke paused before plowing on.

"And then, I vow to take my revenge. I meet amazing people, but I can't see how amazing they are because I am blinded by my hatred. So I leave my village, and I go to Orochimaru. And I get strong. And I kill Orochimaru. And then, I kill the man who killed my family. Then, I go after my own village because politics are stupid and everything got all fucked up. And then, Naruto kicks my ass and drags me to the village I never should have abandoned in the first place."

Sakura's pitying expression hardened.

"And then, you get drunk and sleep with me," she snarled.

"I got drunk and I slept with you," he repeated, nodding.

"What was I, exactly?" Sakura snapped, her voice sounding like it was about to break. "Just a hook up? Just a girl? You felt lonely, or something? What is this? A McDreamy Moment, meant to torture me? What, Sasuke—,"

"You were—are, you are…air," Sasuke murmured. Sakura stared at him, and he lifted his eyes to gaze at her. "Sakura, you are my oxygen. I was drowning, and Naruto pulled me up but you…you, Sakura Haruno, are my reason for breathing. You saved me."

Sasuke looked at her, his onyx eyes pleading. He couldn't remember ever wanting someone so much that it was killing him. He couldn't imagine living without her, couldn't see a world where he had green-eyed children running around him…

Sakura's eyebrows drew together.

"Nice try, Uchiha," she said, "but it's not enough."

Ino walked along the streets of Konoha, a huge potted plant in her hands. She smiled and waved to passing villagers, happy that they had reached a time of peace after so long. The plant was to be delivered to some little old lady that Ino's heart (yes she does have one, thankyouverymuch) went out too.

Ino readjusted the plant in her arms, and her mind wandered to her best friend. Sakura had buried herself in hospital work lately, she barely had time for the girls—let alone missions—anymore. She was desperately avoiding Sasuke Uchiha ever since The Great Confession, as Tenten called it. Sakura was closing herself off and, as much as Ino wanted her to just be over Sasuke by now come on, Ino knew it was only killing her best friend more and more.

With a sigh, Ino continued on her way, heading to the outskirts of the village. She headed towards a certain bench, years of memories worn into the stone, and almost laughed at the sight of one chicken-haired man seated there.

"Oh ho ho, this is quite the change," the blonde mocked, pausing in front of the bench to sneer at Sasuke. "Funny seeing you here instead of Sakura."

Sasuke looked up at her and said in a tired sort of voice, "Shut up, Ino. Don't you have some boy to be screwing?"

Ino let out a mirthless laugh. "Look whose got the jokes now. Are you finally breaking out of your mile-thick emo shell, Sasuke-chan?"

"Go shriek at someone else, banshee."

"Quite the charmer," Ino retorted, in a wry sort of voice. "But I guess we're in your environment, aren't we?"

Sasuke glanced at the young woman with an uplifted eyebrow, confused. She copied the expression, then jerked her head in the direction of The Bench.

"This is your specialty, isn't it?" she snarled, her voice scathing. "McDreamy moments at benches, when a girl cares about you and all you do is push her away with mean remarks."

Sasuke caught on, his eyes narrowing a fraction as he said, "Yamanaka—,"

"You know what? No," Ino interrupted, viscously. "You don't get to Yamanaka me. Right now, you are not the man bound for ANBU Captain. You are not the best friend of the village's hero. You are not the boy I once fawned over like a friggin' schoolgirl. No. You…you are just the guy who screwed up my best friend. Hard-freaking-core fucked her over. You jackass, Sasuke Uchiha, you led her on! You made her think she had a chance! You used—,"

"I never used her," Sasuke interrupted.

Ino's eyes narrowed into dangerous slits.

"I know a user when I see one because, sweetheart, I am one. So yes, you used Sakura. You are her Ruiner, her Breaker, and I hate you."

Ino suddenly deflated, as if she were a popped balloon. Sasuke had a creeping feeling that the Yamanaka had that speech planned for years now. The blonde girl swept her ponytail over her should and readjusted the plant in her arms once more.

"Unfortunately," she said, softly, "you are also the boy she is in love with."

Sasuke looked up.

"And she is falling apart right now so fix this, Uchiha. Fix it fast. Fix her, or I will completely fuck your brain up. I'll make so you spend the rest of your life thinking you are a six year old girl in her first tutu. Got it?"

And then, Ino Yamanaka walked away, blonde ponytail swinging behind her.

And Sasuke watched her go, wishing it could only be that simple.

- because Ino so totally will mess up Sasuke's brain.
- and don't worry, there may be something coming for our favorite banshee...winkwinknudgenudge
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