Title: Footsteps
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Sasuke/Sakura
Rating: PG
Word Count: 165
Summary/Description: Sasuke walks away.
Warning/Spoilers: None.
A/N: Written for Essyllus for the 'write me this pairing in a dysfunctional way' meme. I don't write my OTP enough.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Don't sue.
She watches him walk away; watches him grind her world to a powder beneath his heel and not even notice, watches him chase dreams and spectres, watches him break hearts and fists and bonds without a thought. At this point she knows that he will not look back, not at her. She watches him nonetheless.
She keeps far behind him, ever silent and ever watchful, like a shrinking shadow as the sun rises in the sky. Sasuke walks on into the distance, his mind and his legs geared towards power and self-salvation, and her heart sinks like a stone in a lake. Sakura knows a lot of things; most of them she keeps to herself. Only the faded walls of her childhood bedroom ever hear her say that she knows she will be watching Sasuke forever walk away.
And it doesn't bother her. She will resign herself to everything thing the fates have in store for her, if only she could walk with him.