Hey guys, here's another short little blurb I wrote for a weekly contest. It's not dark and depressing for once. Enjoy!
End of Loneliness
She was sure she would wake up any moment now and realize this unimaginable bliss was only a dream, and she would once again find herself alone.
But even as she thought these things, the warm pressure of calloused fingers entwined with hers assured her that this was indeed real, and her wish had come true at last.
"You're so beautiful," he whispered against the shell of her ear, making her skin tingle and her face flush hotly in both delight and embarrassment.
They sat quietly under the starry sky, the warm summer breeze soothing the senses but doing nothing to still her rapidly beating heart as his fingers slid from her own and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, drawing her close.
"I can't believe you were in front of me all this time and I never saw it," he said, his voice awed as his impossibly blue eyes gazed at her. "I never saw your feelings for me, but now that I have you, I'm never letting you go."
Her heart leapt to her throat, beating like the wings of a hummingbird and her pearly eyes wide as he leaned forward to brush a strand of purple-black hair from her face.
She didn't care what the clan or her father or the village thought of him. She loved him and would never leave his side. If she had to choose between the Hyuuga name and him, she picked him in an instant.
A shooting star streaked overhead but it went unnoticed in the light of the fireworks erupting in her heart as he leaned in and gently placed a kiss on her pale cheek.
"Naruto," she breathed, letting her fingers timidly trace the whiskers on his cheek.
Finally, her loneliness, her longing, had come to an end.