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Summary: "See that bird? He looks like you. Complete with black feathers, a crappy attitude, and a chicken ass."
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Ch. 2: Signs
Why
do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me,
they long to be
Close to you.
Close to You - Carpenters
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Sakura was bored. Completely and utterly bored.
She was tired too. Tired of standing around all day, looking at animals poop.
It's official, Sakura thought dryly. I'm blaming everything on Kiba.
"You know Kiba?"
Green eyes looked up and met with onyx ones.
(Really hot eyes,she noted.)
Her eyes roamed around his face, taking in the straight nose, angular planes, and full lips that were partly open, flashing perfectly white teeth.
And the eyebrows. Really nice eyebrows.
"...Hello?"
"Sorry," she said, her attention still on eyebrows. "What did you say?"
"Do you know Kiba?"
Sakura's attention snapped back into place. "Oh crap, did I actually say that aloud?"
"'I'm blaming everything on Kiba'. That's what you said."
The pink-haired girl groaned, cradling her head in her hands. "I really need to stop saying what I'm thinking aloud..."
"Well, if you're one of Kiba's fangirls, he doesn't work here. He's assigned to the wolves," the black-haired man said, gesturing to the sign that said 'Konoha's House of Birds'.
Green eyes gave it a cursory glance before making a face. "Fangirl? Ew! I still can't believe girls like him. Besides," she added as an afterthought, "his eyebrows are a little on the bushy side."
Noticing the look he gave her, Sakura rolled her eyes. "If you're still not convinced, err..." Sakura squinted at the nametag "...Sasuke, I'm his cousin. You know, by blood. Like family. Sort of. Yeah."
Sasuke just gave her one more look before going back to observing the birds flying past by.
"You know," Sakura said after a while, "I don't get what's so fascinating about the zoo. All you do is look at animals go on with their life, pooing, eating, throwing stuff at people..."
"...Hn."
The pink-haired girl shot a glare at the (hot) emotionless zookeeper. "You're not sympathetic at all, you know that? And the least you can do is say more than one-word answers."
"Hn."
Sakura stuck out her tongue, seeing as he wasn't going to give a shit about anything, and pouted.
"What are you doing anyway? I don't know about you, but I don't think staring at birds is what you got hired for."
Black eyes moved to glare at her. "I'm looking for the one that's sick. Now shut up for a sec—"
"You mean that black one? The one that's kinda limping and about to fall over...ouch."
Sasuke's head moved in the direction of Sakura's finger, almost groaning at the sight. Almost.
"What's wrong with it anyway?" Sakura asked after the silent man cradled the bird gently in his gloved hands.
"If I tell you," he said after a moment of contemplation, "would you shut up for a while?"
Sakura crouched down next to him and nodded her head gravely, her lips shut tight.
Sasuke gave her a look (swoon) before sighing. "He lost his mate recently. He's been grouchy and ill ever since."
Green eyes stared at the raven-haired man for a moment, at the bird, then back to the zookeeper.
"You know," she said, much to Sasuke's annoyance, "I see a resemblance. See that bird? He looks like you. Complete with black feathers, a crappy attitude, and a chicken ass."
Black eyes shot the pink-haired girl a glare. "I don't have a chicke—"
"Wait, I'm not done. If he recently just lost his wife-bird, or whatever birds call themselves, shouldn't he just move on and get a new girl?"
Said black bird suddenly got up and hopped off of Sasuke's hands, cocking his head this way and that way, and then chirped.
As if in response, a brilliantly pink bird flew down and landed right in front of the male, chirped, and flew off; the black one following after half a second.
Silence reigned over the two for a while, before being broken by Sakura.
"If that isn't a sign, then I don't know what one is."
"You know," Sasuke said suddenly, "the bird's mate was red. And my last girlfriend had red hair."
The corner of Sakura's mouth twitched upward, her arm hooking with Sasuke's.
"Definitely a sign."
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