NARUSAKU ;; come morning

tumblr word meme, baisemain:
a kiss on the hand.

The first time Sakura kisses Naruto, he's sleeping and he has no idea. He's in a hospital bed and she's already been holding his hand for hours before she lifts his fingers to her lips and softly, delicately kisses his battered knuckles. He doesn't really need to be there, but he's allowed her to admit him for the sole purpose of alleviating her worry. She knows he's exhausted; he used up everything he had during the final hours of the war and at least here, in this place, she can keep him under watch. She squeezes his hand.

Come morning she knows she'll have to release him to make room in his bed for others who are actually injured and need it more, but she doesn't want to send him home.

She doesn't want to let him go.