He never did believe in fairy tales. They were a load of rubbish in his opinion. Princesses and dragons? Pah! What a bunch of nonsense. A distorted way of looking at reality, giving false hopes to those that need them. What kind of – excuse his language – narrow-minded idiot would fall for such stories?
Always looking at the good aspects in life, though he guessed that children probably wouldn't enjoy the truth read to them as bedtime stories.
Though...maybe he wouldn't mind being a knight in shining armor if a certain teammate was the damsel-in-distress.
He himself had believed in fairy tales as a child. Before the genocide - when he believed that his parents would always be there. Forever.
What a joke that was.
There was no such thing as forever. Just as there was no such thing as fairies. Always the pessimist, that Uchiha Sasuke.
She believed in fairy tales. They were read to her every night to her by her parents, so she was raised to believe them. Yes, she was older now. Old enough to realize that elves and pixies obviously didn't exist, but there was nothing stopping her from believing in a happily ever after. Believing in forever.
Of course she knew everything had to die eventually. She was a ninja. She saw those things. However, she also knew that there indeed was a forever. A forever-lasting love, as corny as it sounded.
Silly as it may be, she had always used to think of herself as a damsel-in-distress and Sasuke being the knight in shining armor, rescuing her from the evil dragon's clutches. This had; of course, been before she had known any better. Haruno Sakura had always been somewhat of an optimist.
Though both had their beliefs, they were both right in a way.
No, there weren't any mystical creatures and no, there were no knights in shining armor rescuing a helpless damsel-in-distress. Only a ninja clad in his shinobi gear, protecting his teammate because she was – in a way – important to him. No dragons or evil sorcerers; only enemies from outside villages.
And there was nothing romantic at all about the deaths they had witnessed.
She still believes in her happily ever after, and he still believes in his theory, but now he thinks that...
maybe it was true, because once upon a time – there was forever.