CCNote: I meant to post these over the weekend but life got away from me lol. Please enjoy!
Ties
He was just being paranoid.
He'd spent far too much time around the Hyuuga and had formed an attachment.
Attachments were not things that Uchiha dealt with easily.
The strings that tied him to his teammates and former sensei were foisted upon him. Those threads had knotted themselves around his heart. No matter how hard he tried they couldn't be severed and he had tried. He couldn't shake Naruto and Sakura. They were obstinate, loud, and above all the only two people to accept him into their lives unconditionally.
They were idiots for doing so but they were his idiots even when they forced themselves upon him. The string that attached him to Hinata was one that he tied himself without realizing it. It was thin, tenuous. At any moment if he pulled away their connection would snap.
He could do it.
He could easily severe whatever this was between them.
Pale fingers curled around the railing of his balcony, the sun rising over the village to greet a new day. The unseasonably crisp morning air filled his lungs when he inhaled. Fall would be upon them sooner than they expected. Familiar arms wrapped around his waist as she pressed her forehead into the back of his shoulder.
"Morning." Sakura greeted and he grunted in response. "It's getting cold. We should buy warmer clothes for you."
She'd been nervous since that night over two months ago. She hadn't tried to initiate intimacy since then but she sought it out in small gestures like these. A way to feel as if they were more than roommates. Sasuke sighed and turned around in her arms. Green eyes stared up at him.
Nervous.
Hopeful.
She'd always been there. Whether their separation was miles or inches. From the day he left the village, to the numerous times he attempted to kill her, to the day he returned. That look in her eyes had never changed. Raising two fingers, he poked her in the middle of her forehead and moved to go back inside.
"Let's go." He said, her gasp of excitement nearly making him regret his agreement.
Today was going to be a long day. He couldn't waste his energy thinking about Hyuuga Hinata.
He had enough ties to deal with already.