She wanted to see the last sunset before graduation no matter what.
Golden light zigzagged the stairway to the rooftop, door ajar. A slight push sent a rickety stretch. Crimson blazed across the horizon spanning jagged silhouettes.
A person stood there clutching at the coop fence.
She called, but he didn't hear with headphones on. She held onto the fence. The wires bobbed, pulsed on their hands, and broke his trance.
"Hyuuga." Sasuke removed his right earpiece. His tie was loose, the top button undone. His bag was on the floor. Perhaps he planned to stay long and rest the burden from his shoulders. "Last sunset?"
She hummed in agreement. "Though, not really… In the real sense, it's not the last."
"But in a different sense, every sunset is also the last…"
Sasuke rarely speaks his mind, characterized by the black wristwatch on his right arm: precise, on schedule, no idle talks. But when he does, she can't help smile, refreshed, her muddled thoughts articulated in another voice, another creature.
"Like rivers, you never come across the same sunset twice?" she said, half-joking.
No hint of laughter came.
"Where are you going to college?" he said.
"Konoha Uni…"
A side-glance and the corner of his lips curled, showing teeth, restrained. His dark eyes cut to her, darting away then back, erratic in their downturn--amused.
"—is something funny?"
He scratched his brow and slung his bag over his shoulder. His peculiar smile returned to composure.
"Nothing."
Sasuke made for the door. Blue dusk poured on the white canvas of his dress shirt.
"See you on campus," he said as he faded from view.
He waited at the gate, treated her to burgers and walked her home.