My Flufftober 2023 contribution for the prompt : at first fight.
I'm sorry for the mistakes, English is not my native language. I hope you like it.
Disclaimer : Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
At First Sight
Sasuke watched Sakura sleeping. They had been married for two weeks and he could say without hesitation that he had never been happier. It was as if everything that had happened to them so far had brought them to this moment. As if it was their destiny.
Sakura had told him on their wedding day that it had always been obvious for her. She had loved him at first sight. Sasuke did not know what he felt at the time. He was far too young and compared to Sakura, he would have been unable to know if he was in love.
He remembered that the first time he saw her, he was immediately attracted to her pink hair. He found her pretty and she reminded him of the spring. It was the first thing he had said to Itachi when he had come home from his first day at the academy. Was he already falling in love with her ?
Things had changed when Itachi massacred their clan. He felt nothing but hatred. He did not care how he felt about Sakura. All that mattered was killing his brother and avenging his clan. That was his only goal.
Then when he became a genin, he was on the same team as Sakura. His goal was still to kill Itachi, but his feelings for Sakura were changing. He had found himself wanting to protect her when they were on missions or during the chunin exam. He was jealous when Naruto asked her out or when Sakura paid him a little too much attention. He realized that she had influence over him. And when he decided to leave the village, she would have been the only one who would have been able to change his mind.
When he was away from Konoha, even if he refused to admit it, Sakura still had a place in his heart. He finally realized what he felt for her when he was bleeding to death after his fight against Naruto. When she was treating him and he asked her for forgiveness.
For him, it had suddenly become obvious. He was in love with Sakura. Even though it had taken him several years to realize it, he had fallen in love at first sight.
He put his arms around Sakura's waist and held her close to him. He ended up falling asleep peacefully.
The end