Trash Bin: Unsaid
Fandom: Naruto
Title: Unsaid
Characters: Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto
Rating: PG
Warnings: It's for my perverse, angst pleasure. It's not particularly IC and it's not that great and, hell, it's wordy and full of itself, but I want it off my hard-drive but just in case I'm tempted to go down this road again, I need an example of what I should not do.
Disclaimer: Kishimoto's characters and my words, god help the characters.
Summary: Naruto on the verge of death. Sakura thinks in really long-winded sentences.
When Sakura was young, she thought she would regret many of the things that had occurred in her life-time. She thought she'd regret not having taken being a ninja seriously enough - because secretly, for a long time, she had assumed that if she had been stronger, she could have stopped Sasuke from leaving. She thought she'd regret having been strong enough, because when she examined what had occurred in hind-sight, if she'd never shown up for the Chuunin exam and listened to the defeatist voice in her head, Sasuke would never have been there for Orochimaru to curse. She thought she'd regret not having taken note of Naruto's fragile feelings, because she had always been so blinded by her own, all the way to the point of no return. She thought she'd regret being so desperate, if only she didn't make Naruto promise, a one-way street leading to disaster. And no matter what, she knew one day, she'd eventually reach a point where she'd surely regret not having asked one trivial question or another from Tsunade that would have saved a precious someone...
But of all the things Sakura thought she would regret, this was perhaps the one she regretted the most. Because as Naruto lay beneath her fingers, skin sizzling from Kyuubi's burning chakra and life seeping into the earth around them, Sakura regretted never having told him how things changed. And for all the courage in the world, she wished she had said to him, before death claimed friends and broke away bonds once thought to last beyond the heavens and the earth, that he had mattered the most. That, for all the promises in the world, she'd rather he had promised to be by her side till the very, bitter ending of their tragic, repetitive life-story...
And that he would never mistaken all that she felt now for the belief that he was all that she had remaining.
Seriously, I should have used the shift-f7 more for regret in this one... It was supposed to be for 30-deathfics but as you can see, it sucked and hence, no. It's not going to cut it.
Title: Unsaid
Characters: Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto
Rating: PG
Warnings: It's for my perverse, angst pleasure. It's not particularly IC and it's not that great and, hell, it's wordy and full of itself, but I want it off my hard-drive but just in case I'm tempted to go down this road again, I need an example of what I should not do.
Disclaimer: Kishimoto's characters and my words, god help the characters.
Summary: Naruto on the verge of death. Sakura thinks in really long-winded sentences.
When Sakura was young, she thought she would regret many of the things that had occurred in her life-time. She thought she'd regret not having taken being a ninja seriously enough - because secretly, for a long time, she had assumed that if she had been stronger, she could have stopped Sasuke from leaving. She thought she'd regret having been strong enough, because when she examined what had occurred in hind-sight, if she'd never shown up for the Chuunin exam and listened to the defeatist voice in her head, Sasuke would never have been there for Orochimaru to curse. She thought she'd regret not having taken note of Naruto's fragile feelings, because she had always been so blinded by her own, all the way to the point of no return. She thought she'd regret being so desperate, if only she didn't make Naruto promise, a one-way street leading to disaster. And no matter what, she knew one day, she'd eventually reach a point where she'd surely regret not having asked one trivial question or another from Tsunade that would have saved a precious someone...
But of all the things Sakura thought she would regret, this was perhaps the one she regretted the most. Because as Naruto lay beneath her fingers, skin sizzling from Kyuubi's burning chakra and life seeping into the earth around them, Sakura regretted never having told him how things changed. And for all the courage in the world, she wished she had said to him, before death claimed friends and broke away bonds once thought to last beyond the heavens and the earth, that he had mattered the most. That, for all the promises in the world, she'd rather he had promised to be by her side till the very, bitter ending of their tragic, repetitive life-story...
And that he would never mistaken all that she felt now for the belief that he was all that she had remaining.
Seriously, I should have used the shift-f7 more for regret in this one... It was supposed to be for 30-deathfics but as you can see, it sucked and hence, no. It's not going to cut it.