(Naruto) Truth is hard to find
Title: Truth is hard to find
Characters/Pairings: Sakura, that girl from the last chapter from Killerbee’s team, hints of NaruSaku and SasuSaku
Warnings: References to the recent chapters. Uh, I hate how Kishi is making Sakura cry so much and have to get protected by Naruto. Didn’t she progress so she didn’t need this?
Summary: She isn’t sure anymore and that might be the problem.
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Sakura stares at her worn-out and calloused hands, at her dusty, crumpled knees, at the bumpy ground-anything but that girl’s sharp eyes.
Who is Sasuke to you?
That question repeats in her ears long after the other girl said it and the echo fades away. It still stays there, lingering in the air like a ghost, even though she is the only one still thinking of it. Even though no one else really cares about the answer.
It is easy, oh so easy, to say, “He’s Sasuke-kun, of course.” It is too easy to slip back into old habits and old clothes, like a snake shedding its skin in reverse. She could remember how she acted back then, how she felt back then, and if she wanted to, she could transform back into her old self.
(But she won’t. She’s changed over the years, after practicing and training and realizing just who she is and what she should do.
Apparently, so has he. A lot more than they had thought.)
She heard what that girl said and it doesn’t make sense. Akatsuki and Sasuke, two things that don’t go together at all from the very start. Yet that girl said that they are now joined, attached where once there was hatred and anger.
It makes no sense and at the same time it does because she knows what Sasuke would do to get what he wants.
Still, it is odd.
How strange, she thinks almost distantly, as though she is disconnecting with reality.
Her voice jars her out of reminiscing and she recalls the question.
Who is Sasuke to you?
A teammate, an old love, a friend, a…there are so many things he used to be that she could have chosen as an answer. All of them would have been acceptable. Except, they are not what he is now.
Naruto’s hand lays heavily on her shoulder, anchoring her to reality. She should be grateful, really, but he is making this harder.
Who is Sasuke to you?
She looks at Naruto and thinks that she doesn’t know the answer to that anymore.
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A/N: Sorry for the long wait-exams were there last two months month. Ironically, summer school is making me write more. Anyways, the next two one-shots for here are ready so I might update twice next week.