We might fall
Title: We might fall
Characters: Sakura (background Sasuke and Naruto)
Prompt: Accusation
Rating: K
Word count: 1.160
Pairings: none really, kind of hints of sasusaku, depending on your interpretation.
Warnings: Only that you might be sad after reading this for this is angst
Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Kishimoto
Summary: This is how they end. They have been slowly falling and now they had finally fallen.
Note: I did not meant this to be a continuation of beginning or to be associated with it but if you would like to think of them as one, feel free. XD
Note2: Recommend reading this listening to: We might fall by Ryan Star
“You’re leaving?” Sakura asked, her heart pounding fast as she watched him walk the road that lead to the only way out of the village.
“What are you doing here so late? You should be at home, sleeping.” He said, walking right past her at her.
You can’t leave, you can’t! Tell me you are not leaving! “This is the only way out of the village.” Why don’t you look at me? Why don’t you tell me I’m wrong?
“Go home.” He said and she then she knew, everything she feared was true, he really was leaving. You can’t! No, please!
The tears started falling from her eyes. She couldn’t let him leave, she wouldn’t let him leave, never.
“I know about your clan but revenge won’t make anyone happy.” Sakura told him. “Not you nor me.”
“I’m not like you or Naruto, I’m traveling a path the rest of you can’t follow.” He said. “I have chosen revenge.”
No, no! You can’t leave us! You can’t leave me! Don’t leave me, please…Sakura couldn’t let him leave, his place was here with them, he had to see that, she had to make him see.
“Don’t do this, you don’t have to be alone!” She screamed, she couldn’t let him leave. “I love you so much! I’ll do anything for you so please, I’m begging you, don’t leave! I’ll even help you get your revenge and if you can’t stay…then take me with you…”
Sakura was openly sobbing now, she was so desperate, she didn’t want him to leave but she would do anything for him…anything.
Sasuke finally turned around to face her and he was…smiling? No, it wasn’t a smile but he looked…not exactly happy but…peaceful
“You are still annoying.” He said then turned around and walked away again.
Sakura started running after him. It didn’t matter that he had called her annoying again, it didn’t matter at all. All that mattered was to stop him from leaving. “Don’t leave, if you leave I’ll scream an-”
He was too quick for her to see but she felt him behind her.
“Sakura.” He said. “Thank you.”
And then everything went black.
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Sakura had collected all the pieces of wood they would need for the bonfire and had organized them. She knew Sasuke and Naruto were by the river, fishing but she hoped they had caught enough for she needed Sasuke’s fire jutsu.
“Sasuke-kun! I’m ready for your fire jutsu.” She called and hoped that they would hurry because she was very, very hungry.
In an instant Sasuke was beside her, lighting the bonfire with his fire jutsu.
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The pain was almost unbearable, the pain of knowing that she had been there, that she could have stopped him and was too weak to do it. I’m nothing, I’m not good for anything, not even…why?
On a level she did understand his motivation but at the same time she didn’t, she knew he wanted to grow stronger but couldn’t Konoha provide it for him? What did Orochimaru had that Konoha didn’t?
And then Naruto came, all golden smiles and optimism, promising to bring him back and, in that moment, Sakura had loved him more than anything else.
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Things were strange now and this was definitely not what she had envisioned when she was younger.
They still saw each other almost every day since, because he couldn’t have any mission while on trial period, Naruto insisted on being together but it wasn’t the same, they weren’t the same.
I think he likes to spend time with his new team now. She thought bitterly. He was always in a bad mood whenever they were together, never talking, always brooding…but Sakura had seen him with his new team and he had seemed…less broody, relaxed even.
We have been replaced. That had hurt her so much, as much as it hurt her when he left…perhaps even more because now he was here but he was more distant than ever before. Sakura was not stupid, she could see what Naruto refused to, things could never be the same because he didn’t want to be here.
Sakura looked the way of her teammates again and her eyes locked with his. So distant, so cold. Sakura couldn’t stand to look at him so she looked away again. So different from before.
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That’s Sasuke-kun’s chakra, he’s awake! Sakura turned from her attackers to look behind her where Sasuke’s chakra was coming from.
“Sasuke-kun, you’re awake!” What she saw confused and shocked her at the same time. There were red marks spreading on his body and he was surrounded by some kind of purple…stuff.
“Sakura…who did this to you?” He asked, looking at her and she could see it in his eyes that he was angry. “Who was it?”
“What’s happening to you, Sasuke-kun?” She didn’t understand what was happening and she was a little frightened.
“Don’t worry, I’m alright.” He said. “In fact I’ve never felt better.”
Sakura was frightened, his speech of revenge and being consumed by evil…she didn’t understand and it was all so scary, his speech, his voice, the look in his eyes.
“Sakura, tell me, which one of these people did this to you?”
“That would be me.”
And like that started one of the most frightening moments in Sakura’s life. Sasuke seemed crazed, fighting against that man, he seemed to be in a league of his own and he was so powerful…
In the moment that he broke the man’s arms there was no doubt in her, she knew he would destroy them all but she also knew that wasn’t Sasuke, not her Sasuke. That’s not him, it can’t be him. Whatever that is, it’s not Sasuke-kun.
So she ran, she ran and hugged him as tight as she could and begged him to stop.
And he stopped.
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He had been refusing to go with them to Ichiraku’s lately and Sakura knew that he didn’t stay home, no, he was always hanging around his new team these days.
Naruto had finally realized what Sakura had long ago and it was so, so sad. She had never wanted him to feel like this but nobody could deny the truth anymore, Sasuke wanted nothing to do with them.
So they left him alone. Little by little they separated themselves from him, not by their choice but by his.
He was continuously refusing their invites, for lunch, for dinner, for ramen…even for training but that had never stopped them before- never had stopped Naruto before- so why stop now? No, it wasn’t because of his refusals, no. Sasuke made it very clear that he didn’t want anything to do with them, he said as much to their faces and what could they do in face of that?
Naruto had been the most affected by it for he hadn’t noticed- or had chosen to ignore- Sasuke’s behavior since he came back, they had been falling.
And now they had fallen.