Caught in the Moment
2nd drabble! On and going!
Naruto
Title: Caught in the Moment: Difficulties
Status: Complete
Rating: K+ (again, that's the max.)
Summery: It used to be hard; but now, it's even harder.
She was training. Her body moved fluently in the rising sun.
It wasn’t hard to look at her. It had never been a problem. It was looking away from her that was hard. It had been hard in the beginning when they first met with her in-your-face type of attitude and her childish crush. But as he watched her grow, both in power and beauty, it was even harder to turn his head and walk away.
When they first met, she had been annoying. Unfeeling to the worst kind of pain, childish, whiny…but he could not turn his attention from her. She had been weak and she had needed protection. And during missions, he had always kept a sharp eye for her safety. And although he would not admit it, it had stung him, when she smiled that soft, grateful smile at Naruto when he told her that it hadn’t been him who saved her from the clutches of sand.
Then he met her again after he’d left Konoha, she’d changed. No longer was she the helpless girl who poured tears and spilt her heart out to make him stay. She was a kunoichi when he met her. He had watched her fight the surrounding Sound-nins while he tried to contain the powers of his seal. The explosive power she had demonstrated in her entrance, the grace she had as she weaved through shinobis with her deadly hands. It had been very difficult to look away. He had been fascinated. What had happened to the girl he left in Konoha?
He returned under strict surveillance for a long time, only recently lifted. During scarce meetings that he was allowed to attend, his eyes sought her out. He looked for the petal hair and emerald orbs. Once they had found her, they stayed glued to her. More often than not, he’d required Naruto to break him out of his stare and tell him that the meeting was over. But now that the blond man was not here, he was stuck watching.
He sat in the tree, hiding his chakra, away from her line of vision. He watched her stretch. Her lean muscles contracted and flexed like the cat on her Anbu mask. And then with a set of seals that she didn’t bother to hide (because it was impossible to use unless one had her degree of chakra control), her hands began to glow. She turned towards the dummy at the other end of the ground and started hitting the fatal points or vitals on the dummy’s body with the ease of a Hyuuga hitting the chakra points.
She had indeed grown beyond his imagination. He observed as she suddenly stopped. The dummy swung after her ministration. She walked towards the cage she brought out with her this morning. She reached inside a pulled a hare out of the cage and with another set of seals; she started to heal the damage tissues. After the fifth hare had been mended, she placed the small animals back into their cage. She stood up; her back facing him, so he couldn’t see her face and the small smile that he knew was there.
“Sasuke-kun?” she called out, not even bothered to look at where he was. “What are you doing here?”
“How long have you known?”
“Long enough.” She replied. “Care to join me for breakfast?”
“Hn.”
He hopped off the tree and followed his wife into their home.
It was always hard to look away.
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