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LJ, THIS IS HUGE. My writing muse is aliiiive, and she wants action! So this calls for the obligatory~
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TAKING FANFIC REQUESTS!
-prompt
-characters
-ratings
-genre
-hell, include whatever you want
A little friendly warning!
1. Yes, you saw that. It says fanfic. Not drabble. So the length will most likely be larger than a drabble...if I get ( Read more... )
Every time something happens in Sakura’s life to shake her, she needs this sort of excercise to feel safe again. To know that people care, and to know how much people care about her. She comes to his place in the evening, after her classes are over and after she’s finished her shift at work; she also comes to his place in the evening because the view is beautiful, and that’s when he’s more bound to be around. Sakura is in many ways a creature of routine, and her routine is like this:
She doesn’t dress up, in fact, she dresses down, because she knows it will get some remark from him and being in the spotlight makes her feel good. (After all, at least that’s how she’s sure he’s watching her, looking at her, and that makes her feel…good.) She brings a bottle of wine, sometimes to share it and sometimes so she can drink it alone if he has work the next day.
He lets her inside, shakes his head at her outfit and asks if she’s learned nothing. They make idle chat for a while, nothing too deep, but nothing too trivial either. How’s work, how’re you paying rent, those type of questions.
And then she asks him if he wants to play a game. (Usually by the time the bottle is half empty.) They play 21 Questions, but it always turns into Ask Questions The Whole Damn Night.
Tonight, he tells her to stay over. He unfolds a futon in the living room for her to sleep on, as she tell him over and over why her parents won’t talk to her anymore (even though she tried as hard as she could to make the emancipation respectfully), her voice slurred and eyes cloudy. She doesn’t cry, which is something he appreciates in Sakura. When she’s upset, she is upset, but she never cries. At least not when others can see her.
He leaves her dozing off on the futon, and goes to put the plates they used for the take-out sushi in the dishwasher. As he’s enjoying the odd type of silence in his apartment (the one that comes when there’s someone else there), she comes to the kitchen.
“Neji,” she mumbles, sleepily rubbing her eyes.
“Yes?” He still doesn’t face her.
“Do you think they’ll get over it? Do you think they still love me? I want to be strong and say that I can live without them, but I think…I mean, they’re my parents. Parents are supposed to be like…the people that would take a bullet for you, and such…Do you think-“
“Sakura,” he interrupts, turning around in time to watch her bottom lip tremble. Vulnerable. She’s vulnerable. He doesn’t know how to handle that. “You should give it time before you start getting cold feet.” He walks over to her, and pats her shoulder once, letting his hand rest on the smooth skin there. “Courage.”
“I know,” she whispers in the dark, and looks down at their feet. She shifts her left foor until her toes are covering his toes on the carpet. Dependancy. He knows he should tell her to avoid making the same mistake again, but this is…different. “I don’t like feeling like I don’t have a safe place…”
His other hand rises, covers her other shoulder, and he guides her back to the living room. Back to her makeshift bed. Quietly. Waits for her to lay down. Quietly. Kneels down next to the futon, and looks at her for a moment. The tips of his fingers brush over her forehead, and he smiles, slightly.
“I’d take a bullet for you,” he says.
She smiles, and closes her eyes. Neji doesn’t need to hear her ‘me too’ to know it’s there.
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/melts.
That is so beautiful. ;; I MISSED YOUR WRITING. And they should go over the parents issue sometime, too.
..Sakurawhysocute.
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ALSO. YES. IT'S BOUND TO HAPPEN SOMETIMES IN NOVEMBER. 8)
idk hug her
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"I won't let you into my nightmares", Gin and Tatsuki. :3
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you're so special you get a fic
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wtswtswttysgdjhsgfj ;___________________________________;
gdit why do her and Naruto spend time together so rarely. why.
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THAT. IS SO UNFAIR, JEN.
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