So I've finally decided to get off my butt and post this since it's only like, you know, about a billion months late. It's just another one of my horrendous additions to the SasuSaku world, written for
1sentence's 50 Sentence challenge. Enjoy!
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Haruno Sakura/Uchiha Sasuke
Theme Set: Epsilon
Rating: PG13-R
01 - Motion
In his mind’s eye he could see her old self clutching her chest in despair and love; with his Sharingan eyes he could only see her rushing towards him, kunai in hand.
02 - Cool
Her hair slithered over the rough pads of his fingertips, cool and fragrant with mountain rain, smooth and soft like her skin.
03 - Young
The beautiful girl danced on, grinding to the beat as his dark eyes followed her form, as tireless as the night was young.
04 - Last
The stigma of being the last was the heaviest burden he would ever have to carry; the stigma of her faithfulness was hers.
05 - Wrong
It wasn’t until her clenched fist sent him flying that he admitted to himself that he was wrong for assuming that she would remain weak.
06 - Gentle
His next kiss sent shivers down her spine because she realized that none of his kisses would ever be gentle, and, heaven be damned, she would never mind.
07 - One
It was nothing more than one mistake, one gentle nudge that send the entire row of dominos toppling like everything he had achieved.
08 - Thousand
She waited a thousand days for him, carving every rotation of the sun and the moon into the crevices of her heart, until all that remained was scar tissue and remembrance.
09 - King
He might have been the king of denial; in the end, she would still win, because she was the queen of his heart.
10 - Learn
“Teach me,” she commanded as she grabbed his hand and pushed him to the bed, her touch passionate and hot against his bare skin.
11 - Blur
It was just a blur of tempered rose-a sign that she no longer followed anyone, not even him.
12 - Wait
It was too cliche for her to keep waiting for him to return, Sakura decided as she packed her bag, shoving the kunai and shuriken into the holsters.
13 - Change
Who knew that her wearing a short black dress and four inch stiletto heels could change him from a composed man to a drooling teenage boy?
14 - Command
She had been commanded to keep to the hospital when Oto attacked, Sasuke among them; for the first time, she disobeyed.
15 - Hold
Her hold on him kept him sane even when he couldn’t see her face.
16 - Need
There was a great line between need and want; their love making was something that Sasuke just hadn’t categorized yet.
17 - Vision
He knew that the tears in her eyes blurred her vision, but he could never fully understand why they sharpened his.
18 - Attention
She sometimes screamed in frustration that he was smothering her with his attentiveness, and that, for God’s sake, she was only pregnant.
19 - Soul
She tasted the bitter poison of his lips, and said that they were the only things that could nourish her soul.
20 - Picture
He heard her talking about the missing picture on her night stand but never once mentioned that he had been the one to steal it.
21 - Fool
Fools rush in, she thought to herself as she jumped out into the battlefield and towards him, vulnerable and strong.
22 - Mad
She once asked him about the spinning wheels of his eyes, wondering if they ever caused him to go mad.
23 - Child
Behind the cat mask and the cold katana clutched in her hand, there stood a dying child dreaming of weddings and happily ever afters.
24 - Now
Sometimes he would wake up to her cool touch on his forehead and her whispers that he was with her now, and that she would always protect him.
25 - Shadow
Though she used to be his shadow, now it was high noon and even the most persistent of shadows would dissipate.
26 - Goodbye
He didn’t believe in good byes and she could never bring herself to say the words anymore.
27 - Hide
He hid behind the door, jumping out at her and showering her with kisses as she stepped out of the bathtub, wet and dripping and his.
28 - Fortune
Sasuke always knew he was fortunate, and was convinced even more so as he slid the simple gold band over her slender finger.
29 - Safe
His secret was safe with her, she promised him, giggling madly inside at the thought of Sasuke walking into the bookstore and purchasing the new volume Icha Icha Paradise for their sensei.
30 - Ghost
Some ghosts never rest, she realized as she dragged him into her apartment, a bleeding missing nin that, if found, would face immediate execution.
31 - Book
Oh, how she had blushed when he told her he booked the honeymoon suite with soundproofed walls.
32 - Eye
The only thing she hated about him were his eyes, because they were a constant reminder that he would always have to do one more thing before returning to her.
33 - Never
Never, he swore as her caresses drove him to ecstacy, would he ever leave her again.
34 - Sing
His favorite excuse for making love to her in the shower was that he had heard her singing and wanted to ask what song it was.
35 - Sudden
Sasuke didn’t know how it had happened, really, because all he could remember was her fist suddenly coming towards him and waking up in a hospital bed with her besides him.
36 - Stop
For the billionth time she berated herself on falling him love with him and cursed the fact that there was no way she was ever going to stop.
37 - Time
Time and time again she proved that no matter the circumstances, the promise of sex could get him to do just about anything.
38 - Wash
It was because he was a beautiful, nasty boy whose words had stained her heart in a way that she would never be able to wash away.
39 - Torn
When she was young and naive, she had sent him a love letter sealed with a kiss, not knowing that it would be torn up and burned.
40 - History
Sakura knew that history meant nothing to him now that his goals had been fulfilled; nevertheless, it was still his story.
41 - Power
Power was the strength she seemed to lend with her memory as he walked forward and prepared himself for the kill of his brother.
42 - Bother
He didn’t need anyone to tell him that he was a complete fool when it came to becoming emotionally attached, but that never seemed to bother her.
43 - God
He had no religion and only worshiped her, performing his rites to perfection as the moon softly kissed her pale, pale skin.
44 - Wall
He had thought it necessary to insert a wall between everyone he knew as not to get attached; she demolished it each and every time he tried.
45 - Naked
Sasuke wasn’t just baring his body to her during sex; he was giving her his entire soul and begging her to forgive him for his weakness, one more time.
46 - Drive
Underneath the surface, he finally saw, was a gentle but persistent drive that caused her to walk forward and surpass them.
47 - Harm
It was a ironic story, though so right in a sense, because in the end it was the little pink haired kunoichi who killed Uchiha Itachi for harming the one she loved.
48 - Previous
Her smiles are so forgiving that all his previous sins fall to decadence, so sweet that he wonders how he could have ever faltered.
49 - Hunger
His hunger for her was a need akin to pain and pleasure, a moment in which he was hers and completely hers alone.
50 - Believe
In the end, when the world burned to ashes and there was only the two of them left, she would still find him holding onto the belief that she was his everything.
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