Who: Naruto (
couragetodare) and Sakura (
sucker_punches)
When: After
this.Where: In the Ruins on the edges of the city.
Format: Paragraph.
What: Sakura returns with no memory of Anatole; Naruto makes a beeline for her anyway.
Warnings: Nnnnno clue. Will update as necessary?
(
When I wake up I'll forget, I'll come back to my mess. )
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But she knows she's being irrational, except for all the ways in which she might not be. She doesn't know what happened before in this place, and he does. The urge to fly, though, that is irrational, she's aware. Aware too that that probably won't stop the way her heart is beating too hard, because it has been ever since she woke up ( ... )
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He can't go back. He wouldn't know how to even if he wanted to and he doesn't want to, but when she speaks, says what she says, voice clipped and... and... accusing, he almost falters at how much it wounds him. But then, it doesn't matter. She's been displaced. She's in a strange place and she's dealing. Naruto knows it. And then it occurs to him that even this is familiar, her way of dealing, that there's comfort in the accusation beneath her remark because she's alive. She's here to say it and it reminds him of back home when they weren't so close and he laughs ( ... )
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She almost asks him what's so funny? but then Naruto's approaching her, and she has to step on the urge to back away again ( ... )
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He shouldn't have. But he couldn't not. She tastes the same, feels the same, is real and now he knows it, really knows it and is glad. There's no regret, but there is some apology.
He takes a step back to give her more space, hands out and lowering them slowly. You don't remember, he almost says, but Sakura is smart, once she gets past the shock she'll probably put two and two together anyway. What was he doing ( ... )
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