Chemistry

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He slips something into the palm of her hand and she stares at it curiously. It was a small pendant with no chain or hook. She turns it over it her hand to examine it in close detail. He had handed her a pendant of the Uchiha crest.

Sasuke clears his throat as he stuffs his mittened hands back into the pockets of his coat. “You can keep it… or throw it away… or keep it,” he mutters.

“You already said the last part earlier,” she tells him as she smiles and plays with the pendant and rolls it around in her palm.

He rocks back and forth on the balls of his feet as he glances up at the sky before answering her. “Just giving you options.”

Sakura nods as she pockets the pendant. Sasuke watches carefully as he lowers his scarf from his face. “Are you accepting the responsibility in keeping that?”

“You didn’t say there were strings attached,” Sakura retorts.

He scoffs. “Of course there are strings.”

She smiles as she strokes her chin. “It couldn’t be something corny like ‘spending the rest of my life with you’ could it?”

Sasuke bites his lip as he brings a mittened hand to hide his already reddening face. Quickly, he reaches into Sakura’s pocket in an attempt to get the pendant back. It proved to be difficult with just mittens on, however, and Sakura immediately reacts as she hops back and grabs his wrist at the same time. “Give it back to me,” he orders. “It’s too corny. I can’t do it.”

She laughs as she fights him off. "Come on, you can say it!”

“No.” He was always a stubborn one. He sits down on the bench behind them as he crosses his leg and looks away. Expressing himself outwardly was always difficult for him. 

“I love it, Sasuke-kun,” Sakura smiles as she comes to sit down beside him.

“Good, ‘cause there’s only one of that in the entire world.”

Sakura nods as she clutches the pendant tightly in her hand. She leans her head against his shoulder as she opens up her palm to admire the pendant again in the light. “Yes,” she says.

“Yes to what?” he asks as he turns to her.

“To spending the rest of my life with you. I thought I would just put it out there so you would know in case you didn’t.”

“Then yes too.”

“Yes to what?” she asks him back.

“Yes, I love you.”

Sakura seems surprised at his words but a huge smile spreads across her face. “I thought you didn’t like saying corny stuff?” she teases as she pokes him in the arm, clearly both pleased and prodding him for more.

“I don’t. But I thought I would just put it out there so you would know in case you didn’t.”

With a soft smile, Sakura slips her mittened hand into his as she leans her head once more against his shoulder. “I do,” she murmurs as she closes her eyes.