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SasuSaku Month 2017
Day 16: That Day

Part two of an old drabble.

She couldn’t help but watch him after that day, he hadn’t
approached her since, hadn’t even glanced in her direction. After that day’s
incident with Kiba he had once again retreated to his shell and it was like he
had stopped existing for everyone else. She felt as if only she could see him.

She had learned a few things about the solitary Uchiha, he
really had no one in life, he had no friends, no one to pick him up or come to
school events. He would never talk not unless asked a direct question, and even
then he would respond in monosyllables and short to-the-point sentences.

And maybe the most troubling, that he had nothing to live
for.

He didn’t care about tomorrow. He never handed in homework,
never handed any college applications, and sometimes he didn’t even know what
day of the week it was.

Her heart broke for the boy with the dark eyes.

He was absent for three days, the teacher had asked him if
he had an excuse and as uninterested as ever his reply was a simple, “No.” She
found herself staring at him, looking for any signs of self-harm, any signs
that he had tried to leave the world behind. But she found none that she could
see.

He turned to her then and found her gaze on him. She opened
her mouth to say something but before she could even figure out what to say he
had already turned away from her.

That day after school it was raining, the sky seemed to be
falling down. A torrential rain fell with thunder erupting from the sky.
Students crowded near the entrance waiting for the rain to stop. In the
distance she could see someone walking in the rain, she could barely make him
out in the distance.

She took out her umbrella and ran into the rain, it didn’t
take long to catch up to him. “Wait!” She exclaimed, to her surprise he stopped
at the sound on her voice. She walked up to him close enough that she could
cover him with her umbrella.

“It’s raining, if you walk around like that you’ll catch a
cold.” She told him.

“It doesn’t matter.” He replied simply his voice coarse and
dry. She smiled sadly at him.

“It matters.” Confusion took over his expression and she saw
the question hanging at the tip of his tongue. Why? “Because you exist, silly.” She smiled up at him, hoping to
take some of his sadness away.

Despite himself the corner of his lips turned upward and a
small smile spread across his lips. “Thank you.”

That day she found out something about herself as well, she
wanted to make him smile. Every day, brighter and brighter.