SasuSaku Month 2017
Day 23: It Was Always You
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Sasuke kissed Sakura when he left her on the bench. I consider it their first kiss as well. It’s been a headcanon of mine for years no one can tell me otherwise.
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“Sakura nee-san, who was your first love?”
The medic stiffened and glanced up to look at her eight year old patient. “Why did you ask, Akane-chan?”
The little girl smiled at her. “Yesterday, I was about to call my sister to come inside to eat dinner but then I heard nee-san tell a guy that he was her first love and it never dies. What does that mean?”
Sakura looked at the other occupant of the room, surprised to see him already looking at her with an amused smirk on his face. She rolled his eyes at him and turned her attention back to Akane.
“Your first love is the first person you love romantically. It’s different from the love you have for your family or friends. It is special especially for us girls. That’s why there’s a saying that ‘first love never dies’, meaning that you can never forget that love.”
“Oooh…” the little girl’s eyes sparkles with understanding. “So who was your first love, Sakura nee-chan? Did you have one?”
The pinkette hoped that she had forgotten, but it was obviously not the case. “Of course, Akane-chan. He’s –”
A knock saved Sakura from her confession. Akane’s mother entered the room to announce dinnertime and invited the two Konoha shinobi to dine with them. They politely refused, saying that there are two more patients to check in the village. An epidemic erupted in the area, and since Sasuke and Sakura were near the grounds in their travels, Kakashi sent them to help. It was finally contained and most of the sick were healed. After this last check-up on all the patients, they can finally continue with their journey.
The grateful mother gave them a bento to eat later. After finishing the work needed, they settled under a tree, too hungry and tired to go back to their hotel room. They ate the bento in comfortable silence for a while.
“Obaa-san’s dango is the best!” Sakura proclaimed as she ate another piece of the dessert. Sasuke handed out his share to her. “Here, you take it.”
She grinned at him before taking his offer. He still doesn’t think too highly of sweets. “Arigatou, Sasuke-kun.”
He looked at her softly, then said, “You didn’t answer Akane’s question back then, Sakura.”
She nearly choked.
“E-Eh? Ano… she’s not here anymore to hear it so it doesn’t matter anymore, Sasuke-kun.”
Smart girl, the former avenger mused. “Well then, I’ll ask the question again. Who was your first love?”
She pulled off the perfect deer-in-the-headlights look, obviously baffled. After recovering from the shock of his question, a blush spread on her cheeks.
“I think you already know, Sasuke-kun. It’s always been you.”
He gave a small smile, happy to know that her love was his from the very beginning. “And you? Who was your first love?” Sakura added.
Sasuke looked up to the starry sky, his mind wandering towards a certain girl he found one day in the field filled with flowers back in the Academy… the girl he kissed on the cold night when he left Konoha for the first time… the girl he caught after saving him from another dimension… the girl with him now.
He returned his gaze back to her. Obviously, the girl is a woman now – a woman who filled his lonely existence with love.
Sakura braced herself for the worst. It couldn’t be me, right? There are other pretty girls he could have liked… heck, I was pretty much outside his radar until we became teammates!
“You.”
See? It’s not – wait what?!
“Eeh?!”
He smirked and came closer to her. Lifting two fingers, he poked her forehead with all the affection in the world.
“It’s you. It was always you.”
First Love
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