yumikinechan:

Burn

It burns when I see him again,

Near death on the bridge of Tazuna’s bridge.

I’ve never seen a person I loved so broken and bloody before.

My body holds a mind of its own as I hold him close, trembling like a broken machine against this man I have come to love. He smells like sweat and blood.

For once in my life since meeting him I don’t think about whether he saw me as annoying or not for being beside him.

Sasuke is dying.

I never knew just how much tears a person could produce,but it feels like I produce them all.

I think of nothing but Sasuke as I cry over his dead form, wanting to avoid the needles of Haku’s wrath sticking out of his body and failing badly. I can’t stop shaking with the anger and pain weld up inside me.

I miss him even as I stare into his pale and scratched face, knowing in those moments that I will have to leave him.

I hang on anyway, I hang on in the whirlwind of incomprehensible thoughts flying through my head.

Sasuke, Sasuke,Sasuke…

I’m sorry I was so annoying, I’m sorry I wasn’t a better teammate for you, I’m so sorry…

Please come back…

Please-

“Sakura?”

I gasp, hearing Sasuke Uchiha’s voice once more. Then my eyes widen when I register his open eyes. The dark color of them are filled with surprise at my face.

I am too happy and relieved to see him again. It is like he came back from the dead just for me, but I know it isn’t like that. I know it but I don’t care. A joyous sob escapes my lips and I bury my face in his neck.

“You’re alive!”

I felt Naruto and Kakashi shuffle in behind me to get closer to Sasuke, happy to see their teammate and student alive as well.

“Ack, Sakura, I can’t breathe!”

He chokes, and I reluctantly let go of him.

As the others begin to talk to him I notice Sasuke still staring at me like it was the first time we ever met.

I can’t even feel surprise because I know that in a way for both of us, it is.

After all, this is the first time I realized how much I love Sasuke, and for him the first time he actually sees me.

The Sakura Haruno who loves him.