Sasuke didn’t notice it at first. When his
foolish teammates barged into the Sound hideout in their misguided attempt to
heroically rescue him from the old snake, he only saw them next to each other
from a distance. Looking from above, the difference between Naruto and Sakura
wasn’t apparent, so he didn’t think much about it. On the bridge in the Land of
Iron his vision was almost gone, just like his mind, consumed by the burning
hatred, so even if the blurry pink head was a little higher than it should be,
he didn’t care.
During the final battle with Kaguya, Sasuke
managed to get through the dimensional portal just in time, swapping himself
with a discarded vest. His arm shot out to catch Sakura as she swayed on her
feet from tiredness. He was holding her up, their eyes met on an even level and
Sasuke noticed it.
Sakura was tall.
He didn’t pay it much mind though. In their
genin age the height difference between them was almost non-existent, so he was
used to it. Then he grew up and Sakura did too, it was nothing important
really. He’d rather enjoy their moment of closeness for as long as it lasted.
The next time he noticed it, he was actually
leaving the village for his journey. He was going to poke Sakura’s forehead
when he realized that he was very slightly looking up at her, his eyes on level
with her nose. Was Sakura that tall before? Sasuke glanced down in
consternation, expecting to see impractically high heels, but Sakura was
wearing flat boots. She really was taller than him. How did this happen? When?
Sakura must have read his curiosity from his
face, because she rushed with explanation. “Oh yeah, you were away for so long,
so you didn’t know about it. Naruto really freaked out when he returned from
his training with Jiraiya. I mean, I’m now the tallest girl in Konoha! Strange,
huh? I probably got the height from my dad, just like the hair. It’s a little
embarrassing. I’m taller than most guys I know,” Sakura babbled, twirling a
pink lock around her finger. A new thought dawned on her and she gave him a
slightly panicked look. “It’s-it’s not a problem to you, Sasuke-kun? We’re
almost the same height, but some guys don’t like taller girls, so-”
“It’s fine.” Sasuke reached up and tapped
her forehead, effectively stopping the waterfall of words spilling out of her
mouth. Sakura looked at him with wide eyes and he smirked. She was still so
annoying. As if something as trivial as her height could ever bother him.
“See you next time.”
Sakura blushed, then a playful grin entered
her expression. Before he could react, she leaned in and kissed his forehead in
retaliation.
“For luck,” she told him, stifling a giggle
at his momentarily dazed look. “Stay safe on your journey.”
“A-Aa,” he replied with a waver, the
tale-telling heat travelling up to his cheeks, then he swiftly turned around
and started walking. He didn’t anticipate she’d turn tables on him so easily.
The forehead poke was his very special sign of affection, but Sakura also gave
him quite a memory to remember her by. He was going to dream about those
impossibly soft lips brushing against his skin for many nights to come.
Sasuke touched his tingling forehead with a
small smile. He’d underestimated the importance of height in a relationship.
Sakura now had an obvious advantage over him and she wasn’t afraid to use it.
But Sasuke didn’t really mind. He’d just have to find some way to get back at
her when he returns.
No one said Uchiha Sasuke ever backed down
from a challenge.
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Turning her head side to side, it still felt awkward to feel the ends of her hair skimming against her neck.
Passing all of the stalls, the noise of the busy festival sounded far away, as if she dunked her head under water.
The feeling was constant. Having Sasuke out of sight made it feel like her chest was collapsing in on itself and the air was thinning.
She was scared.
She couldn’t shake the feeling that if she took her eyes off of him for a moment that he would disappear.
“━kura-chan!”
Sakura paused in the middle of the street and turned. Naruto slowed down as he took his last steps to stand right next to her.
“I’ve been calling after you for a while now!”
Naruto’s face twisted into an ugly pout and Sakura sighed. She had told him she wasn’t going to attend the festival when he had tried to ask her on a date. She hoped he wouldn’t ask her about why she was out.
“I thought you were staying home tonight?”
There was a brief pause where Sakura didn’t know how to respond. If they still had the same relationship they did when they were Academy students she would have told him off and stormed away with a toss of her hair. But he was her teammate now and could be considered a friend despite his bratty attitude.
“Well now that you’re out we can at least watch the fireworks!”
Sakura smiled softly. Leave it to Naruto to stay upbeat.
But she didn’t want to see the fireworks with Naruto. She originally planned for Team Seven to go to the festival together so that even if it wasn’t a date, she could still be with Sasuke on a day that celebrated lovers.
Sasuke was in the hospital so there was no chance of a pseudo-romantic evening. She went to hang up her wish for his good health and was going to head home.
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“Dr. Haruno, they need you in rooms 3 and 8,” a nurse called out to her as she rushed by.
She waved her hand in acknowledgment and made a slight detour to her office to drop off the piles of paperwork and folders in her arm. The hospital had been unusually busy all morning and with two nurses on vacation until tomorrow, she had been forced to pick up double shifts to help balance out everyone else’s workload. Tsunade had warned her not to pick up so many extra shifts, but she felt a sense of responsibility and ended up doing it anyway. She almost expected her mentor to come swooping down from her endless meetings with the medical ambassadors from the Allied Shinobi Forces and kick her out of the hospital. Literally.
Just as she was about to open the door to her office, she heard someone call her impatiently.
“Hey, Forehead!”
She turned and saw Ino practically running to her, a similar stack of papers in her own arms. The blonde looked worn out despite the warm smile she had on her face. Sakura made herself a mental note to treat her friend to a day at the hot springs as a thank you for all the work she had been doing alongside her and mostly without complaint.
“Hi, Ino-pig,” she greeted her and unlocked her office. Her arms were getting tired.
“You’re going to totally hate me, but Sasuke’s here and he needs a physical with a set of lab work that needs to be done by this afternoon,” replied Ino smiling apologetically. “Kakashi could care less when it’s done, but Tsunade insists it be done as soon as possible.”
Sakura let out a long sigh and dropped off her files on her already untidy desk. Despite the fact that Lady Tsunade was no longer Hokage, she still liked to boss people around.
“I’m swamped with rounds for the next couple of hours,” she frowned. “Why don’t one of the interns take care of it?”
She would actually be more than happy to do it. She hadn’t gotten a chance to see any of her teammates since they trained last week and it was killing her. Especially since Naruto convinced Sasuke that he should room with him for a while, so she definitely didn’t get to see him as often. She found herself with a strange fluttering in her chest whenever she had to stay away from Sasuke for too long. Not that she would ever admit it out loud. The very thought of it made her feel embarrassed at the barrage of emotions Sasuke invoked within her.
“See, everyone is still wary of Sasuke and they refuse to do it,” Ino said and plopped down on her couch. “I’d do it, but I have rounds in the kid’s wards today.”
Sakura groaned and banged her head on her desk. “Be a medic, they said.You’ll save life’s, they said.”
“Excuse me, Miss Haruno.” There was a small knock on her open door. She looked up at found one of the nurses looking hesitant and anxious.
“What is it, Aya?”
“Sasuke Uchiha is in the waiting room and wants to know if he can leave,” Aya answered.
“He wishes,” she mumbled before standing up straight and turned to Ino. “Can you check in on rooms 3 and 8 before you start your rounds?” She then turned to Aya, “Please send him to my office and I’ll take care of him, thank you.”
Aya nodded, looking relieved and left quickly.
“You so owe me for this,” Ino sighed and stood up too. However, she let out a wide grin. “There better be details later.”
“Oh Kami, out,” she ordered. She was lucky she didn’t start blushing at the implication.
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