Jade eyes twinkled as she and her batch mates walked towards the school clinic for their physical examination every start of the school year. Despite her young age of eight, Haruno Sakura already has set her heart on becoming a doctor and everything related to medicine fascinated her. Nurse Shizune greeted them and started out with getting their height and weight.
Just as she was about to sit down to wait for her turn for the dentist to check her set of perfect teeth, a paper landed near her. It was the profile of her friend and seatmate last year, Uchiha Sasuke. Picking it up, she couldn’t help but let her eyes run over his details, and one particular fact amused her. Suddenly it was removed from her hands, and when she turned to look who did it, the grumpy face of the owner greeted her.
Before he could say anything, she blurted out, “I’m taller than you, Sasuke-kun.”
The boy crossed his arms and gave her a glare. “So?”
She gave him a cheeky grin. “You should drink more milk.”
Onyx orbs widened and a blush started to form on his cheeks. “I do! Lots of it.”
The pinkette giggled and teased him, “You need to drinks lots and lots more then. Who knows? Maybe you can still grow taller.”
He huffed and crossed his arms. “I will be taller than you, Sakura! Just you wait.”
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.
SasuSaku Month 