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“Sakura….” He said slowly. “There’s something we need to talk about.”

“Oh.” Her green eyes widened at his solemn tone of voice.

“Is it about coming here? Sai? Me? Or that stupid argument we had before I went?”

At this her fingers crept up to the seam of her mouth and she briefly bent her head down to her knees, but when she looked up again her face was full of an ardent determination.

“Because I know I got angry and told you you weren’t committed enough but I was just… you’d been so good about me going away for ages and then I turn round and scream at you because I think you’re acting like a child when you weren’t…. I wanted to know that I meant as much to you as-well other people. I’d been talking to Ino and she made me think that maybe you were going to propose to me that night you asked me out to dinner and I was wearing that dress that you liked, but then you got all chocked up and then you didn’t and I yelled at you and told you that we should break it off for sometime…. and then you just said ‘Okay’. Oh, Naruto! I know you only said okay because you thought that was what I wanted and I’m sorry for telling you to never talk to me again. I didn’t mean it, I just…sometimes feel like the middle person because there always seems to be something or someone else between us.”

“You mean like Sasuke?”

Her expression changed then, the look on her face becoming sharp, angular and somewhat guarded as if preparing for battle.

“I told you, when I first started going out with you that I was interested in you not you as Sasuke’s replacement.”

“I didn’t mean that,” Naruto’s stomach clenched and he felt his blood rise and fall awkwardly in his veins, flushing to his neck, ears and stomach.

“There’s always been the unresolved relationship of Sasuke between us and the original Team Seven.”

“I got my answer.” She said simply, “I poured out my heart and found myself facing a vaulted door.”

“But you loved him!”

“Yes!” she cried out. “Yes I did, in a foolish schoolgirl crush. I wanted nothing more than to be his wife and give him children but I was never capable of making him happy. He didn’t communicate with me for one thing, I think he found me irritating, but I still loved him for it, I still do…but it’s not in the same way I-” her voice trailed off and she looked defeated suddenly.

“I wouldn't blame you if you never wanted to talk to me again, but you risked everything to come all the way here for me, so is it too much to think that maybe you’d like to hear what I have to say? I keep going over and over the mistakes we’ve made in my head and I thought I’d die without ever being able to tell you how much you mean to me…not just because we were part of Team Seven together…but because…because…” she gave a angry bark of a laugh.

“It makes me want to go over and relive my life again Naruto. I want to stand up to everyone that ever called you a loser or told you that you were worthless, I want-I want to be able to tell you the first time round that I do love you and I’m not hiding behind anything or anyone or acting like something I’m not. And-and that I’m over Sasuke, or I was over Sasuke a long time ago and that he can do whatever because any past feeling I had for him…Naruto it’s you that-”

“He’s here.” The Kitsune interrupted before Sakura came out with something that in five minutes time she might regret.

“Sasuke’s here with me, we both came looking for you, and did Shikamaru, Kiba, Ino, Neji, Hinata, Lee and Choji… you know, that lot.” He watched speculatively as the colour slowly drained out of Sakura’s face, the way her mouth compressed and the confused movement of the head and eyes, flicking down and then up mouth pressed down in the corners and the little gasp of: “What?”
He told her then, everything from start to finish, how they’d found him, how they’d argued, how they’d fought, how Sasuke was hiding secrets more than he usually had and how Naruto had fallen into the sticky situation of not knowing what he felt for Sasuke. He confessed, he ranted, he yelled and shouted whilst Sakura didn’t say a word, looked at the floor, looked at her shoes, looked at her hands twisting over each other as they spoke. He omitted the ring and the fact that he’d hidden it in her plant plot, he didn’t tell her that he’d most likely face a trial when he went back to Konohaif there was a Konoha to go back to after all of this madness. That he could face permanent suspension for his disobedience or even worse, but just as likely, exile.

But he thought she knew that anyway, just from the way her mouth turned down at the corners and the way she tilted her head so that hair fell carefully across her face.

He hated himself for making her do that, making her move her fingers up to her eyes in a careful rubbing motion and the small glisten of tears on the tips of her fingers as she moved them away again.

“Sakura-chan?” he found himself asking hesitantly dreading the answer and waiting for her to look at him and give him the long awaited reply.

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Gotta be somebody's blues , Fish Bird (c) acaciabrown/Eternity Dreams

So, its here, a pairing other than my usual bouts of SasuNaru and KakaIru, NaruSAKU.

I think I kinda botched up the colouring a bit (read A LOT) and although I've re-read the story a few times, it doesn't ever mention him crying. But, I just have that type of imagery in my head whenever I think of this particular part of the story.

Hence, I hope you don't massacre me for the bo€tched picture, but I hope you like it too!

Love for

When is the next chapter coming out? 83

Description
“Sakura….” He said slowly. “There’s something we need to talk about.”

“Oh.” Her green eyes widened at his solemn tone of voice.

“Is it about coming here? Sai? Me? Or that stupid argument we had before I went?”

At this her fingers crept up to the seam of her mouth and she briefly bent her head down to her knees, but when she looked up again her face was full of an ardent determination.

“Because I know I got angry and told you you weren’t committed enough but I was just… you’d been so good about me going away for ages and then I turn round and scream at you because I think you’re acting like a child when you weren’t…. I wanted to know that I meant as much to you as-well other people. I’d been talking to Ino and she made me think that maybe you were going to propose to me that night you asked me out to dinner and I was wearing that dress that you liked, but then you got all chocked up and then you didn’t and I yelled at you and told you that we should break it off for sometime…. and then you just said ‘Okay’. Oh, Naruto! I know you only said okay because you thought that was what I wanted and I’m sorry for telling you to never talk to me again. I didn’t mean it, I just…sometimes feel like the middle person because there always seems to be something or someone else between us.”

“You mean like Sasuke?”

Her expression changed then, the look on her face becoming sharp, angular and somewhat guarded as if preparing for battle.

“I told you, when I first started going out with you that I was interested in you not you as Sasuke’s replacement.”

“I didn’t mean that,” Naruto’s stomach clenched and he felt his blood rise and fall awkwardly in his veins, flushing to his neck, ears and stomach.

“There’s always been the unresolved relationship of Sasuke between us and the original Team Seven.”

“I got my answer.” She said simply, “I poured out my heart and found myself facing a vaulted door.”

“But you loved him!”

“Yes!” she cried out. “Yes I did, in a foolish schoolgirl crush. I wanted nothing more than to be his wife and give him children but I was never capable of making him happy. He didn’t communicate with me for one thing, I think he found me irritating, but I still loved him for it, I still do…but it’s not in the same way I-” her voice trailed off and she looked defeated suddenly.

“I wouldn't blame you if you never wanted to talk to me again, but you risked everything to come all the way here for me, so is it too much to think that maybe you’d like to hear what I have to say? I keep going over and over the mistakes we’ve made in my head and I thought I’d die without ever being able to tell you how much you mean to me…not just because we were part of Team Seven together…but because…because…” she gave a angry bark of a laugh.

“It makes me want to go over and relive my life again Naruto. I want to stand up to everyone that ever called you a loser or told you that you were worthless, I want-I want to be able to tell you the first time round that I do love you and I’m not hiding behind anything or anyone or acting like something I’m not. And-and that I’m over Sasuke, or I was over Sasuke a long time ago and that he can do whatever because any past feeling I had for him…Naruto it’s you that-”

“He’s here.” The Kitsune interrupted before Sakura came out with something that in five minutes time she might regret.

“Sasuke’s here with me, we both came looking for you, and did Shikamaru, Kiba, Ino, Neji, Hinata, Lee and Choji… you know, that lot.” He watched speculatively as the colour slowly drained out of Sakura’s face, the way her mouth compressed and the confused movement of the head and eyes, flicking down and then up mouth pressed down in the corners and the little gasp of: “What?”
He told her then, everything from start to finish, how they’d found him, how they’d argued, how they’d fought, how Sasuke was hiding secrets more than he usually had and how Naruto had fallen into the sticky situation of not knowing what he felt for Sasuke. He confessed, he ranted, he yelled and shouted whilst Sakura didn’t say a word, looked at the floor, looked at her shoes, looked at her hands twisting over each other as they spoke. He omitted the ring and the fact that he’d hidden it in her plant plot, he didn’t tell her that he’d most likely face a trial when he went back to Konohaif there was a Konoha to go back to after all of this madness. That he could face permanent suspension for his disobedience or even worse, but just as likely, exile.

But he thought she knew that anyway, just from the way her mouth turned down at the corners and the way she tilted her head so that hair fell carefully across her face.

He hated himself for making her do that, making her move her fingers up to her eyes in a careful rubbing motion and the small glisten of tears on the tips of her fingers as she moved them away again.

“Sakura-chan?” he found himself asking hesitantly dreading the answer and waiting for her to look at him and give him the long awaited reply.

* * * *

Gotta be somebody's blues , Fish Bird (c) acaciabrown/Eternity Dreams

So, its here, a pairing other than my usual bouts of SasuNaru and KakaIru, NaruSAKU.

I think I kinda botched up the colouring a bit (read A LOT) and although I've re-read the story a few times, it doesn't ever mention him crying. But, I just have that type of imagery in my head whenever I think of this particular part of the story.

Hence, I hope you don't massacre me for the bo€tched picture, but I hope you like it too!

Love for

When is the next chapter coming out? 83