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[haruno]

[ it actually calms her some, these responses. they're so predictable for him that it eases her nerves. ]

Do you want to know his answer?

[sharingan]

[ no.

yes.

fuck. ]

[sharingan]

yes

voice | some time later-

[haruno]

He's staying with us.

voice |

[sharingan]

[ the relief is almost crushing, and Sasuke is glad he has the privacy of the outside because he physically stops and briefly raises his hand to his eyes.

what is this feeling? it seems like so much more than relief.

after a moment he takes a breath, sounds a lot more composed than he sounds. ]

I shouldn't be surprised.

[haruno]

I was. He had to make a choice between being here with us, the us that he knows, or going home to fulfil the dream he's had since we were kids.

[ even still, her voice is full with relief. ]

I called him Naruto-kun. [ she laughs, soft. ] How embarrassing.

lol sounds a lot more composed than he sounds did u like that

[sharingan]

[ he doesn't say it's because you like him. not yet, at least. ]

What did he say?

i didn't even notice so ur good

[haruno]

[ she hums, thinking. ]

He had told Neji he's going to open a ramen stand. [ a laugh, soft. ] How predictable.

ok ilu

[sharingan]

He'll eat everything.

i almost tagged you with my sasuke journal by accident

[haruno]

[ okay that-

that gets actual laughter, stifled behind a hand. ]

He'd be bad for business.

sasukeception

[sharingan]

Bad for his own business.

sasukecest??? wait-

[haruno]

He'd always claim to be quality testing, I bet.

oops

[sharingan]

Hn.

[ he falls quiet for a moment after that, but it isn't tense, the way these silences often are with Sasuke. when he speaks again, his cadence is almost relaxed. ]

His face must have been priceless.

[haruno]

[ Sakura huffs out a noise, still a little embarrassed. ]

He's ridiculous.

[sharingan]

He's always been that way.

[haruno]

He wouldn't be Naruto if he wasn't.


His expression was definitely memorable, though.

[sharingan]

Why?

[ sasuke if you were any more straightforward. ]

[haruno]

Mm, well. I don't know if I've ever seen him look so shocked or flustered.

[sharingan]

That's not what I meant.

[haruno]

Then perhaps you should say what you do mean.

[sharingan]

Naruto-kun?

[ even Sasuke knows you've never done that before, and he wasn't around for a long time in their world. ]

[haruno]

[ Sakura stops, falling quiet for a moment. teasing aside, she really does linger on the question of why.

her voice is soft as she answers, though the smile in it is unmistakable. ]

I was happy. I was so happy. I didn't even think about it when I said it.

[sharingan]

[ it's sensible.

Sasuke has never been one to ascribe to honorifics. everything changed after he'd lost his family. even now, he can't find it in himself to care enough to use them.

happiness is such an obscure concept to him. he can't connect her words to a real feeling. ]

Hn.

[haruno]

I suppose...

[ she's thinking now, truly putting some consideration towards this. because she knows herself so well, and even a slight inebriation of alcohol wouldn't force something out that she didn't want to say in the first place. but it's tricky, isn't it. at least a little-

because she has such strong feelings about both of them. can never quite place a name to what she feels because it grows and grows and changes and grows some more.

when Sasuke had left Konoha, it had broken her heart. when she felt Naruto dying beneath her, it echoed that same feeling inside of her. so really-

really, she could say- ]

I suppose I said it to him for the same reasons I say it to you.

[sharingan]

[ this could mean any number of things.

Sasuke closes his eyes against the night and against the residual hum of warmth caused by sake murmuring in his blood. the declarations she'd given so brazenly when they were young— ]

Sakura.