A Fine Line Between Us
Girl Talk
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Quick notes:
companion piece to A Fine Fine Line.
of the manga and keep as close to the cannon as possible.
in the manga, yet before Chapter 311. Thus
all is cannon until 311.
Girl Talk
He wanted
to bring back Sauske so badly he ended up like that.
back for me that he lost control of the monster he holds prison.
my teammate. I lied to my friend.
but it kills me to know he believes me.
Yamato is right, I do care for Naruto.
That crazy hyperactive knucklehead is the only link I have to
Sauske. He pledged to me, that come hell
or high water, he would bring back the man I love.
Sauske meant to Naruto. From that moment
on I vowed I would help him bring back the missing piece of our hearts.
Bah, all this self loathing is
giving me a headache.
“Hey
Naruto! You’ve been staring at me for
five minutes. Is something wrong?”
want to be leered at like some side of beef.
“Eh?”
at me? Of no, oh god no.
perverted. He’s probably thinking about
me doing something perverted. “Sorry
about that Sakura-chan.” Oh
sorry about that Sakura will help him.
I let him
have it. Full force, almost all of my
pent of anger and frustrations fueling the punch that sent him flying.
I stormed away from that Stupid Pervert.
agreed to visit Kakashi with me tomorrow.
I guess I’m just going to have to remind him tomorrow when I wake him
up.
Why
does he have to do stuff like that? I
think I might have bruised a finger in that punch.
wrong?
“Hey Forehead!”
say it. “Hey Sakura, what’s up, I saw
you punch Naruto, what did he do this time?”
“Grrr,
don’t get me started.”
“Oh come on Sakura, he must have
done something bad. I can’t remember the
last time you hit him that hard.”
“Well, he
was giving me this funny look for the longest time.
me at the same time. Then, after I asked
him why he was staring at me, the pervert blushed.
on inside that guy head, but I don’t want it to be perverted thoughts of me and
him doing, uh, stuff together.” Do
I? No no
to do those kinds of things with Sauske!
But why is it that I don’t have dreams of being with him anymore?
“Hey
Sakura, you okay?” Whah!
of my face? “You zoned out there for a
moment.”
“What?
lot on my mind lately.”
“I can see
that. Okay that’s it Sakura, as your
oldest and bestest friend, you are going to come with
me. You need to talk to someone about
whatever problems that you have that seems to be bothering you.”
wrong, but she stopped me with a raised finger.
“Don’t even try and wiggle out of this, you and I have a date at the
bottom of a carton of cherry chocolate swirl.
The good stuff too, low fat isn’t helpful when solving problems.”
Leave it to
Ino to know how to solve a problem.
“Okay, okay, I’ll tell you what’s going on up here.
“I’m glad
you chose to listen to reason. Just
because you are the only one ever to break free of my jutsu doesn’t mean I
won’t use it again on you.”
“I know I
know Ino, you still think it was a fluke that I broke free.
cream and I know you can’t wait to hear what the problem is.”
“Damn
straight. So let’s hurry up, it’s just
around the corner.” She practically
dragged me through her door and sat me down at her table.
the ice cream. “Okay Sakura, start
spilling. What was with that punch
toady?”
“I don’t
know-”
“Bull
Sakura, that is pure bull and you know it.
Now tell me, what cause you to get so pissed at Naruto.”
“Well, he
was staring at me.” She gave me this
look that told me that’s not what I
wanted to hear. “Okay, well he was
doing it for like five minutes straight, only looking at me.
he was, like he was looking at something he wanted.”
in front of me. “Then when I asked him
why he was looking at me, well, he blushed.
He turned his head away and blushed.
I knew at that point all that was going through his head was something
perverted. Something that involved
So yeah, I hit him. I called him
every name in the book.”
“And you’re
not sure why it’s eating you up so much, aren’t you?”
mouth. “We both know you’re feeling
guilty, and I know why too. What I’m
surprised about is why you can’t seem
to figure it out.” Oh no, please don’t
tell me Ino’s going to say I care for Naruto.
“Sakura, it’s quite simple. How
long have you know Naruto? In all that
time has he ever done anything to hurt you?
I mean intentionally hurt you.
Nope, and that’s why I’m fairly certain that even if he had any of those
monstrous urges that he would keep
them locked up inside him.” I know she
didn’t mean to do it, but her words alluded to the Kyuubi and I couldn’t help
but think back to that time when he lost control.
“Yeah, I
know he wouldn’t, but still it just freaked me out and I reacted.”
“You need
to apologize to him, or at least hear out why he was looking at you like
that. I’m sure he has a good
reason. Too many people have hit him for
no reason, or at least that’s why Shikamaru told me.
keeping from everyone, and because of that secret he was always
mistreated. I think you know what that
secret is, and if you do then you’re going to have to make it up to him.”
I looked
down into the nearly empty carton.
“Yeah, you’re right Ino; I do need to make it up to him.”
Author notes: Okay
people. It is finally here!
would be. Hopefully I’ve been able to
get deep in the psyche of Sakura and write her truthfully.
loosing myself. I’ve made a new goal
now. I have two ideas for stories that
fit in this universe. And when I have
the time, i.e. when I’m done these two fics, I’ll
write them. I’m not going to give away
the who’s and when’s right now, but they will both be fairly short, say about
8-15 chapters each.