When A Petal Falls

Your sorry eyes cut through the bone

KAKASHIxSAKURA Hey Guys! Happy New Year! So i had wanted to do some snuff!

I've already written a 2nd chapter for this but i am not sure wither to post it Aha

Okay i so edited this a little, i wasn't happy with the way it was sitting.. so i attacked it armed with a coffee.

Also this wee guy - Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ- means a change in POV. :)

The chill of the evening settled upon Sakura's skin as she stepped out on to the training clearing from the trees. Wide green eyes searched the ground for a figure that had been vacant from her side for the last two weeks. It may have been the slight dampness to the air after the rain or the chill of the summer night's breeze but when she caught sight of him there her heart thumped and goosebumps travelled her.

Sitting there on the edge of the grassy clearing was her sensei, his silhouette giving the game away to the accurate summation of the owner of the shadowed slim figure in the dark. His hair was brushed back but it still gave away his distinct profile of ragged silver hair met with masked pale skin. Taking slow steps forward she watched as his head tilted upwards towards the star speckled night sky, his back was to her but she was pretty sure he knew of her presence approaching, after all he was an elite and she was not in any way trying to hide.

"Sensei.." she breathed as she now stood closely behind his relaxed form, "Yes Sakura?," he responded dazedly, "Can I sit with you a moment?" Lifting her hand to her mouth she went to bite her nails and stopped out of trained reflex, adamant to beat her nervous habit. "Yes, Sakura." He replied in the same tone.

Taking position on his left she aligned herself beside him, her sensei still had his head tilted back towards the sky. Sakura took in the slight gleam that covered his unmasked skin, 'he's been training I wonder for how long?'

Sakura didn't know why she sought him out, well truthfully she knew in a desperate way. Budding anxiety had reared it's unfathomably ugly head within her over the last couple of months, and Sakura had realised with his missing presence over the last two weeks that her Sensei had been the only soul able to quench it's thirst. Yet within this understanding she remained confused about her desire to seek him out, and at this hour. "I've not seen you about Kakashi-Sensei, did you run in to hiding because I tried to steal your mask?" she joked, a smile creased her cheeks and her inherited dimples from her father made an appearance at the corners of her lips. "Well" he paused "...I am very fond of my mask." His tone was light at the edges lifting in the middle, Sakura deduced 'he's in the mood to talk, though I think I've caught him on the edge of oblivion, he needs sleep. That sleep ring under his eye is dark'. Chuckling slightly she let her worry wane, 'whatever has made him tired hopefully it will lift with a good rest'. Following his gaze upwards towards the night sky, pooling with ambers, golds and blues, she remarked "you are not answering my question".

"I did." He simply replied, with little effort. "Why are you out so late Sakura?"

Accepting his diversion in conversation she answered weakly, "I can't sleep, and it's just.. I need .. I mean I'm missing..." she stuttered, face flushing at her awkward phrasing.

"Noise?" Kakashi intercepted, eye still fixated on the wondrous skyscape above.

Goosebumps ever traveling her skin Sakura looked at her sensei as his eye also dropped to meet hers, "Yes" came her breathy response. "Naruto is so busy now, and Sasuke, I don't even know where he is. Everyone is just gone now." Voice faltering Sakura felt hollow, chest heavy, the words themselves had been so weighty in her mind and even more so in her heart. 'How sad have I become?'