SasuSaku OneShots

🌸Never Let Go🌸

[angst, Sarada]

Sasuke Uchiha, the final Uchiha in the world, put together the small bags he arranged into one larger box and brought them out of the empty house. People didn't pay any attention to him, as he was just the 20 year-old rogue ninja that left the village and never came back. Even after that final fight with his best friend, he claimed he'd never come back. But the funeral was today. He just had to. Even though the whole reason for him to stay was gone. He continued on down the bare road, people swerving out of his way, to the memorial site. He does remember that his sensei ordered him to never show his face in the village again, but this was his only exception. After the fight, he swore to never come back, and no one had a problem with that, they didn't want him there anyways.

"Sasuke. You came."

"Hn." Sasuke didn't make eye-contact with the same Uzumaki he swore he'd kill at the Final Valley.

"Thanks."

"I didn't come for your condolences. Nor did I come to give you mine, either." Sasuke glared at the boy, who just gasped, then looked at the ground.

"Sasuke-kun?"

Sasuke shut his eyes, then looked to see Hinata Hyuga and Ino Yamanaka, dressed in black, approach him, Hinata winding her hand into Naruto's, "you two married?"

"Yeah." Naruto replied bluntly as he fixed the cuffs on his button-down, "listen. The ceremony is in a few minutes. We'd better--"

"I'll stay out here."

Naruto turned to look at Sasuke again, "look, Kakashi-Sensei told me not to let you out of my sight. You need to--"

"I don't plan on staying, and I don't plan on involving myself with the village ever again. You don't have to worry about me." Sasuke narrowed his eyes, clearly annoyed with the situation.

"But Sasuke-kun..." Ino urged, her cried-out, red eyes pleading with him, "Sakura--"

"I'm staying out here." Sasuke didn't even turn to look at her, "I'll wait until after the ceremony."

Ino glanced at Naruto, who only sighed and nodded.

"Sasuke, you have no idea what she thought of you. Even after you abandoned the village the first time and rejected her help." Naruto's tone was seriously cold, "you have no idea what she felt for you. You were her whole existence."

"I don't care."

Naruto stared incredulously, then shut his eyes, "fine." He nudged Hinata, and the three turned to leave Sasuke out in front of the memorial burial area. Unmoving.