The Breaking Point (SasukeXOC)

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Sasuke POV

Three days.

It had been three days since the... incident.

It had been three days that Miyu had been avoiding me like the plague.

This is starting to become a habit...

I sighed, aggravated. That stupid girl could never make things easy. Dinner was long since over. Miyu hadn't shown up. Kakashi-sensei confirmed my suspicions about his special 'training' that caused this new wave of avoidance.

Kakashi-sensei wasn't an idiot. It was obvious that Miyu was acting weird around me since I... let's say I pushed her to feel something... or I guess you could say I forcefully awakened some dormant emotions of hers – realistically it's her own fault for trying to bathe with me. So Kakashi-sensei's solution was to force Miyu to let me inside her head in an attempt to quell some of her inner turmoil and the tension between us; thus the mandatory Mangekyou sparing match.

This entire situation is frustrating. It's not like I could just allow Miyu to ignore her feelings like she always does and just bathe with me. Or with any male for that matter... I guess if she was going to bathe with someone it would have to be me. I would torch anyone who thought otherwise. But that's beside the point.

I pushed her. I mean... it worked and she started to realize her feelings for me, but she handled it all wrong. We're supposed to be training; she can't just vanish into her head like she des back home constantly. So Kakashi-sensei lent me a hand and had that stupid Mangekyou training.

Everyone knows that once you're trapped in a Mangekyou Sharingan genjutsu the only way out is if the user lets you out.

It's obvious that Miyu has a hard time expressing herself. Sometimes I doubt she even allows herself to feel anything at all. So Kakashi-sensei thought if he could force Miyu to share her thoughts with me that things would get easier.

He was wrong.

Clearly.

I knew Miyu was a much more hardened ninja than she let on. I could see in her battles that she held back for our sake; or, I guess, for Naruto and Sakura's sake. I always suspected she was familiar with claiming a life.

But to see it firsthand was...

Try as I might, I know I'll never see her in the same light. She seems so innocent and naive. How can someone as gentle as her harbor such vicious tendencies? I shook my head to rid myself of those thoughts. I can dwell on Miyu's odd nature later.

As if I don't already dwell on Miyu too much.

Right now there's a more pressing matter.

Miyu won't want to talk about what happened. She won't want to discuss what she feels or even show that anything is wrong. What she wants is to know that everything between us is ok. She wants to know that nothing has changed.

I haven't decided if I want for nothing to have changed, I don't want her to revert back to ignoring her feelings for me... I don't know how much longer I can take that, but I know I can show her that we're all right. She doesn't need to hide herself from me. Naruto or Sakura might react differently, but I've seen my fair share of death. I don't hold anything against her. None of us will ever know what she went through, not fully.

I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to become so... wild.

If it weren't for Itachi she never would've had to. If it weren't for him she could've grown up a normal life with her family and she wouldn't be so confused about her own emotions or how to act. Sometimes I wonder if it would've been easier for her to love me if it weren't for him...