Never Forget Me (Kakasaku Love Story)

Honesty

Kakashi's POV

I walked closer to her. The wind moving her hair. I can smell her shampoo. She doesn't smell like a hospital anymore. She smells like cherry blossoms again. I smile slightly to myself remembering how we used to be. I walked up to her and put my hand on her shoulder. She whipped around and took a few steps back from me. I took a step closer but she just took another step back. 

"Thought you didn't want to see me." She glares and her words sting.

"Its not that I don't want to see you. Please. Just let me explain." I hold my hands out. So desperate to touch her. Not in any sexual way. I want to touch her hand, or her face. Just so she can feel how sincere my touch is as she listens to my voice. 

"Did you do this to me?" I stop in my tracks. What did she say? How could she think that? 

"What do you mean? Wha-" 

You know what I mean! Did you hurt me? Did you make me lose my memories?" She is angry and sad and scared. Her face says anger but her eyes say sadness. I don't know how to help her.

"Yes." I need to tell her the truth. "I did this to you. I didn't mean to. I didn't know he would come after you. He broke out of prison. I got you out befo-" Cutting me off again she puts her hand up, a signal to stop talking. She starts walking off the hill. I follow her. I'll follow until she tells me to stop. Her face was emotionless. I follow her to her house where she unlocks the door and walks in. She leaves the door open so I walk in and close the door. Just like the last time I was here. This visit to Sakura's house is much darker. There is silence replacing our laughter from before. She sits on the desk in her room and I kneel on the floor in front of her. 

"Sakura. Please listen to me." I start to talk. She stays silent. "We were sent on a mission. When we finished we came back here. The rouge nin we were hired to go get had escaped. He kidnapped you as a way to get to me. He hurt you. But it's my fault. I should have been there. And I'm sorry, I couldn't protect you." I hang my head as I feel the tears falling from my eyes to my hands that were clenched to my knees. 

I get the courage to look up at Sakura. She looks sad. No anger anymore. No hatred or contempt towards me. I expected to be hit, or yelled at. But it never came. More silence. I get up to leave assuming it's what she wanted by her silence. As I turn she grabs my shoulder, like I had done to her just hours before. She's looking at the ground. But I can hear her sobs and see the tears dripping to the floor. I pull her in and kiss her forehead. I want to look into her eyes and apologize more. But she won't let me lift up her chin. So I lean my forehead to hers, but her eyes were closed and the tears were pouring out. She was trying to hold back sobs and I could feel her tremble. 

"I thought you hated me. I thought you were the one who hurt me." It's hard to understand her through her choked back sobs. But I hold her tighter.

"I would never hurt you Sakura." I feel a tear slide down my face too. "And I will never let anyone hurt you again." I lift up her chin and look into her eyes. She jerked away fast but I caught her face and made her look into my eyes again. I needed her to know how much she meant to me and words just couldn't cut it. I needed her to see. I needed her to feel.

I pulled down my mask and kissed her. She pulled away and looked in my eyes as I move my hand to the back of her neck as a gently pull her in for another one. She doesn't resist. She kisses me back and I can feel the passion between us. She throws her arms around my shoulders and holds me tighter. My heart flutters when I feel her hands around my neck remembering how she used to massage my shoulders after a long day, Using her chakra to sooth the tense muscles. 

She kisses more and more passionately and our bodies just naturally move together. She jumps up into my arms and I catch her perfectly. My hands grabbing her thighs as they squeeze around my waist. I sit down on her bed so she can sit on my lap. I can feel her tears still falling. We both end the kiss and she looks at me and touches my face.

"I loved you Kakashi." She said as she smiled a little. But I didn't smile at all. What did she mean?

"Loved?" I repeated "As in.. past tense..." I looked down at my lap feeling completely heart broken. It was her turn to grab my chin and lift it up.

"I found my diary a couple days ago." She smiled as she got up. I still stayed emotionless on the outside. My heart started to guard itself inside. Ready for the rejection. Ready to be hurt.  "I read it. All I talked about was you, like I was some lovestruck teenager. I even have a page of 'Sakura Hatake' written in different fonts." She stands and grabs her diary from her desk pausing to flip through it.

"But you don't love me anymore." I can feel my heart physically breaking in two. She is the love of my life. I don't know what I'll do without her.

"I want to learn how to love you again." My head whips up and she smiles and writes something down on a piece of paper. Tearing it off her notebook she hands it to me. She pushes me out of the door and I start to walk home, putting the note in my pocket waiting to get home to read what it says. I walk home and I cant help but to smile. She loved me. She wants to love me again. I'll make her fall in love with me again. 

Sakura's POV

I believe every word he said to me. His eyes were sincere. So was that kiss. And so were the tears we both shed. I smiled as he left. I can see why I loved him. The touch of his hands. Strong but soft. Tough but gentle all at once. The look in his eyes as he talked about our mission. He loves me. I know he does. I want to love him too. 

The note I gave to him is instructions. Just like he did to me. I wrote that down too. I didn't have time to do everything he did. But he'll know what I was getting at. Hopefully. I don't understand everything yet. But I'm trying and he's making it so much easier. 

I go to my closet and put on the same white dress as before. I grab a blanket and a bottle of wine I kept hidden from my parents when they come to visit. I grab a couple more things and headed out. 

I ran to the hill and set everything up. He was there as soon as I was done and almost caught me setting up. I looked at him and clasped my hands together behind my back. He walked up to me and opened the bottle and poured them into the wine glasses that I asked him to bring.

"Hi, Kakashi."