Frowning, the whole thing felt a little too familiar. When she was younger, she’d done the same thing: measuring her worth by the end result, focusing only on what she couldn’t do instead of what she could.
“That’s a really 𝙪𝙣𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙧 way to look at yourself.”
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He can’t help the whimper that he lets out when she says his name”I-it’s perspective… you help people everyday and… I’m just in it for myself and the power I either don’t have or can’t control…”
“I said roughly…. Sometimes it more…. Or less” he murmured as he looked away from her, like he was waiting to be scolded.
“But you help people I just… swing a sword all day… it’s not the same”
“Hey, don’t sell your training short. Taking care of yourself matters regardless of what you’re doing, Shura. Besides—”
…hold on.
“Roughly the 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 amount?”
It seems like hypocrisy to him… but he can’t talk since he runs on roughly the same amount of sleep, granted his just training and not saving lives like her!
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longing.
it was strange how distance never weakened what he felt. if there was one thing he knew with certainty, it was that his feelings would always find their way back to her, like rivers destined for the sea.
because no matter where he was, a part of him would always
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one of them landed softly in his hand, and for a moment, his thoughts wandered back to the woman who occupied every quiet corner of his heart. a faint smile touched his lips, subtle as most things that came from him. it faded quickly, replaced by a long, inevitable sigh. )
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but when it comes to her… i become a different man. a better one.
with sakura, i do not feel guilty for feeling.
( beneath the shade of a great cherry blossom tree, the uchiha watched petals drift lazily through the wind. +
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sakura truly hasn’t changed at all.
and somehow, as impossible as it sounds, that only makes me love her more.
i was never a man of grand declarations. words always seemed too small for the things i carried inside me.
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