when i write the sasusaku 😭💞
But Sasuke-kun came back and slowly, achingly, lovingly — they grew close again, got together, and married.
She started to think about children again.
She asked him if he wanted any, knowing the possibility of a no and… being fine with that. Children wasn’t a number one thing in her life. It would be nice but not something she wanted so badly. She wanted to be with him, more than anything.
But he told her yes, quiet, in her room, like it was a word stuck in the back corner of his teeth. His hand holding hers in a tight grip.
They’re in the middle of their journey slash mission outside of Konoha now. It’s been around six months. The whole idea of children is later in Sakura’s child. Back at Konoha. Back where they’d be with their friends and family.
She doesn’t expect this at all.
“What,” Sakura says. She can hear sounds of the cicadas buzzing outside. She can see the doctor’s face. It feels all far away.
“You’re pregnant,” the doctor tells her again.
Sakura looks down, presses a hand over her stomach in a daze. Things happened, yes. They’ve gotten intimate but… they were always careful. Sakura knows it’s never a hundred percent but — she never thought it’d happen to them. It feels unreal.
She leaves the hospital and goes back to the inn, legs wobbly. Sasuke-kun is already back from the market. He pauses sorting through the groceries to turn to her.
“What’s wrong,” he asks, immediately.
Sakura’s face pinches further. She doesn’t know how to bring it up. She doesn’t know how he’d react. They hadn’t prepared for this. Sasuke-kun walks towards her and takes her hand as he pulls her into a embrace. She sinks into it. It’s comforting.
Lowly, right against her skin, he says, “What happened?”
He knows she went for a check up, feeling strangely under the weather lately. It’s always best to get a second opinion, even if you’re a medic yourself. They never thought it would be anything more than that.
She knows she’s needlessly worrying him. She needs to tell him but she doesn’t know how to bring it up.
Better to just rip off the bandaid, Sakura thinks.
She pulls away so she can see his face.
“I’m pregnant,” she tells him.
In the dim light of their room, Sasuke-kun’s face — she won’t ever forget that moment, Sakura tells herself.
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hey this is lil anon 💗 i'm gonna send u another ask soon re: your recent reply, but my one lil brain cell just produced an idea and i'm just buzzing like stupid so i have to share it with you. i've been reading through your other asks and the dream kiss and the overlapping thought bubbles... and...
what if. WHAT IF. what if they have the same dream. LIKE LISTEN DGHFGDSHJK i know it's cheesy but a dream kiss in itself is already kinda cheesy tbh so why not go all the way??? we know nol's barely holding himself back he wants to kiss her so badly, the boy is gonna be dreaming some stuff no doubt about that. and they're already so connected via soulmateism so why not overlap it?? the opportunity is basically presenting itself on a silver platter !! and then they both wake up because it was too overwhelming and made their hearts beat too quickly and as the reality sets in they're just left with that emptiness because it felt so good so right but it wasn't real. argh.
ok talk to u later i need to go touch some fucking grass i think. - lil anon 😼
Oh mY GOD LIL ANON okay okay god I need you to know
I've had a terrible week and it's only half done, I've got some yucky real world/house news issues that just TANKED everything. I even woke up late for work by AN HOUR?! But I read this message RIGHT after I had my one on one with my manager and this has been the hightlight of my DAY I scurried up the walls and started howling from the rafters and then showed this message to my friends because I now, too, have this concept in my head AND I DON'T KNOW HOW I'M SUPPOSED TO GO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
LIKE LOOK you are right okay. It's cheesy but like... we might as well go ALL IN right? Cheesy isn't inherently bad, and if you embrace it? KLAFKAFJJ WHEW!!!!! I had not even CONSIDERED the same dream, separated only by the space between them afljkafkjafkjjfa SHRIEKS a shared dream that illuminates the shared desired between them, one unaware and the other all too aware. That they are always on the same page, even if they don't know it!!!!!!!!
Because as much as Nol seems aware of her feelings what if he's wrong? What if he's Dieter, hope being sparked over and over by Shinae being relentlessly herself. What if everything he thinks he's interpreted about her and her inability to hold his gaze and the way she flusters and how she keeps dramatically confessing love for him without using the word and her dogged persistence to not let him get away isn't at all what he thinks and it really all is platonic?
They're on the same page, these feelings just overflowing AND THEY DON'T EVEN REALLY KNOW IT. She has no idea, he can't be for sure!
For Shinae, who needs that sort of wake up call to something that she feels so strongly but can't identify, it would be the perfect shock because the moment it comes to her, she can deny all she wants but it won't work. She can try and try but in the end she will see it for what it is. See the way he affects her through a new lens, understand better what it meant to be so hurt by him and to feel not even anger but just desperation and sadness. Of course it could only be love, that makes her feel so sad and ache when she thinks she should be angry. Of course it could only be love, that brings her back to him over and over, so certain she'll get through to him.
AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.
And for Nol, of course, a sweet sweet taste of pathetic man torture (ynow. for us). Because the moment he asked her to dance I think he was already resolute in his feelings - that he cannot pretend to not know what he does. If he had any intentions of that, he'd have played along and let Shinae believe it's all platonic it means nothing there's nothing, but he didn't because he doesn't want to hide it, he doesn't want to deny or ignore it. But he still has those instincts to pull away and run away. He still hurt her when he couldn't show himself to her. But I think to wake up to that emptiness, to get that TASTE and wake up to a reality where it's not real it didn't happen would emphasize how important it is to stop pushing her away. Because if that's what he wants, he will need to learn to try to open up, to show those parts of himself.
So much of what stops him is the fear. It's not just that he thinks bad things will happen to people, though that's true. It's what he thinks of himself and how he thinks they'll see him and I think, maybe, there's something about an admission of feelings that can make it less scary. That I know this is difficult, I know you don't like this part of you, but I like all of you, I love every bit of you, so you can trust yourself with me.
FLKAJFJKAFKJAFJ GOD TELL ME THAT'S NOT PEAK ROMANCE, LIL ANON!!!! TO BE LOVED, AS YOU ARE, FOR WHO YOU ARE, AND TO BE CHANGED BY THAT IMPRINT. ALFKAFJKAFJ GODDDDDDD
I want him to wake up SO pathetic, so full of regrets and want and yes, I'll accept the guilt because that will illuminate just how strong he feels what he does, that he knows he has hurt someone he cares about but also feelings cannot be helped and he never stood a chance, really. I am doing a light re-read - yknow, as one does every few months lmao - and just the ways that Shinae and Nol respond to each other so early in, so responsive to but unaware of that easy chemistry with each other, Nol in that phase where it was all supposed to be fake but it wasn't and he was getting so caught up in it and even though he was supposed to be playing cupid, so much of it was for himself, indulging in the opportunities.
I want him to wake up to that emptiness determined to not run away because some things are worse facing what scares you. There are people you don't throw away, you don't let go of ;A;
And I need to watch Shinae go through the stages of realization - the denial and refusal, the sheer horror and embarrassment lmao, the disgust of emotions and how did I get here how did this HAPPEN, but the aching hole in her heart of now knowing something she wants that she couldn't see before but now that she has how could she ever look away how did she never notice it when it's so big and shiny when it draws all the attention to it.
She has confessed to this man like three separate times on different occasions to different people. She knows there's something more to why he's upset but she DOESN'T SEE THE NEON SIGN FLASHING OVER HER HEAD THAT SAYS MORE
GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
I, too, should go out and touch some fucking grass but it's been storming all day ;A;
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Warlock thinks about the time when Micah gave him a birthday gift for the first time . ' I am happy that we got to meet , Warlock . I am just as grateful that you exist . ' When he heard about their birthday approaching soon enough , he was at lost trying to figure out what to get for them . Micah seems like easy to be pleased with over anything , though , the concern that they will not like the gift he will get for them . . . It's absurd for Warlock to realize how intense he is becoming over it . It frightens him to see the deeper truth within the realization that he does care deeply about Micah . He wants them to be happy , even when he would try to put distance between them . They do deserve everything and more . All that the universe can ever offer to one . On the day of Micah's birthday then , Warlock awkwardly places a box on the table before them . It's a comical moment with the container being huge , though he tries to ignore the detail and offer Micah a meek smile . " Happy birthday , stardust , " he softly says , Micah's nickname given out of more warmth than the usual mockery . " Hope you'll enjoy this . " A mutter then with a deep hoping they will like the gift . Micah is the only one who Warlock cares by now . He only wants them to be happy . " It's disorientating to find it's your birthday already when time will only move on so quickly , but . . . I'm just as happy and grateful that you exist too , Micah . "
So many things occurred in a year since Micah became an Antigod . As it has been this way endless times before , they do not believe that time itself had moved much of anywhere for them . They do not feel like one year passed by them . Even when Micah has been aware in just one revolution around the sun that there are more than themself living in this body , with the other Starwakes taking parts of their time outside in the world whenever they front , they still feel they have lost so much . Micah is trying to grasp time like it is their sword so that they can find order within it , use it to create a path where they can stand on and not feel so lost in this universe . Warlock can understand this issue, and they appreciate his offer of sympathy as they are reminded that they are not alone , seeing him here with a gift . Micah brightens .
" Warlock , " they return the gentleness to him , held with the kind warmth in seeing that he had actually wanted to get them something for their birthday . Micah wouldn't mind if he didn't , as they are aware of his distant and reserved nature , yet to find that he truly did get them a gift . . . They stare at the colorful gift in wonder , the curiosity bubbling within them before they begin to giggle with delight . " Wow , you really didn't have to get me a gift ! " Micah holds up the gift and lightly shakes it , trying to guess what is it that someone like Warlock himself could get for them . What if it's an accessory like they got a necklace with a music box for his birthday ? Or it has to do with their hobbies , like a telescope for stargazing or an art toolkit for drawing ? Excitement rushes deeply through Micah who tears the wrapping apart —
Their Awareness flickers then and they freeze , gazing at Warlock . The emotions flood Micah like waves , hitting them once and twice and they shake . " Warlock . . . " they whisper , stunned . A deep breath is taken before the box is opened to find he did not get them one gift but several within a single box : There is a bracelet of the planets with the sun and moon as charms , a stuffed soft star toy , some shiny rocks and crystals , a few books on astronomy and mythology . . . so many more — Micah can see endless love in this box and they feel incredibly small . " You didn't have to . . . " I'm just as happy and grateful that you exist too , Micah . Tearing up , they tightly embrace Warlock . " Thank you , Warlock , " they choke , " Thank you so much . " There is only love in this room and for once in their life —
Time is nothing more than a snowfall that Micah can see and only cherish .
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