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Chapter Two: Zephyr

Warnings: Death!fic, manga spoilers, takes place post-skip.

I--I

Requested by:
v-bear

Requested Pairing / Theme:
SasuSaku

Requested Genre:
Angst / Romance

Prompt:
Wind

I--I

Be wary of the hands of Fate.

Tears streamed down the young Chuunin’s face as she stood at the foot of his grave. Her clouded sea-green eyes scanned the name engraved upon the tombstone for the thousandth time that morning, each time with renewed hope in that she had read it wrong, and he wasn’t really lying there in the cold underground, and this was all just an elaborate, bittersweet nightmare that her mother would wake her up from any moment now.

Let faith in them roam.

Footsteps approached in the grass behind her. A sympathetic hand rested on her shoulder.

Have trust in the ways of Hope and Time.

Sakura turned around and buried her head in Sasuke’s chest, sobbing uncontrollably in his welcoming embrace as his touch brought her back to the emptiness of their reality.

And the Wind will draw him home.

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