Title: Music Box
Author: Hiko Mokushi
Prompt: Livejournal Music Meme
Song: Snow Patrol – You Could Be Happy
Pairing: Hatake Kakashi x Haruno Sakura
Rating: K
Disclaimer: Kishimoto-sensei owns Naruto. Summary quoted from Alphonse de Lamartine.
Summery: Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Author Notes: Yea, I know, late again. But I'm happy my computer's even working at the moment, it keeps screwing up so often. That and little muse. Not knowing how to finish Picture Trends is really draining my reserve. I promise I will get it out by friday night. I won't make it go any longer.

He’s not sure, but Kakashi knows he needs to see her. If only just once.

Just once more, and then he’ll be willing to let go.

Because he knows for sure that it’s been years since he’s seen the sunrise and he knows it’s not as glorious as she is. Her pink hair gleams in the brightening butter-yellow light as she walks in circles, checking all her luggage and talking with her friends. Says good-bye, promises to write, miss you and love you and hope to see you soon, come visit me.

Her trip to Suna will be a long one and none of them are sure when she will be coming back. Their pink wonder is one who will not be easily forgotten, and they are most certainly sure that she will enjoy her time away. They are proud to see her go—but not happy.

From the shadows, he watches her silently. He knows she’s leaving. And he knows she might not be coming back.

But most of all, he knows she’s happy.

He hasn’t seen her this happy in ages. Not since before Sasuke and before her parents and before them.

Naruto hugs her one last time as she takes what little belongings she is taking with her. She cries on her best friend’s shoulder, assuring that she will come home for her child’s birth. She promises them letters and pictures and a check-in every month to make sure she is safe.

And it is in those few seconds after she walks out of the Konoha gates that he realizes he can’t bear to see her leave him almost as much as he can’t bear to see her unhappy.

He rushes to catch up with her, grabbing her by the wrist to spin her back into his arms. She glances up at him, green eyes wide with indignation and shock before they close shut as he presses his lips against her. When he pulls away, she’s breathless. He kisses her forehead, her eyes and her bottom lip. “Be happy,” he whispers, meeting her gaze intensely. “Just be happy. And don’t forget.”

There is nothing that they can say to make the situation any better. So she merely raises her face and kisses his lips through his mask once before she says she needs to go. It is all that he needs. He releases her then, lets her go, watches her even.

She glances though, over her shoulder, before she disappears from sight. His hands find his pockets, smirking. Because he knows that she wants to pursue her dreams and her own ambitions and he did that once too, and she deserves the chance as much as he did. Because he knows she will be happy.

Kakashi has always been a cocky man. If anything, he lets her go because he knows now Suna won't be her new home. She will be back.

And he will be waiting.