I came across an LJ community 1sentence challenge (livejournal dot com/community/1sentence/) from two years ago (Mystikat's Emperor & Queens—it's a Zutara piece) and wanted to do it myself. Mine, however, it's KakaSaku centric, with a bit of others thrown in. In short, this is a disjointed sentence-drabble that describe KakaSaku as I see it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. Also, this fiction is rated T for mature themes; you have been warned.


Beginning and the End

The end is something none of them predicted.


One: Comfort

His arms are a refuge.

Two: Kiss

She places her lips on his (cold, clammy, oh god please live) and he exhales water

Three: Soft

There never had been as good a pillow as her breasts.

Four: Pain

Her heart does not wither as much when she faces the boy she used to love.

Five: Potatoes

"Fry it, mash it, boil it—I don't care, I just want dinner."

Six: Rain

She lets the tears fall when she thinks he's not watching.

Seven: Chocolate

They fight over the last piece, but when she holds up that fist of hers, the battle is suddenly over.

Eight: Happiness

He leaves the toilet seat down, thank god.

Nine: Telephone

That thing, he thinks with a shudder, is a devil-sent weapon of the women.

Ten: Ears

She talks and talks and talks until he thinks his ears would fall off.

Eleven: Name

"Sakura," he says with infinite gentleness, as it was dangerous to rouse her in such an ungodly hour.

Twelve: Sensual

The sway of those hips, he thinks, is far too seductive for one so innocent.

Thirteen: Death

She clutches his hand tightly with tears clinging to her lashes, and he, with a sigh and a smile, closes his eyes.

Fourteen: Sex

Though Icha Icha was a masterpiece, it was never as good as the real thing.

Fifteen: Touch

Their first caress was stiff and nervous, unsure of where their hands should be.

Sixteen: Weakness

He could never deny her anything in the face of her doe-eyed look.

Seventeen: Tears

She kisses his moist eyes when memories hurt too much.

Eighteen: Speed

When she calls him to bed, he races through the last chapter of Icha Icha Paradise.

Nineteen: Wind

That's what he was to her, gentle and refreshing and uncatchable.

Twenty: Freedom

He can't do whatever he wants, but he can do what he wants to her.

Twenty-One: Life

They were exiled for their love, but hope still remains.

Twenty-Two: Jealousy

He idly watches the ramen bowl and thinks, Pity, I was hungry, just before an angry blond sloshes it over his face.

Twenty-Three: Hands

Slowly, he pulls the mask down.

Twenty-Four: Taste

They sit on the front porch with the bowl of cherries between them.

Twenty-Five: Devotion

Her love for him is deep-seated, not the fierce obsession from her childhood.

Twenty-Six: Forever

"How long?" she asks, wishing, wanting; "Too long," he replies.

Twenty-Seven: Blood

A trail of red follows down her legs, and his exuberance is replaced by regret.

Twenty-Eight: Sickness

She feverishly pines for him.

Twenty-Nine: Melody

He likes the way his name rolls off her tongue.

Thirty: Star

Her eyes shine at his name.

Thirty-One: Home

Home is where she is.

Thirty-Two: Confusion

When there should be one, she has three men in her life.

Thirty-Three: Fear

They noticed that every time she's out on a mission, he becomes more absent-minded.

Thirty-Four: Lightning/Thunder

Her temper is like a storm: sudden and tumultuous.

Thirty-Five: Bonds

Teacher-student, man-woman, father-mother.

Thirty-Six: Market

Girls and their never-ending shopping.

Thirty-Seven: Technology

He blew most of his last paycheck on the washing machine, but when she smiles at him, his pocket does not feel so empty.

Thirty-Eight: Gift

The Fates are fickle; what they give, they can take away, he thinks, standing over her gravestone.

Thirty-Nine: Smile

It took a long time (too long, I'm sorry) for the blond to smile at her again.

Forty: Innocence

She licked her fingers and suddenly, she no longer seemed childlike.

Forty-One: Completion

Sweaty bodies tangle under the sheets, and he was a missing piece to her puzzle.

Forty-Two: Clouds

"There's a pair of breasts—" He earns a punch "I was about to say yours," and he delights in the reddening of her cheeks.

Forty-Three: Sky

A touch, a word, a smile from him makes her soar over the clouds.

Forty-Four: Heaven

Are his friends smiling down at him?

Forty-Five: Hell

"If there is a hell, surely I'm going there—" "—No, sensei," she replies with a laugh, "You don't have a soul."

Forty-Six: Sun

Every morning as the sun rises, he disappears; she doesn't say a word.

Forty-Seven: Moon

He dreads the cycle of the moon.

Forty-Eight: Waves

She is awashed by guilt—maybe I should have held on, maybe I should have loved him a little longer, maybe maybe—but then she realizes she has her own life to live.

Forty-Nine: Hair

He breathes a sigh of relief at their son's head full of silver (pink son, imagine that), and her monstrous fist comes hurtling at his face.

Fifty: Supernova


The earth explodes around her, and he's never seen such an alarming yet beautiful sight.