Skeptics and True Believers

The moment you see him through the entrance gates with his companions, your heart lodges in your throat. This is the moment you have been waiting for the past five years but yet not quite. All those years you imagined that he would come back home and you would accept him with open arms because he was Sasuke-kun. But now everything is wrong. To him Konoha is not home anymore, it's the enemy's territory and at this moment you are his enemy. Something shatters inside of you at this realization because at one point in time you were willing to give up everything for this boy. You were willing to runaway with him, betray you friends and family just for the sake of this sad lonely fucked up boy. But now things are different.

You are different.

You are no longer the simpering little girl with illusions of fairytale endings and knights in shining armors. That girl disappeared a long time ago when Sasuke abandoned you, Naruto left and Kakashi immersed himself in S-class missions. Everything had fallen apart, everything you held important had slipped right through your fingers and you had just stood still, weak and helpless as everyone left you behind. That day something had snapped you and suddenly you were tired of being left behind, tired of being ignored, looked over and for once you wanted be more than just a pretty face. You wanted to amount to something and not just for anyone but for yourself. Then Tsunade-sama had come along and everything had changed.

So no matter how fucking scared you are now, you aren't going to back down. Regardless of the fact that it's Sasuke-kun (he is not the boy you knew anymore, but still) you are fighting against. You are going to defend your village till your last breath even if it means getting killed by this boy whom you have loved since the beginning of time.

So you take a deep breath and close your eyes for a second before pulling your gloves over your hands. You can feel Sasuke-kun watching you passively waiting for you to make the first move. Your whole body is buzzing with anticipation and fear, your hands itching to destroy something. You let a smirk grace you face and stare at him darkly. He continues to look at you almost challengingly. So you pump your fists full of chakra and charge towards him.

This is the beginning of the end.