Title: Breaking Tradition

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Summary: For her, Sasuke would break tradition.
Prompt: Holding Hands
Rating: K
AN: Drabble, written on the spur of the moment. English isn't my first language.

At heart, Sasuke was a traditional man.

It had to do with his strict upbringing as the son of the Uchiha clan head. Even now, many years after his family's demise, as a grown man and the last Uchiha alive, he upheld the values and traditions he had been imbued with as a young child. It's been showing all the more after he'd come back to Konoha. As if to make up for the years he'd spent as the missing-nin, he worked harder than ever to bring back the glory to the Uchiha name.

Sakura was surprised when Kakashi visited to talk with her parents, but when he came back next Sunday with Sasuke in tow, she was just baffled. However, after she'd learned the purpose of that meeting she didn't know if she wanted to swoon or beat them both up. Apparently, in his specific roundabout, traditional fashion, Sasuke had decided to organize omiai, instead of asking her out like any other guy.

Thankfully, the meeting went well and her parents greatly approved of Sasuke's courtship. In the end, Sakura also accepted that course of action. After all, wasn't it her dream for him to return her feelings?

Determined to respect his wishes, Sakura resolved to be the perfect girlfriend, the girlfriend an Uchiha wouldn't be ashamed of. That is why, when Sasuke came to pick her up on their first official date, she demurely followed after him and to his left, as opposed to her usual keeping at his side when they went anywhere with their team.

Along their way, they passed another couple walking together hand in hand, openly showing affection in public. Sakura smiled sadly and stared longingly at Sasuke's hand. So lost in her thoughts, she didn't realize he stopped and bumped into him.

"I-I'm sorry, Sasuke-kun," she apologized, mortified at her lack of awareness of her surroundings.

"Stop it, Sakura," he said quietly.

She looked at him questioningly. He sighed.

"Don't walk behind me like that, it's annoying," he elaborated.

Then he grabbed her small hand in his own bigger one and pulled her along. And all the way through their date, Sakura couldn't stop smiling, because Sasuke kept her at his side, never letting go of her hand.

Because sometimes tradition needs to be broken.