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Ten steps.
His skin felt sweaty. His hair is a mess.
He needed a shower. And his breath probably reeked from lack of brushing his teeth this morning.
But he didn’t give a fuck.
Nine steps.
He was tired of thinking.
Eight steps.
Wishing.
Seven.
Worrying.
Six.
Wondering.
Five.
Waiting.
Four.
Hurting.
Denying himself his deepest desire.
He didn’t care that he was in public with lips dry with anticipation.
Three
She was all he needed to see when he left the jail house. Not Kakashi-sensei and not the dobe— promptly leaving them in the dust as soon as he was a few steps out of the facility.
Her.
She greeted him with a megawatt smile. The only kind he would ever want from her, standing among her colleagues and teachers in the hospital lobby, her parents not far away.
Two.
Sakura opened her mouth, about to greet him but Sasuke wasn’t here for words. He was here for action.
One.
“I— mmmh!!”
He captured her lips with his own, relishing at how soft and moist they were from her lip balm. Sasuke cupped the back of her head with his lone palm, drawing a gasp from the people around them.
Fuck them all .
Sasuke didn’t care about their opinions about their bond. She was his. And now he was her’s. She had waited long enough in his opinion.
The joining of their lips sounded very audible to him, especially when they broke apart. He brushed his nose against her nose affectionately, smirking at her expression of wonder. Stepping back, his smile grew. Just for her.
“I’ll see you at home.” He murmured softly to her, before promptly making himself scarce by flirting out of the building via the Body Flicker Technique....
And nearly landing on the newly instated Hokage and future Hokage. They each looked at him with slight surprise, Naruto more than Kakashi.
“What?”
The boys blinked stupidly as he casually walked past, to his new assigned quarters.