Sakura would be lying if she said that in her heart, she loved Sasuke. She liked him, of course, putting his aloofness aside— to her, Sasuke was her friend. Alas, Sakura’s devotion to him was painfully deluded.

The person she really liked was you. She thought that maybe, crushing on Sasuke would change her mind, but her feelings for you never diminished— with every mission, she only fell harder.

“… You’re so reckless,” Sakura murmured, uncharacteristically demure as she bandaged your wounds after a particularly strenuous training session. “You really need to be more careful, you know?”