Thread by @lightcee_

#sssnippetaday #sasusaku #ssthreadfic

part of my Love Is Not Dead collection 😊

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How It Started

It was rush hour and a Friday, so Sakura already expected that she'd have a hard time catching a bus.

But well, that has already been her life ever since getting this schedule

in her last year of college.

She quickly walks towards the bus stop where there were already so many other students waiting for the bus. The one thing unfortunate about being in such a big university as theirs is that there were many students, and there were many gates, and in

each gate, there is a bus stop, where students of each respective area would already be waiting. And unfortunately for Sakura, the gate closest to her building is the last gate the bus going toward her home would pass by. Which means, by the time it gets to her bus stop, the bus

is almost always full. It wasn't uncommon for Sakura to have to keep standing up in the aisle of the bus during these hours. And she's already resigned to it, just as long as she can get home.

That day however, she was lucky enough to get on a bus that wasn't too full just yet.

All the seats were already taken, to be sure, but the aisle only had a few people standing. That was already good news for Sakura. It was always harder when the aisle was too crowded.

Sakura stood across a row where some fellow students were sitting, well, there was a middle-

aged man sitting by the window, but the seats next to him were occupied by two Business students—she can tell from their uniform. They seem to be in a lower year than hers.

She always preferred to stand by or sit beside fellow students if she could help it. She felt more safer.

But she was only standing for only a minute when one of the Business students—the one with dark hair stood up and quietly offered his own seat to her.

Sakura was very grateful and with sincere thanks, she took the seat. And the guy replaced her and stood by her seat on the aisle.

Soon after, more people had started getting on the bus, and the aisle had become more and more crowded. Sakura felt a little guilty for the guy,

but thankfully, he didn't really seem to be bothered by it.

Fortunately, after a few more miles, the crowd had started thinning again, and finally the man beside the blond student got off.

The blond moved to the seat by the window, and Sakura moved to the middle seat so that

the dark haired guy could also finally sit. She had felt better with that, knowing the guy who helped her could now also sit comfortably.

She was finally relaxing and feeling a little sleepy. But it seems luck wasn't completely on her side, because just as she was dozing off,

the blond guy had started chattering about in a loud voice, seemingly so the dark haired guy could hear him (or maybe he really is just that loud normally, she wasn't quite sure).

She tried ignoring it. She even tried putting on her headphones to drown out the sound with music,

but it was no use. He was just too loud, even though the dark haired one doesn't even seem to be replying to him.

And finally, Sakura snapped—it was Friday and she was tired and she really feels like she's developing a migraine because of this kid talking about ramen.

"Can I switch seats with you?" She asked the dark haired one. "It seems your friend really wants to talk to you. I don't want to be in the way."

For a moment, the dark haired guy only looked at her, expressionless, though she has this impression that there's amusement in his

"Naruto, you're too loud." He talked only to his friend. But he stood up and quietly waited for Sakura to also stand up so they could switch seats.

When they finally sat down again, Sakura hears the blond kid whispers (loudly) that he thinks he got her mad, to which the dark

haired guy only replied with a sarcastic, "What give it away?"

But Sakura just tried to ignore them and soon finally was able to take a nap.

When she next woke up, she was already close to her stop so she had gathered her things and stood up. She never really looked back on the

two boys again.

If she did, he would have seen the dark haired guy watching her until she got off the bus, and even checking the direction she went to as the bus started moving.

In a few more weeks, they'd meet again, with the dark haired guy finally introducing himself,

Uchiha Sasuke, 2 years her junior, and formally asking her if he could court her.

And Sakura would first immediately reject him. But he was persistent, and soon enough, Sakura has found herself being swayed by him.

It seems that that first meeting left a big impression on him.

so this is based on my cousin (sasuke here) and his now wife. his wife, girlfriend then, had recounted this first meeting to me and how i wrote it is actually quite accurate 😂

won't write their whole story here but there will be a part two 😊

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How It's Going

Sarada and her younger sister Satsuki stared at their mother and father.

It was movie night tonight and Satsuki had randomly picked a Filipino romance movie.

It was a story about two strangers meeting in a cruise ship, and as romance movies

goes, eventually being friends then falling in love. But the twist was, the guy has a heart disease, and even though they ended up getting married, in the end, the guy died in the girl's arms.

The sisters weren't surprised to see their mother cry—she can get carried away by

movies, and she's very expressive. But even their father was crying, something that was indeed very rare. Their parents were very into the movie, Sarada wouldn't even be surprised if they had forgotten their daughters were there.

They were just looking at the TV screen, tears

freely falling from their eyes, their arms around each other.

And they would stay confused about this moment until they grew a little older and learned that their father also has a heart disease, and when they were very young, there had been very scary episodes of attack.

But fortunately, their father held on, and so did their mother.

Their parents had probably seen what could have happened then, played in the movie.

And those tears were probably, not only of sadness for the characters—for what could have been them, but also tears of gratitude,

because their story didn't end in tragedy.

They were blessed with two beautiful daughters, and they were still falling in love every day.

They were living their happily ever after.

END

also really happened. i was the one to have to explain to my nieces why their parents were that way when they watched that movie. it was a little too close to home.

my nieces are young adults now. 😊