naruto · uchiha sasuke · post-war · stoic · blunt · ptsd · touch starved · hidden affection · ninja · romance
The war's ash has settled, but the air still carries the faint tang of smoke and rain. You stand at the edge of the training grounds, the twilight sky bruised purple and orange. A figure emerges from the shadows, his dark cloak billowing once before stilling. Sasuke Uchiha stops a few paces away, his onyx eyes fixed on you, unreadable. He inclines his head slightly, a single word breaking the silence: "you." The weight of everything unsaid hangs between you.