Title: Break The Ice
Author: mitsuki0tennyo (Mitsukino Tennyo)
Fandom: Naruto (SasuSaku_month 2012, Ice Prompt)
Pairing: SasuSaku (Uchiha Sasuke x Haruno Sakura)
Rating: T (M-15)
Genre(s): Romance, Drama
Word Count: 910
Chapter Summary: Sasuke rarely calls her anything other than The Woman or That Woman, it makes Naruto wonder if the Teme, in his own way, shows the unbound admiration he has for her. To him she eclipsed any other woman.
The beautiful yet lamenting tunes of a requiem echoed across the empty street, a painful contrast to the snow covered world, a rain of falling ice crystal creating an almost magical setting from a fairy tale. The melodious sound of a violin echoed across the road that was Baker Street, the music’s origins coming from the second floor of number 221B. If one looked up, they could see the handsome form of a young man composing a elegy on his violin in front of the window. But what a passerby wouldn’t know was that mournful piece of music was dedicated to a woman. A woman that was able to outsmart the famous detective consultant, Sasuke Uchiha.
It has been four months since he’d last seen ‘that woman’, it was as if she had disappeared from crust of the earth. He can still clearly remember the scent of her floral perfume and the petallike softness of her skin. The way the sun shone on her hair and how her green eyes were the windows to her soul. She would be the only woman he could ever feel the slightest form of affection for aside from Shizune, his landlady whom he could never remotely see in a sexual manner. Unlike ‘that woman’ who ignited the dormant desire in his blood with her slightest movement, yet now the thought of her is coupled with feeling of resentment and respect as she is the only person aside from his brother Itachi and his nemesis Professor Orochimaru who has ever outmaneuvered him. Sasuke should have realized that she was epitome of her sex the moment she was able to checkmate him… during a friendly game of chess.
And then she was gone, any evidence of what had once been part of his life even for moment, disappeared with her. One night they spent together and the next morning he woke to her lingering warmth and the sound of door opening and closing. The only thing left of her was the faint, lingering scent of her perfume—on his bed sheets and even that would eventually disappear.
… oOo …
Hatake Kakashi ignored the snickers of his deputies about how the famous Sasuke Uchiha had been outmatched by woman. Perhaps it had been her very sex that enabled her to out-think the Uchiha as Sasuke didn’t think like a woman. No matter how he tried use cold logic and calculations, they weren’t enough to dismember the strategies thought up by her female mind.
No, Sasuke had been attracted to her partly because she defeated him at his own game. She used him and then she disappeared without trace leaving the detective with only the memories of the days they spent together. Some days Kakashi wished he never introduced the two of them.
Kakashi knocked on the door of the apartment, his voice preceding his form as he entered the room, holding the door open for the young woman who accompanied him. “Mr. Uchiha and Dr. Uzumaki, this is Miss Sakura Haruno who… has requested your help.”
The young miss floated down the room until she leaned over the detective’s form.
“I need you help, detective,” she said as Sakura sensually traced her finger over the jawline of Sasuke’s face, a catlike smile making it’s way on her face when the Uchiha’s emotionless expression changed slightly. “I have lost something of great value and I need you to find it for me.”
“I’m not interested.” Sasuke was still being a man of few words Kakashi noticed even in the company of a beautiful woman.
“Then I suppose it isn’t true then… that your the greatest detective alive.” Sakura seated herself on his lap and when she finished her sentence the grey haired police commissioner knew Sasuke would accept the mission if only to prove the woman wrong.
… oOo …
He stopped to listen to the piece of music the other man had composed for her as he returned with their dinner, wondering if Sasuke will ever realize he is in love with her. Or does he already know and that’s why he created all those compositions in her memory. Either way he will never know as the only person who can tell him never will. Teme is a closed person who rarely reveals his emotions.
Sasuke rarely calls her anything other than The Woman or That Woman, it makes Naruto wonder if the Teme, in his own way, shows the unbound admiration he has for her. To him she eclipsed any other woman, perhaps save for Shizune-neesan. Maybe she would be the sole woman he could ever love romantically.
“Do you know what a Chinook wind does detective?”
“You’re not going to leave me in peace until I answer you aren’t you.” It was a statement not a question, as Sasuke looked at her smiling face over the rim of his spectacles. “Basically if their is a blizzard, a Chinook would blow away the snow for a few hours, a day at most.”
“I am like the Chinook wind you are talking about. I will wipe clean the snow that represent your world. I will warm up your world and fill it with color. And then I will disappear again when the blizzard returns and your life will go back to the way it was before.” As she spoke Sakura leaned closer and closer till her breath brushed against his lips.
Sasuke did know what possessed him but he moved to close the distance between their mouths and never knowing Naruto saw them.
… oOo …
From the shadows of Bakerstreet, she listened to the requiem he had composed on his violin as a memory of the days they spent together. She loved how melancholy sounds echoed around in the empty street. In this magical world of white snow with the shimmering ice crystal, she could easily fantasize about a fairy tale ending.
She had fallen in love with him as she looked up at the second floor window of 221B Baker Street. One might call it accomplishment to outsmart the famous detective consultant, Sasuke Uchiha but it saddened the pinkette. She had chosen ambition over love and would have to live with consequences.
(Act 01 ~ Red Robe ←| Kuruizaku |→ Act 03 ~ Where the Heart Is)
Author’s Note: Inspired by the BBC Series Sherlock, the second season episode “A Scandal in Belgravia” in particular and I encourage you to listen to the series’ soundtrack of the 2ed season especially the tracks “Sherlocked”, “Irene’s Theme and “The Woman”. I am currently obsessed with the tv-series Sherlock. I might return to this and make a series out of it because I really liked writing it. Also in case you are a familiar with Sherlock Holmes allow me explain who is who-which Sasuke is Sherlock Holmes, Naruto is Dr. John Watson, Kakashi is Inspector G. Lestrade and Sakura is Irene Adler. Also Itachi and Orochimaru who are Mycroft Holmes and Professor James Moriarty respectively.
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