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  1. Public Bookmark 21

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    Satoru's sitting on the exam table, stretching his leg out with a resistance band, but he stops mid-extension to blind Suguru with an expression of pure adoration. His sunglasses are wonky, and he pokes his tongue out in greeting. He looks well-rested today, softened at the edges. Unburdened and boyish.

    Suguru,” he coos, making grabby hands. His whims are a riptide; Suguru is standing between his knees before he even knows how he got there. Satoru pushes his sweat-slicked hair back from his face and sharply pinches the hollows of his cheeks. “You look so tired. Is it the heat? You know, we were just talking about you.”

    Suguru blinks stupidly. “You were?”

    “Yeah,” Shoko says, a pipette in her hand. She carefully deposits a single drop into one of the test tubes, and the cursed blood fizzes. “You look fucking awful.”

     

    (On grief, and its many dimensions.)

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  2. Public Bookmark 41

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    At first, he thinks: nightmare. He's never known him to have them, but today Satoru fought a man-shaped, grinning beast, pulled Riko from the quicksand of a cult and felt the cold weight of her in his arms - died, scared, alone. Suguru sees sleeplessness in their future. But when he nudges him onto his back, Satoru is awake. His eyes are open. His face is tacky, wet. He's bitten into his lip so hard that it bleeds a trail from the corner of his mouth.

    When Suguru lunges for the table lamp, it illuminates an off-white face warped with pain.

    No. Agony.

     

    (The adrenaline wears off.)

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    /SasuSaku./ And with every moment together, they get just a little closer, a little more comfortable with each other. Fall a little more in love. Post-war. Pre-epilogue.

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    23 Jul 2024

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    Haruno Sakura hasn't always known what or who she would be. She built a life out of broken bones and scorched what-ifs, lingering daydreams and sharp antiseptic. At the most pivotal moment of their battle against Kaguya she stood shoulder to shoulder with two boys she always fell just short of, and she flew.

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  5. Public Bookmark 76

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    I’ve been thinking about what you said,” she reads on the back of a card he’d grabbed from the souvenir shop at some grungy Seattle motel. “About how we’re all just trying not to be lonely. To be honest, I think about it all the time.”

    He remembers where he had been the night that he wrote it. How he’d almost picked up the phone and called her. How his throat had closed up at the thought, and everything he would’ve said ended up on a stack of cards at the bottom of his bag instead.

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