My Snippets: Part 2

The Climb

The climb can certainly be treacherous. Luckily for Sakura she has Sasuke there to protect her. 

A sasusaku snippet. (Based on a real-life video I saw!)

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Her fingers ached from grasping onto the little crevices for so long, but when she looked up, she could just start to see the peak of the mountain top coming into view up ahead. 

A smile worked its way onto her lips as she took in a deep breath, but the pinkette's deprived lungs protested as they burned hotly with the exertion of the climb. 

She glanced down, noting that Sasuke, who was just a few paces behind her on the mountain side had also halted his upward climb and was glancing around him carefully as he took a long sip from his water bottle. 

Even from here, she could detect the small beads of sweat dripping from his forehead, causing the tips of his bangs to flatten and stick to his slick skin. Sakura shook her head in order to fully clear it and began to climb up again, intent on greeting the top within the hour.  

Little did she know that disaster was soon to strike. 

"Almost there...," she panted to herself; her pink eyebrows creasing, her tongue darting out to wet her chapped lips as she reached up to grasp onto another tiny ledge, but when her fingers gripped it and she began to pull herself up...the rocky crevice gave way, the rubble underneath shifting and slipping beneath her fingers before tumbling down... away from the mountain. "WATCH OUT, SASUKE," she shrieked to her partner while a few more rocks broke off. 

As she desperately tried to grab onto something to recover her balance, her left hand... which had been the only thing holding her to the rocks...slipped as the dirt and rock there gave way as well; leaving her in a free fall state. "Sakura," she heard Sasuke scream out, but she ignored him as the cord around her waist snapped taunt, jerking her forwards. 

Her head bounced off the side of the mountain and her left hand reached for the cord while the other tried to press on the cliff-face, her knees scraping as they too were roughly pressed against the jagged edges, cutting deeply into her flesh. Sakura panted and was preparing to say something when she heard the heart-stopping, terror-inducing sounds of her safety line snapping. 

Her eyes widened when the taunt cord gave way, breaking in half and sending her plummeting to the earth below. Her fingernails scraped along the stones as she tried to grasp hold of something, but in vain. She began to tumble, body contorting as she rolled and flipped over and over again. A silent scream was sucked out of her lungs when the young woman crashed into something hard... and her downward momentum was halted almost abruptly. 

Her green eyes lifted to meet a familiar pair of black ones; eyes filled with concern...and features that were practically etched from stone had twisted into an expression that she had never seen him make before. When she felt his strong arms wrap securely around her waist, a soft sob (filled with relief) slipped past her lips. Her partner readjusted her and situated her in front of him, pressing her backward against the cliff-side gently, while holding her up from beneath her thighs. Her legs instinctively wrapped around his torso as her arms wrapped securely around his neck. 

She buried her head in the crock of his neck and sucked in a deep breath. "Thank you, Sasuke. You saved my life...," she whispered against his skin and felt his left arm tighten around her legs while his right hand moved to grip his own cables. Her body was still shaking with leftover adrenaline when he rested his chin on the top of her head. 

Her heart began to pound for a completely different reason when she heard his response. "I'll always be here to catch you when you fall."