Dear Obito

Sanity through Madness

First off, I don't own anything. Really. I'm a poor college student with entirely too much time on her hands. Secondly, this is for a guild contest, KFU's fanfiction contest, on GaiaOnline. Thirdly… I'unno. I just wanted to say thirdly. OH! I have a thirdly! This story is KakaSaku. Fourthly ( is there such a word? ), Sakura is considerably older now - perhaps twenty or so.

Ending word count, excluding disclaimer, is 500 words. I JUST MADE IT!

Dear Obito,

I suppose it's a little informal of me to address you with such familiarity, but I feel as though I know you so well. My name is Haruno Sakura. I am proud to say that I am a kunoichi of Konoha – I've trained under the Godaime herself, actually. Do you remember Tsunade? The Densetsu no Kamo? Kakashi said you would, and since he still visits you every day, you probably do.

To be honest, I did not love Kakashi when I first met him. He said that he hated us all! It took me a long time to figure out why. He told me that when he met us, it was as though he were seeing the past. I was the kunoichi, like Rin was. He saw himself in Uchiha Sasuke. But he says Naruto is the most unsettling, because he reminds him of you.

If you were a lot like Naruto, as he says you were, then I think we might have gotten to be friends. Before he showed me that picture, I had never been able to really envision a member of the Uchiha clan smiling. You looked so happy; you probably were..

You were cute, too. You have the dark hair and eyes of an Uchiha, but just about everything else – your happiness, the way you were just comfortable around them – was that of Naruto.

You and I would have gotten along famously.

But it is thanks to you, in a roundabout way, that I got him for a sensei when I became a genin. And it was your eye that saved us, more than once.

He does not like to show off your gift. Though you gave it with the best intentions, the Sharingan bothers him – it is unable to turn off, or whatever it does when it is inactive. But he never says a word. He just readjusts his hitai-ate, and tells me to go to sleep because "a woman in my condition needs to sleep"?

Did you ever envision Kakashi saying that to anyone? Is the idea of that as hilarious to you as it is to me?

…besides, it's his fault that I will be giving new life to the Hatake clan. So he really shouldn't be taking that patronizing tone with me.

But it will be a boy. I know. But I haven't told him yet. I think the prospect of having a family, after being deprived of one for so long, terrifies him.

Of course, he will never say that, because the Kakashi I fell in love with is stubborn and forever in some state of denial or another.

But would you mind, Obito? Would you mind a Hatake namesake?

Let me honor you.

Haruno Sakura

X - X - X - X - X

"And just what have you been up to?"

"Oh, just writing a letter…"

She can tell he is smiling, even as she feels his hands resting lightly on her abdomen, swollen with a midterm pregnancy.

So she smiles.

Life is like that.

Well, I like it. KakaSaku may not be to everyone's liking, but it's certainly my favorite in Naruto. Thanks to Cherrihana for reading this first!

This story is unrelated to Facets and Half a Moment. I might just do a response from Obito to Sakura - OMG, letter from the undead! - to finish things up. Might. I haven't decided yet.

But this is a cute little stand-alone story, isn't it?

-StM