SasuSaku Month Day1: Holding Hands

Title: Skating Sentimental

Summary: The Skating Rink is a very important place for Sakura.

Rating: K

Note: this is and AU oneshot. Publishing this before it's too late and day1 officially ends all over the world lolol! :b

Soft white clumps of snow dusted the frozen surface of the skating rink of downtown Konoha. It was only open during winter season and citizens of all ages loved coming to that place.

Sakura Haruno held hands with Sasuke Uchiha as they glided across the rink. They came there every year since two years ago when Sakura insisted they should.

To her it held a sentimental value nor even diamonds could buy.

It was her first time ice skating and Sakura had no idea how she was to even balance herself on the 'freaking skate-shoes' as she liked to call them. They were impossible! And figure skaters made it look so damn easy.

Naruto Uzumaki invited her along with their group of friends to hang out and once Ino Yamanaka saw the skating rink, she insisted everyone should try it.

Easy for her to say. Sakura's best friend was an amazing figure skater.

Sakura slipped on the ice before she could stand up.

"Aaargh!" She grumbled.

"Haha! Sakura can't skate!" Naruto teased, pointing and laughing at her.

"Just wait until I do, Uzumaki! I swear I will make this ice break just so you can drown in it!"

Sakura hated skating.

She tried to pull herself up, but stupid gravity just had to be a bitch and bring her down. The ice wasn't helping her cause either.

She exhaled and decided to just sit down on the cold ice, not caring about how numb her butt was gonna get when she actually got out of there.

Suddenly, a tall shadow covered her and she looked up to see her very tall, very dark and very handsome boyfriend standing in front of her with his arms crossed, an amused smirk gracing his lips.

"So you just give up?"

"Shut up, Sasuke. I'd walk barefoot from the middle of the rink if I had to just to get this over with."

Sasuke shook his head. She wouldn't give up on difficult calculus problems, but she gives up on this. He took both her hands to help her up.

"Thanks."

And pushed her right back down.

"Yes. Thank you very much. What the hell, Sasuke?!"

"You have to learn to get up by yourself."

So, reluctantly, she tried. And she succeeded after falling eight times.

As she stood (finally!), Sasuke parted her legs with his feet and made her stand up straight.

"I want you to march."

"What?"

"That's how you learn." Sasuke looked at her with an ecasperated expression and Sakura looked at him uneasily, "I'll stay beside you," he added monotonously, but that was all the assurance she needed for her falling problem. She started marching, her shoes not rising too far from the ground.

Soon enough she could do it, smiling like a child who was given candy after being scolded. And as soon as she could, Sasuke said, "Now I want you to glide across the ice."

"What?"

Sasuke made his shoes slide outwards, curving only slightly so he wouldn't glide too far.

And Sakura, on her first try, slipped once again. Sitting on the floor, she grumbled in frustration. She hated this! She hated skating! She hated Sasuke for even making her try!

But before she could cry, a hand shot into her vision, open and willing to help her up.

So she got up and before she could let go the hand grasped hers tightly. She looked up at Sasuke, a blush evident on his face and looking away from her. He looked like a child and she almost laughed.

Sasuke didn't openly show his affection in public. Nor did he like to. They never held hands outside for everyone to see as much as Sakura wanted to.

Well, Sakura might have not even consider that as hand-holding. Sasuke was just assisting her! But it was a start for the socially and romantically awkward block of ice Sasuke was.

A development of sorts for since that day he wasn't reluctant to hold her hand again.

-owari-