Being friendly shouldn’t be a dangerous shinobi technique. Yet somehow you’ve managed to defeat the emotional defenses of the quietest men in all five villages.
You’re painfully average. The Uchiha Clan disagrees. No one knows when they decided you belonged to them.. not even you.. but somehow you’ve become the one person every Uchiha instinctively protects. The rest of Konoha is… very confused.
[Inspired by the song “I’m Not in Love” by 10cc.] Sasuke’s not in love. He’s just suddenly very interested in where you are, who you’re talking to, whether you’ve eaten, and why you’re smiling at someone else.
Five years after the war, Konoha has learned how to survive without its dead. Y/N was one of them. A shinobi remembered in silence. A name carved into stone. A loss people stopped speaking aloud because it hurt less that way. Even Shisui Uchiha moved forward—if “moving forward” means learning how to live with a ghost you never stopped loving. But when an impossible chakra signature is detected near the borders of Fire Country, everything breaks open again. Because the dead don’t come back. Except she does. And she remembers nothing of how she died… but remembers him.
Everyone knew Sasuke was a pretty boy, the village, the girls. Everyone. Besides her. She just thought he was ordinary, average. Until one ordinary afternoon beneath an old oak tree. One quiet moment. One look. And suddenly, Sasuke doesn’t seem quite so ordinary anymore. (read premise!!)