Bwa ha ha double post!

[cynchick]

Also stolen from everyone.

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

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From Perception.

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When they were both ready, fully dressed and cloaked, Itachi stood before her and gazed intently at her face. She reached up and brushed a strand of his re-tied hair out of his eyes. Her eyes were bright and crystalline in the dim light, and he grazed his thumb along her cheek.

“Sakura…” he said very quietly, “I would have given you more if I could.”

It wasn’t a declaration of love, but it was probably as close as he could ever get, and she was grateful. She smiled softly to cover the tremble in her lip. “I know,” she whispered, “And I would have saved you if I could.”

An emotion he would never be able to express openly passed behind his eyes. “Thank you,” he whispered.

A memory of another time those same words had been said to her flashed in her mind, and just like that time, there were so many meanings behind it that she may never fully understand them all.

He traced her jaw with his fingertip, and bent his head to capture her lips. Sakura sighed and melted into his arms, pouring everything she had into the kiss, taking everything he could give in return. This kiss, their last kiss, she would lock the memory of it in her heart and treasure it forever.

After an eternal moment that passed far too quickly, their lips finally parted. They remained close, and she kept her eyes closed and breathed in his scent one last time. He took hold of her hand and a moment later she felt the press of something hard against her palm. She slowly opened her eyes and looked down.

It was his necklace.

Jade eyes shot back to his face in wide-eyed surprise. She couldn’t think of a single thing to say, so she simply stared at him with a mixture of confusion and sadness, fighting against the stinging in her eyes.

He closed her fingers over the metal, still warm from his skin, and brought his other hand up to gently grasp her chin. “Don’t cry for me, Sakura,” he said softly, “And don’t regret.”

She closed her eyes and nodded, and when she opened them and met his gaze again, his eyes were mesmerizing, hypnotic crimson. The color of blood. The man she spent the night with was gone, and the mighty Uchiha Itachi stood before her once more.

It was time to go.

One of my most favorite moments and definitely the most favorite fic! In this part I actually cried, well, I cried a lot during the last chapters.
So what were you thinking writing this part? How did you feel?
I can only imagine how it was for you who wrote it, I was already so into it and such a reaction.

Re: From Perception.

[minoo4.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry, a little too long :D

Re: From Perception.

[cynchick.livejournal.com]

Another one of my favorite moments. I remember being quite sad as I wrote this part (and the entire chapter) but I intended Itachi and Sakura's relationship to be doomed from the start. Since this scene is their goodbye, I knew I had to make it as touching as possible, but in a very subtle way because in this story Itachi is still a semi-emotionless villain.

He gives her his necklace because he wants her to remember him - especially because she is the only one who will remember him as a person more than a monster. But he tells her not to cry or regret because he wants her to let go and move on. He wants her to remember, but at the same time, he wants her to forget. If that makes any sense? Lol.

A lot of people have sort of misinterpreted the nature of their relationship or wondered whether or not they were actually in love. The short answer is no. Not in the way most of us think of being in love. When Itachi says he would have given her more if he could, what he means is that he would have loved her if he was capable of really feeling romantic love. Sakura also doesn't love him in the classical sense, because as she explains to Sasuke in ch 18, love is about accepting all of a person, and there was too much about Itachi that she couldn't accept.

But that doesn't mean they don't care for each other, or can't have tender moments like this one. They came as close to love as they could get, given their circumstances and the amount of time they had. The underlying theme of Perception is that there is no black and white, and just as things are not always as simple as "black" and "white", its not always as simple as "love" and "not." There is a somewhere in-between, and that's where Itachi and Sakura fell.