name: Avenger
prompt: once and always
characters: Sasuke, Sakura, slight Itachi.
words: 95
He's an avenger, five years and one dead brother later.
She sees it in that moment before he jumps into fights, a whirlwind of black and blue, when his eyes are cool, eerie obsidian. They're dangerous when they flicker that feared red; they're lethal when they're charcoal, and she understands this, just like she understands that the sky is blue and one and one is two. He wears the Leaf headband and the Uchiha symbol, but he's forever an avenger. Because even with Itachi dead, the score isn't settled.
He's just here by default.