Disclaimer: No legal claim to Naruto, not making profit through this.
Basics: G/K, General/Angst, Canon, 1/100
Warnings: None
Word count: 231
Theme: a bridge too far (1)
Author's note: 1000!theme challenge from Mint Pizza Queen. Organized into 10 fics, 100 ch each. They're loosely related, held together by an umbrella theme of love and life.
x. a bridge too far
He was a mere shadow on a branch, a suspicious absence of sound, a person-who-should-not-be-there in the dark. Sasuke paused and rested himself against the rough trunk of a tree. He was too close to Konohagakure; he knew that. But worse, he was too close to certain people who might fight like wild golden tigers, flashing and taunting him with their brightness and ferocity.
Did he like doing this to himself? To flirt with the edge… Did he want to be found, be forced to spill something sanguine?
He decided he had to leave. For his own safety, he almost convinced himself. So that later he could be the hunter that wasn't blinded by the sheer beauty of the golden tiger, the hunter that would finally lodge a bullet through the creature's heart.
Sasuke turned and went- fast, fast, fast and far, far, far.
It wasn't that he wanted to protect those certain people, those golden tigers that had no idea what kind of vampire they were trying to redeem. It wasn't that he felt some reproach, or something nasty, bubbling beneath. It wasn't that he wanted to save their lives by being out of them. Way, way out of them. It wasn't like he didn't want to cut the ties, deep down.
It wasn't that he wanted to make a bridge too far to burn.