Pairing: one-sided NejiNaru, SasuNaru
Genre: Drama/Angst if you ask me :D
Author: rein-hitomi
Warnings: Shounen-ai, angst courtesy of Neji. Then again, that was not new.XD
Author's note: Inspired by Savage Garden's "Gunning Down Romance," but the notion of the song is relatively different from the idea in this oneshot. Not time dependent. A oneshot I made not necessarily on a whim, just the inspiration coming. So pardon for the extreme crappiness. LOL.
Summary: Things don't always turn out the way we want them too. Expectation hurts more than the blatant flagging of a relationship that was never there to begin with, and Neji knew that. A one-sided NejiNaru.
Gunning Down Romance
I sensed you're thinking about something deep. I had known you quite well. You moved with cautiousness, murmured, eyes glazed as you looked away and drifted to your own thoughts — these were telltale signs that you were thinking about something. Something deep. Something you liked to ponder about. Something I disliked. Something about him.
Was I not right, Naruto?
All this time I had loved you immensely that I'd go on any lengths just to reach you. To reach you. Yet as time went by you began to act strangely. Gone was the burning passion between us; gone were those words I had longed too much to hear. Those moments that I kept close to me, they gradually, carefully, flew away and were gone just as easily as they came.
You tried to bring those times back, that I was aware of, but both you and I knew that all was in vain. Vain attempts that never brought the yesteryear back. And since when did that happen? Oh, I remembered it greatly. It was since the day he came back.
And he haunted you, didn't he?
He haunted you. Your attitude seemed so… So vigilant whenever you're with me. Was it because you didn't like me anymore? Was it because you loved him so much that… That…
That you didn't love me at all?
I hated to think such. Then again, what could I do? You could have the whole world fall and crumble at your feet, and I could not compare to it. Hell, I could not do anything about it at all.
We're gunning down romance, my love. Even if we would try and deny it, it would always go back to the fact that you loved him. You still loved Uchiha, was I not right? You flinched at the mere sight of him, and yet your eyes would come alive. By the time you would talk to me, the life in those azure eyes would fail to light up and would be replaced by a certain blitheness I found hard to take.
It hurt so much to sit here, stare at you, and feel you so far away from me — even if the distance between us was but an inch. You were so far away. I found it..intolerable. I didn't like it. I wanted to reach out to you, but my head would already know when an attempt was already futile.
We're gunning down romance.
You're gunning down romance.
He's gunning down romance.
But I didn't. I was the one whose love was gunned down.
Selfish? Yes. Maybe not. But if you looked at it on my perspective, I could be correct, Naruto. I was the one who was gunned down. And somehow, I was a fool, in a way that I smiled whenever it happened.
Simply because I loved you. I love you.
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