notes: i finished naruto the other day, all 700 chapters, and I must say the ending was a bit eh, but I still love the characters, so I wrote something after Naruto and Sasuke's final showdown, please perceive this as slightly romantic.
notes2: oh! and it's written in a weird point of view, so sorry. bare with me.
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The thread that binds me to you and you to me has strained a bit. We have gone our separate ways, on different paths.
In the end of it all, we stand against each other on the place we last departed from. You have eyes that see across horizons, to a dream that I can't see myself in and yet, I want to be, I want to stand in the dream and I push it down, the wretched hatred that growls, it consumes and it rips apart everything.
You were my home and I didn't want to lose you.
We clashed like fire and ice, the sun and moon parallel, never together, never touching. One supports the other though, like you have me.
You who shared the same emptiness, the same life, the same hatred that is still seeping through, how do I look to you?
You look brilliant to me.
You and I were destined from the beginning.
Naruto.
What is it that you see in me, the person that is me who has tried to destroy everything that you held dear, your will, your friends, no, not just friends—the family that you have around you that you never realized.
Am I apart of it too?
Even after all this time?
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We lay side by side when the sun begins to set, the orange hues have never seemed so beautiful until this very moment, but maybe that's because you're here.
Asleep, tired, and I still awake pondering what I'm feeling.
As I look at you again, sharing the same loss, the same heart, the same face; the same soul—I realize now what it is.
Love.
As I shut my eyes when the sun finally allows the moon to rise, I close my eyes falling to your quiet breathing.
Thank you, Naruto.
thank you for reading!