Title: Years Past
Rating: K+
Pairing: SasuNaru
Word count: 244
A/N: Written in about five minutes, in response to a prompt in Literary Analysis class. I actually kind of like this one, short as it is. Feedback and concrit are encouraged.
Naruto's POV
It was hard, growing up as we did. Fun as hell, but damn hard. Sometimes I didn't think I'd survive, that any second I would be hit and wouldn't make it back.
But that was then. That was before he left, and everything shattered. It was bad enough I never saw him for three years, but I still have the scars from where he got me. I hope he has the ones I gave him, too.
We're all grown up now. Seventeen years old, almost ready to be off on our own. And I've only seen him once. He looks good. Got taller. He's a year older, but you would never guess it. He's even more beautiful. The years have been good to him.
But his eyes – when he looked at me, I felt a chill. There was nothing. They were bright as always, pitch black, but they were cold. It's as if he'd been drained of feeling, empty, apathetic. It made the little bit of my heart that was left break in half.
I wanted him back. I wanted to take him into my arms and hold him close, so close that he would never leave again. I wanted to put the laughter and love back into those eyes that pierced me so deeply before that I thought I would splinter and break under his touch.
But before I knew it, he was gone, and I was once again alone.
I miss him.