Of Romeo and Juliet
By Etherics
A short tale of love found in death. Sasuke and Ino.
No real background to this story, just to take as is.
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The sky was white from where she was standing, but the paleness didn't compare to the fear in his face. Upon the eve of death, there was nothing he could do. He had always been weak. By his brothers standards, he always would be.
The charka his brother possessed far outnumbered his own, and as the merciless red eyes came at him full force, all his training for the moment, the preparation, the effort was wasted. It was all just a few years tossed away, he hadn't learned anything.
Damn. The pressure was getting greater, and Itachi was closing in for the kill.
This was it, there was no avoiding it this time. No matter how far he ran, those eyes would always haunt him. He could feel the hatred, the total bloodlust practically pierce his skin before the blade of charka even did.
It was so close now. The smell of death engulfed his senses. Yet…
It happened so quickly. The spirit entered his body, and before he knew it, he was on the ground battling consciousness with a blonde chuunin beside him, suffering the same fate, sharing the same pain. He felt the name leave his lips.
"Ino?"
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So she wasn't always a rational person. That never accounted for much before, but now, her body fading just as his was, she was beginning to question her motive for this decision.
"Sasuke. You idiot." She was weak, even in spirit, but she still felt strength in her words.
"Ino, you imbecile! Now we're both dead! Why? Why the hell did you do that?" She sensed not anger, but sadness aimed at her. He wasn't mad at her interference, he was mad at her sacrifice.
"Why?" The echo wasn't accompanied with tears, but with a passive whisper that spoke volumes across the dank, dying room.
"Because, stupid." The darkness was closing, and both souls waited for death. "I never wanted a climactic ending, and besides that…"
Ino raised her eyes into the darkness, watching death fall upon them like the collapse of the sky.
"Love just has a strange way of working."
The darkness fell upon the two, intertwined in soul upon the threshold of death.