A/N: This will be a collection of drabbles and oneshots, so I will be taking prompts
A/N: This will be a collection of drabbles and oneshots, so I will be taking prompts. Feel free to leave one and I'll make a story surrounding it to the best of my ability.
Author: IFoundNowhere
Title: Perpetual
Summary: Sasuke learns that a way of life is not so easily forgotten. (major manga spoilers)
Wordcount: 360
Perpetual
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Despite the aching emptiness that seemed to make his entire being a living void, relief was still able to settle deep into his stomach. The goal he had been pursuing since his baptism of blood was finally accomplished, as he was born again in the warm thickness of his brother's life-essence. There was no more burning hatred, only that tiny sliver of relief and a bone-deep weariness(let me fall and never wake up) that made his knees buckle and his face numb. Never again would he feel such revulsion as had been smoldering inside him for all these years.
Less than a day later when he was woken abruptly by a burning in his eyes the likes he had never felt before, did he realize that his task was still far from over. Despite his efforts to stifle the oily voice of his clan leader(silenesilencesilence!), he could not ignore the words that hit him as hard as his brother's had.
(…to test myself…hate me.. foolish little brother)
And hate he did.
He hated and loathed and detested until he knew nothing else but the burning cold emotion. Until all bonds were severed (if you go, I'll die!). Until he lost his name and identified himself only as the avenger.
And now learning that he has been horrifically (unspeakable, unbearably) lied to, he felt the emptiness recede like an ocean tide, and screamed as the hatred crawled fourth to reclaim him once again.
Now he must not only avenge his clan, but his brother (his aniki), he must be born once again in blood, this time it would be the council members who would bleed. The council members who had ordered the annihilation of an entire clan (family), and dared veil their involvement.
Sasuke realized then that he would never in any way be free of his drive. His agony and loneliness and severed bonds and ghosts would forever be a part of him. There would be no reclaiming his name, his identity, for he was the perpetual avenger.
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