One nights comfort
*knock knock*
I groggily open my eyes as I glance at the clock, the luminous burning numbers tell me that it's only 3:34am, great whoever this is better have a pretty good explanation, I had only just gotten to sleep because of the raging thunderstorm outside.
"Come in" I mumble knowing that they will hear me as I lie back down into the covers trying to keep warm.
"Thanks" I hear the soft reply of a girl as the door bangs shut waking me up, but my head is still too full of fluff to work it out who it is. "Sasuke do you mind if I…sta-put the lights on!" it's Essence. Great.
"Sure, whatever, you've already woken me up as it is." I sigh as the brightness of the bulb causes me to hide under the blankets where I quickly come back up for air.
"….sorry…." she mumbles, her bright red hair that reaches just to her shoulders is tussled and knotted from what I assume is tossing and turning throughout the night. She glances up at me her large creepy eyes shining lightly from the artificial light in the room; her black eye is fixated on my face whilst her ghostly white eye is looking in the opposite direction, as blind as ever.
"Do you want anything or not? Because if you don't can you let me sleep" I whisper starting to get annoyed by her presence.
"Oh yeah…sorry but I was just…you know….well can I….I mean if its okay-"
"What do you want!" my voice rising in anger as she still wastes my time, not caring if I get punished the next day by Orochimaru for waking him.
"…can I…stay…with you tonight?" she glances down to the floor as if she is afraid of my reply.
"Why?" she looks back up with more confidence,
"…I get scared of storms at night" was her bland answer.
"Why don't you ask Orochimaru as you're his favourite little experiment?" I say sarcastically knowing that she really means nothing to him and is only a tool for him.
"…because I don't want him to think me as weak…" she looks back to the floor her shoulders slouched and her red hair covering her faces making her seem even smaller then normal.
"fine get in" I sigh, normally I would say no but, I guess I feel pity for her, she is a great ninja and is useful to Orochimaru but, I suppose she reminds me of my brother, always pushed to the extreme, only aloud to be human in private.
"….thanks…" she turns off the light and stumbles over to my bed as I move over and hold up the blankets for her, she hunches up next to me, her back in my direction and sighs, the scratchy material of her night clothes moves up revealing her back, showing me ghostly white skin scarred and freezing to the touch,
"Night stupid" I joke,
"night….poo face" she replies, I laugh softly as I pull her closer trying to warm her up even though she goes rigid in my touch, I guess this is what being a big brother is like.