Characters: Kakashi, Kushina
Summary: She blinds all she comes near.
Pairings: KakaKushi
Author's Note: Okay, due to technical difficulties this story isn't showing up on my profile anymore. I'm going to repost it and see if that solves the problem.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Why does the sun have to course so brightly through this one woman's veins? When he looks at her, her blood is shining and her hair is burning and to Kakashi, Kushina is burning so brightly that he has to turn his eyes away, so he isn't blinded.
Kushina blinds everything she touches. Kakashi is no exception.
Sensei's lover (Kakashi knows they've never married, though Minato's trying to get around to it and they certainly act as though they're married; it's rather sickening, at times) barely seems human. It's not that she behaves as a beast or as some inhuman creatures. Instead, Uzumaki Kushina seems as though she comes from another world.
Like she's some sort of phantasm, who's trapped a flame within her depths.
She's so beautiful, and she blinds him with the fire all over her.
Kakashi comes upon the scene. He is the first to come on it, with the screams of an infant registering on the horizon of his awareness.
Here she is.
Her long, scarlet hair spreads out like a fan of fire, but the flames are cooling, and the sparks across her skin are only dying embers now. She still has her strange glamour about her, the fascination with which she holds all, as she has always held him.
But the fire is gone.
The phantasm is broken.
And Kushina, Kakashi thinks, is still beautiful, even if she is cold now.
She is beautiful, in death, but there is no comparing to what she was in life.
She doesn't blind him anymore.
And Kakashi can see that Kushina was never anything more than human.