Title: Avenger
Character: Sasuke Uchiha
Drabble
Summary: There are nights where he can sleep, and there are nights where he can't.
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Sasuke Uchiha has suffered the life of a ninja, and so he sleeps like one. His face is vacant, lids closed, breath soft and steady, his body not quite tense but each muscle ready to flex and contract to a crouch or flip away from a kunai flying towards him. He wakes up like one too; He keeps the breathing steady, gets reacquainted with his senses and then opens his eyes and sets off at the break of dawn.
He kills like an Avenger; like the sword he wields is his every victim's juror, the one step closer to his goal. He whispers his name in the wind and he is a shinobi, a cold-blooded tool to his self-given mission. He pays himself with justice, and he never has nightmares.
.
(But there are nights where he can't sleep. Nights when the child is bigger than the shinobi, where the deaths that stain his hands gleam in the moonlight, and his mother's striking features stare back at him in the river's reflection.
And Sasuke hates himself a bit more.)
A/N: umm... Yeah. Review, please? I'll give you a cyber-cupcake.
I've been told they're better than cyber-cookies.
Crys