There was blood on my hands. I wiped it on my shirt - but my hand stayed the same. I was, after all, wiping my bloody hand on my more than bloody shirt.
Hardly any of it was actually my blood. I leaned against a tree - I was in no hurry. I had all the time in the world.
I was filled with sudden ecstasy, and it coursed through my veins, making me shake. "I - I did it ..." I whispered. But ... but it didn't feel like I thought it would. I was so ... so empty, on the inside.
I remembered something he had told me. I don't know why ... it seemed so insignificant to me. It was just something he had told me, an answer to a question I asked when I was younger.
"Itachi?"
"Yes, Sasuke?"
"Itachi ... Do you believe in angels?"
"Well ..."
"Do you?" Sasuke looked up at Itachi with his big black eyes, and Itachi decided he needed to give his little brother a better answer. So he dropped himself down onto his little brothers bed where his brother was sitting there on his pillow cross legged, eagerly watching his brothers movement and waiting for an answer.
"Well, uh ... It's complicated."
"How?" Itavchi sighed and leaned against the wall his brothers bed was pressed against. He played with his plait as he thought.
"Well ... what type of angels are you asking me about?" Sasuke crawled along the bed and leaned against Itachi's side, taking the plait from Itachis fingers so he could play with it himself.
"Guardian ones ... Iruka told me about them. He said that each person has a guardian angel who looks after them. Is that true?"
Itachi furrowed and thought. He himself wasn't sure about it ... did he believe in guardian angels? "Well, I don't exactly believe in them, but I do ..."
Sasuke looked up at Itachi, frowning. "That doesn't make sense, aniki." Itachi had an idea. He pulled his little brother into his lap and twisted on the bed so that they could both look out the large glass window that was positioned there. Itachi brushed the glass with a hand.
"Well, Sasuke, do you believe in guardian angels?" He said, staring out the window and at the large full moon, and Sasuke realized that he didn't know. He followed his brothers lead, and stared into the night. "W- well ... I believe that - that there's someone who will watch over us ..."
Itachi smiled warmly down at his little brother, ruffing his hair with one hand. "You're right! I believe that ... that everyone has someone. Even if you don't know it, even if it seems like you're alone ... someone is always looking out for you. Even if they aren't there with you at the time ..."
Sasuke looked up at Itachi with his enormous black eyes. "Aniki?"
"Yes, Sasuke?"
"Aniki ... who's your guardian angel?"
Itachi smiled and pulled Sasuke into a hug. "Wshy Sasuke, you are my guardian angel!"
Sasuke frowned, "But ... but how can I protect you?"
Itachi laughed and put a big hand on Sasuke's head, ruffling his raven hair and making the boy pout. "You protect me because you believe in me! If no one believed in me, how would I be able to survive as a ninja?"
"Itachi ..."
"Yes, Sasuke?"
"Will you - will you be my guardian angel? Will you protect me?"
"Of course I will, otouto."
I began to cry bitterly. What the hell have I done? Now I have no angel ...
Such a trivial thing, I knew. But it was important, it really was.
I had no angel. I was completely and utterly alone. And I was not happy.
? Two angel oneshots with Sasuke in a week? Me is confused muchly. Hey ... they are both about Guardian Angels, too. Huh ...
Anyway, Kawa - chan loves you all+Hearts+
