Platonic Ironic:

The Demon Sealed

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It was Ironic,

Platonic Ironic.

After all he had achieved in the years past, after all the things he had faced, the powers he had learned.

After taking away his mask, and after seeking all that could be sought he was saddened by what he still felt.

Because after all that time he still felt like the drop out genin standing in front of the big bad genius.

Why did he still feel this way, feel so weak when he was supposed to be basking in the warmth of victory?

It was Ironic,

Platonic Ironic.

All the moves he used against him, and all the methods he strategized, were the old ones.

The Taijutsu, the Kage Bushin, it was all it took to defeat him. After all the time and all the study it was their past that was able to defeat them. It was a memory of another day, a reverberation in a nightmarish dream, it was an age old pub, and blood soaked blade.

It was the shuddering future that tore them apart.

It was Ironic,

Platonic Ironic.

Because in the end they both had broken seals, they both had minds long forgotten.

And in the end they both died in the ways that made legacies live on forever.

In the end they both had that power, the same power, the power from the beginning, the power they nearly lost on the way to greater things.

It was Ironic,

Platonic Ironic.

That the avatar of the Kyuubi let himself finally be unsealed in death, and that he let himself be extinguished. The avenger could swoop down so quiet, take life so hushed.

It was Ironic that the Demon would let himself be sealed by yet another Demon.

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Sasuke and Naruto are two characters that have the greatest amount of symbolism between them, it was a pleasure to write. Thanks to all that read, I hope you take a moment to drop a review!

-AnimeSiren