title: kaleidoscope collapse
genre: romance/angst
word count: 302
dedication: to angst-ridden SasuSaku, to despair, and to tiny sunbeams of hope.
disclaimer: don't own, really wish i do...
notes: i'm sick again :/ whoopee. thank god for tea.
notes2: i am utterly, hopelessly in love with jazz and Florence and the Machine.
notes3: El is trying to bite me as we speak. BAD EL. NO BITING. I WILL SMACK YOU IN THE FACE WITH A DISHRAG. OR THREATEN YOU WITH THE SASUKE PLUSHIE. (he's adorable, btw.)
This is a prologue. Ideas/suggestions welcome.
kaleidoscope: a continually changing pattern of shapes and colors.
collapse: to break down; come to nothing; fail
in which naruto falls, sasuke destroys, and sakura was never human.
this is
kaleidoscope collapse
some secrets were better left unspoken.
-because the guilt eats away my heart as i fall from the last floor of redemption.
Naruto didn't know when it happened. Somewhere along the way to Saving Sasuke, Sakura-chan fell through the cracks and turned into not-so-Sakura-chan-anymore. Someone who locked away her emotions in Pandora's Box in exchange for a sort of detachment that could be called inhuman. What he didn't know was that Sakura-chan died the moment Sasuke's fingers wrapped around her throat, with insanity that would put a madman to shame.
What he didn't know was that Haruno Sakura buried Sakura-chan six feet under the cold, cold ground, with the final words of a blank smile tinged with insanity.
Sakura went through the war with fake smiles and fake laughs and fake tears. Fake, fake, fake-
Fake everything.
And the best part was that nobody noticed. Not Ino, not Naruto, not even Sai noticed her artificiality. It made her laugh a humorless laugh, because she was an actress now, with her many faces and split jetés and her mirthless chuckle echoing and bouncing off the walls-and the greatest, greatest boost to her pride? Nobody saw that she was just, just acting.
-and she smiled to herself with a touch of madness, of irony and nihilistic hope-if it could be called that-and isn't-this-just-perfect?
And as Team 7 were to soon discover, soon after Sasuke's return, after the end of the war, after Konoha settled into a peaceable routine, it was their only female teammate who was broken beyond repair.
-so let's run away to oblivion and watch the supernovas die.
notes4: okay, people-who-favorited, i know you guys like my stories and favorite them and put me on alerts and such, but please, for kami's sake, leave a review while you're at it. okay? i would love feedback, and when you favorite something and NOT LEAVE A FUCKING REVEIW, kari-chan loses her temper just a bit. so next time, review. okay? REVIEW.
notes5: i don't have enough money to pay for better themes on LJ and tumblr because either El steals all my money to do dastardly things with it, or i use it to pay rent/save for another electric guitar/save for an iPad 3/buy food/buy Naruto plushies/splurge on manga. so basically, i spend my money on everything other than what really matters. XD oh well. i'll pay for this someday XD
notes6: if the above wasn't clear enough, i'm broke because i go to too many cons (GG-CHAN I WENT TO NUMEROUS CONS YAYYY! forgot to tell you ^_^;) and spend all my money on art supplies/food/anime/manga/nail polish in multiple shades of blue.
