A/N: (smiles)Took me ten minutes.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor do I make a profit off of this ficlet.
Akai me yo
Oh red eyes
It was the swirling madness in those eyes that had always frightened his enemies and intimidated his comrades. Like they could see your everything, and exploit that to their advantage.
It was the same red hemorige that stained their irises as the one that soaked yet another fallen shinobi.
It was the same dancing flames that inhabited them as the ones they reflected. Screams and the smell of burning flesh seemed to always make those flames dance just a little more wildly.
It was how they stood out like the chakra that physically manifested itself around their container's whole body, overriding his will power and muting his unconscious pleas.
It was how they shone with joy after every earthquake and tsunami and all those innumerable corpses.
It was how they gleamed in the moonlight with all the pain, suffering, blood lust, horror, madness, malice, and death that gave them their perfect ruby hue.
It was what the villagers had seen when they looked at the container, some still unconvinced of the seal's security. In their mind that was what draped over those peaceful cerulean orbs at every glance and memory.
And it was what stared at Naruto through the back of his eyelids every time he slept.