Ira: Well here's my third attempt to try and write a Sasusaku fic.
Sasuke: Well the others, didn't have a good plot.
Ira: I know that, that's why i stopped them.
Sakura: Do i appear here?
Ira: Kinda... I'm trying to base this more on Sasuke than you.
Sakura: O.O
Sasuke: Sakura you know she loves me more than you.
Ira: Guilty! Whatever, I don't own you or anything so pft.
The sky finally darkened, and the shadows completely took over the overworld of Erolith. Around this time was where they finally emerged. Their duties were simple. Kill whoever they must in order to keep the balance intact.
Death was not the solo persona that humans have made themselves believe. They were, however, full of nothing but rage and anger, most of them at least.
They moved around Erolith, preparing their descend onto the human world. One raven haired reaper calmly made his way to his send off spot. This is so… dull.
His whole time being here had been by accident. He wasn't meant to be in this world of reapers, nor was he supposed to be living. How he came here then? By a stupid mistake by his part. When he did die he was supposed to continue on the path of the bright light. The second he saw his parents he was overcome with joy. But he turned slightly and his eye caught a familiar figure. Even more joy fell on him, as he kept his eyes on the figure, his brother. Finally he would be able to be his brother again.
He didn't even realize his brother's frantic movements to stop him.
He embraced his brother, who looked sadly upon him.
"Ni-san! Finally I can…" he began.
With an audible sigh his brother interrupted him, "Foolish otouto, why did you follow?"
Stepping back he looked up at his brother's face, "Itachi? What's wrong? We can all be a family again."
Itachi shook his head, "No Sasuke, you weren't suppose to come to me! Only to mother and father! I never wanted you here."
Sasuke's eyes widened, "Mother and father aren't here?" Only then did he really look at his surroundings. He gasped, "What is this place?" it was grey and black, everyone here wore black cloaks, and like classic death, a scythe.
"Erolith," Itachi responded, "The path between the living and dead."
"Ero… lith?"
He nodded.
Itachi had explained the way of this world, we must kill the living humans in order to keep the worlds in balance. "We are the reapers of the human world, Sasuke, and now you are too."
"In other words, I've become another part of Death?"
"Exactly," he continued to lead Sasuke through the world, though there was many of them, the world was generally small. And they finally made it to Itachi's living quarters. There Itachi presented Sasuke with his own robe and scythe. "Every night fall, you must kill a human and return before the sun rises, if not you'll remain in the world of the living again."
Sasuke let out a laugh, "Well there's no way I'm going to forget that rule," his voice lowered, "I have nowhere or one to go back to."
Itachi finally smiled at his little brother, "As depression as this world maybe, you see that not all of us here are dead and glum."
"You're a perfect example of that aren't you?"
"Nope."
Sasuke chuckled at that day. Not that it was a funny thing that he became a Death Reaper but more that he was with his brother, and then there was…
"Teme!"
Naruto.
His body stiffened when he felt his blonde best friend drape an arm over his shoulder.
"What do you want?"
"Nothing just walking over to the descending port," he grinned, "So who's your target today?"
Sasuke let out an annoyed sigh, "Just some rapist in Konoha."
Naruto lightly punched his shoulder, "You and the criminals, can't you just pick someone randomly like everyone else?"
"If I'm going to kill people I might as well kill those who deserve it," he said.
"Whatever," Naruto finally dropped his arm and went over to his own port, "Oh by the way, I'll be around Konoha too, don't let me catch you saving someone!"
He snickered in response, "Like you could do anything."
"Reapers Set Up Your Descending Location, in Thirty Seconds The Descends Will be Taking Place!" yelled the woman.
"Baa-chan! You're louder than me!" Naruto yelled out.
Sasuke punched in KONOHA and waited for him to be transferred into the city. Quite frankly, he did get used to the whole Reaper life too quickly and calmly, he never flinched at his first kill. Everyone had always thought it was because he a born to be Reaper, he explained that it was just the fact that these people he killed disgusted him; they were as annoying as dirt under a finger nail. And now he was going to lessen the amount of cruel people on the earth.
Part of being a Reaper required a large amount of patience. He knew enough of his target to know where he would take his victim, then he would strike.
No less than fifteen minutes later did the man arrive, muffling the girl's frantic scream.
Sasuke heaved himself off of the wall he was leaning on, and made his way to the scene. The girl continued to thrash against the man's attempts to unclothe her. The man finally had had enough and pulled out a knife and holding it too her throat, "Listen carefully, you scream at all, I'll be leaving a nice deep cut in that little neck of yours."
The girl's eyes widened, before more tears spilled over her eyes, and soft whimpers left her lips.
Sasuke finally decided to step in, he quickly place his hand over the man's head, the man gasped and jerked before he fell to the ground.
The girl watched as the man fell to the ground, she still shook with fear.
Sasuke took in the girl's appearance, she seemed alright, shaken but still okay, the one thing that caught his eyes was her pink hair, apparently by the roots it was a natural color, he frowned at the sight of it.
He was vaguely aware that the girl hadn't run off yet, and more that he felt her eyes on his face. He lowered his head, and stared right back at her emerald colored eyes. She never looked away.
"Thank you," she said quietly.
Sasuke's eyes widened, she can see me? Humans weren't supposed to be able to see a reaper, at all, not even a shadow. He slowly backed away from the pink haired girl, his eyes never leaving her.
"Don't go," she reached a hand towards him, only to have his wrist fade between her fingers. She gasped at the action.
"I have to," he responded, as if she could hear him.
"Why?" once again his eyes widened, he frowned at the girl before him, was there anything wrong with her all? With a last glance at her he transferred back to Erolith.
"Wait!" she called out before he had completely gone.
Once he was back to his world, he walked back home.
That girl… was able to see me…
"You cut it a bit close tonight Sasuke."
"Huh?" he turned to see Itachi leaning against his door frame, "Oh, I did? I didn't really notice."
His brother already sensed something had happened to Sasuke, this wasn't like him to be too out of it. "What happened?"
He stayed quiet for a while, deciding whether or not he should tell him. There was no penalty for this, at least from what he knew. He responded with a sigh, "A girl was able to… see me."
Itachi's eyes widened, "See you?"
Sasuke nodded, "It was weird, and she was able to hear me and everything, just not touch me."
He chuckled a bit, "Where'd you wanted her to touch you?"
His head shot up as a blush started to form, "What?"
That only made Itachi laugh harder, "Sorry, Sasuke, I couldn't resist," he went over to sit on the side of Sasuke's bed, "But in all seriousness, this is very uncommon, I don't even think this has happened since… ever."
"Hmmm," He just couldn't stop thinking off her, and somewhat of what his brother had said to him. It's not like he was a perv or anything, but he was a guy, and let's just say the girls up here weren't really his type. None of them. Then this girl, living girl, crosses his path, and he can't get her out of his mind. She was able to see him, though, and that made him even more focused on her. Was it just him, or was she able to see any Reaper that came along.
He looked at his wrist, though she wasn't able to feel him, he still felt the warmth of her hand pass through him.
"I'm going to assume that that was the hand she tried to touch," Itachi said mockingly, interrupting his thoughts.
"When you assume you make an ass out of you and me," he grumbled.
"But I'm right this time," he was still smirking, "Was this like a love at first sight thing?"
Sasuke glared at his wrist this time, tightening his hand into a fist, "You know that doesn't exist."
Chuckling some more he let his brother be.
Once again he looked at his wrist, placing his other hand over it, "But still…"
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