Title: Love me not
Author: pheen
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama, angst
Word count: 247
Summary: Naruto isn't psychic, but he doesn't have to be.
Disclaimer: I know, you know and everyone knows that Naruto is solely the property of Masashi Kishimoto. Not mine.
You know it's not real; genjutsu or a dream perhaps, because you're twelve years old and facing Haku again, blood trailing rivers down your skin. An enemy in front and a rivalcomradefriendboy to the right. A boy. Just a boy with the pale skin and dark hair and blood eyes of your dreams.
The air is fizzing with promise, the thrill of a fight. You know what happens; how this fight ends. Because it's been branded into your mind by Sasuke's closed eyes and shallow breaths. Scarred into your heart by the same senbon needles that scarred him. You know, but it doesn't stop you from reaching out and trying to push him away, out of range from the deadly projectiles. From flinching at his necklace of silver, blood marking each point of entry.
The important thing is you know how this resolves itself. How you turn Kyuubi and Sasuke wakes up. How you avoid each other and push and shove to the Chuunin exams. How Orochimaru arrives and everything falls apart. How Sasuke goes stupid and leaves. How it breaks Saskura-chan and Kakashi-sensei and you'll do anything for your team-mates. Even the idiot ones who can't see anything at all.
When Naruto opens his eyes; recovers or wakes up perhaps, he knows exactly where he's going. To the Hokage Tower to ask Shikamaru of Sasuke's last appearance and the plan this time. Because Naruto knows how this will end. He knows exactly how it will end.