Title: Illumination.
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: tiniest hint of SasuNaru
Rating: PG
Warnings: set at the end of the Uchiha fight in Shippuden. Drabble. Flashbacks (in italics). Angst.
Description: Sasuke reflects (if you don't get it then you need to be shot!).
Disclaimer: Naruto and all related characters belong to Kishimoto-sensei.
"Damn it teme! Did
you ever stop to think about what you would do after you killed
Itachi!?" Naruto shouted, panting as he launched another attack
on Sasuke
I'd always thought that I
would be dead by the end of that too...that we would go out
together...it seems fitting since both of our lives seemed to exist
around one another...or at least mine existed around his.
"I'm
gonna rebuild the clan! How many times do I have to tell you, or did
you just forget dobe?" Sasuke taunted back, easily blocking the
messy attacks of his team mate.
Naruto bristled "Oh yeah
sure! Like the 'great' Uchiha Sasuke is just gonna give up the life
of a ninja, settle down with some nice girl and have a bunch of
little Uchiha brats!"
You knew
as well as I did that there was no hope of something as normal as
that for someone like me...knowing me I would fuck it all up. I
really did want to restore the clan but I would constantly worry that
I too would end up going mad like Itachi had and slaughtering them
all. I suppose it would be better to live in solitude than to see my
clan be destroyed once more...especially if it was to be by my own
hands.
"Why the hell do you care
anyway dobe!?" Sasuke flung a handful of kunai at the
blond
Naruto faltered slightly, one of the kunai managing to slice
into his upper arm "I... You can't just plan your life around
Itachi! You need to start thinking about yourself too!"
At
the time I thought that you were just being your usual idiot self,
but now I can see that you were trying to show me a worldly knowledge
that was far beyond my grasp at that stage. Trying to explain to me
that my life filled with darkness and hate was shallow and that once
the source of my anger had been abolished then my existence would be
meaningless...or at least feel that way to me. To feel such powerful
emotions, to have a goal to work so hard towards...these things would
disappear, a void would open and I would have no idea how to close
it. That I would realize what it meant to live a 'hollow existence'
finally.
"Tch. Dobe."
Naruto
blushed deeply "Don't call me that teme!"
The pair had
both decided that enough was enough for one day and, with much
coercing on Naruto's part, they decided to call it quits and go for
some ramen.
The moon here tonight
seems bright, its soft light filtering in through the one window in
these cramped quarters Madara has brought me to, illuminating
everything with the cold light that it has stolen from the sun. I
wonder if the moon still seems as bright in Konoha to you.