It was amazing.
The light would just leave his eyes and he'd seem like a walking corpse.
No emotion filtered through.
I'd seen it many times in other people, mostly my family, but the way he did it…
…it was terrifying.
He did it better than anyone I'd ever seen…
…and for some reason that always caused my heart to ach.
I never knew much about him but something must have hurt him greatly for him to be so…
Apathetic.
It wasn't true apathy, I could tell, but I'd never seen a mask so tightly secured.
And now, as I nurse him back to health after Naruto-kun brought him back from Orochimaru I realize something…
…I want to be the one to remove that mask.