My brother bore me.
We will herald out graceless demise with staccato tongues.
My brother as my saviour.
Perched on the roof of our mouths.
My brother as my crutch and my carer.
Sucking in your air as life.
Your limbs twist around me and collapse me. Sucking my collarbone dry. Who knows what wakeful moments you have in your dreams? Who knows what worlds you find in your sleep? The terrors come quick and fast and I know by your jolting that it is beginning. Your arms wrap like coils around my throat. Snake boy, wolf boy. Scolding me to hold you tightly as you whimper.
Madara. Brother.
Night wakens with us and the owls begin to call to one another. They dance in circles in their mating dance. Disrupting the bats that roost in our haunt. This safe haven is now filled with dark shapes. The mane of your hair thrashing as I hold your head up. So you don't crack your skull against the floor. Who would I be to leave here, walk to Konoha on my lonesome, to tell the clan you died in my arms? Your naked body clutches mine. We are one in that moment and I see us for what we are. Lovers. Liars. Cheaters. Fools. What would the Hokage say if he saw you clutching your brother like so. Melding me with you as your scream curses in your sleep. You scream his name too. The syllables sharp and static on your tongue.
My mouth stops your screaming as I enter the cavern of your mouth. Your teeth are sharp and violent as your temper. The blood that drips between us is a mix of our own. We are one, same blood, same noise. I will awake with you in the morning and I will love you as I need to. For nothing can exist in my world without you. Perfect creature of the night bringing your darkness into the day.
My brother knows my weakness well.
Tainted flesh of the cleanest sin, I become thee.
Brother walking flesh of wolves.
I soften the blow with my fists.
My brother, my own private nightingale.
How sweet you soothe me to rest.
Your eyes flicker open and two dark pupils contract and bring forth red. The edges frayed with blindness. The kiss ends and we keep our lips together as a silent greeting. Moon full as it bays its light upon us, shrouding us in yellow light. Tongue slipping into my mouth, your way of shocking and taking control. I reel back in mock outrage but the glint in your eyes tells me you know my secret. All the world is yours to gaze upon and I would never cheat like you. Using my cursed bloodline for such hollow pleasures. Our skin glistens together, from the outside could anyone even tell us apart?
The war you brought with you as you tense inside me. Breaking us apart and bringing us together until our rhythm is singular. Two pieces of one another, connecting, breaking, connecting, losing ourselves. Where to we go when we traverse the stars? When the end is nothing as sweet as the beginning? The bats return to roost but I am unaware of them. All I see is the muddy shape of you. Holding yourself up with delicate, shaking wrists. I push further into myself, finding a peace I can only know with you. My cries reach out to the sky, cracking the pulsating Earth in half…
Madara…