Tell
me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air
"Sasuke."
I heard your voice, calling my name as I ran onward.
"Sasuke!"
I couldn't answer you back. I wanted to, but it would make things…difficult.
"Teme, turn around!"
If I
should die before I wake
it's 'cause you took my breath away
losin' you is like livin' in a world with no air
"Sasuke, talk to me, answer me, tell me! Tell me why—why are you running away like this?"
I halted when my path did. I had arrived at a waterfall. I could hear you still behind me, slowly catching up. I jumped to the other side.
"Stop—stop running and listen to me!"
This time, I did listen. With the gap in between us, I was still safe.
"Why are you leaving? Why do you want to leave us, the people who care about you, to go off with that man? He doesn't like you! He's not going to help you! He's going to break you and take you away—away from me!"
If only you knew, if only you could understand. I'm not going because I want to. No, I'm going because I need to.
I'm
here alone, don't wanna leave
My heart won't move, it's
incomplete
Wish there was a way that I could make you understand.
"Sasuke, you can't leave me."
You balled your fists and glared at the ground as I watched you.
"You—you were my rival! My first real friend! You were almost like my brother! Don't you care!?"
Your glare met my gaze. You weren't crying. You wouldn't do that. That's not the type of person you are.
"I care about you! I love you! How can you just pretend that I don't exist anymore!? Did you ever care about me? I mean, the way that I cared—no, care—about you."
Tell me
how do you expect me
to live alone with just me
'Cause my
world revolves around you
It's so hard for me to breathe
OXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
I still remember that day like it was yesterday, but it feels like forever since it happened.
"Sasuke?"
And now you're back, and the same thing will happen.
"Sasuke!"
You run to the wall and look up at me as I stand above you. I know that it is safer for me to just stay up here, but, right now, I don't care.
"S-Sasuke?"
In the blink of an eye, I'm next to you, my arm on your shoulder, my chest on your own, and my katana against your neck.
Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air
You still have that scent. It's been years since I've seen you, but some how that smell never goes away.
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
With you, not even an inch away from me, I realize what I've been missing during these years.
It's how I feel whenever you ain't there
It's like I've been missing the one thing that brings me life, as over-dramatic as that sounds. It's true. I am nothing with out you.
It's no air, no air
I'm like the body with no heart.
Got me out here in the water so deep
I have nothing to move me. Nothing to help my lungs let out the bad and bring in the good.
Tell me how you gonna be without me
You have my heart. You are my heart.
If you ain't here, I just can't breathe
Without you, I can't live.
It's no air, no air
But I can't live with you, either. Not yet.
No air, air
For now, I must go.
No air, air
For now, I must leave you.
No air, air
For now….
No air, air
Just—for now.
OXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
"Hey."
I walked, I ran, I jumped, I flew
"S-Sasuke? Sasuke!"
You jumped me that time. From experience, you believed that I wouldn't stay—that I would keep running from you. But I wasn't going to do that….I came to you.
Right off the ground to float to you
"You're a bastard; you're a bastard; you're a bastard; you're a bastard; you're a bastard; you're a bastard; YOU'RE A DAMNED BASTARD!"
You sang it over and over again. Whispered it constantly into my ear as you tied me up. But did you really think that a mere rope could hold me if I really wanted to go?
I didn't want to go.
There's no gravity to hold me down for real
You lifted me off the ground and slung me over your shoulder.
"W-what!? Idiot, what are you—"
"Don't call me that, stupid….I'm taking you back to my house."
"Why are you—wait, did you say your house?"
You put me back down and held me out in front of you. It was such a fast motion, that I didn't realize that you had done it until I smelled that scent again. You wrapped your arms around my tied-up ones. I felt blood rush to my ear when you whispered into it, your hot breath tickling softly with ever syllable.
"You got a problem with that?"
I was much faster than you now. After three years of practicing, I could move at speed that far surpassed what the human eye could pick up. The ropes that had held me down moments ago, now tied around you.
"W-what the hell, bastard?"
"You're coming to my house."
I threw you over my shoulder and walked the path as I remembered it., occasionally wiping a red liquid from my nose as I did.
OXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
It hasn't been long enough. A lifetime wouldn't be long enough, but this—it hadn't even been a year.
"Don't…don't leave me. Not now…not ever."
So how do you expect me
You couldn't hear me, I knew you couldn't. But it didn't stop me from begging.
to live alone with just me
"You won't leave me, I won't let you!"
'Cause my world revolves around you
"There's…nothing we can do…." That's what she told me. Some doctor! She's supposed to be the best there is!? Why can't she keep you with me!
It's so hard for me to breathe
"I'm sorry!" I yelled at you, but you wouldn't respond.
Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air
"I shouldn't have left you! I know that now! I knew that the moment I was gone!"
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
"I was an idiot…I was weak. I didn't think that I was good enough for you." I still don't.
It's how I feel whenever you ain't there
"Sasuke…it's too late."
"NO! You, just shut up!"
It's no air, no air
"It's not too late…."
Got me out here in the water so deep
"It'll never be…."
Tell me how you gonna be without me
"It can't be…."
If you ain't here, I just can't breathe
"You're not leaving…."
It's no air, no air
"You can't…."
No air, air
"I won't let you…."
No air, air
I could still hear your heart beating. It got fainter and fainter as the seconds passed.
No air, air
Then it stopped.
No air, air
I felt the hand on my shoulder. It was meant to be a comforting gesture…
No air, air
But it killed me.
It's no air, no air
"Naruto…."