Whisper of the Beast
By: .Blood.Engel.Yuzuki.
Summary: Sometimes my thoughts stray to the past, and my thoughts sometimes stray to you. I would never, never, ever want to be like you. Naruto POV of Itachi. No pairings.
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine.
Sometimes, between the long hours of training I find my thoughts straying to the past. Probably not the wisest thing for me to do, but everyone is always saying that we learn from the past.
Then, of course, they also tell us to look to the future and forget the past so perhaps they simply don't know what they're talking about.
But as I find myself reminiscing, my thoughts sometimes stray to you.
You see a beast in me.
From the very first time I met your dark, red eyes I knew what you thought of me.
You weren't looking at Uzumaki Naruto. You were gazing at the container of the Kyuubi no Kitsune.
You see me as an animal, an undomesticated beast for you to cage and contain until it is no longer useful.
I remember what you did.
To throw away your family like waste, betray the people who admired you, create chaos all around you.
And what you and Akatsuki did to Gaara.
And I see a beast in you.
Seeing your cold eyes blaze like fire, I notice as you come to take me away just like you did to him, that you are smiling.
And in a split second, all my thoughts of you come to a conclusion.
You see a beast in me, yet you wish to take the very factor that makes me a beast.
You want to be like the beast within.
And I see a beast in you. A betraying, cold person who doesn't hold any honour, and takes pride in causing so much pain.
I would never, never, ever want to be like you.
Yet you work so hard just to be like me...
So, which of us is the real beast here?