Sequels to 'In his last moments of consciousness'
The girl that inhabited his mind.
She was there. She was always there. In the darkest corners of his mind. Behind double-locked doors and memories, dumped haphazardly on top to cover the entrance. She was swept to the crevices, and imprisoned away. It was a mercy, to be forgotten. But she would stay there, because she couldn't be forgotten. As long as he had one last breath to take, one last ounce of blood in his veins, she, would exist.
And every time he closed his eyes, Rin Nohara was all he could see. In the dark of the night, she would be freed from lurking behind those well-barricaded thoughts and drift back to the forefront of his mind. Rin Nohara was dead. But the word that last left her lips on the day she died, would forever ring in his ears.
"k…kakashi"
With a strangled gasp, the man's eyes snapped open, pupils dilating to their widest as he flinched awake. Hatake Kakashi willed his breaths to calm as he realised, once again, that he was alone. At once, he was relieved and disappointed at the same time. He sat up still, making a lackluster attempt to keep his eyes open- fighting a losing battle far off the battlefield. Succumbing to human nature, he shut his eyes, ready, yet never ready, to see what had been seared into his memories for the past years of his life.
The broken image of Rin Nohara lingered fresh in his mind's eye, and he could see her now. Pupils dilated, cheeks inhumanly rosy, lips chapped and brunette hair wind-tousled. Her beautiful, young face was forever etched in a state of shock- a portrait of grotesque, tear-ridden agony. He could never forget a single detail, down to the drops of sweat on her brow and rain on her forehead. On her lips was the last syllable of his name "-kashi." It was almost too painful to hear "..kakashi."
Like a broken record, her last word echoed within the walls of his psychosis. It was as if lightning struck, and in a single moment, her image changed; Rin Nohara was drenched in blood. Her blood, or his blood, he didn't know anymore. And as he watched, with his eyes closed, as the last light left her tear-stained eyes. And Rin Nohara was dead again.
Decided to tidy this fic up.
