Disclaimer: Naruto will never belong to meeeeeee! D;
It started with the color gold.
Gold as sunshine. Of all the colors on his palette, that dollop was always the biggest. He ran out as quickly as he ran out of money.
He saw it everywhere. In the few minutes of dawn when the sun kissed the edge of the horizon in the morning, in midafternoon when he passed the courtyard after the end of his last class, in the evening when the sunrise began to splash it glorifying colors amongst the sky, and late at night when he sat in front of his canvas tracing the color with laudable eyes.
Every swipe of his brush was clear and concise. A story continued to unfold with every line and every curve. He was mesmerized beyond any describable word.
Sai had been working on this piece for months. This was not his first attempt, but finally, he could say it was his last perfected try. Countless hours of various series of paint removals, isolation and personal neglect have finally produced what he'd been working so hard to create. But even then, the true perfection would never be found splattered on the canvas. It was merely a close representation of something—or should he say someone—who had managed to successfully break a part of him that had been constructed over a long, painful period of time.
The slim, young man stood from his stool, hearing his right wrist pop as he moved it in a circular motion. He stepped back as far as he could from his work and analyzed his doings. The small white light bulb that hung overhead did not do the color justice. It looked too dark, devoid of the light he strived for, but he knew that upon the presence of the blinding sun, everything, every single shade, every single line, every single inch would be perfect.
Sai's face was never one to show his emotions, but for just a split fraction of a second, anybody present would have been left in awe at the tiny upturn of his pale lips and the warmth radiating from his crescent shaped, black eyes.
If these people were to have been asked what they witnessed, they would have sworn it had all been a dream.
TBC...
A/N: Hello there darlings! Happy New Year! I'm sorry I haven't been as active as I would have liked to be. I feel really bad about that and I keep kicking myself in the arse constantly. There will be updates, just slow progressions.
This is just a small concoction that my brain came up with waiting on New Year's. I spent it alone at home. It's pretty sad. What did you guys do? If you would like to respond, please do so. I am pretty interested to hear what you guys did. Did anybody get a midnight kiss? I ate chocolate kisses and they were delicious, if I do say so myself. XD
Okay well, until next time! Take care of yourselves and it would be awesome to read what you guys think of this brief beginning. It will probably be a few short chapters long. Possibly three or four. Not sure yet. Okay, enough of me typing. Ja Ne!