A/N: This is my tribute to Sasori.
Yeah... I had just watched the episode where he died when I wrote this, and... it was really sad... I cried as I watched Chiyo-baasama tell him his parents had been called away on another mission.
Yeah, they went on another mission alright. They're mission was to scout the land of death, was it?
-sighs- Sasori is so awesome... He's my second favorite Naruto character; I like him better than Sasuke. (Poor Sasuke, demoted to third. Gaara-sama remains in first, however.) I love Sasori... I couldn't let him die without a tribute, even if it does suck.
'Cause he's not just a puppet.
Sasori (C) Masashi Kishimoto-sama
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A puppet does not feel pain.
A puppet is nothing more than a body of wood and ash and metal, a being made only of what is dead. A puppet feels nothing.
I feel nothing.
Because there is nothing left to feel.
(I am dead inside.)
But I am not a puppet, though I relinquished my humanity so that I would be free from the control of emotions, of pain
(because they never came back from that mission)
and a puppet cannot move without the puppet master.
I am the master, and I have joined the ranks of those in my power.
(I know what a life is. I know what family is.
I just don't understand anymore. It's simpler that way.)
But I am neither puppet nor human. I can join neither race, neither world. (But I'm not lonely. I can make friends. I can choose who's... worthy. I'm not lonely.
I don't know what I am.)
Because my heart is still alive.
(Because I wasn't strong enough to bring them back.)
I did not choose to preserve my mind, though it remains. I did not choose to preserve my nerves, or any other living part of my body.
Instead, my heart still beats in my chest, the only part of me that remains living. The part of me that keeps me from being a puppet and ties me to being human.
The part of me that means I still feel pain… inside.
So I was the one controlled after all.
Controlled by beauty that couldn't last.
"This
was a technique I originally developed for you. To save your life if
you ever needed it." For... me? "With this
technique, one could even bring a puppet to life." Bring...
a puppet... life? "At the cost of one's own life, of
course." The cost... "But I guess that dream
can no longer come true." A... dream...