Gentle Touches
This is a small one-shot. from my tumblr. Enjoy.
Every time Sasuke sends Jugo out to scope the area or to gather supplies in the wilderness, the gentle giant always comes back with some kind of animal friend, sometimes, it's more than one.
"Sasuke, he won't cause any harm, please?"
The Uchiha usually warned off the bipolar man, but sometimes couldn't resist letting him have small spurts of freedom. He sometimes relents, leaving Jugo to play with his animal companions for a few days.
Only to harshly force him to release them before they leave their habitat.
"Sasuke-kun, aren't you being a bit-" Suigetsu had said as Jugo silently obeyed orders, watching the small chimpmunk scurry away.
"It's my order or death." He hadn't specified whose death, he hadn't felt the need.
He trusted that Jugo would listen.
Jugo usually seamlessly obeyed the Uchiha, but this time was different.
He hadn't been able to look at the small bird with it's little flapping, bleeding wing without his heart hurting him.
He disobeyed Sasuke.
"If Sasuke-kun sees-" Karin had started to furiously whisper, her head whipping to the sleeping form of their leader.
"He won't fault you." That much was true, Jugo knew, if the little bird that was chirping weakly in his palm now was found..
He'd face the wrath of an Uchiha..
It only lasted a week.
The area they had started at was of a warmer and humid variety, this area? It was cold and dry, as unforgiving as it was windy.
Jugo didn't know what he had expected to happen, but..
"I tried to warn you" The Uchiha said, his voice as low as ever. It was surprising, he wasn't angry or upset..
"Gomen.." Jugo whispered, carefully smoothing the cold dirt over the fresh grave. He hadn't expected it to die.
"I was.." The Uchiha had scowled and turned away, his words almost lost in the wind.
As it was, Jugo couldn't believe his ears.
It was something Sasuke hadn't realize he had said aloud, something he fervently denied, even to himself. He did things to convenience himself, and only to convenience himself.
He was not the man from Konoha, not anymore, he was an avenger.
I was only trying to save you from yourself..
