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And this is where I lose myself when
I keep running away from you

The rain poured down from a pure grey sky. Below, mere inches from my face lay the person that was the most important in the entire world to me. Her short, bright blond hair caked in dirt and blood. Her brilliant blue eyes that always shined with determination and laughter lay closed, pulled slightly at the side in sorrow. I stared into her face. "Stupid dobe." I muttered.

Her face was the hardest to walk away from in the first place. She was the most important to me. She was my best friend.

The words she had spoken to me during our fight flashed in my mind. She swore to me that she would bring me home, but what did she think? Did she think I wanted to go home? Does she think it wasn't my choice to leave! I fumed inwardly. She also promised that she would fight with me to destroy my brother. I scoffed, what did she think she could do? She couldn't' even defeat me. The girl was weak and worthless. Her life was all I needed to gain the power I desired. I raised my hands out of the mud to grip around her neck, squeezing. Her breath hitched even in unconsciousness. The pull downward of her lips caught my attention. My eyes widened at the movement.

I stood, dropping my hitai-ite next to her head. I spun walking into the rain, leaving her on the ground. Eventually, as I sped away, I came up with the excuse for why I did it. I didn't want to gain power in the way that my brother had, I would carve my own path. The power and adrenaline filtered out of me until there was nothing left. I felt myself lose any part of my soul I had left. I left it with her. It faded into a cold black darkness that had red edges of pure hatred. The rain fit the black and red perfectly and I felt a cold smirk spread across my face. I would gain power and I would do it a different way from my brother.

What was left of my sound escort dropped beside me. "Let's go" I said coldly. I shoved my hands into my pockets and glared at anything that dared to look at me.

Her words echoed in my ears and it took all that was in me not to press my hands to my ears in protest. Instead I intensified my glare and forced her from my brain and quickened my pace choosing to take off at a run. My pride told me I was running away but I shoved the thought aside and filled it with hatred for the one who gave me the thoughts I was running from.

I awoke from the familiar nightmare in a room lit by candles.

'Come home' came a soft but clear voice in my head.

"Shut up dobe" I muttered darkly to myself, pushing off the bed. I walked to the small counter that ran along the wall of the poorly lit stone room that served as Oorochimaru's current base. On the cold counter was a glass of water which I downed. I ran an agitated hand through my hair. Oorochimaru was off for a few days with Kabuto, leaving me alone in this hell hole. It had been a year since the night in my dream, and I had been the living dead since. Well, a schizophrenic zombie, considering no matter what I did her voice refused to disappear.

'Then come home already teme'

'Dobe' I mentally growled. I clenched the counter, leaving indents in the stone. I swear her ghost must be haunting me. It was always the worst after a dream. I had decided months ago that I was steadily losing my mind due to it. Everywhere I went it would follow me, telling me I was being a bastard, or that I should go home. Even as I was training, attempting to drive her from my mind her voice would show up and tell me that she was training just as hard and that she would find me, kick my ass, then use the stick that was so far shoved up it to beat me over my head, and drag me home.

'Believe it!' the voice called triumphantly. I groaned and sank back onto the bed. I was living in hell, there was no denying it.

I pulled a pillow over my head and attempted to go back to sleep.

'A pillow over your head wont work bastard, I'm in your head!' the voice head a mocking tone this time. With a final glare I rolled out of bed and stormed toward a training area in the middle of the base. I took full advantage of the dummies that were scattered throughout the room, shredding them to pieces with my bare hands.

"In a bad mood this morning?" came the laughing voice of Kabuto behind me, "Good, here, I have a sparring partner for you. He thought he was capable of beating our dear master. We told him he only had the worth to go against our master if he faced you first." Kabuto waved to someone behind him and a defiant young sound ninja waltzed into the room. I was used to this by now. If someone from sound needed to be punished, he was almost always sent to me.

The man took a fighting stance that I simply gave a bored glare to. His eyes wandered over my form and I knew he immediately underestimated me. With a confident smirk he charged. The only movement I made was a slight step back, invisible step back. His knife easily missed my neck and I drove a swirling ball of flames into his stomach.

His entire body burst into flames and he was reduced to ashes in seconds.

"That all?" I asked Kabuto, walking past him.

"No, you can go back to your antisocial brooding. Lord Oorochimaru should be returning tomorrow and he has a new jutsu to teach you." he answered me with an amused grin

"Hn." I answered, walking back down the cavernous halls toward my room. I noticed triumphantly that the voice had faded back into the recesses of my mind...for now. Bored and with nothing else to do I sprawled onto the bed and slipped back into unconsciousness.

I saw the needles heading straight for her and my brain shut down. I felt my body move on its own without any orders from my mind. I barely even felt the needles pierce into my back as the world swam. The next thing that came into clarity were the impossibly blue eyes.

"Why?" she asked. I thought about the answer, but none came to my mind.

"I don't know!" I felt the world begin to fade in blackness. Who would have thought that I would be willing to give up my dream in an instant for one measly girl that wasn't even into me.

"Sasuke!" I faintly heard the call and felt something wet him my cheek, but the world was black now and I couldn't answer her call. Memories flashed before my mind and suddenly heat and power enveloped me in the blackness.

'What is this?' I vaguely wondered.

I suddenly saw my life flash before my eyes, but something was wrong with it. Every picture that flashed was of her. Her smile, her hair, her eyes, her dumb bulky orange jumpsuit that hid the fact she was even a girl, her jokes, her determination.

When I was suddenly able to open my eyes, she was the first one I looked for, and she was there. She was always there for me, no matter how hard I tried to run to get ahead of her, she was always one step behind me.

I awoke once again to the cold, dark room I had fallen asleep in. So this is where I ended up running away from you....

'Then why do you keep running' I left the voice unanswered.

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