I am Memories Faded, I do realize that talking to yourself is one of the first signs that you are losing your mind and I do not own Naruto.

Intermission; Phase

The light is dead in your eye

So I'll keep livin my life

I only wanted to try

To find my way back inside

I've always loved the look in my opponent's eyes when they realize that I'm going to kill them. It's so wonderful how they light up in fear at the sudden realization that they'll never go home, it's too late to go back and say good-bye to their families and friends and everything that they used to enjoy in their village. They obviously never wondered at just how fragile human life is, especially when you're weak and over-confidant. Their shinobi life has finally caught up with them and it's time to pay the price. I of course, am more than happy to deliver it to them. Just playing my part as Death's young apprentice. Then the light leaves their eyes, and that petrified look is still frozen on their stupid faces. I can never help but feel satisfied.

Such fools.

Then again, maybe I shouldn't be so eager to play God. That only gets you in trouble, anyone with common sense knows that.

But its just so damn tempting.

My imitation of life

My litigation of life

It's something easy to find

Inside the shade of your mind

It's bliss to see someone's blood. Knowing it's their blood, not your's. It's their pain, not your's. By the time you reach genin level it should already be second nature. Mercy gets you killed. That's the first thing you should know as a shinobi. The best entertainment in the world to me is watching a weakling die while knowing that you've just liberated yet another asshole from the world.

Out of the ground I rise to grace

Nobody knows it's just a phase

Help me, I'm out of breath again

Nobody knows somewhere to make it go away

I've had people beg me for their worthless lives

There's only been a handful who've actually looked me in the face and said 'fuck you' or some other defiant sentence right before I decapitated them. Those people are the only ones actually worth killing.

Phase,

Sasuke has been the only person since my brother who I can honestly say I have an ounce of respect for. I've never met an opponent like him, its impossible not to respect him. As his enemy or as his companion. And I'm no idiot, I know that if we ever fought that I would lose to him. That doesn't mean I'd make it easy for him. But it's wise to stay on his good side. I know that, just like I know if I had refused to join him after he freed me from Orochimaru's prison he would have either killed me or forced me. Which is why I went so willingly.

Phase,

Mangetsu and I had been attached to each other at the hip since before I could walk. He played the role of the annoyed older brother right up until our parents died, then everything changed. That usually tends to happen after parents die, the older sibling has to take up the responsible role.

Usually.

Because Uchiha's brother sure as hell didn't do that

Phase,

Orphans, even greater in the Mist village, were and still are worse than trash. But by the time our parents died we were old enough to take care of ourselves. I think inside both Mangetsu and I knew that our parents would get themselves killed eventually. I certainly did. That's just how it was. To form a bond with someone, even family, especially family, was probably the stupidest thing you could do. Betrayal in family clans is old news.

Phase,

I've always wanted to become one of the seven swordsmen. Since childhood. Even in my earliest memories. Mangetsu and I trained like crazy for it. We looked to the seven swordsmen and saw a chance at freedom, an escape from the pathetic status we gained after out parents died. And that's what we did. The fearsome Houzuki brothers, that's what they called us. Every mission was another step towards our goal. Our ambition. It was the only thing that kept me sane after the same old boring shit every day.

I find it hard to decide

The way to make up you mind

Your lips are better than mine

So you can kiss this goodbye

I've been called a child of many talents. A protege. The fruit of my ancestors before me who laid down the very root of Kirigakure's foundation. I've been called other things too. Murderer, demon, monster.

And personally, I like those names much more.

My imitation of life

My litigation of life

It's something easy to find

Inside the shade of your mind

My clan was pretty similar to the Uchiha clan. Cocky, arrogant and power-hungry.

But that's just how I grew up.

Killing becomes second nature once we enter the academy. Killing your friends used to be a part of the Chuunin Exams. It may be outlawed now. But that doesn't mean that everyone plays by the rules.

Out of the ground I rise to grace

Nobody knows it's just a phase

Help me, I'm out of breath again

Nobody knows somewhere to make it go away

For years we trained, I could almost physically feel how close we were getting to finally reaching our destination. And then Mangetsu had to go and fucking die on me and leave me on my own for the first time in my life.

Fucking prick.

And yet, no matter how hard I try, I still can never bring myself to actually hate him.

Its just a phase

Being caught by the snake was my first huge setback in achieving that goal. Another reason why I respect the Uchiha. He easily could have just left me to rot there in that tank, I don't think I would've blamed him either, but he didn't. Although joining him has been my second major setback. But joining him also means I can get close to Mr Shark-fin soup, Kisame and his sword Samehada.

And I can't wait

Dead brother or not, I'll make it on my own without him. Helping Sasuke achieve his objective gets me closer to leaving him once that's accomplished, and it gets me closer to Kisame. That's a damn good deal if you ask me.

Phase,

The only philosophy I've ever lived by is the philosophy that humans only ever exist to kill each other. That's how most every ninja who originated from my village lived. I suspect that I too will die believing that.

Phase,

My life isn't important to anyone else but myself. When I die all this world will have left of me is a decaying matter of carbon, water and human tissue. I came up with my own conclusion after all the lives I have taken. And the realization that if no one knows who I was then what truly is the point of living? Especially if you're only destined to be forgotten once your corpse has reached rigor mortise. Don't get me wrong, I don't seek immortality like Orochimaru. No, after I claim all of the legendary swords from my village I seek to find a way for my name to be remembered.

Famous or infamous, it doesn't matter to me. I'll reach my goal either way.

Phase,

I didn't exactly expect Sasuke to abandon me like he did when those pussy leaf-nins ambushed us. But again, I can't say that I blame him. That doesn't mean I'm not going to kick his ass once I find him though. I suspect I'm so nonchalant about it because I'm not afraid of what these half-wit shinobi can do to me. It's obvious that they can't kill me or else they would have done so by now. I am currently their best lead on the 'only' remaining Uchiha.

Phase,

The Hokage threatened me with the fact that under her control one shinobi who can enter the minds of others could easily be used on me. Pein was no fool, he set blocks up in each of our minds to prevent just that sort of thing from happening. The bitch looked so pissed at me when I started laughing at her and dared her to try it.

I know,

I'm almost certain its only a matter of time before I completely ruin that girl who calls herself Sasuke's former teammate. I loath her. Pink hair, green eyes, that firm way she holds herself like she actually thinks she's worth respecting. Please, I honestly don't understand how such half-rate shinobi are responsible for destroying most of the Akatsuki. And I do not believe she would have been able to take down an Akatsuki member on her own. No matter how much those morons bragged about her and her 'skills', I know the truth. I remembered over-hearing them back at HQ discussing that it couldn't actually have been her who killed Sasori. He was stabbed in the heart by puppets, and I know that she can't use marionette techniques. So it had to have been the old bat named Chiyo who was fighting alongside her who actually slew Akasuna no Sasori.

I know,

She makes me sick just looking at her. All that unnatural looking pink and that stick-skinny body. I don't see how anyone could find a girl as flat as a 10 year-old, with a such a high forehead attractive. These leaf-nins are more confusing now that I'm actually inside their walls. And I was hoping for it to be the other way around too. Pity.

Well, that's what you get for putting optimism in half-rate shinobi.

I know,

Now, it's only a matter of time before I get rid of that bitch and figure out a way to get out of here. Back to Sasuke and Kisame's Samehada.

I know

Heh, I might actually enjoy this too. It's been too long since I last had a decent vacation.

It's just a fucking phase

I'm drained time to fake and delay

Watch the penny drop

Let it go up and in drop

Then watch it roll let's

All mourn till I survive inside you

Breaking Benjamin--Phase