Sometimes I wake
I see them reaching out for you
Quietly break
Whatever shields I spent so long building up
From "My Hands" by Leona Lewis
There was always something about them, a quality that set them apart from my other classmates. One was quiet and calculating, the other loud-mouthed, nosy, and a prankster. Two people from different ends of the spectrum, but that feeling around them, the aura they gave off, was the same. Each hid behind a mask that had become all that kept them attached to our world. A slight sulk, a toothy grin, neither was real. They were illusions that could be shattered at any sign of weakness.
These things I only realize now, these truths that I so readily ignored as a child. Thruths I only realized when the illusions were broken and hope was torn beyond repair, and when the souls were beyond saving.
Naruto had built a wall around his feelings since he was but an infant. He had created a fake reality in which he could survive, and as it began to crumble to the hate that surrounded him, he was fortunate to have someone step forward to help him, and that reality was rebuilt. Without Iruka, it is very possible that Naruto would have lost it a long time ago.
In a rushed, desperate manner, Sasuke sought to achieve the same thing as Naruto- a philosophy to follow, a person to adore, but he made a mistake and built his illusions on hate and misery. This became his downfall as there was nothing to fix his reality once it had been broken.
Konoha is built on top of secrets, things that have been buried for years, for decades. Cover-ups, treachery, they are all everyday occurrences in the very base of operations.
Perhaps the darkest, saddest lie was the one that grew between those children, between Naruto and Sasuke. The two believed that they knew nothing of each other outside of our lessons.
But in a village with the Sharigan, even memories can be rewritten.
Sooo, I lied a bit on what I was posting for this chapter XD
It's another introductory thing! Oh well, you can see what I'm building to, right?
Have you ever been interrupted by a song that just makes you want to write or draw or make something? I've had that done to me twice today.
One is Fifteen by Taylor Swift, where I want to make a tribute to those unrequeinted love pairings (mostly SasuSaku and SasuKarin).
I mean seriously- look:
"Back then I swore I was going to marry him someday, but I realized some bigger dreams of mine." (Totally seems like a reference to SasuSaku- as Sakura while still feeling some love for Sasuke is putting her village and Naruto's safety above him)
"And Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind" (SasuKarin= karin's loyalty and Sasuke's literal backstab"
It's perfect for an MMV that tributes the moving on of these pairings (I'm "meh" to SasuSaku, but I actually kind of liked SasuKarin *cries*) The problem is I've never made one, so I'm not sure I can do it XD.
As for the other one, I'm writing an actual SasuNaru fanfic for it, so you'll see3