Author's Note: Continuing once again off the previous drabble, we get a look into Sasuke's dreaming while away from Konoha with Kakashi, though it's in no way a good dream.

This explains a tad bit about where I have Asuna place in the current story-line for Naruto. I'm still working on figuring it out completely.
Who knows? Once I figure it out, I may write a quick one-shot or a short chapter story!
Enjoy this one!


Prompt 7: Nightmare

In contrast to Asuna's dream, Sasuke had a recurring nightmare while he was gone. He didn't know why it kept happening, it just did. There didn't seem to be a connection to anything, it was just happening randomly.

The nightmare was one of the few things he wanted to wipe from his memory. It haunted him throughout the days he wasn't training, because the training was the only thing that took his mind off the nightmare.

In the nightmare, his entire family had been killed off by Itachi, and, as such, Sasuke wanted revenge against him. Everyone had different personalities as well. Sakura and Ino were, he shuddered at the word, fangirls, Hinata was terribly shy, Tenten was a weapons mistress, Neji went on about destiny, Kiba had a dog, and Naruto was… well, he was still the same.

Asuna was different as well. She wasn't the quiet, shy girl he knew. She was actually open and talked to him, even when he wouldn't talk back.

As the nightmare went on, Sasuke could see it just going downhill after he left. He saw what the rest of Team 7 went through to get him back, and he still stayed away. What made the whole things worse was that he killed his own brother.

That didn't force him to wake up, though. What forced him to wake up, after such a long dream, was when he tried to kill two of his dearest friends.

First was Sakura. She was going after him first, to put him out of his misery, and they both tried to kill each other twice. Sasuke figured it was evened out after that, meaning neither of them could be truly angry with the other if he ever went back home.

The other person, and this was one of the parts that absolutely killed him, was Asuna. He actually tried to kill her, after running into her while heading onto the field of the Fourth Great Ninja War.

That was what forced him awake. It made him go off and start using Chidori on multiple trees, not caring if he had no energy to train with Kakashi that morning.

It didn't matter.

I need to get that nightmare off my mind…

Sasuke didn't understand, he just didn't. He adored Sakura and Asuna; they were his best friends, other than Naruto. He would never try to kill them, ever.

But then he realized something about that nightmare.

That me wasn't in the right state of mind… I never would have tried to kill them…

Sasuke didn't understand very few things, but what he really didn't understand was why he was having this nightmare every other night.

It makes no sense…

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