Prompt: Rebellion.
Warning for alternate universe.
The leader of the rebellion is a silver-haired man like none Sasuke has ever seen before. He is cool, competent, quiet, brilliant in a strange way--he is everything Sasuke wants to be.
And yet.
When Sasuke comes to deliver the news of the enemy forces regrouping mere miles away, the weariness on the self-appointed general's face is beyond comprehension.
Kakashi looks at him, standing there in the entrance of the tent. "Sasuke," he says, and somehow there is sympathy in his voice. It says I know what you've been through even though Sasuke wants to resist, wants to say that nobody could know what he's been through, that nobody could understand why he had to join the rebellion.
But something about that hidden face teases him with understanding. "I have bad news," Sasuke says, and then he adds, "sir."
"It's always bad news," Kakashi says mildly.
He looks like he wants to simply sleep, and for some reason Sasuke wants to be there next to him when he does.