Title: Future in Crimson Hands
Author: Tadz
A/N: Relatively short. Just a few ramblings. I'm sorry if the first chapter really confused you.. But everything will be cleared up as the story goes on..
Disclaimers: Standards apply...
He was fascinated in staring into emptiness nowadays. An obscurity he deemed he not at all had. It was out of the ordinary, this attitude of his. On no account, he showed this to none of his friends. Peculiarity will only give him dilemmas. Like having to explain the sudden change in his view towards the world around him.
Naruto crossed the stairs and led himself to the small rectangular table where he sits alone for dinner. He was brooding, and rumor has it that people who broods are very near to the God of Death. Something will undeniably happen.
Well, well, isn't that just amazing. I'm going to die soon. He jeered, shrugging the idea away. Surely, superstitions like those are not to be trusted. They aren't true, and they never will.
He slid to his chair and ate the food he already prepared earlier that evening. Maybe I should believe. He thought suddenly, recalling the past events that almost cut the thread to his very existence. Damn, I'm thinking too much. He chewed the meat on his plate rather loudly, biting the cooked meat into shreds as his canine teeth sank them, as he swore to himself that he wouldn't show his anxiety to anyone. Especially that bastard Sasuke. He added, as he "heard" the dark-haired man throw him words like 'idiot' or 'dobe', which, he knew, he wasn't.
The wind blew hard.
Demon...
"What the--"
Demon...
"Who's there!" Naruto was now standing, in his usual fighting stance, head looking left and right, searching for the person who was whispering those dreaded words upon his ears.
No shadows.
"Show yourself you bastard!"
No response.
The wind blew...
...then died.
A slammed door.
"NANI!" Naruto turned his heels and ran towards the front door, hoping to catch the person who sneaked inside his apartment, all the while cursing to himself that he was so dense not to notice someone lurking inside his very home.
If you would really call this a 'home', he reached for the door, opened it...
"Sasuke?"
-continued-