Author:BitterSweetlyYours

Rating:K

Summary: Sasuke is just a bloody puppet, after all

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Author's Note: Here's that Sasuke-angst equivalent.

Just Sasuke

If there was anything Sasuke ever wanted, (besides Itachi's head, his father's approval, for the whole village, girl population included, to leave him alone) was to be like Naruto. Not stupid Naruto who couldn't do a simple transformation jutsu. Moron.

He would rather jump and not care about consequences. Sasuke can't of course, there's always some obligation, and some expectation he has to live up to. They bound him and tie him down, letting him look, but not touch.

Naruto leaps, not thinking as usual, and doesn't care if he lands or falls. Either way he gets back up again. If brunet fell, he would shatter, and have to reassemble himself. There's just too much on the line to play dead. It takes time; time to rebuild that pride, that goal, everyone's expectations but his own.

He's a puppet. Puppet for the village, for his brother. Tug his strings and watch him follow. It's no surprise he left the village. And maybe, maybe there was some twisted sense of satisfaction from breaking everyone's hopes for him.

It's different though with Naruto. Stupid stupid stupid Naruto. The only person who expected Sasuke to be Sasuke, and nothing else. Not the Avenger, Not top of the class, not the survivor of the Uchiha Clan. Just Sasuke.

Maybe he spent one moment longer staring at the blond, than he should of. One last moment of regrets, consequences, and broken obligations. There's no turning back now. The strings are tugging and the avenger follows. Naruto falls and the brunet has no idea if he's going to back up again. One moment and then it's gone.

It's the moron's fault anyway; he shouldn't have put so much trust, so much faith in someone like him. He shouldn't of. It's only going to hurt him in the end, and it did. Just because he expected Sasuke to be Sasuke.

Sasuke is just a bloody puppet after all.

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