Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, sankyuu.
Sakura-Angel: I dubbed this Team Seven, even though Kakashi is not involved. I just wanted to emphasize that they were/are a team. A unit. Can't see one without the other sort of thing. If you want to twist this into some sort of pairing drabble, go ahead. I leave everything else up to your imagination, after all.
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Seven - The Other Side of the Sky
You're very quiet today, I say to the sky. It is patterned with streaky clouds, moving fast in the wind. The blue is of your eyes.
Really, you say, more statement than question. Your blonde head rolls to the side at a rustle. Just a rabbit.
You must know. You've gotten much better at hiding things. You hold a quiet, complicated wisdom that I miss so often, but in moments like these I am reminded. You have changed.
I think about him sometimes, you say suddenly, and I am startled from my inventions of radial chidori and clan symbols out of the cotton of the clouds.
Oh, I reply. I cannot say what I really want to, I think about him too. Instead, I shift, and let a rock dig into the space between my spine and shoulder blade. Mild discomfort has always served me well.
Strange that mention of him does not.
I dream sometimes too, you say, and I feel horribly for trying not to listen. I know you're saying it for me to hear. I do too.
You continue, speaking of dark cloaks and impossible eyes. Impossible lies. I almost can't bear it.
It is exactly what I dream of.
He runs from you, and you chase him into forever. You run until there's nothing left of him and he collapses on a black dream floor. He is broken and sullied and pale. He is the same.
You skies are swimming, I notice. But the tears never escape. They never will, and I know because I am the same. We are beyond tears.
I move to rest my head on your chest. You drape your arms over me.
We lie under the sky, connected by tragedy.