Live and Let Die
Ronialcsid:.Oturan nwo ton od I
(Disclaimor: I do not own Naruto)
'I want to fade away. Fade away and go to a place where I can be all alone. Where no one else can find me. A place where I can be safe. Safe to do as I please. No one to worry about. Nothing to hold me down. A place all of my own.'
"I love you, big brother." I want to scream. I know it's coming. I see him draw the kunai up. My voice works on it's own.
"WAIT!" It echoes. He stops. He throws it away. He drops, crying harder. I rest a hand on him. I hang on. I'm clinging onto life. I'm praying that I live. Sasuke grows silent. He's asleep. He fell asleep. I smile. I'm still holding on.
My eyes snap open and I try to sit up, but there he is, weighing me down. His small hands clinging onto my shirt. Sasuke, little brother. I love you.
"Five minutes...Pwease onii-san..." His voice is low, still tired. I nod and lay back down. He clings and cuddles. "You need more sweep." I swear he was doing that on purpous. He was eight and knew how to talk. He knew using that baby talk would get to me. I just closed my eyes. Mom walks in. I hear the door and light footsteps. Dad makes more noise. I could feel her smile, then felt it fade. she stopped at the bed side and placed a hand on my forehead.
"Sasuke, you're brothers sick. You need to go lay in your room. Go get me a bowl of cool water and a cloth first." I felt him nod and the bed shifted. When he was out of the room, I opened my eyes and she stared at me, worried.
"I'm fine."
"Don't lie. You're sick from all that training. It's haunting you in your sleep." I knew what was haunting me in my sleep but I wasn't about to tell her. She would want me killed if I ever told her. The eight year old boy walked in and gave me a worried look.
"Mom, it was just a bad dream. I don't remember it but, I'm not sick." She blinked and nodded at me, still placing the cool, damp cloth on my forhead. Sasuke smiled in relief and hugged me from his spot at the side of my bed.
"Momma, let onii-san rest today?"
"That's not..."
"Ask Pappa then." God he was so cute. I reached up and pulled him closer to the bed as I rolled to my side, closer to the edge. I hugged the younger one that way and he managed to turn around. I moved over and lifted the blanket. he crawled into bed with me and curled into a ball, close to me and I dropped he blanket on him. Mom smiled.
"I'll talk to your dad today. Get a little more rest you two." With that, she stood and walked from the room, leaving little Sasuke and I to ourselves. I smiled a little more as I cuddled up to the obviously cold Sasuke. They kept the house cold. I felt Sasuke come from his ball and move as close as he could. The dream haunted my thoughts at that moment.
"I want to fade away. Fade away and go to a place where I can be all alone. Where no one else can find me. A place where I can be safe. Safe to do as I please. No one to worry about. Nothing to hold me down. A place all of my own." I whispered just as I felt myself slip into sleep once more.
When I came around, Sasuke was sitting up and staring at me. He smiled and hugged me.
"About time big brother. I was getting worried about you." he pulled back from the hug and I smiled back at him. He was so innocent looking. Why would I dream something like that? I shook my head and watched as he gave me an odd look.
"Nothing, Sasuke."
"Alright. You feeling better?" I nodded and Sasuke smiled a bit more. So innocent. Why...Why would I even think about killing him? About him trying to kill me? I heard Mom walk in and looked up at her. She smiled a bit.
"You don't look so pale now. Your faher said to stay in bed though." I sighed. I couldn't stand being stuck in bed all day. I'd have to sneak out...But then Sasuke. I sighed again and Sasuke blinked.
"You know I can't sit still..." there was a small silence that was disturbed by Father. He glared at me.
"You will learn, Itachi Uchiha." Our eyes met and anger flew. We glared daggers at each other. I shook my head, reaching for the kunai under my pillow. I jerked my hand from under my pillow and threw it, not waisting one moment to aim. He grabbed the handle as ti point came a mere inch from his face.
"Sasuke, Mikoto. Out." Sasuke clung to my arm and Mikoto stared at him, a slight ammount of fear in her eyes. Sasuke glared at him, still clinging. Mikoto walked over to pick Sasuke up, he bit her.
"No! Daddies gonna hurt nii-san if we leave him! he didn't mean it Daddy!" I held back a laugh. Sasuke, my sensitive brother, was a biter and bit our mother. Served her right for taking fear over protecting her son. She had jerked her arm back in mere seconds when his teeth sunk in enough to make a mark. Fugaku glared at him and walked over. I pulled the arm with Sasuke back, moving him behind me, placing my other arm around him, my side to our father.
"He's just a child. Let him go."
"So you will take responsibility for him biting your mother?" I nodded, glaring daggers at him. Sasuke tensed and turned to his chidishly coward way, clinging and burrying his head into my lower back.
"No! Please, don't hurt niisan!" Sasuke called. I grabbed Sasuke and jumped from the window just as he was about to hit me. I landed on my feet and picked him up, running from the village, avoiding all of them. He was following. He vanished and reappeared infront of me. I repeated this and vanished, reappearing somewhere else. A sigh of relief from me and a whimper from Sasuke. I look at him and he's trying not to cry. I kneel down after sitting him down and hug him. It's silent.
"Sasuke, I'm sorry." He nods. Then looks at me.
"Last night, you weren't sleeping well. You were tossing and turning and..."
"My dreams wasn't a dream. It was a nightmare. One I've had countless times while away from home. It's like a show series. Each night brings a new nightmare. In that nightmare brings a new episode, or chapter. I'm afraid to tell you. I'm afraid of what you'll say. I'm afraid you'll hate me and never want to talk to me again." Sasuke looks at me with that heart breaking look in his eyes. His face stained with tears. I shook my head.
"T-tell me...P-please n-niisan...I...I wanna know what...your nightmare was. I...wanna comfort you..." His voice was so innocent. I grabbed him and vanished, reappearing near a water fall. He looked at me and we walked into the cave.
To be continued
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