An: Team 7; in a weird friends/enemies/what are we? sort of way. Don't ask.
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Grass is green, sky is blue and blood is red.
Facts that we all know, we learn sometime during our childhood, between choosing if our ice-cream should be vanilla or strawberry and between learning how to properly hold a kunai.
Team 7 has it's own advantages and disadvantages. Virtues and faults. Rights and wrongs in the game of life. They all know these facts too.
Sakura spends her afternoons looking at the bright sky, twirling her thumbs and smiling freely until the sun is covered by far too many clouds to even count and her inner thoughts turn upside down and she thinks about all the if's and when's and why's. She wonders - perhaps, perhaps, perhaps - and a little death plays a solemn tune in the corners of her mouth.
Naruto spends his mornings slowly opening his eyes, blinking and still unaware of the world and his surroundings. Rising up, the sheets drenched in sweat and pain and hurt and midnight screams tell him a story he would rather forget, forever and ever. He blinks once more and wishes for the day to turn back to night because he can play dead then, and not pretend he's alive enough to be alive over the day.
Sasuke spends his nights wide awake, eyes open to the boundless limits and with his Sharingan activated. He's not afraid, of course not, he's just careful, careful a tad bit too much and with the dawn he has to teach himself how to snap back from imaginary to real in a matter of seconds.
He has to teach himself the facts of life he already knows, and has learned somewhere long ago. because the grass is green and the sky is blue and each one of them is in some manner of speaking - immortal. However, he bites his lip and clenches his hands, blood is the only thing that comes with an expirational date.
With Sakura and her afternoons and Naruto and his mornings, there comes a night when Sasuke doesn't need to re-learn that blood isn't immortal. He catches that fact like a little butterfly falls into a spiders web with sky on his left side and with grass on his right and realizes that he's completely and utterly screwed.