This is a story i wrote some time ago, and thought i'd upload it here. It's just a really short one-shot.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Sasuke never cried. Not since that night…that had been the last time he had shown emotion, the last time he had shed tears that betrayed the grief in his heart. That day he had been standing beside the chalk outlines where his parents bodies had lay. The tears had rolled freely down his cheek, while outside the skies had cried with him.
Again the skies had grieved when he had left Naruto on the ground by the waterfall after their battle. Sasuke had looked back one final time as he walked through the downpour into darkness. Just once…and he had shed no tears with the sky.
Now, as his brother's lifeless corps lay at his feet and he himself was covered in wounds, it started raining again. It quickly turned into a storm, reflecting the feelings in Sasuke's heart. He looked down at his brother's body. It had a hole where the heart should be. Sasuke felt as if he had gone through his life with an invisible hole in instead of a heart. Numbly, dimly he wondered if the same was true of Itachi. What else would explain his brother's actions?
Breaking this chain of thought Sasuke looked up into the sky. The rain fell down unto his face, running down his nose, his cheeks, his neck. It soaked his clothes, mixing with the blood from his numerous wounds and turned pink. "It always rains when something bad happens to me." was the thought going through his mind as his legs gave up their fight to stay upright and he crashed into the ground.
The last things he saw before blackness engulfed him were Kakashi's half-hidden face and a flash of orange and pink. . "Gomena…" he tried to say, but his mouth no longer wanted to work with him. 'it's not supposed to be like this…killing him should have set me free from this blackness…the light should finally have been able to shine through…I should have been able to feel again, to live again. But it seems I've died a long time ago and there will be no second chance at happiness for me.' Then his eyelids closed the red Sharingan eyes forever. A single tear, unseen by Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi who stood by him, slipped down his cheek and mingled with the rain. Sasuke never cried… until everything ended.
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Beside him Sakura shed her own silent tears, mingling with the rain. Kakashi had no will left to comfort her. His breath had become restricted, his mask was stifling him. Again he was sitting beside a dying Uchiha. He pulled down his mask, telling himself that a shinobi does not show emotion. Neither Naruto nor Sakura cared for Kakashi's true face as they stood by their dying friend. They forgot Sasuke's betrayal as their tears mingled with the raindrops streaming down their faces. A shinobi shows no emotion…no one can see when you're crying in the rain.
It rained again at Sasuke's funeral. 'It always rained in his heart. The rain connects those who suffer.' Kakashi thought as he stood beside the coffin holding his former student. 'It's so unfair that he could not be saved when he had finally broken his shackles. When he was finally free to be happy everything ended. Maybe it was because he had nothing left to live for. So ends the Uchiha war…with no survivors…and perhaps…no winners.' Kakashi turned around and slowly walked away. He was sure that not even the rain would be able to hide his grief.
As he walked he became aware that Naruto and Sakura had followed him. If only Sasuke had also realized that he was not alone he may have been walking with them now. Their tears were also not alone: they had the raindrops to keep them company. Tears are invisible in the storm.
The end
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