4.

Title: Normalcy
Rating: G
Summary: Fruitless ponderings.
Word Count: 100
A/N: Challenge was 'the impossible.'

Sunrise, and heavy-eyed Konoha rumbles slowly awake. The bakers open up first, with a blast of sweet-smelling bread. Then the fishmonger and his wife. A baby, screaming its little lungs out.

Skipping roof to roof, passing the village by, he wonders what it is to be civilian, though he can never know. No mission reports to deliver. No missions at all.

He has chosen another way. For him, sleep is not sleep (oasis in exhaustion). And life is not life, but death's mere prelude. Shinobi is the only constant.

Even atop the rafters, he is no closer to the moon.

END