IV. Dream
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn.
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn.
Where's the little boy that looks after the sheep?
Under the haystack,
Fast asleep.
Will you wake him?
No, not I
For if I do
He's sure to cry.
Never think of the past – this is your rule and you never break it.
It hurts too much.
Yet sometimes you find yourself wondering if truly you lived some of the things you remember – or if they were a dreams.
Did you ever wake up from Itachi's Tsukiyomi?
Did you really survive the massacre? Or did you die with the others and you're only dreaming of being alive?
Sometimes the fires of anger and vengeance lower a bit. Every single time you're horrified to find yourself empty and cold.
It doesn't last for long – because you hurry and feed the flames again.
But the cold is still there, until you relearn to pretend it's not.
Then you cling to your power like a child to a stuffed animal and you curl up nursing the thought you're getting closer and closer to your revenge.
You don't feel the bandages covering your eyes or the strings crawling all over your body – and you don't realize it's your own dream for revenge that's tying the knot.
It never crossed your mind that maybe you always had that power – that you're not gaining anything new.
Maybe it would have been better if you had truly been a little less talented.
But you were the genius of your generation – you just had to take the easy way out.
You think you moved forward by ridding yourself of your emotions – you have just immersed yourself in dreams even further.
You'll never admit it, but you're still like a child – always ready to blindly believe lies and promises, proving that it's what you want to hear.
It never crossed your mind that maybe you're just being used – that sometimes people make promises they have no intention to keep.
You have no life, Uchiha Sasuke.
You just have dreams you dream.
But someday you'll have to wake up.
And you'd better hope you will before it's too late.
The end
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