velvetstrings fanfic request (sasusaku:prompt:death)
September 22nd, 2007 05:28 pm
Do you remember the time when that blonde idiot told you that before you die, life flashes before your eyes?
Yes, yes. You do remember.
You asked him out of the blue, What does it feel like to die?
Your mind now unconsciously wanders to those foolish words when Naruto said that snapshots of forgotten (yet precious, he added with a grim smile) memories will run past your closed lids on the day that death stares at you.
(The ways he flailed his sun-tanned arms to prove his point and furrowed his golden brows in irritation as you scoff at such a ridiculous idea. Honestly, where did he pull that off?)
As the world slows down in the span of time it takes for a breathless person to blink, you see him.
You were staring at his cruel, smirking face and those impossibly black stare. (It's impossible to have such eyes devoid of any color) You really are annoying, the words echo painfully, nostalgic. A smile graces your blood-coated lips.
Naruto was wrong for one thing, you scoff silently. Certainly the memory is precious, but not forgotten. (Never)
And you open those jade glass irises--shattered, filled with liquid shards--to stare at the most darkest shade of tainted red and rotating pinwheels.