A/N: This one is also quite old, so please, again, forgive me for the crappiness, if you will.
45. Illusion & 46. Family
(Yes, that means both. Both of those themes inspired this piece.)
Summary: Sometimes Sakaye wondered if her life had been real.
Words: 246
Characters: FemSasuke (Sakaye)
Warnings: None
Pairings: None
Disclaimer/Claimer: While the original Naruto characters do not belong to me, these GenderBender creations are mine. Do not steal them... EVER.
Aneki: polite form of big sister and the female version of Aniki
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Sometimes Sakaye wondered.
In the middle of the night, when all was quiet and memories of it brought fear into her dreams and made them nightmares; when she woke with a start and a gasp of breath, she wondered and questioned and all other manner of inquiry she could manage. It was in those moments that she wondered...
Had it all been an illusion? The family, the life she'd thought she'd had, was it... were they even real?
In one night her sister had shattered everything she'd thought to be true. Her "sister," her aneki had been an illusion, so who was to say that her family had not been either? Who was to say that her entire life hadn't just been a lie, a sham, a con of the worst kind? Who was to say that even now wasn't just a dream, no, a nightmare plaguing her mind while elsewhere she tossed and turned in slumber, waiting to be awakened? Really, who was to say she didn't plunge into this terror every time she "woke" and that once her eyes closed, her life was real?
Perhaps her life truly was an illusion. After all, the most crucial part to it had already proven to be false. Without that, what was left?
Yes, Sakaye did wonder, on those dark, dark nights when her dreams left her restless, one constant question forever circling within her head.
Truth or Illusion?
Either way, she still called it a nightmare.
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A/N: We were learning about Sigmund Freud's idea of our normal life being the dream and our dreams being reality in Psychology when this was written. Now you understand where that idea came from in this little drabble bit.