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Shiver
Chapter 14 Justice
"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."
Sasuke knew that the world would never be at peace. But he also knew that not all problems would be solved with justice. He knew that peace was completely different from justice. He had learned, he had observed, and he had overcome the obstacles to complete his goal, his dream –but not really a dream because it was his reality-.
He also knew that some people had done truly terrible –horrifying- things in the past but he knew everyone deserved to have some chances, in other words they deserved some justice.
He wondered when things had gotten so complicated that he had no idea what to think, what to know, and what to observe. Things weren't the way that they used to be and he knew that things would always be hard from the moment he had woken up the night after the Uchiha massacre.
He had friends, he had a team, hell, he could even consider them a family but he had thrown all of it away and for what?
Power.
He was so selfish. He didn't deserve to have such nice and caring people around him. They should have helped someone who deserved it.
And Sasuke was absolutely certain that he missed them.
That was the empty feeling in his heart, next to the unhealable holes that belonged to his family and Itachi.
He knew he deserved this.
He knew he should be lying face down in the dirt for being a traitor. An unloyal, foolish little boy.
And that's all that he would ever be. Because he lived in the past and to grow up you needed to pull yourself out of the past and raise your head to the future.
Sasuke knew he was unable to do that. He was too selfish to do something like that. And he had to live with himself every single day –every single, gruelling, day- and know that he was too much of a coward to do what he knew was right.
Because he wished that every one in Konoha –Kakashi-sensei, Naruto, Sakura- would forget about him, forget about the things he had done. He wished that they would ignore his very existence.
Then Sasuke would know that he had received his own justice.