Change +SasuNaru+

The years crept by and still this is happening. I can’t hear whatever else is happening. Are those explosions? Are people yelling? I can’t hear it. What do I see? My vision is a bit blurry, but I can only make one thing out: you.

“Sasuke! Sasuke! Get up, now!”

You’re pulling on my collar, but how did you- oh wait. I remember. We finally met face to face and you were yelling. Again. Why is it every time I see you, come near you, you’re always at the top of your lungs? What are we now? 15? 16? I think I lost count and decided to forget after all these years. My age, the time passing, wasn’t important to me.

“I said, GET UP!”

Now I’m up on my feet, but only by your help. Oh, you’re covered in scars and blood. So....am I. Right, we fought. Just like the last time. In that valley. We also got into a serious fight. I think this is the second time we both went all out on each other. Enough to make the other scream, the other bleed, make the other feel so much pain...

“Why?”

That’s all I could whisper. So why are you here? You’re not here to kill me, are you? How? Why not? I put your life on the line more than once, and twice has been by my own hands, by my own deeds. So why? Why won’t you kill me? Why do you want me to live?

“...What do you want from me?...”

Now you’re smiling. I can tell. It wasn’t that grin that you usually wear. No, this was an actual smile, the one I have seen so few times with you. But it was still there. It was still the same. The same....why are you like that? How can you still smile like that? And have those same blue eyes?

“Isn’t it obvious? Sasuke...”

I became so heartless, so ruthless. I did so many horrible things, but only to bring justice to those who deserved it. No, just to those who deserved it in my eyes...my eyes, that have been blank for so long have now became dark and cold. So why are your eyes the same blue as always? The same joy, but the hint of sadness? How are you the same person that I tried to leave behind with everything that connected me to that village so long ago? Why haven’t you changed?

“I made a promise, and I never go back on my word.”

I remember...one of those cheesy, old stories that they tell kids before bedtime. Something about this man who wouldn’t do anything different....and he ended up alone, depressed, unloved and unhappy. Something like that. They try to tell you....that people have to change. So I changed. I shed everything that was the old me before I started my journey. But still...you’re different. You didn’t do that.

I always thought...that if no one would change, they would never find happiness, no matter how hard they searched. But you....you never backed down. You never yielded and always pushed forward, just like you always had. To find me...You remind me....yeah, that’s right. You remind me of the sky and the sun. It must be from your hair and eyes. But still, the sun and the sky are still there. The sky is always blue and the sun always rises and sets in the same places. But even so, no one can resist to gaze upon their beauties...after so many centuries, the sun still rises in the east and the sky hovers over our heads in that same magnificent blue. And they never changed....and neither have you....

“I’m bringing you back to Konoha!”

And now...you...no...we have found happiness....



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