Gift!fic for mikochan_noda: Fall Into Your Sunlight

[indira14]

Fandom: Naruto
Summary: Memories keep the mind company. The body remembers its way back home.
Genre: General/Angst
Word Count: 3,045
Characters: Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke
Warning: 2nd person, present tense
A/N: When I started writing this last year, I never thought it'd turn into something like this. You do not give a wonderful person depressing

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[000_hester_000]

but it’s never been about feeling whole. You knew that; you’ve always known that. It’s never been about finding happiness, either. You know that, too.

That's so very Sasuke. I do think that would be an interesting concept--- for Sasuke to be so beaten down by the time he gets to Konoha for him not to be able to take his epic revenge at all.

Of course, since it's me, you know I loved all of Sasuke's guilt-ridden thoughts about Itachi as well. And, naturally, Sakura's sort-of-moving-on, sort-of-really-not tone. Honestly, when I look at recent manga chapters, I realize that Sakura has much more emotional strength than she tends to get credit for. So I like this picture of how hard that must be for her.

[indira14]

Aww, your icon, gah~. 8D

I'm glad you think so - I had a hard time getting into Sasuke's head when I started writing this last year. I ended up focusing a bit too much on his skin, dammit, until sirona came and saved me♥

To be honest, I wasn't thinking about Itachi at all when I wrote this - at least, not consciously. It just happened, somehow. >.>;; I guess that's because it's Sasuke. Itachi has to be somewhere in there too. ♥

With how the recent chapters have been, the only thing really open to speculation was, not her training because obviously that's not important or her progress, but her emotional stability - I tried to show how much more emotionally stable she was (at least, compared to Naruto and Sasuke. Naruto's fallen off the deep end into obsession and Sasuke-- I don't think there ever was a time he wasn't obsessed with something or other. D: ) Sakura's scene as a bit rushed, but glad that it's to your liking.

you do not want me talking about Sakura's issues with her mangaka. I'll never stop blabbering. .__.

[000_hester_000]

I ended up focusing a bit too much on his skin, dammit

Lol. I just... idk what else to say about that, except for lol.

Yeah, I think the whole Itachi issue has been ingrained in Sasuke for so long that it would be impossible to remove it from his personality at this point. Whether he loves him or hates him, I think Itachi has been the most important person in his life since... well, even since before their parents died.

I feel like Sakura's become a lot more... maybe not stable per se, but a lot more grown-up as the manga's gone on. She's more mature than Naruto or Sasuke, and that's a big contrast to how she was at the beginning of the manga.

ETA: Wait, isn't it like the middle of the night for you? Can't sleep? D:

[indira14]

lol indeed, hester. I'm lol-ing (incredulously) at myself too, actually. >_>;; it's not fair. why is he so pretty.

I think... you're right about that. Itachi is Sasuke's Most Important Person - aside from his parents, I think Itachi is the only person he has shed tears for so far in the manga. When you're that obsessed with a person, it's hard to label what you feel for that person just "hate" - emotions can't be as clear-cut as that. *thinky-thoughts*

Itachi has always been a part of Sasuke, for a long, long time - even more so now that Sasuke is using Itachi's eyes. I can't wait for that particular conflict to be resolved. Now if only he manga wold speed up a bit... What I like so much about this manga is that you can't write about a single character without mentioning someone else

[000_hester_000]

Sasuke is pretty because... Because the Uchihas are all very pretty people, I think.

I think that almost every decision Sasuke has made in the entire manga in one way or another comes back to Itachi in the end.

I wish the manga would speed up, too. >.> All of these drawn-out training scenes with Naruto are the most boring thing I've ever read.

I love that Sakura has shed her idealism; is recent chapters have proven anything, it's that she doesn't see the world the way Naruto does.

I very much agree with that. I don't understand why this manga is so idealistic when it's about a ninja world. Wtf, Kishi.

I realized that, as far as I can tell, you're exactly 12 hours different from me.

[indira14]

Lol~ That's so true. His gene pool is packed with awesome~ Come to think of it, Naruto's is, too. I don't know why that comes as a surprise. >_>;;

Naruto training scene? lol. Yet another power-up? LOL AGAIN. When I started reading the manga, I was just hoping he'd be different from all the other Shounen Main Characters. More believable, in a way. He was at first, with his attention-seeking determination and clumsiness. And now...

(It's amazing how SMCs eventually, whether they want it or not, become preachers of Courage and Goodwill and Peace. They might as well parade around in habit with flyers reading "I'll never give up. I'll protect my friends. And I'll use speech-no-jutsu to rescue you who is clearly evil for the sake of being evil/world domination from the path of Evil." :/)

I don't understand why this manga is so idealistic when it's about a ninja world. Wtf, Kishi. - you know, I've been searching for the answer to this since--- well, since forever. Needless to say, I've not found it yet. :|

12 hours? O__O I don't know if