challenge #15 - Fear
Title: The Nature of Fear
Author:
des_butterfly
Genre: drabble, Drama/Angst
Rating: PG - 13 for violence
Pairings: Slight ItaSasu implications, SasuNaru
Summary: Sasuke learns that sometimes fear and desire are the same thing.
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Coal black eyes stare blankly into his own, and Sasuke swallows a mixture of pain and disappointment.
Itachi doesn't think enough of him to look at him through the red-tinged lens of the Sharingan, even as a Chidori sparks and crackles between them in Sasuke's hand.
"You are weak, little brother." A strong hand calmly snaps his arm at the wrist and the chidori sputters and dies. Sasuke howls in agony and staggers back, swaying on his feet. "Why are you still so weak?"
Itachi follows, one hand looping around Sasuke's waist, the other fastening around his throat. When the older man leans down to whisper into Sasuke's ear, all he can focus on is the brush of black hair against his chin, and warm breath on his cheek. The fingers around his neck tighten and Sasuke can feel himself growing dizzy, his world pin-pointing on Itachi's mouth, Itachi's lips saying words he can't hear with his ears but still feel, as they stab violently to his chest like knives.
"I've given you everything, little brother, all the tools you need to become great. Why do you still disappoint me?"
I don't want to be great, Sasuke mouths, his hands groping weakly at Itachi's cloak as his vision fades, I want you.
Black fingernails dig into Sasuke's neck, drawing blood. Itachi's voice is cruelly amused.
"Little brother," he says, "you are me."
Itachi's eyes bleed red and Sasuke drowns in blood.
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When he wakes up screaming, Naruto tries to comfort him and ends up getting a punch in the face for his trouble. Sasuke watches him stomp angrily off to the living room to sleep on the couch. He can't explain to Naruto that he can't touch him now. Not with blood on his hands. Not when any embrace feels like he is only holding onto a corpse.
When Naruto turns in the doorway to deliver a scathing "good night, asshole" Sasuke watches his neck gape open in a glistening red smile and slowly closes his eyes.
He leaves for Sound the next day.
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fin.
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Author:
des_butterfly
Genre: drabble, Drama/Angst
Rating: PG - 13 for violence
Pairings: Slight ItaSasu implications, SasuNaru
Summary: Sasuke learns that sometimes fear and desire are the same thing.
--
Coal black eyes stare blankly into his own, and Sasuke swallows a mixture of pain and disappointment.
Itachi doesn't think enough of him to look at him through the red-tinged lens of the Sharingan, even as a Chidori sparks and crackles between them in Sasuke's hand.
"You are weak, little brother." A strong hand calmly snaps his arm at the wrist and the chidori sputters and dies. Sasuke howls in agony and staggers back, swaying on his feet. "Why are you still so weak?"
Itachi follows, one hand looping around Sasuke's waist, the other fastening around his throat. When the older man leans down to whisper into Sasuke's ear, all he can focus on is the brush of black hair against his chin, and warm breath on his cheek. The fingers around his neck tighten and Sasuke can feel himself growing dizzy, his world pin-pointing on Itachi's mouth, Itachi's lips saying words he can't hear with his ears but still feel, as they stab violently to his chest like knives.
"I've given you everything, little brother, all the tools you need to become great. Why do you still disappoint me?"
I don't want to be great, Sasuke mouths, his hands groping weakly at Itachi's cloak as his vision fades, I want you.
Black fingernails dig into Sasuke's neck, drawing blood. Itachi's voice is cruelly amused.
"Little brother," he says, "you are me."
Itachi's eyes bleed red and Sasuke drowns in blood.
--
When he wakes up screaming, Naruto tries to comfort him and ends up getting a punch in the face for his trouble. Sasuke watches him stomp angrily off to the living room to sleep on the couch. He can't explain to Naruto that he can't touch him now. Not with blood on his hands. Not when any embrace feels like he is only holding onto a corpse.
When Naruto turns in the doorway to deliver a scathing "good night, asshole" Sasuke watches his neck gape open in a glistening red smile and slowly closes his eyes.
He leaves for Sound the next day.
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fin.
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