HERE'S A QUESTION!!! how would sasuke react if he actually succeeded in unaliving naruto / naruto fell in battle. would he mourn him or react the way he always said he would
DELIVERED BY : @9fox
FIRE BALLS SPIT , kunai thrown , nine - tails chakra cloak’s possession , susano’o’s protection . it’s rasengan versus chidori , only the rasengan stops & the chidori halts for no one .
naruto . . . naruto stopped the attack ? naruto stopped . naruto fell . his hand is through naruto’s chest & his eyes widen as blood stains his wrist , his forearm , & lightning still dances in a dramatic display of defeat at the end of naruto’s back . his arm went right through him .
the first thing he sees is naruto’s face , wide eyes , wearing a tragic smile in such a shitty position , a shitty situation . he uses the last of his strength to grab the arm that extends through his center chest & whispers his name . ‘ sa . . . suke . . . ‘ blood drips from his lips , but still he manages to speak this enough .
sasuke looks back at him , his face apathetic , blood & a tear mixing in an iron - like swirl as they drip down his cheek , staining his face to his chin . naruto chokes , sputters briefly on the crimson that crawls out of his throat & falters , falling as sasuke tries to catch him before he hits the ground . he removes his arm from his chest & together they collapse to the earth . sasuke is yet again washed with misery , his self - destruction leading the only people he loves on a clear - cut path from his life .
they lay aside one another as naruto stops breathing , as his heart stops beating , & sasuke cannot bear to exist in this moment . every breath he draws is done with an onslaught of guilt -- the cause of his dissociation from the situation's entirety . he lays with his mouth agape , his eyes wide , his vision blurred into an alternate reality . he sees them together , both breathing , both living , both of their arms used in battle torn & ripped to nonexistent shreds . they’re beat up , but they look happy . he thinks for a moment that maybe things might have turned out that way . tragic , yet earnest .
naruto , who had followed him to the ends of the earth to prove his friendship , to prove his love for him , now lays beside him , lifeless & still , the heat evacuating his body . nothing is real .
not until he can hear sakura in the distance , as worried & concerned & as broken as he’s ever heard her . he thinks some time passes when he blinks & sees her choking on her sobs , desperately trying to heal the hole he’d ripped through naruto’s core . he did this . he got what he wanted . . . but at what cost to him or the people around him ?
he will fulfill his mission . . . once he wakes up from this dream . . . this nightmare . sakura doesn’t even perceive his existence . she must know already . she must have abandoned him entirely after being the first to witness everything that’s happened . he can’t blame her . still , he thinks about how it’s now within his right to fulfill his newfound dream & become hokage . . . he won , after all . but what is hokage ? someone who leads the people . . . or someone on whom the people can rely ? maybe both . not that it matters . he’d reform the world . he’d reform the very meaning of what it is to be a ninja . he will snipe konoha at its rotted roots & revitalize it into a place worth living , worth serving as its leader .
that is , maybe one day . . . one day when he wakes up . wakes up from this sleepless dream he’s found himself in , torn apart , ripped of his emotions & value , stripped of anyone he’d once called a friend , an ally , a companion . no one trusts him anymore . no one will ever aide him again .
he is now completely & utterly alone .
