Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Bleeding Delusion ❯ Tenderness ( Chapter 1 )

 

Tenderness

 

 

There is an infinite tenderness in the gesture, his long-fingered, kunai-calloused hand ghosting over the achingly pale, scarred cheek, loose strands of long, inky hair falling about them and cradling the taciturn serenity of the moment as he slowly descends upon the boy.

Lips brush over closed eyes, mocking mercy.

There is a lingering regret in the dull, blood eyes, in the motion of the elegant, stained hands, in the quiet tainting anguish of a tormented soul…

In the promise of death.

The resonating tang of bittersweet solemnity.

An upheld duty, and—

Deafening silence.