Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ In The Sun ❯ inthesun ( Chapter 1 )

In The Sun

Uchiha Sasuke loved it when it rained. The clouds were shapeless and monotone grey, blanketing everything blue and yellow and bright.

Everything at all. No sunshine dust spilling, no afterimage smiles that burn, burn into the mind so that it's all you can see when you close your eyes. No blue anything. No blue eyes that fill your sight with endless nothingness that you never want ended. No yellow strands that get caught between fingers and linger on black cloth. Because it had always been colours with him. Orange slipping under the skin, red that bleeds into blue like a sunset. The days always dawned in yellow then, the first thing Sasuke saw on soft beds and muddy grass.

The air was bitter and sharp. Fresh and crisp, so that every breath threatened to splinter. Winter evoked no clandestine air that slips into every pore to prolong lazy days and elongate looks,

That lasted for ever until they complete every corner and empty space, until all there was left was looking at each other in aftermaths of spars or bantered fights that seemed to fill up time in every sense of the word. No fingers tracing ankles and hip bones and shoulder silhouettes that draw heat from every whisper the fingerprints make; heat that builds up like pain and hands discovering every explosion and crevice.

The water tasted like dust and there was no sunshine. No sunshine anywhere, no sunset or sunrise. No sun. As rain poured whiskered stars didn't exist. Light was meaningless and artificial and manmade.

There was no enlightenment, no kisses in Wave country with futile chakra on the soles of feet. No desperate touching that smouldered like sand. No whiskered skin again his, no eyelashes brushing palm lines or tongues tracing scars. There was nothing left behind. No bonds severed. No miracles lost.

Uchiha Sasuke watched the clouds crumble and didn't feel anything. No regret or pain or relief or loss. There was nothing but duty when it rained and the sun didn't exist.

And neither did him.