[Naruto doesn't deflate so much as his weight moves- rolling from one point to another in an extended exhale.]
Why's it gotta be a competition'attebayo?
[With his cheek still pressed to the crown of her head he can see the city beyond with perfect clarity. There are lanterns down there, a din of voices and shadows moving through the crowd. Are they celebrating, he wonders, or mourning? He hasn't kept count of how long he's been in Caissa, but he still doesn't feel like he belongs. It doesn't matter, nothing will ever be Konoha.]
Sasuke told me once that I couldn't understand his pain because I didn't have a family, cause I was alone from the start.
[As painful as the memories from that fight are, they're some of the ones that he holds on to the hardest. Back then Naruto hadn't known how to reply. There hadn't been anything to say, they ran out of words. He found a similar silence when confronted by Pein. Even in another world here he is, wondering about the cycle of hatred.]
If we're gonna change the shinobi world and make a place where people can truly understand each other, then I don't think we can decide things like that anymore. Your pain's different from mine, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.
resurrects you for more pain ig?
Why's it gotta be a competition'attebayo?
[With his cheek still pressed to the crown of her head he can see the city beyond with perfect clarity. There are lanterns down there, a din of voices and shadows moving through the crowd. Are they celebrating, he wonders, or mourning? He hasn't kept count of how long he's been in Caissa, but he still doesn't feel like he belongs. It doesn't matter, nothing will ever be Konoha.]
Sasuke told me once that I couldn't understand his pain because I didn't have a family, cause I was alone from the start.
[As painful as the memories from that fight are, they're some of the ones that he holds on to the hardest. Back then Naruto hadn't known how to reply. There hadn't been anything to say, they ran out of words. He found a similar silence when confronted by Pein. Even in another world here he is, wondering about the cycle of hatred.]
If we're gonna change the shinobi world and make a place where people can truly understand each other, then I don't think we can decide things like that anymore. Your pain's different from mine, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.
You shouldn't be ashamed of that, Sakura-chan.