He felt light-headed and shaken, and while he heard the distant echo of Kakashi's words, none seemed to permeate the thick fog he'd wrapped himself in to process it. The knowledge constricted his chest and thrummed through his blood like a hemotoxin, leaving him twitchy and dizzy and churned his stomach to frothing pains. Sasuke, Sasuke would die and Naruto would do nothing to prevent it, nothing to pull him from the darkness and guide his light to safety, Naruto would die with him, it kept spinning through his mind over and over like a shout ringing in his ears. It was all he could hear.
Revealing his back to a dangerous man, even one who'd once been an ally and whose life he'd just saved, was a fool's folly. And yet, with his blank eyes staring blindly down at nothing and his face shielded by hair strewn loose of its tie, he almost hoped Kakashi would betray him. He would welcome the burn of a blade plunging into his back; who less deserving of a brutal end than himself? He'd failed his brother so wholly each breath felt like a fresh insult all on its own.
"Your sanity has you spinning kind lies," he whispered wearily. "Spare me. You don't need to explain it away, it's as I said before. I understand."
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Date: Saturday, 9 October 2010 05:44 am (UTC)Revealing his back to a dangerous man, even one who'd once been an ally and whose life he'd just saved, was a fool's folly. And yet, with his blank eyes staring blindly down at nothing and his face shielded by hair strewn loose of its tie, he almost hoped Kakashi would betray him. He would welcome the burn of a blade plunging into his back; who less deserving of a brutal end than himself? He'd failed his brother so wholly each breath felt like a fresh insult all on its own.
"Your sanity has you spinning kind lies," he whispered wearily. "Spare me. You don't need to explain it away, it's as I said before. I understand."