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Just Like This (150 words)

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It should be raining, but it's not. The sun is shining, the sky is blue and all that crap but at least the force of their fight had blown all the birds away.

He should be triumphant, and his brother hateful, but they aren't. They're closer together than they have been for years, and Sasuke's shock of red bleeds away and leaves them both vulnerable. He can't think and Sasuke can't believe, and they're both forgetting their lies and remembering too much.

There should be music- dramatic, electrifying, but there isn't. Forest rustles and shallow breaths will haunt his dreams, but he prays it'd never end. There are no unspoken words, and Sasuke's silent mouthings burn in his mind.

This isn't how it was supposed to end, but it will. Sasuke looks down at the hole in his chest, and Naruto wonders where the raindrops on his cheek came from.

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and this is how it goes

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Typical stuff, but hell, so be it. XP