/i…tried this 'genre' (?). and everything was just so random and whatever. haha. I've finished one whole round, and would be posting five per chapter (as long as it's not too long. any word suggestions for a part 2 of this? and i think i crossed my eyes with the numerous levels in this thing.

own this i do not (not even yoda-speak. woe is me.)/

Shinobi Definitions

[i.a.] sasuke.naruto.sakura.sasuke.hinata

1. Apathy

-is what they say Itachi always feels (knows, wants, craves). But no. It was never apathy. He was far too sympathetic and involved, too fucking loyal, Sasuke thinks, that he has sacrificed everything (himselfhimself, himself especially) just for the sake of his ideals (and Konoha, who would forget Konoha?). Sasuke's eyes blaze red, and he wonders if he can turn it on someone who is already dead, someone whose eyes cannot open anymore (and also if, by the way of a mirror, he can turn it on himself, and end this bloody road he feels compelled to take, no matter how he feels).

2. Bastard

-is what Naruto calls Sasuke, even though that is who he essentially is. Freakin' Yondaime never married his lover even though it was (painfully) obviously clear Naruto was insistent on being born. Even after he was born the freakin' ex-Hokage had died on him, making him the bastard. He can't help but feel a tiny sting of pain whenever he calls Sasuke that, but it has certainly mellowed down once he punched the Yondaime when they recently met (though he can't really say, since the person he had branded as bastard wasn't around to test the theory).

3. Cherry Blossoms

-were the origin of her name, her mother tells her. Sakura smiles (fake!) and waits for her mother to turn around before rolling her eyes heavenward and Inner Sakura exclaims duh, Mother! But what irritates her more is that she's alwayalwaysalways compared to it—weak, fleeting. She clenches her fist and steels her nerves—she wants to talk to Tsunade today (she wants to be strong—to be strong and forget, though in truth she can't, and won't).

4. Denial

-has to be the answer to one of the worst jokes in history, and he's had the misfortune to be the brunt of that joke for threefreakin'years already, and I get it people! he wants to scream. But Sasuke doesn't because he is not like that. He just calmly answers, "she is the one I can tolerate the most," and nobody believes him. Nobody, including himself. He sighs. Maybe he is the epitome of the horrid answer to that horrid joke.

5. Eloquence

-has been drilled into her ever since she was a child and spoke her first word (dada, not that it mattered anymore, but still it hurts to not deliver what is expected, though she tries her hardest, until now). But this is also what she loses whenever she sees a flash of yellow hair and blue eyes out of the corner of her eyes (ohmygod! hinata what is wrong with you? I am a pureblooded female! ino shrieks at her prone figure on the floor. she can't hear—she's already drowning in hazy dreams of bright yellow and blinding blue and brightbrightbright smiles).