Back to You

Chapter One: Back to Something Familiar

She means nothing to me, absolutely nothing.

Keep telling yourself that. You're the only one being fooled.

Can you please just leave me alone for one second?

I'm the one person you can never turn away from, Sasuke. I AM you after all

No, you're the voice in my head. There's a big difference between myself and the cracks in my sanity.

You're hurting my feelings Sasu-chan. I guess, in the end, that's all you're really good at anyway. You hurt me, Konoha, Naruto... Her.

SHUT UP! I told you, She means NOTHING. How much clearer can i get?

You say that, but whenever She glanced over her shoulder at you your heart beat faster, and whenever She touched your hand it felt like a jolt of lightning crawling through your body, and whenever She so much as looked at you you forget to breathe. Tell me, Sasuke, does that sound like nothing to you?

No, it sounds annoying, unnecessary, and a hindrance. It's something I've never needed and never will... not since that day.

Yes, but it doesn't sound like nothing. It sounds like something. Like someone has finally gotten under your skin and made a home in your heart. It sounds like love.

It may sound like that but it's not. You don't know anything, this is stupid.

Yes, and de-nile is a river in Egypt. Get over yourself and your hatred Sasuke. Let someone in. Let Her in.

Why should I? What could She ever do for me?

She could bring you to life, Sasuke.

Baka, I am alive.

This is hardly an existence, Sasuke. Isolation, anger... revenge. Let Her show you what living really is. Let Her heal you.

I'm fine, this is the way I CHOOSE to live.

No, this is the way Itachi chose for you to live.

Don't say His name, don't ever say His name

Put your pride away and go home Sasuke. If your brother doesn't kill you, your stupidity will .

I don't have a brother, not anymore. Returning to Konoha is the same as my revenge, my purpose, subsiding.

Just go home Sasuke. Why did you ever think you couldn't become strong there? Return if for nothing else other than to train. There is more at your disposal in Konoha. More weapons, training areas, opportunities. Please, Sasuke, go home. Go home to Kakashi, to Naruto, and to Sakura.

If I go back I won't be going home. I don't have one, not anymore. I'll be going back to a village, and not for any of them, especially Her. I'm going back for me, for my purposes. Hn. I can't wait to see the shock on their faces when they see me walking through those gates. Pathetic.

You know it's not, Sasuke. Deep down, you want to go back because you miss it, because you miss them.

I'm. Going. To. Train. That's final, there is nothing left in that village for me to keep me there. There never was, anyone who could have is gone forever.

Keep telling yourself that, Sasuke. They, no, She, means more to you than you think.

Hn, whatever. You can say what you like. If I'm going then I'm going now. Back to Konoha.

... back to Sakura.