I Have Seen Too Much
The world was covered in ash and blood and death. Everywhere she looked there was only destruction and death. Fires raged in the distance, burning the last remnants of her home to the ground. Not that it mattered anyway. There wasn’t anyone left to claim the village as their own except for her and her teammates. And even they were barely hanging on at this point. She could feel the life literally draining out of her with the blood and knew she would soon join the countless other bodies her him in the afterlife. They won the war, but they lost the world.
“Naruko…” the voice is choked and barely there. She can hear the blood in the speaker’s throat, the way the vocal cords can barely make sound around it.
Naruko turns her head as much as possible and meets the onyx eyes of her rival turned best friend turned enemy, “Sasuke.”
“I’m sorry…” Sasuke’s eyes are growing dull as the life leaves him and Naruko can only think it’s such a pity the dumbass figured out he fucked up right as they’re dying. But at least he finally understood.
“Forgive you…teme,” Naruko thinks she manages some form of a smile but she can’t really be sure, she lost the feeling in her face a few minutes ago.
Sasuke opens his mouth to answer, coughs up blood, winces, “Dobe.”
Now Naruko is the one coughing as her body tries to remember how to laugh at the nickname. God, how she hated it when she was younger and now all she wants is to hear it for the rest of her life. Why did the idiot have to stop being so stubborn now?
“Idiots,” this time the voice is feminine and raw and she knows exactly who it belongs to as well.
Sakura is on her other side, her pink hair coated in ash and blood and her green eyes barely open anymore. She’s closer to death than either of them and it breaks her heart to know she will be in a world without her even if only for a few minutes. A world without either one of them is too much to bear but she’s consoled knowing she will follow shortly after.
Not if I have anything to say about it, the growl comes from within her this time. It’s agitated and weaker than she’s ever heard but still there. And still very much unwilling to give up.
Kurama, I’m sorry, Naruko knows the fox won’t have a chance if his host dies but she also doesn’t have the strength to release him now. She barely has the strength to breathe anymore. Sasuke’s eyes have closed and Naruko doesn’t think she sees Sakura’s chest moving anymore.
This is probably going to hurt, brat but it’s better than letting all of you die. You trust me?
Again, Naruko wishes she could laugh. Like there was any doubt left she trusted the fox sealed inside of her, Always, Kurama.
Good. Get ready then, this is going to get bumpy.
Naruko tries to respond but her mind is slipping, she’s slipping, and everything around her is going dark and quiet. She almost welcomes it when the end finally comes. When she can finally stop.