"THINK I RIPPED THE WINGS OFF OF MY FUCKING ANGEL."
A girl tortured by her past must navigate the complexities of being a human whilst dealing with the terrors that exist in the world as a ninja.
SASUKE UCHIHA
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"swallowed way too much couldn't handle it, I fell down a spiral staircase winding to hell" No love, death gripps
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To say Naruto was left unsettled after that surprisingly deeply traumatic event, was an understatement. Even more so when he'd returned to Sasuke to find him frantic over anything separating them, practically threatening him to keep his mouth shut about the whole thing. The most intense he'd ever seen Sasuke. Don't report it. Even if she's not supposed to do any of what she was doing. Don't report it. She'll get in trouble. They'll move her. She'll leave.
Just why the hell would he still care about any of that after that whole spectacle? The Uchiha had to be just as nuts as she to act as if they didn't nearly beat the shit out of each other. Who knows what would've happened if he and Neji weren't there? A darker thought crosses his mind, but what happens when something like this breaks out while they're alone? They'd kill each other without a doubt. Saw it in their eyes that very night—the way they completely blacked as if they'd lost it.
Aside from that, it felt as if mom and dad were fighting, somehow, but the kind of fight that made you fear them being divorced. Perhaps he did care about their drama just a tad. At first, them being around each other was a good thing. Where Sasuke lacked the ability to let go, Koharu filled that gap for him and made it possible. Forced him out of his hard wired mechanics. Where Koharu lacked the ability to be serious, Sasuke filled that gap, and made it possible. Forced her out of her carelessness and held her somewhat accountable.
When he wasn't covering for her and enabling her. Naruto saw it all the time. Whenever she got team seven in trouble with their clients by any indirect way she did, Sasuke apologized in her place. Excused her by explaining she's never had much interaction with people, she doesn't understand, etc. Knowing full well she does understand and just doesn't care to apologize, even in curtesy. If she stirred up shit amongst the general public, he either enabled her for the sake of his own wants, or defended her. He remembered Sasuke being annoyed at getting sugar in his omurice when he requested against it, so he loosely mentioned it to Koharu, and let her blow up at the poor waitress.
Which wasn't the first time something like that happened.
Even with that expressionless face, his eyes gave away how delighted he was by the whole thing. Like he was okay with her bullshit so long as he managed it to suit his own ego.
It was almost as if he got off on the fact that she was an asshole to everyone aside from him—even if she was still an asshole to him when she wanted to be. They were both the problem. Their last unnecessary fight being proof. All she had to do was listen. A thing she seemed incapable of, and even if she did, she only heard what she wanted to. Sasuke knows how she is, and he kept talking to her, anyway. All he had to do was walk away. They both knew what they were trying to achieve within the other.
