God of Lightning SasuSaku one-shot

The Intriging Mortal

It was a rare occurrence for the god of lightning to walk the earth. Normally he kept to his skies and didn't subject himself to spending time around foolish mortals. He'd never found them particularly enjoyable or even amusing to be around.

He appreciated that he had worshippers. Mortals that recognized him as important and benevolent. That however did not mean he felt any obligation to know them as that idiot god of the sun did.

It was one of these rare moments that he'd found himself watching a human go about their life. He'd been momentarily stunned at finding a human woman with natural pink hair. For some reason he couldn't identify, he had stayed to watch her live.

Sometimes he thought what started it may have been the furious passion and pure life in her spirit. Other times he stubbornly insisted that it had just been curiosity because she was one of his worshippers.

He continued watching her for several weeks until he decided to grace the area with a good storm. There it had all changed.

From the very first bright flash that was his purpose, he could see everything he was reflected in the joyous beauty of her eyes. He could see in those eyes that she lived for the storm. She sat contentedly on the small porch of her very modest little house, and watched the storm from beginning to end.

He was captivated by the peace his storm had brought her. Did she always look as calmed, no, as gratified by every storm as she had by that one? He was determined to find the answer.

After the storm's end she seemed to immerse herself in the rain quietly pelting the roof above her. She smiled and sighed, without knowing of the power she'd gained over him.

He watched her with an intensity he wasn't aware existed in him. She had awoken something in him that he was not sure he liked. Was sure he did not understand.

Yet he knew he would not wish it to be dormant again could he choose.

As Haruno Sakura slept, Uchiha Sasuke awoke.

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It was relatively common for the gods to occasionally find themselves interested in a human. To watch over them for their mortal lifetime, before returning to their eternal traveling. It was less common but still frequent enough that they would involve themselves in that human's lifetime.

However she had been the first to intrigue him enough to do so.

Sasuke had never thought much of mortals, and had certainly never believed that he would ever become a part of one. He had been absolutely adamant that no mortal could ever become a part of him.

She had done much more than that. Instead of becoming a part of his life to take with him for an eternity after her time, she had become his life.

He was suddenly as connected to her as he was to his lightning. Upon discovering her existence, he found himself needing to insert himself into her life and capture her just as she'd captured him. He felt as if someone had brought her to life simply to create this need in him.

He had discovered that she was in fact as gratified from every storm as she had been the first time. The storms brought her to life. Beyond the offerings she would regularly leave at his shrine in the nearby village, he could see her faith and loyalty, and gods even love in her with every storm he brought.

It had only taken six days after the first storm, in which he'd given her four more, that his resolve shattered.

He'd become so used to her abundant amount of words. She was so often speaking he had almost wondered if she could even tolerate quiet. And then he would remember the way she was on her little porch during his gifts. Not a word even hushed in the storms that lasted hours. A reverence for his purpose that she'd never once broken the absence of voice save for a soft and pleasured sigh.