All that Matters//NaruSasuNaru

09

Sasuke gazed at the ceiling. That was what he did nearly every night.

He gave the classic interjection to his relatives and entered his room to a sleepless night. They were aware of his troubles with sleep.

The times he could not endure the fatigue, he turned to his medication. He was told to take the prescribed drugs but the effect of them had gradually worn off. He got at least an hour of rest before he'd wake up and never being able to go back to the void.

Being up all day, really took a toll. Falling unconscious gave a break from the world, a pause on one's thought process, and a halt to any physical movement. Sasuke didn't experience that. When the sun set and the stars became visible, his mind liked to become more erratic than how it was during the moments the clouds filled the sky.

He thought about too man things rapidly.

Why do you breath knowing you'll die? Why do you wake up for the day to end? Why is it that the amount of money you have, gives you status? Is that the only way to survive? Why must you abide by the laws of society to come off as normal? Why? Why? Why? Why?

Questions in that form roamed his head. Tonight it was in the form of a "what". What is normal?

Sasuke stretched his limbs and yawned. His feet pattered against the wood as he made his way to the bathroom. He flicked the switch and proceeded to open the cabinet to get a hold of the small bottle. He did the opposite of what was done when he came into the small room and then entered his own. He seated himself on the floor. It was below room temperature. He flinched at the contact.

He popped the cap and shook it, allowing a bit more of what his usual dose was, to be placed in his hands. He propped himself up on his bed and let his head fall back on the mattress. He closed his eyes and the red-blonde came to mind.

The raven was not one to get attached easily which was why cutting ties with his former companions were simple. Regardless, this dude, this out of the ordinary dude containing two different colours of dye in his hair, had some way or another befriended him.

Sasuke had all the more concluded it was because he wasn't like everyone else. His aura just screamed out-of-this-world.

It was hard to believe, but the Uchiha hated normal. It was something that he despised.

What was normal?

Is what deemed as normal actually normal?

How does one be normal?

Oh yeah, follow the crowd.

Do what society says to be sane. To be of everyone else and not yourself.

What Foolishness. That is boring. So damn boring.

Maybe that is why Naruto had fangirls. Basically, all the other guys in the school acted the same. They followed some stupid bro code. But Naruto? Naruto Namikaze who just had to smile to bring light in people's days? He was on a different level, literally.

It was a short time he knew the guy and honestly, he was glad to have him as a friend. Would he ever tell the Namikaze that though? Nope. Not in a million years.

Each time spent with him and his rowdy friends was never a dull moment.

A small smirk crept up on Sasuke's face before another yawn came right after.

He hoped the fun moments lasted and that he would never have to go back to the boring days that were followed up by a normal routine.

He swallowed the tablets dry and went under the comforter. He didn't plan on staying up any longer to where his thoughts lingered deep into his negativity. Therefore, an extra pill was sure to knock him out for an extensive period.