Chasing The Void

When pain weighs down on the heart, you don't cry. You just... go numb. Silent. As if saying anything at all would shatter the last piece of you that's holding on.

Your first day at Konohagakure University should've felt like a chance to start over. A fresh chapter. A break from the ghosts that never left your mind, from the past that clung to you like a shadow, suffocating any hope of moving forward. You were supposed to forget. You needed to forget.

But then, you met him.

And with him came a pull-familiar, deadly. It felt like falling, but there was no bottom. The lines between comfort and destruction blurred, and just like that, you were back where you started. Drowning in a cycle you promised yourself you'd never repeat.

But it's too late now. He's everything you crave, and everything you fear.

Sasuke Uchiha x Reader - Modern University au