? Dark Dawn ?

Ep 39 - Conviction [Ch. 8]

No worries, no evil plan in need of stopping, no one trying to kill him again.

Just some peace.

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"Naruto." Sasuke appeared next to the blonde in a shuushin and lowered himself down to the ground, sitting with one arm on a leg and the other propping himself up. "What are you doing out here so late?"

The moon was already at its peak, showing the late hour. 

"I like it out here. The fresh air is nice." he replied.

Sasuke gave a small, bewildered huff but chuckled anyways. 

"Yeah, I guess you're right."

He settled himself down with his arms behind his head as well, laying down beside Naruto.

They were like this for a bit, simply enjoying the atmosphere.

"How'd your conversation with Itachi go?" Naruto finally asked.

Sasuke grimaced. "I don't know what you were thinking, working with Itachi of all people."

Naruto gave a small chuckle. "I know he's not a bad guy. I convinced him to try again, and to do something that would help you instead of what he had already been planning."

Sasuke frowned. "Yeah, I noticed."

This time, it was an awkward silence.

"We talked, but I won't just forgive someone like Itachi just because he had no choice in the matter, because he did have a choice." He said through gritted teeth. "He killed every single Uchiha without remorse."

He let out a long sigh. "But, it's strange. Ever since I first saw him here, I don't feel as angry as I had expected."

Naruto smiled. "Maybe it's because you still love Itachi, somewhere deep inside."

Sasuke gave that a thought.

"I suppose that might be possible."

And they settled back into comfortable silence again.

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Sasuke

The first thing he felt was pure anger.

Pure blind anger. 

The raw emotion didn't bleed into his own, which were just caution and confusion. It felt like a foreign emotion that obviously didn't belong to him. 

His eyes almost burned as Sasuke numbly noted that he had the sharigan active.

This place was completely unfamiliar.

A dream?

The first thing he noticed was that there was no noise around him. There was a soft crackling of static in his ear but otherwise he couldn't hear a single sound from the battlefield. This was a battlefield in front of him and despite the destruction there was not a single sound midst the explosions.