31_days | [OCT 13] [Naruto] empty chests

Title: empty chests
Day/Theme: October 13/Even though the whole world is kidnapped by loneliness.
Series: Naruto
Character/Pairing: Team 7 gen.
Rating: K+

There is this space inside Sasuke's chest, too full when it should be hollow, filled to the brim with warmth and things that he dares not name—

There is this space inside his chest that he calls a secret. It's his own form of security, a deposit in case things go wrong. He thinks that when he dies, if he can never tell them all his truths, they will be able to unlock this vault between his ribs and figure it out for themselves.

This space is why he almost never eats—he feels too full, all the time, with the things that he cannot say. Even if the world leaves him behind, even in the darkest of dark, he never feels alone.

Instead, what he keeps inside also keeps him. These unspoken words are his keepers—they hold that fundamental part of him that he hasn't—that he will never sacrifice. That he can't sacrifice. Not for anyone, he mouths, not even for you, brother.

When he is gone, and they remain (because there is no question of that, he still has to atone for his sins), his secrets will stay, and live on between their fifth and sixth ribs too.

It's a kind of immortality, and it is through this promise of things to come that Sasuke knows that he will never have to know regret.

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