Every step you take.

[bondsoflove]

Characters: Sasuke, Bakura
Open? Nah.
Where: HH.
When: RD17, morning.
What: Sasuke's developing a...fixation.
Warnings: Bad language, harmless stalking.


He'd woken with a start sometime in the predawn with tears on his face and no memory of his dream aside from the overwhelming presence of brother.

Sickened by his own weakness--he'd promised himself he wouldn't fall asleep; he'd promised--and childish emotion, he'd pushed himself off the bed and made to leave. He wasn't sure where he'd go--the forest, maybe, to set fire to a pile of leaves and see if he could get it to burn brighter than a fucking candle. But he stopped abruptly, nearly tripping over a plate.

Onigiri.

He carried them back into his room and ate them on the bed. The first bite made him realize how hungry he'd been; the rest were quickly finished off. They weren't filled with tomato and skipjack.

Why had he...

Afterwards, Sasuke waited until he heard movement in the other areas of the mansion before slipping out of his room again, this time with an empty plate. And here he stood, just outside the kitchen with plate in hand, rooted to the spot as he watched Bakura moving about.

Damn it.

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[bondsoflove]

"If I'm lucky, finishing what I have to do will take me down as well," Sasuke countered. "And dying once I've filled my purpose is the only way to make sure I die a warrior. There's nothing for me to do once I've avenged my family."

[shiromadoushi]

"I can't believe that's true..."

[bondsoflove]

"Well, what do you suggest?" Sasuke growled, turning away to glare into the ground. "Once everyone who razed my family's name to the ground is dead, what else am I supposed to do? Become a hermit and live in a cave? Fuck some random woman, tainting my blood, and start a line of psuedo-Uchihas, shitting all over my parents' names?"

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura shook his head. "Find out who you truly can be without having just that one thing to live for. Start over, knowing that you've succeeded and made your family proud. It doesn't matter to anyone else what you do past that, right? You could even lay the name to rest, symbolically dying so you wouldn't even have to worry about anything happening to it for anything you did."

[bondsoflove]

"Don't you get it?"

No. He didn't. Why should he? Why Sasuke was bothering trying to make him understand, he didn't know. There wasn't anything else to do.

"I'm exhausted," he continued, looking sidelong at Bakura. "If I don't go out fighting, I'll take to drink, or opiates, or just cloister myself in a mountain somewhere and die of starvation. There is nothing left that I love. I don't want to die a pathetic old man."