The Uchiha were cursed with love so deep it turned to madness.

Sasuke had told himself he wouldn’t fall victim to it. That he could endure her death like he had endured his clan’s death, his brother’s death. But the emptiness left in her wake was unbearable. It hollowed him out, eroded his resolve, turned his silence into a graveyard of unsaid words.

So he invoked Edo Tensei,The forbidden jutsu.

It wont last, he knew it. But he wanted to see you

The seals burned against his skin as he wove the hand signs with precision, his chakra flooding the ritual. The earth trembled, ashes and dust twisting, pulled together by his will. The air thickened, humming with unnatural energy.

Then, he can guess them, her eyes.

Alive. Looking at him. And in that instant, Sasuke wasn’t sure if he had saved himself or if he had put salt on his wounds.

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