The chase is over.

The sand scattered like a waterfall and the debris showered me with dust, an enormous explosion shook the ground. I watched though the falling chaos as you drove your sword though your own brother's chest, with a wicked grin on your beautiful face. The blood splattered and stained your soul, your chest dripped red. But I didn't worry because the blood wasn't yours.

The moment had passed, and the light had left his eyes. Your grin crumbled into a shocked frown. Realization sunk into your mind, deep and true. You just murdered the monster that had haunted your nightmares and your life, your childhood and your love.

Yet, you still cried.

I waited for you to stop the tears, but they kept coming. The sword was long forgotten on the dead earth and you whispered pleas of redemption from the figure at your feet. After an hour, yes I was still waiting for you, you stood up with ice in your eyes. Your expression was set and you turned to dig with your bare hands. Your nails broke but you didn't feel the pain. I knew the pain was so overpowering now that it numbed you.

So it did to me.

You spent hours saying goodbye to the only brother you knew. You couldn't understand why you mourned a brother that had caused you misery and abandoned you. But I knew that feeling. After all, you were like my brother and you left me. Broken and bloody on shore.

You turned to leave and I watched the hollowness in the depth of your dark sould gain a darker shade of black. You had a new mind to destroy. A new revenge to take. "Konoha will pay." You lips uttered and I forced myself to move. To expose myself to you.

You were started by my sudden appearance, and by the raggedness of my shape. what else would you expect from me when I just saw you bury your suffering into the dirt?

I tenderly said that you should come home now. You have redeemed yourself and you have achieved your goal. You sneered at me in return. You said that all this pain was caused because of the village and that he knew the truth, yet he killed his brother because he couldn't forgive his choice over their family.

I stood speechless and listened to you spit venom and promises to kill me and the village that had cared for him. The same village in which we met and spent the best days of my life. Then you promised me the pain you had to endure throughout the years before you left. Leaving me standing in an empty valley, surrounded by nothing but sand.

I smiled to myself despite the sureness of my approaching death because when I listened to your promise to get me I only heard one thing in my mind.

You were coming to me soon. And the long chase was over.