[Fic] It’s Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You – Chapter Eleven

[branchandroot]

Cross-post from my archive.

Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Deidara, Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Hoshigaki Kisame, Hyuuga Neji, Maito Gai, Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Sasuke faces his brother again. Fortunately, Sakura and Naruto are there for him, and he finds the space in his head to do what he has to do. Involves character death.
Meta: Drama, Action, Angst, I-5
Wordcount: 5888

Sakura gripped his shoulder hard. "Are you all right?" she asked, low. Sasuke took a slow breath and yanked his thoughts back into order. Naruto was going after Gaara's body, and Kakashi would take care of him. The Sand teams probably had Sasori in hand. He was here, with Sakura and Gai's team, and Itachi was in front of them. He had backup, today, to go with opportunity, and his brother was standing in front of him. Now. The time to take Itachi down was now. That was all he needed to think about.

Read: It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Eleven

Comments

[mitsuhachi]

oh shiiiiii-----

I'm really digging, still, how willing Sasuke is to let Sakura move him, that he knows he can trust her that much, that she'll give him his revenge. It's almost submissive, for something so active and violent. Team 7's power dynamics are made of so much shiny.<3

And Jiraya's teaching, knocking sasuke out of his freak-out, man. Jiraya's teaching, and Kakashi's teaching, and Neji's support and Sakura's support and I just. Shonen anime often has those moments where the whole cast works together to make on crowning moment of awesome happen for someone and you just sort of flail and go I LOVE EVERYONE FOREVER YES. That's pretty much how I feel right now.

[branchandroot]

*hearts* I /loved/ this chapter. And, yes! Sasuke really is very willing to be directed by Sakura, and she, um, kind of likes that a lot I do have to say.

There are a few moments like that in this arc, and they make me sparkle every time. It's just so /right/ for how the show started (before Kishimoto fucked up his genre signals).