I am as invisible as the air.

I am a wind. A whisper. A thought.

If I wish it you will never see me. I could pass amongst you without moving a blade of grass, a grain of sand, one single hair on a single head.

I am a ghost.

And I have become very good at being invisible.

I sit atop that audacious mountain, the one I used to look upon as a child. I used to idolize the faces carved there, like everybody else, sucked in by their legends, their propaganda, their bullshit. Their lies.

As I look down on them now I marvel over how blind I was.

How naive I was then. They treated us all like fools, spouting their spirit of fire crap while marching us towards our deaths while they watched us from their mountain. Laughing at us.

Overcome with a sudden childish impulse I relieve myself over one of their heads. I think it is the Third.

I lean further over to check. The smile drops from my face when I realize it is the Fourth.

A sudden pang of something that I think is guilt grips my chest. The moment is so brief and unfamiliar that I can’t possibly be sure.

It is probably just an old injury anyway.

But as I turn away the likeness on the stone remains in my mind.

So familiar.

Another image of my past that lingers to haunt my thoughts. Time and again I had tried to push him to the hidden recesses of my memory, but, as persistent as he had been in reality, so too was he in my nearly forgotten memories.

I force my troubled thoughts back deep into the darkness of my mind. There will be time for that later. At this time I am here for another purpose.

I am here for her.

My team are beginning to question our mission.

I can hear them whispering. I can feel their doubt, their uncertainty about me. They think that I am stalling. That I am purposefully delaying the inevitable.

I am weary. A weight as heavy as a mountain rests on my shoulders, and I wonder how much longer I can go on.

Maybe they are right.

“Sasuke?”

The sound of Suigetsu calling my name rouses me from my thoughts. He has asked me a question, and it is a while before my distracted mind can focus enough to answer.

“He is headed west.”

I can feel his eyes still on my back, studying me.

“Get some sleep, Suigetsu. We leave at first light.”

The moon is high, and narrow. The sliver of blue light it casts leaves many shadows.

Long before morning I am gone.

Headed east.

Towards him.

A/N: I know these are really short chapters compared to my usual 10k word chapters lol, but I figured if I keep them shorter I will be able to update more regularly.

How sad, nobody has reviewed this yet :`( Please review, I'd love to know what you guys think since this is very different to my usual style XD