Sasuke's Journal Entry (9)

"He came like a ray of sunlight that I was too afraid to touch, but it's only under it that I shone like the moon upon the night."

Loneliness had been my friend throughout life, and pain was the slow poison that corroded my heart every day. Hope was a luxury I could never afford, and happiness was a dream I never dared to see. This was how it was supposed to be...

But everything changed when he came into my life.

At first, I thought he was just a breeze that would pass by in no time, making it more difficult for me to deal with my reality that I had long accepted.

But that was where I was wrong all along.

He wasn't just any star that twinkled, only to hide behind the daylight.

He was the sun himself, who broke the cycle of those tormenting, endless nights I had been caged in.

He loved me when I hated myself.

He kissed me when I loathed my battered body.

He held me when I was drowning in pain.

He set the fire of hope alight in my dormant self.

Just when I thought I was a body meant to suffer in the dark, he made me shine upon my own omens like the moon upon the night.

If I try to describe my love for him in words, I would run out of pages to write and the right words to portray.

But all I know is... thanks to him, I look forward to living each day, where there would be happiness to share, fights to brave together, and nights to spend engulfed in each other.

A new life now awaits me.

But it's sad that it begins with the end of this journal, whose pages have seen my bad and good alike.

This is the last page of this journal.

I wish I could write more about what might happen between us. I wish I could journal more about our journey together.

But now, it's time for me to bid farewell.

Farewell to this story, to the days that made me scribble in these pages with tears.

For all I know, whatever we encounter in the future, no obstacle will ever be enough to make me fall back into the pit of my past miseries.

Because now, I'm not alone. I have him with me.

For Naruto and me... our lives together have just begun.

And this time, we're going to live it better than before.

~ recorded on the night of the "Waxing Gibbous"

*Waxing Gibbous - when the lit-up part of the Moon grows from 50.1% to 99.9%.

~ The End ~