ARE YOU READY FOR THE AWESOME, LEAHNARI?
Artist: soleil_et_pluie
Recipient: leahnari
Title: Infected
Summary: It's the zombie apocalypse! But the hordes seem to be winning, and two shinobi find themselves at a terrible moment of impasse.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: All Naruto characters herein are the property of Kishimoto Masashi. No copyright infringement is intended.
Warning(s): Sadness, read the way i intended.
Medium: prismacolors and photoshop.
Artist’s Notes: I was going for "tragic" or perhaps "heartbreaking" but it may have just come out lame, in which case I really apologize. I hope you like. It's not ita/shi without tragedy, right?
Wait, but that's not all! The participant also has a lil summin' summin' extra for the community. Enjoy :)
[A rhyme for the river]:
It’s a story of geniuses
caught in the tide,
Of lessons quite painful
that they learned wide-eyed
Lovers, or brothers,
no one could tell
you with certainty
which way they fell.
Down in Konoha
to a district laid bare
the Uchiha, you see,
are cause for a care:
Now drowning is painful,
I’ll give you that
but Uchiha would do it
at the drop of a hat.
Cousins, and siblings
a long, violent trail
created a future
quite bloody, and pale.
A time of great hardship
will bring out the best
only sometimes;
more often you’re left
with the panic, the anger
as their fame did decline,
the “best of Konoha,”
at the end of their line.
On matters political
An expert I’m not-
But driven to corners
and left there to rot
Was a state quick to anger
this red-eyed of crowds.
The rumblings grew bitterer,
savage, and loud.
“Your end will be water,”
they told the young child,
“For sure as it’s written
above in the skies
“You’re drawn to the river,
but mind you, don’t go:
For love lost and heartbreak
is all that you’ll know-”
Of forces eternal
more powerful still
than hatred, is love,
and so thus it willed
him to follow
to the Nakano’s shores
His cousin, his everything,
that was the score.
Now here comes the part
I don’t like to relate
for Shisui was victim
to a bad hand of fate.
Dead in the river,
he floated away
Not a friend in the world
was near him that day-
Save one, the one person
who carried within
the woes of the clansmen
that caused him to sin-
They may say Shisui
was drowned all alone-
but the death count is higher,
for deep in his bones
Itachi could feel
what had died alongside:
a love that was martyred
for sharingan eyes.
The death may have saved them
from coup and from strife
(which they escaped at
the edge of a knife)
But always the feeling
Overwhelming, at times
that war had just taken
the one thing he’d prized
As his life it trudged onward
whatever he’d do
He’d still be reminded-
not one life, but two.
♥
Recipient: leahnari
Title: Infected
Summary: It's the zombie apocalypse! But the hordes seem to be winning, and two shinobi find themselves at a terrible moment of impasse.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: All Naruto characters herein are the property of Kishimoto Masashi. No copyright infringement is intended.
Warning(s): Sadness, read the way i intended.
Medium: prismacolors and photoshop.
Artist’s Notes: I was going for "tragic" or perhaps "heartbreaking" but it may have just come out lame, in which case I really apologize. I hope you like. It's not ita/shi without tragedy, right?
Wait, but that's not all! The participant also has a lil summin' summin' extra for the community. Enjoy :)
[A rhyme for the river]:
It’s a story of geniuses
caught in the tide,
Of lessons quite painful
that they learned wide-eyed
Lovers, or brothers,
no one could tell
you with certainty
which way they fell.
Down in Konoha
to a district laid bare
the Uchiha, you see,
are cause for a care:
Now drowning is painful,
I’ll give you that
but Uchiha would do it
at the drop of a hat.
Cousins, and siblings
a long, violent trail
created a future
quite bloody, and pale.
A time of great hardship
will bring out the best
only sometimes;
more often you’re left
with the panic, the anger
as their fame did decline,
the “best of Konoha,”
at the end of their line.
On matters political
An expert I’m not-
But driven to corners
and left there to rot
Was a state quick to anger
this red-eyed of crowds.
The rumblings grew bitterer,
savage, and loud.
“Your end will be water,”
they told the young child,
“For sure as it’s written
above in the skies
“You’re drawn to the river,
but mind you, don’t go:
For love lost and heartbreak
is all that you’ll know-”
Of forces eternal
more powerful still
than hatred, is love,
and so thus it willed
him to follow
to the Nakano’s shores
His cousin, his everything,
that was the score.
Now here comes the part
I don’t like to relate
for Shisui was victim
to a bad hand of fate.
Dead in the river,
he floated away
Not a friend in the world
was near him that day-
Save one, the one person
who carried within
the woes of the clansmen
that caused him to sin-
They may say Shisui
was drowned all alone-
but the death count is higher,
for deep in his bones
Itachi could feel
what had died alongside:
a love that was martyred
for sharingan eyes.
The death may have saved them
from coup and from strife
(which they escaped at
the edge of a knife)
But always the feeling
Overwhelming, at times
that war had just taken
the one thing he’d prized
As his life it trudged onward
whatever he’d do
He’d still be reminded-
not one life, but two.
♥