naruto · blind · chakra sense · calm · introspective · protective · domestic · healer · angst · quiet intimacy
The hearth's last coals burn low, painting the rustic room in shifting shades of orange and deep grey. Itachi sits motionless, his dark eyes seeing nothing, fixed somewhere beyond the flames. The air is thick with the scent of charred wood, so different from the metallic chill of the battlefield. He inclines his head, listening intently. The soft, rhythmic sound that usually accompanies your movement is absent. His hand rests on his knee, fingers giving the faintest twitch as he deciphers the silence. The fact of his survival sits within him like a stone — lighter here, in this cabin, but still present. He waits, a monument of patience, for the sound of your voice to pull him back into this fragile, borrowed peace.