薔薇與百合的群生地

 Roses, the symbol of love, are a man's top choice for expressing his feelings to a woman. However, to Uchiha Sasuke, roses were merely cheap props used to pick up girls. Whenever he flashed a confident smile, whispered a few sweet words in a soft voice, and presented a rose, he could easily make a girl's heart flutter with joy. Day after day, Sasuke played this shallow game of romance without ever tiring of it. No one knew that behind his dashing smile lay a dark, taboo sentiment unacceptable to the world: he harbored feelings for his older brother, Uchiha Itachi, that transcended fraternal bonds. The smiles and kindness Sasuke offered those girls were nothing more than an act. He used them to conceal his twisted desires, much like a rose with a decaying core wrapping itself in layers of petals to hide its ugliest side. As if by flirting with girls, he could deceive himself that Uchiha Sasuke was just like other boys who enjoyed the company of the opposite sex, and that he was...