Casus Belli

"Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur..."


And so, the beautiful thirty-second chapter of our beloved SasuSaku story, Quietus, has inspired me to draw (again). Hahaha! This time, it was harder for me to plot out the colors, cause I really just wanted an artwork of them in that yin-yang pose. I browsed through so many laying down positions for some reference. I thank all the yin-yang poses. Anatomy is hard for me, so I just had to experiment. I wanted a very distinct separation or a "wall" between Hades and Persephone, but I didn't know how to pull it off without making the "wall" look obvious. Alas, winter and spring speak for themselves.

I really loved the flashback part of when
_{[SPOILER for Chapter 32] Sakura and Sasuke met in the woods and Sasuke discovered Sakura's life-giving gift as a goddess. [End of Spoiler]}
Not only was it heart-thumping for me to read, it really was just THAT beautiful.
Butterfly-Chu is definitely dong a brilliant job teasing us with "so close yet so far" moments in the story. *drums fingers at Sasuke* Your self-control astounds me. Truly.

Casus Belli is Latin for "That which causes or justifies war"~ I thought it was befitting the whole drawing. I never knew what to name it so yeah, did a bit of research. Hahaha!


artwork by Jenazia
story by AngelHearted/Butterfly-chu
characters owned by Masashi Kishimoto