What Have I Become?

Madara has lost, his dreams crumbled into blood-stained dust around him. As he lay dying, he takes a sole comfort in knowing that the loneliness that has followed him his whole life will at least be familiar. He denies solace in his friend, knowing that it wouldn't change a thing. He had failed, he was a defeated loser who would never walk again.

It was all over.

But what if it wasn't?