Revenge

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A/N: Hi guys!! I’m so sorry for the long wait, I had so much work I didn’t have time to do anything else after I got home.



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The funeral was a very quick affair. There were a lot of people, more than he thought would be here today. There were a few people crying, but being Shinobi, most were trying to contain their emotions.



He could see a few people having no qualms about crying in public and concluded they were civilians. He vaguely wondered if they were close to the dead shinobi but quickly dismissed the thought. He really didn’t need to know that.



Itachi stood in the midst of Konoha citizens, and even after being reinstated as a civilian (only for the next few months) by the newly appointed temporary Hokage, he still received distrustful looks.



He didn’t assume it would be any different. He knew these people, he knew it wouldn’t change even after ten years. He had been receiving these looks even as he was a child. He was too strong for them to trust. He could easily decide to dispose of them and they couldn’t do a thing about it.



HE also knew half of them were thinking he was indirectly responsible for their friend’s death, and in a way, they were right.



The announcement of his return was done without his presence. He had followed Naruto as he was transported to Tsunade’s, almost giving a heart attack to the medics and ANBU who came after feeling the flare in his chakra as he attacked his foolish sibling.



He had always called Sasuke foolish, but it was mostly to annoy him. He never thought he would be this stupid. Sasuke had known the truth. He had been standing outside that window as Naruto talked about his innocence in the murder of his family. So why did he still try to kill him?



Did he think Naruto would come back to him if he managed to get him out of the picture?



He had been ready to discuss the matter with him, but as he saw his blonde lying unconscious in a pool of his blood, he saw red (and it had nothing to do with the Sharingan). In his rage, he had tortured his brother in every way possible without using physical force…







…Until he heard the medic coldly say his lover wouldn’t make it alive. He didn’t hold himself back.



It was Jiraiya, who was nearby, that saved his brother’s life. He had never lost control in his life before, but he was sure he would have killed Sasuke.



HE mentally sighed and returned his attention to the picture of the fallen Shinobi.



It had been almost a week after Sasuke’s attack, and his brother was still in the hospital. He had visited once just to make sure he was still alive and left as soon as he was sure he could still kill him later if the situation worsened.



He didn’t care about anything right now. Not like he ever did care before, but he came to pay a last homage to someone he didn’t even know much. To someone who did something selfless and forfeited their life in the process.



He sighed again and turned to leave.



HE would need to discuss the fate of the child.







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Sasuke opened his eyes and winced as the light hit his still sensitive pupils. HE mentally cursed himself for his inability to sleep longer.



He couldn’t bear to stay awake too long. His body was too sore and the strongest pill wouldn’t completely make the pain disappear. In the week he had been in the hospital, he had many times wondered if Tsunade didn’t hide her painkillers just to see him suffer. For daring to harm her little brother.



He sighed again and tried to turn on his side. He nearly cried out at the pain, but still managed to position himself.



The pain was nothing compared to what his guilt was doing to him. It felt awful. His chest felt too small for his heart and nausea was a sort of new companion to him.



He couldn’t believe he had been stupid enough to attack his brother. For being childlish enough to think ‘If I don’t hear it from Naruto then it’s not real’.



For thinking Naruto would let someone he loved die…



He should have known Naruto would stand in front of his brother, he should have known the idiot wouldn’t let him do it…



There was no doubt in his mind. Naruto had loved his brother. Not the supposed criminal, not the prodigy, but just Itachi.







And he had probably loved him more than he ever did him.



Itachi had come to visit once. Well, maybe not visit since he just came through the door, sent him the most vicious glare he could muster, turned around and left.



And for the life of him, Sasuke couldn’t understand why those five seconds had hurt him more than anything in his life. The sheer disgust and dismissal in his brother’s eyes had made him want to crawl under a rock and die.



He had never felt like this before, not even when his father dismissed him when he was just a child. When Itachi had left, he was only half surprised to feel hot tears fall from his eyes, and at the time, he had blamed the guilt.



But a week with nothing else to do but think made him realize he had cried for his lost chance. His sheer stupidity had cost him not only his lover (before Sakura happened) and best friend, but also his brother, as he was sure that the only way for Itachi to approach him now, would be if he decided to finally kill him.



The day before, Tsunade and Shikamaru (temporary Hokage) came to tell him the news. He would be imprisoned for treason and would be killed. He had attacked their leader, they said, and Sasuke didn’t have the strength to tell them he wasn’t trying to kill the blonde. The damage was done and he thought he deserved to die. Maybe he could find his lover again and beg for forgiveness in the afterlife.



The thought brought tears to his eyes, and soon he was openly crying and didn’t bother hiding it.



He stared at the sun, hot tears falling from his onyx eyes as he thought of everything he had lost.



Itachi’s hand fell from the knob as he heard sobs coming from inside his brother’s room. He felt tears come to his eyes and closed them.



He would come back later.



He had other people to visit.



TBC



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Don’t throw stuff at me people!! I know it’s short but I wanted to focus on the brothers.







I won’t tell when I’m updating cuz every time I do something comes up and I can’t update, but I will update as soon as I can lol.



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