Wishes

Wishes

Yeah, umm, I’m an MC fanatic. This is just me being indulgent of myself. Enjoy if you like, if not, I’m going to write this for myself anyways. Whether an audience reads it or not is secondary.

"Aniki. When I focus really hard I can make my eyes turn red and there are little markings in them."
"Those eyes are unique to the Uchiha family, Sasuke. You must never show them to anyone, many people will want to take them from you and I."
"Aniki, you have these eyes too?"
"I do. But my eyes are further developed then yours, I've almost got them completed."
"What happens when you complete the marks in your eyes Aniki?"
"When you fully develop your eyes you will get whatever your heart desires."
"So our eyes grant wishes? No wonder everyone wants them! But how do I know when I've developed mine all the way?"
"After you have three marks in both eyes those marks will change shape, that's when you'll get your heart's desire."
"If I wish that our family would come back to us, will it?"
"No Sasuke. Not even the gods can reverse death. Wishing can't bring our loved ones back, all we can do is live for them, with them in our hearts and draw on their strength to keep living."
"OK… how do I make more marks appear?"
"You must be a strong person."
"How do I do that?"
"If I knew, I'd already have my heart's desire. I'm just telling you what I've read in our family’s old journals and such."
"OK…."
"Aniki?"
"Yes Sasuke?
"If I got my eyes tomorrow, I'd wish for you to smile like you meant it… like you used to."
"Thank you Sasuke. It means a lot to me that you'd wish for my happiness, but I have my own eyes for my own happiness, you use your eyes for yourself."
"Yes, Aniki."
"OK? Now, off to bed with you! You're going to start a new school in the morning."
"Yes, Aniki."


Sasuke sat up in bed. At that time he'd only been about five years old, but he still remembered that conversation like it had just happened. He had been so naïve, eyes that grant wishes… he wondered why he'd been thinking about it lately.

Whatever his heart desired. What his heart wanted most. His happiness. Itachi had called what their eyes did many things, but he'd never really explained it. Perhaps he didn't quite know himself? He kicked his bed covers off of himself, Itachi was still on his laptop even at this hour.

"Aniki?" he called, knocking on the door to his brother's room.

"Sasuke? Come in." Who else? Sasuke wondered as he entered the room.

"What's up little brother?" Itachi asked, not even turning from his computer.

"Aniki, when I focus really hard my eyes turn red and they have these little commas in them."

Itachi stopped typing for a full fifteen seconds, then he set his status to 'away', and pushed away from his desk and switched on his overhead light.

"Those eyes are called sharingan, they're the eyes of the Uchiha family; you must never show them off to anyone, our family has been persecuted for them. There have been many horror stories about Uchiha's that have had their eyes brutally gouged out and left for dead. Some didn’t die afterwards and had to live like that, though they always died of infection later. People may kill us for our eyes if they found out that we have them." he told Sasuke as he sat down on his bed.

Sasuke noted it was basically the same response that he'd received as a child; the one difference was that the responses were age appropriate. He decided to play along.

"You have these eyes too?"

"I do. I've almost got them completed." Sasuke waited for more of an answer, but there was none, he decided to move on.

"What happens when you have completed the marks in your eyes?"

"You will get whatever you want."

"Come on, Aniki. I'm not a kid, tell me straight, what do our eyes do?"

"I'm not kidding, whatever you want in this world, with these eyes you will have it. If someone else has it they will give it. If it's a person they are yours. If it's the world, then all you need are these eyes." Itachi pointed at his own set of ebony eyes.

"How?" Sasuke asked, clearly suspicious.

Itachi sat back and gave a small chuckle, "Really little brother, you should read through our families old journals. Some of them actually achieved the final eyes. Why do you think we have so much money?"

Sasuke was getting fed up, "Indulge me."

Itachi sighed, "Fine, but you have to listen to a history lesson first. Over 1500 years ago our family was just one out of several traveling nomadic families that were basically gypsies, but they encountered the technique of hypnosis; our family history is unclear as to where, you'd think they'd make special documentation of it…"

Itachi trailed off, clearly displeased at the lack of that one vital piece of information, then he seemed to remember himself. "But I digress, they began to utilize it for healing purposes at first, then they realized that they could use their abilities to manipulate those patients. They started arranging favorable marriages for their daughters and sons, started extorting money for their poor traveling family, started creating problems that would crop up later in their previous patients and their reputation grew.

"Soon wealthy families were commissioning smaller Uchiha families to live in their houses. We started developing a gaze that was just as influential as our abilities in hypnosis. There's a lot of myth and such about how a family member sold his soul, or his body, or his brother, or mother, or something in exchange for more powerful hypnosis techniques. Again, the journals aren't very clear, and again, I digress, suddenly every Uchiha lost that captivating aspect of their gaze. But when they focused properly, they could call upon red eyes that were hypnosis tools in and of themselves.

"But as a result of these new eyes they're treacherous behavior became easier to distinguish and people figured out about the Uchiha secret, some misinterpreted it and called us demons, and a lot of our ancestors were massacred. They were the luckier ones. Some wanted that power for themselves and killed some and took their eyes, only to realize that after death the eyes are useless. And that's when the true horrors began. They started kidnapping us, raising up the kids until the eyes were ready then extracting the eyes while they were still living. Feel glad we were born in this day and age where, for the most part they believe our family eyes died out over 100 years ago."

"So our eyes, can hypnotize?" Sasuke summarized.

"If you were to use your eyes as they are now, yes." Itachi said, shifting his position so he was leaning towards Sasuke again, when the younger brother had taken his desk chair, neither remembered, "Putting people in a trance like state, only able to make suggestions and pray that they are not too strong willed to remember what happened. But if you get the final eyes… there are no flaws, total control over whoever looks into those red eyes." Itachi spoke the words as if high on them, like they gave him physical pleasure.

"Do you have the final eyes Aniki?"

"No. But I'm close. I have all six markings and I can get them to move like the books say, but I can't get them to change shape, it's rather difficult actually."

"Have you ever used your eyes to get what you want?"Sasuke asked, now very much interested in his eyes.

"I have indeed, it's great fun, but it's risky, if someone who knew about our eyes saw us we'd be dead." Itachi studied his brother, "Try it out on your classmates, hey maybe now you can get those girls to stop harassing you."

Sasuke raised his eyebrows as he thought of the change his life would take with that one alteration. He loved his Uchiha eyes already.