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T W ii S T E D Addiictiion

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
14:14:00

Maybe it wouldn't have hurt so much if he hadn't said that.

He said to him so many years ago, after he had slaughtered his parents. Their parents. Sasuke splattered with crimson, onyx eyes wide, questioning, pleading. Desperate. "Why? Why, aniki?" Itachi had smiled, red eyes luminous in the dark, eyes that would haunt him for years to come.

"You aren't worth killing."

But now, he had the said figure at his mercy. Kunai at his neck, kneeling over him with determined gaze in his eyes so laden with intense hate. "You went easy on me," his tone was accusing, Sasuke was accusing, "I trained all these years to battle you fairly, yet... yet you went easy on me." Itachi had coughed, a small smirk on his wasted face, Sasuke glared.

Again they were brought back to the same scene so many years ago, when Sasuke was so much younger. sasuke was splattered with crimson, "Why?" the tone was harsher this time, demanding, but the eyes were always the same: wide, questioning, pleading. Desperate. Itachi laughed, a small hacking sound that was drowned out by the trickle of blood that trailed from the side of his mouth.

"You aren't worth killing."

Sasuke's grip tightened so slightly on the collar of his brother, eyes narrowing, "Pardon?" Itachi laughed again, choking on the blood that rose from his throat, coughing as he drew a ragged breath, one of the few he would have left. "You... aren't... worth... killing." Sasuke glared, and tightened his hold on the kunai, "Then I'll show you my worth."

It went so fast, and it ended so fast...Sasuke cringed so slightly as the blood splattered against his face, a salty metallic slap against his face... He shut his eyes, burning the triumph in his mind. Itachi Uchiha, defeated. Yes, that was all he had ever wanted wasn't it? Now, he had it fulfilled.

And now, it was resolved. Life was now purposeless, why not just... follow him? His beacon, his lighthouse, his path. For a moment he was transported once again, a time long before the Incident, before his death. He was five, small feet pattering against the wooden floors as he ran after his brother, eyes wide open with fear, with haste. Questioning, pleading, desperate. "A-Aniki!!" He had cried, and the figure before him halted and turned. "Aniki!" came the happy cry, "You promise to bring me with you to wherever you go right?"

The elder raven had smiled a little, the light illuminating the warm features he'd loved so many years ago, and nodded his agreement. There was a silence, Sasuke could see the approaching shadow of his father, see his mouth open in readiness to yell at them for the disturbance, but no words could be heard as Sasuke clutched his brother's sleeves frantically, "Take me with you now!"

His eyes shot open, wide, questioning, pleading. Desperate. Everytime the dream ended, everytime he recalled, and everytime he would be greeted by the same sight. The long raven locks that tickled his face, the warm bare torso and the arms that wound him in close. Sasuke sighed so slightly, snuggling in close, relief flooding through his body like an explosion of warmth.

"What is it, Sasuke?"

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