Chapter 1- "Breaking Asylum"

Sasuke's P.O.V

It wouldn't be long before I was released from this place. I was only put here for my protection and because I was wrong. I blame Itachi for all this, he's still alive after all the things we went through. He's twenty-seven and I'm twenty-one, it's a miracle he's been alive that long! My whole family's dead and there seems to be no revenge through their spilled blood! He won't live long, it'll be too late when he makes too many enemies!

He shouldn't live, he almost killed me twice during those seven years. It seems my vengence wasn't enough then, I still haven't succeeded with fully killing him. This time will be different, I will do it this time and I will be freed of my pain and suffering once and for all. There's no changing my mind even it's going to cost me my life.

We've danced with death before, I almost made it happen but the sword wasn't close enough to his heart to really kill him. It ended in a tie and I ended up going to the asylum due to mistreatment of him. He took me even further away from everything I once knew, there was no sense of safety. I wasn't safe anywhere, every direction lead to him and he would twist me around and make every game dangerous.

That's why I'm in a mental hospital but I didn't go as crazy as some of them here who can't even remember who they are or who once were. They lost their identity, mine is permenent. I'm an Uchiha and there's only two of us left, everyone else is dead by murder. There isn't one ninja who doesn't know my brother, he's quite the celebrity around town eventhough he's still with the Akatsuki but he went underground about three years ago after our last encounter.

I don't know if he's coming back, I never know anymore. No one other than Kisame knows where he is, he's his partner but what makes you think that the shark demon will talk against him? He's going to keep his word because it will cost him bigger if he screws up and my brother knows how to get what he wants through intimidation.

I was going to be let out in three days and I was cleared by the psychiatrist to be at home, I surprised her at how well I dealt with everything that happened to me and tough I looked after training. I would get to go home and rest for a little bit but in the next few months I would set out to meet Itachi again, that was a promise I would act upon.

I didn't believe in fate but I knew it was fixed after the incidents with Itachi, he basically set my fate to fight him but that didn't go as planned and now everything after that haunted me or made things seem unrealistic, I thought it wasn't real when I was a teenager but I'm an adult now and it was real and I remember every detail especially the beatings and the fights.

The family didn't deserve to die in such a horrific accident, especially my two parents. I was so young to be exposed to a brutal slaughtering like Itachi did, I had come home and the scene was right in front of me. I had blamed myself for not being strong enough but that wasn't my fault, I didn't know how strong my brother was. I would know years from that age.

I hated him with a passion when I was fourteen and I still do. He took everything away, I wouldn't be so withdrawn if none of this happened but it was too late for that now. We were going to go at it again and we would probably keep going for years because of the dark grudges we held against each other and it always started over. We might not be so lucky this time, one of us or the both us will die tragically doing this battle again.

This was sad, how could we keep going like this? You can thank my "loving" brother for doing the damage from the start! The games won't end and I already accepted that cruel fate and it just keeps going. I attack Itachi, he attacks me. That's how it always goes but who knows, maybe I won't attack that way this time.

End Of P.O.V

Sasuke filled out the last of his papers as he saw Naruto come in. Naruto would always visit every week if he could, it was raining and thundering outside. A theme Sasuke knew when Itachi was at his worse from his experiences, he laughed at the rain and continued to fill out his release papers. He was finally going home, for the first time in his life, Sasuke wanted to go home.

He looked up at Naruto. "I haven't seen you for awhile..."

"I know, I've been busy doing things..." Naruto half laughed. "Have you seen...?"

"Itachi. No, he went underground." he replied, that was all I knew. "I don't know what his plans are.."

"Sasuke..." he felt Naruto's voice shake, something wasn't right with him. "No. I can't tell you..."

Sasuke had a bad feeling Itachi was up to things again but ignored the thought. He wouldn't act so quickly now that he went underground, he wasn't worried about Itachi now. He just wanted to go home and rest from searching for him, Itachi probably swore to the other Akatsuki to not even budge if Sasuke appeared in the hideout. That was how the game was being played and you had to make sure you weren't caught backstabbing someone else or it would cost you.

Naruto didn't appear nervous but knew he had to tell Sasuke something, keeping it would only bother him more. The more he remained silent the more Sasuke raised his eye to think that something was going on, he stopped writing his release forms and stared at Naruto. It was a cold stare as Naruto gathered his courage and began to speak.

"Listen, Sasuke. I just don't want you getting excited over this..."

Sasuke shifted a little as he watched the rain. "He's back isn't he? I can see it in your eyes..." A smile wiped across his lips, his vegence was high.

"Sasuke, I don't like that look..." Naruto looked to the side, it was his hungry look. "Don't go crazy on this one..."

"He resurfaced didn't he? I knew he would.." Sasuke went back to filling the forms. "He wasn't brave enough to remain underground and out of everyone's sight..."

"Well I can't lie now but he attacked a couple people on the mountains." Sasuke gave Naruto a confused look. "He seems money hungry this time..."

"Did he kill anyone? Not like it's a first time thing..."

A silence crept in as Naruto moved to the window and watched the storm, Sasuke didn't like that long period of time of silence. It ususally meant bad news and Sasuke had a feeling his brother was on a rampage this time, no one could stop him if he was in the way.

"...No one was sure, the people vanished..."

Sasuke gasped, the whole moutain clan was gone and there was about nine of them. He feared that it was shadowed as heavily as it was with his clan but why would Itachi choose that clan to destroy? He thought it over and knew that he wouldn't do that, he probably just killed some of them and that sent the rest running. A lot of the story had been left out and it was hard to figure out.

'Why would the bastard do that? It isn't a move he would make...' Sasuke thought as he put the forms on the desk and he was free to leave his asylum.

He picked up his bags and his things and left the room. He saw the nurses struggling with another person as they fought to put him in the room. He walked past all the rooms as some of the patients waved to Sasuke until he got on the elevator with Naruto and went down to the first floor, he had made some friends while he was here and Naruto could hardly believe it.

"You were friends with them? I didn't think you'd make friends in there..."

Sasuke turned to him. "I was friends with a schizorphrenic, a person who had this weird mental disease, and a struggling drug addict...Once you understand them they consider you a friend."

"Sasuke, why didn't we just carry you home? Maybe you would've been better off that way..."

"I had no choice, I needed to be away from there until I was stable enough to go home..."

"I can already thank you for giving it to your brother for me. Eventhough you didn't kill him."

Sasuke shifted. "I'm going to succeed this time, my vengence is high..."

A smile crept across his lips again as it dissappered, Naruto watched closely. He was afraid that Sasuke was going to finally dance with death for the last time, Sasuke was used to doing it and he finally was going to do it. If he screwed up then he would just try again like last time until he died or until he couldn't do it anymore and Itachi would enjoy every minute of his suffering.

They reached the first floor as they exited out from the steps onto the grass, Sasuke hadn't seen the outside in so long. Naruto walked beside him as the tension entered his mind, he wanted to stop Sasuke but knew that was out of his hands. Sasuke was so focused on doing this even if he failed over and over.

Little did he know that the games would taken to another level, Itachi had figured out a way to make the level of intensity brutal but Sasuke knew that had left the last battle as a tie with no loser or no loss of life and that was how it ended. What he didn't know was that Itachi was lurking around again and he was watching. He watched from the bushes as Naruto lead Sasuke back home.

Itachi walked closer behind the two as he hid in bushes and would reappear. He was a few feet behind Sasuke then a few more feet until he was close behind him. Itachi laid his hand on his shoulder as Sasuke eyed the hand seeing the ring on his finger. Itachi couldn't brace Sasuke against a tree and threaten him, he wasn't that size anymore, he was two inches under his height.

Itachi tried it anyway as Sasuke looked back to see his brother, he was against the tree as Sasuke looked back at him. "...You decided that the underground wasn't your style?" Sasuke seemed fearless as he struggled to get away from him. "I know you're out but what for?"

"I'm not telling you..." he replied darkly as hit Sasuke against the tree. "...I thought the asylum would mess up your mind further but it proved to do little as unexpected."

Sasuke felt his brother against his neck as Sasuke looked back still fearless. "...You thought wrong, I recovered and I'm going to destroy what's left of you...I will play the game..."

Itachi laughed evily. "Little brother, when will the grudges stop? I notice that smile, all that confidence..."

Sasuke laughed with him and gave him a crazed stared. "I'm not the one who should be worried this time..." he felt the pressure of his brother as he went up against him harder. "I'll die today, if that's what you want..."

"No, that's not what I want..." Sasuke still grinned evily as he watched his brother. "I want you to suffer more slowly than last time and you won't have that smile of vengence with you..."

"Test me, I'm not your little brother anymore...He's an adult..."

Itachi paused. "I noticed..." He slid the kunai gently across his neck. "One cut, figure this one out Sasuke..." He licked the blood off his neck as Sasuke closed his eyes, he was crazier than before.

He continued doing it until Sasuke hit him. "Blood is your obssession..."

Itachi pulled him back until Sasuke rested firmly against his body. "It will be yours too, your obsession to kill me will drive you there..."

Before Sasuke could turn around, Itachi took off into the bushes.

'You don't know how doomed you are, bastard!' Sasuke glared.

That's Chapter 1, Please R&R.