Hi everyone this the first fan-fiction that I have ever posted. I have written story's before, but usually I never let other people see them. I don't even know where this idea came from but it just yelled write me NOW.

I think everyone knows that I don't own any of this. Now on to the fic!

An Exersise In Foolishness

I do not know why I am doing this. No one will ever see this but myself and it is foolishness of the worst kind to be writing any of this down when some secrets are best left just that, secret.

When I was a young man I kept a journal of what I had seen, what I had thought and most of all what I had lost.

It was a time when I had everything to lose, but that time is long gone and never to return.

Looking back I see now that I was indeed a foolish young man, giving all that I had for a group of people who in the end had only there narrow self interests in mind.

But then so do, I what is this plan of mine but narrow self interest and petty vengeance?

Vengeance.

Over the years I had noticed that it was an unhealthy habit of my clan. We all hold a grudge. We never forget and rarely forgive even the smallest of insults.

The whole clan was infected with this obsession for vengeance. I have only met two Uchiha that were not filled with this endless need for vengeance.

The first was my brother, a man who was far to kind to me in a cruel world where showing to much kindness can kill a man as easy as any blade or jutsu.

The second was Itachi. Who was so blindly obedient to his village that he slathered his friends and loved ones with out a moments hesitation, but in a moment of weakness failed to kill the only one that could ever be a threat to him, or be used against him.

He had his reasons I suppose.

And in the end it was his guilt not kindness that killed him.

Not that it really matters, he is just as dead.

Ultimately I think that I am just as bad as the rest of them, the vengence driven Uchihas as empty and as driven by a desperate need to avenge my damaged pride. Forever seeking my meaningless victory.

Only one thing makes me any different than those other Uchiha's.

I will triumph, I will not fall and fail. I will have my revenge on all of them.

End

Wow that was, ahh I don't know what that was really. It did not turn out at all like I first planned it. But I think it went well, except for Madara's last line that seemed kind of dumb to me, but he is the villain what do you expect. Reviews would be really nice. Even if you hated it I want to know what you think of this. If any one liked it and if I get any ideas i may write more.