A little character piece about Itachi and his relationship with Sasuke. If you have a veiw about the character tell me, I need help filling it out.
Standard Disclaimer: Characters do not belong to me, because then I would be, like, their parent and I never want kids this screwed up.
No.
The first clear memory Itachi had as a child was the word 'No'.
An Uchiha didn't go frog chasing in the pond with the others.
And it didn't stop there.
An Uchiha didn't play with other non-Uchihas.
An Uchiha didn't run around at the cherry blossom viewing festival.
An Uchiha didn't become a sailor.
An Uchiha didn't eat dango on the street corner.
An Uchiha didn't...an Uchiha didn't...an Uchiha didn't...
An Uchiha was defined from birth.
It was all Itachi knew as a life.
So Itachi bowed and conformed until he was born.
Sasuke.
His little brother.
The first person ever to look at him without expectations, to smile at him just because he walked into the room.
Itachi was happier than he'd ever been.
He felt loved.
Of course it couldn't last, dreams never did.
Piece by piece he watched the love drop out of his brother's eyes and Itachi started to hate. With every piece of taught envy that took that love's place Itachi felt his hate harden.
Little by little he watched the wonder which was that baby stunted and shaped by those all defining words.
"No. You're an Uchiha."
Until one day he looked into those no longer loving eyes and saw what their family had created.
Not brothers, rivals.
Then, finally, he understood what he wanted.
Freedom.
The right to choose for himself what he wanted, how people would look at him.
All he had to do was choose.
Uchiha or Itachi?
And he chose.
But looking into Sasuke's eyes he remembered his first dream. He might have forever lost his brother's love, but that didn't mean he had to lose his brother.
"Hate me."
After all the opposite of love wasn't hate. And if Sasuke hated him then he would still have something that was all Sasuke, something that wasn't a trained response.
Something that was just theirs, a link.
Brother to brother.
And noone would ever tell either of them 'No,' again.
Ahhh, another plot bunny safely tucked away.