The Deepest Scar
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Sometimes I wish he had beaten me. That he would have beaten me so hard and cut me so deeply that I would've carried the physical scars for the rest of my life. People seem to understand why a person with a scar would be dedicated to defeating the person who hurt them. Because even if that person doesn't explain why they want to kill the person who scarred them they don't have to. The scar silently speaks for them, "They hurt me, and they will pay."
It seems that not many people understand that all scars are not physical. That some can hide within a person and bleed, until they've bled dry, or until the wound festers, infecting everything around it. For most of my life I've planned my revenge against Itachi, my brother.
At first people were understanding, "Itachi killed his whole family, of course Sasuke would want to avenge them!" Slowly though, they withdrew their support. Until even my teacher, Kakashi, told me to give up; just as I had started to get closer to my goal! Like they had expected me to heal over time, like they had expected me to get over it and start "living my life."
Would they ever tell Kakashi not to go after the guy who scared his face or tell Ibiki not to torture the men who had burned and drilled holes into his scalp? It's worse. Because I don't have I scar that I can point to and say, "Look at what he did to me!" Not that I would say that, but I wouldn't have to, the scar would tell them for me.
I won't explain to them how much Itachi really hurt me, how my invisible wound is bleeding and festering at the same time; that I trusted him; that I loved him, and he crippled me in return.
They don't understand that my wound is just as debilitating as a pair of hacked off fingers or an amputee's missing leg, because, even though I'll never say so, I know Itachi ripped apart my heart.
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So here's my second Naruto oneshot. This idea popped into my head while pondering current revelations within the Narutoverse. Spoiler Warning! It seems that Itachi was actually a swell guy after all. I was completely taken by surprise when I read about the "real" Itachi (assuming we can trust Madara... or Tobi... or the Mizukage... wth?). I even teared up a bit. Anywho... even if Itachi was a "good" guy, he totally ruined Sasuke's chance at fully trusting someone ever again.
Sasuke says he's an avenger and he wants to kill Itachi for the destruction his clan. But after thinking about that for while I realized that Sasuke says he wants to avenge his family but it isn't just that. Sasuke looked up to Itachi as the ultimate role model, he totally had a brother complex and loved Itachi to pieces. Itachi was probably the person Sasuke held closest to his heart. Then Itachi turned on him (or so it seemed). Sasuke doesn't want to admit how much Itachi meant to him, so instead of saying that he wants revenge, he hides his feelings by saying he wants vengeance.
Until Next Time - Kuroi Fushichou