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Nightmare
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Sasuke looked down at Itachi's pale body, looking much lesser than a heap of rubbish. The younger Uchiha smiled as blood ran down his forehead, right where his brother had touched him before falling to the dusty ground. Before dying.
Dying.
He closed his eyes, exhausted of their fight earlier. It was not very much fitting to call it a fight. It was more like a feud. A feud between two brothers. A feud that Sasuke, for the first time, ended with him victorious.
The younger Uchiha's legs gave way, and he too fell to the ground, just beside Itachi, who seemed so alive…his eyes still half-opened, gazing upon the sky. A very faint smile played across his own lips.
Itachi knew…
He knew it from the very beginning…
"You have succeded, Sasuke." A familiar voice, yet so deep and sinister. Sasuke tried to move, to look upon the person who was gazing at him with such malicious intent. "Uchiha Itachi…is dead."
The words seemed to drown themselves inside Sasuke's ears. He realized that it sounded so horrid, so unforgiving when said aloud…rather than thinking of it. It sounded very unrealistic. The Uchiha suddenly found the urge to turn over to expect Itachi looking at him with velvet red eyes.
But…nothing.
Itachi was dead.
The thought sent a thousand memories swirling inside the boy's mind, starting from their very first training together. His older brother's eyes seemed to be full of innocence and contentment, much like his own.
Now, Itachi was on the ground, lying lifelessly.
The smile that had been on Sasuke's lips vanished instantly. He suddenly remembered…
Itachi.
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With a wild cry, the boy sat up, his eyes brimming with tears as he wiped his sweaty forehead. He sat there on his bed, sniffing as he remembered his dream…no, his nightmare.
The door cracked open, then Itachi came forward, his face strewn with concern. He held his little brother, afraid for Sasuke was shaking and mumbling. Itachi whispered soothing words as he comforted the scared boy.
"You…I…" Sasuke whispered his eyes wide. "I killed you."
"Nonsense."
A hand brushed away his tears.
"Remember, whatever happens…I will always love you." Itachi said as he held him closer. "I will protect you…even if it costs my own life."
Sasuke only nodded, for he was too scared to ask what his older brother meant.
But he didn't have to ask, for eight years later, the same nightmare would occur, only this time, it was real.
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