Summarry: Returning to the village he destroyed after hearing a rumor about someone still living in the wreckage Itachi realizes that the life he lives is incomplete. ItaSasu.

Italics are Flashbacks

I do not own Escape to the Stars (by Cinema Bizarre) Or Itachi (From Naruto)

However this story is mine

ALL MINE!


Difficult Child

Chapter 1-Figure Under the Night Sky

Itachs' Akatsuki Cloak whirled around him as the wind picked up.

The Sky was gray and the sun never broke through the layer of clouds, it was almost as if the earth was trying to hide the area from the rest of the world, as if it believed this place sacred.

Itachi stared down at the small village from where he stood on the hill.

The buildings and homes were barren and rotting, but he had to make sure.

He had to make sure there was no one living here in this desolate place he once called home.

It wasn't particularly his fault that it had come to this… He used to believe that the Village he lived in was peaceful and just, but he had learned all of its faults soon enough.

The place was contaminated, dirty, criminal in every way, just like the people who once had lived there.

His thoughts stopped as a memory came to the forefront of his mind.


"Mom, Dad I'm Home!"

"Hello Itachi, how was school today?"

"Fine I guess…"

His mother laughed as he entered the kitchen. "You mean that you don't know?"

He couldn't help but smile as he looked at her; she seemed so angelic and sweet at the same time.

"Your father won't be home in time for dinner, I hope that's okay."

"It's fine." His mother smiled at him and then sighed.

"That man, he never seems to make time for his family anymore… Well go finish your homework Itachi, I'll have dinner ready soon."

"Kay."

Itachi went quietly up to his room and sat down at his desk, proceeding to open up his backpack and take out his homework. When he sat up gain his eyes saw the photo in a picture frame that stood on his desk.

The picture was from his birthday last year and had his mom and dad hugging him with happy smiles on their faces.

His Father now wasn't like his father from the picture, and Itachi wished that he still had the man from one year ago in his life now, the father who thought work was a waste of time and that family was the thing that always came first.


But that wasn't the reason why the village and its inhabitance had perished. That realization had only helped him believe that something was going wrong in the village, and then he had become a village Anbu member.

The village Anbu was a group of ninja's that watched over happenings in the village.

Then a few months later Itachi had overheard the anbu leader and another man discussing a plan to destroy the village hidden in the leaves, Itachi had nearly had a heart attack before quickly fleeing the building.

At the time, everyone living in the village was part of the anbu, and everyone had been in on the plan and had agreed that this would be the next course of action taken by the village.

The death of hundreds.

A massacre.

Itachi hadn't let that happen, but in the process of securing a future for the Konoha he had deleted any future he would've had for himself in any other village.

Itachi had made up his mind once he had deleted the threat that his village had made, he chose to join the Akatsuki.

Then he had heard the rumor of a child living amongst the ruins, he had immediately come to see if the rumor was true.

So far he had been disappointed.

Itachi turned around about to leave when he noticed a blur fleeing from the edge of his vision.

He turned back around, scanning the village below him.

Then he spotted a small figure crouching on top of a building facing away from him, a second later he heard a voice, soft and what Itachi could only describe to himself as angelic reached his ears.

"I'm sick and tired of this so-called life

Without room to breathe

I toss and turn in my bed all night

Am I the only one who finds no peace?

What are you waiting for?

What are you waiting for?

Escape to the stars

Feeling so free

Just you and me

Escape to the stars

Chasing a dream

All that we need is to believe

Escape to the stars

I've always been the one to speak my mind

Strove against the stream

Take on the system or leave it behind

And you will find a new reality

What are you waiting for?

What are you waiting for?

Escape to the stars

Feeling so free

Just you and me

Escape to the stars

Chasing a dream

All that we need is to believe

Escape to the stars

Overcome gravity

Holding you down

On the ground

Free from insanity

No one else is around

Escape to the stars

Feeling so free

Just you and me

Escape to the stars

Chasing a dream

All that we need is to believe

Escape to the stars

Feeling so free

Just you and me

Escape to the stars

Chasing a dream

All that we need is to believe

Escape to the stars."

Itachis' eyes opened just as the song ended and scanned his surroundings. The figure was gone.

And for some reason that Itachi could not identify, he missed the figure under the night sky.


End.

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