So, yeah, I'm back. And once again, I'm starting a new story without finishing the one I started like three years ago. Yeah, I'm inconsistent. Deal with it. Actually, this story is a result of some inconsistency on my part, namely my switching affection from one character to another. But whatever. This story works more anyways. So here's Calculations. Enjoy!
Fanfiction: Fiction written by fans for other fans about the fandoms that they like. In other words, I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!
"After the lights go out on you
After your worthless life is through
I will remember how you screamed
I can't afford to care
I can't afford to care"
"Lights Out" by Breaking Benjamin
Uchiha Itachi planned for everything.
He knew all of his targets well enough to know how the night would unfold. He had foreseen all their movements, all their reactions, all their attacks. He knew who would present the greatest challenge and who would be easier to take down. He had calculated the amount of time it would take for them all to fall, and how soon it would be before the village discovered what he had done. But by then it would be too late. The Uchiha clan, one of the oldest and most powerful in the history of Konoha, would be gone, brought down by one of their own.
It all went as he had planned it. There was crying and screaming, kunai and shuriken thrown, some of the Uchiha clan's greatest jutsu used against him. None of it mattered. He was on autopilot, cutting and stabbing, using his new Mangekyou Sharingan to predict their movements. It was all over soon, all exactly as expected.
Except for one.
His little brother stared at him, pure and utter terror in his eyes. He had come in just after Itachi had killed his parents, the one thing that he hadn't predicted. He had meant to take care of them after his brother. It was unfortunate that his brother had seen them on the floor. It would just mean that he would be more upset, and there would be more crying. Nothing unexpected, nothing difficult. He could still kill Sasuke.
So why couldn't he move his arm?
His brother… the one person who made him feel that he was still human. With everything he did for Konoha, the espionage and the killing, he sometimes felt that he was losing his mind. Sasuke's competitive and energetic spirit made him more feel like the child he had never been allowed to be. And he was about to end that.
But… could he?
He had to.
Why?
He needed to prevent war.
What did Sasuke have to do with it?
He was an Uchiha.
So was he.
He had to complete his mission.
Is that all this is?
It was his family or Konoha.
And is Konoha always right?
He did everything for his village.
Even kill his little brother?
…
No.
So for the first time in his life, Uchiha Itachi went against orders and left his brother alive, leaving orders of his own. Hate. Run. Live. And one day, fight. Show that he was worthy of living.
Itachi wasn't there when the massacre was discovered by two little girls who lived nearby. He didn't know that he had already been entered in the bingo books as an S-rank criminal. And he didn't see the elders shake their heads and frown at his failure to complete his mission. But that didn't matter to him, because his little brother was alive.
That was Uchiha Itachi's first mistake. It would not be his last.
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." –George W. Bush, former U.S. president. Thank God.
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