Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, any characters therein, or the lyrics used.
A/N: It's been a while since I've written something exclusively for Itachi and Sasuke. Here's hoping I haven't lost my touch. xD
do you feel better now?
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Don't know what's going on; don't know what went wrong
Feels like a hundred years;
I still can't believe you're gone
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Itachi's black eyes have faded to a dead grey. Blood pools around his unmoving form and Sasuke knows he has won.
He has won.
The feeling of victory will hit him later, he figures in a distant corner of his mind. The shock of the fact that it's finally over is rendering him oblivious to any other emotion. That has to be it.
How does it feel? he silently goads his brother. How does it feel to be the one on the ground, the failure?
It's ridiculous, this taunting of a corpse, of someone that can never respond. But Sasuke can't help but feel he's entitled, after everything.
How does it feel to be powerless? Brought to your knees by the last person you ever expected would destroy you?
His mental tone changes. Anger slips into bitterness that materializes as a small, grim smile on his lips.
I'm glad you're gone, you bastard. I'm so damn glad you're gone.
Something in his brain switches off, or maybe his body has just had enough; either way, Sasuke suddenly finds himself pitching towards the ground as his vision goes black.
His last thought before passing out, only semi-coherent, is that he never realized how tired he was.
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But as he discovers only hours later, there is no rest for the weary. There is no rest for him.
And maybe that's justice. He has no idea. All he knows is that the feeling of victory will never come, and he now knows-no, he always knew-why.
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I tell myself that I don't miss you at all
I'm not lying, denying, that I feel so much better
Now that you're gone forever
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End