Big Brother

by Falling Tears of Death

Somewhere Itachi was the brother he should have been and Sasuke led the life he should have had. But really if you look at it, its all the same.

1. Part 1

Summary: Even without sharingan Sasuke can see anything he pleases but usually, mostly all he really wants to see is Itachi.

A/N: This series was partly inspired by Big Fish the book. You should know there will be NO Itachi/Sasuke. I repeat NO, as in none, nada. All accepted disclaimers apply. For clarification purposes Take 1's are non-cannon and Take 2's are 98% cannon. Dedicated to Indigo's Ocean 3

Meet (v): to come upon; come into the presence of; encounter. to become acquainted with; be introduced to. to encounter in experience.

Part 1: In which Sasuke Meets Itachi (Take 1)

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth—A streetcar named Desire

Sasuke has many first memories of Itachi, some that are not his own but instead have been told to him so many times that they have become like a field of butterflies behind his closed eyelids. One of these memories goes like this:

It is raining outside. Sasuke can hear the drip, drip, drip like a syringe into his very brain. His limbs feel restless and lethargic at the same time. He wants to go, to run, to explore and conquer but every movement he makes is met with a barricade.

A neon red wire barricade that burns into Sasuke's eyes like a stop sign that is too bright and too overpowering in this little grey house. No matter what he tries he cannot escape. He pushes but it doesn't budge, he bites but it doesn't break or crumble, he climbs but it is too tall. He reaches his little hands in between the bars but cannot reach outside. Its too far away.

He is trapped and powerless and only one years old and it is raining outside with thunder so loud, no one can hear him crying. And then there is a blur. There is magic, there is something so incredible that it feels imagined.

Hands. Two hands so big and warm that they are greater than the universe. Pulling him up, up, up into the air and Sasuke is suddenly free. Sasuke is free, and flying, and laughing on the shoulders of his savior—Itachi.