Before the Carnage

Before the carnage, everything was different. No one would have guessed they were planning this. No one knew he was alive except from me and no one knew that I could be so cold blooded.

I'm not that cold. I saved him. I let him live. I destroyed his life. I hurt him as much as it hurt me to do it.

Not that it mattered to them. I was deemed insane and rejected from my village. I couldn't tell them the truth. Who would believe me?

No one would suspect that the Elders of the village ordered this.

Before the carnage life wasn't perfect but it wasn't hell like this either.

I had a family that loved each other very much.

My Father may have been slightly harsh, my Mother may have been too soft, but that didn't matter to him. He loved us all anyway.

I loved my baby brother so I had to save him. How could I let him die?

Later I told everyone and him that it was because he was weak and not worth killing. I had everyone convinced even him! Everyone except me.

I know I was ordered to leave no survivors but orders didn't matter to me when his life came into play.

Just as it didn't matter that what I had been ordered to do was impossible for even me to do alone in one night.

I didn't want to do it but I had to. I was bound to serve the Elders of my village.

It didn't matter that they were one of the most prestigious clans in the village.

It didn't matter that they were the Police Force.

It didn't matter that they were loved.

He was my brother and I destroyed his innocence torturing him like that. He was only 7 years old.

My name is Uchiha Itachi and I was 13 years old when I killed the Clan.

My family.