Leave Out All the Rest - Itachi Sonfic
Songfic about Itachi. The song is by Linkin Park. Look it up if you don't know it. It's a good song. Warning: may contains spoilers for all those who know nothing about the Itachi/ Sasuke fight or anything past that. Proceed with caution.
Written in Itachi's point of view. Think of it like something that he would write in a last letter to his brother.
(Italics are song lyrics)
(Bold and italics are song lyrics and part of the letter/story.)
I dreamed I was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
'Cause no one else cared
I could never hurt my you. But yet, so many people see me as a monster, a killer. No one understands why I did it. Why I killed our family. But really, no one cares. No one cares if I die. People believe the world would be a better place without me. After I was ordered to destroy my clan, I realized that you were the most important thing to me. I just couldn't kill you. I wanted to... to spare you the anger - the confusion. But I couldn't.
After my dreaming,
I woke with this fear
What am I leaving
When I'm done here.
I knew you would search for me. I knew you would not be strong enough. So, I told you to search for me only after you obtained the Mangekyou Sharingan. Only then would you be strong enough to face the pain. I'm afraid that telling you the truth - that I had to kill the family to protect the village - would set you off and make you a danger to everyone. I just wish I knew the answer. I don't want you to hate me, but I want you to know me as your older brother, not as a man who needs to be killed.
So if you're
Asking me
I want you
to know
I want you to know me, not the person everyone has made me to be.
When my time comes,
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed.
I don't want to be forgotten. I want someone to care. Yes, Kisame will miss me but he will miss what a great fighter I was. Not the me I really am.
Don't resent me and
When you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest.
Leave out all the rest.
Please, Sasuke, don't hate me. Don't give up on the friends I know you have made. Remember me. Forget everything I've done. I wish I could take it all back. Go back to the beginning and try it all again. But, I know I can't and no matter what I could have done everything would have turned out worse than it is today.
Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating
I've shared what I made
Sasuke, don't be afraid of me. I wish you would just love me, treat me like I see all the younger brothers treating their older brothers. I've paid the price for what I did. I lost everything. The hardest of all of them was you. All the pain I've caused you, I've experienced double.
I'm strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I've never been perfect
But neither have you.
I know I seem like the perfect person. Great at using my Sharingan, great at Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, and Genjutsu. But I have one major weakness - you. If anyone kills you, I don't know what I would do. Please Sasuke,
So, if you're asking me,
I want you to know
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
I know it's too late now but...
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest
Sasuke, I wish you could see all this the way I do...
Forgetting all the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else can come
And save me from myself.
I'm sure all the anger that you have had for me has been bubbling inside you for years. I wish it didn't have to be this way. I wish I could, but
I can't be who you are.
When my time comes,
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me and
When you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest
I know it's hard, but you need to start
Forgetting all the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well
Pretending someone else
can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
Sasuke, if you ever get this letter, which I doubt, please know that I love you and I always will.
Signed:
...You're loving brother,
…...Itachi of the Akatsuki. (Formally Uchiha but I gave up that name long ago.)