I can't say I really like Itachi, but somehow I feel sorry for him as he's so many burden on his shoulders. Besides, I want to help Naruto and Sakura to have Sasuke back, so I decided to "rewrite" their fate from the clash between the brothers (That's the easiest part to start).

I tried to many some funny scenes, but somehow...yep, they never went too smoothly good and even cracked... = =

Hope you'll all enjoy the story!

Drops of Chastity

Determination of Returning

"Finally…" A cloaked figure stood in front of the stone chair on the stone stage, where another sat comfortably in a chair. "I've come here to kill you, Uchiha Itachi."

"Is it so?" The one in the chair closed his eyes and was silent for a few seconds, then he opened them and said quietly, "Tell me, Sasuke, what have your eyes seen?"

Sasuke closed his eyes and when he opened them again, a pair of crimson eyes, the pupils surrounded by three tomoes replaced his original obsidians, "Your death."

"Ah, I see…" Itachi muttered to himself, looking as if he's digesting the answer, disappeared and reappeared just on Sasuke's right. "I wonder if you've a clear sight."

Then, the clash between the Uchiha brothers began in clear clanks and sparks.

"Why…?" Sasuke panted heavily as he lifted his head up painfully to face Itachi, ever so calm and almost unharmed. "Why didn't…you always have the chances to…"

"Kill you?" Itachi ended for him as he make up to the crouching younger Uchiha. He smirked softly and said wryly, "No wonder you're always my foolish little brother."

"Fuck…" It's all Sasuke could pronounce out after receiving some hard punches.

"Didn't you ever desire to surpass me?" Itachi stopped just right in front of him.

"Huh…?" Sasuke peeped at his brother his covering strands of cougar blue hair.

**Fragments of Memories**

Whoosh! Tint! Thud! All those targets were hit on the bull's eye by the kunais.

A twelve-year-old Itachi did a back-flip and landed on the ground on his legs. Behind the tree trunk, up ran the seven-year-old Sasuke, clapping hands appallingly.

"Great job, nii-san!" The little boy cheered as the older ruffled his head lovingly. His eyes sparkled with pride like a student to a teacher whom he respected the most.

"I'm not losing to you, nii-san! See!" He yelled as he jumped up into the mid air.

"No, Sasuke, you—" Before Itachi could finish; Sasuke fell and twisted his ankle. Though a bit annoyed by that, Itachi carried him back home. Sasuke nuzzled his back.

"Nii-san, can you promise me that you'll train with me just as today next time?"

"Yeah, I promise; as long as we are free and together." Itachi smiled so warmly.

**Fragments of Memories**

Tint! Thud! All except the first kunai, the others were just depleted and missed.

Sasuke panted on the ground, quite disappointed from the unsatisfactory result. He then recalled what Itachi had said to him yesterday in the evening at the garden…

"I will always be with you in your heart as a wall that you must try to climb over, even if you hate me." He said those with such a smile that seemed to show his pride.

'Don't ya worry nii-san; I'll be.' Sasuke promised to himself with determination.

**Fragments of Memories**

"Bro, can you train me after I'm back from Academy and you from mission?" Sasuke hugged Itachi, eyes with begging and playfulness. Itachi only smiled bitterly.

"I'm sorry, Sasuke. I'm busy today and there will be another mission tomorrow. Why don't you ask father?" Itachi ruffled his hair and made his way to the main door. Sasuke stood at the staircase, pouting as he watched his brother putting on his shoes.

"Father's said that your throwing skills are even better than his!" He muttered. "Nii-san, I know I may be a little brat, but just don't see me as nonsense even to you."

Itachi only smiled, signalling his brother to come over. As Sasuke ran up to him, he took out two fingers and poked him playfully in the middle of the forehead; again.

"I'm sorry, Sasuke. We'll do it next time." He left the quiet house…and Sasuke…

**Fragments of Memories**

"Why?" Sasuke sobbed at what he saw. "Why you have…they don't have to…"

Standing emotionlessly in the dark shadows, Itachi said nothing but watched.

"Don't fuck with me!" Not knowing where his courage aroused from, Sasuke, though weak and defenceless, charged at the tall cold murder, the genius, his brother. After a blow on the stomach, he collapsed, vomiting some saliva and the peptic acid.

"Listen, foolish little brother," Sasuke shivered from his brother's icy tone, very much unlike his normal warm and kind one. "If you really want to kill me, hate me, detest me. Put all your hatred and curses on me, and be strong. If you feel like it, seek and kill me. All in this time, you can only live lowly and in the dark. You can live and end your life with that, unless you want to have peace…"Itachi then activated his Mangekyou Sharingan. "…and end your longest nightmares and haunts of your life."

"Argh…!" The shriek echoed throughout the whole Uchiha Clan's enclosed area.

**End of Memory**

"Since that night, didn't you ever desire to surpass me?" Itachi asked him again.

Sasuke remained in silence. It was, indeed, his ambition to "kill a certain man", who "the man" has just been Itachi; therefore he strived to be stronger by all times: graduated from the Academy as soon as possible, finished the missions most swiftly, fought the possible strong opponents he met, took the Chuunin Exam for promotion, fully mastered the Chidori, fought with Naruto as he's wished in the Valley of the End, left Konoha and went to Orochimaru for power…all's just for his revenge for the clan.

"Now, before you think of killing me, think carefully of just one this more issue: isn't the fact that you've become much stronger than you have been nine years ago? Aren't you satisfied as you achieved a peak again, regardless what way you've used?"

Sasuke could hear the happiness in his brother's friendly tone. Back in the past, Itachi's the only one who accepted all praises from their father and almost everyone, while he's overshadowed and bore the burden of being a minor comparing to Itachi. His heart leapt at Fugaku's first praise, but never one from his precious elder brother.

"I don't get it…" Sasuke's totally oblivious and confused of Itachi's every plans.

"Do you think that you can be THIS strong if you're under the care of our clan? You'll just being very reliable and cling on others for protection if danger's ever there. You're never strong by perfect circumstances and die easily if not cautious enough." Itachi knelt and ruffled Sasuke's hair, just as how he's done back in the good old days.

"Nii-san…is you really my nii-san?" With all things cleared with wrong concepts, Sasuke only wanted to confirm this man's identity: S-Class criminal or the old brother.

"Yeah, of course; the one and only elder brother you have." Itachi smiled at him. The raven slowly rose up to sit up and hugged the man in front of him like a toddler, sobbing in his broad chest for all the salvations he has gone through in the past years.

"Oi, Sasuke, you're too old to be such a cry-baby anymore." He patted his back.

"If you've told me, I wouldn't go to that Freak and suffer from this damn Seal!" The emo teen yelled and resumed his sobbing; tears gushing out from his obsidians.

"OK, I'm sorry. We'll come up a way to deal that. Should we go back to Konoha? I bet all of them are waiting for us." Itachi released himself from Sasuke's tight grips.

"They better accept me than you, ugly." Sasuke teased and ran for his life for it.

"Say it again and I WILL kick your ass, Stupid Chicken-ass! I AM the pretty one!" Itachi's pissed off and chased Sasuke on the back, waving his weapons at his brother.

"Ugly bad-ass old weasel!" "You're a teme!" "Just catch me, old ugly geezer!"

For the next minutes, the Uchiha brothers were chasing each other in the hall, running in circles and shouting pet-names, curses and teasing nicknames. Until then, they lay on the floor, totally breathless and panting heavily like two dogs after a race.

"So, ready?" Itachi asked Sasuke, who's an arm's apart from him on the right. Somehow, there was unwillingness in his holly dark eyes of the deepest sea trenches.

"I'm not sure if Naruto and Sakura would accept me as a friend and teammate," At the last minute Sasuke's revealed his worries, he got poked on the forehead again.

"Hell, of course! What do you think that make them to go all way to be stronger, and chase after you all these past three years nonstop?" Itachi spoke out as he sat up. "Naruto respects you as dearly as a brother to him, 'much of that you were to him', expecting you to go back, even though you'd be seen as embarrassment to Konoha."

"What about you, bro?" Sasuke also sat up and asked Itachi on the face eagerly.

"As long as you're everywhere expecting me to come, I'll be there." He smiled.

"So, it can't be helped," Sasuke stood, dusted his trousers and offered his hand. "Let's go back to Konoha and our good old days, nii-san. Everyone's waiting for us—"

"Do you think we can walk in like some oh-I-am-just-going-though travellers? Don't you ever forget; STILL, I'm an S-Rank wanted criminal and you're a rogue ninja." Itachi let out a laugh and reminded him of a fact. Indeed, there's a real problem in it.

"So, gotcha any plans in your mind?" That's not a question; that's a certain fact.

"Every plan I have will work out perfectly…and at times, getting pretty nasty…"