This is my first story so be nice! I got inspired by the song Monster by Meg and Dia, so if you want you should listen to it before reading. ItachixOC.
Itachi was never truly loved by his family. They expected so much from him... things he couldn't see himself give. He became an empty shell towards his parents and others around him. His understanding of love morphed into his painful version showed to him by his parents.
The only time he felt warmth from love was with Mayume. A young girl from the neighboring clan who would visit with her twin sister, Natsumi. He wished his family would love him like she did.
But they never did, and her family started to try and keep her from him. They didn't trust him...
'Why should they?'
He dreamed of her in his arms surrounded by the fireflies they would watch dance around the dock. He would slam his fists into the training posts at the thought of her family.
barriers that needed to be destroyed.
"Your my best friend Itachi," she would whisper in his ear as she hugged him while they sat together on the dock at night.
He would hold her close, feel her small body pressed to his. A moment that he wanted to last forever.
He did destroyed those barriers.
Mayume, Sasuke, and Natsumi were the only survivors. Sasuke and Natsumi were left with feelings of hate and betrayal. Mayume was left with a bruised heart, full of sadness, confusion and fear. Itachi remembered her face as she stared at him over her father's lifeless body.
"Why?"
He was a Monster!
She could not trust him. She could not hate him. She could do nothing but fear him. But he refused to let her go. He watched her grow from a little girl to a young woman, and his love for her only grew. He became possessive and wanted her for himself...and only him.
He watched her cry alone on the balcony of her new home while her sister was away. He hated to see her cry. So he went to her one night as she cried. scarlet hair shining in the moon's glow like the tears falling from her pale cheeks.
He wiped her tears away
She reacted to late.
He trapped her in his room with him. He saw the fear and confusion on her tear stained face. His heart had longed for her and he now had her. He took her love...
trust...
hate...
fear...
innocence...
Mayume didn't understand. She was afraid. Nightmares of her fear plagued her nights as she slept by him. 'Why is he doing this?'
Itachi came to understand her fear. She feared a future that he longed for.
She longed for a future that he could not be in as he was.
A monster...
The demons of his soul were consuming him as he held her to him, waiting for his control over them to break. They would hurt her.
'They are no better than me...I hurt her...I am no different than them.'
He thought about going back to konaha with her. He knew that she wanted to go home and he wanted her to be happy...
But their voices burned in his ears.
"Monster!"
"Traitor!"
He looked down at Mayume and watched her tears fall to his chest.
'I am her ultimate regret.'
He laid her on her back and hovered over her, careful not to wake her. He kissed her tears away and laid down next to her, facing away. He couldn't watch her cry knowing he caused her tears.
He dreamed of their nights on the dock watching the fireflies cuddled into him and whispered her love for him into his ear. the love he will never get from her again.
He goes into the bathroom, kunai in his hand, leaving a note telling Mayume she is free on the pillow by her head.
He sits in the bath tube and begins to etch letters deep into his arm and cries out in pain.
He holds the kunai horizontal towards his chest. She calls out to him.
He hears her bare footsteps reach the door as she turns the knob.
He reminds himself of the importance of his task by simply looking at the single bloody word glaring from his wrist.
MONSTER