Warning: This fic will contain strong language, yoai, incest, changes in this story from the series, and possible spoilers. Yoai will most likely not occur untill later on. Also, this chapter is pretty dark and includes Tobi abuse.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto… This is probably why.
Everyone in the base slept surprising well that night. Everyone that is, except for Tobi. In his dream he was having a face-to-face discussion with Madara. In Tobi's opinion Madara and Itachi were the two scariest people in the world. Madara was even scarier then Itachi because Tobi could run away from Itachi. Madara was in Tobi's head so there was no escaping him.
"How many times do I have to tell you? Itachi is not going to do anything to you! By you showing that your scared of Itachi it shows that I am scared of that boy. Do you really think that I would allow anything to happen to you?! If you die, I die." Madara screamed at Tobi for the third time that night.
"…" Tobi remained quiet because he was terrified if he answered that Madara would hurt him.
"Answer me now you annoying brat!" Madara shouted, noticing the terrified look on Tobi's face and enjoying every second of torturing the poor kid.
"No you wouldn't" Tobi mumbled out in a quiet whine. He hated when he dreamed because Madara controlled everything in the dream except for Tobi himself.
"Speak up! I can't hear you, you insufferable twit!" Madara yelled as he grabbed Tobi by the hair and yanked him up into a standing position so that they were facing each other.
By this time Tobi was crying. He was in pain and terrified. He had always been told that in a dream things didn't hurt, but in his they did and it seemed like Madara liked to remind him of this fact. Luckily he didn't dream often, but when he did he couldn't wake himself up so he was stuck until Madara was done.
"You wouldn't… let anything happen… to Tobi." Tobi choked out between sobs.
Madara chuckled at this and released Tobi. He decided he had beat the kid up enough for now and decided to try out something new. He knelt down next to Tobi and cupped his face the boy's face in his hands wiping away the tears. He then raised the boy's face so that the made eye contact. Tobi looked scared at first but then shocked when he saw that Madara didn't look mad anymore but instead, he looked like he actually cared about the fact he had hurt the boy.
Tobi froze in shock. He didn't know whether to trust that Madara wasn't just playing a trick on him or not. He then felt Madara rubbing his hair were it had be nearly ripped out, and prepared for Madara to do something else to hurt him. He closed his eyes out of habit when he was expecting to get hurt.
"Relax… I'm not going to hurt you Tobi." Madara Said in an almost caring sounding voice.
Tobi was once again in shock and looked up at the older Uchiha in disbelief. "But… You always hurt Tobi. It doesn't matter how much of a good boy Tobi's been. You're always mad at Tobi and yell at him." Tobi replied and saw the hint of a smile on Madara's lips before all traces of it ever being there vanished.
" I know that Tobi. But I'm going to try and give a little more tolerance of you and your fears for right now." Madara replied sounding as sincere as he could.
"Really?" Tobi questioned, realising that the wall behind him had disappeared. He took advantage of its absence and backed away from Madara, who slowly followed.
"What's wrong, don't believe me?" He asked enjoying how Tobi reacted to him trying to be nice.
"No… I mean yes, I mean no…." Tobi said as he continued to back away until he came to another wall and prepared for Madara to blow up at his for his screw-ups again. He was shocked again, however when Madara reached him and helped him to stand up while brushing the dirt off of him.
Tobi took this change to run away and escape Madara and whatever game he was playing. As he was running he noticed that Madara wasn't following like he had done in the past when Tobi hadn't decided to just get whatever Madara was going to do over with. He stopped then, and against his better judgement, decided to give Madara a chance.
As soon as Madara realised that Tobi ha finally believed him he appeared beside Tobi and they began to talk. By the end of the dream Tobi had became a little less afraid of Madara, but still kept in the back of his mind that this might be a trap. Madara sensed this and made sure to not show any sign that this may be a trap or game for him. He was honestly going to try and be a little nicer to the boy.
"So Tobi, am I really that bad of a guy?" Madara asked to see how Tobi would react.
"Um… Tobi doesn't really know yet." Tobi answered, telling the truth, since Madara would know if he was lying anyway and honestly, he didn't have a true answer for the question.
"Fair enough." Madara said before he, and everything else in the dream disappeared and Tobi woke up.
Itachi's night had started well because, for a change, he wasn't having a dream at all. He had woken up around three in the morning to get a glass of water, like he usually did, and went back to bed. That was when everything started to go wrong. He had expected to go back to his dreamless sleep, but instead had a dream that replayed the night that he killed his clan. He hadn't had this dream for about a year now and was not prepared to watch it again, especially after all of the memories he had, had that day. He suffered through the dream remembering every detail about that night so clearly that even if the dream were to stop, it would continue just as clearly in his head until the memory of that night was over.
Everything was as he remembered it until the dream was almost over, and then things started to change. The changes were subtle, but he still noticed them. He went into his house and killed his parents, waited for Sasuke to show up, but instead of the eight-year-old Sasuke walking through the door like he expected, the twelve-year-old Sasuke walked through the door with a Chidori in hand. He was shocked for a second when he saw the boy come at him but as he was about to move he saw someone run past him at Sasuke, wearing an Akatsuki cloak.
He soon realised it was him when he had fought with Sasuke last when the figure turned around. As the fight continued he noticed that there was a fourth person in the room. He walked forward and realised it was the eight year old Sasuke he had been expecting to see. He was exactly the same as how Itachi had remembered him that night except for the fact that he too could see the other Sasuke and Itachi in the room fighting.
Itachi was expecting for the dream to continue on with the memory of that night, but was surprised when he saw that the smaller Sasuke went pale before Itachi had even said a word. He turned to see were Sasuke was looking and was caught of guard by the sight. The other Sasuke and Itachi had ended there fight but one detail was changed. Instead of Itachi leaving Sasuke in the wall of toad Stomach, the Itachi in his dream had a kunai pressed against twelve year old Sasuke's neck and was looking towards them as if waiting on something. When Itachi was about to go over to stop himself from killing Sasuke, the other Itachi slashed the kunai across Sasuke's neck and let the boy drop to the ground. When Itachi got to the fallen Sasuke he saw that there was no questioning that the boy was dead. He glared up at the other Itachi and was met with a smile, as the other disappeared. He looked down and saw that the dead Sasuke had disappeared as well, but when he looked up the eight-year-old Sasuke was still there with tears in his eyes.
He went over to try and soothe the younger Sasuke but was stopped because the dream resumed the memory of that night until he was about to let Sasuke run away. Instead of telling him to run like in real life, he used the final stage of his Sharingan on the boy and watch as he killed his little brother.
By this point Itachi had had enough and couldn't stop the tears from forming in his eyes. He knew it was just a dream, but it seemed do real that he didn't want to wake up, in fear that he had forced himself to forget that and that he actually killed his younger brother, or that he had just dreamt the last four years of his life and would wake up to find himself in the woods still covered in the blood of his clan, including Sasuke's.
