This was actually the first one I wrote of the series, but didn't want it to be the first 'chapter'.
Song: Breath - Breaking Benjamin
Characters: Sasuke, Itachi
Genre: Angst
Rating: T
Summary: Sasuke confronts Itachi and comes to a horrifying realization.
Brothers
ブラザース
In those eyes were everything he had grown to hate. The mocking emptiness mirroring himself. He hated it. All of it. The window to his soul appearing shut, despite being very much open. Open and bearing the emptiness left once affection ran out. Provoking him and memories he had long forgotten. Crimson swirling, circling him, accusing him and everything he had become.
He saw himself in them. Those pitiless orbs stained by violence. Tainted by the history between them. With a jolt of horror, he saw himself. Himself and all that he had become.
In a moment of epiphany he would rather die than have, he realized one thing: He had become his brother.
Note: This is, obviously, not them in canon. I super-duper love Itachi, by the way. I would write more of him, but he's - sadly - a foreveralone character. And I mostly only write pairings. Mostly.