E.A.U.
Zabani-chan
Disclaimer: no own Naruto.
Oh, and diaryanjo wanted me to make a list of the characters and their age, so I figured since we're far enough in the story where most of you are probably curious as to the whole E.A. thing, I'm making chapter 10 the chapter where all my notes for this story come out. Any questions you may have concerning age, E.A. and what it is, etc. will be explained there. ^_^ So expect it either later today or tomorrow!
Chapter 7 – Unchanging Decision
"Explain what happened today." his dark eyes narrowed, glinting dangerously, "Now."
Sasuke gulped and glanced to the side nervously, watching the sparks dance around the room.
'I've never seen him this mad before. If I don't tell, who knows what he'll do to me! But I don't want to tell because I still don't know what he'll do to me!'
"Sasuke." Itachi said, snapping him out of his inner ramblings. Sasuke carefully avoided looking Itachi in the face as he opened his mouth.
"Well...Naruto kinda forced his friendship on me and I didn't want it and then he dragged me all over the school and demanded me to tell him where everything was and I was just getting angrier and more annoyed because I was still upset about this morning and I kinda yelled at him during lunch today saying that I wasn't his friend and he was driving me nuts and that he shouldn't have come here and he should just go back to where came from!" Sasuke said quickly. (A/N: this was said all in one breath)
Itachi stared at him blankly for a few minutes as he mentally deciphered what Sasuke just said. Sasuke stared at the ground, knowing why Itachi was so quiet.
'Maybe I shouldn't have talked so fast...this silence is killing me.' he had never been in trouble before after his family had died, so he had never given Itachi a reason to get angry or upset at him, and now that he was, he didn't how to go about the situation. With his mother, he could get by with just apologizing and giving her the 'puppy eyes', same with his father. But Itachi had never fallen for it then, and he sure as hell wouldn't fall for it now, seeing as he was older and the 'puppy eyes' wouldn't be as effective. If anything, if he used them now, it would probably make him look eager.
He blinked, the smell of something burning bringing him to reality. He looked up and immediately wished he didn't. The huge fire burning behind Itachi made him look like the devil reborn, his dark eyes gleaming murderously as he glared at Sasuke. Sasuke backed as far as he could before he hit the wall, eyes wide and body trembling.
"I can't believe you would say something like that to him...to anyone! Didn't I teach you better!? Didn't I teach you to always think before you speak because you could up hurting someone?!" Itachi yelled. He stopped for a second to give Sasuke a chance to answer, and when he didn't, he continued, calming slightly. The fire behind him dwindled down a little as he looked at Sasuke with angry, but saddened eyes.
"I should've known that you wouldn't have listened to me. You never did after everyone passed. I figured you would take my words to heart considering I told you things I learned from my mistakes, and I'll tell you again." he looked Sasuke in the eye. Sasuke had calmed himself when he saw Itachi calming himself down. His trembling had slowed, and he looked back when Itachi looked him in the eye.
"You need to forget about Shisui and about revenge. I've already told you that Shisui was my friend and I'll be the one to kill him in the end. This burden is too heavy for you to bear and whether you like it or not, you'll never be able to bear it. You need to..."
"No! I will be the one to kill Shisui! I don't care what you say, he killed my family and I'll never let him get away! You say your going to do it, but all you do is sit around at your desk all day! You never practice with your E.A. either! You're not as good as you used to be! You'll never be able to kill anyone!" Sasuke yelled, turning and opening the door to run out. A wall of intense flames blocked his way, and he raised his arm to shield his face from the heat. He looked at Itachi and flinched, but didn't stop glaring at him. Itachi stared at him calmly, though Sasuke could tell by the heat that he wasn't pleased.
"Let me out."
Itachi ignored him.
"Tell me...have you ever killed someone?"
Sasuke stared at him.
"...No."
"Well, I have. Still do...because of my job."
"Where are you going with this?" Sasuke asked, getting an uneasy feeling in his gut.
"Tell you what, I'll take you with me to work tomorrow and we'll see if you can kill the person I'm supposed to kill. If you do, you'll understand that taking a life isn't easy, no matter their crime."
"And what if I don't go?"
Itachi looked at him.
"I'll force you. I'm going to make you realize the severity of your claims about killing Shisui." after that, the fire vanished and Sasuke quickly left, slightly disturbed.
The next day came too quickly for Sasuke's liking. He sluggishly got out of bed to get dressed before heading downstairs, where he froze upon hearing Naruto's voice. He ran the rest of the way to the kitchen and looked through the crack in the doorway, seeing Naruto walking around cooking breakfast, Itachi leaning against the counter reading the newspaper.
"Anything interesting?"
Itachi hmmed.
"Not really. Just a robbery at a local bakery and new store opening up."
Naruto pouted.
"That stuff is interesting."
Itachi scoffed.
"To you , not to me."
"Oh yeah, I forgot. You like reading news about your corporate enemies and the obituary."
"Nothing wrong with that."
"Yeah, if you like keeping track of people who die you don't even know."
"I do know the. Most of them are ones I kill. I have to make sure they are dead, which is why I read the obituary."
Sasuke watched Naruto tense for a second, catching Itachi's attention.
"What's wrong?" he asked. Sasuke backed away as Naruto headed towards where he was standing and made it to where it looked like he was reaching for the handle as soon as Naruto swung it open. Naruto stared at him for a second before narrowing his eyes and swiftly shutting the door in his face. Sasuke heard it lock and he growled. He heard them talking again and leaned closer.
"Who was it?"
"No one."
"With the way you sounded when you said it, I'm guessing it was Sasuke."
The sound of a knife hitting the wall made Sasuke wince.
'I bet he threw it at Itachi.'
"Hey! Watch where you throw things! That could've hit me!"
"Yeah right! You dodge those things everyday at your job among other, more deadlier, things!"
"That's different!"
"How? I just threw a knife at you! That's exactly what the people you hunt down do!"
Sasuke was beginning to wonder what exactly Itachi did for a living with the way they were talking.
"And another thing! I can't believe that you're taking Sasuke with you today! Care to explain why?!"
There was a heavy silence for a few seconds before Sasuke heard Itachi sigh heavily.
"It's simple. He thinks that it's easy to kill someone. I'm going to make him realize that it's the worst thing you could do."
It was quiet for a while before Naruto spoke, quiet enough the Sasuke had to strain his ears.
"So you're going to make him realize how it feel to kill someone?"
"Exactly. If he still doesn't get it, I don't care what my parents will think of me, I'll disown him and strip him of the Uchiha name."
Sasuke silently gasped. Why would he do that?! It's not like he was going to kill Shisui for the fun of it! It was to get revenge for his family!
"Why would you do that?"
Sasuke snapped back to the door, listening intently.
"Because I'm tired of him getting his way by flaunting his last name. He should know that everything has it consequences. Including killing."
"Yeah. I still remember my first kill."
"I'm surprised you can remember that far back.:
"I have a very good memory."
"What was your first kill?"
"A human. They had been trying to have their way with me because they thought I looked weak. Well, needless to say, I proved them wrong. I was so desperate to getaway that I killed them without remorse the moment they started taking my clothes off. I didn't feel anything but the desperate need to get away at first, but after I was away from them, I felt numb. I couldn't think of anything as I sat there but the way they looked as they died. I was so numb and I felt so empty inside that I didn't realize that I was going back to them and burying them until I was kneeling in front of their graves. I just broke down after that until someone came by and took me home."
Sasuke listened in silence as Naruto finished.
"I understand. I felt like that after my first kill. But I had to suppress everything until we were found because I had to make sure you lived. Once we were found, I let myself go. I cried for days, not even mother and father knew what to do. Father could somewhat understand, but didn't know who to comfort me. Afterward, I just felt empty. It was around my seventh birthday that I started to pull pranks with Shisui so that I could have some semblance of emotions."
"But that didn't help, did it?"
"Not really."
Sasuke finally understood, even if only partially, why Itachi was so quiet when he was growing up. Killing people at age five would do that to someone, he guessed. He moved away from the door and headed to the living room to wait until they left the kitchen before he ate. He didn't want them to knock and let them know he was standing there listening to them.
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