Nightmares, Memories, they are the same.
Things changed.
That much is obvious to Izuna as he saw the new patrols conformed by Uchihas, Inuzukas, and Hyuugas walking by the village. It was subtitle but he knew that this was only the beginning and so he started to become more worried about Itachi as the days passed. This because if the game had already changed so far and in so little time, the man in the orange mask was a bigger threat.
Itachi was the only one that dint had the sharingan.
His little brother was the weak link in the chain.
And that was something he couldn't allow. As he didn't want for Itachi to become a target, even if he, whit his infant form was the most obvious answer to the question of who of them is easier to get to?
So he took the decision of forcing Itachi to awake the sharingan.
This was not recommendable and no one inside the clan would approve as it was necessary to inflict a serious damage to the psyche of a person for the Uchiha in question wake up the Doujutsu. And it wasn't even in the fifty percent having success as every person had a very unique personality and so what it was enough for someone to obtain the sharingan was insufficient for another or too much and broke the test subject.
So yeah, it wasn't the best option. Even in the Clan Wars, no parent would try it, but it was necessary. And Izuna was ninety percent sure that his plan was to work.
Itachi gives his acceptant of the plan and when Izuna had everything sorted the three of them transported to Mont Kimu, even if Shisui wasn't so sure about the idea, because it was Itachi´s decision and he trusted Sasuke to not hurt Itachi.
When you're ready, Boss. Go informed by the mental link once he was sure he had collected enough chakra for the transformation to endure the test at hand.
"I´m ready, Nii-san" Izuna announced to Itachi as he gifted the young boy a smile; one that promised that everything was going to be fine. "Are you ready?"
"Yes," Itachi didn't doubt. He trusted Sasuke and so his black eyes were steady and calm.
"Very well, then"
Now, Go. Izuna ordered to his contract salamander.
Go started to release chakra and the transformation started. Izuna closed his eyes for an instant and when he opened they were red and had three black tomoes in each one of them. He had grown, he was almost as high as Fugaku and his hair was as long as his mother, reaching his lower back. He was a pretty boy, not handsome, but pretty, as he was more similar to Mikoto in body shape and face than to Fugaku.
It feels awesome to be back in the form Izuna believe he belongs to. But he didn't have time to allow himself to enjoy the moment as he had a very important mission and the transformation didn't last long.
He locked his gaze with Itachi´s and his little brother eyes clouded as he got trapped in a very powerful genjutsu. Moments after, Itachi´s knees give in and he fell forward, Shisui caught him and deposited on the floor carefully.
"Itachi is going to be alright, right?" He asked, worry colorings his words, as he looked up to meet his cousin's red gaze.
"Don't worry, Shisui. Itachi is strong and if things seem to go wrong I will wake him up" Izuna answered as he stirred the dark curly hair of his cousin, feeling a childish joy in being able to do it, as normally he was the one receiving the stirring.
Izuna wasn't worried. He knew that his brother would be fine and that he would awake the sharingan because he had created the genjutsu specifically to force Itachi to react.
It actually was a memory of his past. He just had to change some details and made his perspective, Itachi´s; Daisuke presence his own and Madara's, Shisui's.
It was kind of cruel. But, hey. He wasn't a good person, but a shinobi and he would do anything to protect his brothers, even if to do that he had to broke them first.
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Itachi didn't knew what had happened.
He didn't remember anything about how things had got so bad. But the Village was destroyed, much as with the Kyuubi incident, and both, Sasuke and Shisui, were missing.
He could hear the screams of pain and the metal clinks of weapons at his around him, but he actually couldn't see who the enemy was, with the smoke and the rubble. But frankly, he had better things to think about rather than the battle, as he had to found his brothers.
He had to take them to safety.
He couldn't let them die.
A sword was his hand and as he runs, he had to kill a boy not much older than him. He did it without remorse.
"Ni…Nii-san…"
The soft whisper almost made him lost his foot as he had to come to a halt when he heard the broken voice of his little brother. He immediately looks at the place where the voice came from. A sob left his lips as he found Sasuke.
His little brother was barely alive. Someone had pierced his stomach with a sword and he was lying in a pool of blood. He was looking at him with scared eyes, but also with relief. And that look hit Itachi hard because his baby brother was scared of dying alone and was relieved that he had founded him, even when both of them knew that there was no way he could save him.
His body moved without permission and in a blink he was kneeling at his baby brother side,
wrapping the infant's small body around his arms. Tears falling from his eyes as he forced a smile and said: "Shh, Sasuke. Everything is going to be fine. Big brother is here"
Sasuke smiled at him. A sad, broken, smile that crushed his heart because tasted a goodbye.
Moments after Sasuke had died and he was holding the corpse of his little brother. The bother he had vow to protect the moment he had born.
Ugly sobs made their way out his lips, even when he tried so hard to contain them as he knew that if he started crying he would be dead, as he would attract the attention of the enemy. He had not time for this, he knew he had to get up and carry on. He knew this, but he couldn't.
He couldn't leave his baby brother behind.
"Itachi!" Shisui hissed his name in a warning.
He instinctively moved to face an enemy. He had dropped Sasuke´s body and turned before he knew it, his sword clashing whit the one of his opponent as he stopped the lunge. Shisui had pierced the stranger heart in the next moment.
"Are you alright?" Worry tinted the words and the red eyes of his brother scanned him looking for wounds, but he was physically fine. Then, Shisui inhaled harshly as he repaired in Sasuke´s body that rested a few feet from them.
"He is dead" Itachi heard himself using void tone. "I couldn't save him"
"No. Look at me." Shisui voice was husky and it was obvious that he was trying very hard to not start crying. "Look at me! It wasn't your fault. You hear me? It was theirs"
Shisui hugged him for a few instants, then, he put himself together and when they separated, his voice was commanding as he said "Come on. We have to move. We have to regroup with the clan."
"The others?" He asked in a frightened voice. He didn't want to mourn more brothers, it was enough with his baby brother, who shouldn't have to be on the battlefield yet, but he had and now was dead.
"Safe. You two were the last ones"
Itachi nodded dumbly, but relieved. At least Takara and Aora were fine. Shisui had already made sure they were safe.
They moved in synchrony. Leaving behind the battlefield and the corpse of the youngest member of their family behind as they couldn't afford carrying it with them and as the little one hadn't had the sharingan leaving the corpse behind wasn't something they could worry about.
Maybe some adult would bring it back, but he doubts it. Not even their father would care.
Sasuke would not get a proper burial.
He would be one more loss in the war and so he will be forgotten.
Itachi didn't notice, but his eyes had become carmine the moment he turned to face that last enemy.
He had achieved the sharingan.
And it had only cost his baby brothers life.
OoOoOoO
Itachi wakes up crying.
Red eyes blazing as he opened them. The first thing he saw was Sasuke, in his infant form, at his side, a concerned frown in his cute face. And he let a hysteric laugh as he took him in his arms and hugged him.
His baby brother was alive,
Sasuke was fine.
"I'm sorry you had to experience that, Nii-san" Izuna´s voice was muffled as his face was buried in the clothes of his older brother as he returned the hug. And although he was being sincere and he was sorry – as Itachi didn't deserve that kind of pain– he didn't regret it, because it was necessary, better this pain when only was an illusion that when it was a reality.
Itachi didn't answered, because he was still trapped in the knowledge that what he had experienced was Sasuke memory of his life as Izuna.
Relief transformed into despair in seconds. He allows himself to sheer more tears as he hugged his little brother, he wanted to protect him. But how can you protect someone from the past? It can't be done, because you can change what already happened.
The only thing he could do was improve himself and to be at his brother side when he needs it.
"Tachi?" Shisui asked as he touched his shoulder, concern clear as the day in his black eyes, but sorrow as well because he still remembers how he had obtained his sharingan and so imagines what Itachi had seen was easy.
"I´m fine" He assured the both of them, his voice a little shaky. Trying to stop the crying, forcing himself to recover his composure, because him having a meltdown wouldn't help anyone.
"I´m fine" he repeated with more steadiness as he allowed his body to relax and his sharingan to fade after Shisui embraced him in a protective hug; Shisui´s right-hand petting Itachi´s hair and his left hand rubbing Sasuke´s back as he hummed a shooting lullaby.
And having his brothers at his side, made Itachi fell safe enough that the answer I'm fine almost became a truth. They were unharmed. They were save. And they would be fine as long as they were together, that was Sasuke always remembered.
The Uchiha were powerful individuals. But as a Clan, they were the strongest one. Together will be able to face whatever was put in front of them and be able to become the winners.
Both of his brothers didn't answer to his words, but they also relaxed. And not much after the three Uchihas were sleeping. Unconcern, because they were being awarded for the fire salamanders, who were loyal to one of their one and so all of them.
Hello there,
Surprise! I´m not dead! :D
I know, I know. I´ve taken a long time to update and when I do it is a small chapter, you must be throwing curses at me.
I will let you know that I´m sorry for that, but it has been that time of the year when I get sick for the stress and then I have to study for the final exams…
So yeah, I haven't had much free time to write
I´m sorry T-T
Wish you like this one and leave a review.
unifrog1331: Thank you! Well…Izuna would scare the fan girls; he doesn't like stalkers and he isn't a good person, so show them ugly things with his sharingan would be his first reaction to the screaming and horny girls. And he would probably do the same to his brother's fan-girls.
And about Shogi. In the game, Shikamaru would win. Because he is a genius, and even if Izuna had much more experience in the battlefield, he would not be able to follow, even if he would put a hell of a fight.
ALEX99999: No lo creo, pues Izuna es el líder del clan Uchiha y mesclar sangres no es algo que le parezca correcto porque su mentalidad aun es de una época del pasado. Además de que Izuna prefiere la compañía de un hombre a la de una mujer (incluso si es pansexual y capaz de enamorarse de una) esto, porque lo que Izuna quiere en su pareja es alguien que pueda luchar a su lado en términos de igualdad, y no hay muchas mujeres que puedan lograr esto.
Marcela: Actualizo cuando tengo tiempo. A veces tardo unas semanas y otras tardo meses.
The Unkown Uchia: No. Izuna would never allow that. He would burn the village before letting his clan disappear.
Maxine: Thank you!
Xaikon: Thank you. Glad you like the story.
Blacky1404: I´m glad you like it. Don't worry, I will: 3