Sasuke set the pray down in between a candle and burning incense and back away and sat down on his knees next to his big brother and bowed his head. The smoke from the incense rose and circled the ten year old clan photo in back, a young Itachi carrying an obnoxious Sasuke on his shoulders were the center of it surrounded by parents, cousins, aunts, and uncles.

Itachi stood and bowed placing his hands together. He stood back up and turned to Sasuke, "you can go ahead and ask it already. I know it's in you're head."

Sasuke stood and copied him then turned to look at him. "How can you live with this guilt Itachi? Killing all of them?"

"Because I didn't want to openly defy them in combat. They are my family, but Konoha is my village. I owe allegiance to both. Which is why I'm scared for you." Itachi said and began to walk away. "What you're doing, it's being to remind me of Madara."

"How dare you say that! I am to like Madara in the least!" Sasuke yelled. Itachi stopped. "Come back here Itachi!"

"No Sasuke, you've got to see what you're becoming. Go tell anyone that you're undermining the Hokage, go and tell them and watch their disgust in you! It's how Madara started, all with the guilt that he never overcame." Itachi said taking another step. "You've never really felt at home here, have you Sasuke?"

"Don't lecture me, you're not my father! You killed my father!" Sasuke said and rushed at his brother. Itachi turned around pulling his sword and held the handle out to Sasuke, the tip of the blade point at his throat. "What?"

"You want revenge, again. Take it. I won't stop you, I want you to feel what I feel, feel the guilt of taking away a little boy's parents. Let you go home with blood on your clothes and look at my son and tell him the same thing I told you and let him grow up just like you, full of hate and sorrow." Itachi yelled at him. "Better yet, why don't you go kill me in front of him, go ahead, I'll let you, you want revenge so badly, you want someone else to know what it's like so badly, than make another you!"

"Itachi… I…"

"You know what the worse thing will be… then you can be just like me." Itachi whispered as Sasuke took the sword and held it to Itachi's throat. "You get to wake up every morning wanting to kill yourself. Look at everything around you and want to destroy it because you shouldn't have it, you're not good enough. So shut up or put me out of my misery."

Sasuke moved the sword and stuck it back in Itachi's sheath. Silently Sasuke walked away as Itachi dropped to the ground slowly and began to cry.


"I inspected the body, you killed that boy Naruto." Sakura said closing the door to his office behind her. She walked in and sat down in a chair and tossed a filed down. "We cut him open, a half chakra scorched literally broken heart. What's getting you so stressed?"

"Because it's needed." Naruto said quietly. "I just need to start getting rid of the tailed beasts. Sakura, send out an order to all of our ninjas and alert the other countries, any Jinchuriki they spot besides Kirabi and myself are to be exterminated."

"Exterminated, you're making this sound like an infestation." Sakura said heavily.

"It is, Jinchuriki are only fuel for war and destruction, we can't have them running amuck."

"And what about yourself?" Sakura asked standing.

"I'll deal with myself lastly." Naruto said and began shuffling through paperwork. Sakura stormed out of the office and Naruto threw his head down on the desk.


Iruka strolled over to the door and opened it, "Huh, Sasuke, what's up?"

"Can I talk with you about something?" Sasuke asked quietly and Iruka stepped aside and let Sasuke walk into his apartment and sat down. Iruka followed him over and sat down across from him and looked at him. "Do you ever want to get revenge for your parents deaths? Make them feel like you felt?"

"All the time right after they died, of course, I never would after learning about who it was and that it was impossible to make them feel my pain, even though I could kill them, I'd gain something else that I'd never lose." Iruka sat foreword and put his hands together. "I take it things with Itachi are bothering you?"

"Why should he be that happy after what he did? He says he feels like he should die. Not ten minutes ago he handed me a sword and told me to kill him if I felt like it… but I couldn't. And then I almost did something terrible." Sasuke said and put his head in his hands. "I stood over his son and was about to kill him. But I couldn't, he's just a little boy, he never did anything."

"I had a same encounter after the Third's words weren't enough to comfort me; I went to the hospital kunai in hand and went to the maternity ward. Naruto was in there, the seal on his stomach. The Kyuubi killed my parents, I wanted to kill the Kyuubi and he was there helpless." Iruka said, "Tsunade saw and rushed in and threw me against the wall. She asked me how I could even think of killing an innocent baby. I never saw an innocent baby, I saw that damn fox the entire time."

"You tried to kill Naruto?" Sasuke said quietly. "But Naruto spent his life suffering because of Kyuubi."

"I didn't stop trying to kill him until I found him when he was five, hiding in an alley, crying. I dropped the kunai and walked over asking him what was wrong; he said some one had just tried to kill him. He clung to my legs asking him what he did wrong, why everyone hated him. He never understood what was in him, he just wanted to have fun and smile about something. I found out I was wrong in my anger, and that revenge will hurt the innocent."

"Like my nephew."

"Anger never goes away in things like this. You just have to look past it." Iruka said quietly and sat back. "Don't beat yourself up over this."