Regrets

A/N: Here's one for Luna!


Ninjas are forced to do horrendous things, whether or not they feel regret depends on their personality. Itachi Uchiha was not an emotionless bastard contrary to what Sasuke thought, but an emotional explosion waiting to happen. The suppressed accumulation of emotions in Itachi when he died, had it been chakra, would have put the Demon Fox to shame.

For every person he killed, no matter how 'evil', there was a regret and another reason to hang his head in shame.

It was not his place to play god to people, despite what the high and mighty opinion of the village council may think. It was not his place to truly determine who lived and who died and nor was it the councils'.

For every barb he drove into his little brother there was a regret and every Uchiha he murdered a stabbing pain.

His clan, his family and friends, even those not involve in the takeover, murdered. He had no choice, no time and no way to prevent it. It pained him to be helpless.

For every crime he committed in the name of the 'greater good' of the village was a regret.

Killing a child who had yet to determine his fate in the world simply to prevent what could have been seemed so pointless. The child hadn't done anything wrong; the sins of the father should not have been passed on to an innocent while the guilty parties still went free.

For every regret there was a release.

That release was death and even then his little brother's hate filled features haunted him in death, much like the other child he was forced to murder so long ago.

For every release there was always too many regrets.

Even in death he had his regrets.