Title: Revenge to Avenge

Author: Sal

Rating: PG-13 for mentions of arousal.

Note: ItaSasu without the sex.

Itachi has never been a normal child. When he was born his eyes bled red and his curly dark hair was matted with liquid and blood. His Mother named him Itachi and his Father named him his heir.

When he turns three he is a certified genius. He can talk, walk, solve mathematical equations that give his Aunt headaches, and throw a kunai better than the six-year-old boy next door.

At the age of ten he has his first wet dream. He stays wrapped up in his sheets, semen drying against his thighs, and wipes his eyes on the back of his hand. The next day he goes to the library, searches through several shelves of books and comes up with a diagnosis to his problem. It is called arousal and puberty. He decides to hate them both.

His twelfth year comes and his little brother, Sasuke, becomes the main the subject of his dreams. He still lays there at night, with wet sheets and quick breathing, waiting for the afterimages to fade. He no longer lets his Mother do his laundry.

By the time he is thirteen he is the pride of the Clan. He watches as Sasuke is pushed aside by his Father and peers. He feels the pressure of responsibility weight heavy on his shoulders and wants nothing more than to shuck them onto Sasuke.

When he kills them, all but one, he feels satisfaction at a job well done. He knows that he has saved the Clan from ruin, even if he had to destroy it in order to rebuild it. His eyes spin lazily, burning the massacre into Sasuke's brain, and he hopes that his avenger will live up to his name, because revenge is pointless without the a.