Playing Our Parts
by BitterEloquence
Disclaimer: I even tried giving them Tsubatsuba strawberry pocky and some ramen but they still won't give me rights to Naruto. Oh well, I'll keep my pocky and write fanfiction instead!
Can you see it, foolish little brother?
Of course you don't, you never have. You never understood the whispers and the ghosts that walked our household. Perhaps you were too young. Maybe I was the only one who could see them and the only one who saw just how tainted we had become. Our clan was nothing more then a grim specter of its former glory. We were so content and so lazy that we refused to grow beyond what was comfortable.
You were always too comfortable, it's why you never understood.
At least you showed some potential. It is the reason I let you live, you know. The reason I continue to suffer your existence, because maybe some day you'll become enlightened like me. I must say, I never expected you to go join that disgusting snake; there is no accounting for taste, I suppose. So long as it lets you gain that precious hate you seek out, I'm not going to interfere.
Maybe one day you'll be ready. Maybe one day you'll be worthy of our now cleansed and pristine family name.
I had to kill them. You don't understand of course, you never shared my vision or my potential. Just like a surgeon has to amputate the rotting limb, so too did I have to cut out the infection and those unworthy of the Uchiha name. Can you appreciate what I did for you? I destroyed all the mediocre ones so that our genius might show all the brighter. We are the best Uchiha has to offer after all.
There is only one last taint to clear away however.
I find it ironic that out of all the possible teachers, you got the most tainted of them all. Hatake Kakashi does not deserve to have the Sharingan eye and Obito betrayed us all by giving it to him. One day I'll kill Kakashi and then there will only be the two of us. Just as it's meant to be. I probably should have done it that one day but I'm afraid I let my eagerness to torture Kakashi get in the way. Do you still think I was there for you? Do you still believe in those fairy-tales mother used to read us about how 'good' would overcome 'evil'?
I hated those worthless pieces of drivel. What did I care about two brothers placed on opposite sides of a war, forced to fight with each other? Neither wanted to fight of course but they had to because their mutually angsty pasts demanded it.
See what I mean? Drivel.
Of course, the irony of our current situation does not escape me. Weren't you supposed to be the 'good guy'? I'm fairly certain I carved out my place as the antagonist in our personal saga rather flawlessly on that fateful night. You never were very good at following orders however. I suppose I shouldn't be so surprised you ran off to Orochimaru like you did.
We're still on opposite sides of a war however, so at least you got that right.
Do try and play out your part correctly, foolish little brother. I would hate for all my work to go to waste. We've already passed the second act and I remain curious to see how the third act plays out.
Will the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy' win I wonder? Not that it really matters of course. In the end, no matter what happens I will have won. Even if you kill me, I'll have won and that's the important part.
So do come to me, foolish little brother. And do remember to bring your hatred this time, you're going to need it.
A/N: Please note, I never write in this perspective so it might seem kind of funny at times and if I accidentally dropped the second-person POV, please let me know. That being said, I had a lot of fun writing this and I find crawlign into Itachi's mind sort of fun. I don't know if I should be scared or amused by this.