A/N: Once again a post from the receptionists desk, no one is calling the office, so what else do I have to do except write an angsty and confusing Itachi one shot?
The Object of Revenge
Sometimes he thinks about it after missions, after killing someone. Other times it's when he anticipating the kill that his mind strays to the topic of what he is, of what use he is. But it usually only lasts for the briefest of moments before he loses himself in the screams, the blood, and the power rush.
He is the strongest. No one can even begin to compare to his might, his power. With nary a glance he has sent the most powerful shinobi in the five main countries into horrid nightmares, killing them, driving them insane, or leaving them comatose. No one has landed a hit on him, the most powerful of all.
And yet, during the deepest night, when it's raining and he's buried in the silence, he can't help but think he feels lonely at the top. When you hold all the power in your hands, there is no one else to take it from. It's all yours, yours alone. He supposed it was that part of him, the part that predicted this, that had held his hand back from killing his only possible future.
But his little avenger wasn't strong enough yet, wasn't sharpened, refined enough yet to present him a challenge, and he couldn't kill him until he at least landed a single blow. The game was afoot, and it would have been a shame to end it this early. Maybe one day his little avenger would cease to live, cease to prolong his miserable life and cease to hate. That would be a sad day indeed, for what was the object of revenge to do if the little avenger failed?
Without the avenger, the object of revenge would have no meaning, and then where would he be? What purpose would there be to killing and to hurting if the avenger did not smolder with anger when he received the news? What purpose would there be to listening to screams and watching the blood splatter against the wall if avenger wouldn't grit his teeth in fury? And what purpose was thereto living without the possibility of avenger ending the object of revenge's life?
Deep in the night, buried in the silence, watching the rain fall, Itachi sighed.