Hiya ya'll

Hiya ya'll! Anyway I think some of you think that this story is close to an end but I just wanted to reassure you that it's not. I have a paper full of writing on it that has the rest of the plot line written out on it and fortunately for you, stressful on me, there's a lot more for me to write about! So everyone remain optimistic

Disclaimer: still in place…

"What, y-you're not-t serious now…?" Naruto stuttered looking at everyone's faces but they all said the same thing.

No…

This is what humans fear the most, things that have caused them hurt because of someone else, and the fact that that thing can come back and hurt them once again. Everyone lives with that fear daily, something like constant abuse can turn someone into a doll, something with little value and use in the world. The one thing humans fear the most, are those who threaten their value.

"What the hell, you hung yourself I saw it!" Naruto yelled turning his back on the women who just now, was claiming to be his mother.

"Naruto, I didn't mean for you to see that, I didn't want you to see it….that doll hanging but I did it-.."

"No shut-up! You're going to say you did it to protect me that what everyone says, but what were you trying to protect me from? To me it looks like you only cared about your own life!"

"I wanted to protect you from Sieto" she yelled, guilt filled her eyes. :I knew he'd be after me…that's why I faked my death, in order to lose him, I had a friend create a doll that looked like me. If he found us, you're life could have been so horrible. She tried to explain on her son's deaf ears. "But…but I didn't expect him to figure out that the person that supposedly hung themselves was still a love and on the run without their son. I told the other you where I was going in hopes that he'd tell you where when you were old enough and safe but…"

"But I did figure it out and ended up adopting him, therefore the other brat never felt it was safe enough to tell him since I was always there."

"So you ran away because of fear?" Naruto asked softly after a moment of silence.

"Of course, I was really scared and too young to know what to do so I fled, but please try to understand I did it for you as well!"

Everyone runs away from their fears sometime in their life. No one can escape that fate, it is absolute.

"But then why...why didn't you take me with you!" Naruto asked clutching desperately onto Sasuke's shirt. He wanted to run; he admitted that to himself but…

"A life on the run wasn't something you needed at that age!" she yelled only to be interrupted by Naruto once again.

"And like I needed the loneliness without a mother, do you know how many times I looked at other families, perfect, happy families, and wondered where,….where the hell was mine!? Why couldn't I have one?" he yelled at her, tears threatening to spill.

"That hurts kid; I was there for you-"

"Shut-up! Like hell you were there for me at all!" Naruto yelled, his eyes turning slightly red, tear stained yet glaring none the less at Sieto as he quickly stole the gun back from Sasuke and pointed it past the raven, straight at Sieto.

Sieto only brought the lady's small frame in front of his own larger one.

"That's really cowardly hiding behind someone else for protection! Now let her go!" Naruto hissed out but not lowering the gun even a fraction of a degree.

"Naruto calm down!" Sasuke tried to say in a calm voice but failed as he moved forward to take the gun out of the blonde's hands, the boy only moved backwards in response.

"I said let her go!" Naruto continued.

"My my, you've been awfully demanding lately haven't you?" Sieto complained, only pressing the feminine figure in front of him closer to his body.

"You know that's considered rape." Sasuke informed, glaring at the older man with the same kind of glare as Naruto. He was pissed, he wouldn't deny that fact, he was pissed at this bastard for lying around with mow not only Naruto, but the blonde's mother's feelings.

"Is it now?" Sieto asked; face faking a type of innocence that he never possessed, maybe not even when he was a child.

"Don't fuck with us, you've done that enough! Isn't it getting tiring?" Naruto asked.

"Sieto what happened to you, even though you would have these kind of ideas, you never would have taken such radical actions as these?" Naruto's mother asked, as she looked up into Sieto's eyes that only looked down upon her with cold eyes, yet they held a type of twisted love, a love that was not usually shared between women and men.

"You…why…?" Sieto asked, his voice changing dramatically from the clown-like joking laugh it had before, now sounding like a sword, being able to crush a body in one swing, cracking every bone with it.

"What do you mean-" she was cut off as a hand hit her pale cheek with as much force as the owner of the hand could muster against her.

"Don't play dumb bitch! Tell me, why did you choose that bastard over me!" Sieto yelled as he grabbed the lady's arm harshly and threw her away from himself.

Losing her balance, the white-haired women tripped and fell to the ground, startled, and gazing with fearful crystalline eyes as the black-haired man walked closer and closer to her.

Kneeling down on the ground, he crawled closer to her only to have her crawl father away, till her back hit the wall that halted her escape attempts. "N-No...s-stay away!" she stuttered.

Finally reaching her, Sieto reached for her hair, running his hands down to the end and then finally ending up on her neck and grasping it tightly. "I said tell me why?!" he yelled, the anger and hate that consumed his mind and heart for the man of the other's affection blocking his thought process.

"Ah! For the last fucking time, get the hell away from her!" Naruto yelled, charging for the man, his own new found hatred for this man, his adoptive father.

"Naruto, stop, that's suicidal! Use your head!" Sasuke yelled, running after his love only to stop as a presence soon blocked his path but that's not what shocked him.

"Y-you..." he was speechless as he gazed upon a taller reflection of himself. The only difference other than height was the length of raven hair and the far-away, motionless stare those midnight black eyes expressed as they stared into his own.

"Itachi ...why are you here! Never mind, I don't have time for this!" he yelled as he went to run by his brother only to be stopped by the other.

"And neither do I, I'm here to accomplish what I want..." he replied vaguely walking closer, letting go other Sasuke's wrist knowing the other wasn't going anywhere after that statement, and he was right for all Sasuke did was stare at him in confusion. The younger's trance only being broken when he heard the cry of the blonde from far off, his eyes moving off the one in front of him just in time to see Naruto hit the ground, hard.

"Naruto!" he yelled, once again trying to push aside Itachi, and yet once again Itachi held him back, a hand on his shoulder, squeezing a pressure point that halted Sasuke's movements.

"Those people and their problems are none of your concerns, so stay out of it." Itachi scolded, seeing as he now had the younger's full attention once again.

"You, why are you here, how did you know I was here? Was it Mom and Dad, are they doing better? Are they looking for me?" Sasuke asked some form of optimism in his mind but there was something else in his mind telling him that this meeting of brothers could be a something worse. Was it a feeling of foreboding that he felt?

Itachi looked straight at Sasuke with a level expression, still giving no emotion away. "Those two people you call "Mom" and "Dad" are now dead." He informed lowly.

Sasuke's some-what happy features contorted, changing into one of pure shock, an expression that his face was quite new to. "Dead…when….how?" he questioned, wanting answer's that very second.

"At least a couple of years now, probably more, I'm not exactly the best at keeping up to date with the days."

"Were they killed, or did they die of natural causes?"

"And here I thought you might have gotten some brain cells since th-"

"Just answer the fucking questions; I don't have time for a petty insult war with you!" Sasuke yelled, getting frustrated.

"Still as dense as ever…I killed them."

And here Sasuke thought that his expressions couldn't get anymore emotion in them, but obviously he was wrong. His jaw opened slightly as he forgot to breath and his eye brows now close to reaching the half way point of his forehead as his narrowed pupils filled with a dense concentration of hatred.

"Why the hell would you do such a thing!? State your reasons now or I'll beat you to your own death!" the younger raven spit, his hands now formed tight fists at his sides.

"I told him too." Sieto answered for Itachi, only causing Sasuke's fists to tighten even more. He had tightened them to the point where he could feel the sting of his dull fingernails tearing open the skin.

"Well that's a first, I never knew you were one to take orders from another!" Sasuke yelled, trying to remain calm but really, he wanted to grab the gun which Sieto now held in his pale clammy hands and shoot anything, anything that might help calm him down. "But that doesn't answer my question, why would you do that!? When we were young you always seemed to care about them more than anything else!"

"What are you talking about?" Itachi asked, now his turn to be confused.

It soon hit Sasuke; maybe his words may have made some sense to the other if they were true. But they weren't, and that meant that the Itachi of the past was not the real Itachi he had known as a little boy. It was the fact that he was a child; he was innocent to the world and didn't know the real meaning behind anything till he had nothing but himself.

"Seems like you found out that answer on your own." Itachi states, seeing the realization dawn in Sasuke's ebony eyes, but he was replaced by anger once the other spoke.

"Hardly, if anything it makes things more complicated!" Sasuke growled. "You told me that I should leave the family for the sake of it, but if that wasn't the real reason, they why the hell did you really want me gone?"

"I see that those years alone have done you no good." Itachi chuckled slightly at his own joke.

"Should I be thanking you for that…!?" Sasuke joked bitterly back, his lips forcing a cold smirk as the air surrounding the brothers turned sticky with tension.

"That'd be nice but that be very uncharacteristic of you wouldn't it?"

"Shut-up, stop beating around the bush with my questions, I don't care about you observations on the older me! What were your reasons?"

Itachi's smile went to a frown before opening to speak. "Because you threatened my existence." He replied, wasting no time by answering, no suspense or other off-topic statement like before. He stated what he felt and what he knew to be true.

The Thing humans fear the most are those who threaten their value…

Flashback

"Itachi!" the voice of his mother rang throughout their house loudly but the little raven of 5, soon going on six, nor the house, seemed to care. It was a sound that this house had been without for a couple of weeks, ever since his mother had given birth. The time would have been shorter, was it not for his mother coming down with an illness soon after birth, but as of now, she was healthy and fit.

Walking hastily down wooden stairs that creaked under his weight even though he weighed less than a hundred pounds, Itachi's little face smiled with excitement.

"Welcome home!" Itachi told her as he now stood in front of her only going up to a little above her waist.

She smiled softly down upon the little boy, kneeling down so that her face was now at his level and the little surprise in her arms being in Itachi's own view.

"See, isn't he cute…?" his mom asked as she saw the cross look that came onto Itachi's face. She began to worry on how Itachi would accept his new little brother, but she knew it would work out in the end, they were siblings.

"What is it…?" Itachi asked quietly as his own brain searched for its own explanation for what the weird thing in his mother's arms was. Truth be told, Itachi didn't know whether to steal the bundle from his mother so she wasn't affected by some weird disease or just walk away from his mother so he could survive himself.

"That's not nice Itachi, he's your little brother now." His father finally spoke, coming into the house after dealing with some issues outside.

Now that made Itachi take a step back from his mother, he didn't want to be related to this thing. It was illogical in Itachi's mind.

"It doesn't even look human." Itachi muttered wanting to, but not being able to take his eyes off his so called little brother.

That only made his mother chuckle softly; knowing that this was the first time Itachi had seen something of this nature, so his reaction wasn't that much of a surprise to her. "Don't worry, he'll grow up and come to look just like you."

"Like a mirror reflection?"

"No, there will be some differences in your appearances, but hopefully a lot in your personality, but you will see some resemblance between you two."

"A clone…?" Itachi asked again, not believing in his mother's explanation.

"Where did you learn what a clone is?" he mother asked disbelievingly.

"I read about it in c-" Itachi started but slowly his voice grew softer until it stopped completely as he watched his mother stand back up to her actual height and walk away, taking the now crying baby in her arms with her; whispering little soothing gibberish to the boy to calm him down.

But that's what frightened Itachi, his mother had never once ignored his questions, she always seem excited to teach the boy new things and learned what he himself had discovered.

"Itachi….Itachi!"

"Yes mother!?" Itachi yelled back, somewhat diverting his attention from the television he was watching with boredom.

"Can you come sweep the kitchen floor?"

"Yep!" he yelled back without a moment of pause, never one to be disobedient even though he rather do something else. It had to be done, in order to lead and become great, one first had to know how to follow. That's what he always told himself, but lately, he had begun to doubt that reasoning.

And the reason why was now clinging to his leg, it's head resting on his mid thigh as tiny hands grasped the cloth around his knee tightly; its legs shaking from the strain of all its weight being supported on them for the first time.

Looking down with a scowl on his face, narrowed eyes met with those bigger ones that looked like his only in appearance of color. The others held every emotion the little thing was able to feel at that age while Itachi's own had grown cold for he knew the world, what it was like.

"Itachi, what's takin- ah, dear! Sasuke's standing!" she yelled, quickly seeing the little boy standing on his own, no loner hanging onto Itachi.

Quickly rushing to the little raven's side, she fawned over him like any other mother would; the only difference was that his mother had been doing this over every little thing the little baby did. It was the same thing everyday, and everyday Itachi grew even more annoyed by it.

Suddenly standing up, his mother quickly rushed out of the room and sprinted up the stairs. Itachi figured probably for the camera but the constant squealing made by the woman for a camera gave nothing away.

Another tug on his pants brought Itachi's eyes back to the other littler one, still holding the same emotions as last time, and that disgusted Itachi. How could any human ever be reduced to being as simple-minded as his mother was now just by looking at this thing, he couldn't understand it.

"What!?" he yelled at Sasuke even though the boy couldn't and wouldn't reply. Even with the malice in his voice, Sasuke only smiled and clutched onto his clothes tighter. Sighing, Itachi reluctantly picked up the little one, putting their faces level.

Once again, even with the glare, Sasuke still smiled causing Itachi's scowl to worsen.

"Stop smiling, you don't even know what you're smiling about huh?" he scolded the younger, zed boy finally having a change in facial expression, the smile going to a slight frown and his little eyebrows furrowing a bit in confusion at his brother tone. However after a couple of minutes of a petty staring contest, Sasuke's expression went back to a smile.

"How ridiculous can you get?" Itachi asked no one, before he heard the loud pounding of the feet of his mother rushing down the stairs, most likely having the camera in her hands.

Rushing back into the room and to Itachi's side, she grabbed Sasuke out of Itachi's hands and placed him down, his feet on the hard wood floor. Not much tie had passed by that time and by the time their mom had already taken at least twenty pictures that Itachi had walked from the room. He felt eyes on his back as he left but he knew they weren't his mothers, those eyes that tried to track his movements even when the wall covered his body belonged to the one who who's existence he was beginning to hate, for he was taking away the parents he once had to himself away.

End Flashback

"I don't get it why did you despise me so much?" Sasuke asked, even though Itachi's explanation had seemed clear, maybe it was confusing to Sasuke due to the sibling bonds that the two held, even though now, Itachi was trying to sever.

Itachi however had different plans and remained silent his gaze just going past Sasuke's own. Everything remained silent, even the conflict between the other three in the room was put on halt as they now listened to the story between the brothers.

"I'll ask one more time…why do you hate me!?" Sasuke growled in anger from being ignored, but it was nothing compared to the anger Itachi felt.

"Because you disgust me."

"That's a shitty reason!"

"Then here's another one, I hate you because because of you I was no longer needed. Not once was a treated as a human being when around you people, maybe a slave could describe the relationship. You threatened my existence, my value, the fact that I am who I am, and now I'm threatening yours." Itachi explained eyes' meeting with Sasuke's who held hatred, realization that what Itachi had just said was true, and the need to understand his past which was not what he thought it were.

"How, mother and father only ever talked about you and how great you were, how smart and responsible their first child was. He could do anything and everything without even trying. They fucking adored you, the perfect child and here you are trying to say that I was the one threatening your existence. That's fucked up, and yet still, even after I disappeared, you killed them, was it be-"

"Don't jump to false conclusions how many times must I say that!?" Itachi interrupted yelling with a strained force in his voice, his calm demeanor actually slipping a little. "You're, mistaking what you know and what you assume, I didn't kill our parents because I wanted to. I killed them because I had to."

All Itachi's new statement was met with was silence and a blank stare from the younger brother, as the information processed in his head.

"What…" he stupidly stated but then again what else could he say. When someone says they killed their parents because they had to but they didn't want to, it confused any mind. "So what, you were threatened by som-"

"Once, again, assumptions lead to mistakes, remember that." Itachi interrupted his voice louder then Sasuke's to block it out. "I did this on my own free will."

"Ah! You're not making any sense at all. Explain yourself in laymen's terms that don't require that don't a genius like you to figure out!" Sasuke yelled his anger finally getting the better of him as he walked quickly to the other and grabbing the shirt he wore roughly even thought the other one was a good couple of inches taller.

Smacking the hand away like a fly to a horse, Itachi gaze hardened even though it seemed impossible. "I already told you, I did it because I had to not because I wanted to."

"And I told you that doesn't say anything important to me!" Sasuke yelled leaving Itachi silent.

"He did it because I told him to; it was the only way he would be able to save the one he held dearest, his beloved."