Uchiha

It's really not Sasuke's fault he was born into such a messed up family. And it wasn't really his family, either, only his brother, Itachi.

I wonder how Itachi could've known how much Sasuke looked up to him and have still devoutly ignored him.

Sasuke had a brother complex, I think. He had a father complex, too, 'cause he was always trying to impress his dad by being as great as his brother. His superiority complex stemmed from his brother complex and father complex.

His mom wasn't a ninja, so I bet he barely even thought about her.

That was the way Sasuke always worked: if it wasn't stronger than him, it wasn't important.

Anyone would have been shaken if their entire clan were murdered. Even more shaken if it were their brother who did it. Completely rattled if they'd seen it.

Poor Sasuke.

But he wasn't just shaken or rattled. He took it a step farther, and that step farther crushed whatever pieces of him there still were.

Sasuke was unstable, unreliable, unpredictable. He was a prodigy, a survivor, an avenger, a liability to the village. But he was kept because people thought he could change, thought he would grow out of his fits of anger and days of silence.

No-one checked up on him, living alone in the ruined Uchiha estate.

I visited once, after he'd left.

Sasuke wasn't just unstable, he was insane. Like everyone else was.

All over the walls he'd etched his brother's name, sometimes with a kunai, sometimes with his nails, a lot of times with blood. 'Itachi' wasn't the only word there. 'Must Avenge' s and 'Why?' s. A tiny little, 'I loved you...' in the corner.

Oh, he had a brother complex alright.

After that incident, he had an avenger complex and a seriously dark side, too.

Everyone knew that. Everyone knew he was a killer and he would stop at nothing to get his brother back. But they kept him in the village, hoping he would change and maybe go back to being just a little bit sane.

I remember the day I heard Sasuke'd came back. Everyone was really excited, but I was pissed.

What took him so long? When did his village become that insignificant to him?

If I hadn't been in the habit of lying to myself, I would've admitted that we'd never been significant to him, only his brother and his vengeance were important.

I was the second one to the gate, after Sakura.

Sasuke was stumbling in, holding something in either hand. In his right, Orochimaru's head. In the left, Itachi's.

His vengeance was completed.

We welcomed him and his insanity back. He was coerced into continuing the Uchiha bloodline and married to Hyuuga Hanabi, who was nineteen at the time, since Sharingan and Byakugan bloodlines are similar.

Once Hanabi was pregnant, he disappeared.

Sakura was the last one to talk to him.

She said, "He wanted to see his brother again."

Brother complex...

Insane bastard.