Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. Bit of a slow update, but I hope it was worth the wait =]

Sasuke stood in the middle of his room, staring out the open window he presumed Neji had left through.

He walked over to the window and looked down at the pictures on his desk. One was of team 7 which they all had a copy of, one was of his parents and the last was of him and his brother.

He picked up the one of himself and his brother before placing it back down, anger flowing through his veins as he remembered the night his brother killed his entire clan but left him to live.

Sasuke lived for one reason and one reason only.

To kill his brother.

To avenge his clan.

To get his revenge.

He walked over to his wardrobe and pulled out clean clothes.

Once he was in his usual white shorts, he held his favourite blue shirt in his arms. His eyes began to sting as he felt the tears threaten to spill out.

He clenched the shirt in his hands, willing the pain that was clenching his heart to go away. As the first hot tear spilled down his cheeks, he pulled his shirt on and with it, the pride of being the last Uchiha. His brother would pay with his life for taking the lives of all the Uchihas but one.

He slipped into his sandals and locked his door behind him. He started walking, his speed gradually increasing with each chakra strengthened stride. Before he knew it, he had arrived at his unknown destination, the tears now flowing freely down his face. There was no one to bother him and the only thing he could feel was the betrayal and pain that stabbed at his heart.

Home

He stood staring at the mansion he lived in as a child. The surrounding buildings were long since gone. No one dared remove the Uchiha mansion while Sasuke lived.

Sasuke walked through the door of the house, recalling many memories simultaneously, mostly of his last day there.

"Hurry Sasuke! You don't want to be late for school or Iruka-Sensei may keep you late" Sasuke could hear his mother's voice, feel the warmth of her body as she hugged him before he left to run to school.

"He'll never be as strong as Itachi and you know it! He's supposed to be the future of this clan and he can't even master the fire ball jutsu! It's our clan's specialty and everyone knows it! He's just a disappointment."

"Just give him a chance. He's highest in his class and he is only six. Just believe in him and he will grow as strong as Itachi one day."

He could hear the conversation ringing through his ears as he turned his gaze into the dining area. His father thought he was a disappointment.

The dark and cold of the house filled Sasuke as he walked towards his parent's bedroom. He walked into the room and sat on the floor.

Blood

Sasuke looked around the dark room, straining his eyes.

Blood

It was everywhere

Sasuke's body shook as he looked down at the floor, pools of blood forming around of him. His parent's lifeless bodies were lying on the ground. And out of the darkness, those eyes.

A sob passed through Sasuke's lips as he fell completely to the ground, his body now shaking violently as he let the sobs and cries course through him.

"Everyone's dead. I am alone. Why am I alive." These were the thought's running through the Uchiha's head.

When the tears stopped and noises could no longer leave his dry mouth, he sat up. He stared at the memory, stared at his brother. Stared at his dead life.

When the memory faded and the blood disappeared, Sasuke still never moved for a few minutes.

He shakily got to his feet, staring at the haunting memory that never moved. His brother.

He shoved his hands into his pockets and turned to walk out of the room, the overwhelming memories of his past tearing him apart. He never got any comfort from coming here, it never became any easier.

"Leaving so soon?"

Sasuke's body froze when he heard someone speak. His mind started racing and he just couldn't think about anything other than the voice.

That voice...

Sasuke turned to look over his shoulder, moving his hand automatically to his shuriken pouch. He tried to speak but he couldn't even string a sentence together. He was just so confused.

When his head was fully turned and his hand firmly on a kunai, he felt a hand grab his wrist as a body pressed against his own and wrapped an arm around his body.

The warm breath against Sasuke's cold body sent shivers coursing through him once again, the other persons hair dangling past they're face and falling onto Sasuke's shoulder. "It's been a while... baby brother."

Sasuke felt the hand drop from his own as the body backed away from him. Sasuke turned to see his brother standing in front of him. His hair was longer than what it used to be, but other than that he looked exactly the same as he did all those years ago. Sasuke's eyes were drawn to his brother's clothes. He was wearing a black cloak with what could only be described as red clouds covering it.

Red, the colour of blood. The colour that Sasuke sees every time he comes here.

"So tell me baby brother, why is it you have come back here?"

Sasuke can only stare at the figure before him, trying to gather his thoughts and throw a couple of sentences at Itachi.

"I come here every year. This day every year. I have for the past couple of years. Not that you care. You are the reason I'm alone after all." Sasuke was surprised by how little emotion showed in his voice. After seeing Itachi he was surprised he wasn't putting a Chidori through his head or simply trying to kill him.

But nothing. Nada! Zero! zilch!

"Hmph. Pathetic little brother, I thought by now you would have put the past behind you. The only thing I don't understand is why you hate me."

"Why do I hate you?! How can you honestly say that after what you did?!"

"Was saving you really that bad a crime Sasuke? If you would prefer, I can kill you. It's not as if it would be hard to do. Your still too weak."

"Save me? I would hardly call it saving! You murdered our clan but left me! You left me with the blood of my family all over me when I was six years old! You left me to be saved by ANBU Black Ops and you ran away! And I will get my vengeance! You will die by my hand.
I. Will. Kill. You."

Sasuke was speaking through clenched teeth as his fists shook beside him. Itachi only looked confused, yet he smirked at Sasuke.

"You think I killed our clan?? Dam Sasuke I'm a cold hearted man but to do that then? I don't think so. I probably would have done it now, but not then. No, I couldn't have killed mother. Father no problem, but not mother. Have you seriously forgotton what really happened that night?"

"What really happened was you snapped and killed everyone. Thereis nothing more to it. Your an insane bastard who's about to die!" With the final word spoken he charged at the older man, flashes of light bursting from his hand.

"CHIDORI!!!!!!!"

Itachi simply jumped out of its path and grabbed Sasuke's arms before slamming him into the wall beside them. "I told you you're still too weak. Now where was I before you distracted me?oh right, what really happened. Well, you know the Hyuga clan right?"

Sasuke nodded, but never lessened the glare he was aiming towards the man who was now holding him against the wall, a firm grip at his throat.

"Well for years the Hyuga clan and the Uchiha clan were at war. No one outside the clan seemed to know, not even the Hokage. One night the Hyuga clan decided to put a stop to the war so they snuck into our private estate and slaughtered most of the clan. I was able to kill enough that they stayed clear of me, but when I returned to our own mansion, mother and father were already dead. I stayed by their side, I got their blood on my hands because I didn't get there on time. Then you walked in and saw me. You were hiding in the closet but you must have had your eyes shut or something because you didn't come out as soon as I stepped into the room. Some of the Hyuga clan walked into our house so I killed them. Other ninja appeared too and I killed them so they wouldn't touch you. I grabbed you, left you in the middle of the village and I ran. I left the rest of the clan die to save you. So Sasuke, why is it you hate me?"

"Wha-NO!!! That's a lie!!"

"No Sasuke it's just you don't remember the full picture! I killed people that day but not our parents. They are the only ones I'm sure I didn't kill. You were six, scared and hiding. How were you to know I didn't kill them when their blood was on my hands, I was standing over them so I could find you but then you stepped out of the closet. Do you even remember the other bodies that surrounded you?"

"No... You left me in this room for the ANBU to find me!"

"ANBU never came here Sasuke. The Hyugas stopped that somehow. I left you in the village near the Hokage tower where you would be found and probably by an ANBU that heard you crying. No one knows what happened that night, not even the Hokage knows fully what happened."

"Why did you leave me then?"

"Because you blamed me. I killed a lot of ninja that night and we were all living in the same village so I would have been named a rogue ninja. I am anyway so it didn't matter."

"Why didn't you take me with you?"

"Again, you blamed me. Besides a life of running and stopping only to rest or kill anyone who recognised us is no life for a six year old."

"You could have set things straight."

"Or I could have been killed. Dam Sasuke you must still care for your big brother if you haven't tried to kill me yet"

"You're pinning me to a wall by my throat. If I struggle too much I'll only start to choke. I'm just waiting for the right moment."

"Would you take it? Would you still kill me?"

"You still left me alone. You could have saved more people."

"Dammit Sasuke why don't you understand?! I wasn't going to risk my brother being killed too! I ran with you because I was still a kid myself I didn't know what to do! I didn't save anyone because I couldn't because I was too busy saving your sorry ass and I didn't care what happened to them! That family was heading for destruction anyway because it was so dam stupid and power hungry! I wasn't a person or a son Sasuke, I was a weapon!"

Sasuke couldn't speak but his time it wasn't his malfunctioning head, it was the grip at his throat getting tighter and tighter with each spoken word. Sasuke was being suspended by this grasp and he was left kicking and clawing to get free. When his face turned from a pulsing red to faint blue, Itachi snapped back into reality and let go, sending Sasuke to the floor gasping for air and holding back new tears in his eyes.

When Sasuke could breathe again, he stood shaking his head. "No... I can't believe it!! Hinata..." He ran out the door and for the second time that day, not knowing where he was running to and not caring.

He didn't notice the stares people were giving him but he did notice when a hand grabbed his arm and Sasuke nearly fell over from the unexpected pull.

"Sasuke? What's wrong?"

Sasuke only stared from Kakashi to Iruka, concern lining both of their faces before he ran off again.

Kakashi noticed when Sasuke ran off he was being followed so he and Iruka set off to follow Sasuke's follower. What they discovered was not what they expected. Using perfect chakra control to allow himself to run faster Kakashi soon caught up with the unsuspecting rogue ninja and threw some kunai his way.

Itachi just sensed the kunai and dived out of the way, one narrowly missing his head. He turned to see his attacker but was greeted by a series of attacks from behind. Barely blocking them, he managed to catch the attackers foot and throw him away.

"Kakashi, if you continue to attack me I will kill you and who I believe to be Iruka standing in that tree nearby. I'm only trying to catch Sasuke."

"I'll die before you get near him."

Itachi was about to reply to Kakashi when hje realised his mouth never moved. He turned to face Iruka who looked like he was about to kill anyone in his path.

"You? Iruka-sensei you're a chunin... a sensei. You never made it to jounin and you think you can defeat me?" Itachi was smirking at his former sensei, not knowing the true power of the man.

Without saying a word Iruka ran towards Itachi, throwing shuriken, kunai and then a series of punches and kicks. Itachi could barely keep up with him and when he got away he had a kunai sticking out of his shoulder and his face was bleeding profusely.

"Fuck. Sensei when did you get that strong?! I guess I underestimated you."

"Yeah, lots of people do because he never got to jounin. What most people don't know is he just didn't take the exam. He wanted to be a teacher but knew he couldn't if he was a jounin. He holds incredible strength, especially when you piss him off. Which you did by hunting Sasuke down. If I were you Itachi, I'd run away. Leave the village again, leave your brother alone. He doesn't need to know about what happened back then. Leave him hate you if you really love him and never return to this village again!"

"I told him Kakashi. He knows."

"Wait... What happened? Kakashi?"

Kakashi turned to Iruka but didn't answer, he just looked back to Itachi.

"I know what happened that night. I know the Hyuga clan murdered yours and you fled. You saved Sasuke and now your here. Why are you here? And don't lie!"

Kakashi activated his Sharingan but not to fight, simply to see into the boy's head.

"I was at the mansion and Sasuke just showed up. I told him because I thought he deserved to know! So I'm going to go after him and if you try to stop me I will use my Sharingan. Kakashi you've been there before and you know there is no escape from the torture I can put you through so if I were you, I would just walk away."

"Alright, I have no idea what's going on with you both right now but I don't care. You are not seeing Sasuke on your own. I'm going with you."

Itachi and Kakashi just stared at Iruka, one almost afraid of him, even if he would never admit it, the other just wanting to see his brother.

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Sasuke had finally stopped running and was standing outside the Hyuga mansion. He felt as if he was stuck to the ground as he stared at the wall in front of him.

Why didn't I just kill him? It's not true, he killed our clan, our parents. He's just messing with my head. I will kill him. I will get my revenge.

Sasuke's thought's were interrupted by a voice in front of him.

"Sa-Sasuke-kun?"

Sasuke looked up at the girl standing in front of him. A blush had crept up onto her face as she stood looking at him, her hand behind her back.

"Hinata..." Sasuke could only whisper her name, feeling completely drained as his face dropped all emotion, but he couldn't hide the pain that was swimming in his eyes.
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AN: Oh.... I didn't know Itachi was going to be in this story xD

I hope you enjoyed this chapter =D I'm still in a little bit of shock about Itachi popping up and he didn't kill the entire clan... which of course means he may seem a little bit odd XD
I guess this means he might have a big role.... But I'll try keep it about Sasuke, Neji and Hinata =]

Review and tell me what you thought =D You never know, it might make the next chapter appear sooner cause reviews make me happy xD