This chapter has different POVs. The chapters are memories, which will be in between commented, completed or else by Sasuke, who has his newest knowledge (before the memory – previous chapter)

Disclaimer:As usual...I don't own Naruto or something else, I wish I could own Itachi. Damn… T_T

Aniki – Sasuke's thoughts

Aniki – Sasuke's comments

Chapter 2 – Memories: Dreams, the reasons for our lives

Sasuke's POV

Finally, the day has come. I've graduated the exam with ease and now I'm finally a Genin. With that I'm a step further to my goal. Today I will get a Sensei, who will hopefully help me to become a stronger Ninja. After all, I must achieve my goal.

Here I'm sitting, in the classroom, waiting for my Sensei and no matter who he is, he is only there to prepare me for my goal. I waited and ignored the people I called comrades. Sakura, totally hyper when it's about me. She's only annoying, like all the other girls here. And there is Naruto - I can't stand him. He has no skills, has more luck than anything else and still thinks he is cool. But I think the worst is… he is somewhat my friend, even my only friend. Maybe because we are both lonely and we are both hated livings of the destiny.

Yes, back then I didn't really like them, although Naruto was somewhat my friend. I still think of them as annoying, but I like them now, really, now I can stand them. But, what I had to find out was that my Sensei should be worse then my comrades. Yes, but I didn't suspect this back then.

Well, like I said. We were waiting for our Sensei and I hoped that I can stand him. I don't want a perfectionist, smartass, 'I know everything better than you all' show-off bastard with pride and ego like all five nations together and arrogant like an asshole, simply, no second Itachi. Itachi, my so-called big brother… I can't stand him. Forget everything I think about Sakura and Naruto then - Itachi is worse. I hate him, I really do. I hate my own big brother.

Yeah, I couldn't stand Itachi out of all people there. He is the only one left from the Uchiha Clan besides me. He has since then taken over my 'education' and has always criticized and corrected me. I've always hated him, but since the Uchiha slaughter I hated him even more. How strange, it's strange to hate your own brother, your own blood relation. Hmm… hatred, why is it so?

Away from my thoughts and back to reality. Naruto, the moron was going to the door and preparing a sponge above it and was laughing all the time - how childish.

"Naruto you child, what are you doing?!" Sakura asked the blonde with an annoyed voice. I just stayed calm at my desk with my ellbows on it, hands fold together and head slightly leant against them. My usual position.

Normal POV

"You'll see Sakura-chan. I'll give him a punishment for being late!" Naruto said with great enthusiasm.

"That will never work, he is a Jounin and no amateur." Answered Sakura and laid her hands on either side of her hip. I love these tricks! Said inner Sakura with enthusiasm like Naruto and was very excited.

Several minutes passed and still no Sensei was in sight.

"Argh! Where is the moron?! He is so unpunctual! Where is-!" Screamed Naruto angrily and threw his hands on his head.

Suddenly the door was opened and the sponge fell down.

What's wrong with me? I have suddenly such a strange feeling, a strange familiar feeling. What is that? And why beats my heart suddenly so fast und yet constant at the same time? What's wrong with me? Pull yourself together Sasuke!

This 'strange' feeling which I've called it back then - now I know what it is. Now I know this soft and yet thrilling feeling pounting fast and gentle.

"Ha! You fell for it! You fell for it!" Laughed the blonde and pointed at the door. "Hugh? Where is he? Argh! Damn, here is nobody! Where is the stupid ba-?!" Naruto stopped himself as he noticed that someone was behind him.

"Baka?" Comleted the stranger as he held his kunai firmly against the blonde's throat.

Who is there? Who is it? And why beats my heart so fast? Who the hell is he?!

"…One..." Said the man with an emotionless voice.

All three Genins went numb, someone was behind them and held a kunai against their throats. The pressure on it was firmly but not tight enough to break the skin. They gulped and turned around slowly.

"If this was a real battle, which all of you set your lives on it, then you would be dead by now. That's why I count one, one for one death and when you reach five, then…" The unknown Ninja went on and closed his eyes for a moment.

This way, this cocky way to talk, is it possible? No, this can't be, that's impossible.

"…then, then all of you will forever stay in this academy, forever. By the way, rule number one: Never let your guard down, never." He completed and opened his deep, black eyes again. He then released his shadow clones with a puff and crossed his arms, studying their reaction with an indifferent look for a while.

The Genis stood now face to face to their new Sensei and Sakura's and Naruto's eyes widened in surprise, while Sasuke's eyes widened in absolute hate. They expected a Jounin and there stood a person, who already looked like a man with black shoes, bandages around his ankles that went up to his knees, a black trouser starting from under his knees and a black shirt with sleeves to his ellbows and a collar high up against his chin. Above it he wore a bright purple amor-jacket that went to his hip and had two straps over his shoulders. To complete it he had addiotional a katana over his back, which he wore from his right shoulder to his left hip. And at his left upper arm hidden under the black shirt he had the typical tattoo carved on his pale skin. He was definitely an ANBU, not a Jounin.

"Nice to meet you, from now on I'm your new Sensei." The ANBU said this with a little smile on his face.

No, this can't be real. Everyone, but not HIM! Please not, this must be a nightmare.

No, unfortunetaly this was not a nightmare. It was reality, the bitter reality, which I've could never ever escape, no matter what I've tried.

- A little later in another place -

"Well, this place is just right, here we can better get to know us, introduce ourselves and tell something about our lives." The new Sensei said with his cool voice as he crossed his arms and leaned back against the metalic parapet and made himself comfortable. But his statement only confused the pink girl and she looked questionly at the Sensei. "Sensei, what should we tell about ourselves?" She asked, hidden in her tone was a slight annoyance.

"What you like, what not, your hobbies, your greatest dream, something like that." Came the monotone response from the still unknown Sensei.

God, greatest dream. How stupid. Such a sweet, innocent, little thing.

"Hey Sensei, how about you intrduce yourself first?" Complainted the blonde annoyed.

"As you wish. Well then…" The raven haired man started and was mentally searching for answers.

Sakura and Naruto both looked at him kind of concentrated. They couldn't help, but the Sensei looked familiar to them, his raven hair and eyes, which seemed to shine in the sunlight. Sasuke didn't even look at him he only looked uninterested in another way.

Smiling a bit the Sensei went on. "My name is Uchiha Itachi."

Uchiha?! That's the same name as… Sakura and Naruto both thought a little shocked.

"What I like, what I dislike and my hobbies are things that I myself even don't know." He told them to their sightly disappointment.

"Very helpful." Said Sakura with an ironic undertone.

"But…" He said and closed his eyes and went calm. All of them, even Sasuke, were now listening to him carefully and with their full attention. Itachi reopened his obsidian eyes again and went on. "But, I know my dream for certain." His eyes shone with a certainty that was unknown to them.

He has a dream? How pathetic Itachi.

Naruto was amazed, he couldn't get his stare off the man before him. He was sure with his dream like he himself. His eyes are the same as mine. He won't die before he has fulfilled his dream. Naruto thought and a little sweatdrop made it's way down his face. I underestimated this guy. "And what kind of dream is it?" The blonde asked curious.

"My dream is…" He started and saw that all of the three, now Sasuke too, all of them now paid their full attention to Itachi, which surprised him. "My dream is - no, I can't tell you that. It would be too soon, please understand this. Someday, when the day has come, I'll tell you my dream, I promise." He said and smiled weakly.

Sakura and Naruto looked at Itachi a little confused, while Sasuke turned his look into the nothing again.

Why won't he tell us the dream? What could it be?

"Ah, come on Sensei please tell us your dream." Naruto begged and added to his request a puppy eyes look and let his blue eyes shine even more in the daylight.

"I'm sorry, but if you tell anyone about your dream then they won't come true anymore, isn't it? Itachi responsed with his usual voice, hiding the reason behind it.

"But Sensei, this is only the case with wishes from shooting stars." The young female ninja said with her usual naïve and innocent childish voice.

Itachi sighed, Naruto and Sakura didn't want to understand him, understand that his dream is unpossible once spoken out loud. He closed his eyes again and tried to keep his voice by. "I know, but understand it please I can't tell you that. My dream isn't that easlily. It's for most people the most difficult dream ever."

Itachi was right. His dream, it's really the most difficult of all, others have to risk a few things for their dreams but Itachi he must… risk more. Today I finally know it, I finally know his dream.

Naruto pouted a little at this. "Sensei, do you think MY dream is easy? I have a certain dream." He began. "Well…" Itachi opened his eyes again and looked directly at Naruto. "Then tell us. Intoduce yourself and tell us YOUR dream." The ANBU captain said and relaxed his a little tensed position.

"With pleasure Sensei." The blonde said with great enthusiasm. "I'm Uzumaki Naruto and I like ramen, which Iruka-Sensei always buys me and I don't like to wait for my ramen longer than three minutes after I've poured the hot water on. And my hobbies are compairing ramen!" Naruto went on with a grin on his face, which followed to a blush.

Does this moron only think about ramen? Thought Sasuke cooly.

Itachi raised an eyebrow at this. "And your dream?" He asked curious, which was successfully hidden behind his usually emotionless tone.

"My dream is to become the next Hokage, so that everyone in this village recognize me and finally acknowledge my existence!" The kitsune exlaimed with certainty.

Itachi smiled a little and was surprised from his dream. He had to admit that this was very difficult and demand everything for its success. Naruto, I know exactly how difficult this dream is. You were right, it IS difficult. Because, Naruto, you have to be strong for it und because you have the Kyuubi in your body it will be really difficult - because the people don't accept you due to this. Yeah, I know why you have THIS dream. You want that all recognize you, as a human and not as a thing or a monster. No, how you are, how you truly are. I know exactly how it is. I know excatly how you feel, it was the same with me, or better said, it is still the same. I'm like you, not seen as a human but as a title, a genius, child prodigy, the heir of the Uchiha Clan. But I'm sure that you can change your fate and make your dream come true. Itachi thought.

The Uchiha pulled himself away from his thoughts and back to his students. "A great dream, difficult to fulfil and long lasting, but really a nice one. Okay, the next." He said monotone and looked at the only girl in the team. The pink hair, her red dress and her naïve, sweet voice made her really a little childish.

Sakura sat there, sweet and innocent and had her hands a little gripped in her dress, which only made her even more innocent. "I'm Haruno Sakura." She said enthiusiasticly and happy to tell about herself. "And I like…" She went on and looked a little embarassed and with a blush on her cheeks at Sasuke and had her hands in fists in front of her chest. But the young Uchiha only looked uninterested into the air with his mind probably not by his surrounding any more. "My hobbies are…" She started and still blushed as she looked at Sasuke again. "And my greatest dream is…" The pink haired girl didn't look at Sasuke this time, but made a squealing fangirl sound. The thought of her dream made her even more upset and she blushed even harder, which made Itachi raising an eyebrow at this. Sakura then stopped her explaination and tried to calm herself down, silence followed.

Itachi was the only one who noticed the forgotten part and asked her with a slight interest. "And what do you dislike?"

"Naruto." Came the cool response and she went on with her looking at Sasuke, while Naruto was disappointed. Sasuke kept his uninterest and paid no attention to them.

"Well, a really nice dream of yours, which is not easy too, because you never know what others think about you. But still, a nice dream and very typical for girls." Itachi said and his look went to Sasuke, his little brother. "Next." Now you, Sasuke. I'm curious, although I know most of your statements.

When Sasuke heard that deep voice and his request, he raised his voice for the first time this day. "My name is Uchiha Sasuke." Said the young Uchiha and kept his uninterested, emotionless voice by, which was similar to Itachi's. "There are MANY things I HATE and NOTHING I LIKE." He went on and sounded with each word colder and colder. "My dream is not a dream, it is an ambhition. The revial of my clan and a certain man…" He paused, his words now colder than ice and his voice without any emotion, his eyes blank and empty which said: 'My Clan, which you no longer belong to, because I don't acknowledge you as a brother but as one of my enemys.' The air seemed to get colder and could freeze any minute, it was getting harder to breathe. Itachi knew Sasuke's answer and a single sweatdop made it's way down his neck, an unseen shiver escaped his body and his body was slightly trembling. "…will die." Sasuke finished his sentence and his eyes narrowed into a look of pure hatred.

Itachi gripped at his necklace for a moment and breathed out deeply. "Okay." He said a bit hestiated. Sasuke really hated him and that with passion. But Itachi didn't understand why. The muderer who Sasuke wants to kill is an unknown murderer, no one had seen him and stopped him, that's why he could escape freely. Even after the day no one could find him and that is what Itachi didn't understand: When the murderer is unknown then why does Sasuke behave like Itachi was the murderer, why the hate, why against him? This was what the elder Uchiha wondered about and that for four years. Still he couldn't now think about it, he had students and one of them was more or less waiting for an response. Itachi relaxed himself once more and spoke again in his emotionless tone. "Your dream, no, your ambhition is difficult too, because you don't who he is or how strong and this unclear fact can drive you insane. And it also can surprise you from behind, if you underestimate him. And still I will do whatever it takes to prepare all three of you and help you become stronger and reach your dreams." Itachi said as he looked at them and smiled lightly.

This were our dreams and my goal - to kill the murderer and my third goal, what I didn't say, was - surpassing you Itachi. Being stronger, greater, more famous, more feared than you und hearing you say this sentence one time: I'm proud of you, I'm proud to have you as my brother." This was what I almost wished more than having another brother. I wanted your admiration, your attention, your… instead I had to hear everytime how great you are, how I can make this better and what I did wrong and this was everything. I think the gap between us will never close, but I will do whatever it takes to make it possible.

"Ah, besides…" Itachi started to get our attention. "We are meeting tomorrow at six o' clock at the meeting place."

"Ey?! So early?!" Naruto protested. "I'm still sleeping then!" He ranted and wanted that Itachi changed his mind. But it failed.

"Why so early Sensei?" Sakura asked a little confused, because she wanted to sleep as well, but didn't want to admit that. Shanaroo! That's so mean! I need my sleep! Screamed inner Sakura angrily.

Itachi only closed his eyes and let a sigh pass. "Rule number two: A ninja must be ready for a battle at any time, at any place, under every circumstance. Remember that." Clarified Itachi and opened his black eyes which shimmered in the sunlight and caught Sakura's and Naruto's attention.

He is cool, somehow like Sasuke, cool and sexy. But who is better? Sasuke or Itachi-Sensei? … Sasuke! Sasuke will always be my number one, cha! Sakura thought.

'tebayo? Somehow Itachi-Sensei is an arrogant wannabe as Sasuke. Does it run in the Clan? Wait, isn't Itachi from the Uchiha Clan as well as Sasuke? Doesn't that mean that…? Naruto thought and his eyes widened in a mixture of shock and surprise.

AN: Finish chapter two. Huh, hard work, but I'm enjoying it. Yeah… this chapter was a bit lame but that will change – next chapter. The character of Itachi is a little different, more like a teacher and a big brother at the same time. Sasuke is more cold-hearted, Naruto more smart (I think it fits him) and Sakura same as usual. No flames please about this, constructive critics are always welcomed! And please don't count my errors! Being German and having bad knowledges about things like the grammar is a real pain in the ass! You've been warned, remember? ^^ Well… see ya next chapter!

Words: Sensei – Teacher 'tebayo – dattebayo – ('believe it' in USA)

Kitsune – Fox (A calling for Naruto in fics.)

Shanaroo – Hell no or hell yeah (Exclaimation of Sakura in anime.)