Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor do I own anything else that is in this story.
Authors Note!!!! Please READ!!!! Okay, this is a very important point to this story –from now on the story takes place after Sasuke has killed Itachi, so it may seem to take on a different view or demeanour.
Shiver
Chapter 12 Forgiveness
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
Sasuke was far from forgiveness. He knew he had many sorries to give. And he knew somewhere deep down, he looked forward to the day that he gained enough courage to go back to his home, his village.
He knew that one of the first steps to forgiveness was to forgive himself. But he knew that would take time. He never did get over things very easily. Now he had to face the consequences.
Because everything has consequences and you had to deal with them just like you had to deal with everything else in life.
You learned to move on. To forgive but to not forget. And he knew that that was what he needed to do but things were much easier said than they were done.
And he had the feeling that he would be having a hard time with something like this. He was sure that if he was back to his old twelve year old self, hell-bent on revenge, he would have scoffed at the idea of forgiving. He also knew that his twelve year old self would never have thought that things would end up the way they had ended up.
It was something that he had, admittedly, never guessed what had happened. But he had gained what he needed. He had got the power he was so quickly promised. But, he had to ask himself, was it worth it?
The answer to that question was no. If he had known back then, what he now knew, things would be different, they would be better. And he wished he had known that way back then but he could not change the past no matter how much he wanted to.
Because in life you did not get second chances. You had one chance and if you messed that up you had to live with the consequences. And there was absolutely nothing that you could do about it.
All the casualties who had done nothing would still be happy or alive. Even all the people he had left behind would know.
But like before, you didn't get second chances in life. If you did, then you wouldn't learn a thing. You could just go back and change what you didn't like.
Second chances were nothing but pity, you didn't do it right, well, I guess you get to try again. Seemed kind of mocking, did it not?
And that was a coward's way out.
And sadly enough, Sasuke knew that if he had the choice, he would take a second chance.
Sasuke knew that he had a long way to go before he earned forgiveness.