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When Bad Meets Evil
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-Present day-
"Sasuke!" Fugaku called out. Said raven had just turned eighteen and Fugaku wanted to have a serious talk with him before it was to late. "Sasuke, come here now!" The thing was that compared to Itachi, Sasuke was a handful that Fugaku had to raise all by himself. He had lied about going on some personal business trips for months at a time and then having to leave Sasuke alone for the other part. Sasuke had no idea of the family he truly had. All he knew was that he lived with his father that was rarely home do to work. Today he was going to tell him that there was more than to the sheltered life that he lived.
"SASUKE!"
"Che, what is it?" Sasuke appeared beside him all of a sudden. Raven spiky hair, clothes to big for him and an itch he could not scratch. He had never been allowed out past the fence that surrounded the perimeter of the house, that didn't mean that he had not peeked out of it. He was home schooled and his goal now was to leave home so he had been packing. He could not wait to say goodbye to all of this.
"Come sit down with me" his father said as he sat at the table. Sasuke slowly followed with his head tilted to the side. It wasn't like he and his dad did not talk once in a while to catch up on things, but that was usually during dinner not now when he was almost free from this hell hole. Nor had his father ever looked this urgent to simply have a talk with him about a random subject.
"What is it?" there was a dramatic pause that was causing Sasuke to be impatient.
"I can't believe you are already moving out on me just like that." Sasuke smiled at his father. Fugaku now knew how Mikoto felt about the thought of having Itachi leave. It was really hard to let go of a child, you became to attached to them over time. Damn.
"It's not that bad, I'll come back and visit" His father smiled as well. Sasuke was a pain in the butt of a brat, but he was going to miss him either way. The boy may not seem as a fast learner as his brother, but that was because Sasuke never really took anything seriously. Life to Fugaku was something he felt he had to live and when he saw how far he was pushing Itachi to the cold side he decided to let Itachi choose his own pace in life. But now was not the time to reminisce fore he was about to confess the heavy burden in his chest.
"I'm glad you wont forget your father as well as I would like you to forgive me for what I am about to tell you." Sasuke perked up at that and looked pointedly at his father, forgive? "You know this life we live here in this house is nothing but a lie, a secluded area where I have kept you away from everyone"
"What?"
The words just spilled out. "You have a mother Sasuke."
"Obviously, how else would I be here?" Sasuke cut in "You told me she died giving birth to me."
"That was a lie; your mother is well and alive. She's a beauty." Sasuke's eyes were wide at his father's words. Fugaku opened his brief case and pulled out a black album, it read in the front Uchiha Sasuke, happy eighteenth. He opened it to the first page to a woman smiling. She looked beautiful in her pose and yet at the same time her eyes looked like they could tell you a sad story.
"This is my mother?" he asked.
"Yes," Fugaku sighed "Everything about her life has been hell. Her only happiness came when she found out she was with me and having my child. That ended when she had a miscarriage and then she got pregnant again." Sasuke nodded "Though she doesn't know about you." Sasuke looked up at his father confused.
"How can she not know? If she gave birth to me shouldn't it be obvious?" Sasuke asked "She can't just forget she was pregnant all together even when she wanted a child."
"No, I guess not" Fugaku smiled "Because you were not the only one born that day." Sasuke was even more confused.
"I wasn't?"
"No, you have a twin brother." Sasuke's eyes widen again and looked down when his father flipped the page to show the picture of his other half. "He of course is older than you for about two hours. After that, your mother became unconscious with no memory of the second child born; as I brought you here to raise you myself." Fugaku scoffed at himself.
"Why?" Sasuke asked "Why would you take me away from my family?"
"Itachi." His mother called. The teen looked up from the covered present he had just gotten from his sadistic grandmother and looked at his mother with a raised eyebrow. "Have you seen your father around?"
Itachi shook his head. "I haven't seen that old man for the past week; he probably left again without warning." Itachi shut his mouth when he saw the sadness swirl over his mother's eyes. She was not good at hiding her emotions. She was fragile and easily read. "Don't worry, I'm sure he's not out there with some bimbo cheating on you mom. Dad is better than that, you know that right?"
Mikoto sighed and looked down. "I know you hate seeing me like this Itachi. I wish you wouldn't see me like this. I really try hard to be strong, but I can't shake the feeling that there is something he's hiding from me." She smiled; it was so fake it hurt. "I'm sure you're right"
Itachi shrugged. "If you want, I'll start following him around and bring you a full report of what he does?" Itachi had offered to do this when he was younger, but his mother always denied him. She looked up this time he could see that she was considering it.
"Could you please?" Itachi nodded his head.
"Hey, do you want me to throw you a birthday party? Your birthday is today we can still do something."
"Mom, I told you. I'm already eighteen, I'll just go hang out with friends."
"Please Itachi!!" She begged "Man, it seems like you grew up so fast."
"Fine, I'll be back in time to celebrate the ending of my birthday."
Mikoto smiled. "Thank you and no peeking!" She left running past him to prepare the most decent little cake and some other things for his birthday. Itachi looked back down at the present in his hand; it had the strangest thing on it that he had ever read in his life. 'Twins come out in pairs: One good the other evil." The sudden ringing of his phone brought back his attention to the real world. He dug into his pocket to bring it out. "Hello?"
"Itachi man, hurry up! THERE ARE A BUNCH OF LITTLE CUTE GUYS HERE!!"
Itachi sighed; frankly he was getting sick of how many little sluts there were out there.
"Don't worry, I'll be there." With that he closed his phone and vanished from the spot he once stood.
"Because of my mother Annabel." Sasuke looked down at the other page where his father was pointing to a woman with deep brown hair and dull gray eyes. His own eyes were gray, a black grey, but hers were a silver gray. She looked hallow to him, like a person worn of life. Sasuke could always seem to tell what a person was when he looked at them. He brought his hand to touch her picture and looked back up at his father.
"She killed someone" he murmured. "Someone close to her." Fugaku would have been shocked by Sasuke's deduction if he would have not seen the boy do that to new people he met when he brought some of his employers here.
He nodded his head. "That's right; she killed her own twin sister." Fugaku looked down at the picture "Just like she would have killed you if I would have left you there. You wouldn't have lasted the week." Sasuke looked up at his father with a deep frown. "Your mother would have been more devastated if that had happened."
"Why are you telling me all this when living a lie was so much simpler!?" Sasuke snapped.
"Because, now that you are older you can handle it, Sasuke. I know you can" his father sighed. "I wanted you to know about your brother as well. She killed my twin when he was an infant too. I didn't want either of you to lose the other." Sasuke sighed as he turned the page and saw his twin again. They looked alike and yet so different. He liked his twin.
"What's his name?"
"Itachi."
"Great." Sasuke got up from his chair and walked out of the kitchen, running all the way to his room and quickly grabbing both of his bags. Fugaku simply sat there wondering what other move Sasuke was going to make. For one, the boy could go over and try to be part of the whole family, demanding his position back. On the other hand…well, he really did not know. Then again, Sasuke was a pretty kept person, someone who did not like to draw so much of people's attention to himself, reserved. Fugaku watched his son check his back pack, take out his wallet and count his money he had been saving for this day.
"So, what are you going to do?"
"What do you mean what am I going to do? I'm going away to the university" Sasuke proclaimed a grin crossing his face. "I'm finally free to go where I want to go. I don't have to be tied down to anything." He shoved the wallet down his pocket and tilted his head towards his dad. "Are you worried about something?"
"Not at all. I want you to have fun…."
"But?"
"Well, it would have been great if you would want to meet you mother and brother; even if you do have a sinister grandmother. It is your birthday." Fugaku shrugged "You should enjoy yourself"
Sasuke scoffed at his father's words. "I told you before, a birthday is a birthday. It's simply another day to me." Fugaku shook his head; he had never had to celebrate Sasuke's birthdays. A simple cake and some tomatoes were enough for him.
"Don't you want to meet them?"
Sasuke slung his backpack over his shoulders and shook his head. "Not right now. Maybe somewhere down the road of life" Sasuke said. "After all we are immortal."
"Only because of our eyes, but even then you can't expect yourself to live for an eternity you know." Sasuke nodded his head. He understood perfectly well.
"Celebrate it with the others and stop worrying about me so much. You've done it for eighteen years now. It's time for a rest." Sasuke grabbed his bag and begun to walk away. "Well dad, I'll see you when I see you." Fugaku stared after the small raven haired boy. Even if he and Itachi were twins Sasuke somehow was smaller than him. He didn't seem strong at all compared to Itachi and that made Fugaku wonder if he had nourished him alright. Sasuke was at the door, but before he stepped out he heard his father say something that made him smile. It still echoed in his head.
"Don't forget about us"
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