Man, I'm kinda sad that it's ending... I've just had soo much fun writing this! :( Well, anyhow, I just wanted to thank everyone who has stuck with me to the end, and before I get into my big speech (which is at the end of this chapter ;)) then please, enjoy the epilogue! Oh, one more thing, you had better review, because i worked frickin' hard on this ending. Okay, now enjoy! :D

With all the new immigrants, Konoha was now completely PACKED! Especially since Kisame had insisted upon bringing his shark everywhere in a large, mobile aquarium. He pulled it around like a wagon, through the crowded streets of Konoha. It pissed everybody off, but what could they do about it? Not really anything. So instead, they decided to expand Konoha so there would be room for the Akatsuki. The builders got straight to work, making a special section of Konoha, dedicated to the newest members. They also made the roads bigger for Taikai's mobile aquarium, although it still seemed to plow everything and everyone in it's path. Kisame didn't seem to care much.

Sai came back, not long after the whole big scene, and he was more emotionless than ever. He was like a zombie. He didn't even care that the Akatsuki were roaming the streets, or see anything wrong with that. About a week later, Emiko ran through the gates of Konoha, found Sai in the market, and gave him this whole elaborate "I'm soo sorry, will you pretty please with a cherry on top forgive me?" It took a while until Sai finally forgave her and then... SMOOCH! They kissed as if they hadn't been together for years. Everyone on the streets "Aww!"'d.

Except Naruto. "Blech!" he said.

Once the kiss had ended, Sai looked up. "By the way," he asked Naruto. "Why is the Akatsuki here, anyway.

Everyone sweatdropped.

Anyways, Emiko was now a former princess, and a proud citizen of Konoha.

Not long after all this, the Uchiha boys decided to hold a party at Sasuke's place, which was now where Itachi was staying before he would find his own place. I mean, after all, it was Christmas Eve. And no one else had a party planned.

So, the party began. Everyone in Konoha and the Akatsuki showed up, happy and smiling and having a marvelous time. Orochimaru and Himiwari came as well.

Taikai's tank made everything crowded.

All the girls stood around in a circle and chattered as their eyes fluttered around at the various boys there. Sakura waved at Sasuke. He blushed and waved back, but didn't spoil their fun. He just wanted to observe. Sasori approached Sakura. "Um..." he said quietly. "I have something to show you..."

Sakura blinked. "Um, okay...?" she said slowly.

As if out of nowhere, Sasori pulled out a life sized puppet with pink hair and pale skin. She was also wearing a short tank top maroon dress. "What do you think?" Sasori asked excitedly. "I've been working on this forEVER!"

Sakura stared for a moment before a smile curled on her lips. "It... it looks just like me!" she said enthusiastically.

Sasori smiled. "Thanks, I'm glad you like it," he said, blushing.

"Like it? I FRICKIN' LOVE IT!"

Deidara brought his box set of the first season of his famous Youtube series and handed them out for free. "Merry Christmas!" he said merrily as he handed one to Neji. "Enjoy!"

Neji looked down at the box set in his hand. "You're... you're... this is... I-I mean..." he couldn't stop stuttering as he looked up at Deidara.

Deidara smiled a huge, prideful smile. "Don't you worry, it's soo worth it. You'll love it, and won't be able to get enough. Trust me!"

But before he could say anything else, Neji was jumping up and down. "I can't thank you enough!" Neji yelled before tackling Deidara happily. "I'm you're biggest fan!"

Deidara thought for a moment before something suddenly clicked in his head. "Omg," he said quietly with realization. "You're Hyuuga123!"

Neji rapidly nodded his head.

Deidara's face was drawn up into an excited smile. "Oh my frickin' gosh! You're my favorite person in the world!"

Hidan smirked. "Yeah, don't even acknowledge your best friend," he said sullenly.

Deidara ignored him. He walked off with Neji as they chattered away excitedly.

Hidan watched them. "Dick," he said before striding over to the girls. His eyes were set on Hinata. "Hey, call me Mr. Flinstone, because I can make your bed rock," he said to her.

Hinata gaped at him. "Um... wh-what?" she said nervously

Once Kiba saw this, he ran over to Hidan at the speed of light. "BACK OFF!" he yelled.

Sasuke watched the whole scene with amusement.

"Okay, let's not start any fights," Itachi said from nowhere. He appeared through the crowd of shinobi. "Let's keep the party under control here. I kind of have to go somewhere with Sasuke." He looked over at his little brother and winked. Then he looked at Kisame. "Hey man, do you think you can hold down the fort for me for a while?"

Kisame, who was behind Taikai's aquarium (how the eff did he get that thing in there! O.o), looked funny and distorted. "Sure," he said with a lethargic shrug.

"Thanks," Itachi said. Then he looked at Sasuke and smiled. "Come on, let's go."

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The two had ended up in a very haunting, familiar place. The sky was no longer a dull, hazy gray, but now this was the perfect place to watch the sunset.

The two boys sat in silence on the porch, the last place that they had really talked when they were both much younger. The silence lasted for a long time. They hadn't exactly really planned to go there. Itachi didn't even know that he had planned on going there, but he just let his feet move, like he had when he had just barely been brought back to Konoha in Sasuke's body.

There was a distant look in Sasuke's eyes, just like he was trying to look at something across the world. Itachi broke the silence. "What are you thinking?" he asked Sasuke.

Sasuke sighed. Could he put into words what he was really thinking? Instead of trying, he just shrugged. "I don't know. I'm thinking a lot of things. It would take a while to explain."

"Well, then I'm all ears," Itachi responded.

Dammit, Sasuke thought. He thought about it for a while longer, then gave it a try. "Well, okay. Do you remember the last time we sat on this porch? That was also the last time that we really talked."

Itachi nodded. "I remember," he clarified.

Sasuke continued. "Do you remember what you said to me? The last, meaningful thing that you said?"

Itachi thought for a moment. Then it came. I'll always be there for you, even if I'm an obstacle for you to overcome. He didn't realize that he'd said this out loud.

"Yeah, exactly," Sasuke said. Then he smirked and slowly shook his head. "I never knew that what you said was true," he said. "I thought that you had lied to me, but the truth is... you really were always there for me." Sasuke shook his head again. "I don't know why I didn't see that."

Itachi sighed. "I didn't want you to see that, Sasuke. But, in a way, I still kind of wanted you to know that I really would always care about you."

Sasuke took this in. He really did care about him all along. It was hard to believe that not long ago, he had wanted to kill his loving older brother.

"You're upset," Itachi stated, looking at his younger brother.

Sasuke nodded. "A little," he said.

"Why is that?" Itachi asked.

Sasuke sighed. "Well, it's just so hard to believe that, not long ago, we were literally in one another's shoes. And there was just such a rush of excitement when I got to see you again when I knew the truth. That we once had an obnoxious little guardian angel on our backs that would NOT leave us alone." Sasuke laughed when he said this. "It's hard to believe that I once hated that annoying little bitch," he said sadly, his eyes filled with the ghost of his past. "I wanted her to leave, just get away and leave me alone. Let me back into my own skin. But now that she's gone..." Sasuke thought about it. How can he explain it? "Have you ever seen the show 'The Price Is Right'?" he asked Itachi, who nodded in response. Sasuke continued. "Well, I feel kind of like we've won everything on that show. Everything imaginable. Except for that one private island that anyone would have wanted."

Once he had said this, Itachi began to chuckle. Progressively, his chuckle turned into mad laughter.

"What is it!" Sasuke asked nervously.

Itachi sighed and wiped a tear. "Ah, I can't believe that you just related our lives to 'The Price Is Right,'" he said with another laugh. When Sasuke didn't say anything, Itachi grew serious once more. "She's still with us, you know. Even though we can't see her, she can see us. I think that's enough to ask for."

Sasuke's eyes dropped to the ground. "Itachi, what do you think that she was really trying to tell us? I know that she wanted us to see the truth, but she said that she couldn't get her wings until we learned the hidden meaning."

Itachi pondered in silence for bit. "It's tough," he clarified. "I think that she felt how we both felt. Worthless. Like there was almost nothing to live for. Like... like there was no good anywhere. Don't you remember that we both made a wish on a shooting star? The same wish at the same time? She told me that we had both wished the same thing at the same time," Itachi said.

Sasuke nodded. "Yeah, she told me that too," he said.

Itachi suddenly got a distant look, as if he were taking in every little detail of the sunset. "I'm thinking that maybe she was trying to tell us that... there's really a good side to everything. That we all have our obstacles, some bigger than others, but the truth is that the bigger the obstacle, in reality, the luckier you are. After all, they just make you stronger. And look at how strong we are." Itachi smiled down at Sasuke, who was now getting a look of realization in his eyes. Itachi continued. "We take everything for granted. Everybody does. But the truth is, it's all... everything is just marvelous. Everything, even the most terrible things, have a good side." Itachi's voice now held a tone of realization before he said it: "It's a wonderful life, Sasuke."

Sasuke stared at Itachi. He was right- even going to Orochimaru had made him stronger. There was something good about everything.

Itachi looked back down at Sasuke, whose eyes were widened at him. He almost looked like a small child again. "It may seem weird to you for me to say this. Not most siblings actually say it out loud, but I don't care. Sasuke," he smiled down at his little brother. "I love you. And don't ever forget that, no matter what happens."

Sasuke blinked rapidly in shock before smiling up at Itachi. "Nothing ever will happen, right, Nii-san?"

Itachi shrugged. "I can't promise anything," Itachi said.

"I love you too, Nii-san," Sasuke said softly.

Suddenly, they heard a ringing in the distance. They both perked up and looked to where the ringing was coming from. They saw over the gate, a wreath hanging on a shop door, covered in holly and bells. There was a slight breeze, causing a loose bell to jingle.

Sasuke smiled. "Hey, Itachi," he said. "Did you ever hear that whenever a bell rings, an angel gets their wings?"

Itachi perked up even more. "Really?" he said, surprised.

Sasuke nodded. "At first, I thought it was a myth," he said, "but now I bet that she has the biggest, most beautiful wings that any angel ever has had, or ever will have."

Sasuke was right.

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It's oddly remarkable how things in life work. Like coincidences, for example.

A mind-boggling example of a coincidence would be that two brothers from the exact same clan and exact same town were outside on the exact same night at the exact same time looking at the exact same shooting star and wishing the exact same thing and the exact same time.

I wish I didn't have to live with myself.

The oldest, Itachi, had had a difficult fact to live with. He had been ordered by the Hokage to kill his clan, since his father was plotting to take over Konoha with the rest of the Uchiha clan. Itachi was hated by everyone, and was tired of it. He couldn't bring himself to kill his one brother, Sasuke, and every day, he waited for the moment that Sasuke would find him and avenge the clan.

Was Sasuke ready to face Itachi? Or was he strong enough? Itachi was clueless of these facts, and was tired of waiting to die. He was just simply tired of everything in his depressing life. He was very overcome by sadness and despair

The youngest, Sasuke, on the other hand, was simply angry with his life. Why Itachi had killed their clan, he had no idea. Why he had been left alive, he also had no idea. He wanted nothing but to avenge his clan and kill Itachi. But where was he? It seemed like every time he got closer to his older brother, he would just disappear, and Sasuke would have to track him down all over again.

Sasuke hated everything and everyone. He hated Konoha, his best friends, Sakura and Naruto, his sensei, Kakashi, and, most of all, Itachi. Sasuke was tired of everything in his life as well. And would he ever find and kill Itachi? Would he ever be strong enough? His future held nothing but questions, and he was just plain tired of it. He was very overcome by anger and regret. Regret that he wasn't able to stop Itachi.

At the exact same time, they thought about how stupid this all was. Wishing on a shooting star? Two brothers, complete enemies, thought of as evil criminals, wishing on a star. They couldn't help but smirk as they both thought this.

It's very amazing how it all worked. They had done everything at the same time. Not one second off. Not one half second off. Not anything off.

Little did they know that that night, that moment, would change their lives forever.

Okay, time for the big speech!

So this fanfic wasn't even supposed to be a humor fic, you know. I wanted a serious, heartfelt fiction, because that's how I feel about Sasuke and Itachi. But right when I began writing it, life just kind of became a big fat joke to me, and so I just kind of started goofing off with the story, and of course, I put a little bit of serious stuff in it ;) So, I'm glad that I found so many people with the same, twisted sense of humor that I do! ^.^

One other thing you should know is that I was writing another fanfiction, a HinaIta fanfiction, before this, but I totally blew it off because I had TOO MUCH FUN writing this one! :D I felt glued to the computer and wrote whenever I could! So, as you can see, I really don't want to end it, but every story has it's end. It doesn't matter if I'm writing or reading the story, I always get that bittersweet feeling that I finished the story, but it's over, and it will never be the same again, even if I were to read it again. I'll always know what's going to happen if I'm rereading/writing it. That's how I feel right now, ending this story. It almost feels like it shouldn't be ending! D: Trust me, I would totally continue if it were normal for stories not to end. BECAUSE I'LL FEEL EMPTY SINCE I HAVE NOTHING TO WRITE ANYMORE!

Well, I'll have my HinaIta. Maybe I'll throw some humor in there. ;) If you add me to author alert, maybe I'll make my other fanfic funnier, or I can MAYBE attempt a sequel to this one... Or possibly write about Sai and Emiko. Or something else. I don't know yet...

Anyways, I can't thank you all enough for reading my fic. I'm soo glad that you all enjoyed it and all the nice reviews that I got just MADE MY DAY! So, like I said before, you had better review this chapter, because I have put a lot of thought into it :) Well, I hate to say this, but that's the end. Bye :)