I'm not sure if there needs to be an explanation, but I hoped this chapter fleshed out what happened in the past.
Though, I don't know why I made it to where Sasuke still lived with his parents. I would make sense for Itachi to livethere because he's eventually going to inherit the home, but Sasuke? Maybe he gave his home to Sakura in the divorce. I'd like to think that Sakura would still have Sarada, but divorce Sasuke. For the people the have read my past work, you guys know how i feel about the guy, right? I'm only nice to him because riseoftheblossom is such a huge believer in Sasuke, so I'll be nicer to him.
Anywho, I figured out who i'm going to ship, but you guys probably know from last chapter who it is... and from the tags.
Itachi never understood why Sasuke had decided to tour the world and not stay in Konoha. From what he had explained to his older brother, Sasuke felt guilty for leaving the village and teaming up with Orochimaru, and that he had betrayed his clan's wishes to help Obito and Madara to pull off the Tsukiyomi. From what Itachi had been told, Sasuke had found out the village's plan to exterminate their beloved clan, which he dubbed the village to be the bad guys. Of course, Itachi didn't think of that. He only thought the people at fault were the issue, not the whole village. Finally Sasuke saw Itachi's point of view after getting his ass handed to him by Naruto, who Sasuke swears saved his life.
After the war, Naruto had found out about the fate the village tried to enact on the Uchiha clan. He and Kakashi got together to try and clear the Uchiha clan, seeing as both of their best friends were a part of the clan, that the Uchiha only felt the way they did because of how they were outcasted by the Second Hokage. Tsunade had given a formal, public apology to the Uchiha and swore she didn't feel the same way as her predecessors. Especially since the Uchiha themselves had helped with the war, being their own secret battalion of sorts. Itachi was dubbed a war hero after the Fourth war because of how he was able to stop Kabuto and what the man was doing, sacrificing his eye.
After the war, Itachi decided to take his father's place in the clan and in the police force. Sasuke decided he wanted to travel the world, to repent for what all he's done. Though Itachi loved his little brother, he thought that abandoning Sarada and Sakura wasn't the most ideal thing. He warned Sasuke that Sakura would divorce him if he didn't come home but Sasuke didn't listen. Low and behold, Sakura did exactly what Itachi had predicted. Even though they're divorced, Sakura still lived with the clan and Itachi took it upon himself to teach Sarada how to use her sharingan-
Itachi was sitting at his desk when Sasuke came home, bringing him out of his train of thought for the time being. He had sighed when he heard Sasuke's footsteps slowly making his way to his room.
The older brother got up and walked over to Sasuke's door, knocking on it slowly. Sasuke knew who it was, he wasn't stupid. Sasuke muttered a 'come in' under his breath, knowing Itachi would start to ask the same questions.
"Yes, I am home. No, I haven't seen Sarada yet and no, I haven't seen Sakura yet either. She will get her cold support check like she always does." Sasuke said before sitting on his bed to look at his older brother.
Itachi took a minute before speaking up.
"Sarada might need you." The older man said simply.
"I'll take her out to lunch tomorrow, if Sakura will let me." Sasuke responded in his normal quiet voice.
Itachi grabbed the chair from Sasuke's desk, sitting himself in it to look Sasuke in the eye.
"What I'm going to tell you will be hard to process, but I can answer any question you have." Itachi said.
"Naruto was found dead in his home last week."
Sasuke looked at Itachi, a little confused, but he didn't really react like Itachi thought he would.
"...How is Hinata taking it?" Was the first question Sasuke came up with.
"She… is dead too, and so is Boruto. There was a house fire. The kids were drugged, Boruto and Hinata had blunt force trauma on the back of their neck and Naruto was tied by his hands and feet." Itachi explained slowly, trying to gauge Sasuke's reaction.
"You mentioned Boruto and Hinata… is Himawari okay?" Sasuke asked in a quiet voice.
Itachi was confused, thinking that Sasuke would have taken the news a little harder than he currently is.
"She survived. She's currently staying with the Nara family." Itachi answered slowly.
Sasuke nodded his head.
"Have they picked who's going to replace Naruto?"
Itachi shook his head no.
"The counsel is currently arguing about it. They had approached me, but I didn't take it."
Sasuke chuckled under his breath.
"Of course they would,"
He then got up, walking past Itachi to grab his cloak.
"Where are you going? Itachi questioned, wondering what Sasuke was up to.
"I'm going to check on Sarada." Was all Sasuke stated.
When Sasuke came past Itachi, the older brother had grabbed onto his arm.
"Sasuke, you're pretty calm. I just explained to you how your best friend has died, and you're calm."
Sasuke looked Itachi in the eye as he pulled his arm away.
"In the past, I would have gotten angry, brother. Right now, I need to be with Sarada. Like you just said, She had lost her best friend, too. She also looked up to Naruto more than she looked up to me. I need to make sure she's okay before joining you and trying to find out who did it."
Itachi nodded his head, standing up himself.
"If you would like to help, as our father had said, you'll always have a place in the police force."
He only said that because of my eyes," Sasuke walked through the door.
"Tell mother I won't be home for dinner," He told his brother as he left the home altogether.
*In the tune of Mr Boomtastic by Shaggy*
Ku-dos, I love them. sooooo!
Seriously though, the song is a bop, go check it out.
Thanks for reading!
