hatred eternal
Odd itachi fic i wrote revolving around my own theories and ideas on his true sinister intentions. Makes no sense but who the hell cares, ne? ^___^
Title: Hatred Eternal
Character: Itachi
Summary: Itachi has a shocking ulterior motive behind everything he has ever done.
Inspiration: focus word 'immortality, hate', epiphany by staind
Rating: pg for EVAHL!!!!!!!!
Words: 1000 +
Itachi is a man who lives his life in-between the lines, caught somewhere in the middle of normalcy and insanity. He is a mentally unstable genius, in every aspect, but never lets himself stray too far into madness. He survives off of a single thought that had rooted itself in his mind long ago and begun to fester there until it had ceased to even be a thought, instead becoming his very purpose for continuing on with his pathetic excuse for a life.
"Run, run, and cling to life..."
It is that very thought that Itachi knows has fixated itself within the troubled mind of his precious younger brother as well, feeding his hatred and driving him onwards towards his ultimate goal of revenge. He knows that it is that very goal that plagues the cursed existence of Uchiha Sasuke, blinding him to the true meaning behind Itachi's words.
When Sasuke heard those words, he heard the advice of a demented stranger, telling him exactly what he needed to do in order to somehow restore his peace of mind. Itachi's real intention, however, had been to engrave a solemn warning into the boy's shattered conscience, because that day, he had given Sasuke a choice that his brother wouldn't see until it he had already chosen the wrong path. That, of course, is what Itachi had expected to happen, and now the ignorant young Uchiha was caught in his trap, without suspecting a thing.
Itachi has a reason for leaving his brother of alive, and it was that reason that allowed the same words that now haunted every moment of every day for his brother to instill themselves in Itachi's mind. They help to sustain the rationale behind his panoramic objective, an objective that he has already come close to achieving, if only from his own, twisted perspective.
Itachi often finds amusement in the thought of what his brother would say if he knew the, now, unavoidable reality of the situation that he has gotten himself into. But Sasuke doesn't know and so Itachi, in his unstable mind, eagerly awaits the day when the boy finally confronts him for the last time and realizes what he has done. Because Sasuke has done something that is completely contradictory to his goal. He has made Itachi, and in turn, himself, immortal, and he is still oblivious to it.
It is the truth as odd as it may seem. But immortality comes from the eye of the beholder just as much as it comes from eternal youth, and in many different forms.
Orochimaru had thought himself to be immortal, had claimed to have found the key to everlasting life... Orochimaru is dead now, defeated by Itachi's own brother. In reality, however, Orochimaru had died the day he discovered immortality and he never did understand the epitome of the word. All the man ever did was find a way to postpone death, and his own downfall was from his continuous attempts to accomplish his impossible endeavors. The man's idea of immortality had been nothing more than an unattainable fantasy, and it is because the sannin had never learned to see through his corrupted desperation.
Sasori is another who had lost himself in the thought of immortality, and like Orochimaru, he, too, is now dead, the price he paid for his insolence. The boy had been more humble about his sense of immortality than the snake, but he had still managed to find his own form of vanity in it. His life of denial is what had led to Sasori's interpretation of infinity, and it is because of his refusal to let go of the past that he had turned himself into a living puppet, a being that was frozen in time. And that is why Sasori had finally been able to accept his mortality and let himself die in the bittersweet embrace of his parents, having at last discovered a reason to stop living.
Kakuzu, too, had lived a lie that he had called immortality. Out of all of the other, now former, Akatsuki members who had also lived with a corrupted view of forever, Kakuzu is probably the one whose outlook on eternity had been the most effective in giving him his immortality. He had lived the longest and while giving up the least for it. But Kakuzu's eternal life had come from his lack of humanity and it is that which had ensured his demise from the very beginning.
And lastly, there is Hidan, a man who had a man whose very existence had been built off of the lives of others. His strong devotion to his 'religion' and his rituals is why he had been unable to die and it is because of his inability to be magnanimous that he had continued to live for so long, desperate for death to finally come to him but not realizing that it could if he would just let go of his dark obsessions. Hidan, however, as it would seem, had never been able to let go of them, even though he had still been able to die, destroyed by his own evil.
All four of them had thought they had obtained immortality, but now, every last one of them are gone, their downfall having come from the arrogance that had come along with their ignorance.
Itachi, too, expects to meet his downfall in his attempt at immortality. In fact, he knows he will meet his downfall this way. But it will not be in his attempt at immortality so much as it will be his way of gaining it. Everything he has ever done from the moment he killed his clan, leaving Sasuke alive, taunting him, pushing him closer towards his goal of revenge... All of it has been one big plan.
Sasuke thinks he has figured it out. Sasuke knows that Itachi wants him to go down the same path as him. That's why he left the Kyubi brat alive and chose to defeat his brother his own way. But the truth is, all the boy has to do is kill his older brother. That is all that Itachi needs for him to do, because when he does, Sasuke will finally understand... He'll understand all that he has thrown away and all that he has lost and given up. He'll be too lost in his own torment to try and regain his life, a life he had never truly been allowed to live to begin with... All because of Itachi.
The day Sasuke kills Itachi will be the day that he has replaced every bit of what makes him human with hatred, something Itachi succeeded in doing the day he massacred his clan. And on that day, Itachi's spirit will live on in Sasuke, who will in so many ways, have ceased to be the Sasuke that anyone had ever known. He will be nothing but an empty shell with a broken soul, who lives off of hatred.
And every time he looks at his reflection, he will see the same exact thing that Itachi sees now, staring back at him... The person he hates the most.