[Private to Itachi]a_for_tioriSeptember 26 2009, 04:06:49 UTC
Don't try to justify it.
[Sasuke doesn't understand what the hell is wrong with everyone. Things are wrong in the world, things which are unacceptable are allowed to occur without any particular protest and it isn't even that nobody cares, it's that they look at it and they twist and dissemble and tell themselves it's okay. But it's not. It can't be justified. Nothing can make up for that - Itachi so young he only knows war from whispers and Mother's simple explanations, younger than Sasuke had been, even, that Itachi out on the battlefield with fear and pain and blood and blood and blood. Nothing can make up for that.
And that's Father doing that. Father who is cold and cruel and selfish, not caring He thought he knew Father. He shouldn't be surprised, really. He thought he knew Itachi too, after all. He had been so sure, when he was a kid, and he hasn't fucking grown up at all, has he. He hasn't gotten even the slightest bit more perceptive, he still doesn't know anything.]
It's not justifiable.
[Sasuke doesn't understand why Itachi tries to justify these things that happen to him. Why he always tries to make it seem like his suffering isn't important. He is a shinobi and shinobi are tools of war except he is also Itachi and Sasuke's brother and he is important. He can't just be tossed away like a tool.]
[Private to Sasuke]seeing_only_redSeptember 26 2009, 12:22:52 UTC
Things were different, Sasuke. Had the war not ended shortly thereafter [it had been months later, but still it had ended sooner than anyone thought possible], I would have been like Kakashi...pushed to graduate from the Academy and enter the war because I was an Uchiha and they knew I could.
Had I been, I would have needed to know how to survive. Of what the enemy was capable of. Of what Konoha itself was capable of.
Our father only did what our clan expected of him and what anyone who wants their child to return home from a mission may do.
[No, he is not trying to say it's right, or that it had not affected him when he was younger. Because it had, because the scars of war had made him hate it so much--fear it--that he had been willing to kill his clan to prevent another one from happening, from having to watch the ruthless carnage of the battlefield again and again for the rest of his life. He had wanted to break the cycle, but Itachi knows now how arrogant his belief that his one act would be capable of such great change was.]
[Sasuke doesn't understand what the hell is wrong with everyone. Things are wrong in the world, things which are unacceptable are allowed to occur without any particular protest and it isn't even that nobody cares, it's that they look at it and they twist and dissemble and tell themselves it's okay. But it's not. It can't be justified. Nothing can make up for that - Itachi so young he only knows war from whispers and Mother's simple explanations, younger than Sasuke had been, even, that Itachi out on the battlefield with fear and pain and blood and blood and blood. Nothing can make up for that.
And that's Father doing that. Father who is cold and cruel and selfish, not caring He thought he knew Father. He shouldn't be surprised, really. He thought he knew Itachi too, after all. He had been so sure, when he was a kid, and he hasn't fucking grown up at all, has he. He hasn't gotten even the slightest bit more perceptive, he still doesn't know anything.]
It's not justifiable.
[Sasuke doesn't understand why Itachi tries to justify these things that happen to him. Why he always tries to make it seem like his suffering isn't important. He is a shinobi and shinobi are tools of war except he is also Itachi and Sasuke's brother and he is important. He can't just be tossed away like a tool.]
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Had I been, I would have needed to know how to survive. Of what the enemy was capable of. Of what Konoha itself was capable of.
Our father only did what our clan expected of him and what anyone who wants their child to return home from a mission may do.
[No, he is not trying to say it's right, or that it had not affected him when he was younger. Because it had, because the scars of war had made him hate it so much--fear it--that he had been willing to kill his clan to prevent another one from happening, from having to watch the ruthless carnage of the battlefield again and again for the rest of his life. He had wanted to break the cycle, but Itachi knows now how arrogant his belief that his one act would be capable of such great change was.]
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