Who: Itachi Uchiha (
prodigal_liar) and Uchiha Sasuke (
undertides)
When: Backdated... a lot. To, uh, August 20th...? I think.
Where: Sasuke's place.
Format: Paragraph
What: Sasuke is recovering after his fight with Naruto, and Itachi pays him a long overdue visit.
Warnings: None that I can think of, unless they start being angsty, in which case... duck and cover! Run
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Itachi of all people should know that. Hadn't he lived his life always three steps ahead of everyone else - even Madara? Sasuke thinks of the gasping pain of Amateratsu erupting into life for the first time, the wariness and grudging respect Madara had held for Itachi.
Always three steps ahead.
He wonders if he knows that he's not looking into his little brother's eyes anymore. If he knows he's looking into his own. Would he recognise his own? It's impossibly inane and yet the thought's there -
"I don't want to fight you."
The words fall low and abrupt. Try as he does he cannot rid himself of ghosts; I will always be the obstacle you must overcome, they whisper, and he's really fucking sick of things he has to beat, things he has to surpass. He's tired, and for once he just wants to win something for free ( ... )
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Shaking his head regretfully, he stopped when he stood directly beside Sasuke's bed. His hand twitched, wanted to reach out for his little brother, but remained at his side.
"The truth...? You ought to have learned what it is by now." Madara would have told him, or perhaps Sasuke wanted to hear it from him to be sure he hadn't swallowed some half-baked lie concocted to keep him under thumb? No, it still didn't matter. "Even if you haven't... it can wait ( ... )
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