Your Lies || Itachi x Reader

Chapter 16

POV - Hangetsu:

I miss her. I miss her. I'm dying. Come back. I need you. Don't die. Please be okay. I'll find you. Those were the only things I could say while thinking of Lady Y/n. It had been two weeks since I had last seen her. Her touch was all I craved. To know she was okay... was my greatest wish.

Is she thinking of me too? I thought, sitting at my desk as I wrote in my journal. I miss her. I tossed my journal aside. No matter how much I wrote about my feelings or her, she wasn't coming back. The worst part was I wasn't allowed to go looking for her. The Mizukage strictly forbade me from it.

"It'll harm your mental health," she said. "Some Anbu and I will go looking for her."

I banged my fist onto the table. Ugh! I was frustrated. She was out there alone under the Akatsuki's control. They had captured her. What if they killed her by now? What if she's dead? Negative thoughts flooded my head.

I spiraled. I held myself, feeling pain in my chest. I couldn't breathe. Everything was getting hazy. I coughed. I felt like I was dying, but I knew I wasn't. Come on! Get through this. I thought as my panic attack passed.

POV - Mei:

Mom and I never talked. But she was especially distant now since Y/n was gone. Secretly, I would see her weeping in her bedroom every night. She would cry herself to sleep. And I couldn't help but feel responsible. It was all my fault that Y/n was gone...

The Mizukage's sister... no... my sister... she was gone. I told myself and Han every day that I would bring her back. But, it had been weeks since we last saw her. I was losing hope. Furthermore, Han was losing the spark in his eyes.

I felt like I was dying inside. No amount of respect, encouragement, or comfort could work. "That bastard, Itachi," I muttered, putting my hands together as I rested my head on them. If you do anything to my sister, I'll kill you myself.

I knew Itachi and Kisame had captured her. It had to be them. I had been tracking them down and I had predicted where they would be next. Near a collection agency... that's where I would go and attack. I wasn't going to let my sister die by their hands. Especially not for something as stupid as bounty.

Mother glanced at me, walking into the kitchen silently. I was sitting at the dining table. I rushed through papers, writing letters of retrieval plans. My ambition to get back my sister was apparent. Mother knew.

"Your sister is dead just like your father," she said emotionlessly. "It happened again. I warned you many times. You shouldn't have let her become a shinobi." It was unusual for my mother to ever speak. "Kekkei genkai are curses in this wretched world." Her voice was shaky.

I could feel my temper rise. I was pissed at mom for never taking accountability. For always acting like she has nothing to do with us. It's always "your sister" or "your father."  Never "my daughter" or "husband." She blamed it all on the fact that we were shinobi, refusing to acknowledge any other factors. And I had quite enough.

"You know what mother, there's a limit to how much you can hurt someone," I said. "Y/n just wanted your love. She wanted a normal life. Not to be ostracized. I've acknowledged that I made a few mistakes. I should've let her go outside of the village and not constrained her. But, you have to take accountability too. Did you ever care about her?!" I cried. "She left because of us. Because of how terrible we treated her. You're partly to blame." I got up from my chair. "We've failed as her family."

Mother smiled coldly. "Family? We failed to be that long ago..."

"Can't you understand?! You failed! You failed to protect us when we were at our most vulnerable!" My voice quivered.