RENATUS | TVD X Naruto

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The days of glory in New Orleans were decades long yet short-lived. With Niklaus daggering his siblings more often than not. Kol was saved from one such treacherous attempt by his siblings by Itachi and spirited away from his family.
It seemed that Itachi cared for him indeed---even, though he denied it vehemently with that blank face of his.

They traveled far and wide, dodging and killing minions of his brother and hiding from father.

It was quite a few years; he spent with Itachi---teaching him how to have fun and getting him to drink without magically absorbing the alcoholic effects. They immersed themselves in witch covens, seduced maidens, fangirled over weapons, and killed enemies right and left.

Kol learned the way of Uchiha and the art of understanding the hn's and the minute twists of lips that expressed all the emotions Itachi wanted.

For the first time in centuries, Kol was free.

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Itachi was first drawn to Kol by his similarities to Shisui, the teasing, the laughter, the pranks, and the flirting. It was his mischievously devious ways that drug him in. Later, he learned to love Kol for himself ---the curl of his lashes, the sly twist of his lips, the mirth that danced in his eyes and mischief that shadowed his steps. He was so like Shisui yet so different.

He loved Kol.
The realization hit him hard and fast as he ran with Kol in his arms away from the mansion away from New Orleans. Away from the threats.
He had thought of running away of disappearing into obscurity and not looking back(---the people he loved had a way of dying tragically. Most often with his own hands.)

But he stayed because maybe the immortality that Kol boosted of so often would keep him from dying, from leaving Itachi alone.

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The duo heard through rumor mills about the mighty city of supernatural---the city with the Mikaelson crest stamped on every street being brought to destruction by Mikael the hunter. (Not father--fathers do not kill their own children. They do not mercilessly stake them into their hearts.)

Marcellus was dead. The rumors said the originals fled as the city burned--- they whispered.

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Kol hated that he was scared--- scared for the siblings that daggered him for centuries at once, they who didn't include him in their promise of always and forever. He hates himself for the pain he feels for Niklaus, who lost a part of himself just as Kol did. He hates them too---Niklaus who daggered him, mocked him, and hurt him. Elijah who pretends to be noble and self-righteous as if he has any moral ground to stand on. Rebekah, who longs for love but betrays him at every turn. He hates himself too for feeling the satisfaction at seeing them run as they made him.

He hates himself even more when he realizes that they are all just like him, and he should have known better than to expect anything more of them.

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It is 1920 Chicago when they cross paths with Niklaus and Rebekah again--- them drunk out of their minds. When Kol and Itachi enter, Gloria's already drunk on magical concoctions arm in arm. Kol suddenly points to the pair of blonde's who were sitting in the quiet corner with another man. He stumbles towards them, dragging his best friend with him all the while pointing a finger in their direction.