Love In The Blood Prison | Sasunaru/Narusasu

Your heart is a blood prison

I briefly look between Itachi and Sasuke, glancing at my shoulder to see a raven staring intently at Itachi. I grab it roughly and cover its eyes while avoiding them to prevent getting caught in a genjutsu.

Sasuke grabs the kunai from Itachi, and in a blink of an eye, his own older brother grabs his collar and throws him to the ground hard. Sasuke coughs and groans, grabbing his arm that's broken.

"Itachi, wake up!" Sasuke shouts. "This isn't what you stand for!"

"You should've let me end my own life. You can afford to lose a rogue shinobi of his caliber." Itachi grabs another kunai and stabs it into Sasuke's hand, constraining it to the ground.

"What are you doing?" Sasuke looks ready to fight his older brother, although he looks hesitant to actually do it.

"I have a slither of consciousness left. I will do as I'm told to do but elsewhere." He looks at me. "At the blood prison."

My dad looks as confused as I feel. "How... did he slip past me or any of the sensory ninjas?"

"I used to live here and Konoha wouldn't announce that the biggest asset to their plan is entering the village. I simply walked inside. You didn't notice me because you were too busy holding down a criminal." Itachi says to my dad.

My dad looks at the Hokage and then back at Itachi. He looks upset that the village has resulted to this. "You're a criminal too. You've killed people before. Don't pretend that you haven't. You're in the bingo book."

"Even so, I bet you wouldn't have the same attitude if you were forced to kill your own family for a second chance at life. If your son had to stand over your body, would you still act nonchalant? You say yes, you're as heartless as the Hokage. If you say no, you're lying to yourself. You stand by giving justice to everyone, isn't that right, Minato?"

My dad furrows his brows. "A little mind control and you act villainous, or is it the facade you wear as a spy?"

"Both. Would you believe me if I say that I'm fighting my body to not kill my brother? Currently, someone is telling me to finish him off along with your son in my ear, but you know what?"

"What?"

Itachi points to Kakashi. "He showed me how well he is as a teacher for my brother and his friend. I will do everything I can not to kill them."

"You could just release the curse."

"You would have to kill me to do that." Itachi puts his hand on his chest. "The Akatsuki stood me in front of a mirror and forced me to be like this for their reason. Little did they know I was doing actually what the village wanted."

"What did they want you to do?"

"I already told you. To kill Sasuke Uchiha. Naruto wasn't supposed to die, but then again, Minato, my body is looming with control to kill anyone who stands as an obstacle. How would you know that I'm not lying? Is it the kunai in my brother's hand or the crow perched on your son's shoulder to keep me a bit awake? Who knows?"

"So you wanted to kill yourself in front of him?" My dad looks more upset than ever. "That's not a good way to say goodbye as his big brother. He would've dealt with more than just his murderous past."

"No, I snapped out of it when I stood in front of him. I forced myself to awake up just enough to not kill anyone and used the crow to keep myself awake. It's like a weak barricade, almost."

"There has to be another way to wake up."

Itachi shakes his head. "This isn't a fairy tale where true love's kiss will wake me up, Minato. Only a kunai in my heart can stop me. I can't tell myself to stop because the Akatsuki used someone's chakra to do this. I don't know how to explain it, but it made it possible for only I can stop this curse by dying rather than snapping out of it when the source of the chakra dies."