CROW (ITACHI X READER)

Chapter Nine:

Itachi

I am a zombie, both physically and emotionally. Mentally I was equivalent to a comatose patient, everything went in one ear and out the other. The fact that I retained everything was genuinely surprising.

I had been reduced to my basic instincts that kept me alive, my routine became mundane and my communicating skills were nonsensical grunting instead of words.

Unresponsive, vacant, unbearable, were some of the words used to describe me. Damon, Max and Obito had to learn to read my mind on a deeper level than before. They became somewhat fluent reading my body language but most times they got it wrong.

It was honestly embarrassing how fast I went from determined to this. As the minutes ticked by, that fire in me fizzled little by little and I knew I should be ashamed of myself. Yet, I couldn't bring myself to care; I just sat in this office, combing through every information I had until my eyes felt like they were bleeding.

Day in and day out, the same shit.

I just wanted to be left alone, so I could think, so I could plan and execute something. Fortunately for me mostly everyone gave me wide berth, unfortunately for me, there was one who wouldn't.

"Still not sleeping?"

I shrugged at Obito, the pestering parasite seated across from me. "No."

I was plagued by my dreams, it was a never ending loop of memories that I never wanted to think of again. I had locked them away behind an impenetrable vault in my mind but since Zu and y/n were taken; it had blown off the hinges.

The aftermath of that afternoon was still fresh in my mind even though it had been a few days. Three days, eighteen hours, thirty two minutes and fifteen seconds. But who's counting?

Our house was in shambles, it was covered mostly in flames by the time we got there and I ran in without an ounce of care for my wellbeing.

I had to check the basement, I had to see it with my own eyes if she was burning behind the locked door. She wasn't, the door was open and she was gone but her absence wounded me more than the burns I got from being reckless.

"We'll find them." Obito said with conviction in his tone, one that didn't match the worry in his eyes.

I grunted and focused on the screen, the last known location of y/n was right outside the gate and Zu's was the parking lot of the school.

I had thought it was a good idea to put a tracker on them and it would have been if my inner circle didn't know about it. If Helen didn't know about it, she most likely disabled it or cut it out.

For her sake, I hoped it was the former. I made the decision when I escaped that hell that my plan would be flawless, I would stretch it out. Make it known to my enemies that I was coming.

That I was going to drag it out. Now though? I was coming guns blazing and there wouldn't be anything left in my wake except the blood that I was spill.

"Have you found anything?" I asked and he sighed.

"Nothing concrete. You were smart putting a secondary tracker on Zu and not telling anyone but the signal is too weak to get an accurate location."