Chapter 1: Eye-openers
He felt sick. He can feel that every inch of his body was stinging. Oh the pain!
"Is everything alright, Tsunade-sama? Is he alright?" a voice came. He can sense the familiarity that the voice brings. He could not put a finger on it but the voice seems to lack something-hatred. Then two obsidian eyes came into view. 'Itachi!' He can't move but he can see everything clearly. His psychotic brother speaking to a blonde woman who can maul Orochimaru heck, even any summon by her two outrageously sized boobs. He averted his eyes from the two bouncing ball of ridiculous fat to his brother who is currently wearing a brand new Konoha head protector without a scratch-wait what? He's not a missing ninja anymore?
"Otouto!! I'm glad you're awake now. Are you alright?" Itachi asked worriedly. Worriedly? He wanted to smack his brother's face because of that yet he couldn't. Something is restricting him. And that something is doing a job restricting him.
"Foolish otouto. Don't move. Your body is still weak. You must rest." Itachi whispered while covering Sasuke's body with a blanket. "I agree with your brother, Sasuke. Your body is still recovering. Therefore, you must take care of it." There goes the two bouncing fats again.
"Sasuke? Are you mad at me?" Itachi meekly asked hoping that his brother had been enlightened by the knucklehead kyuubi-holder but his dreams were crashed when a glare greeted him. "I see. I take it that Naruto haven't explained it to you yet." No response. He sighed.
Although Itachi was clearly snobbed by Sasuke, he was not surprised. Actually, he have already seen it coming. What surprised him was that his brother didn't attacked him head first. Well, he can't expect a chakra-roped person to attack him but he have already expected that a verbal assault.
"You are the same as always. When you are sad, you don't speak otouto." Itachi gave Sasuke a very fragile smile. "I can clearly remember our childhood days. You are always asking me to train with you but whenever I say that I can't you will ignore me for days." Itachi forced a light chuckle. The tension in the air was so thick right now that even the busty hokage stepped outside to give the two their private conversation.
"Itachi," Sasuke managed to voice out although his voice was filled with aloofness. "Why are you doing this? Why does Naruto says you're innocent?"
"Sasuke…" Hidden tears are now visible from the prodigy's eyes. Who would ever think that Itachi would shed a tear? "You're pathetic. Stop crying, aniki." With that statement, more tears escaped. "I'm sorry."
"Sorry? Sorry? Can you bring back our clan with that! Huh?! Can you bring life back even to mother's hair? Or even make father laugh again? Can you bring everything back to normal?!" Now, Sasuke can't even hold back the tears threatening to fall from his eyes.
"Sasuke, I didn't kill mother nor auntie or uncle. I haven't touched a single strand of their hair. I didn't kill our clan!"
"Says who? As far as I have remembered, you're the one who killed the Uchiha clan just to measure your capacity! You even used your Tsukoyomi to me!" Sasuke yelled to his now weeping older brother. "You're wrong, Sasuke. You're wrong."
"Wrong from what? Wrong from believing that you are a nice and wonderful brother? You used my trust so I will not doubt that you are planning something! And what, you left me alive so you can acquire my eyes once your eyes…" Sasuke can't even manage to finish the sentence he's about to say. Tears are now leaking and he can't stop it.
"No, Sasuke. I don't plan to do that. I'm out on a mission when the massacre had happened. Also, what you experienced isn't Tsukoyomi, it's a kinjutsu anybody else could use. I… I can't say anymore information, otouto."
"…"
"Sasuke, I'm telling the truth," Itachi muttered desperately while getting up. "I'm sorry for leaving you with a perspective like that." With that, Sasuke looked up from his lap to Itachi with fire of revenge and love torn in half.
"If you're not the murderer, then who?"
"You should ask Godaime-sama about that," Itachi said with a sad smile. At least Sasuke had a little faith in him. He looked back at Sasuke. He slightly chuckled when he saw the frown on his little brother's face. 'Just like a child'.
"You know, you can't force me to say everything. It's an SS-classed information. The secret's kept inside the Konoha walls for a reason, otouto." Sasuke just shrugged. "Hn."
But before Itachi could make his farewell to Sasuke, a soft knock came disrupting the dramatic moment between the two. "Come in," Sasuke sighed. He knew that the knock ruined his perfect opportunity to ask more to his brother. He also knew that a medic working in the Konoha hospital is more or less a girl. Girls equivalent to fan girls equivalent to annoying him equivalent to doom. He sighed once again that was caught by his aniki. "I feel your pain," Itachi smiled for the umpteenth time that day. Who knew Itachi was this…free? "Hmph!" Well there goes one stubborn Uchiha Sasuke for you.
"Excuse me, I'm here to check on Uchiha Sasuke. Can I come in?" a voice said. Seriously, the voice was all too familiar with Sasuke. It's as if he knows who the speaker is. But as usual, he dismissed the thought thinking that it's just a fan girl from the past. But all his thoughts about fan girls were diluted when he saw a recognizable face and a stunningly shiny pink hair.
"I'm Haruno Sakura, chief medic of Konoha Hospital and a student of Godaime-sama. You'll be under my care now, Uchiha-san."
