Forbidden Love (Itanaru) ADOPTED BY @thenarutowriter

Insight (7)

Previously on Forbidden Love...

She let him fall to the ground and after a quick kick in the sides, he awoke with a gasp as he sat upright.

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Now...

Sasuke gasped as he sat up, his cheek stinging and his mind on other thoughts besides the fact that Naruko had just slapped him.

Letting his wide onyx eyes wander the room, they landed on his brother. His older brother. His supposedly dead older brother. The air was suffocating as a tense pregnant silence over took the room.

He barely registered the fact that he hadn't spoken yet and that the others were calling his name and asking him if he was alright. Truthfully, he didn't know if he was.

He had spent his whole life trying to kill him, he had learned the truth, had cried when his brother supposedly died and though he vowed to bring justice to his clan, he had let the elders manipulate him again.

Every time he tried to go against them, he mind would feel foggy and it was like it didn't matter anymore, like he didn't have the passion and emotion to back his want for justice against the elders.

He briefly remembered multiple times where he was gonna go against them but suddenly either didn't feel like it or everything became foggy. He remembered that this only started to happen after he had fought Danzo. He had almost won but Danzo announced he was going to use his ultimate attack and began to unravel his bandages and after that, everything was foggy.

When he woke, he awoke to Naruto's smiling face and when Kakashi, the 6th Hokage at the time, asked him what happened, he tried to remember but everything after Danzo starting to unravel his bandages was foggy and he couldn't remember.

He had tried. He really had, he had tried to tell them that Danzo had killed his clan but with the only two people who were willing to tell the truth dead, then it was Sasuke's word against Danzo, a traitors word against a respected elder's.

Sasuke though once felt that foggy feeling surrounding his memories of the battle between him and Danzo start to fade as he saw Itachi. He didn't know if it was because the trauma of Itachi's death had clouded his memories or if it was Danzo and his ROOT ANBU blocking them so he couldn't tell the others.

Either way he didn't care. Not when his older brother was alive. Not when the girl he viewed as his baby sister was alive, not when he finally had a family. Not when he was finally able to get what he wanted all his life. A family. Yes he was a prick, yes most would point out that he had a power thing.

However, unlike the power he wanted to gain to defeat Itachi, the power he had searched for since his memory was blocked was to be able to overcome the fog, to be able to finally bury the troubles of Uchiha Clan. Because if he didn't, he won't be able to move on. Danzo and the others do it to rule the world, he does it so he can finally rest.

Finally, to have a family with nothing holding him back and now he had that, all in one second. He barely registered the tears streaming down his cheeks and when a hand came down on his head to pat it, he ran straight into his older brothers arms.

Just like he had as a kid. Because everything felt right again, there wasn't a hollow feeling in him, there wasn't that overbearing presence of loneliness that had accompanied him all his life ever since that fateful night. And there wasn't that god damn fog surrounding his memories.

So he just hugged his brother, nothing more nothing less. He basked in the feeling of when his brother hugged him back. He was simply content that he felt whole again. He didn't worry about Danzo, about his clan or anything else, he just basked in the feeling of being loved again for the first time in over 20 years.

Because life had been dull, lonely and cold for so long and now, he felt like himself. He felt home again, he felt loved and he felt so happy that he didn't even care he was crying, that Sasuke Uchiha -ANBU Commander and Head of the Uchiha Clan-was openly crying in front of his Hokage, friends and comrades because finally after all this time he felt loved...

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Danzo knew right then and there when Sasuke's eyes landed on his older brother that he was screwed and that he wasn't going to get away this time. He had distracted the young Uchiha all those years ago when he had fought him and had his subordinate, Gi Yûng, put a block on his memories surrounding Danzo and all his dirty secrets.

Gi had a bloodline similar to the Yamanaka's that allowed him to modify, block, create and or erase memories of anyone he got his hands on. They were going to erase the memories but the Hokage and the Uzumaki brat were coming so they placed a block on him that would only come undone if he saw Itachi Uchiha again.

And since the older Uchiha was dead, they had nothing to worry about. A side effect of his bloodline was that once something was done, it couldn't be undone so they weren't able to erase the memories.

But they were confident enough that the block would hold, after all Itachi was dead so they had nothing to worry about. Or so they thought. Because if you thought that guy you thought was dead was suppoused to be dead... well then you're not really expecting to see this supposedly dead guy alive!

His evil thoughts were interrupted by feeling an intense gaze upon him by not one, not two, but almost the whole room and the intent of the gazes weren't in awe or fear, they were of hatred. He slowly turned from where he was trying to leave the room and saw several S-ranked jonin's, two Kages, lots of upset and powerful women and no hopes of escaping.

It really just wasn't his day.

A/N: Okay, so I know I said that I wasn't going to be updating for a few weeks... but I felt really bad, like I felt like a dick for leaving you all hanging so I decided not only would I finish NANI?!? in a second half called " Insight " but I would also get to explain sort of briefly about what changed in regards to Itachi's death, the war and Danzo and Sasuke and all that.

I also wanted to build Sasuke as a character up and sort of differ from it all, he's not innocent in all of this but he isn't the only one used and therefore is a victim of Danzo and the elders plans and quest for power.

So, I wrote this in order to kind of hit a couple of birds with one smaller stone that broke off my slightly bigger one... if that makes any sense. Hopefully, you'll forgive me for my temporary...hiatus...

Ugh! I hate that word because authors who say this 9/10 times never come back like they say they do. I kind of fear that I'll end up like one of those authors if I say this so you know why I'm reluctant to say this even though it's true.

Sincerely,

Lizzyhat123