Different

Sasuke

Song: Castle walls

'Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls'

Last doesn't always mean the worst. In all honesty, he had it lightly, compared their's that is. Sasuke's clan was murdered by his brother, yes, but at least he knew that they died quickly and not in suffering, most even in their sleep.

He remembered how his joy changed into panic as he saw the first body that layed(?) on the compound ground, blood pooling out of its stomach. How that panic changed into confusion as he saw his brother, standing over his parents with a bloody katana in his hand. Remembered every all the emotions he felt, the pain, the sorrow, and something he'd never felt before, but now did whenever he thought of his brother, remembered the tears he cried every night after that whenever he thought of how his brother, the one he, and the whole clan, looked up to; the one he thought would protect him, standing with the bloodied katana. This time pointing towards him.

*** (a few minutes after Itachi's Genjutsu on Sasuke) ***

"Never forget the pain. Harness it. Make it yours. Use it to make you stronger", he heard someone whisper to him as he felt a hand begin to gently stroke his hair, it was comforting. The voice wasn't Itachi's it was a boy, but younger, he sounded just a little older maybe a year or so. He felt his head lifted onto something, someone's lap? he doubted that the boy would do that so Sasuke opened his eyes but his vision was clouded by his tears and all he saw were the tangled colours of yellow, orange and pink. "Rest. Were here for you", the voice was high-pitched but soft. It sounded soothing to the broken boy.

***

"Lord Hokage, what is going on", cried a frantic woman sitting on a green sofa in a special room in the Hokage tower, her earrings moving sideways as her head moved in a frantic way, though her eyes never left the now clouded crystal ball that was placed in the centre of the room. They had watched a Itachi Uchiha killed his clan members with a blank expression on his face and as a number of emotions flitted onto his eyes. They were about to leave the room just as the man made his way out of Konoha when his crystal ball began to cloud. It misted over as the remaining Uchiha began to writhe in pain, and slowly as he settled into a slumber, the ball was completely covered by the mist.