🌸The Journey🌸

Day 6

He's dead. He's dead. This can't be him. They're just toying with my mind. How could they bring him back? Who's 'they'? This can't all be his doing, can it? It can't be. I refuse to believe that.

It all makes sense, though... I completely overlooked it, but...

"Take care out there, Sasuke. From, Naruto. PS: Hinata and Konohamaru told us about some of the ANBU that attacked her. They knew the Fireball Jutsu. Do you think the Uchiha clan is involved with this?"

"What's the matter? Little Sasuke Uchiha, I guess you never grew up, huh? Hard to believe you're the last survivor of such a legendary clan. What a failure that you're crushing under the pressure like this. How foolish I was in my past life to leave everything up to someone like you."

Sakura frantically tied the nurse's arms behind her back and moved her away before moving closer to Sasuke, "Sasuke, don't look at him! He's not him! He's not real!"

"He's standing right in front of me, Sakura." Sasuke muttered, "he's real. But you're right. He's not the one I knew before. The one I loved. The one who gave his life for the rest of the clan." He glared at the man, "you're not actually Itachi Uchiha, are you?"

Itachi slowly opened his eyes to reveal two Rinnegans, just like Sasuke's, "but I am, little brother. Don't you see? And now, I'll rise up and I'll be the one to restore the legendary clan and make it what it was made to be!"

"No...." Sasuke took a step closer to him, "this isn't what Itachi wanted. You might look like him, sound like him, but Itachi would never want to hurt me."

Itachi cackled, "I'm going to remove the clans corrupting the Shinobi world and bring up a new era of ninja to be as strong as what the Uchiha clan once was! Make it stronger than what I see here before me."

"'Clans'?"

He chuckled, "of course. This corrupted Uchiha clan along with the clan of that boy that brought all this strife upon the Hidden Leaf Village. You heard about the village getting attacked by those ANBU, didn't you? It's all because of him!"

Sakura stared at him, "N-Naruto..."

"The Uzumaki and Uchiha clans need to be erased and reborn as a newer more intelligent clan under the Uchiha name. The shinobi world will bow to the Land of Fire, all thanks to the Uchiha that made it all happen: Me."

Sasuke shook his head, "Itachi! Stop this!"

"And you, Sasuke. You may be weak now, but I can help you become stronger." He looked at Sasuke and set his hands on his brother's shoulders, "after all, isn't that all you always wanted? Power? To become stronger?"

Sasuke stared into his eyes as even more memories flooded through his mind.

"I need to become stronger..."

"Pain makes people stronger..."

"My only goal in life... Is revenge..."

"I'm the strongest there is, now... And I'll begin my journey into the shadows from this moment on..."

My journey...

Begins in the shadows...

In the darkness...

"Join me, Sasuke. You and I can rule the Shinobi world with power unmatchable. We can show everyone the true power of the Uchiha clan. I'll train with you, I'll teach you everything you've always wanted to know." Itachi smiled at him, "isn't this the relationship you always wanted?"