A Place To Call Home [OC x Akatsuki Story]

Change Of Heart Part 41

As I stared at the note which replaced where Itachi should have been on the pillow next to me I felt a nauseating sickness inside my stomach. I stared at the piece of paper, my heart thumping harder and harder in my chest as I outstretched my arm and shakily picked it up and began to read.

'Tila,

I didn't have the heart to wake you before I left, by the time you read this I will probably be dead.

I ask that even after I'm gone you keep my secrets far away from Sasuke, please keep them huddled tightly to your chest. I couldn't bare to tell him the truth, not even before I take my last breath. I'm so sorry for leaving you but fate has decided my time had come to an end.

Always stay true to yourself no matter what the threat, I will always have faith in you so remember the words I've said.

It's okay to be afraid but things will be the same.

Please know forever in my heart will be engraved your name.

Itachi Uchiha '

Emptiness filled me as the last words I'd read resided in my mind. The reality of Itachi leaving hadn't quite sunk in.. I slowly laid back down and stared at the ceiling as I held my shaky frame. My head started to spin around and around in circle at an extreme speed. I'd known from the beginning that the inevitable was to come.

Helplessness, vulnerability, a deep dark sorrow and pain grew from a small lump in my throat and started to radiate all over my body. I closed my eyes.

I didn't shed not a single tear. The feelings started to disappear too.. They just vanished.

I laid there for what seemed to be hours blankly staring at the ceiling. Not one thought. Not one feeling. My mind and heart were in a unison of blankness.

Empty.
Nothing.

Sasuke. This was all Sasuke's fault.

I'll kill him. Right now.

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I got up and threw on my cloak, I wanted nothing more than to show him the pain he had caused Itachi in return. I felt a deep anger now rumble as it overtook my blankness, I breathed out a raspy breath as it took over..

Drip.

I felt a small drop of something wet on my shoulder, I noticed that my hair had started to turn a jet black again.. I look up.

Drip, drip.

I was so enraged that a purply blue thundercloud was forming and beginning to rumble and rain upon me. I slammed my door shut and briskly walked down the corridor, my thundercloud now rumbling above me more dangerously than ever before but I didn't care. All I wanted was to let this anger inside of me loose, let it out on the one who had caused it. As the training room came into view I noticed straight away that it was not empty. On the contrary the person I seek stood only feet away.

"Sasuke, I'll kill you!"

I screamed at him as I briskly walked closer, my eyes must have shown how I felt because the looks I was given in return by Sasuke's friends, Obito and Madara who had now turned to face me looked surprised.

"Tila-" Sasuke chilling voice began to say but it was too late.

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Sasuke stood on a podium centring the poorly lit space of my mind. I watched as he stood before me, Sharingan activated as if ready for me to strike any moment.

"Why" I asked rashly, feeling the inner hatred inside me boil on low heat.

"Tila, you knew better than anyone" Sasuke's cold voice answered. The sound of my inner thunder began to rumble and crack as though an outlet to my true feeling.