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"He went through all the timing, he picked the date where everyone coincidentally had been at home and yet, there was someone who wasn't-?"
"He made a mistake, Sasuke's survival was premeditated. But Akihito's survival was definitely a mistake. I don't think Itachi even realised that his cousin was in the ANBU, otherwise he'd have double-checked the schedule."
A fluke and a mistake caused by Fate resulted in not a single Uchiha left behind by Itachi during the massacre but rather two. Uchiha Akihito returns home from an impromptu mission only to find the corpse of his family along with the mission to clean up the dead bodies of his clansmen. They called his survival a mistake, they talked about Sasuke being spared on a whim, but Akihito closes his eyes and speaks about their survival as-
"A miracle, not a mistake."