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He was ordered to slaughter his clan. She was supposed to die with them.
But Itachi couldn't bring himself to kill Izumi-his only weakness, his only softness in a world that demanded steel. Instead, he let her live.
Now fugitives, traitors to the village they once swore to protect, Itachi and Izumi walk a bloodstained path side by side-haunted by their choices, hunted by those they once called comrades. Bound by shared silence, whispered guilt, and a love forged in the ruins of Konoha, the two find themselves drawn into the dark heart of the Akatsuki.
They were never meant to survive.
But together, maybe they'll do more than that.