So.. there's a gigantic time skip in case you're confused.

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Gripping the single bloody eye on his hand, Sasuke walked toward Itachi's grave. No, not 'Itachi-niisan'. That man was not to be considered his family anymore.

"Hn." Sasuke sneered, setting down the eye on top of the grave and sitting down, legs crossed. "I suppose, for a traitor like you, you wouldn't expect a present for your death-day, huh? Well, I didn't expect the clan massacre either. Hope you're suffering, and have the worst death-day ever." Sasuke said bitterly.

The eye twitched, and Sasuke reached down to break the nerve that was moving it. "As you can see, this is one of your eyes. Moving and partly alive because... Orochimaru..." Sasuke spat the name out like it was poison, "did something to your eyes to preserve it. That bastard is long dead by now. I made sure of it."

Sasuke leaned back, resting his hands on the cold rock. He felt rather drained; this was the most he had said in days after he had snuck into Konoha.

The small silence was broken as a kunai flew past him.

Bad aim. Sasuke thought, whirling around to meet the person who had thrown it. Must be a genin.

But it wasn't. It was Naruto, without his trademark orange jumpsuit.

"Hey, Teme! You've been gone for so long, and you don't even say 'hi'?"

"... I see that you're still the same dobe." Sasuke replied dryly, his arms in a defensive position.

"I'm the Hokage. Hokages aren't dobes." Naruto pouted.

"That doesn't have anything to do with being a Hokage." Sasuke pointed out, his gaze already bored, looking at Naruto with well-disguised uneasiness.

"Sakura-chan once told me..." Naruto trailed off as he peeked around Sasuke, looking at the slab of rock over the dirt that hid Itachi. "Is that your brother's..."

"Grave? Yes. He doesn't deserve any memorials dedicated to him, though."

Naruto's eyes softened. "You know, it wasn't all his fault. He had orders, and it was to preve-"

"Would you have done it?" Sasuke asked softly, turning his head away. "Would you have killed your entire clan for the village?"

"I-I..." Naruto faltered, closing his eyes. "I don't think so..."

"Exactly my point." Sasuke's weary voice turned angry. "You don't understand. No one does. You have the Kyuubi, you have friends, close enough to call family. I have no one. Nothing."

"You have me! You have Sakura-chan and Kakashi-sensei, and the whole village!"

"No, I don't. Just leave me alone."

Sasuke assumed a defeated posture and sat back down on the grave.

"Not even you can understand."

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Okay... so, like I said, I'm willing to re-write this if enough people are interested, or if I'm interested in doing so in the future. Maybe leave a review if you'd like for it to be re-written? Either way, thank you for reading! I'll be posting stories more often from now on.