Hit Me With Your Best Shot

Chapter 2: Sasuke P.O.V. And the wrap up.

(As requested by Kibamaru87, here is Sasuke's thoughts and the conclusion to this little story. I hope she especially enjoys it.)

I've waited all my life for the moment. I'm about to kill you Itachi, I'm about to complete my goal. When it's all over, and the blood is washed from my hands, blade and clothes, I'll go home to my team and find them with tears in their eyes and praise from their mouths. My life will be perfect, because you're buried in the ground. So go ahead, and fight me with all you've got. I'm ready Itachi, I've never been more prepared. Hit me with your best shot, I guarantee you'll be the one staring up at me…with those eyes that signify death.

Sasuke indeed killed his older brother, and buried him, Akatsuki cloak clad, deep inside a hole in the forest. He walked back to Konoha slowly, with a smirk on his face…the whole world looked different. The guards stopped him and reported his presence to the Hokage and his old team. Sasuke expected them to come running, but no. He trodded the familiar path around the village and found them…sitting at Ichiraku, with a new boy sitting next to them. Sasuke's mouth opened and he called to them. Sakura turned and glared, Naruto clenched his fist and that other boy…waved with this smile that sickened him on his face. It was clear they did not care…and he had nothing left.

And so, Uchiha Sasuke sits in front of the grave of Uchiha Itachi and stares. "I have nothing left nii-san…no one even to kill me." The wind, whispering, carries his late brother's words: "Foolish little brother…nothing left…indeed."