（ that feeling of emptiness — it's something he knows just as much, all too well. more than half his life has been spent sinking beneath the still waters of a harrowing void, a deliberate severance of emotion. he still has not come to terms, not entirely, with his reaction to finn all those months ago, when he asked him if itachi would betray anyone again as he had done in taeum.
it had taken him a long, long time to answer no.
but sasuke continues, and itachi's frown deepens faintly. that attachment... it came from his own faults. he had allowed himself to be sasuke's main tether to the world — at that age, he had no other friends. the uchiha were not encouraged to socialize beyond their clan, and sasuke had never seemed to want for more than his company. itachi may as well have hung the moon for him.
he should have recognized sooner where the tensions in the clan were headed. the time between shisui's death and the massacre was not sufficient to have driven sasuke away — children look for love in hollow places where pain has come to live, and only ever know what they have been shown.
the honesty is excoriating. there is a part of him that hates the fact his brother is choosing to be vulnerable, because it feels like one more thing he is taking from him.
itachi rubs his thumb along the rim of his cup. then: ）
no subject
it had taken him a long, long time to answer no.
but sasuke continues, and itachi's frown deepens faintly. that attachment... it came from his own faults. he had allowed himself to be sasuke's main tether to the world — at that age, he had no other friends. the uchiha were not encouraged to socialize beyond their clan, and sasuke had never seemed to want for more than his company. itachi may as well have hung the moon for him.
he should have recognized sooner where the tensions in the clan were headed. the time between shisui's death and the massacre was not sufficient to have driven sasuke away — children look for love in hollow places where pain has come to live, and only ever know what they have been shown.
the honesty is excoriating. there is a part of him that hates the fact his brother is choosing to be vulnerable, because it feels like one more thing he is taking from him.
itachi rubs his thumb along the rim of his cup. then: ）
Tell me about Edo Tensei.