11 Reasons to Fall Apart [Naruto]
[11 REASONS GENERAL THEME] 11 Reasons to Fall Apart
[CHARACTER/S/PAIRINGS] Uchiha Itachi & Uchiha Sasuke
[TITLE] Little Hands
[RATING] PG
[WARNINGS/DISCLAIMERS] They don't belong to me.
Little Hands
For almost as long as he can remember, Itachi has been fascinated with Sasuke’s hands.
When the boy was an infant, he could clearly recall studying those tiny fingers, comparing them with his own. It was an odd feeling, looking down at his baby brother and imagining those hands covered in blood, balled into fists when they were too weak to do more than latch onto Itachi’s finger for a few seconds.
He loved how soft Sasuke’s baby hands were.
He was sure this fascination would fade when the novelty of a new baby wore off. But Sasuke grew, and Itachi didn’t stop watching him.
Graceful, delicate fingers wrapped around a writing pen or a kunai, it didn’t matter. Itachi loved to catch his brother’s hands in his own, to feel them fit neatly into his palms.
“Your hands are so little,” he murmured once, tracing the lines across Sasuke’s still-tender palms.
Sasuke pulled away from him then, looking hurt, annoyed.
Itachi only ruffled his hair. “Little hands are good for fitting into little spaces. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
Sasuke didn’t smile then, and to this day, Itachi isn’t quite sure of how Sasuke took that.
When he left Konoha, there wasn’t much he missed. But the shock of seeing his brother has always been more than he was ready for.
Sasuke’s hands, no longer small and soft, but the hardened hands of a warrior. Sasuke’s hands, trying to hurt him now. To rend flesh, to injure.
He caught his little brother’s hand- how neatly they still fit together, like some twisted piece of destiny.
“Your hands are still small,” he says, knowing this isn’t true.
Sasuke says nothing, does nothing to pull away.
But my little brother’s grown up.
[11 REASONS GENERAL THEME] 11 Reasons to Fall Apart
[CHARACTER/S/PAIRINGS] Uchiha Itachi & Uchiha Sasuke
[TITLE] Eyes
[RATING] PG
[WARNINGS/DISCLAIMERS] They don't belong to me.
Eyes
I’m captured in your eyes;
am I an inch away from Heaven?
-Charlotte Martin “Inch from Heaven”
There was so much he could see, staring into those blue eyes. Hope. Promises. A chance at a future. Maybe even a future not riddled with bloodshed and betrayal. A new beginning.
He wanted to give in. To take what Naruto was offering. It would be so much easier.
But he knew he could not. That wasn’t something he could subject his... (his what? he asks himself. Comrade? Teammate? Friend? He doesn’t know, and that is part of why this is so hard.) So he pulls away and shuts himself off. Wraps himself in isolation and a cloak of desperation.
Itachi is waiting. And until he is dead, nothing else can grow in Sasuke’s heart.
[11 REASONS GENERAL THEME] 11 Reasons to Fall Apart
[CHARACTER/S/PAIRINGS] Uchiha Itachi & Uchiha Sasuke
[TITLE] Any Other Way of Loving
[RATING] PG
[WARNINGS/DISCLAIMERS] They don't belong to me. Almost-incest?
Any Other Way of Loving
I wanted to hate you. Sometimes I think I still do. I want to be able to pull myself away from you. To forget you, even. Erase you from my life.
But I can’t, and you know why. You’re written under my skin. India ink. Indelible.
“We are unique siblings,” you told me, and I believed you. We were special.
“So you and I will continued to exist together.”
I pictured a bond, a string of fate that pulled and pushed, but never let us separate. I cannot breathe without you.
So I do not hate you, and for that I hate myself. I love you, even after all of everything. And I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving.
[CHARACTER/S/PAIRINGS] Uchiha Itachi & Uchiha Sasuke
[TITLE] Little Hands
[RATING] PG
[WARNINGS/DISCLAIMERS] They don't belong to me.
Little Hands
For almost as long as he can remember, Itachi has been fascinated with Sasuke’s hands.
When the boy was an infant, he could clearly recall studying those tiny fingers, comparing them with his own. It was an odd feeling, looking down at his baby brother and imagining those hands covered in blood, balled into fists when they were too weak to do more than latch onto Itachi’s finger for a few seconds.
He loved how soft Sasuke’s baby hands were.
He was sure this fascination would fade when the novelty of a new baby wore off. But Sasuke grew, and Itachi didn’t stop watching him.
Graceful, delicate fingers wrapped around a writing pen or a kunai, it didn’t matter. Itachi loved to catch his brother’s hands in his own, to feel them fit neatly into his palms.
“Your hands are so little,” he murmured once, tracing the lines across Sasuke’s still-tender palms.
Sasuke pulled away from him then, looking hurt, annoyed.
Itachi only ruffled his hair. “Little hands are good for fitting into little spaces. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
Sasuke didn’t smile then, and to this day, Itachi isn’t quite sure of how Sasuke took that.
When he left Konoha, there wasn’t much he missed. But the shock of seeing his brother has always been more than he was ready for.
Sasuke’s hands, no longer small and soft, but the hardened hands of a warrior. Sasuke’s hands, trying to hurt him now. To rend flesh, to injure.
He caught his little brother’s hand- how neatly they still fit together, like some twisted piece of destiny.
“Your hands are still small,” he says, knowing this isn’t true.
Sasuke says nothing, does nothing to pull away.
But my little brother’s grown up.
[11 REASONS GENERAL THEME] 11 Reasons to Fall Apart
[CHARACTER/S/PAIRINGS] Uchiha Itachi & Uchiha Sasuke
[TITLE] Eyes
[RATING] PG
[WARNINGS/DISCLAIMERS] They don't belong to me.
Eyes
I’m captured in your eyes;
am I an inch away from Heaven?
-Charlotte Martin “Inch from Heaven”
There was so much he could see, staring into those blue eyes. Hope. Promises. A chance at a future. Maybe even a future not riddled with bloodshed and betrayal. A new beginning.
He wanted to give in. To take what Naruto was offering. It would be so much easier.
But he knew he could not. That wasn’t something he could subject his... (his what? he asks himself. Comrade? Teammate? Friend? He doesn’t know, and that is part of why this is so hard.) So he pulls away and shuts himself off. Wraps himself in isolation and a cloak of desperation.
Itachi is waiting. And until he is dead, nothing else can grow in Sasuke’s heart.
[11 REASONS GENERAL THEME] 11 Reasons to Fall Apart
[CHARACTER/S/PAIRINGS] Uchiha Itachi & Uchiha Sasuke
[TITLE] Any Other Way of Loving
[RATING] PG
[WARNINGS/DISCLAIMERS] They don't belong to me. Almost-incest?
Any Other Way of Loving
I wanted to hate you. Sometimes I think I still do. I want to be able to pull myself away from you. To forget you, even. Erase you from my life.
But I can’t, and you know why. You’re written under my skin. India ink. Indelible.
“We are unique siblings,” you told me, and I believed you. We were special.
“So you and I will continued to exist together.”
I pictured a bond, a string of fate that pulled and pushed, but never let us separate. I cannot breathe without you.
So I do not hate you, and for that I hate myself. I love you, even after all of everything. And I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving.