（ try itTM. itachi does not respond immediately, instead focused on the crackle of the fire. like kisame finding solace in the rain, so too does he in the proximity of his own element.
but he still has dreams where konoha burns down to ash, and he is left in that awful aftermath.
eventually — ）
I am beginning to understand something of myself. There is someone I wish to speak to, to ask... if they truly would have wanted my protection at all, when it came at the cost it did.
（ he will never regret having saved sasuke. enduring his hatred is the least difficult of all the things in his life, because it was worth it in the end to hear shikamaru say that he survived. yet... sometimes, the fact that he had not trusted his brother, had not tried to ask him what he would rather do... it does wear at him. he became so accustomed to making decisions on his own, it did not occur to him then how young he truly was. ）
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but he still has dreams where konoha burns down to ash, and he is left in that awful aftermath.
eventually — ）
I am beginning to understand something of myself. There is someone I wish to speak to, to ask... if they truly would have wanted my protection at all, when it came at the cost it did.
（ he will never regret having saved sasuke. enduring his hatred is the least difficult of all the things in his life, because it was worth it in the end to hear shikamaru say that he survived. yet... sometimes, the fact that he had not trusted his brother, had not tried to ask him what he would rather do... it does wear at him. he became so accustomed to making decisions on his own, it did not occur to him then how young he truly was. ）