Take Me Away | By : stephfarrow94 Category: Naruto AU/AR > General Views: 1893 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Tobi and Sasuke had been staying with Hashirama for three days now. Already, they had cheered up greatly because of the time away from Itachi. The problem was – though Sasuke was normally kind most of the time – he had picked up on a lot of Itachi’s cruel ways. Without even meaning to execute them, Sasuke would often find himself in trouble – because of actions that he had learnt from his brother.
Just that morning, in fact, Sasuke had roughly shoved Tobi onto the ground in his haste to get to the dining room and eat his breakfast. Despite having apologised, Tobi was still angry.
“Sasuke!” Tobi yelled. “Don’t push Tobi!”
“Nii-san says it’s okay to push you!” Sasuke yelled back. He was hurt that his apology had been disregarded without a second thought.
“Tobi not like it! Tobi is sick of everyone bully him!” Tobi’s slight retardation was a bit more obvious now in his unhappy mood.
Sasuke frowned – he truly felt bad for what he had done and he loved Tobi so much, he hated to see him like this. “Tobi, I’m just doing what nii-san teaches… I said that I was sorry, and I meant it…”
“Tobi not like it! Tobi hate Itachi! Tobi miss old Itachi! Old Itachi use to love and take care of Tobi! New Itachi hate Tobi, so Tobi hate Itachi! Tobi gonna tell on Sasuke!”
Sasuke watched as his older cousin fled the room in a fit of tears. He felt so horrible. He always hated upsetting Tobi, but Itachi had raised him to be nasty. He only did it out of habit now that he could tell right from wrong, but even when it was an accident, he always felt horrible.
As Sasuke stood there, feeling sorry for himself, it took only moments for Hashirama to enter the room with Tobi on his shoulders. The Senju was frowning and his eyes were softer than they usually were – a sure sign that he was upset.
“Sasuke-kun…” Hashirama begun in a tender tone. “…Tobi-kun tells me that you have been nasty to him again. Is he telling the truth?”
Sasuke looked down at his shoes before nodding. “Yes, sir… He is…”
“Sasuke-kun, I know that I am not Madara, but I do not appreciate bullying in this house. I won’t allow it. I want you to apologise to Tobi-kun and then go stand in the corner until I say you can come out.”
Sasuke was silent as he teared up – he genuinely wasn’t used to being told off like this – Madara never gave out punishments, no matter what had been done.
“Sasuke-kun…” Hashirama warned gently, taking careful note of Sasuke’s emotions. “Tobi-kun is still waiting for his apology.”
“Sorry, Tobi…” Sasuke whispered as he wiped at the tears that trailed down his cheeks.
Hashirama smiled and reached out, petting Sasuke’s head. “Good boy. Go and stand in the corner for five minutes, okay? You were good and brave to apologise, so as soon as you’re out of the corner, you can have your lunch, okay?”
“Okay…” Sasuke whispered. He rubbed his itching eyes as he walked slowly to the corner he had been directed to.
“Tou-san never punish…” Tobi told Hashirama as the Senju put him back down onto his own two feet.
“Never?” Hashirama repeated in curiosity. “Not even for fighting or being disrespectful to Madara or Izuna?”
Tobi shook his head. “Nope. Tou-san ask for us to say sorry and then he go cry.”
“Tobi, your father is a big softy.” Hashirama smiled. “He’d feel terrible for punishing any of you. I imagine that he would really only punish someone if they brought serious harm to his brother. He loves the three of you, but he loves his brother more than anything else in the world. Izuna is Madara’s world.”
“…” Tobi wasn’t quite sure what to make of this so he stayed quiet.
“Come help me make lunch for everyone, okay, Tobi-kun? Once we all have some lunch, we’ll go into town. I would like to get you kids a surprise.”
Tobi smiled and hugged Hashirama. “Can Tobi tell Hashi-san Tobi love him?”
“Of course you can, Tobi-kun.” Hashirama smiled. He knelt down and embraced Tobi back.
“Then Tobi love Hashi-kun!”
“I love you, too, Tobi-kun.”
-XX-
Izuna was silent as he watched his brother fiddle with Itachi’s phone. He knew that Madara hated himself for taking it and hitting Itachi, but nothing he said could make him feel any better. The problem was that Izuna couldn’t stand seeing his brother so unhappy, and it made him sadder than usual. He just couldn’t stand by and let his brother mope like this – he couldn’t!
“Nii-san…” Izuna whispered, but he was cut off by Itachi’s phone beginning to ring.
Madara answered the phone warily – he didn’t like any of Itachi’s ‘friends’. “Hello…?”
“Put Itachi on.” An older-sounding male snapped from the other end of the line.
“Excuse me?” Madara blinked, raising an eyebrow. “Who is this?”
“Oh, you must be Itachi’s maggot of an uncle, Madara. Itachi hates you, you know? You and your faggot whore of a brother, Izuna. Itachi wishes that you would both die. He can’t stand either of you. All he wants is for you both to be six feet under.”
Before Madara could hear any more from the male, he hung the phone up and sat in a stunned silence - did Itachi really hate them so much? Why? What had they done to make Itachi hate them?
“Nii-san…?” Izuna whimpered, frightened by the sudden paling of Madara’s face. “…Who was it…?”
Madara turned to face his otouto slowly. Izuna felt his heart breaking as he saw the tears running in rivers down Madara’s face.
“He really does hate us…” Madara whispered. “…He really wishes we were dead…”
Before Izuna could reply, Madara yelped out in pain, grabbing his chest. Before Izuna knew it, Madara had collapsed to the ground. The younger Uchiha screamed in terror -- Madara was having a heart attack.
-XX-
Upstairs, Itachi’s eyes opened slowly at the scream. he was annoyed that his nap had been interrupted. What was going on? Was there even any point in going to check? It wasn’t like Itachi cared. But it would be fun to watch them suffer, right? Deciding on that last thought, Itachi got up off the bed, trying to wake himself up.
Itachi yawned and lazily made his way downstairs. Once he saw Madara on the ground, unmoving, he froze - he knew that he should be scared and worried that something was wrong with Madara, so why did he feel so… emotionless? He didn’t care, yet… he wasn’t happy, either…
“Oji-san?” Itachi said softly, staring at the body on their living room floor.
Itachi looked around for Izuna. He wasn’t surprised to see Izuna was talking into his phone, crying hysterically, as he begged for an ambulance to hurry up.
“Madara-oji-san…”
Was Itachi’s wish about to come true? If it was, why did Itachi hate himself for ever wishing death upon his uncles? Did Itachi… still care, even somewhat…?
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