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Post-Revenge Blues	By : susanna Category: Naruto > General Views: 1210 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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This
is not yet the long story I have promised when I finished “The
Canalized River” (I am still busy planning that one) but a
shorter story that sprung into my mind when I read the recent
chapters of the canon...

It is basically a One-Shot, based
on one idea (well, a little bit more), written within one
week (and a few days) and it's covers a time of one day (and a
few hours.) I have divided it into nine sections.

I wrote it before chapter 393 was
out, not knowing how the fight would end, and I tried very hard to
finish it before it would be ended. I was afraid that my story would
become obsolete if the fight ended with Sasuke's defeat, but
rereading my first chapter now makes me realize that my predictions
were not so bad.

I am have now rewritten the first
chapter because it was not so good. Now I could include some of the
information from chapter 393.

Warnings:
Spoilers for those who have not read chapter 392.

Some
mentioning of sexuality – not more, so this is also a warning
for those who read fanfic only because they want porn.

Clumsy,
formal language – I am not a native speaker.

All
comments, positive or negative, constructive of destructive, are
appreciated.

Thanks
go again to Eowyn Unquendor, my beta reader and my best
support and critic.

Thanks
go as well to kayuuko from LiveJournal who has found the
picture that was one my sources of inspiration. You can find her
answers to my picture search here:

http://community.livejournal.com/chuunin/4426131.html

A/N:
The story was inspired by recent events in the manga, that is by the
fight between Sasuke and Itachi in an old Uchiha meeting-place. I
wrote this story before chapter 393 was out, but as it turned out, my
assumptions about the ending of the fight were not so bad (if this is
indeed the ending of the fight.)

While
Sasuke is fighting his team Hebi is waiting for him outside the
secret meeting-place. Out of boredom, Suigetsu has begun to fight
Kisame.

A
team from Konoha is pursuing Sasuke and his team, but they meet
Tobi/Madara and have to fight him before they can continue. In my
story it is assumed that they are quite near to the place where
Sasuke and Itachi fight.

I
wish you fun with this story-

Chapter
One: It's over

It
had been a hard and bitter fight, and it had ended not with a final
blow from one of the two Uchiha brothers but with Itachi breaking
down, blind and completely exhausted. It was not how Sasuke had
imagined it, but it did not matter to him now: Now he was just glad
that the fight was over and that he was still alive.

He
went over to Itachi to see whether he was truly dead. He did not want
to make the same mistake as after his Kirin jutsu when he had thought
that his brother had died and then he had stood up again, and indeed:
Itachi was still alive, casting a small genjutsu with the tips of his
fingers, saying: “Did you really think that I had not taken any
precautions myself? Did you really think that I had not considered
that I might have to learn to fight without my eyes?”

Sasuke
broke the genjutsu easily, even though he had hardly any chakra left
himself. Then he looked for a second tome, very cautiously, a kunai
in his hand, prepared to kill Itachi if he had to.

He
did not have to, and he was glad about it. That last feeble genjutsu
had finished off Itachi – at least it seemed so. Sasuke
considered cutting his throat all the same, or beheading him with his
katana sword, or even finding a wooden stake and pushing it through
Itachi's heart, as one did with vampires.

He
thought better of it. With his eyes empty and turned into different
directions, and his body all limp and twisted, Itachi had to be dead.

Sasuke
was glad that he did not have to kill him now. Killing him during the
fight, his heart full of anger, his veins full of adrenaline, would
have been one thing – cutting his throat now, while Itachi was
helpless, was another. It would not even have been an act of hatred –
just one of reason, because he could not trust Itachi.

His
team Hebi, who had been waiting for him outside the fortress were
coming looking for him. Suigetsu was bleeding from many wounds,
meaning that he had not obeyed Sasuke and fought Kisame, but all in
all he was in a better state than Sasuke himself.

Thank
goodness it is out of the question that I push a wooden stake through
Itachi's heart now, Sasuke thought. They'd think me crazy if I gave
them the impression that I still believed in vampires.

“You
are a medic nin”, he told Karin. “Go and see if he is
truly dead!”

“Sure
he is”, she answered after some testing that had altogether
taken ten seconds. “Why do you doubt it?”

“One
never knows with an evil guy as him who has nothing to cling to
except his own life”, Sasuke answered.

Slowly
he began to realize that now finally he had really done it: The quest
of these last four or rather nine years was over. He had beaten
Itachi – not with his Kirin Jutsu, as he had planned, but by
making Itachi overexert himself. He had completed his revenge. He
could be proud. But at the moment he only felt exhausted.

He
lay down while his team prepared the meal. They did not ask any
questions, but let him rest, and he was glad of it. He did not sleep,
but let his thoughts wander... As a child he had imagined that he
would triumph and rejoice when he had finally defeated Itachi and let
himself be celebrated as the great victor over Evil. He did not feel
any of it now. He was just relieved that it was over. The price had
been too high.

The
image of his father appeared in front of his inner eye.

“Now
you see”, he told him. “I am worthier of your love than
Itachi. I have proved to be stronger than him; even without the
Mangekyou Sharingan I was able to defeat him. I have been a dutiful
son who has not followed Itachi's path of Evil. I have avenged you.”

The
image of his father did not smile nor give any words or signs of
acknowledgement. He remained motionless, as he had always been, and
Sasuke thought that his father was not happy about being avenged,
just sad about his oldest son having turned evil, and now, that he
was dead, without any chance of turning back.

Sasuke
had hoped that his father would recognize him as being truly his
child, that he would thank him, that he would give him permission to
revive his clan, finally being worthy of its heritage.

His
father did not give that recognition and permission, and Sasuke did
not know whether he wanted it. He had always dreamt of restoring his
clan's honour and reviving the family, only that now it seemed that
there had never been any honour to restore, and no family worthy of
being revived.

He
did not have to look for a wife now, nor have children as soon as
possible. He had fulfilled his duty towards his family by avenging
them, this was enough. There was still Madara, but he would take a
break before hunting him down. If Itachi was right and he was only a
shell of his former self there was no hurry. He had denied himself so
many things while he had been training with Orochimaru that he now
wanted to enjoy again – even such simple pleasures as looking
lazily into the sky and feeling the sun on his skin. (Most of
Orochimaru's hideouts had been below the surface.) Spring had begun
and he had not noticed.

He
listened to a blackbird above him in a tree. How he had missed them
too! The only birds whose songs seemed like real music to him, with
real melodies, one note gently leading to the next one, and no stanza
the same as the one before, and their voices were like human's
voices, women's voices to be sure, full and warm, not high and thin
and rather chirping than actually singing.

Back
in Konoha he had loved music, but in Sound they had used it as a
weapon and he had come to hate it. Now I have time to take it up
again, he thought.

The
little black and orange guy in the tree had stopped singing because
he was busy fighting off another blackbird.

At
Konoha, music had been considered an unmanly occupation, Sasuke
remembered with regret, but with birds it were the males who sung,
and the best singer was the manliest of all...

Naruto,
he thought. How could I forget him? Now I can finally make up with
him. It was what he had most longed for during the years with
Orochimaru. Make up with him, explain everything, so that they could
be friends again. He had always thought that this would be the first
thing he did after completing his revenge.

He
remembered their last encounter, not with Naruto himself but with one
of his kagebunshin. He had pushed the clone away, chidorizing it and
thus making it disperse, but he had been well aware that doing this
he had let Naruto know where he was. He knew that Naruto and whoever
was with him were now following his trail.

He
sat up.

“Wait
with the meal!” he told his team.

“Why?”

“The
team from Konoha who are pursuing us: We shall invite them to join
our feast and celebrate with us. Karin, can you already feel their
chakra?”

She
performed her jutsu.

“They
are quite near, actually. However, they are engaged in a fight.”

Sasuke
felt his energy returning. “That's perfect! We'll help them
out!”

“Wait!”
Suigetsu said. “You are not in a state for another fight.”

“So
what? You can still fight, can't you?”

“You
mean that we should fight for them so that you will be accepted back
by your friends from Konoha?” Suigetsu continued.

“Yes.”

“So
let's go! Kisame ran away when he saw that Itachi was losing. He has
just raised my appetite – I am hungry for more.”
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