Chapter 20: A Heart of an Uchiha

Sakura stared at the fight that had unfolded; she knew that this was Sasuke’s chance of regaining his life back from his demon hearted brother. Her emerald eyes focusing on both brothers. Sasuke waited patiently for his brother to move. Itachi had his red crimson eyes spotted on his younger sibling.
‘Genjutsu will probably work on him best’ Itachi thought. He held his hands to form the sheep symbol. Sasuke took glances at the kunochi every once in a while. His highest priority was to protect her. A slight smirk came from the elder. As his memories of using genjutsu on his brother always made him succeed victory especially on the night when the whole clan was murdered.

Sasuke wield his katana and charged forward towards his older sibling. Itachi took this the chance as he cast the genjutsu. Sasuke immediately stopped when he saw the blurry landscape starting to form.
‘Kuso’  He swore under his breath. “Genjutsu….” His grip continued to tighten on his katana. Hearing a bit of laughter in the background, Sasuke couldn’t think properly although he tried.

Itachi stared at his brother, infront of him in his pathetic state. To him he knew Sasuke was almost paralyzed and this was his chance to officially kill the whole Uchiha clan. Walking over to his brother, took his katana away from. Sasuke didn’t react, his eyes were closed and he was on the ground; he was trying to get rid of the images in his head that his brother had cast on him. Sakura shivered in fear, each step that the elder took, scared her, she knew what he was up too….but what could she do?

Threatening images came to mind one by one, how the clan died. Sasuke eyed all the once Uchiha members falling one by one. Fear of those days, memories of that day running and replaying in his head. The sound of his brother’s intimidating voice ringing through his ears, he tried to catch the words that were surrounding and shrouding his vision. “You were never loved….you were hated…despised of….why would anyone love you….your an outcast in Konoha, an outcast…everywhere you go….your an outcast”

Sakura tried to move forward but was stopped by Itachi’s glare. He spoke to her “It’s no use….he’s stuck in my genjutsu….there’s nothing you can do”
“Sasuke-kun!!” Sakura yelled trying to get the shinobi’s attention.
Itachi took his siblings sword as he held it up hovering it over his younger brother’s head. Then holding the grip even harder and lowering it towards his brother’s chin. Not cutting him yet. A winning smirk wiped across his face. Sasuke however was trapped in another dimension has his life hanged in the balance.
“This is it” Itachi said “It’s been nice knowing you little brother” Lifting the sword up Itachi braced himself for his little brother’s defeat.

The whole scenery for a second went black; a dash of red blood marked the spot of a defeated shinobi. Itachi eyes widen as a spot of blood landed on the side of his face. He stared at the damage that he had created. Sasuke re-opened his red crimson eyes finding his brother infront of him, sword in hand, he wiped the side of his face as he saw blood, not his own. He looked to see Sakura standing there defending him, a wound that his brother had created with his katana had stabbed her, giving her a shoulder wound to bother with. Itachi removed the metal out of the girl. His bloodline limit watching the girl.
“Why?” Itachi asked her. Stunned at the sacrifice that she had pulled for his younger sibling. A trickle of blood ran down from the side of her mouth.
“You will never know” She clearly stated, falling backwards only too be caught by the shinobi of her dreams. He too had questions that concern of the dangerous action that she had pulled.
“Why?” That was only word that had escaped his lips. Sakura felt a painful twitch from where she was hurt. Itachi still glared at the pitiful sight that they were in.  Sakura placed her hand over her shoulder wound as she slowly focused some chakra on the same spot, trying desperately to heal it. The pain had kept stopping her from concentrating more Chakra. Sasuke saw the sight of this, as he slowly placed his hand over hers.
“I’ll lend you my Chakra” he said. Itachi was still holding Sasuke’s katana watching the love scene that was infront of him.
“Sasuke-kun….Why?”
“Why did you save me?” he re-stated.