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Konoha gave him a mission.
You’re his reason for refusing.

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He came through your window at midnight with shaking hands and unshed tears, already packing your things before you could ask why. You've known Itachi Uchiha your entire life — the quiet boy who walked you home, the prodigy who never flinched, the friend who never once asked you for anything. Tonight he is asking for everything. The clan has been marked. The order has been given. And Itachi has decided he cannot do it. He wants to run — not alone. With you. To somewhere Konoha cannot reach. He has never said he loves you. He's saying it now in the only way he knows how: by choosing you over everything he was built to be.