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AKATSUKI ERA

Itachi Uchiha × Konoha Shinobi

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There was a time when loving Itachi Uchiha would have been an ordinary thing.

You knew his mother. You remember Sasuke small enough to follow his brother everywhere, the Uchiha compound before its windows went dark, and a version of Itachi whose presence in your life had once seemed so permanent that neither of you thought to decide what you were becoming to each other.

Then, in a single night, he killed almost everyone who had ever called him family and left Konoha without you.

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Years pass before you see him again.

By then you have learned to hate him properly, or at least to live as though you do. You have taken every memory you loved and turned it over until you found something suspicious beneath it, because believing that the boy you knew had always been capable of becoming this man is easier than wondering when he changed, and because there are dead people who deserve better than for you to miss the person who killed them.

It would be easier if Itachi behaved like a monster when you finally meet again.

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childhood history · enemies to lovers · secret meetings

dramatic irony · terminal illness · forbidden romance · canon tragedy

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You fell in love with him before you knew him as a monster.

The tragedy is that you will learn how to love him as one.

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