Part 2 of my Akatsuki AU. Part 1. More of it here and here (maybe). AU list.
-Where Sasuke has waited years, training alone or with everyone bored enough to spend time with Itachi’s little brother -and reckless enough, as Itachi’s protectiveness over the boy was no mystery.
Finally there comes the day he’s considered worthy enough to become an Akatsuki affiliate -Obito pressured Pain to give him a chance: after all some of their members had external underlings and helpers of many kinds, such as Orochimaru’s Kabuto or Karin, although some of his so-called assistants are more similar to test subjects.
Finally there comes the day his brother considers him ready to become his partner -Itachi wouldn’t want him to risk his life, as Akatsuki targets and enemies are much stronger than average shinobi, but he can’t treat Sasuke like a child anymore. Besides, if his brother spends too much time without him, around certain other Akatsuki members, he might face an even bigger danger.
Thus, an Uchiha 2 man team is formed. It’s not easy at first: despite Sasuke’s years of training, despite the missions he already took with Karin, Suigetsu and Juugo, those assigned to full-fledged Akatsuki members are tougher. Not that he complains. How could he? He finally has the chance to work, travel, do everything with the strong, perfect together whose strategies are clever, whose techniques are flawless, whom he admires so much.
Someday soon, he tells himself, Itachi won’t have to shield me anymore. Someday soon I’ll protect him. Someday soon he’ll be proud of me.
Or maybe it’s all in Sasuke’s head. Maybe he’s travelling alone, fighting against the pain and loneliness of having lost everything, of having seen his dreams of justice crumble, of feeling guilty after Konoha’s brainwashing, and he’s reliving past moment, imagining his brother beside him, so much that at some point his whole life becomes unreal and distant, and the one in his head, started with a simple question (What if niisan had taken me with him?) is more real, more vivid.
After all what is reality anyway? Itachi beside him: this, only, matters.
Snippets of one of the AUs that I intend to write sooner or later.
