Aberration
noun;
a deviation from truth or moral rectitude
@shadows-of-shimura
Itachi’s life had always seemed perfect, from someone outside looking in. The only stain on his career was the fact that Hiruzen Sarutobi had been chosen as Hokage instead of him. Everything else was perfect, he was Madara’s heir--in all but the Hokage’s seat--but even that..didn’t satisfy him. To see someone without a kekkei genkai ascend to the highest position of the village? Itachi concurred that Madara must have went soft the last few years he’d been alive--at the very least, he should have bequeathed the seat to him instead.
He was still more than bitter about it. Still, very many years later. Most of the propaganda against those without kekkei genkai came from him--he wanted to stamp them out, to make them suffer. There was no place in the village for them. Not in his world, there wasn’t. If you didn’t have anything to offer? Then you weren’t worth their time, it was that simple to him. And he didn’t have to pussyfoot around with it, either.
There was so much he was doing that Hiruzen didn’t know about--well, he didn’t want him to know about it, but he did get a thrill every time something passed under his well-meaning nose. Internally, he snickered every time a minor clan left the village, and it was only a matter of time before they all did. He was monitoring them, after all. He would find something on them all eventually.
And it was then he was told about a child. A student--a genius, hailed as just as adept as him, when he was that age, and he read through the file. He didn’t bear a kekkei-genkai..and that alone made him curious. He read through the academy’s file, his doctor’s files..everything seemed normal..so that was when he decided to pay him a visit. At the academy, he would.
The next day, as classes were letting out, he waited, and when the child walked past him, he said, “Shimura Danzo. I have heard many things about you.”