Uchihas and How They Experience Deep Love
Shameless headcanons bc we all know that no one loves like an Uchiha. (Exploration of how the deep, Uchiha-type love manifests for each individual).
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Sasuke - Naruto
He begins to love him when they’re both children, when he senses that kinship between them that they’re both completely alone.
Naruto doesn’t see him pitifully like the rest of the village does. He just sees him as a rival, and Sasuke appreciates that. He gets to just be Sasuke, the talented, stuck-up genin with Naruto, not Sasuke, the lone survivor of the Uchiha Massacre.
Naruto pulls him out of his toxic need for vengeance from the time the Haku/Zabuza arc happens to when he sees Itachi again when he tries kidnapping Naruto. He works alongside Naruto as his comrade and friend, and believes that maybe he can be happy just like this in the village.
Then Itachi reminds him of his avenger goal and he’s fold he needs to kill Naruto to obtain new power, the way Itachi allegedly did to Shisui.
He leaves the village in search of new power because yes, he wants to beat Itachi but no, he doesn’t want to kill Naruto. He thinks he can get stronger another way.
This truly shows how deeply he loves Naruto—he’s willing to put him above his ultimate goal to kill Itachi by refusing to gain power by killing him.
And when he gets the opportunity to kill him, he doesn’t. Naruto is open and unconscious and he doesn’t kill him.
To Sasuke, Naruto is his biggest weakness, his Achilles heel, the one who he just can’t get rid of no matter how hard he tries.
Itachi - Sasuke & Sasuke - Itachi
Uchiha-love-ception
Because they’re both Uchiha & love each other insanely strongly I imagine their connection as an endless vortex of undying love
Itachi tried to die when he was around five years old because he couldn’t cope with the world’s darkness.
He didn’t understand what the point of anything was if one day everyone dies.
Until Sasuke was born.
Now, to Itachi, the world isn’t just death; it’s also birth.
Sasuke saved Itachi, and gave him something to fight for.
He wanted the world to be a better place so that Sasuke would never see what he had to see as a child of war.
And everything Itachi ever did (though many actions were questionable), was for Sasuke.
Sasuke was the only one he couldn’t kill on the night of the massacre, so he instead made his brother hate him to make him stronger.
He lived for eight years with declining health just so that Sasuke could get revenge and become a hero.
Even after death he tried protecting him from Madara/Tobi.
And Sasuke always held a degree of admiration for his brother, even if the memories were tainted.
He still loved Itachi to the very end, because killing him gave him the Mangekyō.
If he truly hated Itachi, killing him would have meant nothing.
He was just acting out of a broken heart, the pieces all still holding affection for his brother even despite himself.
The inner turmoil is what made him angrier. He hated Itachi but more than that, still loved him.
When he found out the truth, he made it his life’s mission to defend Itachi’s honor and protect the village as his dying wish.
He devotes his life to him even now.
Itachi - Shisui & Shisui - Itachi
Uchiha-love-ception pt 2
They are my Bonnie & Clyde
Itachi saved Shisui by giving him someone to care for and nurture
Shisui saved Itachi by showing him someone understands the complexity of his thoughts & feelings and shares them too
Itachi felt so alienated his whole life and then in comes Shisui who finally finally understands him just inherently
Idk about you but I long for someone to understand me that well, without ever needing to explain myself
I think Shisui understood Itachi better than Itachi understood himself
And for that, Shisui was Itachi’s home
Itachi looked up to him for all things; skills, technique, morals, and aspirations.
Whenever Shisui said anything, Itachi took it as the law.
There was no one he held as much respect for. Shisui made the impossible seem possible to Itachi. For him, he could do no wrong.
When he lost Shisui, he lost his North Star. This is evident in his awakening of the Mangekyō—there was no greater pain at that point in his life.
He made Shisui’s will his guiding force.
Shisui showed him that a true shinobi sacrifices, and he himself adopted that attitude.
“You must always remain calm. A worried expression just doesn’t suit you” — some of Shisui’s last words to Itachi, and from then on, Itachi hardly ever let his calm facade drop from his face. That was the law.
Itachi was just adorable to Shisui.
Everything he did, his thoughts, his determination, his will to get better—he admired it so much.
He wanted to keep Itachi away from the clan and village feud, which is why he tried using his powers without Itachi’s help.
He died with a smile on his face because he trusted Itachi implicitly, and knew he’d make the right choice.
He probably knew where things were headed, and was at peace with it.
Because he knew Itachi’s strength and will better than his own.
But it did break his heart to put Itachi through witnessing his death.
Obito - Kakashi & Rin
Loving Rin made Obito insane
Loving Kakashi made Obito hang onto his last shreds of sanity
Rin always believed in Obito when he himself didn’t. She was his pillar. For that he formed an unhealthy codependency on her.
So when he lost her, he lost his mind. He believed he couldn’t be anything worthwhile without her, and spiraled into something unrecognizable in her absence.
She became limerence to him, an unattainable dream.
Kakashi was the only one who remained constant in his life.
Kakashi brought out the last shreds of his former self.
Once Minato told Obito about Kakashi’s father, he understood immediately the cause of his actions.
He reached deep into Kakashi’s heart and told him what he needed to hear, that his father was truly a hero. Someone everyone else thought of as a disgrace, a sentiment Obito fearlessly challenged.
Because Obito never cared for his reputation. Sakumo cared too much. This difference is what drew Kakashi to Obito subconsciously.
While recuperating in Madara’s hideout, he thought equally of returning to Rin and Kakashi. Because, before they parted, he and Kakashi finally became friends.
Kakashi was in his dreams as well as Rin. They were both equally important to him.
Despite watching Rin die by Kakashi’s hand, when he went on his rampage, Obito didn’t lay a finger on Kakashi.
And he watched Kakashi live on by his grave all the time. He followed him around. He just couldn’t let go of him.
Because he wanted to be there for Kakashi through his suffering in some form.
And when they met again, Obito never ever days he hates Kakashi. He tries to entice him to support project Tsuki no Me, telling him that it’s okay, he doesn’t need to suffer anymore.
This shows Obito’s real motive for Infinite Tsukuyomi. Not to see Rin again, because the caster can’t be inside the jutsu.
But to give Kakashi an end to his suffering. To end all suffering, at his own expense.
He became Kakashi’s hero. Kakashi never gave up on him, and Obito never gave up on Kakashi either.
For him, love meant suffering greatly for the one he loves, going to great lengths to make them happy, even when the ends don’t justify the means.
He would happily become the villain in order to give his love peace.
Madara - Hashirama
Though he lost three brothers to war, when Madara met Hashirama he immediately trusted him, disregarding that he was a stranger.
They shared the same dream, just as Itachi and Shisui did. This brought them together, and this showed Madara that there was hope.
Turning his back on Hashirama awoke his Sharingan. He didn’t get them when any of his siblings died, but when he had to sever his friendship with the Senju. It put him through that much strife.
He never truly wanted to kill Hashirama. If he wanted to, he would have. Much like Sasuke couldn’t kill Naruto.
The peaceful time in the village together were his happiest days.
He named the Leaf village, and Hashirama kept the name despite its simplicity.
They would ignore responsibility to talk and be with each other. This annoyed Tobirama.
Madara’s heart broke when after being told he’d become Hokage, he overheard Hashirama accept a vote instead. He felt Hashirama hadn’t fought for his honor enough. He felt betrayed.
He showed Hashirama the stone tablet though no outsiders had ever seen it, and left because he wanted Hashirama to hurt as much as he did.
His love was so strong it turned into a deep hatred.
But not so deep that he could kill Hashirama.
Even when Hashirama killed him.
The only time he ever felt alive was when Hashirama was unleashing all of his fury onto him.
Because Madara equated love to hate, and feeling Hashirama’s animosity was the same as feeling his love.
Kagami - Tobirama
Admiration turned into unconditional love
Kagami being treated special by Tobirama probably went to his head a little
“I’m his favorite Uchiha and he makes exceptions for me what does that mean”
The second he got an inkling that Tobirama may feel some type of way for him he got tipped off the edge and fell hard
He awakened his Mangekyō when Tobirama sacrificed himself to the Kinkaku unit
Changed the way Tobirama thought about the Uchiha by proving not all fall victim to the Curse of Hatred (oh boy would I love to see how Tobirama acknowledges this play out)
I hc it as he probably was put in a situation between clan and village and chose the village in front of Tobirama (not as serious as Shisui & Itachi’s case but political of some sort maybe)
Tobirama then went “hmm this one is different”
Maybe Kagami saved Tobirama somehow?? And that’s what warranted his trust? Ugh I wanna know
Tobirama hand-picked Kagami and trusted him with his life, so it made Kagami feel important
Overwhelming protectiveness and responsibility constituted Kagami’s love for Tobirama
And since he had nothing left to protect after Tobirama (in his eyes), his spirit was broken, and a year later he succumbed to the war
Tobirama was his heart’s fire.
