It's almost over! This is probably my favorite fanfic out of the ones that I wrote so far, so I'm sad that it's over, too. Well, I'll blab more at the ending. Thanks so much for reading so far!

Epilogue

So paint my portrait the colors of my life – and the untold stories are painted black and white.

-Escape the Fate. Webs We Weave.

Epilogue Part One – Flashback

"I'm so sorry," Mikoto repeats again and again. "I'm a horrible mother – what a terrifying state I must be in…Oh, Sasuke, I'm so sorry…" She clutches onto the hem of her son's blue shirt more firmly this time. "What will happen if Itachi came here now? Oh, this is awful, just awful…" Mikoto buries her face in Sasuke's shirt and begins to sob hysterically.

Sasuke stares down at his mother, sympathizing with her even though he is still afraid. He always knew his mother as a sensible person with excellent composure and posture. The person that is bawling uncontrollably into his shirt is not the mother Sasuke knows – and he wonders if he'll ever see her again. "Mother," he says shakily while tentatively and gently patting her shoulder. "It's…alright. Just let me go."

Mikoto seizes her son's hand with both of hers and looks up at Sasuke with wide eyes. She doesn't say a word, and that frightens the teenager even more. And suddenly she lets go and picks up the knife with unsteady hands, playing around with the stained and sharp blade like a child. Sasuke watches her mother in silence for a very brief moment. "What do you want me to do?" Sasuke asks, although he can just guess what Mikoto wants by the way she is fumbling around with the sharp kitchen tool.

And she looks up at her son with the sanest (yet so insane) eyes that Sasuke has ever seen. "Kill me."

Epilogue Part Two

"You knew, didn't you?" Uzumaki Naruto asks the silent older brother before he follows his father out the door. "You knew everything."

Itachi shoots him an irate scowl. "Actually, I didn't." The blonde gives him a slightly puzzled look. "I wasn't there during the murder. All I know is that Sasuke killed someone and he received amnesia from the shock." He turns his gaze to the window and watches Minato lead his younger brother into the police car. "I never wanted this to happen," he adds softly. "And I'd appreciate it if everyone stopped treating me like the bad guy."

Naruto flinches when Itachi's eyes glide back to him. "This probably is a shock for you," the Uchiha says. "But I'd like to thank you."

Epilogue Part Three – Two Months Later

Uchiha Itachi irritably empties his pockets and allows the police to check him for any treacherous objects. This is probably the billionth time in one month that he's been visiting the youth detention center, all because he promised to check in on his little brother while he can...Well, he's free for most of the time now that the ankle monitor is off of him. An equally annoyed CO frowns at Itachi and then tells Sasuke that he has a visitor…again.

He sees his lover again, except with that bothersome glass wall in-between. Itachi presses the beaten down phone onto his ear, meaning to catch every thing that Sasuke says. But again, as usual, his brother doesn't say a word for a very long time. The older brother sucks in a long breath and says, "You want me to visit as many times as I can…so here I am."

Sasuke feels something tug at the corners of his lips. "I missed you."

Sasuke has been staying at the juvenile hall ever since he was proclaimed guilty of manslaughter by jury last month. The sentence itself isn't as bad as Itachi had expected, but his baby brother will have to stay in juvie for eight months, as a slap on the wrist. Kakashi, who turned out to be as the Uchiha family's attorney this entire time, told Itachi that he tried his best (and the older brother resisted the temptation to beat the shit out of Kakashi for not trying hard enough). Naruto and Sakura visited when they could, and Itachi, well…when he didn't get yelled it by the correctional officer he is allowed in.

"You sure? I was in here yesterday," Itachi says. Sasuke is not sure if he's joking or if he said that without meaning anything about it.

"I'm sure." Still more silence. The CO walks in and warns them that Itachi only has five more minutes. One thing Itachi hates about these visits are that they are painfully short. Sasuke nods and then trains his eyes on his older brother. "You know…I remember everything along with that murder." Itachi smiles a little, but still does not say a word. "I remember how we'd - foolishly really - joke around about how our parents would react if they were to find out. And how…"

"We'd do things that are entirely inappropriate for fourteen year olds," Itachi finishes still with a smirk. "I missed you, too."

The juvie stands up and presses his fingers against the glass, giving the door a fleeting look, checking if the CO is watching. Itachi stands up and does the same, his hand slightly larger against the glass. Sasuke says something that Itachi cannot quite hear because the telephone on the other side is lying on the floor. And Itachi left the juvenile hall that day, knowing exactly what his baby brother had said.

Epilogue Part Four – Seven Months Later

Sasuke takes a deep breath as he steps out of the youth detention center, feeling as if he never felt so free in forever. Itachi is leaning against his car with his arms crossed, his eyes fixed on his baby brother. He pushes himself off of the car and wraps his lover in a tight, needy embrace, quickly followed with a hungry kiss. "Stop it," Sasuke mumbles, trying to hide the blush that is coloring his pale face (made magically paler, if possible). "We're in public."

Itachi sends him a silent apology, and pulls him into another hug. Sasuke smiles while he says one last thing: "I knew you wouldn't regret this."

End Blissful Ignorance

Before you can scream and attack me for sappiness, I could NOT stand to end this sadly. You know? You know? It was seriously hard for me to type this, too. As usual, I planned a much more…depressing ending but it turned out a little better. And besides, it's always hard for me to write endings.

Note: If you still have many more questions (I think I left many things unsaid), add it in to the review. I'll be happy to answer you.

My next story will probably be a NaruSasu. If not, it's ItaSasu, as usual! Thanks for reading this and please review!

(And if you hadn't noticed, I changed my name from KoneKo13 to Serephy)

-Serephy