Brothers

By: Song

Summary: If it came to death for Itachi, he would die, because he loves his brother, and wants Sasuke to live.

A/U: Extreemly short fic I've been working on for awhile, and with the release of Naruto 400, I finally finished it. Another chapter, another death... Yes, there are spoilers, no, I don't own

When they were young, Itachi and Sasuke were the best of friends. Sasuke would look up to his brother, and Itachi would watch Sasuke with pride.

Then things changed. A little thing called greed got in the way.

As Itachi became a ninja, the elders of the clan were plotting Konoha's demise. It was the product of a long festering hatred, a hunger for power passed from each generation to the next.

Itachi was a man of war. He didn't want this, and he knew that if his family went through with the coup, war would result. War was not a thing for children, not a thing that goes on in your village. It was supposed to be far away, in lands you would never see and of people you would never know.

But this was far from truth. War effects everyone, the meek and the mild, the old and the young, the tattered, torn, broken, scorned, hateful, hopeful, willful, woeful. War was not happy. If he could save Sasuke from the torrent that he had gone though, he would.

If it came to death for Itachi, he would die.

Because Itachi loves his little brother... and above all else he wants Sasuke to live.

Fin