Tell me where is fancy bred

In the heart or in the head?

How's it born? How provided?

Where does fancy go to die?

I beg you all for some reply

Fancy's bred within the eyes

With gazing fed and fancy dies

In the cradle where it lies

Let us all ring fancy's knell

As we follow unto hell

Ding dong bell

Itachi is intimately familiar with Desire. He knows It in every form taken. It's shadow, stark and black, chases his behind his family in the form of ambition. Filling the air with the scent of peaches on humid summer afternoons, as his lover steals time alone with him. The golden glint within Danzo's eyes as he gives the order for the massacre. His brother's smiles, painfully short and fragile. The voice of his savior/murderer, rendered uncertain by the rain.

Itachi will follow Desire for the rest of his days.

But Desire has always been the most fickle of Them all, and those who choose Desire will never be long for this world.

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Author's Notes: And so we've come to the end. Sorry that this one is so short, but I've found it harder and harder to get into Itachi's head as the series goes along. As for the quote in the beginning, it's from the Merchant of Venice, but highly bastardized to fit modern pronunciation. Anyway, I hope you've all enjoyed this and are looking forward to my next work.