Story title: Echoes

Summary: Itachi is gone, discarding a young Sasuke to fight the nightmares of the Tsukuyomi world, a hypnosis technique lost for many decades. The tormenting first steps back to a lonely world await the Uchiha’s massacre survivor; followed by his seek for power until he can accomplish his ultimate goal: stay alive. However, what if Itachi also develops some twisted ideas on his side as time passes by?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note: While the summary and some events taken from the series might make it sound as it’s following the manga plotline, this fanfiction is an Altern Universe and Uchihacest will be the goal, the so called plot-line will try, to pursue.

Chapter 0.0 - Overture: at twilight

I still remember how the gentle brightness of the sun used to calm my soul. I would just have to lift up my chin, close my eyes and stop thinking.

Time would then stop flowing.

Just stay there, still and passive and my muscles would stop aching, my loud heart pounding steadily in my chest, beating against my ribs as if about to explode would just ease, slowly but surely my soul.

The cool air as the hands of a lovely mother drifting away the sticky sensation of the accumulated sweat my body had generated after long hours of hard and painful training.

The sun was here and his warm used to take me away to this perfect place, where everything stayed quiet. Where only I, and silence, existed. When I, still, could forgot what kind of life I was living until then.

However, this emotion and bliss disappeared that dreadful day, as well as them. All of them included ‘him’, since it didn’t make much of a difference to me afterwards.

At dusk time, I had a family, friends, just about any kind of, and every possible bond. A few moments before twilight I was thrilled with my most recent progress, I was worried as it was already late, I was able to feel. After all, I still had a heart.

However as twilight came, I lost it all at his hands.

As the sunlight was dying in a blood red shade, Itachi became as good as dead in my heart; at twilight a new resolution rose in that young-boy frame, mine, with shinning red eyes the same pledge that would take over my mind.

The one urging my whole being to pursue such a dark crimson stained dream, a bitter nightmare from which there was no escape.

As night came by, a dream which I called the path to revenge appeared before my, once again, ebony eyes. The path that many, I would say dramatically, called the road to damnation.

But of course, was it really damnation?

I’d like to know now.

You see, the one little problem here is that everything I’ve told you in this overture, I don’t have a single memory of it. Well, I can only remember twilight.

Now, shouldn’t that be helpful?

Always the warm shades of twilight, a glimpse of twin crimson pools and nothing else.

Note: Don’t worry chapters will be far longer than that ; also, I didn’t discontinue a Perfect Circle, but I need time to get it written, I’m so sorry about that. It’s all Suigetsu’s fault though. He somewhat made it all more difficult as it wasn’t planned for him to get that much into the Uchihacest drama. Even if the idea became such a devilish delight while I was writing -wink-

Hit the buton below and review please!