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As I’m writing a new chapter, it has occurred to me just how often Itachi gets told to sit down and shut up throughout his life. Specifically by the village elders and Fugaku’s advisors.
So in the Itachi Daylight / Midnight novels it talks about how he put Izumi in a genjutsu and had the two of them live out their lives together in an instant (Getting married, having children, growing old, retiring, etc), right? Well every few months I become just. Shattered at the thought for both of them. They were both ~12 to ~14ish. Being used as pawns by the village + clan. While all they wanted was to get to live their lives alongside each other.
Their relationship might have been barely baked. But by the gods if that isn't one of the most tragic things I've ever read. She lived that life out and was happy to have it, even knowing it was an imitation of something she'd never have. He put so much care into it, to have crafted a world and time where they could be together happily for decades. He made every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every month of every year for her. He made them a world were they got to plan their wedding. Where they got to see their children's first steps and words. Where she got to fulfil her dream and become an accomplished shinobi. Knowing she would never experience the real thing. He also had to live through this life alongside her. He was there, marrying her. He was there, watching the children he created grow for years. Raising those children beside her. Working alongside her for years in the field. Then. In one final moment her consciousness snapped and he was suddenly back in the body of a child again, holding his girlfriend who died before getting to experience any of it in the real world. In the body of a solider, who would likewise never get to experience it himself. He lost his wife, his children, his home, his perfect reality. And then had to go sever his ties with his real reality too. Both of them just. Hurt so much to think about.
You think Itachi ever missed his genjutsu life.
Like. Obviously he missed Izumi but. You think a small part of him ever missed his kids. Even knowing they were a figment of his own mind. Since they were still, in a way, the embodiment of his and Izumi's love for each other. Visual representations of the future they had ripped away from them.