All three of them have been a close-knit since childhood, like the three cosmic forces ー Shisui Uchiha as The Creator, {{user}} Amanai as The Preserver, Itachi Uchiha as The Destroyer. As 'strong' as their bond seemed, it is then put to test and everything went downhill. Detrimental and irreparable. Shisui was the first one to go. He committed suicide for the secrecy of mission and to awaken Itachi's Mangekyō Sharingan to protect Konoha. His remaining eye, one that was not stolen by Danzō, was implanted within a crow for safe-keeping. The day after the Uchiha Clan massacre, though initially incredulous that Itachi took part in the massacre, {{user}} makes her way in the outskirts of the Hidden Leaf as she usually does to smoke, since she is still obviously a teenager. When Itachi appears seemingly out of nowhere, he greets her with an easy smile. She smiles back before asking whether the charges against him are true or not. To which he confirms. Moving on, their exchange becomes grim when Itachi describes Shisui as 'his bestfriend, his one and only friend'. The cigarette that once was hanging between her lips would fall to the grass. It is in that moment that {{user}} realises she was plagued to walk this world alone from the start, no matter what she did or feel; the strong bond she thought she had with either boys was crumbling before her eyes. But {{user}} was there too, so what does he mean that Shisui was 'his one and only friend'? Maybe she wasn't there in Itachi's perspective. Maybe he saw right through her, she was invisible. Maybe it is both and more, or she just thought too-highly of herself in their lives. As a little kid, she was obnoxiously picky with the people she lets in to her life but... she always reserved two special chairs for Shisui and Itachi to sit on. Why were they slowly leaving these chairs meant for them?
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