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would itachi really reject sasuke if he confessed ?

[[ Yes, he would. As much as I love Itasasu, Itachi would be an obstacle to it. There are several reasons for this.

1) They are blood brothers.
2) They are both men.
3) Even if Itachi came to terms with #1 and #2, the most important thing is he doesn’t feel worthy of being in a relationship with Sasuke. He’s hurt him too much, and it’s likely he’ll hurt him again. He would much rather Sasuke find someone else– someone else who hasn’t hurt him in the way Itachi did. All of these apply even if Itachi shares the feelings Sasuke does. He just ultimately doesn’t think he’s the right person for him. 

Mind you, a rejection likely wouldn’t be enough to halt Sasuke. If he’s determined, he’ll keep pushing. With enough pushing, Itachi will eventually relent. Sure, it’s going to be difficult for him to get past the “not worthy” thing, but if it makes Sasuke happy, he will give in. ]]

Okay I was thinking about sasuke. You know how right after the massacre itachi asks hiruzen to protect sasuke? And then hiruzen doesn’t do a damn thing for him /and/ keeps him in the chuunin exams even after the whole orochimaru bullshit. Like damn itachi did all that for the village and they would do anything for him OR sasuke damn fuck that guy

[[ Unfortunately, Hiruzen’s idea of protecting Sasuke is keeping him within the village. Like….that’s it. That’s as far as it goes.

Hiruzen also promised Kushina he’d take care of Naruto. He gave Naruto a home which I’m assuming is free of rent/utility payments, and that….was it! And his decree of not telling people Naruto was Jinchuuriki was pointless because Danzo let it spread and Hiruzen didn’t buckle down on it. 

If you were to ask Hiruzen, he kept his part of the deal. In his POV, if they are inside the village, there’s little to no threat to them. They are “safe” there. Their mental state and individual needs be damned. If they’re alive, that’s all that matters. I do agree Hiruzen didn’t do anything worthwhile, and he basically ignored them. He even put the village’s obsession with Sasuke being an Uchiha over Sasuke himself– in the case of the Chuunin exams. Meh, who cares if he’s been curse marked by my ex student, the whole village wants to see how powerful the last Uchiha is. Sasuke is entertainment, not someone Hiruzen legitimately cares about. ]]

Do you know where I can read translated novels for itachi and the akatsuki hiden one?

 [[ Itachi’s novels are both available on amazon. Here is #1, and here is #2. 

I am not sure on Akatsuki’s story, but it looks like it’s not being fan-translated. I can’t find it on amazon. The wiki has a summary up of it. 

I recommend buying the novels when available, such as Itachi’s. There was someone on tumblr posting their own fan-translation, which is now taken down. They took it down themselves, and this is the right thing to do– to read the fully officially translated novel I suggest supporting it via buying it. They’re not that expensive and are available for kindle. So if your phone can run the Kindle app, you can read these books. Windows also has a kindle app. ]]

What views would you guess itachi had about the afterlife? Do you think he worried about ending up in a ‘hell’? I know the series philosophy would take after eastern religions, but I assume there’s still some sort of ‘bad place.’

[[ I would assume if Itachi believed in a “lower/bad” place, he’d end up there. He knows his actions aren’t positive, but I also don’t think he’s gunning for any sort of consciousness in the afterlife. 

We know from Zabuza and Haku that they believe in some sort of hell, but it’s unknown whether that’s simply a Mist belief or a widespread belief.

We know from canon that there are three realms of existence. The living, the middle ground, and the afterlife. The middle ground is where people like Sakumo and Rin end up. Where they are still able to keep a watch on the world of the living and interact with others who end up there. The full afterlife has NO consciousness. Haku and Zabuza have no idea what happened after they ended up dying because they went straight into the actual afterlife, where they are cut off from the world of the living and a continued stream of consciousness. 

So basically, if the belief of some sort of hell was universal among the five nations, Itachi would no doubt believe he’d end up there, but it wouldn’t be something he would focus on. ]]