My brother has always been better than me. I loved him - I think more than anyone else in the world - but I started to resent how much better he was than me when I started training to be a ninja, and to be accepted in the Uchiha Clan. He was always a perfect ninja and a perfect son. Although I was good too, I was never as good as he was. Father never said he loved me or held me in high regard, even though mother said he did! He always compared me to my brother! He only started seeing me as my own person when he thought Itachi was a lost cause!

And he was right, because not even a week after that my brother betrayed us and killed my entire clan! I came home to find everyone dead! He tortured me with the images of him slaughtering mother and father! He left me alive, alone and as a coward too scared to fight him! I couldn't protect them because I was too weak back then. I might still be too weak now because it doesn't feel like I'm growing at all! All while Naruto, the kid who finished dead last in our class, managed to take out the monster attacking our village with enormous chakra! Where did that even come from! We were equals in the forest of death, so how did he grow so fast!?

And, even if I do get stronger, I won't be able to kill my brother unless I have the same eyes as he does! And to do that, I have to kill my best friend. And that friend is Naruto. Naruto, the only person who knows what it's like to be as alone as I am, and the only person I can really call a friend, is the person I have to kill in order to make my sharingan more powerful! And he's really strong on top of that, too! And now I'm stuck in this place with these pokemon things with no chakra and no way to train and get strong enough to kill either of them! I don't want to kill Naruto, but I have to if I want to avenge my clan!

[Deep breaths, Sasuke. Deep breaths. But considering the high emotions that go along with the topics brought up, is it any wonder that he's getting so worked up?]