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Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Who I date is none of your business. I think you lost all big brother protective rights when you killed our entire family and abandoned me, don't you?" Not waiting for an answer, Sasuke smoothly continued. "Now, what are the names of the people who can confirm your alibi?"

Sasuke found a blank sheet of paper in the folder and pulled a pen from his shirt pocket, sliding both across the table to his brother. Itachi was good at hiding his emotions, but Sasuke knew him well, even after all the years they'd been apart. Itachi was getting antsy. Of course, that was what the small interrogation room was meant to do: intimidate. The walls were slate gray, and a small fixture in the center of the ceiling provided the only source of light, which was conveniently turned to focus almost directly on the person being questioned. The only window was in the front of the room, and was there only so that other officers could watch what was going on from outside. It provided no relief from the harsh, too-small space of the interrogation room, appearing as nothing more than a mirror.

Sasuke skimmed over the list Itachi had given him. Two of the names he recognized: Deidara and Sasori. Suspected Yakuza members. He wasn't surprised that Itachi knew them. Sasuke slid the paper back into the folder and set the pen on the table before looking at his brother again.

Itachi looked so much older than he had when Sasuke had last seen him. Of course, over the years, as the elder Uchiha had become more powerful, his name had begun to show up in the papers. By the age of fifteen, Sasuke had known where Itachi was, and what he was doing, at least on the surface. But it wasn't until he had joined the police force that Sasuke had had a chance to get a glimpse of some of the things his brother was truly involved in.

He now had a basic of idea of why Itachi had killed their family, and it wasn't the logical explanation Sasuke had spent his younger years hoping for. Itachi was just a criminal, plain and simple. And Sasuke would make him pay for what he'd done.

"Do you know why you're here, Itachi?"

Sasuke's expression darkened further, but he allowed Itachi to smoke for the moment, instead pulling out several photographs from the folder and spreading them in a line across the table in front of Itachi.

"Do you recognize the man in these photos?" Sasuke asked, the tone of his voice clearly saying he already knew the answer.

Either Itachi was a good liar, or he honestly hadn't known that the man was dead. But of course Itachi was a good liar, he had fooled Sasuke into thinking that he was the perfect brother for eight years. Sasuke had done anything his brother had asked without a second thought, all because the older Uchiha had been perfect at playing his part.

Sasuke shook away all doubt and snorted in disbelief at Itachi's response. "When was the last time you saw him alive?"

Rolling his eyes with an, 'As if you don't know..." expression, Sasuke answered, "No. He was the only one killed or injured. Two weeks since you last saw him, you said?" Sasuke wrote that down. "What was your business with him?"

Sasuke waved the smoke away and leaned forward, snatching the cigarette out of Itachi's mouth. "Funny, I don't remember him."