Shades Of Normal

Chapter one

Sasuke Uchiha sat in the back seat of his social workers car, staring out the window. His older brother sat in the front seat, equally as quiet as the smaller Uchiha. Sasuke and his brother were being moved to yet another foster home, you see, both Itachi and Sasuke were placed in foster care system when their parents had died and none of their other family wanted to deal with the grieving teenagers.

Now here they were on their way to another foster home, their fourth of the year. Sasuke supposed that he should be glad that they were still in Konoha were they were from, Sasuke knew that some foster kids got shipped hundreds of miles from their homes. Sasuke was glad that he would still be able to see the few friends that he had made over the years.

As he stared out at the passing scene, Sasuke wished that their family would step up to the plate and take him and Itachi, then again he supposed that it was his fault that both him and brother moved so often, because Sasuke was angry about what had happened with his family, he went out and got caught spray painting the windows of the high school. Sasuke had barely been able to stay out of jail for that, instead he'd ended up with several hours of community service. Itachi hadn't wanted to be separated from Sasuke, so he had followed his angry little brother into the system. This would be their fourth move of the year and it was only March. Sasuke supposed that was his fault as well, no one seemed to care that Sasuke was angry over the loss of his parents and it was his grief over that loss that made him lash out at the people that were, as he put it, trying to take the place of his real family. Sasuke never minded reminding them that they were nothing to him and they didn't mind reminding him that he could be moved at any time they wanted. Normally Sasuke wouldn't care because he didn't allow himself to get attached to anyone aside from Itachi. However, this last family decided that they wanted to keep Itachi and just have Sasuke moved. Sasuke had lost his shit and had thrown a punch at the foster father. Itachi was the only family Sasuke had and he didn't want to be separated from him.

"You know Sasuke, you could have avoided all this by ignoring them. You wouldn't have community service hours if you could just control your temper. You are lucky I was able to keep you out of jail." Sasuke's social worker Kakashi Hatake told the sullen teenager.

"They shouldn't have tried to keep Itachi." Sasuke replied. He depended on Itachi more than anyone. Itachi kept Sasuke from going completely insane, Sasuke feared that without Itachi there that he would end up taking his own life. After all Itachi knew the memories that Sasuke carried with him, knew the nightmares that plagued Sasuke's mind. Itachi was the only person that even understood why Sasuke was so angry all the time.

"Have you even considered that Itachi might have been happy there?" Kakashi asked and Sasuke frowned and thought about the question for a minute. Itachi had gotten along with the families that they had lived with briefly, at least until Sasuke's temper had gotten in the way and they had been moved once again.

"Your poor decisions not only effect you but your brother as well." Kakashi continued. "It's unfair to him to ask him to move all the time because you can't control your temper."

A sharp pain shot through Sasuke's heart. He really hadn't considered how all the moves had effected Itachi. Sasuke supposed his refusal to leave Itachi behind was pretty selfish f him, but since Itachi was the only one who could calm him after his nightmares then Sasuke was just going to have to keep on being selfish.

"Which is why Itachi will be returning to the Sarutobi's and you will be remaining with Iruka Umino." Kakashi said looking back at Sasuke in the rear view mirror.

"That's not fair." Sasuke protested as Kakashi pulled into a driveway and put the car in park.

"If you want to play that card, it's not fair to ask Itachi to be continually moved every time that you lose your temper." Kakashi replied as he threw the car door open and climbed out. Sasuke didn't say anything to Itachi as he climbed out of the car. Panic was racing through his veins as he stared at the small house that was to now be his new home.

"Sasuke." Itachi called out softly knowing that Sasuke was hurting over their social worker's decision. Both Kakashi and the Sarutobi's thought it would be a good idea to separate them since Sasuke was so dependent on Itachi. Kakashi thought this would be a good way to to discourage Sasuke from losing his temper so much, but Itachi was sure that Sasuke would see this as a punishment instead of a chance to grow.

"Did you really want me out of your life so bad that you asked them to have me moved?" Sasuke asked before taking his bag from Kakashi and following the silver haired man up the drive. Itachi sighed and wondered how long it would take Sasuke to get over this betrayal.

Sasuke stood beside Kakashi, silently chewing on his lip. No one seemed to realize what they were doing by splitting him and Itachi up, they didn't seem to care about what it would put Sasuke through.

"It's going to be okay you know." Kakashi said glancing over at the fidgeting 13 year old. "You're going to like, Iruka, he's a really great guy."

"I thought the goal was to keep families together?" Sasuke asked staring down at the porch.

"It is." Kakashi replied knowing that Sasuke was referring to the foster care system in general.

"Then why are you splitting Itachi and I up?" Sasuke asked lifting his head to stare at Kakashi.

"I told you it wasn't fair to keep moving Itachi around when it was your behavior that got you moved to begin with." Kakashi replied.

"What about my nightmares?" Sasuke asked. "Itachi is the only one that can help with those."

"You will have to learn another way to cope." Kakashi said as a dark haired man with a scar across his nose opened the door.

"You must be Sasuke, I'm Iruka." the man offered Sasuke a small smile as he stepped to the side to allow Sasuke and Kakashi room to enter. Sasuke grunted and stepped through the doorway.

"Ignore him." Kakashi told Iruka. "he's in a bad mood about being moved."

"I'm sure it's not an easy thing to do once you get attached to a family." Iruka said kindly.

"I don't get attached to people." Sasuke informed the man. "less chance of getting hurt."

"Does he have any behavioral issues that I need to know about?" Iruka asked.

"Sasuke can be violent." Kakashi said ignoring Sasuke's glare. "He punched his last foster father." Iruka grimaced.

"I'm not sure he'll be a good fit here. I already have a child that needs peace and structure. He doesn't need to be around someone that's angry and violent." Iruka said and Sasuke sighed and turned towards the door, for some reason that he couldn't explain he felt completely and utterly rejected. Would anyone bother looking past his cool exterior to the child that desperately missed his family.

"We don't have anywhere to put him." Kakashi said. "The last family won't take him back. If you don't take him I will have no choice but to send him to Suna or perhaps someplace farther away from his brother."

"Fine, he can stay until another placement is found." Iruka said "but if he acts up I will have him removed and put in jail until you can find someone that will take him."

"Which will be never." Sasuke said feeling more broken and lonely than ever. "no one wants someone like me." Iruka frowned at the dark haired teen, Iruka didn't think he'd ever heard someone so young sound so broken before. What had life done to this kid to make him sound that way?

"I know you know how to behave." Kakashi told Sasuke. "So do it. Once you get settled down and have done well for a little while we will talk about you having visits with Itachi."

"Wait." Sasuke said. "you never mentioned that I wouldn't be able to see my brother."

"It's only for a little while." Kakashi said. "I know that getting adjusted to a new home isn't going to be easy for you which is why I suggested the no contact rule." Kakashi said watching as a tear dropped from Sasuke's eye and rolled down his cheek.

"Are you punishing me?" Sasuke asked. "Is that why you are taking my brother from me?"

"No one is taking him from you." Kakashi stated. "we just need to separate you two for a time. CPS believes that will help you in the long run."

"That's not fair." Sasuke said.

"I agree." Iruka said. "It's unfair to not allow Sasuke to see his brother."

"Just stay out of trouble and you will get to see him again." Kakashi said knowing that he was only hurting the teen.

Once Kakashi was gone, Iruka led Sasuke down the hall, pointing out the kitchen on his way.

"It's not a big place." Iruka told Sasuke "but its home. The bathroom is the first door on the left, my bedroom is at the end of the hall and your room is here." Iruka said pausing at the door in the middle of the other two doors.

"You will be sharing the room with Naruto, and just a warning he likes things to be nice and neat." Iruka said as he opened the door and allowed Sasuke to enter the room, much like the rest of the house the room was small, in fact it barely fit the two twin sized beds and a small dresser.

Sasuke immediately noticed how neatly things were arranged on half of the dresser. All the photos were arranged from big to small along with different brushes and combs being lined up from small to large and color codded as well.

"OCD much?" Sasuke asked, barely glancing at Iruka who was turned away talking to someone, as Sasuke dumped his bag on the bed and began to haphazardly toss things on the dresser and into the drawers, not caring if things were neat or not.

"No,no,no." a different voice said from the doorway and Sasuke looked up to find a blonde boy with bright blue eyes staring at him. "Not neat, you can't keep it like that. It's not in order." The boy said as he shuffled over to the dresser and without Sasuke's permission began rearranging the few items that Sasuke had placed on the dresser. The boy arranged the photos of Sasuke and his brother from short to tall before moving onto Sasuke's hair products and arranging the bottles from small to large, when he finished. The boy turned blues eyes to Sasuke.

"Must have order, you can't stay if you don't have order." the boy turned and shuffled past Iruka leaving Sasuke stunned by what he had just witnessed.

"That is Naruto." Iruka said. "And he's not OCD, he's Autistic."

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