AN: Finally, a chaptered story. This is my first so please be nice :D Thank you for reviews in my previous stories. This one is short because it's more of an intro.- Ayako san

Warnings: Uchihacest, Angsty, Fluffy

Of Owls and Crows

"Otouto, stay here."

That was what he told me. That is why I was here, sitting in the middle of the room with my white yukata on, creasing at where my knees bent.

"Whatever happens, be very quiet."

I fisted the cloth on my lap. My face twisted into a frown. I bit my lower lip to suppress a sigh. I was to be very quiet.

"Wait until it's all over, I will come back for you."

What worried me was that I heard those words around 2 hours ago. My anxiety kept me awake. The designs on the doorframes were all I could look at in the room aside from the folded futon at the corner in case I was to retire. How was I to sleep at a time like this? What was happening?

The moment of panic happened so fast; it was all a blur even if it happened today. Okasan called out for me in a manner that I wouldn't call calm like how she always was. Her hair was unkempt and her mouth was distorted in anxious grimace. She kneeled in front of me and put her hands on my cheeks and said, "They are here Sasuke, you must go hide."

I didn't understand what she was telling me to hide from. There came in my aniki, his face had a streak of blood across it. Okasan gestured for him to take care of me and hugged me tight afterwards.

"It's okay darling, your Itachi nii will take care of you ne?" She whispered in my ear. "Everything will be okay."

That was when niisan carried me to the middle of the house. I watched as the sweat mingled with the blood on his face to drip down to his chin. "What's happening aniki?"

"Bad people have come out to get us otouto." He whispered. His face turned into a soft, reassuring smile. "It will be over soon, I promise."

He gently placed me on the floor, lifting up a couple of loose floorboards leading to a secret basement that even I wasn't aware of. There were stairs and lanterns on the sides to lead the way. I went down the stairs glancing at my brother if he was coming down. When he shook his head, I bit my lip in anguish. "Go to the room deepest in the basement." Those were his directions. Before he placed the floorboards back I pulled on his sleeve. "Wait until it's all over, I will come back for you." He said, smiling a bit.

XXX

I remembered a story okasan told me when I was younger. There were people named the Owls and the Crows. They never got along. According to her, the Crows would go to the village of the Owls and kill as much as they could of their enemy's people. It was a terrible war amongst them, but I believe that the Owls were the good guys because they didn't start it. In other words we were the Owls. They were Crows.

But if I continue the story it would be very peculiar to understand right away. The leader of the Owls had once been a Crow. And in the end he wished to return to his people for the sake of saving the Owls, but I could never believe such a thing. The rest of the Owls thought it was done out of pure betrayal and sought to kill him. When they succeeded though, they found out the truth, and regretted it forever.

I found it very sad. Now that I had actually understood the story, for I was very little then.

I heard footsteps. Loud footsteps. It frightened me for I knew my aniki would never land his feet on the floor without grace of doing so. This wasn't my aniki. The screen door opened suddenly, my eyes wide with horror as a man with dark green eyes walked across the room and grabbed me by the hair.

"Look at the pretty little face we have here aye." Bringing his face disgustingly close to my neck.

"It looks to me we have our prize." I refused to get emotional.

"My aniki will kill you, you'll see!" I exclaimed, anger obvious in my voice.

"Silly little pet you are." His breath burning my ear. "The reason why we even got here was because of your precious aniki."

My eyes shined with disbelief. "Be thankful though, if he hadn't done that, we would have killed you if we had found you ourselves."

I choked with the tears. My aniki wasn't an Owl. He was THE Crow.

AN: Here's the first chap. It's kinda boring, remember to tune in for some more.

-Ayako san