Disclaimer: I'm gonna say this once, I do not own Naruto or anything associated but only my OC characters in this fanfiction.

Painting Knives

Chapter1: That girl….

The apartment door slammed open. "Shit! What the hell's wrong with you!?" Sai screamed at Maikeru.

"Shut up Sai, I've had a bad day and I don't need you fucking anything else up for me." Maikeru said with a look that could kill.

"What the hell? I've never fucked up anything for you! It's usually you that fucks something up for me!" Sai said pouting.

"Remember back to last year? I had a girlfriend then. Next thing you know, after one drunken night, I find you in my bed." Maikeru walked over to his bedroom door and slammed it.

Sasuke walked indoors and sighed, yet another day and still getting pissed off by people.

Let's hope Naruto is in a good mood…

Sasuke walked into the lounge; there lay Naruto – fast asleep. Sasuke sighed and picked him up, before walking into their bedroom and placing him on the bed. Sasuke watched him, and listened to the blonde murmur things in his dreams.

The door was knocked; Sasuke got up and trudged towards it. He slowly opened it.

"hel…yawn…lo." He looked at Itachi stand there.

"Can I stop a couple of nights? My stupid baka of a boyfriend has thrown me out over an argument we had..." Itachi sighed, looked downwards.

"Come in…" Sasuke said with almost no emotion in his voice at all.

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They sat there staring at each other.

The coffee Sasuke made steamed up into his vision of Itachi.

"So…..where am I sleeping? Cus I'm really tired." Itachi asked, breaking the ice.

"The room at the end of the corridor. The bed is already made, just unpack your stuff and go to bed." Sasuke said as he tipped his coffee down the drain. "I never was a fan of coffee, tastes like coal - I don't know how Naruto can stand it..." Sasuke commented, and placed his cup in the washing up bowl. Itachi stood up and grabbed his bag and walked down the corridor, crossing paths with Naruto as he moved acrossthe room.

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Sai stood outside of Maikeru's room.

He could hear him doodling on the wall again.

The inside of Maikeru's room was covered with hundreds of drawings, on the wall paper, even on posters of his favourite band… He had four different 'emotion walls'. 1 for sadness, 1 for happiness, 1 for natural and one for lazy. Sadness was the one by the door, and Sai could hear him drawing hard on the surface as if he wanted to etch the picture there forever.

Sai finally knocked on the door.

"Go away Sai." He heard Maikeru mutter from behind it.

"Just let me talk to you, it's boring out here and I've done you something to eat..." Sai knew that food was his one weakness.

The door unlocked and Maikeru grabbed Sai's sleeve and dragged him into his room. Sai sat down on Maikeru's bed whilst he attacked his food. "So….what happened today?" Sai asked, knowing he was stepping on thin ice.

"I was supposed to meet Naruto but he stood me up -the blonde bastard...So I waspissed off - I had nothing to do. Then he sent me a text saying that he was ill, bullshit, I had seen him an hour before we were supposed to meet." Maikeru continued to wolf down the meal. "Sai you sure are one great cook" he smiled, which stretched from one ear to the other.

"Thanks." Sai giggled. Maikeru put the plate on his bedside table and Sai shuffled next to him. "What did you draw?"

"Nothing I was scribbling out an old picture..."

"Where?" Sai asked, looking confused and searching the wall intently.

"I painted over it." Maikeru said looking at the happiness wall. Sai noticed that a piece of paper was stuck to the wall; it was a drawing, fresh too. Slowly he lifted up the paper. Maikeru looked over to Sai. "Whoa, what you doing?" Maikeru asked as he pressed the paper back to the wall.

"Oh there's a picture under there, I only wanted to see."

"Well I don't want you to." Sai looked at him, a little sad. They had always shared everything…

"Be like that then!" Sai shouted, before storming out the room.

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"Itachi?" Sasuke asked as he stepped into the room. Itachi was asleep with his Ipod still plugged into his ears. Sasuke sighed for the second time that day. He walked up to his brother and went to turn the Ipod off – but his hand was grabbed, and he was quickly pulled into a kiss. Itachi's rough lips felt like stones to Sasuke's.

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Maikeru stared at his picture, wishing it would come true. Around the picture were knives of pain - threatening to fall onto his dream.

Huge thanks to Shurikenx for the beta!