Chapter 1-

Firefly

"Big brother?!" An eight year old boy with raven black haired styled into a chicken butt whined next to a boy with identical raven black colored hair but his was tied into a loose pony tail that rested at the nape of his neck. "When are we going to go home?"

"Sasuke, why don't you go play over by the sandbox until I finish." The older brother announced pausing the conversation he was having with a blonde and blue haired boy. "I'll come find you when I'm done here."

Sasuke scuffed before walking to the sandbox as his brother instructed him to. He sat arms crossed looking towards the sand hoping time went by so that he could spend more time with his brother.

"Aw look girls! The big forehead girl is crying! Look how ugly she's getting!" A girl hollered followed by several laughs and a squeal of pain.

The raven haired boy looked up in alarm forgetting his depressed state. If he learnt one thing from his family business it was to be alert and watch out for those who could be in danger. In a swift motion he jumped from his seat on the sandbox ledge and ran towards the laughs he heard only moments ago. He stopped behind a tree to view the commotion. There he saw a crowd of four girls laughing with what appeared to be the ring leader of the group at the opening smirking down at what she held in her grip in which she had a very vibrant pink haired girl's hair who was in tears. The leader pulled harder at the girl with pink hair while the group of girls pointed and mocked the girl. Sasuke noted that the whole group of girls were around his age. He looked back where he knew his brother would be thinking he could be the peace maker of this whole dispute as he always was but seeing the girl in pain made him second guess his judgment.

"HEY!" Saskue yelled running out from his hiding place.

In an instant the girls all turned their heads towards Sasuke with hearts in their eyes.

"Sasuke!" They all said in a union. The girl who held onto the girl's pink hair let her drop to the ground unceremoniously before stepping on her head, causing the girl to go face first into the ground, and walking toward the younger boy with the other girls. The pink haired girl lifted her head up slightly still covering her face still looking down towards the ground still weeping while rubbing her hand gentle around where she was grabbed.

"Get away from her." He demanded coldly pointing to the weeping girl. A girl with red hair and eyes stepped forward, Sasuke recognized her as the girl who was pulling at the defenseless girl's hair.

"Why should we? She did US wrong." The red haired girl yelled looking towards the pink haired girl menacingly as if daring her to go against her words. The other girls only nodded to her words like mindless minions.

Sasuke glared to the group of girls trying to seem menacing and not attack them as he would to boys. His mother would have the last say into this matter not caring if he was only helping another girl.

The group of girls backed away from the raven haired boy before looking towards the red haired girl who also coward away. They all ran away from the boy in fear back to the opening of the play ground where other children inhabited it.

Sasuke smiled in triumph before walking towards the girl who still cried.

"Are you okay?" He asked kneeling in front of the pink haired girl.

The girl looked up at him wiping away at her bright green eyes. She merely nodded her head an inaudible response.

"My names Sasuke. Sasuke Uchiha!" He announced himself proudly in a friendly gesture looking at her with curiosity. "What's your name?"

"M-my names S-sakura Harun-no." She said quietly resting her head on her knees.

"It's nice to meet you!" He said cheerfully. "Why were those girls making fun of you?"

"My mommy bought me this pretty firefly barrette today! I wanted to show my friends but Karin and those girls caught me before I met with my friends." Sakura looked up and moved her bangs away from her forehead. "They started to make fun of my forehead."

"You don't have a big forehead. Its cute!" Sasuke commented inspecting her forehead.

Sakura instantly turned pink at his comment.

"Yea well I don't see it that way. Well now I have to explain to my mom how this happened." She pulled opened her hand in front of Sasuke to show him the barrette that was bent beyond fixing. "She told me not to ruin it."

"Hm I bet my big brother could help. He always know what to do!" Sasuke announced proudly before grabbing Sakura by the arm and racing off towards the direction where he left his brother in question. "Itachi!"

Itachi turned to the direction where his name was being called before smiling seeing who it was.

"I was just about to come get you little brother." He said before taking note of the out of breath girl that stood by his brother's side. "And who would this be?"

"This is Sakura. Itachi can you fix something?" Sasuke asked hopeful.

"I'll have to see whatever it is first." Itachi said looking down at the two.

Sasuke looked towards Sakura who opened her hand towards the older Uchiha to show the bent barrette.

"Hm." He picked it up and examined it thoroughly before placing it in the girl's palm again. "I'm sorry, I don't think I can fix it without ruining it."

Sasuke turned toward Sakura with determination. "Then I'll just have to get you another one."

Sakura stood there blushing madly while Itachi only smiled at the site in front of him.

"You'll have to do that tomorrow you come back Sasuke," The older of the two said. "Mother will be furious if we're late for dinner. Would you like us to walk you home Sakura?"

"No, I live a block away I'll manage." She said sadly which only made Sasuke shake his head.

"Nah uh, I'll walk you home Sakura!" The raven haired boy then began to drag the pink haired girl to the park's exit. Itachi followed suit strolling a small distance away from them.

Once they got to Sakura's home Sasuke stood at her door step with her while Itachi waited by the mailbox.

"Don't worry Sakura, I'll get you a barrette to match the one they ruined. I promise."

"Thank you Sasuke." She said before pulling the boy into a hug which only made the boy turn beet red. Sakura let go of Sasuke before walking inside smiling.

The raven haired boy then walked embarrassed back to his brother.

"I'm guessing we're going to make a stop to the store?" Itachi asked following his brother who nodded in response.