I am still fairly new to this fandom, and this pairing which is pretty common is one I NEVER thought I would do. But in the handful amounts of the handsome Uchiha brothers I have read so far, it became so irresistible that I began to spin abuzz with ideas. Two authors I know for sure influenced me: Avenger Hawk and AllieSama, notably with "In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated" (the former's fic) and "CRIMSON" (by the latter). There were also a few others, but I won't reveal everything at once just to spare time.
With that out of the way, I bring "Brothers in Blood and Bond", a tale of angst, love, hate and adventure between the Uchiha brothers. Right after he defeats and consumes Orochimaru, and instead of going straight to get Suigetsu like the original canon, Sasuke goes out to his clan's resting place and is mortified and consumed with hatred when the man he desired to kill for forever has the nerve to come to prayer before their parents' graves. However, before he will get his chance, he is jumped and taken prisoner, so Itachi has to go save his brother. So, yeah, this is yaoi and incest. Don't like, don't read, but for those of you who do, then I appreciate it. :)
Absolutely NOTHING belongs to me. Never gets old, but it does get annoying to say so sometimes, doesn't it? We all know who Naruto and its characters belong to, right?
Chapter One
The snake had been taken care of, and if Sasuke Uchiha didn't know any better, he'd say he was getting all the more powerful. Finally...
The young Genin he once was - he was no more. He trembled before once in the Forest of Death, was bitten with the Curse, the seal into his flesh, coursing through his blood, muscles and every part of his system. Enhanced his abilities, gave him uncontrollable lust beyond recognition...fueled his anger and hate...
...but in the end, Orochimaru wanted him merely for a vessel and did not truly care about Sasuke's desire to kill his own brother.
Release that delicious forbidden power...set it free...
Oh, yes, it was delicious.
It was ferocious. It was insatiable - it was more than he could have asked. It was all he would thank the Snake Sannin for...but now he no longer needed his perverted, omnipresent mentor. Which was why he'd stormed the fragile serpent man's bedroom just when he was reaching his limit, his time coming to find a new body. Three years had passed since the Chunin Exams.
Three years...and Sasuke had time to prep. It was all going to pay off very soon.
He'd almost let it take him over during his round with his opponent, but he forced it down. How foolish he'd been at the time; the forbidden stuff was that much better. He had his strength and will, knowing when to use the Curse Mark as well as he could control the Sharingan.
No one ever understood the darkness that consumed him. No one but the snake - just because - or even his hated criminal of a brother.
The murderer of their entire family.
He was driven insane by that bloodthirsty laugh that he would catch when they were not in jutsu sessions, or anytime after during the days. The maniacal licking of the lips whenever he would hiss the young boy's name - no, young MAN now - and sometimes those vile touches on parts of his body, not in those parts, Sasuke would close his eyes and sneer in disgust at both the snake and with himself. Orochimaru did not go far, but when he did try, it took all of Sasuke to not turn on him with the Chidori ready to cut through the Snake Sage's heart, not when the time wasn't right.
Orochimaru might be a hungry creature for power, gladly gave him a portion of it, but it seemed to have his body in a certain low manner was out of the question. He never did find out if the older man was asexual, nor did he care. If you had to ask, Sasuke Uchiha was still physically innocent in that respect, if the rest of his body and mind - and heart - was not.
His Chidori streams had grown far more powerful than any lightning in nature's skies, and his shuriken strikes paralleled to the way he used to watch his brother toss when they were younger - oh, how young and innocent he'd been, seeing the perfect big brother Itachi was before he destroyed everything good, took away his little brother's innocence and shattered dreams that never would be.
No one but the dream to kill that monster, make it reality. It's coming soon.
The Chidori raged blue and shattered the training obstacle in the area. He gritted his jaw with satisfaction that the feeling was mutual enough, that there was no need to waste anymore time and wear himself down. Opening the doors, he left the grounds to begin the first step of elimination.
Behind him, the moth flew too close to the flame and caught fire. Perished instantly.
~o~
The day was beautiful, but not for long. He cast one blank look at the sun overhead and sighed. He was not in danger at the moment, nor did he have important matters, and Kisame would be better off without him for now. He left his shark-like partner alone in their cave while he ventured off into the deep of the forest, to the one place he always knew he would return to again even if he was wanted on the S-rank list.
He brought the sacred item from the nearest town he and Kisame had been in the last week; today was the day to finally carry it out. Wearing his straw hat and his black Akatsuki cloak with the swirling red clouds harmonizing with his resting bloody Sharingan orbs, he glided across the lush glade amassed with tombstones, carefully reading the names until he found the one he was looking for: UCHIHA
All of this belonged for the butchered Uchiha clan - all of it by his own hands, stained with blood, but not as much as his ancestors obtained in war times. But was it like he had a choice in this matter? My foolish little brother must never know...
He knelt before the grand headstone labeled with the family name; beneath it were the two names of FUGAKU and MIKOTO...Father and Mother...together in death as in life. He would spend all day if he had to lighting up the sticks he purchased, just this once, as he had done the first time these corpses in the earth were placed less than a decade ago. He would honor them as they deserved it. He'd seen it in their eyes when he brought his katana down on each and every one of them - saving beloved Otousan and Okaasan for last - and spilled their blood on the walls, the floors, and even the windows.
But he could never do it to the sole survivor, the one whose hatred he strived so hard for and knew he was succeeding.
If only he could have told Sasuke the truth.
Sighing, he placed the oil jars beneath the names, one for each, before withdrawing a long green stick of incense, the musky aloe reaching his senses and warming him momentarily, and finished it off with drawing one of the matches that came with. Small flames flickered to life and intensified the atmosphere, the narrow puffs of smoke flying towards the heavens to where Mother and Father and the rest of the clan were looking down on him - and perhaps speaking of how he betrayed them all and would never earn their forgiveness no matter what he did, or how often he would visit their graves.
But what else could he do? Purely habitual and part of his nature, with another release of breath, he reached up to remove his straw hat, revealing the face of Itachi Uchiha and gleaming raven hair held back, as well as the slashed headband of the Hidden Leaf. He set his hat down and brought his hands up before his heart, closing his eyes and bowing his head in prayer.
"You shall not need forgive me - but it was all for the sake of the Hidden Leaf Village. If I could change what happened that night, I would."
~o~
"I knew you'd come for me...Sasuke."
"Of course you would - we both knew this day would come, didn't we, Orochimaru? There's nothing more you can teach me. Now you'll see I can be heartless...even to YOU."
Even when he was ensnared by the Chidori's hold and holding himself up at the sight of the symptoms of the Curse Mark overtaking his pupil - the Sharingan turning the onyx eyes to blood-red, like his brother's, and the flames coming over his flesh on that side of his body where the mark branded him - the serpent sage continued to hold his grasp in place. Sasuke did not kill the hundreds of other opponent ninjas, therefore causing his master to underestimate him and call out his lack of a heart of ice, the thirst to cut flesh and bone.
But it was all for the one on his mind and in his heart.
Yes, he'd defeated those men without a fatal blow, but they were not his desires. He was NOT naïve; he knew what he was doing. He would show this slithering slime.
The Chidori had been locked into the wall beside the weak old man - he was passing off so much younger than he actually was that it made the teenager sick. "Orochimaru...I'm stronger than you now. So, at this point, I don't see a reason to just...hand over my body."
If there was only one thing he would thank his old friend Naruto for, it was to make him see that if he let Orochimaru dominate his body and being, he would never kill Itachi. Murdering his brother had not been the blond dobe's ray of light, but it was the raven's. I will never let this immortal scum take over my very being. He used me, used my darkest desires to get what he wanted...
"A bold statement from a nursling Uchiha!"
"Yes, a nursling was the only kind of Uchiha you could handle. You were there in the Forest of Death during the Chunin Exams to see if there was a 'nursling' to show promise, right? You thought you'd lay claim to me, thought you could bind me to you with this Curse Mark."
To gain one thing, another must be lost...
And so he'd left behind his old life and all his friends and comrades in the Hidden Leaf Village - including Naruto.
What was his purpose in this life? To kill Itachi, the man who no longer deserves to be called my brother - the man who slaughtered our entire clan.
"I am an avenger - I want revenge. I wanted it so badly I was willing to give up my body to get it. What YOU wanted was the Sharingan, right? But how to get it...Itachi was out of the question, so you came after me, the baby of the clan. Isn't that so? And they say you are the genius out of the legendary Sannin, but it turns out you are just another run-of-the-mill ninja, and you know it. You're not even in the same league as the Uchiha. In fact, next to the Uchiha, genius like yours looks pretty ordinary. The way you covet the power of the Uchiha, the way you fill yourself up with medicines and go leaping from body to body...it's disgusting. As an Uchiha, all I see when I look at you is a miserable wretch. And on top of that, I don't like your style."
Just what had Orochimaru hoped to accomplish? All he'd done was scurry from one hideout to the next, conducting his pathetic experiments, using up people's lives one after the other, try to unlock the mysteries of nature! He toyed with people's lives for this vain and futile cause - just as he toyed with Sasuke's.
Just like his own brother had done that night...
"Why, big brother?"
"To test the limits of my abilities..."
Oh, how Itachi disgusted him - both him AND Orochimaru!
And now, with one down, there was one more to go.
No surprise that the actual anime/manga events are seen, because I find them vital. Anyways, reviews are absolutely appreciated, but please no flaming.
There were a few graveyard shots of Sasuke and Itachi I read, but in here, there won't be any of them "doing it" over their parents' graves. If you ask me, it may be hot, but it's still a sacrilege and disrespect of their family's resting place.
Next chapter will have the brothers reuniting. :D