Chapter 1

"Ohayoo gozaimasu," A long black haired woman spoke with a smile as she set the table for breakfast. She turned to her youngest son who stood at the doorway rubbing his dark eyes from a long night of sleep. His black hair fell over his forehead and the sides of his head while the back was spiked out.

"Ohayoo, mom," He answered as he walked over to her side yawning. The pants of his dark blue pajamas are dragging a little on the floor.

"Sasuke, can you go wake up your brother for breakfast? He was out all night on a mission."

The young boy's face immediately lit up and was awake with a smile on his face. Before his mother knew it, he had already taken off down the hallway to his brother's room. Sasuke stopped at the door to his brother's room and hesitated to open it, but then remembering his mother asking him to wake up his brother, he finally opened the door.

"Wake up, aniki!" Sasuke cheerfully spoke as he bounced into his brother's room.

The sheets on the bed on the floor rolled over into a ball and grumbled to itself. Sasuke frowned but then smiled in thinking it as a game to wake his aniki from his sleep. He playfully skipped to the top of the sheets and bent over lifting them up exposing a face with lines under the eyes and long black hair covering some of it.

"Wake up, aniki. It's time for breakfast."

A hand shot out of the sheets and poked Sasuke in the forehead before returning into the sheets. The face rolled away as his aniki rolled over to his other side, leaving Sasuke staring at long black hair.

"Later, otouto, I'm busy." he grumbled.

"Busy doing what?" Sasuke asked as he jumped to the other side of his brother.

"SLEEPING!"

Sasuke made a face but then got an idea on how to annoy his brother enough to get him up.

"Can I sleep with you aniki?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Pretty, please?"

"NO!"

"Pretty, pretty, please?"

"Ugh, fine!"

Sasuke stared blankly at his brother who rolled back over to his other side away from Sasuke. He never agrees to anything he asks him, he must be really tired. Another bright idea popped into Sasuke's head and once again, he is hoping it'll annoy him enough to get out of bed. Sasuke jumped back to the other side of his brother and cuddled under the sheets next to him. Sasuke buried his face in his brother's chest and smiled.

"You smell pretty aniki. And your soo warm." He giggled.

His brother remained quiet and tried to roll away from him but Sasuke clung to him and wouldn't let him move.

"Itachi niisan, do you love me?"

Itachi's eye twitched slightly as his brother asked this. It was obvious he wants him to get out of bed, but he doesn't want to. He's going to see how long Sasuke will try to get him out of bed before giving up. Itachi didn't answer his otouto, just pretended to sleep.

"Do you?" Sasuke asked again. He knows how much Itachi hates that question so he won't stop asking. "Do you, do you, do you?"

Itachi opened an eye and saw Sasuke staring up at him pouting. It almost looked like he was going to cry. Itachi let out a sigh before answering Sasuke.

"If you're going to cry, leave."

Sasuke frowned and sat up pulling the sheets off of Itachi. Itachi quickly sat up to catch Sasuke who started to run off with the blanket laughing. Itachi caught the corner of the blanket and pulled it back, along with Sasuke who was still clinging to it laughing. Sasuke pulled back on the blanket trying to get Itachi to let go, and rolled in it pulling Itachi down on top of him. Awkward moments, they are priceless. Sasuke blushed, Itachi's hair brushing against his face. Itachi blushed as well in being in such an awkward position above his brother. Then he looked away as his pale cheeks now a faint pink.

"I-I think it's best if we go eat breakfast now..." Itachi mumbled in trying to untangle himself from the blanket. Sasuke lightly nodded and struggled to get out. Once they were out of the mess of a blanket, they walked to the dinning room in silence, and wordlessly agreed not to mention what happened for fear of humiliation.

"Aww, there are my two beautiful sons!" Their mother said, clasping her hands together with a smile. Their father was already at the table eating and looked up when they walked in.

"What took you two so long?" Their father asked, staring at them questioningly. "And why are you two still not dressed?"

"Well, we just got up, dad! And I was busy getting Itachi niisan up!" Sasuke spoke out.

"Itachi, you know better than to sleep in. Get dressed then come back to eat, both of you. And Itachi, haven't I talked to you about sleeping in your boxers?"

Itachi looked down and realized that he did sleep in his underwear again.

"Honey, they are still kids. Can't you be a little nicer to them?" Their mother asked their father.

"No."

Itachi and Sasuke walked back to their rooms in silence, heads hung low. They split off into their own rooms and grabbed clothes to get dressed in. Sasuke grabbed his clothes and ran into Itachi's room.

"Hey, Aniki?" Sasuke asked, poking his head in Itachi's room with his clothes in his arms.

"What is it, otouto?" Itachi asked as he slipped on a pair of pants.

"Umm...can I come in?"

"Sure."

Sasuke walked up behind Itachi and watched him search for a shirt in his drawers.

"You didn't answer my question earlier." Sasuke spoke lightly, making Itachi turn around.

"What?"

"My question! Do you love me?"

"Sasuke," Itachi started in the 'why-are-we-doing-this-again?' tone of voice.

"Do you?" Sasuke pouted, holding his clothes up to his face as if to hide. Itachi let out a sigh and placed a hand on Sasuke's shoulder.

"You're my brother, Sasuke. I can only love you as a brother and no more." Itachi answered slightly disappointed. Sasuke was confused.

"Why, aniki? Why only as a brother?" Sasuke asked. Damn questions children ask.

"Because, anymore than that and it's wrong." Itachi turned his back to Sasuke again and slipped on a shirt before turning back to Sasuke who still hasn't gotten dressed yet. "Why aren't you dressed yet, Sasuke?"

Sasuke didn't answer Itachi and just stood there. Itachi let out a sigh and took the clothes from Sasuke's hands and began to undress him, he was going to have to dress him himself. Sasuke stood there and let his brother change him while he thought about what Itachi had said. He didn't understand why it would be wrong; it's just love, isn't it? Why should it matter? When he was dressed, his brother placed gentle hands on his shoulders and looked at his face. Without words being said, he understood what he was going to say. Sasuke felt like crying and to hold back the tears, buried his face in his brother's shirt. Itachi held Sasuke in a soft hug and understood why Sasuke began to cry. He felt like crying himself, but he would never allow it, for it is a sign of weakness and Uchiha Itachi is anything but weak.

"Why? Your more than a brother to me, why is that so wrong?" Sasuke cried.

"You still don't understand what I said, but you will later, when you're older." Itachi comforted.

Sasuke pulled his face out of Itachi's shirt, face streaked with tears. Itachi wiped away the tears and carried Sasuke to the dinning room. Sasuke sat quietly in his brother's arm, head resting on his shoulder, feeling unable to speak. He looked up and turned around when he heard their mother's voice.

"What happened to Sasuke? Is he alright?"

Itachi nodded and told her that he was just a little tired still. Sasuke silently agreed to what Itachi said and ate his breakfast, looking from his food to his brother. After breakfast, the summer heat was beginning to set in and they have decided to go to the pool, but Sasuke decided to complicate things.

to be continued...