A/N: inspired by my RP I did with a very demanding Itachi who was like scaring me half the time I came up with this, this excuse for a fic. Hope you enjoy it (I kinda did while chucking things in my house)

(Edit) Revised June 25, 2005

Disclaimer: -sigh- I don't own Naruto, I will never own it. You should know that.

Pairing: Itachi/ Sasuke

The Bet

"Sasuke's Rage, the Solution? A Bet!"

Kakashi sighed as he watched his students returning back from their survival test. It was a very simple test. All they had to do was live out in the wild for one week, just one week without any help from outside. That and manage to stay alive with their own food sources that were located throughout the forest. That included a diet of berries, mushrooms (he had hoped they were edible..), and whatever else they could find.

With a sigh he smiled. Just a little. You couldn't tell if he did or not with his mask on. But the way his eyes curved up. Yeah, he was probably smiling. His students had passed but only barely. Though it was challenging due to the fact that if one of them found the end of the forest, their rank would lower.. It was a risky thing to do, but they passed nonetheless.

And he was proud of that.

"Naruto you DUMBASS!"

Kakashi sighed. Kind of proud more like it.

The pink haired girl that had yelled from the exit wandered over to the fox boy and whapped him over the head. Her eyes fiery like her attitude. "You almost made me lose you jerk! I could have failed because of you!" She pointed accusingly, one eye twitching.

"Ano ne..I didn't did I?" the blond responded cheekily. No sooner had he said that did he shrink under the pink haired girls gaze and murmur a quick and inaudible gomen before receiving a harsh blow to the head. His new rule: never EVER make Sakura mad ever again. To bad he couldn't stick with it.

"That's not the point! You were this close!" Sakura held up his two fingers, the index finger and thumb to prove her point.

The Jounin sighed as he watched, occasionally scratching his hair. Yes he was proud of his unwilling team. His uncooperative team. His team that made everyday a chore. Whenever he looked to the other Jounin's they had perfectly NORMAL, NICE, COOPERATIVE teams and what did he have? A girl with the biggest crush he had ever seen. She not only openly admitted it, but he'd seen notes being passed in between lessons. Kisses blown every which way. Hell, she was starting to stalk the dark haired teen picking up whatever dust bunnies he made in his house.

How she got into Sasuke's house without getting caught was beyond him though.

Next was Naruto. The biggest loud mouthed, ninja eating ramen garbage bag he had ever had the pleasure (not) of knowing.. Whenever food was nearby he would inhale it like a vacuum and along with any speck of food visible. The nine tails child had a long way to go, for sure. And at the current rate it was possible he could become Jounin. Kakashi didn't know about Hokage, but, hey if Naruto wanted to he was more then good enough to try.

And finally Sasuke. The Jounin's gaze drifted to the twelve year old as he too, exited the forest. Stomping and breaking every twig in his way looking quite frustrated from seeing wild life for more than a week. 'I don't think he liked my bunnies' yes, he had let some of his well trained animals scout the area and was quite appalled to see only one survived. The rest were massacred in a way to brutal for words.

Sasuke in other words was the "I'm so great no one can beat me" member of the group. Of course Naruto shared that type of attitude as well, but his manifested into an ego problem. The Uchiha had an ambition to kill and nothing was going to stop that from happening. Well except training, running away from Sakura, and the whole "I must train to be better" thing going on in his head. Oh no, no, no he wasn't putting down Sasuke at all, he just liked pointing out his one tracked set mind.

"Okay class! Well you all passed-" his sentence was cut short as he sighed at the instant whooping of joy. It brought memories of the first time he heard that, although last time he got to smugly shoot down all hopes because they failed as a team. Pure luck was with them that he gave them another chance. "Demo.?" Sasuke asked with that same stoic expression he wore daily. Watching their sensei carefully, eyes narrowing.

Sasuke was smart.

"Ah… that's all I wanted to say" Kakashi replied with his all-knowing look etched across his face. The young Uchiha exhaled as he looked up. Why'd they have to get such a lazy teacher?

"RAMEN, RAMEN, RAMEN!" Naruto screamed the words as he bulldozed past his sensei leaving the rest in a cloud of dust in his haste to the Ramen stand. For a minute everything was silent, surprisingly. Until…

"SASUKE-KUUUUUUUUN!" Said person cringed at the voice and dodged another sloppy tackle from Sakura. Sometimes he wondered if something was REALLY wrong with her at times. Especially when he found out that she began to stalk him with this devious look on her face. At odd times seemed to worship the ground he walked upon when she thought he wasn't looking. Yes, everyday life was nicely put to be scary in Sasuke's eyes.

Sakura managed to somehow cling to his arm cutting off the circulation. Kakashi heard Sasuke's sudden cry but turned a blind eye and just sat on the rock reading his 'come come paradise' book, flipping the page every now and then. "Let's gets some Ramen Sasuke-kun!" a blush stained her cheeks as she started to move closer going for the kill, she had her heart set on getting her first kiss sometime within the week and now looked like the best time. Apparently she didn't quite care who was around at the time. Nor if said person had a camera.

Yes, Kakashi was seriously disturbed in the way of life.

"No! Get AWAY FROM ME!" he hollered shoving her away and ran back into the forest, dead set on getting away from the pink monster.

The pink haired girl stood behind, stunned. Her Sasuke rejected her AGAIN. She clenched her fist tightly and muttered curses about Naruto being the source of all problems. This was Sakura's mind, whenever something went wrong. Blame it all on Naruto.

She had a determined look on her face as she began to march to the Ramen stand, the noise from the stomping caught Kakashi's attention for all of two seconds before he glanced right back down. Slowly he began to stand and follow Sakura's retreating figure, nose buried in the book. He did have other things planned. But considering his team just up and left like that, and the next chapter of come come paradise…

It was justifiably said that it could wait until later.

Sasuke tore through the forest. He had memorized more than half of the entire area thanks to his run in with cannibalistic bunnies (okay, so he didn't wait around to see if they were cannibalistic. He just butchered them and ate the ones that were salvageable). And speaking of food… He stopped, balancing his foot on a low branch. His stomach growled. With a sigh he looked over his shoulder for a sign of Sakura.

Well he couldn't hear the ungodly added 'Kun' to his name. And the animals weren't running away in fear. Taking that as a good sign Sasuke moved. The branch holding him up began to emit a cracking sound. Not taking that as a good sign Sasuke looked down.

And said branch snapped.

Sasuke plummeted to the ground, prepared to feel a horrible ache on his behind. Surprise crossed his features when the ground didn't rush up to meet him. Instead he felt something catch him. He blinked quite confused, at least, until his gaze shifted to look at his savior.

And he nearly choked on spit when swallowing and breathing at the same time.

The raven-haired twelve year old hadn't been caught by just anyone. This someone in fact had painted nails, near glowing red sharingan eyes, bad dress wear. And seemed to resemble someone familiar in Sasuke's eyes. Sasuke's brain moved slowly from the fall, but began to speed up when a hand briefly touched his cheek. The enemy he wanted to kill, his ambition that he had worked for, the only person that seemed to always make him look weak…

His aniki.

"Hello little brother" the older Uchiha purred as he looked quite cheerfully at his dumbstruck brother in his arms. Sasuke didn't move or even utter a single breath. Frozen stiff he opened his mouth, and then closed it. Open, close, open, close. It was a few minutes before his mind began to move a bit more, making some huge progress this time, and using whatever strength he had intact. Shoved Itachi away landing on his butt in his haste to get away.

His face turned grim and he shivered wondering why his brother, a FAMILY member was touching him! The sudden thought made his skin crawl! He glared at his brother shaking his fist at him as to remind himself he had to beat his brother to avenge his clans and parent's death. "I'll kill you Itachi!" Sasuke growled when he saw a smile tugging at the corners of Itachi's mouth. Threatening to crack a smile and mock the younger Uchiha.

It was amusing in Itachi's eyes. Cute, adorable, talented, it made Itachi just want to hug him and …do unmentionable things.

Back to the scene at hand, Sasuke waved his arm up and down using as many death threats as he could possibly utter or come up with. Only it didn't quite get the reaction Sasuke was hoping for. Especially when Itachi's smile widened even more.

How foolish his little brother was at times.

It wasn't long before the threats subsided, the younger Uchiha unable think up anymore, rose to his feet dusting off his shorts and sending small hateful looks at his older brother. Itachi raised an eyebrow as a kunai whizzed past his face, just barely cutting a thin line on his cheek. Well he didn't actually think that his otouto was going to really attack him or else he might have moved. Oh well.

Another whizzed by and this time sidestepped the offending weapon, completely missing its target. Before anymore were thrown (and wasted) he quickly vanished and appeared behind Sasuke startling the shorter boy.

Sasuke knew he couldn't very well kill Itachi with the skills he had right now, which was why he was training in the first place. But with the sudden appearance of Itachi and at such a random time brought up all his anger to hopefully maim him.

And at the same time made him wish he went with Sakura after all.

Sure, he'd have to deal with the unwanted flirting and bear hugs but he could live with that. Itachi though was a complete opposite story to that.

And the look he was being given from Itachi didn't help either. It was a very awkward look that seemed to look past his barriers into his soul by the use of the Sharingan eyes, it was a thought that unnerved him a bit.

Itachi however was oblivious and just kept staring, looking over the small frame before him.

"Stop stalking me!" Sasuke suddenly yelled, spinning around to point an accusing finger at the older man.

"Whatever do you mean? I haven't stalked you. I've just… watched you sometimes" Itachi lifted a hand to his face, tilting his head looking absolutely smitten by Sasuke.

"You're a freak!" Sasuke hollered. He took careful steps when backing away.

"You really mean that?" Itachi conjured up hurt puppy look.

"No…" Sasuke rolled his eyes. "I just felt like saying that. Just for the sake of it!" He stared blankly ahead. His brother was gone. Just like that. The young Uchiha stiffed when he felt arms encircle his small frame, pulling him close. He blanched for about 10 seconds before he regained some decency of thought.

And elbowed Itachi in the gut with as much strength he could muster.

The grip faltered as a result, but it tightened just as fast. "Don't be like that Sasuke-kun.." Itachi murmured with a heavy laced purr. Now he wasn't just using KUN on the end of his name. He was purring and…gah! Now Itachi was officially starting to scare him. Where the hell did this sudden… this sudden affectionate attitude come from?

Itachi smiled as he breathed in the smaller boys scent of hair causing the head to jerk to the side. "Stop that, that's just disgusting! And stop TOUCHING ME!" Sasuke roared and brought his foot back and stomped on Itachi's as hard as possible.

With a small hiss Itachi recoiled and hopped on one foot while holding the other rubbing it delicately. Sasuke in the meantime tried not to think of what his brother just did. While at the same time making sense of the past encounters with his brother. It didn't quite add up, at ALL.

"Sasuke-kun why do you fight it so much?"

'Fight WHAT?' Was one of the many things that flashed through his mind as he just stared in puzzlement.

"Stop calling me KUN!" Itachi lowered his foot and smiled broadly

"Okay then, koi" he smirked at Sasuke's twitching form. The smaller boy restrained the urge to go and knock his brother out. And he further sulked somewhat at his mental visual of beating his brother in a fight disappeared. If he really was that strong…

He came back to reality and merely glared turning his head scoffing.

Itachi shortened the distance between them and stood in front of the boy lifting his hand to grasp the chin gently moving it to face him "You can't resist me Sasuke-kun." He attempted once more, with another purr. Sasuke in turn, slapped his hand away.

"Leave me alone!" he hollered at Itachi, feeling his face heat up.

"Blushing Sasuke-kun? You look so cute that way" his voice had a small hint of affection to it as the younger Sasuke wracked his brain in thought. He forced his mind to ignore the disturbing voice and snapped his attention forward. A thought found.

"How about a bet Itachi?"

Itachi immediately saw his chance to get Sasuke and closed his eyes thoughtfully. As if considering the idea.

"A bet?"

"Yes, a bet. If I win you go AWAY. Far, far AWAY!" He made that sound clear while Itachi chuckled.

"And if I win?"

"You choose"

Itachi smirked almost evilly. "If I win you're my slave for one week"

Sasuke coughed violently. When did his brother become that twisted? He cringed at the idea of being a slave. Of course, with the way Itachi was acting it seemed like the worse kind of slave. The ones that… He paled and looked up, hoping someone would come and save him. Even if it was Sakura, heck, even Naruto. Anybody….

"I accept Sasuke-kun"

Sasuke dropped his face in his hand and groaned.

(Edit)

A/N: I never did finish that KakaIru one shot either…I saw so many mistakes and it took me 3 hours to fix. Hope this is better. If there is further mistakes. It is a hallucination or I was to lazy to fix it further.