Chapter One
The Start of Everything Good and Bad
Everything passed by as a blur, the cold winter air went by unnoticed. The brunette's skin was probably too warm from fighting that the cold winter air felt cool, or maybe it's because his full attention was focused on the useless fools that just don't understand that he was too strong for them, either way, nothing else mattered to him, everything else but his purpose.
With a wooden sword in hand, Sasuke whizzed by the bunch of worthless men, knocking them in just one swing. Fallen bodies surrounded him, but they were insignificant to the brunette. "Hn. Pathetic and they call themselves men. Che, it doesn't matter."
"Boss! We're being atta-wahh!" Before the man could finish, the door was slammed opened and he was already lying on the ground, beaten. The men in the room stood ready to attack at the first definite sign of danger. The young attacker glared at the people in the room with fierce, blazing eyes. The men were about to spring into action, their guns and weapons in hand, but a blonde haired man who seems to be in his late thirties, with sparkling blue eyes raised his hand, an order to halt.
"Marriage!?" The attacking Uchiha yelled. His fists clenched tightly as he tried so desperately not to beat the living daylights out of these people. Did they really think that he would agree to something so ridiculous? "You're planning to marry my brother to these people!?" he spat the last word with venom and apparently, it didn't go unnoticed. A blonde haired teen with sapphire like blue eyes that looked like a younger version of the man who ordered his men to halt, tensed and stood, all the time glaring at the smaller male angrily. "What the hell was that supposed to mean, teme!?" He snarled. "Something a dobe like you wouldn't even understand" Sasuke retorted.
"Sasuke!" A man with the same raven coloured hair as the young Uchiha growled warningly. Sasuke turned his full attention to the man. "You don't have a say in this" his father, Fugaku, stated calmly. "Not me maybe," he then turned towards a dark skinned man with bright gold eyes. "But perhaps Kisame has."
A beautiful man in his early twenties looked at his younger brother, with pleading eyes, but the youngest Uchiha merely ignored him. The elder Uchiha narrowed his eyes at his best commander. "Do you have anything to say, boy?" Kisame knew that under the calm façade was a seething man who was probably thinking of the most painful ways of torture to put him through before ending his life. He would admit. He was scared, but even so he can no longer hide it. He was going to find out one way or another.
Kisame took a deep breath and gathered whatever was left of his courage. "I'm afraid… I can't agree to marry Itachi to that man." Fugaku fixed the shark a haughty look. "A single man cannot change anything" He said firmly. Sasuke bit his lip in frustration, "Then what about Itachi?! He doesn't long to marry that man!" Sasuke's mother smiled sweetly. "Oh, but we could dismiss it as 'confusion' or 'nerves'" The young raven bit his lip harder. He knew what his mother was trying to do, and he didn't want to do it. But this one's for Itachi. Itachi who protected him and got him what he wanted, Itachi who stood up for him. "And you aren't exactly part of our family anymore, dear Sasuke" Mikoto added. Sasuke clenched his fist. He left the Yakuza business for a reason, but she can't let his brother marry that man! Itachi already has someone he loves! He has his own happiness!
"Sasuke, you don't ha-"
His mother can be so manipulative at times. "Well, you just got me back!" Itachi's eyes widened. "You don't have to!" The older brunette yelled as he grabbed his baby brother's hand. "If I don't then Kisame's going to continue bawling his eyes out at the lake where you first kissed and by the looks of it he was about ready to drown himself! And for goodness sake! I don't want to go there for the purpose of relaxing and suddenly see his body floating towards me! I bathe in that lake! And I don't fancy bathing with corpses, thank you very much!" Sasuke huffed. Kisame reddened embarassed. "You do certainly say some interesting things, princess. But I wasn't planning on killing myself. I was, err… umm ah, trying to catch a fish! Yeah, something like that." They all looked at him with shocked faces. Itachi on the other hand was glaring at him fiercely. He sighed "It was a thought"
"You promised you wouldn't do anything dangerous!" Itachi growled. Kisame smiled sadly, "Sorry angel, it was just a thought. I wasn't planning on really doing it." If Itachi was someone who would show his emotions easily, he would have hugged Kisame and bawled his eyes out. But he won't. He didn't need these people to see his weakened state.
Sasuke almost smiled at the scene before him, almost. He was an Uchiha after all, and Uchihas don't smile. They smirk. Mikoto was probably the only exception. His mother smiled, "Well, I think we can reconsider." She turned her attention to the others in the room; they had stayed quiet throughout the whole exchange. "Is that alright with you, Kushina?" A red-haired woman giggled, "I don't think it's that big of an issue"
"Then it's settled. Itachi won't be marrying Kyuubi Uzumaki-Namikaze, on one condition." Sasuke narrowed his eyes. He had a bad feeling about this. 'On one condition' was always a bad thing. "And what would that be?" he asked coolly. Mikoto smiled a dangerously sweet smile. "You, Sasuke Uchiha, is to be married to Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze"