Title: For Your Own Good
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: slight Itachi x Sasuke if squint and tilt your head just right
Rating: G
Warnings: none.
Description: A young Sasuke seeks comfort from the darkness by running to his older brother…set a short while before the Uchiha clan massacre. Drabble, One-shot, slight Uchihacest if you look for it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sasuke or Itachi if I did then I can tell you that the series would SO not be suitable for children.
Sasuke lay in bed, staring at the ceiling. It was quiet and dark…he hated the dark because he was never too sure about what could be in it. He heard the rain outside grow heavier and something scraped against his window. He sat bolt upright in his bed, clutching at the covers, breathing heavily and staring towards the noise. After a few seconds he calmed himself, telling himself that he was being stupid. Still…he lay back down and pulled the covers tight around himself, tucking them underneath his body so nothing could get in and pulling them over his head.
Suddenly there was a loud crack of thunder. Sasuke yelped and jumped from his bed, clinging to his pillow; if anything was going to attack him then he needed a weapon…although his brain didn't seem to register that a pillow would not do much good in a fight with an armed stranger. He tripped up in the blankets which he had wrapped so tightly around himself to keep himself safe. After disentangling himself he went to the door, stepped into the slightly cooler hallway and stood before his brother's door. As he began to doubt as to whether or not he should knock or go back to bed another exceptionally loud crack of thunder sounded and all excess light coming from electrical sources disappeared.
Sasuke knocked quickly, yet lightly on Itachi's door. His big brother never slept, not to his knowledge anyway and the older boy forbade anyone but Sasuke to come into his room, even the cleaning staff. Sasuke hugged his pillow closer to him and nearly sighed with relief when the door slid open.
"Otouto it's late, you should be asleep." Itachi said calmly, looking down at his little brother whose high collared, blue shirt with the Uchiha crest on the back was slipping down one pale shoulder; his wide dark eyes stared up at Itachi pleadingly.
"Aniki I can't sleep." Sasuke replied softly
Itachi stepped aside and Sasuke accepted the wordless invitation by scurrying inside and quickly burrowing beneath the warm covers on his brother's large bed.
"You can't be scared of the dark otouto, a good ninja is not afraid of anything." Itachi said calmly as he slid the locks back into place on his door
"I'm not scared!" Sasuke replied, staring at his brother angrily
"You shouldn't be scared of the dark" he repeated "You shouldn't even be scared of the people who hide in the dark, its those who you think that you know and trust that you should be scared of."
"I don't understand." Young Sasuke said with a confused frown
Itachi climbed into bed with a sigh "You'll understand soon enough. In the meantime come here." He said, stretching out his arms
Sasuke grinned and quickly wriggled into his older brother's arms.
"Go to sleep." Itachi said gently as he stroked the other boy's back
Sasuke yawned, his brother's presence was always so calming and it was no surprise that he felt his eyelids getting heavy "Mmm…love you Itachi-ani."
"I love you to Sasu-oto." He said softly
When felt Sasuke's breath even out he nuzzled his face in his sleeping younger brother's ebony locks "Forgive me Sasuke…"