Tragedy Begins an Adventure

By: Silverwolf

A boy shakes his head in protest. A teen shoves the younger boy into a hut of snow. The teen makes sure a piece of foam sits along the ground of the hut. The teen wraps the boy in hide blankets. "Stay here and be quiet." The other boy shivers and wipes tears. "I'm scared." The teen wraps the younger boy in the bundle of blankets shoving a maltese colored stuffed wolf into them "He'll protect you."

The teen wipes away tears from the younger boy's face. "I mean it. Stay quiet. I promise I'll be back." The older boy pulls a third tarp over the blanket pile he's created.

"Be quiet Sasuke." The younger boy whines a bit as the teen seals the tunnel used as an entrance. "I promise I'll be back."

The teen begins to wander away from the snow hut. Itachi turns in cirlces and drags his feet. The teen had to confuse their pursuer. He couldn't allow someone to find his brother.

"ITACHI! SASUKE! GET OVER HERE!" Fugaku continues his search in a druken rage. His anger had all ready ended his sons' mother. Now he would have to deal with the pair. Scaring them into silence would be effective.

Itachi moves behind several snow drifts. The teen moves in another set of circles. Itachi crawls through a hollow log. The teen sits still when he realizes the log is seals by a snow drift.

Itachi closes his eyes when he hears his father yelling. The teen mutters a bit, "please Sasuke stay where you're warm." It would now become a waiting game. The only question was who would be patient enough to wait the longest; the enraged drunk after the only witnesses of his murder of the pair of sons that have also been terrorized by their father.

Itachi hears barking. The teen knows the bark well; it belonged to the family dog. Itachi moves back through the log. He canine circles his father. As Fugaku notices the teen the dog leaps upward. Itachi hears the growling of the animal. "Get him." The canine moves circling Itachi's father.

Fugaku reaches for his son. Itachi takes off in a run. The teen pants loudly after disappearing behind a tree. A hound bays un the distance.

The large canine Itachi seen Sasuke feed several times circles the tree. The hound tears into Fugaku's hand as the Uchiha tries to snatch up his son. The ramily dog begins to attack also.

Itachi runs away as the dogs continue their attack. The teen hears the sound od a shot gun. The weapon's firing ends the growls of the canines. As Itachi heads back towards the snow hut he realizes their father is silent also.

The teen begins to dig out the snow he has shoved intothe entrance. A bit of the tunnel falls in his haste. Itachi continues to clear the snow. The teen can hear crying as he continues his acthions.

Itachi is swift to move throught the opening of the tunnel. Sasuke is curled up against a wall of the hut in tears. The older Uchiha flicks a fighter. "I told you I'd come back." A pair of boodshot onyx eyes narrow to the light, but the younger boy makes his way towards his brother. Sasuke is quick to hug Itachi. The older boy holds the younger boy briefly and then begins to gather the blankets around the hut. Itachi wraps Sasuke in the blankets with him. The younger boy still holds the toy in his arms. Itachi smirks, "told you he wouldn't let you down." Sasuke nods. Itachi holds the lighter away from the blankets as he moves to place one of plastic tarps against the wall of snow. "We'll stay here for now."

Sasuke looks at Itachi, "what about mother?" Itachi turns away from his brother a moment. "She's dead Sasuke. We both know that." The younger boy cries in the older boy's arms.

Itachi makes a face, "I think the dogs got him. All we have to do is make it through the night. After that I promise I'll figure something out." Sasuke nods with a yawn. The teen smirks a moment before placing his chin lightly on top of thesleeping boy's head. "Tonight we sleep in a snow bank. This time not for fun." The teen's eyes start to close and a lighter falls to the ground.

A/N: Will someone discover the events of last night come morning? Will there be a search for the brothers or will they just become victims of the night? This probably isn't very interesting, but it's all I've been able to write Thanksgiving night; early the day after, something like that. I'll continue if it gets enough attention.

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