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I know I promised to myself and to all of you that I wouldn't start a new fic but here I am anyway... I just felt like writing something new and this story came up. We will see what happens.
Summary: It is said that when the elder of the two brothers stood by his father's lifeless body, bloody and barely alive himself the younger brother stepped onwards and spoke. "Itachi, what do we do now?"
There in the ruins of their old home, the elder turned to look at his little brother's dark eyes that betrayed nothing and smiled to him. "We live."
Warnings: May contain violence, swearing, sexual contents, boy x boy love, bad or just dark humor, angst, mental growing of a character and everything whatever comes to mind. Rated M just in case.
Facts: Set in modern day, contains demons and supernatural beings. I do not own Naruto or anything related to it, I do not earn money by doing this, just a smile or two if people like it.
Character's: Sasuke, Itachi, Naruto, Deidara and other's who I see fitting as the story goes on.
Pairings: Sasuke x Naruto and Itachi x Deidara
Author note: This is purely and experiment of mine.
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The demon who never cried
Chapter one: Humanworld
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There is a legend pasted on by both humans and demons alike, a tale of a strong demon, one of the strongest of it's kind who was believed to be void of any emotions. It did not matter to him what his father, the sole king of the underworld, made him do for the sake of showing off the strength of his bloodline. His beautiful face did not change even when his body was bathed with blood time after time, leaving only whispers behind. All thought there seemed to be one thing that the young demon was found seeking, a small piece of silent solitude.
His home that was filled with servants, eager to please his every need, did not offer him such thing sadly. His father insisting that both he and his brother stayed with him in their castle. It was a simple statement, a fact that they could not leave without permission but when the older brother was found to do that anyway a fight was unavoidable. The kind demanded to know how long the older had sneaked out of the castle and where had he gone but as his questions remained unanswered he tried to use force instead. The demons of underworld still remember the destruction that followed and the fall of their king.
It is said that when the elder of the two brothers stood by his father's lifeless body, bloody and barely alive himself the younger brother stepped onwards and spoke. "Itachi, what do we do now?" The younger did not know a life different of what he had. His whole life, his whole existence had been to fulfill his father's command, to be his tool. As he stared at the last remains of the reason he had been born his eyes traveled to look at the dark sky that never showed light or warmth. It was just as cruel and distant as his father had ever been.
There in the ruins of their old home, the elder turned to look at his little brother's dark eyes that betrayed nothing and smiled to him. "We live."
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"I do not see how this would be called 'living'." A deep voice said, filling the silence for a moment before it stretched back again, leaving two figures in their own thoughts for the moment.
"I see." It was not an answer, just a statement from the older of the two. There was a rasping sound of clothes and when the other had covered himself up he reached a hand toward the slightly smaller one who was watching the end of the narrow alley between two huge building where they were currently standing.
"Put these on." The other said, demanding calmly his little brother's attention.
"Why should I?"
"Because otherwise you will have trouble blending in. Walking around naked is not something humans are comfortable with." The older brother answered calmly, watching as his little brother finally took the clothes and changed. For a demon's like them the deep darkness was not an obstacle, it was more like a comforting blanket that rested all around them.
"Happy now Itachi?" The younger one asked when he had made sure that all of the clothes were correctly on him, the unfamiliar feeling of so much fabric around him never reaching his face or voice.
"Let's go." Itachi said instead, pulling a hood over his face and watched as his little brother copied the action. Pleased with that he guided them out of the alley and into the dimly lighted street that the other had been watching before.
"Keep close to me Sasuke." Itachi whispered, walking on the other end of the sidewalk so few of the night time travelers could pass them without effort. Sasuke walked quietly behind him, watching the foreign world with something that other's would call small curiosity but what he called knowledge.
It had been only a few hours ago that his brother Itachi had taken down their father and so ending the purpose of his existence. The information was still in the middle of being fully processed inside his mind so he had been open for the information his brother had given him, a change to see a world completely different of their own. He had called it 'the human world'.
How his brother knew of this world was lost to Sasuke, as so was why he had agreed to come here with him. As he watched the weird looking buildings and the strange machines that were both resting on the ground and also moving past them occasionally he found himself disliking the smell they seemed to emit. It somehow reminded him of some kind of poison.
"Those are called cars, people use them to move from one place to another." Itachi said without turning his head to look at his little brother and Sasuke only let a small sound of understanding be heard. The reading of ones emotions or thoughts were not uncommon among the demon kind but Itachi was the only one who could detect even the smallest change in his brothers aura and even read it.
"Itachi, where are we going?" The lack of interest in Sasuke's voice did not fool Itachi, he knew that his little brother only asked something when he felt that he needed information of the situation. It was slightly surprising that the question only came after almost 30 minutes of walking.
"I am going to introduce you to someone. It's not far." the only response Itachi got was a small sound behind him again.
Indeed, it only took them couple more blocks until they finally stopped. It would have been much shorter route if Itachi would have been comfortable at letting his little brother walk among the red and green lights of the traffic but he figured that they would have more time for that later. There would so much he would need to teach for him.
"Here it is." Itachi said out loud when he finally turned around to face his little brother, noticing that those black eyes were memorising the three story high brick building they were currently standing next to. The streetlight behind Itachi gave him a rare glimpse of his brother's face, no matter that he looked like a human right now, he was beautiful. The dark hair that got just under his chin looked almost like it matched the black hoodie Itachi had given him and when those eyes of pure darkness turned to watch him Itachi took notice how much of a contrast his now white skin was to all that blackness. He was rather proud how tall Sasuke was even as a human, being only slightly shorter than him and that lean body that moved gracefully only increased the feel of superior air around him. In that moment Itachi knew that Sasuke would have difficult times 'blending in' among the humans.
"Now Sasuke, I want you to listen at me carefully. Very soon I am going to introduce you to a human that I have known for a while now. You will find that humans are very different of our kind but they are usually harmless. Their actions and words can be irrational and even annoying but you may not harm them, especially this one. If you do, I will not hesitate to hurt you." The silent thread in the final sentence made Sasuke calculate the possible explanations and scenarios in his mind before his answer, making him take a mental note of the fact that his brother was indeed showing hostility toward him that he hardly ever received. He would have to stay on his toes probably for a while if he wanted to avoid losing a limp or two.
"I understand." After the acknowledge of understanding from Sasuke Itachi opened the door and now guided them into a staircase, not bothering to put the lights on they walked to the second floor before stopping again in front of one of the three doors on this floor. The ringing of the doorbell did not make Sasuke flinch but when the door was opened he could not avoid the instinct to lean backward as a mop of blond hair attacked itself on his brother.
"Itachiiiii!" The painfully loud scream echoed in the staircase, earning a dark look from the man that was currently free from the death grip of arms and legs that had wrapped around Itachi.
"Good evening Deidara." The casual sound in his brother's voice was not left unnoticed by Sasuke, as not was the fact that his brother seemed to be suddenly slightly different, by how he did not know.
"Deidara, I would like to introduce you to my brother."
In a blink of an eye the face that had been buried in Itachi's neck was now turned toward Sasuke, making black to meet blue eyes that help such curiosity and surprise in them that Sasuke was sure right then and there that he had never been mentioned. Why should he have?
"You have a brother?!"
"Don't shout Deidara, we are still in the staircase." Itachi said with his usual calmness but Sasuke was sure he saw a hint of a smile on his brother's lips. Even if this one had a much more softer feeling on it, it still made an image of his brother's satisfied face appear on his mind from when his father had finally fallen, the pleasure of killing evident. A demon who smiled was considered a rare thing in their world, especially if he was an Uchiha, and the only accepted time according to their late father was after a fight between a demon of equal strength. Or when you won against all odds.
"Sorry Itachi. Nice to meet ya Sasuke!" The man called Deidara said with the widest smile Sasuke had come across and jumped off from Itachi, letting Sasuke now properly analyze him.
Long blond hair that was pulled mostly in a high ponytail, leaving some to cover the man's left eye. In a certain way it made him seem a little feminine but his body language was clear about that not being the case. His left hand was now placed on his hip, again, too narrow for a girl, and a cocky grin appeared on his lips. It did not seem to bother him that his act to clearly seem tough was broken by his light blue pyjamas with white clouds in them.
"Liking what you see cutie?" Deidara asked with a clear indication of humor in his voice and when Sasuke was finished with his current activities a fine dark eye brown was raised in silent question.
"Let's just get inside Deidara." Itachi spoke, knowing that his brother would not feel the need to answer such a question and walked past the blond into the apartment.
If the act of the human was a slight surprise for Sasuke, then this place where the man seemed to live in was a mystery to him. It was not actually a small one but for one that was used to live in a castle more taller and broader than the whole building that they currently were in it may have seem as such.
It consisted of a tiny hallway with a hanger for coats, kitchen with a small table and living room big enough to fit a tv, big sofa, desk and bookshelf in it. There also seemed to be one more room but it's door was closed so Sasuke assumed that it was the bedroom. For a one passing moment Sasuke had a feeling that this Deidara liked to also have his own privacy, if that truly was the case then maybe they could learn to tolerate each other.
"Please, be at home. Don't brake anything thought or I have to kill you." Deidara said as he walked past the brothers and disappeared into the kitchen, leaving the younger one weighing the seriousness of his threat. At first Itachi was not going to say anything but when he saw how concentrated Sasuke seemed he sighed and walked up to his little brother. Before his hand even seemed to have moven, a slight tingling appeared on Sasuke's forehead and he saw Itachi's retreating finger briefly instead.
"He was only joking." Not waiting for an answer Itachi turned and followed Deidara to the kitchen, leaving Sasuke to stand there for a few second before he also started to move.
"What would you two like to drink? I have coffee, tea, coke and some beer if you feel like it." Deidara asked when he finally got a glimpse of Sasuke and reached for his red refrigerator, swaying his hips a little as he bend over.
"No alcohol." Itachi's quick respond made Deidara take a peek of his face and blink once before going back to study the beverages and pulled out a white box out instead.
"Fine then. I assume that tea would be suitable for a man of your kind?" Deidara said with a little smirk and put the box on the table before starting to move around, pair of eyes watching carefully his every move. It would have been as bad as it was if the younger man that was watching him was also completely unmoving, still standing in the doorway like a guard that allowed no one to leave without his permission. It was kind of unsettling.
"Sit down, both of you." Deidara finally said when he was sure that his temper would soon take the best of him. This was his house damn it. Thankfully both of the brothers took their seat in the table of four but Sasuke's eyes still remained on their host. What was lost to the other thought was the slight tilt of an head when the kettle whistled.
After this Sasuke noticed that Deidara added a small metal ball into the kettle and went to study his capinet for something. He remembered that the man had added something inside the ball a little earlier and he figure that those were the ingredients of the tea, to give it it's flavours. Being liven in the castle his whole life Sasuke had never made tea himself, even if he had drank it almost every day between his duties. It was a servants duty to prepare such things so it made Sasuke assume that this man was at least some way a lower being, the fact that he was also a human included.
"Here you go." Deidara downright sang when he finally walked to the table. Happy to be able to sit down next to Itachi, Deidara placed two white clay cups in front of his guest before fetching the kettle and pouring the reddish liquid into their cups, followed by his own. He carefully opened then the mystery box and revealed a something white with red stripes on it's sides that smelled even sweeter than the tea.
"I hope you like strawberry cake!"
The blink in Sasuke's eyes made a small smile appear on his brothers face and he let his eyes remain on his little brothers face as Deidara placed a small plate and a fork next to their cups, matching set of course. What Itachi did not take a notice beforehand was when Deidara left again, just to reappear next to them with a knife, ready to cut the big piece of cake into smaller parts. The slight widening of dark eyes and the gleam that flashed in them was the only indicator of actions that were about to take place but they were enough for Itachi.
"Sasuke, stop!" It was uncommon and actually also a really unpleasant for a demon to use his voice rather than his fists or certain abilities but Itachi knew that right now it was the fastest and safest way to prevent the certain damage from happening.
The wide blue eyes did not know who to watch or rather, demand questions for the strange outburst. All Deidara could do was switch his eyes from Sasuke that had suddenly rose to stand up so quickly that the chair under him had fallen over to Itachi who was watching at his little brother with most stern look on his face that Deidara remembered even seeing. When Sasuke finally removed his gaze from the blond and picket up his chair Itachi seemed to relax also, leaving an opening for one very confused human.
"What the hell man!? Why did you shout?!"
"Because otherwise Sasuke would have attacked you." Itachi said, his usual calmness coming back into his features and raised the cup on his lips, taking a careful and small sip from it.
"Why would have he done that for Christ sake?!" Deidara asked, both shocked and little terrified of the information.
"Because you had a weapon in your hands." The answer made even less sense for the blonde until he noticed Itachi's eyes traveling to the knife he was now gripping with white knuckles. Deidara only blinked as he raised the kitchen utensil slightly.
"I will explain to you later." itachi said after taking an another sip from his tea and then turned to his brother.
"Sasuke, we do not attack humans so lightly here and even when the situation calls for it, you are forbidden to use your demon powers." The calmness of the situation felt rather bizarre to Deidara who found himself listening itachi's words with mild curiosity.
"Why is that Itachi?" Sasuke asked with a voice just as calm as his brother's, his earlier hint of aggression now only a distant memory. In a way he seemed to be closely listening at Itachi's words also.
"Because human's are usually harmless. They are much weaker than us, much, much weaker and their life can end with a single punch of our kind. I have not brought you here to fight."
That made Sasuke's eyes browns form a delicate frown.
"Then why are we here?" It was actually a question that had been waiting for a moment to be heard as it had appeared over and over again in Sasuke's mind when they had arrived to this strange reality. It seemed that nothing here was even close to his home world that he compared it to, except one.
From the moment they had arrived Itachi had taken a role that he was rightfully born with but what he had never shown to Sasuke, a leader's role. It was that fact alone that made Sasuke remain where he now was because it nurtured the need that had been built into him from the very first days of his birth, to follow and obey the king. In his eyes, his brother, was now that king. His brother had fought and defeated the earlier king, their father, and so on had taken their father's place even if the throne was now empty of the presence of the new king.
Maybe it was because of those thoughts that the next words that Itachi spoke seemed to bring a certain feeling near the surface of Sasuke's consciousness, a feeling that was disposed as unnecessary before he even realized what is was; uncertainty. His role was not to doubt but to obey, once again.
"Sasuke, we are here so that I can show you why in their own way, humans are strong. Even stronger than us."
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