Hello all, if you are curious, or just didn't read the note on the story, this is the rewritten version of Brother, I like that you love me... please, just take my advice and don't go to read it. You might not be able to get through it before I take it down, and really, many things are going to be changing, so it's better to just let it go and start fresh, if you've already read it, that is. Anyway, enjoy.

Rating: M, for later chapters.

Warnings: Incest, shonen-ai, yaoi, possible shojo-ai themes, language, rape, violence. This is the warning that will stand for all chapters, things will be taken out or added if need be for a chapter.

Pairings: Itachi/Sasuke (established relationship), Neji/Naruto, Kankuro/Gaara, Orochimaru/Sasuke, Kabuto/Sasuke, Kimimaro/Sasuke. These couples will be the main ones, but there will most definitely be side pairings that will be added up here in some chapters.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Desolate Darkness

Prologue

Preparations were being made daily—preparations for what Orochimaru knew would be a great success; the greatest success of his life. Soon everything would be ready and he would be able to proceed with his plan.

"Orochimaru-sama, it should only be another two days, at the most." Orochimaru was most pleased to hear the news from the medic-nin, though he said no words and his expression didn't change in the least. "I'm sure you already know this, but once you preform this jutsu you have at least twelve hours before it will be able to—"

"Yes, Kabuto, I know," he interrupted the younger man before waving his hand, letting the medic-nin know he was dismissed for the time being. Just after Kabuto turned to leave Orochimaru's call of, "wait," stopped him and caused him to turn back around. "How are things progressing with the boy?" Kabuto, for a single moment, looked most annoyed with the question.

"He has, begrudgingly, agreed to the part you have given him..." Orochimaru was amused, inwardly, by the tone he was hearing from the other man. "He annoys you," he stated before lapsing into silence so that he could think.

After a few moments of having Kabuto's watchful gaze on him, he turned to walk away, but didn't. Instead, he spoke, "I do assume that you'll be going to see him." Well, if Kabuto hadn't been planning to, he surely was now. "Of course, my lord."

Nothing more was said, as nothing more needed to be said, and Orochimaru began walking away, letting Kabuto know that he was free to go and deal with his annoyance.

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Silence wrapped itself tightly around Kabuto the moment he entered the chamber in which the younger male insisted on spending his free time. "Orochimaru-sama—"

"Fucking bastard..." Kabuto forced himself to take a deep breath and ignore the interruption, which he had known he was going to hear upon mention of Orochimaru's name. "...Is," he continued on as if the interruption hadn't happened at all, "I believe, hoping that you will take your role in this much more seriously."

Seconds after speaking, the medic-nin had a pair of green eyes glaring at him angrily. "Don't talk to me about that shit! I'm doing what you want, you'd best be fucking happy about that!" the shouted words from the, easily, enraged male weren't unexpected in the least. All Kabuto could do was nod and push his glasses up on the bridge of his nose. "Could you, at least, tell me when you plan on going back?"

Those piercing green eyes were again glaring at him, but Kabuto couldn't have cared less as he really just wanted to strangle the teenager across the room. "I'll be leaving here tomorrow," the others voice was suddenly very calm, "I'm expected to appear with two others to apply for the new squad in a few days time." Kabuto nodded slightly. "Then please understand that in a little over two days time the first phase will begin."

A scoff sounded from across the room. "We will need you to be pre—"

"I know!"

Kabuto sighed before he turned and left the chamber, and quite thankfully, as he couldn't stand being around the boy for long periods of time.

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Another giggle broke the otherwise perfect silence of the room. Yet then the light sound of lips disconnecting from skin broke the nearly tense silence that surrounded the two boys who lay in bed. Two boys who happened to look very much alike. Two boys who just happened to be brothers. "Itachi..." another giggle, nearly silent, left the teen as he called out his elder brother's name softly, only laughing because of the kisses that were being placed on his neck.

Itachi merely grinned against his brother's pale skin as he continued to kiss and nibble it playfully. "Now, don't you think that it's about time you said yes?" Sasuke was in thought for some short moments before he said, "no," with another tiny giggle, placing his hand against the back of his brother's neck as the man began to move away. Sasuke's hand did nothing to stop Itachi from moving away from him so that he could better look at the boy who had been continuously saying no for months.

"It's only a room, Sasuke," he said quietly, not having completely destroyed their closeness. "I just want to have you next to me." For moments Sasuke was touched by the words, though he would have rather liked to be touched by Itachi's hands, but then he, somehow, got out the same line as always. "It'll be suspicious, Itachi. Naruto'll start suspecting us..."

Itachi looked at the young teen seriously, "You don't think he already suspects?" Sasuke knew exactly what Itachi was getting at and narrowed his eyes, about to tell him to shut it but before he could their lips were meshed together in a soft, chaste kiss. "I'm quite sure he's noticed the way I look at you on occasion when we're out. Then there is always that time he caught us when I was holding you—"

"Shut up!" Sasuke blushed, though he had no reason to, as he attempted to shout at his brother. Itachi continued to speak, though he did change the words he was speaking, "I'm simply saying that he most likely already knows, Sasuke." The teen looked away from the man who was leaning over him. "This is supposed to just be a secret though..." something in Itachi almost made him want to smile at how adorable his brother looked, but he kept his serious gaze. "You're the one that wanted it to be a secret, Sasuke."

The reminder was one that Sasuke didn't need, nor wanted to hear. "I love you, Sasuke," the one being spoken to met his brother's gaze once the words were said and he smiled lightly as he returned them. "I wouldn't mind if everyone knew how I felt about you, I do hope you know that," Sasuke knew that Itachi was trying to help him feel better about everything, but he couldn't. "I love you, Sasuke, and I'm not ashamed of it. I never will be."

Sasuke swallowed as Itachi moved and settled next to him, wrapping an arm around him after a moment, making him feel so much better. "I do love you, Sasuke," he whispered into the raven-haired teen's ear, causing Sasuke to close his eyes and sigh. "I... I'll try..." he half shrugged and turned his head, opening his eyes to gaze into his brother's onyx. "I'll try and talk to Naruto tomorrow..." Itachi smiled lightly before their lips met again in a sweet kiss.

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Training had come and past more quickly than any time that Sasuke could remember, and he found himself walking home, the blonde Uzumaki that he had said he'd try to speak to by his side. "Naruto..." Sasuke started hesitantly, unsure if he really wanted to do this or not. Naruto looked over at him and smiled. It was a smile that happened to look so innocent, which just happened to make Sasuke want to shut his mouth. "Sasuke...?" Naruto finally asked quietly when he heard nothing further from his friend. "Sasuke, are you alright?"

The only thing the Uchiha could do was nod curtly before he quickly shook his head, which, truthfully, only confused Naruto. "Um...is there...something on your mind?" Sasuke was silent again, for rather horribly long moments, before he took a deep breath, deciding that perhaps he should finally take his brother's lead and not be afraid of how people thought of him. Yet, even though he told himself that he could do it, he closed his mouth without uttering a sound.

"...Well...okay then," Naruto said awkwardly, simply to fill the silence that Sasuke had let grow. "Itachi and I are lovers!" he finally blurted it out, squinting his eyes shut tight as if he were about to be hit seconds after as he stopped on the side of the road, seeing as he couldn't see here he was going any longer. Naruto kept walking for a moment, completely unaffected by the words. He only stopped when he finally noticed Sasuke didn't happen to be by his side any longer.

The blonde quickly turned around and his blue eyes fell upon the obsidian-eyed teen, who looked uncharacteristically frightened. Slowly, Sasuke opened his dark eyes and found Naruto walking toward him, an odd look upon his face. "Yeah... I already knew that..." Sasuke looked confused, conveying his question of, "how?" without speaking. Naruto smiled and waved a hand in the air nonchalantly. "Itachi told me like four months ago," he said it like Sasuke should have known.

Sasuke's eyes widened for only half a moment, a moment in which Naruto wasn't paying attention, before he narrowed them. "I am happy for the two of you though, if he never told you I said so before." Sasuke really wasn't aware of his friend's words as he began off down the road quickly, needing very much to shout angrily at his brother.

Naruto simply watched his friend go and shrugged, not understanding what he seemed so upset about.

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"Uchiha Itachi!" it was the first thing shouted out by the younger when he entered their home, and only seconds later he saw his brother come out of the hall with an eyebrow raised in question. "Four months ago!" Itachi quickly understood why his brother seemed so angry, but could only smile softly at him as he fumed. "Well...I did tell you that he most likely already—"

"Only because you told him!" Itachi shrugged and took a few steps toward his brother. "I felt I could trust him. I felt that he would understand our relationship." Sasuke frowned deeply. "We had only been together for like...two months! That's not really much of a relationship." Itachi placed a hand over his chest in mock heartache. "Sasuke, you pain me." The words gained him a glare easily. "I told you that I'm not ashamed of how I feel for you."

"...That doesn't mean you should go around telling people without me knowing."

"It would have been years before anyone knew, had it been up to you." Another glare. Itachi stepped closer still, another smile appearing on his lips. "Do you think that now you will say yes?" Sasuke took a deep breath in, exhaling it out in a sigh a second later. He didn't think he could seriously be mad at the man who had saved him so much embarrassment. "...I suppose I have no choice but to say yes now, do I?"

Itachi chuckled lightly before leaning down and kissing his brother's forehead, turning around a moment later and walking off. "Good choice, seeing as I went ahead and took the liberty of beginning to move some of your things into my room." Itachi disappeared around the corner with a smirk on his face as Sasuke's jaw nearly dropped. "Itachi!"

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Orochimaru watched as Kabuto entered the chamber silently. "We are a bit ahead of schedule, I will admit I am surprised." Orochimaru could only nod, though he did feel a wonderful sense of victory begin to well up inside of him.

"No doubt we are ahead since you have been unburdened as of late," there was a hint of amusement in his lord's voice that almost made Kabuto glare, but he held his urge back well. "Yes, of course, Orochimaru-sama." The dark-haired man looked upon the medic-nin with a smirk forming on his lips. "I'm sure you're aware that you must inform him that things are ahead of schedule."

Kabuto nearly hung his head and groaned when he heard the words that left Orochimaru's lips in that evil tone. Yet the most he could do was nod and bow, knowing he was dismissed, leaving the chamber a moment later while half wondering just how badly he would be punished if he mistakenly forgot to not inform the boy.

He thought about it for only a moment before shaking his head, realizing that his life, at the moment, was worth a little something and so he would have to put up with the annoying brat for a short time. After all, it was wholly important to his lord's plan.

TBC...

A/N: First prologue ever. I think it's pretty good, a lot better than a lot of stuff from Brother, I like that you love me... and like I said, this will be very different from that, so...if you've read it, just kinda cast it out of your mind, and if you haven't read it, then don't worry about it. Next chapter will be up soon, extremely soon, like a day or two kinda soon. And don't worry about Mikoto and Fugaku, if you even care really, what happened to them will be explained later, and, by the way, Itachi has never been in the Akatsuki, at least in this story.

Review if you'd like. Thank you.

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