AN: What's this? A story that has nothing to do with Harry Potter, X-men, Ninja Turtles, or Young Justice? But is anime, more specifically Naruto? The is simple: Yes. Most of you guys that favorite my stories and I may not know that I'm a huge Anime watcher. Why may most of you not know this?

Well cause it isn't in my Bio. Anyway Naruto was my third anime series I watched when I was young, the others were Sailor Moon, DB and DBZ. At first I only watched the show because it had action, and ninjas, then I saw the episode this Itachi Uchiha and Sasuke, and that reason went right out the window. Then I only watched the show for emo Sasuke and Itachi. Brothers, you know. The one thing I love more then Father/Son relationships, is obviously Brotherly relationships.

So this story is dedicated to the Uchiha brothers. Just some drabbles moments between the Uchiha brothers. I apologize if my knowledge is a little rusty, (though I don't think it will apply here) I just got back into watching the show, and I'm way too lazy to watch all the episodes of Shippuden I missed. This one is set before the Massacre, it's little AU-ish, instead of Itachi starting the academy at age six, (which will forever be extremely impressive) here he'll be 11. And Sasuke will be 6.

So I hope you guys enjoy it, Please leave a review, it helps me out a lot.

Itachi walked the streets of his proud Uchiha Village. To say he was exhausted was an understatement. His muscles, particularly his arms and hands, ached every time he moved, his eyes kept drooping shut as he walked sluggishly toward his house, where his mother, father and otouto were. His stomach growled painfully, he had to leave early that morning, because he made the foolish mistake of oversleeping, and because of that, he had missed breakfast.

Though his bad day didn't stop there, because he hadn't eaten, his training was slow and depleted. As punishment, he had to stay behind afterwards and clean the chalkboards in all his classes, without any food.

Needless to say he was starving. And couldn't wait to get home and see what his mother had prepared for dinner. That thought alone gave him the strength to brush off the tiredness his body was feeling. Maybe once he has eaten he'd have enough strength to play with his little brother as Itachi promised that morning.

[ _That morning_ ]

"Nii-san! Nii-san!" said an excited six year old Sasuke. Itachi was busy putting on his shoes when his brother came up behind him and grabbed his arm. "What is it, Sasuke?"

"When you get home, what do you want to play?" Sasuke asked with a huge smiled on his face. Itachi looked down and saw the innocent, pure face that he was making and couldn't help but smile back.

He reached down and poked Sasuke on the forehead, causing his brother to lift his hands to his head. "I don't know, otouto. You are better at coming up with games then I am."

His dear otouto looked at him and shook his head. "No, aniki! Your good too, your the best!"

Itachi smiled warmly. He reached out a hand and placed it on the back of Sasuke's head, and leaned his forehead against his little brother's. Closing his eyes for a second as he remembered he had to leave.

He let go and stood up, putting his arms through his warm coat, and buttoned it up. "We'll play soon, Sasuke. I promise. See you when I get home, otouto."

And with that, the eleven year old walked out.

[ _Present time_ ]

Itachi sighed in relief when he saw his house coming into view. He forced himself to run the rest of the way, too tired to announce his arrival he simply slide open the door and walked inside. Itachi bent down, taking his shoes off as he closed his eyes and let out a huge yawn that made his ears pop and eyes water slightly.

In that moment Itachi felt someone grabbed his arm from behind, for being too exhausted and hungry, he surprised himself at the strength he was able to muster out as he grabbed the person's arm and tossed them against the wall. It was out of seer impulse, a thoughtless reaction he was taught at a young age.

Itachi rubbed his eyes, seeing black spots in his vision that appeared at his sudden rush of movement. He opened them to see his brother laying on the ground, staring up at his nii-san in disbelief, tears falling down his face as he clutched his arm to his chest. Itachi felt his breathe leave him as he gazed down at his otouto, in complete utter shock. He didn't know it was his beloved little brother, he thought it was...someone else.

The boy the Uchiha Village admired cursed himself for being so foolish, who else would it have been other then Sasuke? The six year old was the only one who'd come and greet him whenever his aniki came home.

Reaching a hand out, as he had done this morning, he attempted to comfort the boy, he wanted desperately to apologize, he didn't mean for this to happen. Itachi wanted to tell Sasuke that he'd never hurt him, he'd die before he'd ever lay a finger on his brother. It was his job as the older brother to protect him, and Itachi did so without so much as a compliant.

"Sasuke-" He began, but was cut off when his otouto slapped his hand away and bolted out the door. Itachi watched him go, frozen where he stood. Never in his life has his brother reacted that way towards him, he always had a smiled on his face when they were together, he always hugged Itachi or held his hand, his otouto was just always there, his little brother was the only one that could bring out the emotions in Itachi that he was ordered to hide and lock away.

Guilty tears formed in his eyes, he'd hurt Sasuke. He had hurt his dear little brother. Thrown him up against the wall because he stupidly couldn't tell his brothers happy greeting between one from a supposed attacker. His heart swelled in guilt and sadness. He had to find him, has to apologize, even if Sasuke never forgave him, Itachi needed to say how sorry he was for hurting his brother.

Slipping his shoes back on and walking back outside he started his search.

It was dark out by the time Itachi found him. Thirteen houses down, hiding in a dark alley way, crying, with his knees pulled up against his head, was his otouto. Slowly, the eleven year old approached the boy. It was only when Itachi knelt down in front of Sasuke, did his little brother tense up, fully aware of his presence now. Itachi watched as his brother sobbed into his knees, each time a cry broke through his lips, felt like someone stabbed a kunai knife in his heart.

No longer able to just kneel there in silence anymore, he repeated what he had done before, Itachi reached out his hand, it was only an inch way from touching his brother's ear, before he froze, remembering what happened the last time he'd tried this, and wondered if it was a good idea this time around. Itachi tried to ignore the tightness in his throat as he tried to get the words, he so desperately wanted to say, out of his mouth.

"Sasuke..." Itachi whispered as he trailed off. His brother just kept on crying, the pride of the Uchiha squeezed his eyes shut. "Otouto... I-I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you." He placed his hand on Sasuke's cheek, upon the contact, his little brother flinched and Itachi's heart broke in two. Tears fell from his eyes, his whole body shook with heartache, as he fully realized what he had done.

Then Itachi felt short, small arms wrap around his neck as the force of the hug cause him to lose his balance and fall backward. Sasuke buried his face in Itachi's chest, and continued to cry. "Nii-san!... Aniki!"

A shaky breathe left Itachi's trembling lips as he wrapped his arms around his brother, one hand going through Sasuke's hair and the other laying on his back, Itachi held the boy tightly to his chest. "Shh...Shh. Otouto, please don't cry. I'm so sorry, forgive me Sasuke. I swear I will never hurt you ever again. Not ever."

"..Aniki, I love you.."

If their father was here, he would lecture them about showing such emotions, the Uchiha did not, nor were they allowed to show those feelings. But Fugaku wasn't here, nor was anyone else. And each time that happened Itachi took full advantage of it.

He tightened his hold on Sasuke, running a hand through the six year old's hair. "I love you too, otouto."

More then you will ever know. He thought to himself. The two Uchiha brothers stayed like that for quite some time. It was only when Itachi's stomach growled rather loudly was the silence broken.

Sasuke giggled, wetly. Tears still falling from his eyes. "Nii-san's hungry!" Itachi looked down, black eyes meet puffy, red-rimmed black ones. He smiled lovingly.

"Well, I didn't have breakfast or lunch today. So yes, I am very hungry." Sasuke smiled back, Itachi gently whipped his brother's tears away with the pads of his thumbs. He then placed his forehead against his little brother's and closed his eyes. Full blown relief flooded through his whole body, so glad that Sasuke has forgiven him, and they can continue being brothers.

Itachi stood up, cradling his otouto in his arms, like he would do when his brother was first born. Sasuke began to protest, his cheeks blushed red with embarrassment. "Nii-saaan! I'm not a baby anymore!"

Itachi laughed at the look on the younger Uchiha's face. "Are you sure about that, Sasuke?"

His otouto pouted, his lower lip jetting out as he narrowed his eyes. "Come on. Let's go home." Itachi stated as he began making his way back to their house.

"Aniki?"

Itachi smiled at the word that left his little brother's lips. "Hm?"

"We never got a chance to play today."

Upon hearing this, Itachi repositioned his brother onto his hip, wrapping his arm around his waist so Sasuke wouldn't fall. With his free hand he reached forward and poked the young boy on the forehead, affectionately.

"Forgive me, Sasuke. Next time, okay?"

The rest of the way home was spent with the two of them, randomly guessing what their mother had made them for dinner.

AN: I'll admit, it's probably not the best start at a Naruto story about Sasuke and Itachi, but I won't say I didn't try my best, because dammit I did, and I'm proud of this start off, even if it doesn't get any reviews.

Anyway what are your guys thoughts?

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