((Hello~ I'm Lilly! This is my first fanfic that have started to write and actually have post anything for, so please no bashing... If anything, creative criticism is always accepted! I have a lovely beta whom I love to call Raz-chan~ She is my boy friend's little sister and my best friend! -glomps Raz-chan in the process- So um... Yeah~ I hope you guys like this!
Also, as a fair warning to those who read this, Sasuke and Itachi are not the ages they are in the Anime. Sasuke is only 4 while Itachi is going on 19 years old with Kagome a few weeks from turning 18))
Kagome sang softly as she laid down the dozing toddler down for his nap, Sasuke holding onto her shirt in his sleep. She smiled as she tickled him a little, getting him to release her shirt from his hold. She tucked the four year old in and started to pick up the toys they had previously had out before Sasuke had worn himself out for his afternoon nap. She thought back to one of the days she had been volunteering at the Orphanage and she had met Mikoto and Sasuke.
Higurashi Kagome was a 17 year old baby sitter for Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto when they both were stuck at their respective jobs, Fugaku at the Police Department and Mikoto at the Terminally Ill Ward of the Hospital. She had been found by Mikoto when she volunteered at the Konoha Orphanage while playing with a few of the younger children there. Mikoto had instantly taken a liking to Kagome amd Sasuke did as well, seeing her as his Onee-chan while his Nii-san was always away on missions. She was told by Mikoto that Uchiha Itachi, the clan's prodigy and heir, was almost always away on missions for ANBU Black Ops.
She sighed softly as she walked out of the bedroom and slid the door shut quietly. She padded softly to the kitchen to start on making dinner for them, knowing that the Uchiha matriarch and patriarch would be home late. She smiled a little as she pulled out a few tomatoes to let them heat up a little before cooking. "I wonder if I will ever meet this 'Itachi'..." She wondered as she pulled out the rest of the fixings for spaghetti, knowing Sasuke would be happy.
After a while of thinking and prepping for dinner, Kagome started to pick up the rest of the toys from the living room and generally everywhere Sasuke had led her around to that day, knowing full well that she would be doing this again after Sasuke went to bed for the night. She picked up a piece of paper that Sasuke had drawn on and smiled, seeing Fugaku and Mikoto in each others' arms, someone who she guesssed was Itachi, standing in the middle, and Sasuke and herself, with Sasuke propped up on her hip. She smiled even more and thought to tack it to the fridge for everyone to see. She looked at the small clock on the kitchen wall and washed her hands after pinning the picture up and started making dinner.
About 45 minutes later, a sleepy Sasuke wandered into the kitchen, holding a stuffed bear in one hand and rubbing an eye with the other, she giggled and cooed over him a little, picking him up. "My, my... Aren't you a big boy for getting yourself up for dinner." She giggled even more as he started to mumble something then yawned in the middle of it. "Dinner is almost done so go ahead and wash up at the sink and then sit at the table."
Sasuke nodded a little before setting his bear at one of the seats at the kitchen table then went to the counter and pulled out a little step stool to stand on, then washed his hands. Once he was finished, he dried his hands and helped set the table. "What's for dinner, nee-chan?" He looked up at his nee-chan, onyx eyes shining softly.
Kagome smiled and drained the pasta then put it back in the post and put the sauce in it. "Spaghetti and meatballs wi-"
"Spaghetti?!" His eyes widened and he started to bounce around, smiling. "Thank you, nee-chan!" He glomped her legs and smiled up at her, a gapped tooth grin shining up at her.
Kagome smiled and laughed, "You didn't let me finish, otouto~" She giggled even more as Sasuke unattached himself from her legs and stared up at her, smiling still. "We are having..." She gasped softly and knelt down beside him. "You lost a tooth! When? Why didn't you tell me~?" She playfully whined as she pulled at his cheeks a little, trying to see where his tooth was missing from.
"Nee-chan!" Sasuke whined. "Stop i-ahahahha~!" Sasuke couldn't help but let loose peals of laughter as Kagome started to tickle him. "N-nee-chan!" He managed between the laughs. "Stop!"
"What's the magic word?" Kagome laughed as she tickled Sasuke to the floor, letting dinner cool off just enough so it wouldn't be scalding for Sasuke to eat. "What's the word~?"
Sasuke rolled around on the floor like a roly poly. "Pl-please!" He gasped as he tried to suck in air from laughing too much.
"Aww... I guess.." Kagome pouted a little as she sat back on her heels. She closed her eyes and smiled a little as she heard Sasuke get to his feet then glomp her. "Eeepp~!" She squeaked as she fell on her ass with Sasuke trying to tickle her in return.
"Hah, nee-chan! I win! Now please tell me what is for dinner..." He pouted a little as he got up and went to his seat at the table. Sasuke set his napkin in his lap like he was supposed to as Kagome got up, dusted herself off, and washed her hands.
Kagome smiled at the sudden behavioral change in Sasuke. He /really/ wanted to know what was for dinner. She giggled softly as she dried her hands and picked up the pot by the handle and walked over to the tale. "Like I said earlier, otouto, we are having spaghetti and meatballs.." She dished him out some spaghetti with a few meatballs then herself some as well before taking the pot back over to the stove and grabbed a bowl sitting on the counter. "Also~ We are having..." She walked back over and put three tomato halfs and a few full length green bean strings on Sasuke's plate. "Grilled tomatoes and green beans, just the way you like them!" She laughed a little at the way Sasuke's eyes widened at the vegetables on his plate.
Sasuke kept his hands under the table for the moment, his hands itching to get ahold of the veggies first. "Thank you, nee-chan!" He smiled as Kagome sat down and picked up her chopsticks and started eating. He then started to eat his dinner as well.
Itachi had just returned to the village from a grueling six week mission to Suna. He turned in his mission report to Tsunade and bowed slightly to her. "The mission went as planned. It was completed on time as executed perfectly. The Kazekage, Gaara of the Sand, was put into power after we helped him take down Orochimaru and his own father."
Tsunade looked over the report and nodded."Well done, Itachi. Go ahead and head home and rest. When I get the next mission for you and your ANBU squad, I will send for you." She filed the mission's report away to be looked over in the morning.
Itachi nodded, bowed slightly, then silently poofed out of the Lady Hokage's office. He reappeared outside, in the training grounds for one of the genin teams, taking note of the night sky with its countless shining stars. "I wonder if Sasuke has been behaving himself while I was away..."
Itachi headed off to the Uchiha compound without a second thought, enjoying the quietness around him a little. He sighed and closed his eyes, thinking about what all could have changed in his family's household while he was gone for almost two months. He strolled up to the door and noticed that a few of the lights were still on but seemed as though no one was awake. He entered the house and slipped off his shinobi sandals, then walked silently into the rest of the house. He caught a whiff of something semi sweet. As he walked to the kitchen, he wondered who was cooking one of the most beloved meals of the two brothers.
Once he walked into the kitchen, he noted that nothing was out of place besides a bowl that was still warm from earlier in the day with a note on top of it. He picked it up and looked over it, not recognizing the handwriting. It read:
'Fugaku and Mikoto,
Here is what is left of dinner that otouto and I had for dinner. I hope you don't mind that the sides got mixed into the main dish, Sasu-kun wanted to help so badly with putting dinner up so he mixed the two together. I hope you like the spaghetti and meatballs with grilled tomatoes and green beans.
Kagome~'
Itachi read it softly to himself and quirked a brow slightly, curious about what was in the bowl. He lifted up the lid and looked into the bowl.
"Koto-chan? Gaku-san? Is that you?" A strange, what he thought was, girl walked into the kitchen, rubbing her eyes slightly as she yawned. She had on a satan red nightgown that went just past her knees. Her hair was darker than the night he was just outside in, with highlights of blue pulled back into a loose braid. She finally stopped rubbing the sleep out of her eyes and got a good look at the man standing in front of her. "You're not Otou-san or Okaa-san..." She slid a hand behind her back, knowing she didn't have a weapon with her. "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
Itachi snorted a little and turned his back on the strange girl. "I could ask you the same thing." He looked into the bowl and smiled a little, something that was almost never seen on his impassive face. "This looks really good..." He mumbled softly to himself.
"Thanks. Sasu-chan wanted to help me put dinner up and he wanted to put everything together so I let him." The girl shrugged and slid a hand behind her back, knowing that she didn't have a weapon... Or a snowball's chance in Suna of defeating this person if he attacked her or her ward. "Now tell me, who are you and what are you doing here?"
Itachi felt a change in the room and and slowly turned around to face the girl that was silently challenging him, whether she knew it or not. "I could ask you the same thing, intruder." He gave her a once over then sneered, "And are you trying to seduce your victims before you end them? Because if you are trying to seduce me..." He disappeared in a silent cloud of smoke only to reappear behind the girl, with a kunai at her throat. "It won't work." He whispered against her ear.
Kagome's eyes widened as the man disappeared. "He's a ninja too?!" Her mind screeched. She turned her head a little only to be stopped with a kunai being held at her throat. "So... Who are you?" She asked softly, her voice cracking a little. She slowly brought her hands in front to show her captor that she had no weapons on her.
Her captor looked at her hands and pulled her against him. "Why is it that some one who can capture my interest has to be turned into the authorities for trespassing...?" Kagome's eyes widen at what he just said and opened her mouth, only to black out seconds later from being hit on the back of the neck. As she fell, she hit the counter and the bowl of spaghetti went flying through the air, landing on the floor in a splatter, with her landing on top of it.
Sasuke woke up to a loud clatter from the kitchen and a dull 'thud' from something hitting the floor. He rubbed his eyes and got out of bed, wandering through the house to the kitchen on the floor below. "Nee-chan?" Sasuke walked into the kitchen and looked around, taking in notice of the spaghetti on the floor. "Nee-chan?"
Itachi turned around and looked at his little brother. "Otouto, I did not expect you to be up at this time of night. It is nearly two in the morning. Where is mother and father?"
Sasuke shrugged a little and yawned, then his eyes widened as he saw who was standing in front of him. "Tachi!" He glomped his older brother's legs. "When did you get home, aniki?" He closed his eyes, happy that his older brother was finally home after being away on missions for weeks on end.
"I returned home about 20 minutes ago but there was an intruder that needed to be taken care of, otouto." Itachi picked up Sasuke and walked over to where Kagome was laying.
Sasuke eyes widened as he saw who was laying in a puddle of spaghetti. "Nee-chan!" He tried to get down, out of Itachi's grasp to see Kagome, only to be held tighter. "Aniki, let me go! Nee-chan is hurt!"
"Nee-chan? Why do you call this intruder your nee-chan?" Itachi, fixed Sasuke to his hip a little better and raised an eyebrow.
"Because!" He tried to get out of Itachi's grasp again. "She's been my nee-chan for the last few weeks! Ever since aniki left for a mission!" Itachi set Sasuke down just as he heard a soft gasp and something hit the floor. He looked back at the cause of the noice to see his father holding his mother, who had promptly fainted after seeing the mess in the kitchen. "Otou-san! Nee-chan is hurt!" Sasuke rolled Kagome over and tried to wake her up.
Fugaku sighed and picked his wife up. He felt a few of his bones creak and thought, "I'm getting too old for this..." He looked at Sasuke. "Your nee-chan will be fine with a little rest." Fugaku looked at Itachi. "Since you seem to be so enept to render Sasuke's care taker unconscious, you will be taking care of her until she wakes from her forced slumber. Do you understand, Itachi?"
Itachi's eyes widen slightly and he nodded, the glare his father was sending him killing any and all protests on his tongue."Otouto, Go to the bathroom and wash up, change and get back to bed. I will be in once I get your caretaker taken care of." Itachi knelt down, picked the unconscious girl up, and looked at her.
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