The sun rose slowly over the city but few walked the streets. The brick buildings were almost touching they were so close. The noises of the morning woke him. Sasuke opened his eyes, the milky white staring into nothing. Managing to pull himself up he stood, his clothes hung loosely off his small frame. Then walked out of the alley he had slept in that night, his body was achy and sore. He ran a hand through his dark filthy hair, the spikes stuck out messily in the back. Sasuke dug his hands into his pockets searching for some change, he was starving he hadn't eaten in about two weeks. But sadly there was nothing, he walked along the sidewalk letting his hand drag against the building on his side. He found a bench and sat down, sighing loudly. Sasuke hated doing nothing every single day. When he had nothing to do he would think; and all he ever thought about was his past and when he could see.

A five year old Sasuke ran up the stairs to his room, he threw the door open running inside. "Itachi! Where are you?" "Right here Sasuke?" Sasuke looked down at his older brother who was laying on their bed, just an old mattress on the floor with some blankets.

"Hi." "How was school today?" "Um, it was okay, the works really hard!" "Well then you should be studying." "I cant its to hard." Sasuke whined. "Not my problem." Itachi muttered returning to his own homework.

The two looked up when they heard the door open. "Sasuke go hide in the closet." Itachi said quickly. Sasuke got up running to it and shutting the door. Itachi heard footsteps coming up the stairs but they walked right past his door. He sighed in relief, but then heard the footsteps returning. The door opened and their dad stood there looking furious. "Hello." Itachi greeted him. "Where is he?" "Who?" "Sasuke!" "I have no idea, I don't think he's home yet." "That's shit! I know he's here!" "Just what do you want with him?" "That's none of your business."

He glanced around the room a bit then finally noticed the closet. Hr smirked and then opened the door. He roughly yanked Sasuke out by his hair then threw him to the floor.

"You little shit! You don't ever hide from me ever!" He yelled kicking the small child repeatedly. Sasuke was sobbing the pain was unbearable. Itachi got up running and shoved his father away from his little brother. This only got him more upset and then he punched Itachi hard in the face. "Don't bother me! Everything's his fault!" He growled kicking Sasuke again, making the child whimper loudly. "He's only five! How could anything be his fault?" "It just is! Now go!"

Itachi wasn't thinking clearly when he punched his father in the face; the man growled angrily at him. He grabbed Itachi's arm yanking him out of the room slamming the door behind him.

Sasuke slowly crawled over to the bed he and Itachi shared. They were very poor and that was probably why his dad was so angry all the time. Sasuke lay on his side curling up in a ball. Tears ran down his small face, body aching from the recent hits he took. Sasuke could hear his father beating Itachi in the other room; the worst thing you could possibly do was fight back. He would hurt badly if you did; Sasuke had tried it once and was out of school for three weeks. He told his teacher he and his brother were messing around and he fell down the stairs. Which wasn't a lie but it was more like his bastard of a father threw him down the stairs.

Sasuke woke back up at the feeling of someone else crawling into the bed. It was dark in the room probably very late. Itachi was covered in blood and bruises. He lay down next to Sasuke holding him in his arms. He whispered to him "I promise I'll get us out of here." And Sasuke was stupid enough to believe him.

The next day Itachi was gone and he had left Sasuke their to suffer. After he realized he was gone his father beat him so badly he was never the same again physically and mentally.

XXX

Itachi Uchiha hated paperwork; it was so dull. He'd rather be out doing stuff but it couldn't be helped. Itachi was a detective, and a good one at that. Despite how young he was, only being 26. The reason he joined was he wanted to find the criminals and make sure they suffer. He worked with crime victims; it was a very hard job. There were mostly kids he talked to; trying to get information out of them.

But the number one reason was that he had to find his little brother Sasuke. He had been searching for the kid for the past 10 years. Itachi had been 13 when he ran away; he had gone back a week later for Sasuke but only found the place empty.

He sighed continuing typing reports. "Hey." The voice sounded bored. "What do you want Kakashi?" "I'm hurt, Itachi you don't sound that happy to see me." Kakashi said in a sarcastic tone. Kakashi was his partner; they worked almost every case together. "We got a new case." He said grinning at Itachi's sudden interest. "Yeah we think we found a good lead on Orochimaru." "Really?" Orochimaru was a big time drug dealer in the city; he was on all the wanted lists and no one knew where he was hiding.

Itachi stood up collecting his things into his bag. "Well I'm going now. See you later." After walking out to the parking lot Itachi got into his midnight blue car, which he loved. When he arrived back at his apartment the older Uchiha kicked his shoes off then tossed his bag on the couch and made his way to his bedroom.

The place consisted of two bedrooms, the living room, a kitchen and one bathroom. Itachi sat down on the bed pulling his hair out of its loose ponytail. He lay down falling asleep almost immediately.

XXX

Sasuke walked along the sidewalk, his hand lightly dragged against the building next to him. He arrived at his destination pushing the door open and going in; the warm air felt great on his frozen body.

"Sasuke!" He flinched when he felt arms wrap around him. "Oh sorry, did I scare you?" "No Karin I'm fine." He muttered annoyed. "That's good. Come on." She grabbed his dragging him along with her.

Karin was 22 and Sasuke was 14; she had found Sasuke lost on the streets when he was little and took him to the shelter she worked at. Now she practically ran the place; she sat Sasuke down in a chair, he put his hands out feeling where the table was.

"Hey Sasuke, I'm back." He heard her set a plate down in front of him, but he no longer had and appetite. "Not hungry…" He mumbled. "Well I'm not leaving until you at least eat some of it." She told him giving him a plastic fork. "You're so thin, how can you not be hungry?"

The younger Uchiha sighed annoyed; but he still complied and stuck his fork onto the plate not sure of what he would get. After a few bites he figured the food was chicken and potatoes. He had eaten about half on what was on his plate and he couldn't force himself anymore or he would get sick.

He tried standing but his legs trembled and he couldn't hold his weight. He felt Karin catch him before he hit the ground. She picked him up easily; she was really concerned now. Sasuke had lost so much weight since the last time she had seen him.

"Karin…I don't feel good." He whimpered; his forehead was burning. "Shh, you just lay down for a while; you'll feel better." Sasuke felt himself being placed gently on a cot. He let his exhaustion take over.

XXX

After waking up, Itachi sat up rubbing at his eyes. The light from the window shone into his eyes. Itachi stood walking to the door, he tripped falling to the floor. "Damnit." He growled annoyed. He picked up the book he had fallen over and flipped it open; it was an old photo album. After looking through a couple of pages he saw a younger versions of himself and Sasuke. They were all smiling and looked so happy. Oh how he missed Sasuke so much, so much more then anyone could imagine. He looked back down at the pictures, mostly of him and Sasuke and their mom if she was still alive. This agitated him; he was a detective how could he not be able to find his little brother. It was like he fell off the face of the earth! Or he was dead…but he didn't really like to think about that outcome much.

XXX

When Sasuke woke up he was alone, he tried calling for Karin but no one responded. He sighed getting up and walking towards where he thought the door was. After finally finding the door, Sasuke pushed it open going out into the hallway still dragging his hand on the side of the wall. First he had to figure out how to get out of there. Voices echoed down the hallway, not sure if that was good or bad.

"Hey kid!" Sasuke froze. "What are you doing back here?" They sounded kind but his mind went completely blank. He jumped when he felt a hand on his shoulder; Sasuke looked up trying to figure out who they were but it was no use. The two could see his blind eyes. "Hey come on I'll get you back to the front." The man kept a firm hand around his wrist as they slowly walked back to the front.

Sasuke was annoyed; they had seen his eyes and immediately pitied him. They had gotten back to the front Sasuke thanked them politely and left. A cold wall of air hit him as soon as he walked outside. He shivered feeling the cold wind against him as he walked down the familiar streets he had lived on most of his life.

He felt refreshed from the nap he just had; he wasn't sure how long he'd been there, but it didn't really matter to him. He passed some people but they ignored him as he kept on his way. Sasuke suddenly felt a hand grip his shoulder; he flinched struggling furiously.

"Hm Orochimaru will be pleased." Sasuke had enough. "Let me go you bastard!" He screamed pulling away. "Shut up brat." Sasuke could hear the smugness in the mans voice. "Fuck you!" A few seconds after saying that he felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck and everything went blank.

Sasuke groaned opening his eyes; he was laying on a futon couch. He grabbed his head feeling sick and dizzy. He just wanted to go back to sleep after being so overtired.

The door creaked open; Sasuke shut his eyes being as still as possible. The footsteps approached him and a cold hand ran through his hair. He wanted to smack the bastard so hard; but that would only cause him more pain. Sasuke tensed when he felt the hand run under his making him uncomfortable.

"Oh Sasuke, your such a good fuck." It was Orochimaru; not that Sasuke expected anyone else, he wanted to run so bad but his body was frozen to the couch. Orochimaru pulled his shirt off easily then working off his pants and then his sad excuse for shoes Sasuke had taped together. Sasuke felt hands trying to pull his boxers down. He kicked the man in the face as hard as he could.

"You little…" Doing that had only made his situation much worse. He punched Sasuke hard in the stomach knocking the air out of him and then pulled his boxers down easily tossing them to the floor with the rest of the kid's clothes.

"Now Sasuke you know that you cant hit your master." He said teasingly. "Fuck you!" Sasuke screamed at him swinging his arms blindly at him. "You need to calm down Sasu." He felt a prick in his arm the liquid spreading quickly. His body started to feel slack and tired and he wasn't able to fight back anymore. "Now Sasuke, isn't this better." But he couldn't answer, exhaustion was taking over. The last thing he could feel was Orochimaru gently toughing his face before he passed out.

After waking up the only thing Sasuke could feel was pain. His body felt completely in agony. Tears gathered at his eyes, starting to fall down his face. He could feel the dry blood that he knew was his. Orochimaru normally never knocked him out before torturing him; but the pain had never been this severe before.

The door creaked open again causing Sasuke to tense up. "Hey Sasuke." It was Kabuto. He had been a doctor but had joined Orochimaru because of the benefits. Orochimaru was a big time drug dealer in the city and Kabuto pretty much made sure that area was running smoothly. So there was never a time where he couldn't test his new creations on Sasuke just to see the effects. So naturally Sasuke hated Kabuto almost as much as Orochimaru.

"Are you okay?" 'Why the hell would I be okay! Don't you see me covered here in blood and shit! He didn't answer. Kabuto touched his shoulder causing Sasuke to wince at the burning pain. Kabuto was always nasty to him but when he was hurt or something he was always so nice, it was really weird.

"I got you some water." Sasuke felt a cool water bottle being pressed into his hands but he didn't grip it. He heard Kabuto's concerned voice in the distance but everything was hurting; his body felt so sore. It felt like everywhere was on fire.

"What's wrong Kabuto?" Orochimaru asked as he walked back in seeing the medic's sudden change in attitude. "Sasukes not talking to me…normally he would be insulting me or something already." He felt the boy's forehead. "He has a high fever too. I think he's been sick for awhile." "You Say it like it matters." Orochimaru said smirking at him. "Sasuke's just a street kid I wouldn't pity him if I were you. It's not like anyone would care if he died."

Orochimaru looked down at Sasuke who was curled up and shaking badly from the pain he was in. "Come on Kabuto we have more important things to be doing." The two left leaving Sasuke in the pitch-black room alone.

After hearing them leave Sasuke managed to pull himself up; but the pain was still shooting up his spine. He grabbed onto the side off the couch he was on standing up but his legs couldn't hold him and he fell. He breathed in sharply at the sudden painful impact tears burned at his eyes. Sasuke reached around searching for his clothes not being able to find them he climbed back onto the couch trying to go back to sleep.

XXX

Itachi sat at his desk looking through the recent found child reports; there weren't many because most missing children were never found alive again. But he still looked everyday, but never able to find Sasuke. Itachi sighed sadly looking down the list. Sasuke would be 14 by now if he were still alive.

Itachi looked up as Kakashi walked in, the man was only a few years older then Itachi. "How are you doing?" "Ok…I guess." Kakashi bent down and looked at Itachi's computer screen, he sighed. "Itachi…look I know you miss him but you cant keep letting this take over your life. It's been ten years you need to move on." That only got him a furious look from the younger man. "Don't talk to me like you know how it feels!" He growled at him. Kakashi sighed looking sad, he remembered the first time he met Itachi ten years ago.

So ive had this idea in my head for about two years now. It originally was a book I was planning to write but I decided to change into a fanfic. I know that years and ages don't make any sense. So its not an accident to let you know. This story is a bit more complex then my other ones. Im not really sure how it will go really but im working on it. Thanks for reading, please review!

Alli444