I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR BLEACH.
A/N: Rated M for mentions of violence, self harm, crude language and some suggestive themes.
The same thing again the older thought to himself Sasuke had come home from school stumbled around in the kitchen for a bit. And now Nick Black's Sorry could be heard throughout the house a song he'd heard nearly a dozen times throughout the past few weeks. Itachi thought back to earlier in the week him and his friend/roomate sat under a cherry blossom tree on campus eating lunch when Itachi brought up his brother. The normal teenage stuff Kisame had told him and when 'Itchi' countered that they where not like that as teens his friend amended saying normal teenager stuff for that generation.
His little brother had always shown creative talent, writing, drawing and musical chops too. So Itachi liked it when Sasuke started to take more of an interest in all of that. Learning to play the guitar, carrying a sketchbook in his backpack and generally taking a different path than when he was a teen and a jock with there father's expectations and the pressures of playing a high school sport. It stood to reason that Itachi hadn't been happy with his multiple titles in Soccer, baseball and martial arts. Aside from the fact that his little brother worried every time he got an injury he couldn't 'walk off' as there father so quaintly put it.
Still Itachi got a scholarship to college but comes home often since the campus and dorms are only a few hours away.
It seemed Itachi had garnered a lot of the praise from there father while they knew he loves both of his sons equally. Still it seemed all too noticeable how there father appeared more at his first born's sports events than his youngest's school art exhibits and school talent expos. That however had never drove a wedge between the brothers they support each other. The pictures on the mantle in the living room attested to that bond with his Iphone on his chest Itachi watched a dvr'd show of Sasu's. An anime where the main character over came a broken home environment through music than died unfairly only to go to an afterlife where she helps fight against 'god.' Still deciding he had a couple of hours before heading back to campus he laid on the couch and watched the anime tuning out his brother's music.
