The Silver Wolf: Eh...I thought about it...this story is going nowhere fast...if I don't do something with it soon, it'll be a failure...like my very first fanfiction was...it got shot down the day I posted it...XD Thanks to those that reviewed! Appreciate it!

Oh and if it hasn't already been established, everyone is still ninja in here, just because I labeled it as an AU doesn't mean they're not still ninja. They're just living lives as ninja's under a different circumstance.

I forgot this in the first part...but I'm only going to say this once, I don't own Naruto or the characters from it. The only Character I own from my Naruto fics, is Ashe, and I don't think she'll be appearing in this one. So there!

Chapter 2: Of Mice And Men

I looked around my room, I felt like shit...I guess this is how one would feel after getting fucked by their best friend and then just left to think about it. I knew my brother wanted to talk to me about something...but I couldn't bring myself to g et up off the bed.

I thought about Naruto and Gaara for a few minutes, how they've always been there for me, but were they really there for me? Or were they just there so they could get me for free every now and then...?

I shut my mind down because I didn't feel like thinking about it. I got up and put the pouch back around my leg that contained my kuni, and shuriken back around my leg, and went out of the room, I didn't bother with a shirt, I was only gonna get it dirty later.

Itachi said he wanted to talk to me about something...I needed to find out what it was that he wanted. I knocked on his door...I wasn't going in there...it was white. Itachi came to the door and motioned for me to go in, but I just stared at him. I couldn't handle walking into such a bright and happy place. Itachi got the hint and walked outside of the room and shut the door.

"I wanted to talk to you about getting out of this life that you have. I know it might be hard for you, but I don't want you to lead the life our mother did." Itachi looked deep into my eyes, which had no emotion to start with. I knew he was having a hard time reading me, because I knew my eyes were always blank...no sign of life, or light in my eyes, ever. "Sasuke, you're my brother, I have to take care of you, I don't want you fucking everything that moves like mother."

"Mother eventually found father, didn't she? I'll find someone I can spend the rest of my life with, but you'll never get me to change. Mother trained my mind to be like hers. You never noticed it, but while you and father were out doing father, son outings, mother stayed at home with me. She taught me sex education at the age of ten. After that, haha, taught me how to do it with both men and women by the age of twelve, I guess she thought I'd just be that attractive, and she was right." I paused for a moment and looked into Itachi's eyes which were brimming with tears, but they never came.

"I-I never knew Sasuke." he said and looked to the floor.

" Don't give me pity, the life I lead now is because of family, isn't that how it's supposed to be?" I gave him a look I really didn't intend for him to see. It was the look I used to seduce most of my clients. I saw a slight blush rear it's ugly head over my brother's face.I saw this and kept staring at him through my have open eyes. I gave him a look of pure sorrow, and he saw it, and I walked away from him.

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I walked the streets of the slums, the next day, hoping to find Sasuke and Gaara, they usually hang around there during the day. I walked by my favorite food stand, and I decided to stop for a bite to eat for lunch. I couldn't help but wonder if what I did was wrong...Sasuke had told Gaara and myself that he didn't want us to do that anymore...but he's just too irresistible.

"Naruto? You seem like something's wrong." said the waitress I knew as Ashe, she'd been working here for as long as I'd been coming here.

"It's nothing Ashe, don't worry about it. I just did something I don't think I rightly should have done. And I think I'm going to hear about it from my friend soon enough." I looked to Ashe, "The usual...if you don't mind."

"I'll get your ramen, and I'll be back to talk to you about Sasuke...and don't act like that's not what this is about, because it always winds up being about him in the end." She gave me a cheery smile, "I know you way too well Naruto."and she walked away.

I know I shouldn't be telling her everything that happens between me and Sasuke, but sometimes it just comes out that way...it doesn't work well the way I talk openly about private matters. Sasuke would kill me if he found out I'd been talking about this with a waitress.

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I looked around the house, trying to find some solace within my troubled mind.My heart ached, and I knew I couldn't live like this...living a lie to myself, and to Itachi...I had to tell him. I had to tell him I'm in love with him. I can't...it'd be too much all at one time. Mother and Father are coming for a visit, and Naruto and Gaara were going to be coming over to meet them.

I can't tell Itachi I'm in love with him while everyone's here. Everyone will be staying here at the house for the weekend, and I didn't want to disappoint anyone. It'd be a shame if father found out his younger son was physically attracted to his eldest son.

Every time I think about Itachi, it gets harder and harder for me to control myself, I usually wind up in my bathroom, which thank god was directly connected to my bedroom. Each time got worse and worse...it wasn't like it was just something I could shrug off either. It was something that was sticking to me like yesterday's pancakes. It wasn't going to release me any time soon. It was something that was going to bother me over and over again until it got its way.

A knock came from my door...I knew it was Itachi, no one else was here yet.

"Come in...it's open." I said not tearing my eyes away from the ceiling. I was hard enough just to keep my eyes open lying in this forsaken position.

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Itachi walked in to find Sasuke lying on his bed in a spread eagle position, it was the most enticing thing he'd seen all day. But he wasn't about to let himself slip up. His parents were coming to stay with them for the weekend, and it wasn't going to be pleasant between Itachi and their father. Their father always liked Itachi best, while their mother, liked Sasuke best. It was one of those, "playing favorites" things that no one wants to hear about in a family. But alas...their family has played favorites for many years, and to this day still plays the never-ending game that their parents supposedly never get tired of.

Itachi wanted to jump on top of Sasuke and say he didn't care how much money he had to pay his whore of a brother, but it wasn't going to happen, Itach's will power was too strong for his own good.

Itachi remembered why he'd come into Sasuke's room in the first place, "Would you like me to make you something for dinner before I leave? I'm going out tonight with a friend of mine, and I probably won't be home until one or two in the morning..." Itachi looked at Sasuke for a decent answer, but all he got was...

"Good...more time for me to look through the streets for work and then bring it back here...I hate going to other places...they seem so much less than being here."Sasuke continued to stare at the ceiling, and Itachi was slowly, yet pathetically, walking out the door and shutting it behind him.

"I'll leave you something in the oven just in case you get hungry for something other than sex, little brother." and with that, Itachi left the room and closed the door behind him leaving Sasuke in the dark room, all alone.

Sasuke let out a sign of frustration and then threw one of his belts at the wall making a loud banging noise and making a dent in the wall.

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Itachi heard the object hit the wall, and he almost wanted to cry, he didn't know what his younger brother was going through, and he don't think he ever wanted to know. Nonetheless, he felt sorry for his little brother, and wanted to do everything in his power to make his brother life right again. He didn't care if he had to sacrifice himself to make it right, Sasuke was family, and he needed to be treated as such.

Itachi walked down the stairs and out into the main foyer of the house, he heard a knock at the door, wondering who it was, he answered it. It was one of Sasuke's friends, Gaara showed up.

"Hello Gaara, um...he's upstairs in his room. However, I'm not sure he's in the mood" Itachi was cut short by Gaara's deep voice.

"Don't worry about it Itachi...he's never in the mood, but I show up anyway." Gaara's sorrowful pathetic voice rang in his ears as something to be pondered upon later. No wonder Sasuke always felt the way he did, he hung out with people like Gaara...yet despite the way the two of them acted, they still kept little Naruto around. The hyper-active idiot ninja that always threatened both of the other ninja's sanity. Itachi didn't take well to the whole ninja thing, so he left them to it. They needed the skills more than he did. He didn't require to have weapons on him at all times, and didn't need to know any self defense, he was in a position that only required him to be the nice person that he is.

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I went up to Sasuke's room to see how he was doing. I heard from Ashe about the little scuffle he and Naruto had had yesterday. I didn't want to be left out, however I respected Sasuke's wishes a little more than Naruto did. I'll keep myself in tact while I'm here.

I knocked on his door, and a moan of annoyance let me in. Sasuke really was in no mood to deal with any shit today. His body was thrown over his bed like a stuffed chew toy of a dog, and his he looked like he'd been smoking again. Usually he doesn't smoke unless I'm with him or he's in a public bar. I guess the guilt of Naruto must really be getting to him. He shouldn't let such a moron get to him like this. He's only going to tear himself apart from grief.

"Sasuke..." I sighed as I walked over to him and sat next to him on his bed.

"You heard about Naruto and myself haven't you? That's why you're here? To see if I'm okay?"

Sasuke sounded huffy about the whole thing, and it seemed he knew everything that I was about to say, already. "I was smoking again...don't worry about it, next time I'll call you." I was relieved that he said next time he'd call me, but this time wasn't next time. He needed to realize that he couldn't do it without me there again.

"Sasuke...you know how you get when you get high, it'snot something to just be messed with. I really don't want you doing it again unless I'm with you, okay?" I tried to sound as serious as I possibly could, although my stoic attitude and my monotonous voice seemed to give Sasuke and everyone else the impression that I really could just have cared less. But I really cared for Sasuke despite how ever much he hated me.

"I bet you've also heard that I've fallen in love with my own brother?" Sasuke turned his head slightly to look at me.

Even through my stoic face, a shocked expression somehow came over me, "That part..." I said to him, "I seemed to have missed." I said looking at him, his slender form lying in front of me. His glorious face, and all its beauty...but I couldn't be thinking about these things right now. It wasn't the time. I was here because I needed to be with Sasuke in his times, not mine. However, his times came a lot more often than not, and my times here, in this room, alone with him, were beginning to lack.

"Not you too...I can't handle seeing the two of you look at me as if I'm your next meal. I can't stand the way you two look at me like that. Those pleading eyes, and those seductive smiles, both of you drive me insane! I'm not in love with the two of you, Gaara. Neither you or Naruto seem to understand this. Both of you! Just because you have the money doesn't mean I always want to have sex with you guys, even though I give the two of you the biggest discount in the world, I just don't want it anymore." Sasuke sat up abruptly, and sat on the edge of the bed, huddled over in a feeble hunch. "I can't take this life anymore Gaara. I want to rid myself of it, I only want my brother, I only love, Itachi. Why can't I just find some place to be with Itachi where no one can bother us, leave my brother and I in peace with each other?" Sasuke's voice became cracked and harder to hear. His face tensed up and I noticed tears sliding down his pale cheeks.

I couldn't stand to see my best friend like this, he really was tearing himself apart from the inside. And it wasn't getting any better by me staring at him the way I am. I shook myself from any and all notion to bed Sasuke here and now, and focused more on how to make him feel better. The poor guy, he could barely hold himself together in front of me, when he's usually so good at it. His life was getting the better of him, and even I could see this.

"Oh Gaara...what can I do?" he shook his head, his sobs more clear. "What can I do?" he started shaking, and his voice wasn't even his own any longer, it was that of a weeping child. "My mother's coming this weekend, and she's going to be so proud of me for growing up to be the whore that she once was, but when my father sees me, he'll loathe my existence and wish for me to be like Itachi. I can't stand my family playing favorites anymore." Sasuke broke full out crying right in front of me.

"Sasuke..."I sighed and placed my arm around him as he leaned into my shoulder for comfort. A tear slid down my face as I held on to the shaking form in front of me, not even I had it this bad. But only Sasuke could change the way he lived.

"Sasuke, only you can change the way you live...you do realize this don't you?" I cupped the side of his face with my hand, and he looked at me, locked eyes with me. "Only you have the power to change the path that you have set for yourself. It's not fate, or destiny that controls you, they are simply things that people have brought about to explain why certain things happen, but those are just myths. Grab you life by the horns, devil horns even, and swing them around until they are where you want them to be. The bull listens if provoked, take some advice from your brother, I'm sure he's more than willing to help you." his eyes tore away from mine, and I let go of his face.

"I'm sure you're terribly right my dear friend, and I thank you for your words, but right now, I wish for nothing than to be left to myself." Sasuke spoke in broken, words that came from the heart. He wished to be left alone, and I would leave him to his thoughts.

I rose from the place where I was sitting, and walked to the door, "I'm sure if you ask, Itachi will be more than willing to help, swallow your pride Sasuke, he's your brother, there for you always. Family." I left him in his room with those words to think over.

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I guess because of my dark outlook on life, I always thought that my brother hated me. Now that I think about it, everything and anything he's ever done leads, only up to him loving me, as his family. Just...family. That's all I'll ever be to him, is family.

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Sasuke threw another one of his belts against the wall and almost wanted to cry. Gaara left the house, so he couldn't call him back up so he could lean on his shoulder and let his troubles drain from his body with his tears.

Sasuke was at wits end with all of this crying shit, and he wasn't about to let it finally get to him. It was one of those things he really didn't like about himself.

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I can't believe myself, I can't believe I love my brother as more than just a brother. I bet he would flip out and kick me out of the house altogether. I can't keep this up, I have to tell Itachi I love him, I have to, I HAVE TO!

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I can't think straight, I wanna go home, I can't stay here with Kabuto, I need to go home to Sasuke. Who know's what he might be up to? He might need me for something and me not be there!

"I'm sorry Kabuto, I have to leave. I can't leave Sasuke at home by himself for more than an hour, or I get worried he might try and kill himself again." I got up from the bench we were sitting on, and I gave him a kiss on the cheek, "I'm really sorry, but I have to go."

"It's okay Itachi, he's your brother, it's understandable." Kabuto was very understanding with me, and blowing him off like this all the time, just because I don't trust Sasuke alone in a house where sharp objects can be easily reached.

I took off for home.

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The Silver Wolf: Here's the basic jist of things thus far.

EVERYONE IS OR USED TO BE A NINJA!

Itachi: used to be a ninja, but when he almost killed his best friend, Kabuto, he gave it up and now all he wants is to live a normal life with his "lover" Kabuto, and his brother Sasuke. But what Itachi doesn't know is that he's got quite the experience in store for himself when Sasuke comes out with all his feelings. Gave up being a ninja to be with the one he loves.

Sasuke: Sasuke is basically a fucking man whore who puts himself out there, even to his best friends. He despises his brother all because he thinks Itachi hates him when he really doesn't. His best friends are Gaara and Naruto. Became a ninja to protect himself if he needed to from a crazy client

Naruto: The sexiest, and youngest of the trio, Naruto is constantly taking advantage of Sasuke's position, and keeps putting pressure on Sasuke so Naruto can get his fix. Naruto really means no harm, and he's really trying to respect his friend's wishes as much as possible. Became a ninja to prove that he's not just another sexy face.

Gaara: The Oldest and most sensible of the trio. He's always going to Sasuke to help his friend through hard times. He is physically attracted to Sasuke as well, but he can sometimes restrain himself a little bit better than Naruto can. Sasuke greatly loves and appreciates Gaara for his will power. Became a ninja to protect his friends and what's left of his family.

Kabuto: Almost lost his life to Itachi in the past. Itachi saw his mistakes and gave up being a ninja. Kabuto saw through Itachi's feelings and fell in love with him. Both have been lovers ever since. Gave up being a ninja to lead a normal life.