Chapter 3

Combustion

It has been a 4 days since the awkward dinner. Shisui sat in his bed, he was once again thinking of his sexuality. He watched coming out videos, they made him smile when the parents accepted them. They made him want to tell his parents. The more he watched, the more it felt like a need. As much as he longed to tell, he knew it was a danger, not one he was willing to make, not yet anyways. He knew his parents love him, but he didn't know if it was unconditional.

He felt himself sigh, he's been doing that a lot. Mikoto was getting his parents from the airport. He was going to miss the silence and privacy he got. He wondered if he should go see Itachi. They haven't spoken than simple dinner conversations. He knew what he was doing to Itachi, the years he known Itachi, he learned to read him. When he didn't respond it Itachi's questions, he could see the hurt. It wasn't as if he was angry, he just felt uncomfortable now that he understood his feeling. There were constant "what ifs?" flooding his head when he talked to him. It was unbearable.

A part of him knew Itachi would accept his sexuality. But his other side wasn't sure if Itachi would be so accepting of his feeling towards him. But Itachi was such an understanding and kind person. It was a hard and lonely internal battel he was fighting with himself. An idea popped up, maybe hell drop hints to everyone to see their reactions

There was aloud thud that vibrated into his room. His parents screamed his name. Well, he could figure it out later. For now, he went down to welcome his parents.

Itachi sat in the bathtub, soaking his skin. He leaned on the back of the tub, focusing more on relaxing than cleaning. Last night, after Shisui left, he had to help his dad move their couch into the basement. He didn't want to complain, but he could have had anyone stronger to help out. Especially since Kagami was arriving the next morning. He groaned, he had dropped the couch on his foot, now he had a big blueish purple bruise on his foot. He knew it wasn't broken, but that didn't stop it from hurting.

There was banging on the door and he sigh, "I have to pee Itachi!" he heard a squeaky voice yell.

He rolled his eyes, already annoyed with the day, "go downstairs" he said loud enough for Sasuke to hear. He didn't feel like making human contact, he woke up in a bad mood and he didn't care to fix it.

"I don't wanna!" Sasuke yelled, banging on the door.

"I don't care!" he yelled uncharacteristically, he huffed his bangs out of his face. The banging stopped and he hear footsteps leaving the area. He sighed with relief, he just wanted to soak. Who cares that he has been in there for two hours now. He was going to soak.

There was no real reason for why he was so angry. Or maybe there were a million reasons piled up. Itachi didn't know. He found that he was holding back from giving snide and smart-ass remarks at almost everything. He was smart enough to not let any of them slip, at least not around his parents. Especially not when Shisui and his parents where over, talking about their time on vacation. He just boardly picked at his nail, removing as much dirt as possible. He couldn't care about the words coming out the guests mouths, even if he tried.

Everyone else seemed enthusiastic about the conversation. He couldn't bear it any longer, he stood, "I'm going to use the bathroom". He pushed in his chair, turning away.

"Don't be like this morning" Sasuke laughed, thinking he's funny

"Shut up" he replied back with a stone dead voice. He went upstairs, leaving 6 very confused people at the table. He didn't mean to be mean, but at that moment he couldn't do much about it.

He went straight to his room, falling onto his bed, letting out a sigh. He just wanted to be left alone. Was that a lot to ask for? He looked out the window and watched the sun go down. It seemed to be the only thing that calmed him down. A part pf him knew it wasn't going to last long, so he let himself close his eyes and fall asleep.

He could feel himself sleep, he was aware of what was going on, he just couldn't open his eye. He didn't want to.

Shisui thought it was about time to start their prank wars. He mainly wanted an excuse to talk to him. He had to run over to his house, he grabbed a blow horn. He knew it was a bad move but he didn't know what else to do. He went back to Itachi's house, running up to his room. A smirk grew on his face, it was too good to be true. He was actually asleep.

He almost felt bad, Itachi looked so peaceful, like he needed to be asleep. He walked up to bed and looked at the resting boy. He ran his finger through the soft silky hair. A smile grew on his face, he sat next to his sleeping boy. He hand glided on his cheek, his heart fluttered in his chest a blush grew on his face.

Itachi's eyes slowly opened. Shisui's heart sunk into the bottom of his stomach. He snatched his own hand away from Itachi. Itachi boy sat up, giving Shisui a hard look "what are you doing" his attitude hitting hard. Shisui's words were caught in his throat, he stammered for words trying to form a sentence. Itachi narrowed his eyes, "pervert".

Shisui felt an arrowed impale him heart, "NO it's not like that! I-I was just uh- watching you" he quickly tried to defend himself.

"Exactly" Itachi calmly responded crossing his arms.

Shisui's head dropped "I swear, I wasn't being perverted. I just now walked in". Itachi hummed in response, he didn't care to press forward. Itachi took the blow horn from Shisui's hand and gave a look that could only translate to 'are you fucking serious'. Shisui found himself laughing, most of the expressions the younger boy made were pure gold.

The end of Itachi's lips curled up, "oh shut up" he didn't want to laugh, he wanted to be angry at him.

"Oh come on you should have seen your face. You were like-" Shisui tried to mimic Itachi's face. Shisui lightly hit Itachi's arm.

Itachi started to laugh, he covered his mouth as he fell over. He couldn't be angry at him. For a day filled with anger, it was nice to laugh and smile.

"You were so weird today" Shisui commented, changing the subject, "what happened" he laid back in the bed.

Itachi shrugs "I don't know, everyone was just making me angry" he turned on his TV and sat back.

Shisui rolled onto his stomach, looking up at the TV, "You're just a cranky cat that needed a nap" he made a hiss that represented Itachi's mood board today.

He playfully rolled his eyes "oh shush my show is on" of course Shisui didn't mind. He enjoyed the show as well, but not as much as Itachi. For a while the TV was the only sound that was made in the room, both boys completely captivated in the show. Itachi was finally relaxing.

The TV showed that the timer was up, then the TV turned off. Shisui gave a soft sigh but Itachi let out an enraged screech –sound like a race car hitting the breaks lol- Shisui looked up at Itachi, "its ok, it will be on tomorrow" he was really caught off guard. It wasn't normal for Itachi to be loud in any matter. He then groaned and threw his face into the bed. "It was just getting good" it would seem that Itachi was whining. Shisui couldn't help but to chuckle at this as he pat the boy's back comfortingly.

"Yeah I know" he agreed, "come on, let's go to bed. Maybe when you're older your parents will let you stay up later." He pulled on Itachi's arm, dragging his body to him.

Itachi flung his body up and grabbed the older boy's arms "I'm going to be 14 in a few months! They treat me like I'm Sasuke's age" Shisui couldn't help but shrug at that. For Itachi he was either a man or a boy for what benefited his parents the most.

"Yeah I know, I'm sorry" he guided Itachi's head into his chest he played his hair. For Itachi having a very stubborn day, he was awfully compliant. "You should come to my house more often, we could watch TV all night long" he suggested.

"Your room smells like table wax" he says bluntly

"ouch"

"sorry"

"no you're not"

"you're right"

There was a moment of silence before the two broke out in laughter. The kind best friends would have untilled they cried, for Itachi he did a little. They could both agree it wasn't that funny, but it happened anyways.

Time past, not sure how much. What they did wasn't important. Shisui just found himself staring at a dark ceiling with his first love sleeping on top of him. Itachi's face was in the crook of his neck breathing softly, his leg pressed against Shisui's crotch. He felt his head spinning but at the same time it was perfectly clear. He couldn't put a name on what he was feeling but he figured since his head, heart and groin was throbbing, he figured it was a mixture of love lust and longing, all for the boy on top of. The one he figured was perfectly asleep.

Itachi laid there on top of him. He felt a heart beating, he wasn't sure if it was Shisui's or his own. He figured Shisui was asleep and having a 'certain' type of dream, which would explain why a certain length was pressing against his leg. But at the same time he couldn't help but think it was because of him. He figured the safest route was to get off of Shisui, but he was at the thought was Shisui actually being awake. He knew he wasn't disgusted, he was ok with the thought of Shisui being hard for him. The whole situation was far too embarrassing for him.

He forced his eyes shut. He couldn't think straight. He didn't want to. He knew a part of him wanted Shisui to be hard for him. That that he would ever admit it to himself.

Fugaku walked around the house, it was 1:28 in the morning. It was a nightly routine of his. Not to be a nosy parent, but to make sure his children and guest were safe. It was the least he could do since he was absent a lot. He peeked into Sasuke's room, safe. He walked down the hall and peeked into Itachi's room. He squinted in the darkness, he wasn't sure what he was seeing. He turned on the hall light that lightly dimed Itachi's room. He looked in seeing the two boys cuddled together. He closed the door and turned off the lights. As he walked back to his room he figured he was just going to let Mikoto handle the situation. He didn't have the parenting skills to confront this.

AUTHOR NOTE

hi guys. I'm so sorry i haven't updated in forever. i was writing my story in one direction and i didn't like it so i started the chapter over again. comment if you would like to see a sex scene between the two in the near future. also comment in general because i truly love every one i get.