Okay, so here's the next chapter of Even Angels Fall! I hope you enjoy it! :)
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Disclaimer: I don't own anything Naruto related. If I did I wouldn't have made Sasuke into the idiot he is today. I can only hope that he gets out of that slump soon and comes to his senses. Oh, and Hisoka's mine.
"So, he said that you weren't allowed to see her? I wonder what's so bad about her," Shisui said.
"Well, father didn't say anything bad about her. It's her father that he doesn't like."
"That sounds like a stupid rule then. If there's nothing wrong with her, then why would you stay away?"
Itachi shrugged. "It doesn't matter because I'm not going to stay away."
Shisui laughed at him. "So you won't stay away, huh? Does that mean you like her?"
"No."
"Sure, that's what they all say." He smirked.
"Whatever." Itachi thought back to yesterday, when he told Shisui that he had found out her name.
"So, do you know who she is now?"
"Yeah."
"Well…?" Shisui looked at him expectantly.
"Her name is Hisoka. Have you ever heard about her before?"
"No…" Shisui thought hard, trying to dig up anything from his memories about an Uchiha Hisoka. "I don't know anything about her."
"I'll ask father tonight."
"Good luck with that," he said sarcastically. "Anyway, how did tree climbing go?"
"Pretty good. She got up to about ten feet."
Shisui nodded. "She sounds like a pretty fast learner."
"Yeah."
Shisui laughed. "You know what? I just thought of something."
Itachi raised his eyebrows and waited for him to continue.
"Itachi and Hisoka, kissing in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G-"
Itachi slapped his hand over Shisui's mouth before he could finish the rest of the horrid rhyme.
"I will knock you out if you even try to finish that. Got it?"
Itachi waited for him to nod, signaling agreement, before dropping his hand.
"First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in the baby carriage!"
Thud.
xxx
It was now lunchtime and Itachi was walking over to the tree. When he got there he looked around for Hisoka. She was no where in sight, so he went over to the tree and leaned against it. After a few seconds, Itachi felt something hit his head. It didn't hurt or anything and he brushed it off to see that it was just a twig. Pretty soon another one fell down and once again, he just brushed it off. Now, the next thing to hit his head hurt. He rubbed the top of his head and looked around the ground for the object. Right there in front of him was a standard ninja sandal.
What the?
He looked up to see the triumphant smile of Hisoka. She was sitting on the branch, swinging her feet. Her shoe was missing from her left foot.
"Why'd you do that?" he asked.
She jumped down. "Well, you weren't looking up after I threw some twigs at you, so I thought I would just have to throw something a little heavier."
Itachi frowned. "Why didn't you just yell at me, or something?"
"I found It funny to throw my shoe at you," she said as a smile spread over her lips.
Her smile made Itachi forget about the shoe for a few seconds. "So how did you get up there anyway?"
"I climbed."
Itachi gave her a look that said you-know-what-I-meant.
Hisoka smirked. "What do you think I do when academy's over? I train."
"Really?"
"Why's that so surprising?"
Itachi shrugged. "You just didn't seem like the person who trains a lot."
"Maybe you shouldn't judge people." She poked him in the chest
When she did this, Itachi saw a bruise that wrapped around her entire wrist. It was a deep purple, so he wondered why he hadn't seen it before.
He pointed at the bruise. "What's that from? Training?"
Hisoka quickly pulled her arm back and hid it behind her back. She looked down, so Itachi wasn't able to see her eyes. "…Yeah, it's from training."
Itachi thought she was a bad liar. How could she get a bruise like that from climbing a tree? He stared at her and tried to catch her eyes, but she kept them down.
They both stayed silent. Neither of them knew how to break out of the awkward silence. Then, Itachi finally thought of something.
"Are you hungry?"
"…A little bit."
"Why don't we eat lunch now?"
Hisoka brought her head up and met his eyes. Itachi could see a trace of sadness in them, but it was starting to fade away. She smiled a small smile for him. As if she was trying to be strong for his sake. But why would she need to?
"Did you forget to bring a lunch again?"
"No, I've got it right here." He held up his bento box.
"Good. You know, I was starting to think that you would starve if I didn't bring food."
Itachi shrugged. "My mother was in the hospital. That's why I didn't have lunch for those two days," he explained.
"Your mother was in the hospital? I'm sorry," she said with genuine sincerity.
He shook his head. "Nothing was wrong with her. She just had a baby boy."
Hisoka's eyes lit up. "How exciting! So, now you have a new little brother!" Her smile was huge. "I bet he's so cute!"
"Why would you think that?" Itachi asked with a confused look.
Her smile slowly faded and a bright blush spread across her cheeks. "Well, he's probably cute because…you're his brother…and…you're not…bad looking." Her blush had intensified at this point and her voice was barely above a whisper.
Itachi was only able to hear what she said because of his keen hearing. And what he heard made the tops of his ears turn a deep red. his cheeks were also a shad pinker than their normal color. He turned his head away to try and hide his blush, but to no avail. Because when he turned he stared right at Shisui, who stared back at him, holding in his laughter. Which, Itachi had to say, made him look stupid. He insulted his friend because he had to make himself feel better somehow. He knew that he would never hear the end of this.
Shisui decided to walk over and put them both out of their misery. "Hey." The laughter still hadn't completely left his voice.
Itachi could only glare at him. Hisoka, however, was very polite.
"Hi," she responded and smiled at him.
"I'm Shisui. This guy's best friend," he said and jabbed his thumb in Itachi's direction. "You must be Hisoka. I've heard so much about you." Okay, so maybe he wasn't going to put them out of their misery just yet.
Itachi wanted nothing more than for him to just shut up. "Why are you here? I thought you had lunch detention for the rest of the week," he said through gritted teeth.
"He let me out early." Shisui smiled. "Good behavior."
"Probably just got sick of you."
"Ouch. Not nice." He then turned towards Hisoka. "Is he like this with you?"
"No, he's very nice."
Shisui smiled at Itachi, who was still glaring daggers at him. "I bet he is."
The bell rang. Hisoka said good bye and ran away from them as fast as she could. She was so embarrassed and when Shisui showed up the feeling just kept building.
Itachi turned to a grinning Shisui and glared at him. "I hate you."
"Hate's a strong word, Itachi."
"Yeah, that's why I'm using it."
xxx
Itachi stepped into his house to hear the voices of his parents fighting. He looked around the living area and found Sasuke laying in a cushioned play pen. He walked over and reached down to him. Sasuke made some baby noises and reached for Itachi's hand. Itachi smiled down at his baby brother.
"Why don't you ever want to hold him? He's your son!"
"I'm busy with important things for the clan!"
"And Sasuke's not important!?"
"Right now, he's not my top priority!"
"Oh! You make me so angry! Why do you have to be this way!"
"I've always been like this. Ever since you married me, you knew what I was like!"
"No, you weren't like this when we had Itachi. You were always with him!"
"Itachi's different!"
"How can you do that? How can you discriminate your own sons?"
"Itachi will be clan leader someday! Sasuke won't! It's that simple!"
Itachi had had enough. He picked Sasuke up and carried him to the door and opened it. His mother must've heard the door opening because she came into the room before he had the chance to leave.
"Itachi, where are you going?"
"I'm going on a walk with Sasuke." He swiftly shut the door behind him and walked down the streets. He wanted to get as far away from the compound as he could.
"Awahg."
Itachi looked down to see that Sasuke was on the brink of tears. This made him think that Sasuke was able to understand what his parents were fighting about. That he could comprehend what his father had said about him - how their father had said that Itachi was more important than him.
He hoped that he didn't understand any of it. What a terrible thing to hear.
"Don't worry about father. I'll protect you."
Sasuke gave a small smile and then hiccupped. Itachi smiled and studied Sasuke closely. He remembered what Hisoka had said earlier that day.
He smiled and touched Sasuke's small nose. "You're not bad looking."
Sasuke laughed when his nose was touched.
It was Friday, so the streets of Konoha were crowded. Many women stopped and ogled at Sasuke, saying, "oh, how cute!" and "isn't he just adorable!"
I hope they're talking about Sasuke, Itachi thought. It would be weird if they called me adorable.
Not too far ahead of him, he saw Hisoka go into a weapons shop. He had been wanting a new kunai anyway, so he decided to go into the same shop.
Hisoka was looking down into a case that held katanas.
"I didn't know you liked katanas."
Hisoka jumped and turned around to see Itachi standing behind her. "You scared me!" she said as she put her hand to her heart.
He smirked and looked down at the case. "So, you like katanas?" he repeated his question.
"What? Oh, yeah. I use one right now, but it's getting too old." She scanned the swords. "I think I want this one, but I don't have enough money yet. I've been saving my baby sitting money for it."
Itachi nodded and stared down at the weapon. It was beautiful. The blade was medium in length and a deep crimson covered the hilt. Two strings came off the end with a pattern of beads on each of them. Itachi thought that it was probably the best Katana in the shop.
Hisoka looked down at Itachi's arms. "So, is this your new brother?"
Itachi looked at the bundle in his arms. Sasuke seemed to have nodded off to sleep. "Yeah, this is Sasuke."
Hisoka smiled and leaned in closer to Sasuke and Itachi. She brushed Sasuke's cheek with her finger and then put her finger into his little hand. "I was right…he is cute."
Hisoka's cheeks turned pink and so did Itachi's ears.
Just then Itachi's back stiffened and he felt a form of danger encroaching in. He turned around, but was too late because a man in a mask had a kunai against Hisoka's throat.
"Itachi!" she screamed out to him.
Sasuke was wide awake and crying at this point.
"Nobody move!"
Itachi looked around the shop. There weren't many people in it and no one looked like they worked with this man. So that meant that he was working alone. He then looked back at the man. The mask he wore wasn't Anbu, it looked like a black cloth with three holes roughly cut into it.
The man turned to the shop owner. "Give me your money!"
The owner slowly got to the cash register and began to open it.
Itachi waited for the man to walk by him. He moved Sasuke to one arm, leaving him with his right arm free. He then back handed the man right in the face. Then man's grip on Hisoka loosened so that Itachi was able to grab her and pull her to him. Sasuke barely moved the entire time.
Itachi looked at Hisoka to see if she was okay. She looked fine, but then he saw blood trailing down her neck.
She's hurt.
With Itachi distracted, the man got out of the shop. Itachi glared at the door and made to go after the man. However, Hisoka stopped him.
"Itachi, don't." Her voice shook.
"Look at what he did to you," he said and remained glaring at the door.
"I'm fine," she said and wiped the blood away. "See? It was only a scratch." Her whole body was shaking. The man had badly scared her. She hated being trapped by someone. It felt lonely.
She wished that Itachi would always rescue her from her horrific reality.
Itachi glared back at the door and then looked at the shop window. The man was no where to be seen.
"He was probably just an ordinary person down on his luck. You saw what he was wearing right? Just a plain mask."
Itachi had to admit she was probably right - just a man down on his luck. And now, when he looked back on it he noticed the man had been holding the kunai the wrong way.
He was brought to reality when he heard Sasuke crying. He put his other arm back around Sasuke and rocked him back and forth.
Even though she was still shook up, Hisoka smiled. "I hear it's easy to calm babies down when you make a funny face."
"I don't make funny faces," he said flatly.
"You probably will eventually."
"Hard to believe."
She smiled at him. "No…not really."
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