At the airport, getting ready to fly back home. Please excuse any errors in this chapter!

Paper Fan

"Shhh now," Mikoto whispered softly into her blonde sons ear, "does it still hurt?" she asked gently taking the boy bandaged hand in her own. Though she had seen the large gash heal right before her eyes, the boy continued to cry with his face buried into her blouse.

His reply was muffled but she could make out the word "kinda" from him.

"Here, I can make it better." She brought up his hand and lightly kissed him palm, "Now, is that better?"

Sniffling, Naruto nodded and turned his head to look up a her. "Y-yeah." With the corner of her apron the dark haired woman whipped his face, cleaning away the tears and the goo that had came from his nose.

"Oh stop babying the boy, Mikoto!"

Naruto jumped and quickly dashed behind the woman as Fugaku entered the room dragging a grim looking Sasuke behind in. "These boys will never grow up if you keep treating them like babies!" He released Sasuke's hand, and the dark haired boy looked between his mother and father – wanting to hide behind her just as Naruto was, however he stayed where he was.

"They are just children, dear." Mikoto informed her husband sweetly, while inside she was fuming, not wanting to disrespect the man.

"At their age, Itachi was already ahead of his peers!"

The sweetness slowly leaving her voice she said, "Itachi is Itachi."

"I expect for both of my sons to succeed in life." Seeing the venom in the eyes of his wife, he turned to Sasuke quickly getting the boys attention, "What were you thinking, those weapons are not to play with!"

Shutter over his words Sasuke tried his best to remain calm and not cry like Naruto was, he wasn't a baby, "W-we...I couldn't find big brother to train with..." his voice trailed off, already knowing he had said the wrong thing.

"Itachi is too busy to waste his time playing with two kids!"

Wincing at his fathers words, as if he had been slapped, Sasuke lowered his head dark eyes looking at the floor.

"Do you not realize that he is the future of our clan!" Fugaku continued, pointedly ignoring the eyes of his wife. "He does not have time for your silly games."

"Father." Respectfully bowing towards the clan leader, Itachi entered the room, "I need to apologize to you and mother. This is my doing because I had promised them that I would teach them how to use those weapons and because of my lack in responsibility, Naruto hurt himself."

Calming Fugaku turned to his oldest son, "That is fine, Itachi." He turned back to the others, "Sasuke, Naruto go to your room."

Quickly the two boys scrambled out of the room with Naruto momentarily stopping before Fugaku wanting to say something before Itachi pushed him on his shoulder, silently informing him that it was not the time.

Inside of their kicked on of the toys that littered the floor.

"Sa'ke that was mine!" Naruto ran over to his toy, his blue eyes began to water when he saw that the wooden train had snapped in half, "You broken it!"

Sasuke ignored the blonde and sat on his bed, his back to the other boy.

"Sa'ke...Sa'ke you broken it!" Looking down at the train, began to cry again.

He remembered that it was it had been given to him on his last birthday by a gray haired guy wearing a mask. A bunch of mean villagers were screaming at father to bring him out to them. When the screaming started getting scarier the old-man Hokage came with a bunch of people wearing masks.

Everyone stopped being so loud and started leaving the Uchiha sector and the gray-haired masked man, knelt beside him and handed him the toy.

"Your dad bought this for you before you were born." He had said and then he left in a puff of smoke.

His father had gotten so angry when he told them about the man later, when everything calm. He had snatched the train from his hands but then mother whispered in his ear and he gave it back.

"Sa'ke mean!" Still no response came from the dark haired boy. "So mean!" He wailed, tears steaming down his face.

Finally, Sasuke reacted, "Shut up!" He screamed, causing the younger one to stiffen in shock, Sasuke had never yelled at him before. He had never been mean to him before. "You're just a stupid baby!"

"Sa'ke..."

"If you weren't such a baby, father wouldn't have gotten mad at us!" Angry dark eyes met hurt and scared blue, "You're different! Everyone says so and-and you can't even hold a kunai right!" He jumped off his bed and stomped over to the blonde, pushing him to the floor.

"Sasuke!"

Wide-eyed, Sasuke turned to the door where his brother and mother stood, disappointed and shocked looks on their faces.

Itachi stepped over to Naruto while Mikoto went to Sasuke, "How could you say those things to him?" Mikoto scolded, still shocked at what she had witnessed from the door of their room, "You hurt your brother!"

"He's not my brother!"

"How can you say that, Sasuke?" She asked again, her heart breaking at his words.

Crossing his arms, he looked away not meeting her eyes, "Aunt Uruchi at the bakery said he wasn't."

Making a mental note to have a conversation with the older woman later, she grabbed Sasuke's arm and lead him over to Naruto who was no longer cry but looked at the dark haired boy in fear and suspicion.

"No matter what the blood is, Naruto carries the name of the Uchiha." She continued softly, "His hair might be blonde like the sun while ours is dark as night, but don't they belong together, Sasuke?"

Slowly, he began to nod as the anger he felt towards the blue-eyed boy began to melt.

"You hear some horrible things about Naruto, don't you Sasuke?"

He rubbed his hands against the burning of his eyes, not wanting to cry. "They villagers call him names and the kids at school do too."

"How does it make you feel when they say those things?"

"Mad, very mad." He said, looking into the eyes of his mother before he looked back down when realization hit it. He had said some of those things to Naruto just moments ago. "Sad, it made me sad too..."

He looked into blue eyes that hadn't looked away from him, "I'm sorry..." He said, searching for the right words, "Y-you're not dumb or a baby and you might be a lil' different but that's okay – I like it!" Before he could continue Naruto jumped into his arms and the two boy hugged each other tightly. "You are my brother and I'm sorry Naru."

Feeling much better, Naruto grinned at his brother. "It okay, Sa'ke!" In a second the two began to act as if nothing had happened as they ran off to play, leaving the older son and mother to watch after them.

"You are right, mother." Itachi said after a moment, not taking his eyes from the two boys. "Because of the sun's light, the moon is able to glow brightly."

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'Moonlight' is actually the light from the sun, reflecting off the moon, and beaming down to Earth and whatnot!