A/N:Not much to say… Except thank you to dear dear Sophee~~ my awesome beta.

Chapter 7

Sasuke quickly dragged Naruto out to the streets. "Okay, you can drop your part now. Do me a favor? Forget today. Forget you know me. Forget everything, and go home. Speak to anyone about this, and you're dead."

Naruto stared at him. "No wonder Hinata-Chan said-"

"You know Hinata?" Sasuke sounded surprised.

"Of course," Naruto replied. "She's my fiancée."

Sasuke nearly choked on his spit, and Naruto had to thump him on the back. He never knew that his dear cousin Hyuuga Hinata had a thing for idiots.

Sasuke quickly darted his eyes towards Itachi, while silently cursing him. How dare he drop such supposedly harmless surprises on him? They always came back to bite him in the ass.

"Well, I'm going to go over to Sakura-Chan to say goodbye. You obviously have some issues -"

Sasuke raised an eyebrow.

"- that need to be resolved," Naruto finished hastily, before walking back towards the roseate.

Sasuke watched as Naruto exchanged phone numbers with Sakura. Some random girl came up to him and tapped him on the shoulder.

"Sorry, I'm not in the mood right now," Sasuke said, quickly rejecting the girl.

Meanwhile, at the booth…

"Sake-San sure is popular with the girls," Sakura observed while sipping her milkshake.

"He's had his share of girls in life," Itachi agreed casually.

"Sake-San doesn't seem to be a player. After all, he was so nice when we met," Sakura stated.

"And you think I'm a player?" Itachi asked.

"Definitely," Sakura agreed, nodding her head.

Itachi quenched his desire to laugh out loud by taking a sip of his coffee. He found it was getting harder and harder to keep a straight face while facing Sakura.

"Well, I think should tell you a little about myself," Itachi said.

Sakura stared.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke, obviously. I adore my older brother, Uchiha Itachi. He is my idol, my star. He is my –"

"- Pain in the ass," Sasuke interjected as he walked over to the table.

"Sake-kun. I see you've returned. Aren't there any women – or men – in this café who are willing to hit on you?" Itachi asked, smiling.

"Sa-Su-Ke, perhaps you should explain why you think inviting Sakura-San into your home is a bad idea?" Sasuke suggested, accenting every syllable.

"Oh yeah, sure," Itachi agreed. "Sakura, would you like to come and visit the Uchiha Manor?"

"SASUKE!" Sasuke yelled at Itachi.

"I mean," Itachi took a sip of his drink before continuing. "If you would like to come, it's fine. But Uchiha Madara is quite scary."

"I think I'm fine in the hotel," Sakura replied sweetly.

"Of course. However, I think it is mandatory for you to come to my grandfather's 78th birthday in two weeks," Itachi said with a smile on his face.

Sasuke pulled out his phone.

"I would be honored! I suppose I could use that chance to meet the rest of the Uchiha family. My father is always talking about you."

"Really? And what does Mr. Haruno say about us?" Itachi asked. He felt his phone vibrating, and quickly checked it under the table. It was a text from Sasuke… The real one.

Aniki, if you don't shut up now, I will hurt you. –Sasuke.

Sakura went on describing all the great things that her father had said about the Uchiha family, completely missing the not so subtle glaring battle between the two men in front of her.

Sasuke pulled out his phone, and saw a reply from Itachi.

Dear foolish little brother. You should thank me for sacrificing myself and pretending to be you. I have a reputation to maintain. Geeze.

Attached was a photo that Itachi took when Sasuke was 5 years old and eating an apple.

Apparently Itachi took the sacred family album and scanned all of the photos onto the computer, then saved them onto his phone.

Sasuke thought he was going insane.

(*~*)

Special Story:

When Sasuke was 5 years old, Itachi was 10.

Sasuke was still at the age where he would blindly trust his brother, and he worshiped Itachi like a God.

Itachi treasured those times. Itachi also took advantage of them, and told Sasuke many things, which Sasuke now blamed the failure of his life on.

"Sasuke," Itachi said, picking him up in his arms. "I've got an apple for you!"

"Yay! I love apples!" Sasuke took the apple and bit into it.

"You know, there is a correct way to eat apples," Itachi told the little boy.

"Am I not doing it correctly?" Sasuke asked.

"No," Itachi replied sternly.

Sasuke was on the brink of tears.

"But don't worry! Aniki will teach you how to eat an apple correctly!" Itachi exclaimed.

Sasuke wiped his eyes and listened.

"First, you must bite the apple while turning it, so you create a ring of bite marks around the apple. When you complete the whole ring, then you are allowed to bite the areas."

Sasuke believed him. So he grew up eating apples in that weird and awkward way. But nobody said anything, because he was an Uchiha. But then, one day, when Sasuke's girlfriend asked him why he ate apples like that, he realized that Itachi had tricked him for 11 years.

"Why? Why did you lie to me? Does that mean the bicycle story is a lie too?" A furious teenage Sasuke confronted his brother, whilst Itachi laughed his head off.

The bicycle story will be told another time.

A/N:

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