Pairing: KagomexItachi (with mentions of KagomexInuyasha) and SangoxMiroku.
Rating: T
Chapter Summary: A little friendly... discussion.
The tales of the lost Shinobi.
10: Weasel x dog.
Itachi was never one for philosophical thinking, though, now lost in these strange lands, he had more time to ponder on life's mysteries. Like the fact that his health did one-eighty degree turn - from almost blind - now he exulted in his new find life.
He didn't want to forget his old one though - Sasuke still occupied great deal of what his being meant to be - his baby brother, whom had been the only person Itachi truly loved - in a sibling kind of way. Sasuke, the person who had used a forbidden, forgotten, jutsu on him just to see him gone.
What happened to Sasuke then?
From the slight widening of his brother's eyes when Itachi told him that he was sorry - and what the elder Uchiha knew of Sasuke, Itachi would put money on Sasuke's avenger obsession being turned against Konoha, which is exactly what Madara wants – after said Madara spill every dark little secret to Sasuke.
The shinobi swallowed thickly.
"An apple for your thoughts" He felt Sango's approaching form, but thought nothing of it, since Sango, Miroku and Shippou came and went as they pleased. Right now, Itachi was perched on top of Kaede's hut watching the seemingly endless blue sky above them.
Konoha's sky never been as blue on his point of view.
"My little brother and the mistakes he's bound to commit" Itachi replied to the long haired woman. They had some sort of grudging - on Sango's part - almost friendship going on between them. In which Itachi respected Sango's drive and her fighting spirit, and Sango respected... well... What was there not to respect? - And when he made the what-is-there-not-to-respect Uchiha patented blank face, the time Sango confessed he was not "as bad" as she thought, she tried to pound him with her big-bad-battle boomerang.
"I understand that" Sango mumbled quietly to the shinobi, staring up at him - he was still on the hut's roof - Itachi felt she was about to spill her heart at him though, so he remained silent. "My brother, Kohaku... he murdered all of our family... At the time, he was being controlled by Naraku" She curled her fists in hatred "But I can't bear to think of my little brother in pain... you know? He's dead... but is only able to keep in the living world because of a cursed jewel shard Naraku has in Kohaku's back" Warm brown eyes became soddy.
"I don't know who owns an apple to whom now" Itachi commented, voice devoid of any emotion as he regarded with guarded black eyes the forlorn form of the demon slayer. Sango blinked back some droplets of tears, and tried her best to smile - a watery smile that didn't reach her eyes. But even though he pretended not to be affected by her words, her heart reached up to him and he embraced her pain.
Sango knew that also.
Even if he wasn't going to spill his sad-morbid-depressing life story to her any time soon.
"I owe you an apple" Sango replied to his not-as-much-as-teasing words, opening the wide curve of her pink kimono's sleeve, she took an apple out of it. Itachi caught it when she threw it at him. "Thank you for listening to me" the demon slayer used her hands to shed her eyes from the sun, and waved with the other to Itachi. "If it interests you, Kagome-chan will be back today" Ah, magical words!
Itachi was out of that roof with a leap, landing on his feet a few steps away from Sango - who jumped in fright at the sudden movement - but then proceeded to smile from ear to ear, a knowing smile that would make Miroku proud - all her pain forgotten.
"The dried well by the forest named after the dobe" Sango nodded, without knowing what to say, only the twinkling in her - still moisten - eyes showing the mirth she felt at hearing Inuyasha being called a "dobe".
"Yes, Inuyasha's forest..." Sango confirmed unnecessarily, for when the first syllabi was out of her mouth, Itachi was already half-way across the village, then out of it, then on to the well's location.
"He sure has a lot of energy, doesn't he?" Sango jumped, scared, the second time for that day, when Miroku's voice filled the awkward silence left by herself when Itachi left. So lost in it, she didn't notice when the monk approached and started to talk, startling her.
"Agh! Houshi-sama!" Cried the demon-slayer, deciding then and there, that Miroku would be a perfect outlet for her frustrations. Her fiancée had to get used to her PMS-ing every month now, if he wanted to stay healthy anyway. So with a wicked smile, she turned to Miroku...
Itachi heard his screeching pleas for pity all ways across the valley.
But he had more important things to worry about than the monk's body's integrity at the moment.
Like the fact that the was close to the well. And that he wasn't alone in his pursuit for the priestess - for sitting there, all innocent looking, was Inuyasha - no doubt waiting for Kagome as well.
"Feh! Looks who is here" Inuyasha spat his greetings along with a great deal of poison. Not that the hanyou hid his unfriendliness to Itachi, it was a deeper, territorial thing - the dog didn't want Itachi preaching in his property - thank whatever god was out there that Itachi wasn't a dog as well.
"If you so desire, I can rectify that and make sure you can't see at all" was the darkly whispered answer to Inuyasha's greeting. The half-demon shuddered when an particularly icy wind hit his skin, and for dramatic sake really, Itachi stopped moving, standing there staring emotionlessly at Inuyasha's head. His hands at his sides, his back straight and his legs a few inches apart.
Itachi's favorite attacking position. Thankfully he never stopped his special shinobi training, so he was still as honed as ever... if not more, since he had more time to train... to Inuyasha's ultimate displeasure of course.
"I want to see you try! teme!" silver haired and dog eared boy jumped to his feet, and bailed his fists at Itachi's face. The barking dog doing nothing to scare even one of Itachi's beauty marks - he had one or two scattered at his back - so the shinobi remained immobile, watching Inuyasha's display.
"Don't want to waste my time on you, dobe" the elder Uchiha smirked, a solely used Uchiha smirk - the I-shall-not-waste-more-of-my-time-with-you smirk - the two lines under his eyes curving upward as he used his cheek's muscles to smirk. How rare is that?
"Damn weasel!" Itachi blinked at that jab. Inuyasha was cursing weasels under his breath now.
"Hn, mutt" This time, Inuyasha was the one to blink - cutting off his string of weasel-cursing in favor of staring disbelievingly at the black haired, black eyed shinobi. As if the fact that Itachi called him a "mutt" was something unthinkable.
After a few, dramatic seconds, in which none of them spoke a word or did a thing, Inuyasha took it upon himself - being the one with the shorter fuse - to march up Itachi's face.
Using a finger, Inuyasha was close to do the humiliating-chest-pocking-while-babbling-and-spewing-on-your-face, when Itachi, predicting what the red clad half-demon was about to do, decided to use a sole finger too to prove a point.
At the end of their confrontation, Inuyasha had a red, fingertip-shaped-bruise on his forehead, while Itachi had a satisfied look around him, even if he seemed to be as emotionless as ever.
That was the scene Kagome came to.
"Umm... Itachi-kun, Inuyasha...?" The black haired priestess blinked confusedly, glancing between the two parties. "What happened?" Again, Inuyasha was the first to launch on one epic, totally faked tale of how Itachi was a bastard - Itachi knew, for a fact, that he wasn't a "bastard" thankyouverymuch.
"That bastard" see? And that's all explanation would be limited to.
"I came here to escort you back to the village, Kagome-sama" Itachi bowed his head respectfully. Fully aware of angry golden eyes digging holes at the back of his head.
"Thank you, Itachi-kun!" Kagome smiled at him, adjusting that monstrous yellow back-pack on her shoulder. "C'mon, Inuyasha!" She called to the silver haired hanyou, turning to Itachi with that same smile on her face. "Let's go, Itachi-kun!" Itachi complied.
The word - whipped - flashing through his mind though, as he noticed Inuyasha's sulking form following behind Kagome.
Unknowingly to him, since he couldn't read minds, Inuyasha had something similar going through his head.
Inuyasha's POV
Hunf... that bastard is w-h-i-p-p-e-d! Serves him well!
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