Summary: Sasuke and the others just saved Naruto and Kanane from Akatsuki. Itachi got killed, and everything seems to be back to normal. Update: Chapter 10 where Sasuke is still in the hospital with his coma.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, and I doubt I will. Do you think I'm crazy? Lots of crazy people are around you. Believe me. In fact, there's one right now in my house and it's not me. It's a person who takes cares of babies. Are you good at math? Well you can guess with this little equation than to know who I'm talking about. Baby + Sit + ter? You probably know who, so good for you.

Obito: Why are you talking about crazy people and math at a time like this?

Sasuke: Because she has no life and from what I heard and saw, yes, the baby-sitter is odd.

Obito: Don't say she has no life. That hurts you know. I'm dead after all.

Sasuke…

Itachi: Hello foolish little brother.

Sasuke: What are doing here? I thought I killed you.

Itachi: Yes, I am dead thanks to you. (Talks in a spooky, ghostly voice) I am the ghost of Itachi! I come to hunt you for eternal life and torture!

Sasuke: (yawns) Itachi, why do you have a blanket over your head.

Itachi…Being dead does weird things to people…

Sasuke: I'm surrounded by dead people…

"blab" normal text, talk

"blab" thoughts

"blab" author notes

Gasp! From Avenger to Caring Brother?

Chapter 10

Where…am I? A raven haired boy asked. The boy was in his late teens, will be a man in a matter of years. The boy, Sasuke, tried to remember what happened to last time. I killed him…Itachi…dead… He felt like he was in a dream, but he couldn't wake up. What's happening to me? He was still in the same clothes he wore when he killed Itachi. There was blood all over it.

"Sasuke…" Sasuke thought he heard someone calling his name. He turned around to see who it was. The last member of the Uchiha clan had his eyes wide when he saw who it was who called out his him. The person who called his name was a man in his early twenties and also had raven hair. He could have been an older version of Sasuke, but he had longer hair, and looked older than Sasuke by about five years.

Sasuke looked shocked and opened his mouth, "Itachi?"

Kanane was walking back from school. Every since she and Naruto were gone missing, everyone seemed to worry about her. About her 'sickness' that is. Sakura made up that excuse to cover up the commotion from having kids asking her all kinds of questions. Lavender was her in usually snobby attitude and made a comment how she should stay away from her so she couldn't get any germs from her. Kanane by now learned to ignore her completely and continue to do what ever she was doing. Lavender would fume in embarrassment when Kanane's best friend Mirei, made a comment to her that even thought Lavender was a name of a flower, she should have the name Rafflesia.

(A/n: Rafflesia is a flower that smells like rotten meat.)

After that comment, Lavender didn't bother to say anything to Kanane. Than the thought of her brother came to her mind. How was Sasuke doing? From what the nurses said, he was in a coma. Kanane didn't know the word coma as she did with the word avenger. Just today in class, when they were learning how to use the dictionary in Japanese, the Uchiha girl decided to look up the word coma. The definition of the word made Kanane's eye all wide.

Noun: coma (comas, comae)

A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury

A usually terminal tuft of hairs especially on a seed

(astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet; forms as the comet approaches the sun and is warmed

(optics) an aberration giving a V-shaped flare to an image (e.g. a star in an astronomical observation)

A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness usually the result of disease or injury. Kanane didn't like the sound of that at all. How long was Sasuke going to be in that state? She looked up another word.
Verb: avenge

Take revenge for a perceived wrong

That meant that Sasuke must have wanted revenge on his brother. What did his brother do? The young girl wondered.

Kanane got to the door of Sakura's place and came into the kitchen to get a snack. It was an apple. She heard someone behind her. "How are you doing?" It was Sakura.

"I don't feel good." Kanane mumbled. "Is Sasuke going to be in a coma forever?"

Sakura looked shocked at her question and said, "Well, we don't know for sure. But he might get better." The girl tried not to think of her former crush dieing from that coma. The Uchiha girl took and few more bits from her apple and stared at the clouds. "What did Sasuke's brother do to get killed? Why did Sasuke wanted to avenge his clan for?"

Sakura this time was not prepared to answer this question. "Sasuke didn't tell you did he?" The girl shook her head. Sakura said, "Sasuke probably didn't tell you, he's not comfortable talking about his past. But you want me to tell you, don't you?" Kanane nodded and started to listen to Sakura of what happened to her brother.

Back to Sasuke. "Itachi?" Yes, it was Itachi indeed. He was there all right, but he didn't have his Sharingan activated and his headband had no scratch on the surface.

"Little brother…" was Itachi's response. Sasuke was more confused with this.

"What are you doing here? I thought I killed you." He said and clutched his fist tightly.

Itachi looked at his brother and said to him. "I am dead. I'm just his spirit." Sasuke looked at him, not believing this. "What are you doing here for?"

"I would like to thank you for killing me." The Uchiha prodigy answered.

"Huh?" Sasuke was shocked. His brother thanked him for killing him? This was insane! "What did you thank me for? Why were do happy to be dead? Weren't you happy to kill me as well? You killed the clan!"

"When I became a genin at age seven, mom and dad were proud. Proud to have a son who was a prodigy. Getting the Sharingan at age eight and becoming an ANBU at thirteen made them even prouder." Sasuke stared. What was Itachi telling him this for? "Father wanted me to take every mission when I was an ANBU to make our ties between the clan and the Hokage even closer. Everybody expected a lot from me as the Uchiha prodigy. You know that father never really accepts you as being good enough. He always pulled us just for the sake of the clan." Itachi stopped to pause for a minute. "I let you live after the Uchiha massacre to suppress me. Killing me was a favor to let me end my life. You showed me that you got stronger and that I'm not a prodigy after all."

"That wasn't an excuse to kill our parents." Sasuke mumbled.

Itachi than said, "Yes, I guess using an excuse is no use." Sasuke was a bit surprised to hear that Itachi agreed him there. "Remember that man Obito?"

Obito…Of course Sasuke remembered. "Wasn't he that man who used to come visit us sometimes?" Itachi nodded. "He talked to us sometimes, until that night when…he died."

Itachi remembered those two kids who kept hostage. "That little girl there, a relative of ours huh? She's his daughter isn't she?"

Sasuke looked at the ground and said, "Yeah." He thought, sometimes, I wish that life was always peaceful like this.

Kanane was in bed. Now she knew what happened between Sasuke and Itachi. She felt sorry for Sasuke. It seemed like she was going to stay with Sakura for a while until Sasuke would wake up from his coma. Mom…Dad…I wish you were here to help.

Where the Akatsuki hideout it. A shadowy figure appeared. There was some whispering going on. An Akatsuki member whispered something to the leader. He wasn't going to be very happy with the new. "WHAT?! The fox and the girl escaped?! Where are they!?"

"They were rescued by the Konoha ninjas. Itachi also got killed by one of them." Deidara told their leader. The leader angrily slammed the table with his fists. The two hostages had escaped and one of his best members was killed. This just wasn't his best day at all.

"Kanane? Are you alright up there?" Sakura called out. Sakura thought of Kanane as a brat since the day she had to deliver her to Sasuke's house, but she wasn't too bad now. The young Uchiha looked at Sakura and cried. Sakura looked started and said, "There, there, don't cry. Sasuke's going to be alright." She wiped some tears from the young girl.

"I-I miss…mom and dad!" The Uchiha girl stuttered and continued crying.

Sakura never stopped to think to wonder if this girl remembered her parents at all. "You remember your parents?" Kanane cried softly and nodded. "Why don't you tell me about it?" And the two talked for a while until it was dinner time.

"Itachi…did you really cared about me. Or was it an act like you told me that night?" Sasuke asked his older brother.

"That was no act. But I told you it was an act anyway." Itachi turned to his brother and said. "What do you want to become a ninja for, now that I'm dead?" He waited for an answer.

"I…" Sasuke started. "I want to save my friends. We saved Naruto from Akatsuki, but Akatsuki might go after him again. If I couldn't save our clan, than I save my friends. They're all I got now…and Kanane."

(A/n: Sorry for such a lame answer.)

"You care a lot about them don't you?" Itachi commented.

"Be quiet." Sasuke was irritated with the Uchiha prodigy's sarcasm.

"Hn."

"Will you stop hning?" An anime vein appeared on Sasuke's forehead. It was like old days when the two would argue all day over a simple thing. Mikoto would than have to separate the two to stop their argument. "When am I going to wake up from this stupid coma!?"

"I'll say the least is in a month of two." The older Uchiha reply.

Great, a month or two. Sasuke thought sarcastically. "Thanks for telling me that." There was sarcasm there.

"Hmph, you didn't have to be grumpy foolish little brother." Itachi ruffled Sasuke's hair. Sasuke didn't seem to like this much. "If you don't like my company, fine than. Ta ta." And Itachi disappeared.

"Wait!" Sasuke screamed. Too late, Itachi was gone. Sigh, if there was such a place as heaven, where would Itachi and I end up? He wondered. They have both became an S-rank criminal at one point.

A/n: Sorry this chapter is short. It's kind of hard to think here. I'll try to make my next chapter longer and better. Can someone please give me some suggestions? That would be very nice of you. Are you people reading this for real, or are you just doing this to trick me. Letting me think that people enjoy reading? R&R please.

Sasuke: That was short.

Itachi: (nods) Just like that shorty kid from FullMetal Alchemist.

Edward: WHO ARE YOU CALLING A SHORTY THAT HE CAN'T BE SEEN EVEN UNDER AN ADVANCE MIRCROSCOPE THAT YOU HAVE TO USE THE THICKEST LENSES TO NOTICE A SPECK AT ALL?!!?!

Itachi: (glares) You're annoying.

Alphonse: Edward, be nice.

Edward: (grumbles)

Who will win in a fight? The Elric Brothers or the Uchiha Brothers? No one will know because Sasuke hates Itachi and Edward hates it when Al stuffs kitties in his armor. The war of Brothers begin in the show: Anime Wars. Comming to a channel near you on October 13 2015.