Chapter 10. Ki and Sasuke.

"Well, man…That was …strong, I'm telling you."

Sasuke smirked at him.

"Tch."

"Okay, just to make it clear. You and Itachi have been together for several months?"

"Hn"

"... and he is, like, recently married?"

"Hn"

"... and his wife is expecting, right?"

"Hn"

"And you are okay with that?"

Sasuke jumped up and shot Ki a glare

"Of course I'm not okay with that! But what the fuck can I do?!"

"It's alright, man. I'm just making a point here. Nobody's judging you. Geez, you've got even worse temper than my grandmother!"

Ki said and Sasuke landed back on the chair, a bit calmer. Seriously, he had to work on his temper issues, especially when people were trying to help him. And were actually even doing it. In the meantime Ki continued.

"And she didn't know anything about you two being like…close? Right? All this time she thought you two were friends, right?"

"Hn"

"And the other day she saw you two making out in the corridor?"

"We were not making out! He pressed me in the wall and kissed and she saw it…I think "

Sasuke got irritated and pissed, but reconsidered. It all sounded very pervy-type-like when Ki put it that way. It all sounded very wrong. And he was ashamed.

"Okay. You were not making out. Itachi tried to kiss you and you were fighting back. But…-" Ki narrowed his eyes at Sasuke and that felt like interrogation. Then the question followed.

"…How comes that you all three live together? C'mon, man, how old are you, huh? What about your parents?"

"17. And my parents are dead."

"Ok, 17. You know it could be very bad consequences for him anyway, right? And don't you have anyone looking after you? "

"I'm not a baby to look after!"

"I'm not saying you are, man." Ki started getting an unpleasant suspicion that if he didn't soothe up the tension right about now, the furniture in Ayano's apartment would suffer badly. Within short.

"Okay, man. That's how it is. Your Itachi can go to prison for this, if his wife reports it. He did not have any choice but to give in to her demands- you are moving out and that's it. Win-win. You start a new life. Maybe in some time, you will find a partner you will fall in love with and your Itachi has a wife. They are having a baby, man! If he wanted to leave her for you he wouldn't have married her, right? Sorry, man. It seems he had used you. Shit happens. Get over it.".

Sasuke felt he was on the boarders. On the boarders to smash Ki's head with his fist. Luckily there was some rational part of him that screamed just in right time, that it was probably not at all a good idea, to spill the brains of a person who was trying to help him out of purely altruistic reasons.

"Itachi would never do that to me! He would never do that to anybody!"

"No? Sorry man, maybe I'm wrong and your Itachi is a saint. But it's either or. Either he has been using you while banging Kushima and made her with child or he is using her to cover up for what he's been doing to you. It's no other way."

Sasuke swallowed. No. No. No. It can't be.

"I'm sorry Sasuke", Ki said, getting up from his place and coming up to Sasuke. He was just about to put a hand on his shoulder but Sasuke hit his hand away.

"Get the fuck out! Don't you fucking dare talk this way about him. He is not like that."

Ki didn't move.

"I'm sorry, man. It's shit."

"You don't know him. He would never do anything like that. He would never..."

Sasuke felt tears running down his cheeks. Fuck, it was not supposed to end that way. It was not true. Itachi would never do that, neither to him, not to her.

From the other side- deep inside, and frankly speaking it was not that deep inside- Sasuke perfectly realized that there could be truth in what Ki said. Just it didn't match with his Itachi. His Itachi.

Sasuke stopped abruptly. He caught to one thought. He was his Itachi, not Kushima's.

"I don't think he sleeps with her", Sasuke said at last.

Ki returned back to is chair.

"No? Okay, what's the point of marrying then? And what about the child? Is it a holy- kid, from the non- sex relationship?"

Sasuke's face reddened.

"C'mon, man. Grow up. He had chosen her over you. Get over it. Either way, there is no turning back. If you go there or try to see him- he goes to prison, that's what I think. That was all this Kushima needed to say to him to make sure her marriage stays in one piece."

"Why didn't she kick me out?" Sasuke breathed out already in half-whisper. It started getting to him, all the seriousness of the situation. Could it be that he had lost Itachi forever? Never see him again? Or even worse, bump into him somewhere on the mission or in town, with him and Kushima holding hands and a little brat running beside, scoffing ice-cream?

Sasuke felt like screaming. Instead he repeated in hardly audible voice that got louder to the end of the phrase, until he nearly shouted at Ki, smashing his fists against the table and sending sushi-pieces flying in all directions.

"Why the fuck did she cuddle me? Why the fuck did she give me money and asked for my new address? Why the fuck-?"

"She felt sorry for you, man."

That was like a whip over the wounds. Sasuke couldn't hold himself anymore, he landed back on the chair and dropped his head on his hands on the table, shoulders shaking. Ki came up to him and put a hand on his shoulder, sitting next to him on the chair.

"Hey, man. It will go over. Don't kill yourself. You can't do a shit here now. Let's get drunk instead".

Sasuke lifted his head and looked at Ki.

"I need to see him"

Ki shook his head.

"Eh-eh, man. That's a really bad idea.-"

"I have to, Ki. I must see him. I have to ask him."

"-And he goes to prison. Is that what you want?"

Sasuke stared at him. It was a really bad situation.

"No."

Ki thought for a minute then said in a firm voice.

"Listen, Sasuke. I don't usually do it. Actually, I never do it. But let's say like that, I'll go and see your Itachi and try to talk to him. I don't know if it's a good idea or not. He might just chop me to bits or throw a shuriken at me just for the fun of it and for me sticking my nose in other people's private lives. But I'll give it a try."

Sasukes' face got a worried expression, but he felt somehow at relief. It didn't feel as hopeless/ emo/ no future anymore. But again, yeah, Itachi might really 'chop Ki to bits' for intrusion and then there was this little problem…

"But..-" Ki stopped and looked at Sasuke.

But…of course there must be a 'but', there is always a 'but'. Nothing can be simple, thought Sasuke and all tensed at this thought.

"What..'but'?"

"But either way, you are getting drunk today, man. Sorry, but I've got this suspicion, that I will need to get drunk myself too after this little chat with your Itachi".

Sasuke smirked at that.

"Yeah, if you live, that is"

Ki smiled wide too.

"Yeah, if I live. That's for sure."

N/A: Phew! Now it's to wait what happens between those two. Actually, would be funny to see how Itachi's gonna react on Ki's lectures/questions..hehe.

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