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"All I Want"
Chapter 11: My Disease
About 40 minutes later Itachi and Konan returned with a woman. "Hello Sasuke-kun" she smiled, "I'm Tsunade, the one who looked after your wounds. I've done some talking with your brother about your behavior and I came to a conclusion." Sasuke gulped. A conclusion. The old hag sounded serious. "Wha-what is it? What's wrong with me?"
"Hn, psychotic depression" Sasuke repeated, typing the words into the search bar. He found a professional-looking article and began reading. After a few moments his face fell. "Agitation, anxiety, delusions or hallucinations... this sounds just like me." Suigetsu picked his head up from Sasuke's lap to look at the monitor. "Sauce, why didn't you tell anyone?" The raven looked up from the bright screen and stared at the empty chairs where Itachi, Konan and Tsunade had sat earlier while discussing some stuff. He hadn't cared to listen to what the woman had to say; it was some mumbo jumbo about brain chemicals, medication and something called a hippocampus.
"I was just embarrassed I guess." Here we go, back to that 'I guess' thing again. Suigetsu hated how his lover kept things from him. "Babe, I wish you would've at least told me." He furrowed his brow and stared down. Sasuke gently held his hands and pulled him to his chest, lacing his thin fingers through the snow-white hair. "Sui, I just don't like to worry you."
He leaned in to kiss his shark when the door opened. Suigetsu jumped back and Tsunade entered, handing Sasuke a clipboard. "I need you to sign these papers for your release this evening." Sasuke hastily scribbled his signature and handed the papers back to Tsunade, who then handed him a slip of paper. "What's this?" he asked as she was exiting the room. "Your prescription." And she left closing the door behind her.
"Dammit Sauce, we always get walked in on!" Suigetsu pouted. Sasuke smiled at the cute display and ruffled his hair. "Well" Sasuke started, seductively removing his pale blue hospital gown and exposing his creamy flesh, "Itachi won't be here for another hour or so." Suigetsu chuckled and strattled his lover. "You really want to do this? In a hospital?" "Why not?"
As soon as he walked into the house, Sasuke plopped himself on the living room couch. He turned on the TV and began watching some mindnumbing show about some unneccessarily tan people living in a house together at some beachy place in America. "Yous and yous is all bitches!" one of the girls screamed as Sasuke's brain entered shutdown mode. He rebooted as soon as he heard Itachi come snickering out of the kitchen with two steaming cups of citrus tea. "Really otouto, the Jersey people?"
Sasuke smirked taking a cup and motioning for Itachi to join him. "I dunno, it seemed to be something that didn't really require a thought process." Itachi snickered again and changed the channel. He had always been a big fan of those nature shows, especially the ones with lions. He leaned back on the couch to enjoy the felines when, out of absolute nowhere, Sasuke cuddled up to his chest, wrapping his arms around his aniki. Itachi smiled and ruffled the duckbutt below him, taking time to enjoy the scene. Sasuke was cuddly by nature, he always had been, but as the two aged they cuddled less and less and Itachi really missed it.
"Oh Sasuke, I have something for you." Itachi got up and left for a moment and returned with a bright pink envelope. "This came in the mail while you were in the hospital." Sasuke smiled as he found the return address. He opened the envelope and pulled out probably the most bizzarely decorated card he had ever seen in his life. It was made from neon green cardstock and had a bunch of peacock stickers surrounding the words "Happy Birthday!" that were written in gold glitter. He opened it and a slip of paper fell out, but he was more intent on reading the message:
Happy 18th, doll!
I can't even believe that you're an adult now. I still remember when you popped out of Mikoto all those years ago. Damn, you were just the cutest little thing! Anyways I hope you enjoy being young. Because you get old. FAST.
Love always,
Grandma Madara
Sasuke laughed ludicrously as he picked up the slip of paper. Only his 'grandma' Madara was capable of pulling something like this. He set aside Madara's handiwork and glanced at the slip of paper, eyes widening in shock. "It's a check." he muttered. "Well that's awfully nice of 'grandma'" Itachi muttered, slightly shuddering at the nickname. "Nii-san it's a check for 5000 dollars."
Itachi shrugged and pushed aside his slight jelousy to return to his lions. Sasuke put the check back into the exuberant card and placed them on the table, snuggling up to Itachi once more. The two sat in silence for a while watching the sandy-haired predators go about their daily lives.
"Itachi-nii, you and Konan... you guys are pretty serious, right?" The elder raven was startled to have been asked about his private life. "Well, yeah. She and I have been off and on for years now, but we've been steady for a while." He reached over to his tea on the table and took a sip. Sasuke internally debated whether or not to push the subject further, and decided to keep trucking. "Do you ever think of marrying her?" Itachi choked a little, but gracefully recovered. "Uhm, sometimes. But marriage is something to be taken very seriously. I love Konan a lot but I think I'm too young to settle down."
Itachi sighed and twitched an eyebrow. Why the hell was he telling these things to his brother? Why the hell would Sasuke care about marriage? "Itachi-nii, I love Suigetsu. And I want to marry him someday." The elder raven felt his heart sink deep into his chest; gay marriage was legal but in his mind oh so wrong. He sighed and tilted his head back. "If that's what you wish."
The nature program was at its uhh 'climax' when two lions began mating. The two Uchiha snickered as the dark-maned male ravaged the female for a few seconds. "I wonder if there are gay lions?" Sasuke mumbled. Itachi rolled his eyes. "I'm sure Madara has a whole farm of them." The ravens laughed and spent the rest of the day doing their best 'overly-gay zookeeper Madara' impersonations.
Author's Note: THE END. Haha no, just kidding we are FAR from the end. -_-
Did anyone else enjoy overly-gay Madara? I sure as hell did. I wonder if Sasuke'll really go through with the marriage thing. Because 5000 dollars is plenty enough for an engagement ring... tee hee (;
Seriously though Madara... PEACOCKS?!
