Whee....next part...a dive into the past? Oh yeah, by the way the other person I was talking about changed their character back, oh well..XD Not like I wanted them to be there anyway...Uchihacest implications! Oh, and NaruGaa, chibi style.

I don't own anything. Yay.

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There was a puff of smoke and Itachi appeared in the field, leaning against a building with a slight sigh. What a day.

Sasuke gated into the field, his face a mask of childish determination.

Chibi Naruto puffed in on Sasuke's head, blinking.

Kuree gates in and saves.

'KONICHIWA!'

She said loudly, trying to scare people.

Little Gaara appeared in the field, looking around with his hands at his mouth.

Itachi noticed the chibis...and groaned noticably. Reminded him the day wasn't over yet, and yes, things could get worse.

Upon Kureejii's entrance, Naruto fell off of Sasuke's head and onto the ground, adjusting his goggles on his head.

Pepsiboy: He gated in and looked around. Hello.

The red-haired boy toddled over to Itachi and stared up at him with wide, unblinking eyes.

Itachi's eyes fell upon Sasuke, and he let a smile grace his face. His little brother was so cute...

Inuyasha: Gates in and saves " YAY I FOUND GAARA! "

Gaara turned around and waved his little hand at the PC. " Doggy," he stated, still waving.

Kureejii: 'ooo hello sasuke...Naruto!'

She said walking over to the two and kneeled down.

Naruto looked at Sasuke, then at the ground, just sitting there. He recognized the dark haired boy somewhat, he was the one the village was so proud of all the time, the exact opposite of himself.

"Aniki!" Face split with a wide grin, Sasuke ran over to Itachi. "What are you doing?"

Kureejii: 'eh? Naruto sad...aww it's ok'

She said putting her cat plushie on the boys head.

Gaara blinked his huge, blank eyes, his hands still at his mouth.

Itachi knelt down and ruffled Sasuke's hair. "Watching you today I suppose." He smiled at the boy.

Naruto looked up at Kureejii, confused, as he moved his goggles up onto his forehead and off his eyes. "You don't look at me like they do..."

Kureejii: 'eh?...'

Now confused, at who he was talking about but whatever.

'well I'm sure they have a very good reason'

nod

Inuyasha: walks over to Gaara and hugs him then walks over to Naruto and hugs him.

Sasuke blushed, still grinning madly. "Aniki, I like it so much when you spend time with me!"

Kureejii: 'hey! what about me?? you missed me!'

She said loudly poking inuyasha in the arm.

Inuyasha: walks over to Kureejii and hugs her " there happy? "

Kureejii; 'sure.'

She then poked inuyasha again...and again...and again..

Itachi knelt down so the boy could climb up on his back. "Where to Sasuke-chan?"

Rikku gated in and saved her game

She stepped off the gate and landed softly on the ground. She stretched out her arms above her head. "Ah, it's been a while..." She mumbled to herself, and then saw Chibi Naruto and Chibi Sasuke. She blinked and then smiled. "Aww, cuute." Then she looked around again and waved at the other pc's. "Hello."

Sitting down, Gaara watched the two brothers mutely.

Sasuke blinked soberly and clambered up the bigger boy's back, clinging tight like a monkey and poking his chin over Itachi's shoulder. "Anno... Anywhere's okay, Aniki."

Naruto's eyes watered and he moved his goggles back down again, walking away from Kureejii and Inuyasha.

They must have a good reason for it... "But I didn't do anything at all..."

Kureejii: 'Heyo rikku!'

She said waving to her.

Inuyasha: " Nu walking away! " grabs Naruto and hugs him again.

Itachi nodded and stood up, Sasuke on his back. He looked at the others and blinked a bit.

Rikku waved back at Kureejii. "Hey Kuree." Then she noticed Chibi Gaara and walked towards him. "Hello." Then she raised one of her hands and waved at Uchiha Itachi, noticing he was looking around at the pcs here.

Gaara turned his head to look up at her, his large eyes narrowing a bit. "You just want to kill me."

Naruto squeaked and slid Inuyasha's arms off of him. "If they've got a good reason to look at me like that then you should too."

Rikku blinked. "Wow, you're good. How did you know? What gave it away?" She asked sarcastically.

"N? Aa..." Itachi waved back slightly, careful not to drop his brother.

Naruto walked off again to be alone like always.

Inuyasha: " I'm confuzed at what you just said " pokes Naruto then looks over at Rikku and growls " My Gaara mine! "

Gaara continued glaring. "I knew because everyone wants to kill me."

Rikku: She heard Inuyasha and turned her head slightly to look at him. "...o...k?" She said uncertainly. Then she looked back at Chibi Gaara. "Well... why would I want to kill you?"

Kureejii: 'eh...don't be so sad....No one hates you hear...'

She said loudly running after him seeing that Naruto has her stuffed plushie on his head.

"Anikiiiii, why is that lady waving at you?" From behind Itachi's head Sasuke's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Gaara? Suna no Gaara? THE Gaara? What's he doing here..." Itachi'd heard of the kid that was similar to Uzumaki but came from Sunagakure.

"I'm...not quite sure Sasuke..." He blinked and ruffled the boy's hair over his shoulder. "Don't worry about it."

"Why do they all have to look at me like that! It makes me so angry!" Naruto spun around and pointed at Kureejii.

The younger Uchiha's voice took on a slightly complaining tone. "But I can't help worrying about it." Neverless Sasuke tilted his head a bit and closed his eyes, fitting snugly in the curve of Itachi's neck. "You're so strong, Aniki!"

Kureejii: '....eh am i bothering you?'

She asked seeing that he was pointing at her. She then reaching out to his head for her cat plushie.

Itachi smiled and patted Sasuke's head. "You'll be too, you're going to make a fine shinobi, Sasuke."

"Why do they look at me like that! Like I'm some kind of bottomfeeding scum! Just because I don't have any parents doesn't mean they have to ignore me and then when they DO look at me it's with those eyes!"

Black eyes snapped wide open. "You think so?" Sasuke asked. He paused and considered the statement. "Father keeps telling me to be strong like you, Aniki. But what if I can't be as strong?" His features transformed into an expression of childish worry. "Sometimes I think about that."

"You shouldn't compare yourself to me, Sasuke...I'm me, and you're you. You can't possibly be me, that would just be impractical."

Rikku: "Hm..." She turned around, and glanced around at the pcs. Feeling she didn't belong there, she called to Kureejii. "I..I'm going to go now, Kuree. See you later."

Rikku gated out

Sasuke cocked his head. "Uh... I guess that makes sense." He shrugged as well as he could, arms still occupied with clinging to Itachi.

"Sasuke..." Itachi began, pausing to wait for the boy's response.

"Hm?" It wasn't like his brother to trail off. His brother was always decisive about everything. His brother was so strong. "What is it?"

Gaara's bright, blank eyes moved to Naruto. "Those eyes...yes, those eyes...."

Naruto ran over to Gaara and poked him in the forehead. "You know what I mean? You know those eyes too?"

"...yes..." Gaara replied softly. "I know what eyes you're talking about..."

Kureejii: '...eh? neko-chan what eyes are they talking about...are they talking about the evil stare where everyone doesn't want to talk to you and then they think your a scary child?'

She asked really fast to her cat plushie.

Itachi's eyes softened in thought as he looked at the ground. "Sasuke...I wouldn't want you to be like me..." He closed his eyes for a moment and opened them again. "You love me, right, Sasuke?"

Tears welled up in the blonde's baby blue eyes and he hugged Gaara out of the blue.

Gaara's eyes snapped open wide as he gingerly patted the blond boy's shoulder.

"You know what it's like to have all those eyes looking at you all the time and people running away! It's horrible!"

Slightly puzzled, Sasuke replied, "Yeah, Aniki, I love you a lot! You're my big brother, how couldn't I?"

Kureejii: 'eh...I'm guessing there strange children that don't exprience love...I guess.'

She said as she then walked over to gaara and Naruto.

'so why are you hugging each other? is it your long lost brothers or it's just your fiends?'

"...it's best for them to just die..." Gaara whispered in reply.

"Nn..." Innocent. So innocent. Itachi sighed slightly and ruffled the boy's hair again. "You love me the same as mother and father, right, Sasuke?"

Kureejii; '....why would you want people to die? is it because there being mean? well if there mean then yeah they should die.'

She said with a nod trying to understand gaara but then understadning herself because she's now confused.

"You think so?" Naruto blinked and wiped his eyes, big, innocent, cute, sad, baby blue orbs looking at Gaara.

Sasuke's features screwed up in thought. "But Aniki, Mother and Father are Mother and Father, and you're Aniki! You said it wasn't fair to compare you to others. So that's not it at all!" His voice contained surprising vehemence for one so young.

"But you love me in a way that is similar to the way you love them, do you not?" Itachi was almost cursing himself for bringing up that whole comparison thing.

Gaara blinked twice, then smiled. "Shhh, don't cry.... Of course they're better off dead..." Gaara said, continuing to whisper. Somebody else that knew those eyes...

If anything Sasuke looked even more confused. "But all love is love, right? So all love is like all other love. You're talking weird, Aniki."

Naruto clung to Gaara more tightly, sniffling. "You know them...so you're like me..."

Kureejii: falls over in confusion of the two boys seeing that they were ignoring her.

'ok...well I'm going to go..'

She decides to leave.

Kureejii gates out.

Itachi sighed in defeat. It was too early to explain such things to Sasuke now, he was too pure and innocent...the boy would either find out for himself or hear from somebody else, either that or his innocence and purity would have to be marred before he would be able to tell him of such things, perhaps.

The little boy sighed and rested his head on Itachi's shoulder again. "Whatever, Aniki," Sasuke said, voice muffled from his face pressed against Itachi's cloak.

Running a tentative hand through Naruto's hair, trying to comfort him, Gaara replied, "If they can make anyone like this, they deserve to die." A child's response, to be sure, but here was one child who could probably carry it out...

Sasuke shrugged and slid off Itachi's back, sprinting to the gate. "I have to go, but I'll see you later!" He waved energetically before gating out.

Itachi sighed again and slid down against the wall of the building, looking up at the starry night sky.

Naruto blinked a bit and then nuzzled against Gaara's little...poncho...thing...whatever it was.

Gaara leaned his head against Naruto's bright hair. "...better off dead..." he mumbled.

Itachi closed his eyes and listened to the sounds of the city, vaguely tracing over missions and deaths in his mind.

The blonde smiled and looked at Gaara. "My name's Naruto, what's yours?"

"I am Gaara," he said with a cute little smile.

Naruto smiled back, hugging Gaara so hard it was likely to topple them over.

Gaara giggled a little, then patted Naruto on the head with a pale hand. "I'll be back," he whispered just before he froze.

Naruto frowned a bit and then sat down next to Gaara, leaning against his leg.

Itachi thought about Sasuke, and how he almost didn't want him to become a shinobi...because that would mean that he would kill and see death...lots of death...

He pulled a kunai out of his pocket and hurled it at a round sign across the way, nailing it dead center.

Sasuke gated back in. "Hello, Aniki!" He sprinted over to Itachi, short limbs pumping energetically.

Itachi snapped out of his daydreaming and smiled at Sasuke, a deep down slightly sad look betrayed in his eyes, but covered well.

Subtle as the emotion flickering under Itachi's impassive features was, Sasuke caught it. "Is something wrong?" He blinked up at Itachi, concerned.

"Of course not, everything's fine Sasuke." Itachi smiled and motioned the boy to sit in his lap.

The boy obeyed, sprawling over his brother, but remained troubled. "It didn't look like everything was fine," Sasuke muttered a little rebelliously.

"It's fine." Itachi said sternly, sharingan eyes looking down at his brother.

Sasuke sighed and acquiesced. "Alright. If you say so."

Itachi's eyes faded back to normal and he ruffled Sasuke's hair. "How's your training coming along?"

"I'm getting stronger." The boy's chest puffed out in obvious pride, then deflated, crestfallen. "Not as strong as you though. But I'm first in my class," he added, perking up.

"You don't say? I told you, you'll be a fine shinobi..." Itachi smiled, but there was a slightly heavy undertone hinting at regret and sadness.

"You think?" Sasuke continued without waiting for an answer. "A lot of the kids at the Academy are kind of stupid. But they're nice to me. Especially the girls for some reason." His nose wrinkled with distaste.

"Little Sasuke's popular with the ladies!" The elder brother ruffled the boy's hair again, teasingly.

"Eeeeeeew," the boy replied, laughing in spite of himself. "Girls are stupid. This one girl, Sakura, keeps talking to me and looking at me and telling me to save her and stuff." Sasuke looked mystified for a moment, then his expression cleared. "I told her she was being a chicken."

"It's 'cause she likes you, Sasuke." Itachi grinned and batted his eyelashes in a rather stereotypical flirty girl way, tweaking his voice to be about as girly as he could. "Oooh Sasuke-chan you're soooo pretty marry meeee!"

Sasuke stared at Itachi in horror. "How'd you know she said that??"

The little red-haired boy unfroze and looked down at Naruto, smiling. "I'm sorry, but I have to go... Goodbye," Gaara whispered, and then he was gone.

Itachi laughed a bit. "Because I know everything!" He started tickling Sasuke viciously.

"Oh...bye..." Naruto looked sad as the redhead had already left. He too walked over to the gate and just sat there, alone.

The small boy shrieked with laughter, writhing and twisting to get away, but giving as good as he got in the tickling arena. Unfortunately for Sasuke, Itachi wasn't particularly ticklish, so after a bit Sasuke gave up in that arena.

Itachi chuckled and stopped tickling Sasuke, ruffling the boy's hair. "You're sure to be a hit with the girls, probably be able to get any one of them you want." He smiled at his little brother, even though the words hit home hard for him.

Sasuke's nose wrinkled again, in the distaste natural for a boy his age to have for the opposite sex... "Girls are icky, though. They follow you around and look at you funny and ask you to marry them and things. When I grow up," he continued, "I'm gonna make them all stay away from me. All I need is you and Mother and Father, anyway."

Despite knowing that it was typical for Sasuke's age, Itachi couldn't help but smile and feel all tingly at that. "If you say so, Sasuke, if you say so.."

"Why d'you say that? That's what I say to Father when he says things that I don't believe." Sasuke looked slightly suspicious.

"No reason..." Itachi muttered, looking up at the sky again.

Sasuke shrugged. "Well Aniki, I have to go. But I'll talk to you about this later?" And, leaving off with that hopeful statement, he gated out.

Itachi sighed at the absence of the snuggly warm little boy on his lap and closed his eyes.

Insert Uchiha sappiness, a random idiot attacking Itachi, two other random idiots ruining the whole "You won't hurt Sasuke I'll kill you" big brother heroness of Itachi and killing the guy then leaving without so much as a blink, Itachi getting cut on the arm just lightly, Sasuke being confused over what Itachi meant when he said "Promise me you'll never grow up to be like me..." and the whole "You love me just like mother and father, right?" and stuff and so not getting what Itachi means by it...-Coughgottalurveit- and of course Itachi's depressing self-contained thoughts of incestual things that he cannot ever bear to reveal to Sasuke for fear of spoiling the purity and innocence that is his little brother. Oh yeah, and just as a note, Sasuke has a crush on Itachi, he just doesn't know it, and not to mention he doesn't even know what it means to like somebody "that way" and Itachi is of course, madly in love with Sasuke, but doesn't want to taint him with his own sins so yeah blah blah same old story. Whee. Will continue later. Er...I didn't get to save the last part that's why it's paraphrased...paragraph phrased that is...cause yeah...that wasn't really short...