A/N: Uggh, didn't mean to make everyone cry, just wanted to express some darkness, gomen =-=;;. Don't worry edyshi6, I'm not going to put Shika with a dude! Shika is soulfully straight and will stay that way. He's only for Ino! Long live ShikaIno! Thanks Kisu-sama, Kou Haruko-sama, LQ, emir, Shibbie, DancingMonkeyLikeBanana and everyone else for the lovely reviews, I am blessed, blessed I say! Itachi has been on the mind lately, heh heh. Speaking of which, read this new chap.

WARNING!: Rated R for violence, gore, suicide (again), a little bit of Sasuke torture and darkness. Oh, and some implied yaoi. Beware.

Disclaimer: I own the Uchiha child, Kishimoto owns the rest.

Enjoy.

Shadow of the Blue Sharingan

Chapter 5: Brotherly Love

Written by: teckno

Leaves blew lightly above the still figure as he quietly observed the people, all dressed in black,depart from the funeral, at a distance under a tree. He could spot the InoShikaCho jounin trio with Inoshi cradling a sleeping bundle in his arms, and Choji still gathered around Ino's smiling framed portrait. His fingers raked the crusted lining of bark at the side, eyes fixed at the bundle.

Her ceremony had finally come to an end.

"YOU'RE THE FATHER! YOU HAVE TO BE WITH ME! YOU JUST HAVE TO!"

A few of Ino's final words rang endlessly inside his head as he continued to stand there and watch with emotionless red eyes.

"If you slept with me, then you DO LOVE ME!!!"

Her words echoed at the side of his ear. He cringed, rubbing his lobes and then his growing temples.

Love?

The thought of such a word caused him to fight back a bitter chuckle.

LOVE!?

His body tensed at the second utterance, a habit he'd created through the years before they would enter his conscious. "Fuck." He gave a submissive grunt, relaxing his shoulders as the rush attacked him … as it did every night when he closed his eyes for sleep.

[flashback]

"Nii-san! Let's practice training today! Oi! Listen to me, Nii-san!"

The small boy impatiently tugged at his elder brother's long dark ponytail from the back, begging and pleading for a simple "Yes!" or "Okay!" from him.

As hoped, the older boy turned and replied with a gentle warm smile. "Alright, Sasuke. I'll meet you outside." His deep scarlet eyes glistened with delight as he watched his younger brother's small bright face light up with excitement.

"Oh, Yay!" The overjoyed child flung his arms around his older brother's neck and quickly let go to run blindly out of the house and into the grassy yard with bare feet. "Hayaku, Itachi nii-san, Hayaku!" cried the young boy, jumping and screaming, waving his arms frantically in the air, exerting all his energy, in efforts to catch his older brother's attention.

"Coming, coming. I can hear you Sasuke." Itachi shook his head, taking off the white armor and katana blade that he wore all morning. He placed it on the bed and then stretched out his arms as he made his way to the door.

"I-tah-chi-nii-san! Hur-ry up!" Sasuke screamed in syllables, cupping his hands around his mouth, hoping that his brother would understand the words this time.

Itachi was finally at the door, the sun reflecting the red mark on his arm--the red swirling marks of an elite ANBU warrior, a squad leader at that. He crossed his arms and eyed the hyperactive child running about the yard with a dubbed kunai. The older boy couldn't help but to smile.

"Sasuke, I have a new technique to teach you!" He called-out.

"Nii-san!" The small boy came running.

"You're eight now, I guess you're old enough to learn the-"

"Hey Itachi, try and dodge these!" The teenager's presentation was cut short as his younger brother shot playful dabs to his stomach with the kunai he held in his hand.

Itachi laughed and played along. "Come and get me, you dirty ugly missing-nin!"

Sasuke giggled as he ran, attempting to chase down the fleeing brother that dared call him a missing-nin.

===

Slightly bruised and exhausted, the two brothers collapsed onto the grass, laughing and tickling each other as the sun began to set in the distance.

"Nii-san" The younger one gasped, back on the ground and face to the sky. "Are we going to train tomorrow?"

The older one, also on the ground and facing the sky, turned to look at Sasuke and said,

"Sorry, I have a mission tomorrow and after I'm done, I have to meet with…" Itachi paused at the thought of his name.

"Your girlfriend again?" asked Sasuke, a little sad that he would miss another training day. His brother had been going out his girlfriend for quite some time now. He hadn't seen her yet.

"Um." Itachi sat up, not sure if he should come out with the truth and explain his "girlfriend" or not. He couldn't continue to lie to his brother like this so he decided to just do it, people were going to know sooner or later. "Sasuke, I don't actually have a girlfriend."

"You don't?" Sasuke looked up at his brother in curiosity.

Itachi nodded and bit his lip. "Can you keep a secret?"

The child sat up and moved closer to his brother, nodding excitedly and sticking his ear near Itachi's lips.

"I have a boyfriend, Sasuke. I like…boys. I don't like girls." Itachi moved away, awaiting for a negative response but instead he heard a small gasp and felt little arms wrap around his stomach which startled him.

"Nii-san," whispered the owner of the little arms, "Your secret is safe with me, I won't tell Otousan and Okaasan. If it makes Nii-san happy then I'm happy too."

His eyes misted a bit but he ignored it as held his younger brother close to him. "I love you SO much, Sasuke. I'm glad you're my brother."

"Me too, Nii-san" Sasuke smiled and stayed in Itachi's embrace for a moment but pulled away to ask, "What's his name?"

Itachi gestured his brother to quiet down by putting his index finger to his lips. "I'll let you know when I show you."

A gasp of excitement escaped the younger one as they both continued to laugh and talk until dusk.

===

"You're in love with a WHAT!?" The man screamed as he flipped the dinner table over; dishes, cups, and bowls fell to the ground, breaking in loud thunderous clashes, food, drinks and utensils splattered and decorated themselves all over the clean floor. A broken piece hit the older boy in the arm where the ANBU symbol resided cutting a small slit into the skin--blood tricked. Frightened, the younger boy quickly abandoned his seat at the former dinner table and sought refuge in a nearby closet. He kept it slightly open so he could still see his older brother.

Itachi was silent and stood frozen, covered in his full ANBU attire including the katana at his side, looking down at his feet and the bubbling mess. He could feel the heat of his father and mother's anger tearing him to pieces. The atmosphere was burning with intensity as both parents breathed heavily, their eyes shooting kunais at their eldest son and his ridiculous announcement.

Sasuke gulped and prayed his parents would accept Itachi loving a boy and just forget about it. His teeth chattered at the awkward long silence outside the closet. "Why did you tell them, Nii-san!?" he thought, almost on the verge of tears.

"He's 22 and I love him.." The shivering ANBU warrior confronted the eyes of the disapproving couple before him. His vision blurred from his watering eyes.

"I can't believe you Itachi! An older man!?" With the response came a harsh slap to the warrior's face.

"Okaasan, Don't hit Itachi like that!" cried Sasuke, breaking out of the closet.

No one took notice of the little boy. The middle-aged man stepped over the broken dishes and looked his older son in the eyes as he raised his hands to perform what his wife did, only harder.

"Nii-san!" Sasuke ran to his brother this time, clinging to him and glaring at his father in the same manner as Itachi.

"As part of this clan, we will not tolerate with your misguided interests! From this moment forward, you are FORBIDDEN to see your disgusting lover and if I catch you with him, I'll kill that son of a bitch! How dare he take advantage of you! You are our eldest son and viewed as a true successor of the Uchiha clan and a good role model for Sasuke, understand? We will see to it that you stay that way and make sure you keep out of trouble. You are only thirteen, how can you possible call your sick behavior…love? I'm glad you told us. Now we quickly fix it and continue with our lives. You will thank me one day for this." The enraged father eyed his two sons for a few seconds and then grunted, turning to help his wife pick up the mess.

Itachi caught the man by the arms and whispered, dangerously and confidently. "I love him and I won't stop, I'll never stop, no one can stop me."

The tone of his brother's voice was terrifying, Sasuke looked up at his brother after the rage came back to boil in his father, something changed, something in Itachi's red eyes changed horribly and the young boy took a step back, and another. "Nii-san…"

Black gloved hands fingered the handle as the katana blade was pulled out slowly, the shining metal gleamed brightly, reflecting the widened eyes that Sasuke displayed.

"What the hell are you doing with that? Put that down Itachi! ITACHI!" His father's pointed a finger at the warrior as his screaming words formed in slow motion.

Everything suddenly became mute. Sasuke couldn't hear a thing. He could only watch in silent horror. His mother ran to his older brother, arms wildly beating him, trying desperately to make her son put the katana away. The struggle was meaningless. Itachi wrapped one of his hands securely around the handle, the other hand was on his father's shoulders and he pulled the blade back as far as his arm could extend. Sasuke held his head to scream but no sounds came out. His beloved older brother drove the shining blade into his father's stomach until the handle hit flesh, the tip and middle of the metal stuck out gloriously from the victim's back in shimmering, dripping red. Itachi then gladly pulled the blade back out, enjoying the fountain of blood that streaked the floor, walls, ceiling, windows and his skin.

Sasuke shut his eyes as the ANBU warrior turned to exercise the same procedure on his mother. "What happened to you, Nii-san? Why are you doing this?" The questions maimed him.

He later felt wet hands grab his hair and then the dragging of his small paralyzed body. Sasuke opened his eyes only to meet with the ground as Itachi repeatedly hammered his younger brother's small head against the wall until he could see more red.

The atmosphere wasn't muted anymore. Sasuke could hear his brother speak.

"I'm not going to kill you, Sasuke. You are the only one that accepted him. You are the only one that loves me. I love you too, little brother. I love you very much." The slurred statements came out in between psychotic laughs as he traced the soaked katana blade around little brother's back. "The Uchiha clan can't stop me."

"What did you do to my brother, yarou…" The young boy coughed, the blood from his nose slipping into his mouth.

No answer, only a laugh.

Itachi released Sasuke's head and darted to the neighboring houses where the rest of the Uchiha clan slept.

His body was on the ground and Sasuke closed his eyes at the sound of screams from his close relatives and the stench of bleeding flesh.

===

Dawn.

The young boy opened his eyes and found himself sprawled on the grass and under a tree, dried blood from last night were still evident on his skin and clothes. Some blood was fresh but he ignored it. Someone dragged him out here. He got up but fell back down, forgetting that his brains got banged out by Itachi. The name had no affect on him. Images from the night before were nothing, must've been a really bad dream that caused him to roll off the bed and injure himself. He felt nothing. He was numb.

Something wet and cold dripped to his neck. Oh great, was it raining now? Sasuke looked at the grass, nothing fell on them. Another drop tickled his neckline. Stupid tree, stop pissing-the young boy's anger died instantly as he gaped in shock at the sight of his older brother's body, hanging lifelessly above him by his neck with the bulky roped wrapped kindly around Itachi that connected him to the responsible bending branch. His brother had committed a gruesome suicide.

"Oh my god…Nii-san…"

Tears erupted from his dried eyes as he looked at the source of the dripping blood, the rusted katana blade trapped through Itachi's chest.

"NANDE!? NII-SAN!!!"

[flashback end]

The outside of his body began to tremor violently. Sasuke's hands gripped the tree bark. These flashbacks happened frequently, mostly during the night but rarely during the day. His chest heaved menacingly as he placed a shaking hand to his head, knowing that the rapid flood of accursed memories will soon come back at a later time. Overwhelmed at the sudden rush so early in the day, he stooped to the ground and was utterly knocked unconscious.

TBC.

Translations notes:

[edit, thanks Haruko-sama!] Nii-san (older brother) Or should I change it to aniki?

Hayaku-Hurry up!

Yarou-Bastard

Nande?-Why?

I forgot what Sasuke calls Itachi in the anime, hmm...I'll get back to that later. Sorry Shikamaru fans, he will be back shortly!