It Hurts

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Part 4: Itachi's Decision

By KiraLacus Forever

I look from a distance outside the medical room.

Watching the two teen chatting for the whole day...

Laughing and joking...

Uzumaki Naruto...

He changed Sasuke's cold attitude

He melts that cold barrier of Sasuke...

The blond does love Sasuke...

It was all shown in that pair of sapphire eyes

Whenever he looks at Sasuke...

His eyes were filled with love and care...

And there's more thing...

Pain...

Sadness...

Loneliness...

After the blond had left

Sasuke sighed as he plays with the silver bracelet I've given to him

Looks like this incident affects both my brother and that blond.

The Akatsuki and the other enemies were all preparing

Preparing to get the both of them...

It's up to me now...

To protect the two of them...

As the autumn wind blows, Naruto shivers and rubs his shoulders to keep himself warm, as he proceed his way to fetch Sasuke. When he reaches the room, Tsunade, Shizune, Kakashi and Sakura were already there. Sasuke is sitting on the bed with his usual dark blue shirt and white shorts. He still has bandages around his neck and hands. Sasuke brightens up when he saw Naruto coming in.

"Naruto! You're here."

"Of course, I told you that I'll be fetching you today. Morning everyone!"

"Morning your head! You were late by half an hour! I was about to let Kakashi and Sakura to bring him home!" Tsunade complains as she smacks Naruto on the head. Naruto snarls as he rubs his head, he turns towards Sasuke after a while.

"Come on, let's go back to your house. But we don't have your keys."

"Here it is. I take it from his house yesterday night." Kakashi said as he hands Naruto the pair of keys.

"You pervert! Always going into other peoples' house without asking!"

"Ma, ma, anyway…Naruto, you and Sakura will be escorting Sasuke back to his house. While I'll be attending to other stuffs."

"HAI! Come on, Sasuke, Sakura-chan!" Naruto grabs Sasuke's hand and ran off, followed by Sakura.

When the kids were gone, Tsunade turns towards Kakashi.

"Find any trail about the Akatsuki?"

"Nothing…They are not easy to be located. But I got some new information."

"What was it?"

"It looks like Orochimaru was planning something again."

"Orochimaru! What that psycho wants again?"

"Sasuke, I presume. As you know Orochimaru wants to get his hands on Sasuke four months ago, by trying to let Sasuke fight Naruto. But Sasuke regain his conscious before he tries to kill Naruto. This time, it seems like he got another plan to get Sasuke."

"………" Tsunade folds her arms across her chest and think hard.

"Kakashi, keep on investigating on this problem. Keep your eyes on the both of them too."

"Hai."

On the other hand, Naruto and the others have arrived at Sasuke's house. When they went in, they were stunned. The house was huge, a big television placed in the living room, nice, big and soft sofas. A round table in the middle. The kitchen was huge too, very clean. All the three of them explore around the house, Sasuke touch all the materials, trying to recall back anything. All the things over here felt so familiar to him, the scent, the atmosphere.

"Sasuke, come up here!" Naruto shouted from the second level. Sasuke went towards him as he reaches a room, his bedroom.

The room was…nice. A queen size bed, a window beside it. There were closet for clothes and cupboards for books. On the drawer besides the bed, were some scrolls, shurikens, and a photo frame of Team 7. Sasuke picks up the frame and look at the photo, on it was Kakashi, Sakura, him and Naruto. It was then a hand pats on his shoulder, it was Naruto.

"Remember anything…?"

Sasuke close his eyes and shakes his head sadly. Naruto sighs as he smiles at him.

"It's okay. Take your time, you may get back some if you stay here for some days. You wanna take a walk around the village?"

"Okay."

Sakura looks at her watch, "Oops! Sorry, guys, I got to go now. I need to help out my mother with something. Bye." Before going off, Sakura plants a kiss on Sasuke's cheek, which makes Sasuke blush and Naruto jealous. Sasuke turns back to Naruto, who was facing the other side and mumbling something under his breath.

"Naruto? Are we going?"

"Ya right, sure."

"Are you mad?"

"Why would I be mad?" 'Calm down, Naruto. It's just a kiss, on the cheek, on his Sasuke's cheek! No way, Sasuke was his! He's…'

Naruto's thought were cut off when Sasuke plants a kiss on his cheek, which makes the both of them blushing like hell, especially Naruto.

"Wh..What…?"

"I just feel like doing it. Feeling better now?"

"…………Yah…."

As they walk out into the streets, Naruto shows Sasuke some of the places they have gone before. After the touring , Naruto brings him to the usual training side Team 7 have their sparing.

"Do you remember here? Sasuke. This where we, Team 7 usually trained ourselves. Sasuke?"

Sasuke has his eyes closed, a hand pressing on his forehead, like he's having a headache. Memories were starting to appears in his mind.

"Where the heck is that pervert!"

"He's always late!"

"Sorry, guys. I was helping a pregnant lady when she…"

"LIAR!"

"Ma,ma…Alright today, there's no mission. So we will have sparing."

"I want to be with Sasuke-kun!"

"No, you will spar with me, while Sasuke will be with Naruto."

"But Kakashi-sensei...!"

"No buts, come, let's start."

"Hehe, Sasuke, prepare to be beaten by me today!"

"We will see that, dobe."

"Don't call me that!"

The flashback stops, Sasuke pants tiredly as his mind is spinning. Naruto went over to him, worried about what had happen.

"Sa..Sasuke? Are you alright?"

"Yah…Just remember something…We were always training over here. Kakashi-sensei is always late, you and Sakura-san will scold him. And I always call you a dobe…That's all I remembered so far…"

Naruto felt happy and disappointed, for Sasuke did not remember about all the things happened between the two of them. "It's okay, there's no need to rush. Take your time."

"But there wasn't much time left…"

"DARE DA! Come out!" Naruto shouted.

The person walks out from the forest as both Naruto and Sasuke notice that it's Itachi.

"What do you want, you bastard!" Naruto scowled as he stands in front of Sasuke.

"Nii-san! What are you doing here? What happen if the villagers saw you!

"Sasuke, you remember this bastard?"

"Naruto, he's my brother. He came into the medical room before."

Itachi looks from his brother to Naruto, who was still glaring suspiciously at him.

"Uzumaki Naruto, I will help you along to help Sasuke recover his memories."

"Eh!"

"For that, means I will join back Konoha village."

"I thought you were the one trying to catch me! Why do you suddenly wants to help Sasuke? Haven't you cause him enough pain!"

"Pain? Naruto, what do you mean? Nii-san, what does he mean?"

"It's not safe to talk here, sasuke, we will go back to your house. Or should I say ours."

Naruto flinch as Itachi moves closer, but Sasuke stops him from attacking.

"Please trust him, Naruto. Just do as what he said."

Naruto hesitated but agree at last, Itachi covers the both of them with his cloak and teleport to Sasuke's house.

"Hmph, they got away, damn that Uchiha!"

At the house, the three of them settled down in the living room. Itachi had taken off his cloak, now wearing a black shinobi vest and a long pants. Naruto was still glaring at him as Sasuke was telling him to calm down ever since they were in the house. Sasuke looks towards his brother.

"Nii-san, what did Naruto mean just now? That you are causing me pain."

"Before you lost you memories, you were looking for me. You wanted to kill me."

"Eh? But why! Why would I…!"

"Because I lied. I lied to you that I killed our whole clan, just to use it as a reason to make you stronger, to make you hate me, make you killing me with your own hands." Itachi cross his fingers as he laid his chin on it.

"You can't kill me now..."

"Why? Why did you kill them!"

"You're still weak, very weak..."

"You are not my brother!"

"If you want to kill me..."

"Hate me..."

"That night when I came back from my mission, the people of the whole clan were already killed. You were home the same time as I was standing in front of our parent's dead bodies. Knowing that I must make you strong as we were the only survivors, and not knowing when the murderer were be chasing us again, I lied to you that I'm the one who killed our clan. To make you hate me, and knowing that you will keep on surviving with that hate of yours, making the idea of killing me is your goal. You will keep on chasing me, and then I was assure that you were safe after all these years."

Naruto looks from Itachi to Sasuke, to his surprise, Sasuke is crying. This is the first time he ever saw him cry.

"Baka…Nii-san no baka!" Sasuke throws himself into Itachi's arms and hugs his elder brother tightly. Smiling, Itachi returns the hug.

"Now that you know the truth, do you still hate me?"

"I hate you! I hate you for being so stupid! Baka!BAKA!"

Itachi smiles as he looks over at Naruto.

"Naruto, you know that the Akatsuki is looking for you, right?"

"Yah, you were one of them."

"I decided to quit the group since I will be joining the two of you."

"Really! That's great, I did not need to see the two of you fight each other anymore."

It was then they heard that Sasuke's crying had stopped, now he was sleeping in Itachi's arms. Both of them look from each other to Sasuke and smiles. Itachi carries Sasuke in his arms and brings him to his room. After putting him on bed, they both left the room quietly and back to the living room.

"The reasons why I want to join with the both of you were about Akatsuki and Orochimaru."

"Orochimaru! What does that bastard want!" Remembered that Sasuke is sleeping, Naruto lowered his volume.

"He's planning to get his hands on Sasuke again. Although I do not know what plot he's planning but, we won't know when he would attack Sasuke."

"That bastard! I just got back Sasuke four months ago, now he's trying to take him away from me again!"

"And also, since I'm one of the members of Akatsuki. I know about their plan to capture you. You were important to Sasuke, that's why I must protect you too." Itachi saw Naruto blushing as he plays with his fingers nervously. "What's wrong?"

"N..No…It's just that…I'm sorry for calling you a bastard…I…"

"It's okay, I understand. Now go to sleep, Naruto. You were going to be with Sasuke tomorrow for the whole day."

"Hai! Itachi-nii!"

"Hm?"

"Heh, heh. Can I call you that? It's like this, I don't have a brother before, so……"

Itachi smiles and pats Naruto's head, "It's okay, you can call me that."

Naruto blushes as he went into one of the room and sleep. Itachi sits on the sofa, thinking about what his life is going to be like, with his brother and the blond kitsune.

Okay! Part 4 finished! Here's the preview.

Preview for the next chapter:

"I'm so hungry…" Naruto complains as he clenches his fist on his stomach.

"There's no ingredients left in the kitchen, or I will be cooking for all of us."

"Nii-san, you can cook?"

"Our mother taught us when we were young."

"Why don't me and Sasuke go to the store to buy some ingredients."

"Let me accompany the both of you."

"But Itachi-nii, what happen if the villagers recognize you! Won't they kill you?"

"That's right! It's too dangerous!"

"But, the situation the both of you in were more dangerous than mine. I can't just let the two of you wonder around by yourselves."

Sasuke cross his arms across his chest, thinking for a while. He looks up at Naruto then to Itachi with a smile, a mischievous one.

"Leave it to me, Nii-san. Naruto and I will let you have an extreme makeover!"

Stop! Okay, that's all! Pls remember to RnR! Stay tuned for the next chapter!