I love how I asked not to be flamed and the only review I got for the rewrite of the first chapter was a typical "kill yourself virgin Hinata bashing" flame. Thank you for the review, dear flamer. You helped to make this community even greater.
Anyway, thank you to the ones that read the last chapter. Hope you enjoyed it, and enjoy this one as well! Hopefully it gives a little more insight as to why Sasuke is the way he is and that the reason makes somewhat sense.
Xxx Disclaimer: Naruto doesn't belong to me, but to Masashi Kishimoto xxX
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Fugaku paced back and forth inside of the living room with his eldest son watching him with mild interest. His wife was inside of the kitchen preparing the trio some sandwiches and tea while they wait for a certain duo to arrive. Coming into the living area with the snacks set on a tray, Mikoto places it down on the coffee table and regards her antsy husband.
"Please Fugaku, relax." She coos, coming to stand beside him. "I'm sure they'll be here any minute. Come, have some tea while we wait."
Fugaku looks to his wife with a soft smile. "Thank you, dear."
Taking a seat on the sofa, the couple takes their sandwiches as Itachi sips his tea. "So remind me again of who we're meeting with and why they have you so troubled, father?"
"It's someone that we're hoping will be able to get your brother under control." Mikoto responds since Fugaku was chewing.
"If that's so, then why is father so on edge?" Itachi inquires, biting out of his own sandwich.
Fugaku swallows before sipping his tea. "I'm just worried about the outcome of this meeting, seeing as how Sasuke is going to be apart of it." He sighs. "I don't want your brother to start causing trouble in front of our guest."
"I believe problems will undoubtedly occur, considering Sasuke has no clue what this meeting is truly about, let alone that he knows that there's even a meeting at all." Itachi chuckles, earning him a stern stare from his father.
Mikoto moans. "How nice of you to help put your father at ease, Itachi."
"Always a pleasure, mother." Her oldest son smirks, lifting his cup up in a mock toast.
"Speaking of your brother," Fugaku interrupts. "You're sure that he's in his room at the moment?"
Itachi nods. "The last time I checked he was there, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't sneak out anymore to go find another fling."
"Good, because I don't need to feel like I'm wasting my guests' time due to his sudden abs-" Fugaku is cut off by the sound of the doorbell chime reverberating throughout the house.
"I'll get it." Mikoto says as she exits the living room to check the door.
Upon hearing greetings being exchanged, both Uchiha men stand from their seats and fix themselves before Mikoto reenters the room with their guests in tow.
"Jiraiya-sama, Tsunade-sama, this is my eldest son, Itachi." The Uchiha women introduces.
"It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance." Itachi greets extending his hand out to the mildly surprised pair.
Jiraiya is the first to shake hands with the young man before moving to Fugaku. "My, my, what a set of manners your son has. Kind of makes me anxious to meet the other one." The silver haired man jokes, earning him a nervous laugh from the father.
"Nice to see you made it, Jiraiya-sama. Same to you, Tsunade-sama." Fugaku greets, motioning for everyone to take a seat.
"Would you like anything to eat or drink?" Mikoto asks, already moving towards the kitchen.
"Just a couple of waters, please." Answers Tsunade with a smile.
Shortly after, Mikoto returns with water and a plate of cheese and crackers on a tray. Once she sets it down and thanks are given, the room is filled with a serious silence.
"Now before I meet with Sasuke, I would like to hear a few things from Itachi, here, and then explain to you my plan." Jiraiya states, his hand placed on Tsunade's crossed legs.
"Okay." The married couple responds, turning towards their son.
"What would you like to hear?" Itachi questions, leaning back in the cushioned chair beside his parents.
"We already know your parents' side of the story and when they began to see a change in Sasuke, but now we want to know your side." The busty blonde poses, fixing her glasses. "Tell us when you first noticed a change in your brother."
Fugaku and Mikoto stare intensely at their son, whose eyes close and body tenses from the query.
"Itachi…"
"I noticed his change a little after his thirteenth birthday, a few months before he told me he lost his virginity." The words grit from Itachi's mouth almost as if it pained him to admit.
He hides the flinch his body attempted at the feel of his parents nearly breaking their necks from looking at him in disbelief. Both Jiraiya and Tsunade seemed to be stunned by the news as well, due to how much later his parents noticed compared to him.
Tsunade brings a fist to her lips and coughs to clear the tension in the room. With the three pairs of Uchiha eyes on her, she speaks. "That's significantly earlier compared to your parents, Itachi." She informs. "How were you able to notice long before your parents did?"
"And why did you keep it from your parents along with the knowledge of Sasuke's virginity?" Adds Jiraiya, crossing his arms over his broad chest.
Itachi runs a hand through his hair, moving his bangs out of his face. "Sasuke and I used to be extremely close. Closer than he ever was with anyone, including our parents. How was I not supposed to notice the subtle change in the way he behaved?"
The others remained silent so that the young man could continue. Itachi sighs.
"I was eighteen when Sasuke turned thirteen. Since our parents were always busy with the business, and I had gotten my license a few years prior, I decided that I would be the one to pick Sasuke up from school so that we could spend more time together. All was normal as usual at first when I would pick him up after his birthday. He would hop in the passenger seat, tell me about his day, tell me how annoying the girls were, how stupid his friends were, etcetera. But then after a few weeks, the topics of conversation changed."
"Changed how?" Mikoto urges.
Itachi glances at his mother briefly before turning back towards their guests.
"Like I said, Sasuke always used to tell me about how annoying the girls were in his school. Well after a few weeks, he started to ask me how to tell if a girl is into you. I was confused at first, considering what he's told me about the girls before, I thought it'd be pretty obvious. But after seeing the seriousness on his face, I amused him by giving him my opinion. A few weeks after that, he'd say that there was this one girl who he thinks is into him based off of what I told him. I joked around and asked him if he liked this girl back, but he said he didn't know if he should. When I asked him what he meant, he never answered me."
"Did you ever find out who this girl was?" Jiraiya asks, leaning in.
Itachi's features turn up in disgust. "Unfortunately yes."
"Weeks go by when Sasuke finally tells me that he does like this girl and that she says she likes him too. He said she tells him a lot of things that she likes about him and always started to blush the more he went on. A few weeks after that, he starts to ask me about relationships and intimacy. I told him what I could, but I felt too uncomfortable when he started asking me to be more specific and detailed on the intimate parts of a relationship. He got mad when the only things I would tell him was that you kiss someone you really like."
"Why haven't you told us this beforehand, Itachi?" Fugaku questions, looking more and more upset by the second.
The elder son bows his head in remorse. "I'm sorry father, but at the time, it was a secret between close brothers. Sasuke used to tell me everything at that time; I didn't want to betray his trust by telling you what he was telling me. That, and you and mother were always too busy anyway, so I didn't want to pile on more stress."
Before Fugaku could go off, Jiraiya raises a hand and tells Itachi to continue.
"It was a few weeks after that, two months since he first brought up the girl, that I believe he started his sexual exploits. Reason being, he started to question me in a cocky manner about my and Izumi's sex life, my then girlfriend, now fiance."
"Congratulations." Tsunade and Jiraiya offer, earning a swift thanks in return.
"I always tried my best to ignore his taunts and brush it off, but as days turned to weeks, his attitude got even worse. He wouldn't say out right that he was having sexual relations with this girl, but he wasn't subtle about it either. It was in the ways that he asked specific questions that led me to believe that he had done the things that he was asking me if I had done."
"Things such as what?" Jiraiya inquires.
Itachi sighs and turns away. "To keep things slightly mild, one of the things he would ask was if I had ever received or given oral by and to Izumi. Other more risque questions would be on the positions we may or may not have tried and such."
"So what made him finally fess up to losing his virginity after months of being vague?" Tsunade asks while recrossing her legs.
"I merely asked him outright."
"And… He just told you?"
"Yup. He confessed to having sex with this girl but was still intent on not revealing who she was. And before you ask, yes he did give me fairly explicit details about what they had done with each other, none of which I am comfortable repeating."
"So when exactly did you find out who his lover was, Itachi?" Jiraiya questions, taking a sip of his water.
Itachi suddenly becomes stiff and swallows dryly, earning him looks from his parents and company.
"Itachi." His father calls out in warning and apprehension.
The eldest Uchiha son glances over at his worrying parents with a guilt-ridden expression. "I managed to find out who she was just a few months before his fifteenth birthday."
"So you knew of this affair for about two years yet you never even thought to consult us about it?" Fugaku scolds, his brows furrowed and deep frown set in place.
"Why did you keep this a secret from us, Itachi?" Mikoto questions with an equally upset glare. "Just who the hell was this girl anyway?"
The raven haired male turns down in shame, only to glance up at the call of his name.
"Itachi, just how did you find out about this girl? You said that Sasuke was adamant about not revealing her identity."
"And why do you seem so ashamed and, dare I say, disgusted by the mere thought of this girl?" Tsunade tags onto Jiraiya's inquiry, taking a bite of the crackers Mikoto had spread out.
Itachi sighs. "It still stands true that Sasuke never told me who this girl was. That's why I didn't figure it out for two years." He looks to his fuming parents. "And I'm sorry for not telling you about it sooner. It was a horribly misguided mistake on my part.
"But about the girl, I had to do some digging myself since Sasuke refused to say anything other than what they were doing. He gave no description of her other than that she was 'heavenly' in bed." He shivers. "I had to secretly ask some of his classmates about who Sasuke was hanging around lately and if he seemed unusually attached to some girl for the past year. Everything came up negative.
"So instead of asking his classmates, I decided to sneak around his school, with the permission of the school of course, under the guise of supervising my brother's studies. At first, nothing seemed to truly stand out; everything seemed pretty normal. Sasuke would go to class, hang out with some friends, ignore the usual pack of confessions he'd receive, etcetera. But like I said, just a few months before his fifteenth birthday, I finally got the clue as to who this mystery girl was. Thinking back on it, I should have seen how brazen their antics were, even in my presence. "
"What kind of antics?"
Itachi sneered and clenched his fist. "The looks they would give each other during classes and in the halls, the subtle undertone in the way they would speak to each other, the unnecessary sometimes lingering touches, the calls to stay a bit behind the class for some 'private talk' that I wasn't allowed to sit through, th-"
"The what!" Mikoto nearly screeched, slamming her hands down on her lap. "How could another student call back a classmate and keep you from listening in? From the way that you're talking, you're making it sound like this girl Sasuke has been fooling with was actually not a girl at all but a woman!"
All eyes turn to the suddenly quiet man whose head was hanging low as to not show the contempt in his features. Mikoto fell silent and her jaw slacked.
"Itachi…"
"..."
"Please tell me you're lying…" Tears brimmed at the edge of her lashes as her hand tightened around her husband's that she had grabbed.
"I'm sorry." The young Uchiha grits through his teeth. "But I cannot grant you that satisfaction, mother."
Mikoto gasped and Fugaku's frown deepened further. Jiraiya and Tsunade share a look of surprise before turning back towards the young Uchiha.
"What did yo-"
"Who is she?"
Jiraiya gazes towards Mikoto due to her interruption. He was going to ask his question once more, but the expression she held made him bite his tongue.
"Who the hell is this vile cow of a woman that dared to defile my son?!"
The angry Uchiha wife was now on her feet with the couch she once sat upon pushed back with the force of her abrupt stand. Tears rolled freely down her reddened cheeks and her fist clenched tightly at her sides as her entire being shook with rage. Her charcoal eyes even seemed to flash red for a moment as she glowered at her silent child.
"Mikoto…" Fugaku murmured his wife's name, hoping to ease her a bit in front of their guests despite his own irritation bubbling within him.
"Her name was Anko Mitarashi, better known as Ms. Mitarashi to her former students and faculty." Itachi nearly spats the information, the woman's name tasting like venom on his tongue.
Mikoto blinks, her face softening to one of confusion before twisting with hatred once more. "Wasn't that the teacher who quit right around Sasuke's birthday? She's the one who started all of this?! She's the whore that made my Sasuke the way he is today?! UGH!"
The dark haired mother of two was practically having a full blown fit right now. Her hands were entangled in her raven locks and her eyes were flashing red as she heaved and paced, nearly swatting at her husband when he moved to touch her.
"Mikoto, let's go into the kitchen." The inwardly seething Fugaku whispers to his wife as he wraps his arms around her to keep her from flailing. He quickly excuses he and his wife before dragging her off into the kitchen where she continues to let it all out without the eyes of the other three occupants watching.
Once the couple was out of sight, Tsunade and Jiraiya turn their attention back towards a regretful looking Itachi. The two give the young man a moment to collect himself before beginning their line of questioning again.
"Um, so your mother mentioned something about this woman quitting close to Sasuke's birthday." Tsunade treads while fixing her glasses. "And before that, you mentioned how you managed to find out the identity of his lover only a few months before his fifteenth birthday."
Itachi's dark eyes stare into the blonde's maple ones before switching over to the silver haired man's equally dark eyes at the sound of his voice.
"Did you have something to do with such a coincidence, Itachi?"
He sighs. "As soon as I realized it was her that was having relations with my brother, I was furious. So the first thing I did when I managed to get her alone without Sasuke being present was confront her about it. The first couple of times she would adamantly deny my accusations against her, so much so that she almost made me believe that I had made a mistake. But deciding to give it one more shot, she finally admitted to it and in the most shameful of ways at that."
"How so?"
"The day she admitted to it was at the end of the school day and when I knew that she would still be there long enough for me to drop Sasuke off at home before rounding back to speak with her. She was inside of her classroom going over papers when I asked to speak with her. At first, I was genuinely going to apologize for accusing her of being sexual with my brother, but when she asked me to shut the door, I changed my mind and decided to act like I was instead.
"Not even halfway through my fake apology did she try to seduce me into having sex with her as well. That's when I asked again if she really was having sex with Sasuke and her response was basically a roll of the eyes saying that 'the kid was enjoying himself and came onto her first so might as well'. She then made the sickening claim that she could have two Uchiha fill her and be the luckiest woman alive, automatically assuming that I was going to bed her knowing that she was fucking my little brother!"
The two lovers grimace at the news but maintain their composure overall. "What did you do when she finally admitted?"
Itachi's knuckles were turning white from gripping them so hard throughout his tale. "I pushed her away and demanded that she stop messing with my brother after calling her a slur of names, most very inappropriate and not what I use on a day to day basis. She at first laughed it off until I threatened legal action against her, but then laughed that off too after realizing that I can't do that if I wanted to keep the Uchiha name free of scandal. Not going to lie and say that she didn't have me beat there, but I continued to press on until she relented and said that she'll think about it."
"What did you say?"
"I told her that I would do whatever it takes to keep this under wraps, whether I have to use money and my own legal team separate from my parents. I said that if she didn't stop messing with my brother and quit her job while she still had the chance, I would be left with no choice but to report her to the school and the authorities, and once convicted, she will be forced to rot in jail for the rest of her life, all while I pay to keep everything quiet. She didn't want to believe me at first, saying that I was bluffing. But on the contrary, I was dead serious. She could tell that I would do whatever it takes to keep my brother safe from her and to keep her away from my family."
"So what was there for her to think about?" Tsunade asks with a tap of her foot. "Seems to me that you gave her no ultimatum."
"Like I said, she already knew that I didn't want word of this incident to spread to the public; it would ruin the family name and our business. I knew that the longer she thought about it, the more dangerous it would be for my family because no matter how much you pay someone, information is always somehow leaked. So instead, while I still had her scared of jail time, I offered her a plea deal of sorts. I told her that if she quit now and left my family alone and kept word of this incident tight lipped, I would give her my entire allowance I'd make for the month, which for the record, was more than she'd make in an entire year as a school teacher."
"And she accepted?"
Itachi shakes his head. "She said that she needed to think it over for a bit, so I gave her two days; the rest of the school week to make her decision. During that time I kept a close eye on her and Sasuke, and it seemed like she was seriously thinking about it because when Sasuke would come in the car after school, he would bitch and moan about how his lady friend was suddenly giving him the cold shoulder, and so close to his birthday too. When the two days were up, she decided to take the money and run, quitting her job as a teacher and keeping her word of never speaking to Sasuke again and never speaking out about the incident either."
"..."
Jiraiya and Tsunade were speechless after Itachi's tale. It was truly shocking and disturbing to learn that the possible cause for Sasuke's troubling promiscuity was basically child rape and the lengths that his brother went through to keep everything from not only the public, but their own parents as well! When the duo had decided to take on the Uchiha's request for help, they didn't expect everything to turn out far more complicated and deep.
"Jiraiya." Tsunade calls with a tense face. "What do you think we should do? This has turned out to be far more than we originally thought."
At her words, Itachi's dark eyes darted to her with a look of panic and worry, scared that his parents weren't going to get the help that they were desperately in search of. He quickly looked over to the silver haired man as he took a sip of his water before leaning back in his seat with his eyes shut. Itachi bit his lip.
"We proceed as planned." Jiraiya finally responds after what seemed like forever to Itachi, and just in time too as his parents made their way back into the living room, his mother looking calmer than before.
"Just because things turned out to be more troubling than we originally suspected doesn't mean that we still can't try to help. It just means that we have to put all of our faith in this process more than anything."
"Wait, so you're going to help us?" Mikoto questions as she reclaims her seat with the aid of her husband, her black eyes red and puffy as evidence of her crying. "What exactly is this process you're speaking of?"
"Oh and Itachi." Fugaku calls, interrupting Jiraiya before he has a chance to answer. "Your mother and I will be speaking with you later."
Itachi meets his father's stern gaze with his brows furrowed in knowing shame. "Yes father."
Fugaku nods briefly in approval before turning his attention over to their company. "Now this process. What does it entail?"
Tsunade and Jiraiya share a knowing glance before looking back to the three Uchihas.
"Surely, between the three of you, there've been females from Sasuke's past that you have been rather fond of, whether or not they have been intimate with him regardless." Starts the blonde.
"Now I know this will be difficult, but can any of you recall a number of girls that have left a pleasant lasting impression on you and, or Sasuke throughout the years?" Jiraiya asks, his face stoic, yet playful.
"We need to know your opinions before we actually speak to Sasuke himself." Tsunade adds.
"This information is vital to the process I have planned."
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Well, that's all for now. The next chapter will kind of pick up where this one leaves off. I kind of wanted to continue with this chapter, but I feel that if I did, it would be way too long. I think Sasuke and the girls might be introduced in the next chapter, but don't hold that against me. I'll try my best! So yeah! I know this chapter was kinda shitty and I know a lot you probably think that the original Love Game story was better, but I'm gonna try my best with this one and hopefully it will start getting better soon!
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