AN: I guess I can't give up this universe just yet :) just trying to shed light on some behind the scenes but still important characters! There will be more Kiba/Neji/Gaara drabbles, but for now please enjoy a bit of brotherly love!


Itachi's Problem


Summary: Uchiha Itachi had a little love problem - his little brother's love problem. What would he do about it?

(Series of short drabbles/ficlets related to Damn Elevator highlighting Itachi's attempts to spark the love between our favourite idiots - Sasuke and Naruto - without being utterly obvious. Chronologically takes place after the Christmas soirée mentioned in ch5 but prior to the events of the main story)


1


Somewhere in an old but still magnificent mansion, in the office that used to belong to his father, Itachi Uchiha sat in a comfy armchair with an almost empty glass of whiskey, stared into empty space and finally admitted to himself – he had a little problem. To be more precise, a little love problem. To be even more precise and honest, his little brother's love problem.

After seeing Sasuke being so smitten with a blond boy from the Konoha Observatory's Christmas soirée, but then getting continuously overworked and distracted by responsibilities of being the Head of Uchiha Empire, Itachi felt—bad. Not awful, but bad. Well, it's not like it was completely his fault for selfishly deciding to go into politics against his father's wishes, declining the position, and effectively passing the business down to a recent graduate, which was his brother at the time, right? Oh wait—it kinda was... So, yeah—he did feel awful.

Being a good elder brother he had to do something to remediate the situation. Unfortunately for him Sasuke was a stubborn soul and wouldn't agree to take time off of work to go on something silly like a date, even if it was with a soulmate, even if you put the blond right in the middle of his office with a red bow on top. Which Itachi could easily arrange, of course—what better use could his connections have? But no—if he were to do that, his foolish otouto would misunderstand the gesture and think it was some sort of convoluted plan to trick him into debt.

As such, Itachi had to come up with an even more convoluted plan to get the two together without making it look like his doing. That should be easy, no?