So here is Chapter 2. It didn't turn out how I wanted it to but it is more of an introductory. I have chapter nearly done and it is far better and is positively adorable and funny! I love that one to death. Harry gets a new friend in the next chapter and lots of crazy ladies end up almost in a brawl. This chapter ended up being about 4400 words long not including my author's notes! I should have the next chapter up in a few days to!

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A few weeks in and Sasuke was not a happy camper. He huffed, glaring at his brother and that stupid baby that took all of everyone's attention from him! Them and that stupid, not a dog, who Itachi was determined to teach how to fetch. Goat's were dumb, they couldn't learn how to do something like that! Even Sasuke knew that and he wasn't even in pre-academy classes yet! He couldn't understand why his brother was so focused on the baby. He wasn't even any good at running or anything yet and all he wanted to do is play with that stupid goat! He hardly even paid Sasuke any mind either. Then he whimpered and cried when Sasuke tried to make him pay attention to him. Itachi would get mad and said he was being too rough with him or that he needed to stop trying to intimidate him. He just didn't understand. All of the other kids he knew practically worshiped him! Sasuke forced the tears that wanted to form, from his eyes. He didn't want the baby to like him he hated it! It made Itachi not want him anymore!

Itachi was being mean to Mommy and Daddy to! He even made Mommy cry and Daddy furious. He wouldn't stop telling them that Harri wasn't an Uchiha which upset them a lot for some reason. He refused to let Mommy hold Harri which Sasuke was secretly glad about but for some reason it made Mommy sad and she often cried after saying Itachi was changing and he wasn't her son. She didn't know what she did to upset him but she wanted her old Itachi back.

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Itachi had been furious when he had walked in on his mother and father talking about how best to convince Itachi to allow them to betroth Sasuke and his Harri. Even speaking of trying to use genjutsu on him to try and force him to comply or to try and convince the council that Itachi was an unfit parent and to get Harri taken from him which had made Itachi snap and barge into the room. They had been in a panic when they realized Itachi had heard everything. They begged him to understand but they had literally discussed turning him into a practical zombie just to get what they wanted and they wanted his little brother to breed with some of the best bloodlines in the known world. It disgusted him. After that Itachi didn't even want his Harri in the same room as them.

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It had been over 4 months since Itachi had returned along with Harrison and he had quickly proven his parents wrong, being an adoring dotting father at the extremely young age of 14, now 15. A tension was constantly in the air as Itachi's parents disagreed with many of the choices he had begun to make… Like quitting the AMBU Ops.. Mostly. He had only agreed to stay as a guard for the Hokage as he refused to leave his Harri with anyone. If he was needed for work he would make clones of himself to stay with his Harri. Purposely making a new one to replace the other one ever few hours so he would know what was going on and some of his anxiety would ease.. At least for a few minutes.

Internally, Itachi had been furious as he stood looking passively at his Hokage. The man politely told him that he thought that he may be having some issues he needed to work through. He told Itachi that it was normal is such a stressful environment and that he recommended that Itachi go see a mind healer to possibly talk through his problems. Why was it considered a problem for him to be concerned about the wellbeing of his son? The elderly man had no idea what sorts of things his clan was likely to try and brainwash his child into thinking if Itachi wasn't there. Harri needed to be protected! Itachi would protect those he considered his with his very last breath. Isn't that what everyone wanted? That sort of loyalty? He stayed quiet though, agreeing that he would look into it even though he wouldn't. Itachi had been eager to leave that day. Especially as his last clone had reported that his mother had tried insinuating that Harri was going to be an adorable Uchiha bride. Itachi wasn't a fool, his parents had gone round and round with him trying to discreetly hint at betrothing his little brother to his son. That wasn't going to happen. Harry was his baby and no way would he be married to an Uchiha if ever!

As always, Itachi immediately calmed at the sight of his Harri. Who was happily toddling around nearly dragging Paddy after Mai. Who was proudly carrying around a tennis ball which muffled her feisty delighted bleats. As always she was causing chaos, knocking down lawn ornaments in the garden and generally harassing the bedraggled looking grounds keepers. After that she took a quick roll in the newly planted lilies that had been gifted to his father by the Fire Daimyo causing the garden staff to panic and chase her around until she got bored of messing with them. Several minutes later Mai happily trotted back and pranced around Harri. She eagerly dropping the ball at Itachi's clone's feet, insistent that he tossed it for her.

Itachi had been very proud when, after over a month and a half of working with the stubborn creature, what he was trying to teacher seemed to suddenly click. After that Mai began to fetch eager as a dog. At nearly 3 months he had managed to teach her many commands a dog would know including come, heel, and stay. After the first command she picked up everything much faster, almost like a dog, though she had already acted much like one.

People had a tendency to stare when Itachi worked with her but he didn't care. Harri wanted a dog, until he was able to save enough to build his own home, Mai would be his son's dog. He wanted to roll his eyes at the very thought as apparently having a dog around was too messy and animals weren't to be in the house of a noble. Obviously they didn't count several clans as noble houses as he knew of several that happily allowed at least a cat prowl around and the Black's had obviously been considered practically royalty in the remote area of Tea Country they had lived and they took having a dog to a whole different level!

Itachi pulled himself from his thoughts and looked in the direction of some shrubs. "Sasuke, would you like to take a walk with us?" Itachi called to his spying little brother, releasing his clone. He smirked when he heard a clunk as his foolish little brother bumped into a watering pail which was thankfully empty.

"I-yeah." The boy said, blushing.

"Mai, leash." The teen said, clicking his tongue to get the goat's attention.

She immediately dropped the drooled on ball she was trying to force into the toddler's hand and trotted away to a shed eagerly dragging a bright red dog leash behind her.

Sasuke gave her a weirded out expression.

"Good." Itachi said, ignoring the way his brother shied away from the strange little creature, he gave her head a pat and connected the clasp to her adorable flowery magenta dog collar.

Sasuke grimaced as the goat noisily bleated in excitement running impatient circles. Even as young as he was he was beyond embarrassed by his brother. You don't just go around walking goats like they were a dog or something. He really hoped no one he knew saw her. It was already embarrassing enough having his brother trying to trick everyone he knew into believing she was some special breed of dog.

Sasuke couldn't hold back an annoyed growl when Itachi gave him a pointed look when he went to hold his hand. Looking at Harri and back. "What?" He huffed.

"Hold his hand Sasuke. We can't be having him hurt can we? I would be very disappointed in you if you were to treat a member of our family so poorly. You wouldn't want other people to treat you badly just because they were a little jealous would you? I am counting on you to keep him safe when I can't." Itachi quietly said to his brother, he poked him in the forehead and smiled at the contemplative look the young boy wore after the mini lecture.

Sasuke immediately grumbled swatting the finger away and rubbed his forehead. He glared at his brother but reluctantly agreed. "K' Itachi." He mumbled. He was startled by how Itachi's face instantly lit up. It was rare when his brother even gave him a tiny smile let alone a full blown happy look like that.

"Good." Itachi said, ruffling his brother's hair. He removed his vest and sat it on a bench. "Harri come here please." Itachi said, hardly even raising his voice. He smiled affectionately as Harri immediately dropped whatever he had been holding…. Which looked suspiciously like a frog or toad… and walked over a bit clumsily, wiping his hands on his pants. Harri looking up at him adoringly, his bright green eyes looking impossibly brighter as they nearly glowed from the reflection of the sunlight. He was such a sweet beautiful obedient child Itachi felt lucky to have him and was sure that all that saw his son fell jealous. That they secretly wishing that they didn't have such dull average disobedient children and Harri was hardly even 2 now, according to the journals he was reading he had turned 2 nearly 2 months beforehand.. Though he decided not to tell his parents. He was sure they would likely have some huge celebration if that occurred.. He was sure such a thing would terrify his meek, quiet, Harrison.

Harri definitely did not inherit most of his personality from his mother. Who just from his writing, Itachi could tell was rather insane…. More in the eccentric, extremely over the top excitable sense than the dangerous one though. He was also vain, very extroverted, extremely scatterbrained and mischievous…. He also adored Harrison. It annoyed Itachi that anyone ever cared about Harri anywhere near the level that he did.

Itachi had also noticed that Harry seemed more intelligent than most children his age. Already able to pick up on numbers and such that he had begun working on with him. He was doing so well that Itachi was thinking about getting some books or something to work on things further with him. He wasn't great at speaking yet but Itachi had begun noticing that as long as he was using clear wording Harry picked up on everything he said and usually understood it far more than Sasuke, who was considered a genius himself, wasn't able to at that age.

"Go walk da?" Harry asked, he looked up at Itachi while petting his now 'Dow'ggie'. "Yes we are. We are bringing your cousin Sasuke with to." Itachi explained. The idea of calling Sasuke uncle was an unpleasant one. It seemed too close. It would be like him validating that he approved of the clan stepping in and 'teaching' Harri or something in Itachi's mind. He also didn't like the idea of anyone ever being as attached to Harry in anyway as he himself was.

"Mai-Mai Dow'ggie go to?" Harry asked narrowing his eyes at his adoptive father.

"Yes, your… dog Mai, too." Itachi said. A warm feeling bloomed in his chest at Harri's delighted squeal.

Sasuke stood crossed armed, completely annoyed. Neither of them were paying any attention to him. They literally cared more about a stupid goat, it wasn't fair!

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"Do you need anything while we are shopping Sasuke?" Itachi asked his little brother. He had Harry on his shoulders as the toddler had become exhausted after a short while of walking. He was smaller than a lot of the local village children his age. Mai was happily bleating at his side as she took in the sights. Thankfully she was no longer pulling like crazy anymore and was being much more polite on her leash than even a month or so before.

Sasuke didn't answer at first. He was trying to focus on staring ahead instead of on all of the whispering people pointing and giving the group strange looks.

"Sasuke?" Itachi said, a little louder.

"Hn…." Sasuke finally grunted, wishing he had stayed home.

"Alright." Was all Itachi said before focusing on his task again. Replacing all of the Uchiha crested black and navy blue crap his parents and relatives kept insisting on trying to force him to dress Harrison with. Ugh. Black obviously looked nice with Harri's beautiful green eyes, pale skin, and black hair but Itachi hated the clothing that they got him… And blue wasn't a great color on the child. They seemed to be obsessed with making Harrison as masculine and 'Uchiha-ish' as possible even as they tried covertly hint at finding him a male betrothed. Harri definitely was not tough or really boyish in anyway other than having the right plumbing… sort of… for it. His delicate frame also made all of the clothing Itachi's relatives got for him practically fall off.

Harri was gentle and quiet and already seemed to love pretty things. Happy to wear the daisy chain crowns Itachi would make for him or to gently cradle and play with Itachi's mother's antique dolls, much to her displeasure. Itachi was pleased to say that Harrison would not be becoming a Shinobi. Harrison didn't have the temperament to make a good ninja at all and Itachi didn't think that he would end up having one. Harri was too gentle and had a tendency to be clingy with him, which Itachi adored even though it was likely considered unhealthy. He didn't want Harri to ever leave him. No, Itachi would tutor him in the Black family jutsu's he had managed to save when Harri was older and he would also be homeschooling him. He didn't care what any of the Uchiha clan wanted or thought. They weren't going to use his child.

Itachi led his little brother to what could only be described as an adorable little children's clothing store the window displays were full of colorful little kimonos and sundresses. He ignored the grimace his little brother sported and walked in, goat and all. His mother often had a lady in the back come over to make custom formal wear for the family when the clan tailor was too busy. Which was often, as the name implied, he was the main tailor for the entire clan and they had a couple hundred members using his services.

"Why we hew brover? We already gots clothes." Sasuke grumbled.

"Harri needs something more suited to him. More than half of his clothes are blue and all of them have the Uchiha crest on it." Itachi explained, an edge of displeasure in his voice.

"Wait? But Mommy says we 'av ta wear them wif the fan!" Sasuke said, looking taken aback.

"Yes, but those clothes don't look very nice on Harri do they? And he is from the Black clan in Tea country so it's okay, alight?" Itachi said, using an almost cheerful tone.

Sasuke slowly nodded if Itachi thought it was okay and didn't seemed worried than maybe it was fine then. Yeah, Itachi was right Harri was from Tea country and it took him days and days to get back from there he never heard of any Uchiha's living that far away!

Itachi internally snickered at his trusting little brother. It was so easy to convince him that everything he said was right and it was even easier to get him to think his way. Itachi used his shoulder to push open the door, holding it with his back for Sasuke and Mai. After they both went in, Itachi moved away and allowed the dinging door to fall shut.

"How may I- eeeeh! Um Itachi sir what-um uh why is there a g-goat in here?" I teenage girl, likely not much older than Itachi with hazel eyes and powder blue colored hair stuttered.

"What goat? This animal is obviously an exceptionally rare breed of dog only found in the remote Tea country mountain range of the Lightening Dancers. She is from the palace of the Black haired Gods of Storms themselves. "Itachi insisted in a deadpan tone, looking at the girl like she was a complete idiot.

Sasuke covered his red face in total embarrassment and immediately wandered deep into the store.

"Sir…. That-that's a goat. We don't allow farm animals into our shop I am sorry but you are going to need to leave." The girl said cheeks so red they looked like they were burned she was so flustered.

"Goats have horns. Mai doesn't have horns. She is a dog. I am not liking the way that I am being discriminated against because of the odd appearance of my pet. I think I may advise against my clan visiting this place for now on. You have falsely advertised dog friendliness." Itachi said, tone highly offended.

"Wait what? No! No, it's fine please don't leave! I am sure it will be fine." The girl said nearly jumping over the counter in her panic. She had just upset one of the handsomest boys she had ever seen in her life and the Uchiha heir! There was no way the business would survive if he convinced his clan to no longer come there! If one of the higher up clans refused to go to a store it was practically instant death for the business. No one else would be willing to go there after that. Her social life would be dead if anyone found out she upset him and her grandmother would kill her! Especially if she found out she had offended an Uchiha no matter how crazy that particular clan member possibly was, especially the amazingly good-looking heir! "Take-take anything you want, it's on the house, just please don't leave!" The girl begged.

"Hn." Was Itachi's stereotypical Uchiha reply. The girl did not seeing Itachi's borderline evil smirk. She was also foolishly not studied in the caveman language of the Uchiha and mistook the noise as something positive. It most definitely wasn't a good 'hn' it was a contemplative devious one. Itachi remembered the girl had spreading rumors that they were in a sexual relationship a while back… And somehow several individuals had been convinced of it.. Even when he was hardly even 13 at the time! He had been harassed for nearly a year over it. People even got upset for him 'acting' too ashamed to have her with him in public. He had no idea who they were even talking about for the first six months of the harassment.

The girl sighed in relief when he turned back around and began walking towards a rack of clothes. She cringed as he simply let the goat's leash go and allowed her to have the run of the place. She paled when the animal began to climb all over some display tables, not sure what to do.

Itachi sat Harrison down so it would be easier to go through the clothes. He was pleased when Harry quietly stood next to him, holding onto his pant leg. Not much in that rack was what he was looking through that he might even consider at all. No, these wouldn't do. "Harri. Follow me." Itachi said, walking farther into the maze of racks.

He frowned. He wished he could find something that looked like a mix between Kimono and a long coat or dress robe, like Sirius had been wearing in one of the pictures he had seen. Something warm and beautiful and easy to move around in. Sirius had several detailed sketches of such garments specifically meant for Harrison when he was a bit older with things like 'Harrison will be so pretty' or 'he's going to be so adorable in this' in the margins. Such clothing required pants and were buttoned up or tied in such a way in the middle that gave plenty of mobility for a playing child. He would likely have to have such things custom made as he thought they were likely clan specific or maybe just for those males able to give birth.

Itachi was pulled from his musing by an insistent tug at his sleeve.

"Will these work?" Sasuke asked his brother holding up a green kimono with gold trim, a scale pattern with beautiful symbols and interesting shapes inside of them and gold colored flowers scattered through it. The nearly 4 year old blushed looking away like he was embarrassed he had even picked it out.

"Where did you find it?" Itachi asked in a dead serious tone which unnerved his little brother. Though unlike what Sasuke thought Itachi was not angry or displeased in any way with the find. Itachi was actually internally freaking out at how adorable it was. Harry would look so cute in it, Itachi was positive! No way would he let anyone, even his little brother know how much he was internally gushing over the pick though. He would never be able to show his face in public again!

"Um, here." Sasuke said, leading his brother to the very back of the main shop. The section wasn't very big but was full of gorgeous 'girly' clothes. Very very expensive 'girly' clothes with beautiful unique prints and many were styled in such a fashion that a child could still easily play in them unlike many highbrow Kimono and Yakima.

"Sasuke. Get a basket." Itachi said barely over a whisper. Looking at the clothes with a look in his eye that Sasuke had never seen before and had no idea how to read.

"Um, okay…" Sasuke said, wanting to get away from his strange acting brother anyway, feeling completely unnerved.

Itachi immediately began snatch clothes from racks and the fancy display models almost frenzied. He couldn't believe that he hadn't come in sooner! They would all look so darling on his Harrison! He froze for a second…. Darling? Where did that come from? Itachi shook his head and refocused his mind. He would get every last one possible while he had the freebee pass. His parents couldn't object if they didn't buy them!

The girl behind the counter was more than slightly surprised looking when Itachi dumped the thousands upon thousands of Ryo worth of clothes onto the counter. "I would like these to be sent to the head house at the Uchiha compound, packaged." Itachi said, giving the girl a blank stare as she grew redder and redder.

"W-w-what? Um, give me a second to figure out how uh much that will be…." The girl said, breathing hard and looking ready to pass out.

"Hn. I do not understand why. You have told me that I am able to have anything that I wished to get. You aren't going back on your word are you?" Itachi asked looking mildly displeased.

"Ugh, I did didn't I?.. stupid, Aiko you're stupid, stupid!" The girl scolded herself and pulled at her hair. It was like karma was getting back at her for what she did 2 years before! At least he didn't know. That would be so so much worse. She heard that Itachi could do some pretty mean underhanded things to get back at people. She didn't really believe that thought he was way too sweet and cool and hot, a total prince charming she was sure! He was even being nice enough to take his baby brother and some other adorable clan kid shopping! If only it was real they could have such amazing kids together and then she could be the Lady Uchiha! What a dream! And-

"So am I going to get my bill for the delivery?" Itachi asked, annoyed by the girl's love sick gaze.

"Um, yeah I guess." The girl said, sounding positively pained that she was giving away so many expensive items. She was so dead! Those prints were one of a kind custom ones unique to her family and only used on the most expensive fabrics and clothing! Her grandmother had spent months on the lot of them. She was sure if she didn't uphold what she had said that Itachi would tell everyone about how she was a liar and destroy her and the business' reputation! If she did give him the clothes she and her grandmother were losing tens of thousands if not more…. She swallowed hard and counted up how many items needed to be brought to the Uchiha home. "That will be 245 Ryo sir." She managed to choke out. Her throat felt like it was going to close up. That would maybe pay for a couple of the ribbons and one of the pair of pants in the pile. All of that would go to repairing the table and replacing the clothes the so called 'dog' had chewed up though!... Aiko had to have died and gone to hell or something, she was convinced.

Itachi pulled out his wallet and handed the money over, not even blinking at the price. He grabbed the receipt and made a clicking noise with his tongue, Mai immediately jumped from the table she had been gnawing on trotted over bleating excitedly. Oddly enough Harrison also came toddling out from the back looking up at him like a puppy waiting by the back door for a walk.

Sasuke was convinced even at the age of nearly four that he couldn't get any more embarrassed until Itachi praised both toddler and Goat with pleased pats on the head and telling them that they were a good boy and good girl respectively and promised them treats if they continued to be good.

Itachi decided that he was beginning to have a really good day.

Sasuke felt the opposite way. He had a feeling things were going to just get worse and worse for him.

End Chapter 2

So here is chapter 2. Hope it was alright! Something was off with it to me but I rewrote it several times so it may just be me. Sorry it took so long to update! I have been very sick, I think I have bronchitis or something as I can hardly breath and keep coughing up gunk and blood. It's not fun. I also have a fever that won't go down that is low but really uncomfortable. It has constantly been between 99.6-100 degrees Fahrenheit for nearly 4 days straight. So I kind of finished this in a haze of heat and coughing. Next chapter is so much better though! I really knew what I wanted to write for the next chapter!

IMPORTANT: I am strongly thinking about creating a go fund me page or something to try and raise money to replace my computer because this one only has a month or two left before it goes dead on me! I keep getting blue screens, zapped, my fan constantly goes out, I lose data, and I even get burned sometimes it is so bad.

How DID IT HAPPEN? Some creepy jerk snuck up behind me, screamed in my ear when I was in college right as I was taking my computer out of my bag and I ended up dropping it on the cement. He and his buddies laughed at me after that I went to the office to report them as it had badly damaged my computer, which of course it was a month over my 3 year warranty when it happened, I was told that they couldn't make them pay for the damages and I they weren't going to alienate people as they didn't think they were students. It was about a year ago. If my computer goes out I will not have any way of updating or writing stories for at least a year as I had to use all of the money I saved up to pay for meds when I had sinusitis and strep a few months ago. It is a mess. So do you guys/Gals think I should start the page or should I just wait the Min. 6-8 months to have enough money to get one?

If you like this story I recommend my Crossover, Not the Place I was Hoping for. Also my first Harry Lupin story: Harry Lupin, Cub of two Marauders. If you want something darker and more seductive I recommend my crossover, Teeth and Antlers! New to Fanfiction? I also recommend just about anything from Starlight Massacre and DebsTheSlytherinSnapeFan.

You can find me on Facebook under the name Yazziyou Daydreamer! I am happy to talk or answer questions! Also you can find my drawings on Deviantart under the name Yuvush!

PLEASE REVIEW, I am feeling cruddy lately so it really helps me feel encouraged to write more! I also get some of my best ideas for my stories by reading reviews! I actually have used a few suggestions so far between this chapter and the next one which I love!

Chapter 2 Hint: Troublesome friendships and Cougar fights!