Itachi keeps coming back every day, spending most of the nights in the hospital room with his brother. Sasuke gets better and better but grows impatient seeing his brother there all the time. Eventually he suggests Itachi not to come the following day. Itachi is confused, he doesn't understand his brothers' reactions. He speculates if it has anything to do with the upcoming wedding.
"Sasuke,does it worry you, my wedding?" ,asks Itachi, before leaving. Sasuke is giving him a glare, and Itachi reads jealousy and hatred in it.
"No, why should it?"
Itachi shrugs his shoulders uncertainly, a bit disappointed. The topic seems to be closed, nothing to add to the conversation from both sides. Itachi turns to leave when Sasuke stabs him with the question: "Do you love her?"
Itachi doesn't answer. He can hear well hidden pain in his brothers' tone.
How can I answer that? It's not fair, he knows it himself. Of course there is no place for anyone else in his heart, besides his otouto, his little Sasuke. But he made a promise and couldn't go back on his word. He killed this womans' man as part of the mission but instead of revenge she saved his, Itachis, life. Besides she was expecting a baby, and Itachi promised he would repay the debt to her, by marrying and raising the child as his own. He persuaded himself it was a needed sacrifice. He shouldn't have done it. Now he has hurt his otouto.
"Yes, I do love her" he lied. He didn't.
Sasuke turned his head to the window and stared away. It was a beautiful day early in the fall, calm and cool. Sasuke hated that day more than anything in the entire world.
"Get the hell out", he says in a plain emotionless tone to his brother not bothering to turn his head away from the window.
Itachi walked up to his bed.
"Sasuke, you don't understand. Let me explain". Itachi took his brothers hand into his, but Sasuke pulled it out as if the touch burnt him and hid it under the blanket.
"I said, get out". Eyes are staring at nothing.
I can't look at him. How can he do this to me? Aniki, how can you do this to me…after everything?
Itachi doesn't move.
"Get out!" Sasukes scream brings the medics into the room, they rudely push Itachi out of the door.
Itachi walks home. Broken.
Sasuke doesn't want to see him anymore. Itachis' wedding day is getting closer. Sasuke is to be released from the hospital soon. Itachi is suffering in quiet. He sits daily outside his brothers door, waiting. The medical personnel keep an eye on him constantly- he is not to be let into the patients' room. It changes nothing. One night Itachi makes an attempt of climbing into the brothers' room by the wall. It's only on the second floor, so he manages it unseen. Sasuke is asleep but he wakes up as soon as Itachi approaches his bed.
"What are you doing here? I thought I told you not to come back. I don't want to see you"
Sasukes' voice is cold. He despises his brother.
"Sasuke", Itachi is not going to give up so easily. He has waited. And waited. How long should he be punished for?
"Sasuke, it doesn't change how I feel for you. It doesn't change anything, you know. We will always be together, I promise!" Itachi is speaking fast, with passion. He doesn't realize his words don't touch Sasuke in the slightest.
Sasuke smirks indifferently and covers his head with the blanket. He won't listen. He just won't listen. Does he care that his aniki suffers more than him? No, he doesn't care. Sasuke doesn't really give a damn. He is preparing to go back to sleep again.
Itachi pulls the blanket in his direction, uncovering Sasukes' face and body. He just wants him to understand.
"Sasuke! I love you, please listen to me".
"No!"
You are like a spoiled brat! Isn't it enough? What do you want from him? He loves you. He cannot marry you anyway, so does it matter if he marries somebody else? He said you would always be together!
"Get the hell out and leave me alone, you psycho!" Sasuke pulls the blanket back onto himself and miscalculates, dragging Itachi with it.
He awkwardly falls on the bed, on top of Sasukes legs.
"Otouto!" Unexpected vicinity makes Sasuke temporarily forget about the confrontation; Itachi is there, covering his body with kisses, trying to make as little noise as possible.
Oh, he is so gorgeous. Why is he so gorgeous?
"I want you now", says Sasuke, lifting Itachis' head, from the swollen passionate parts. He sees that Itachi is close to losing control over himself. So is Sasuke.
The bed is too small and it sqeeks traitorously.
"Yes", whispers Itachi in his ear and lifts him up in his arms, carrying him to the table, away from the door. There is nothing to be heard from behind it, and their breathing sounds shamefully loud.
Itachi presses Sasuke against the table, kissing his back, bending him slightly forward with both hands. Sasuke is ready and approaching.
Prepare now. He's gonna rip you apart.
But Itachi doesn't do it. He makes Sasuke spill it all over brothers' hands , licking off the remaining juice of Sasukes body and carries him back to the bed.
Hm? Is that all?
"Itachi, I feel like …incomplete"
"?"
Idiot. I said I want you. What was 'that'?!
"Itachi, you didn't get what you wanted."
Itachi runs his fingers through his brothers' hair while kissing his forehead.
"Yes, I did." He replies.
Lies. He didn't get satisfied at all!
Sasuke touches the middle of Itachis trousers. It's still hard and answers him with a light push from under the clothes.
"let me do it?" asks Sasuke, a bit uncertain of what exactly he means himself. Itachis eyes are closed and he moans. Sasuke helps him out.
You look like a cheap whore! Deepthroating your own brother!
He is unskilled, but Itachi doesn't mind. He is biting his fist not to scream of pleasure.
Suddenly the door opens and a nurse comes in. The tray of medicines falls out of her hands. Both brothers lift their heads in surprise.
Whoops!
The pig screaming nurse runs out of the room, waking up almost every single patient and sleepy worker on the entire floor. Sasuke jumps off the bed, trying to cover himself with any available cloth he can find at hand. Itachi is confused but he quickly finds himself and zips his trousers up while getting off the bed.
"It's better if I go, otouto".
Sasuke looks scared, his gaze wonders towards the open door. One more second and a crowd of running legs can be heard approaching.
"I guess, so". He answers and Itachi is rapidly leaving the room through the window.
Ha-ha! You got caught! No more cream for the cat-thief! Now everybody will find out! Ha-ha-ha!
"Urusei!" Sasuke spits out venomously to his inner-voice. "I hate you!"
Oh?! Is there some small piece of conscience shining through? or is it shame?
A couple of medics enter the room. Sasuke is glad he can't read their expressions because of the surgical masks they have on, but the glares tell him that they know.
The medics seem to be confused themselves about what to do next, they look around the room where there is no sign of Itachi, except for the mess on the bed and the open window.
Sasuke is standing still for some reason next to the bed, covering the shame with poor- seen-it-all blanket. His dark underwear is peeping from under the bed, impossible to miss. One of the nurses makes an uncertain gesture in its direction.
"You should be in bed", says the male- nurse, not looking Sasuke directly in the eyes. Before Sasuke realizes it he hears his own voice speaking in his place in a pompous provocative manner:
"I was!".
Usuratonkachi. They know you were there. Idiot. And on the table. Ha!
The nurse hasn't got much to add, so he turns as if to leave , at the doors he looks back at Sasuke and states "You should stay in bed. And…" He makes a pause as if not too sure how to formulate the thought and finishes it with double meaning :
"…You should take it easy".
Easy! Easy! Very easy! You have no idea 'how' easy little Sasuke can take it!
"Hm!" Sasuke drops the blanket on purpose and turns the bare arse towards the medics, straightening the sheets.
…?...?!
"As if I care", says Sasuke both to himself and aloud. He lays down, pulls the blanket over the head, leaving the nurses …speechless.