Chapter 7. Consequences of jealousy.

Itachi was furious. Oh, he was so furious. It was the first time Sasuke walked out on him and ...didn't come home. And it was no mission or business he had to attend. Itachi knew that for sure. He was an ANBU. And he was Sasukes older brother. Also he was Itachi Uchiha. If he wanted to find out something about someone he didn't have problems doing it. No problems whatsoever. Though there was one problem in Itachis' life. One serious problem that Itachi could not solve. This problem was his little brother, Sasuke.

Kushima was busy in the kitchen when Itachi came in and demanded his tea served. When the steaming mixture was poured into the cup and placed in front of him, Itachi asked her coldly

"Have you seen my brother today?"

Kushima stopped whatever she was doing and she started nervously wiggling at the patch of fabrics on her kimono.

"No" she answered the question quietly.

Itachi stared in his cup. He hated the tea she made. He hated almost everything she did. He got up on his feet, walked up to the sink and poured the tea out of the cup. Then he abruptly turned around and threw the cup into the opposite wall. The cup smashed into pieces. Kushima shrieked scared, but quickly ran up and lowered onto the floor to clean up the mess.

It was not the first time she saw her husband being frustrated. But it was the first time Itachi was pissed for no reason. Everything was annoying him today. Everything. Why?

The answer to this question was in the meantime approaching the Uchihas' mansion in the company of Ayano and Ki. All the trio was laughing and joking and making plans for the evening.

"Seriously, Sasuke! You should totally join us in karaoke tonight! Ayano has gorgeous voice-"

"- and Ki has no musical hearing at all! So we make quite a couple when singing duets!" inserted Ayano in the middle of Kis' sentence.

"Well, I don't know. My head is still pounding for karaoke exercises" Sasuke already made up his mind that he would go.

He couldn't but admit that he enjoyed the company of these two...He felt very easy with them, as if he had known them all his life and at the same time they didn't know anything about him and his sins and worries. And that felt good.

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Suddenly Itachi heard loud voices approaching from the street. They were three, one girl, one boy and... Sasuke.

"Jenee!" Sasuke opened the front door, came in, and waved back to his new friends, then closed the door and proceeded along the corridor, towards his room, still smiling.

Itachi appeared in front of him within an instant.

"Where have you been?!"

Sasukes' smile wiped off. It all came back to him. Itachi. Kushima. His fucking brother. His fucking bastard brother-slash-lover.

"Hn. It doesn't concern you, Itachi." Sasuke tried to move Itachi off his way, but it proved quite an impossible task to do. Itachi grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pushed him against the wall. He cut Sasukes' way to escape by slamming his free hand against the wall just next to his little brothers' head, still clutching at Sasukes' shirt.

Itachi repeated his question, getting very much irritated by his little brothers' arrogance and worse than a foolish behavior.

"Where have you been? And who were you with?"

Sasuke looked at Itachi.

"Aha, so this is how one looks when one is jealous, ne, Itachi?" he smirked entertained by his brothers' reaction.

Itachi didn't find anything funny in this situation. How the hell..his Sasuke...his breath smelled...

"Is it alcohol I can smell from you?" asked Itachi, nearing Sasukes mouth to confirm his suspicion.

Sasuke made an attempt of pushing Itachi away, but his body didn't regain its usual strength after the night adventures. Not just yet.

"Let go of me!" Sasuke screamed getting all pissed off, turning his head away, but Itachi was not about to give up.

"It is alcohol! Sasuke I will kill you!" Itachi was totally losing his mind. His Sasuke got drunk in some questionable company, he obviously had the whole kit and caboodle of everything in there! The way he was acting just demonstrated that he couldn't even stand being close to Itachi now!

"Sasuke! I will kill you", Itachi forcefully tried to press a kiss onto his brothers' lips, neck, face or anywhere- but Sasuke was desperately fighting back and turning his head from one way to the other.

Why was he fighting back?

"Sasuke, you fucked with someone else, ne? Answer me! You answer to me now or I swear I will kill you" Itachi grabbed Sasukes face , squashing him against the wall and covering Sasukes lips with his. In the end Sasuke gave up on trying to break free. But he was not ready to kiss his brother back.

Kushima heard the shrieks. She ran out into the corridor and ...froze on spot shocked by the scene, she had to cover her mouth with both hands not to scream.

Itachi turned his head immediately feeling unwanted presence, which Sasuke seemed to have missed...

Kushima stormed out, still hands over her mouth.

"Itachi, let go of me! Let go of me, you , pervert. I hate you. I fucking hate you."

"Sasuke…"

Sasuke banged the fists against Itachis' heavy body. Itachi was an ANBU, Itachi was stronger. Itachi always won. But with these last words Itachi let go. And made a step backwards.

"Sasuke..."

"Itachi I didn't mean it.."

"Sasuke..."

"Itachi, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it"

Itachi lowered on the floor tiredly. Sasuke came up to him and sat beside him.

"No I am sorry, Sasuke" Itachi said quietly looking away. Sasuke took his brothers' hand into his and pressed it against his lips. Itachis' voice trembled and he smiled an utterly sad smile.

"I'm sorry Sasuke. I should have never done it to you, you know", he looked his brother in the eyes

and took his hand away, placed it on his knee.

"You should leave, Sasuke and start a normal life. I know you can."

Sasuke stared at him in disbelief.

"Itachi, what are you saying? I can't without you! What are you saying?! Nothing happened last night."

Itachis' face became suddenly serious, as he was listening to the noises coming from his and Kushimas' room. She was crying and packing up.

O, my God, he loved his brother so much. And what was he doing to him?

"Sasuke. She saw us."

"What?"

"My wife. She saw us kissing now"

Sasuke flinched away from his brother and out of some reason started rubbing-wiping his lips clean, warily glancing in the direction of Itachis' room. Sasuke imagined now how everything would come out, everyone would find out about him and his brother, then he would never be able to look Ki and Ayano in the eyes. Why did he care at all? He just met them for crying out loud! But he did care.

"Sasuke. She's not gonna tell anyone. I'll speak to her." Itachi said as if he read Sasukes' thoughts.

Sasuke chuckled bitterly.

"Yeah. Right."

"Sasuke..."

"You know Itachi, you are right. " Sasuke got up and looked at his older brother. It was his fucking fault from the very start. If he hadn't pushed him away by saying he had had sex with Kushima, he wouldn't have got drunk and nothing of this would have happened.

"Itachi I don't want it anymore. I just can't bare it any longer. I don't know what to do. But one thing is for sure. It can't go on like that."

"No. It can't." Itachi agreed, looking away. He felt like that was the end. The end of it all.

Kushima started carrying out the boxes with her things. Itachi got up.

"I need to talk to her. Don't go away anywhere, you hear me? We haven't finished this talk" Itachi said but Sasuke had another opinion

"No, Itachi. This talk is over. "

And before Itachi managed to answer anything, Sasuke turned around and headed to his room.

N/A: sorry guyz for the late update. it was a bit hard for me to switch from one fic to the other. Those who write themselves will understand what I'm talking about. XD Thanks again for reading and reviewing. mainki