A/N: This chapter isn't a lemon chapter… and I am sorry, but my friend (You can curse her) said that this kind of thing should go here. I didn't particularly like this chapter and so I wrote a completely lemon chapter and decided top post both at the same time. So now I leave you with this question- please answer in your reviews- "If you are not dressed for bed are you naked for bed?"

The Shop

Chapter Two: As expected of me

"What the hell were you thinking Itachi?" asked Sasuke as he checked the appointment book.

"I had to make up for your stunt a month ago."

"You liked it…" Sasuke pouted.

"Once again Sasuke, what have I told you about wearing your work?"

"Oh, come on, you have to admit it's cute!"

"As much as I love to see your little lacy girl underwear, I do not want others to do so."

"Come on… Nii-san."

"GO TAKE IT OFF!" Itachi yelled. Sasuke flinched and nodded. He walked through the somewhat empty house. In the bedroom he changed. Reflecting on his brother.

"He forgot. As expected." Sasuke slipped on some regular clothes. He looked at himself in the mirror and sighed. He looked drab without the lace and frills. No wonder his brother ignored him most of the time and forgot he existed. He observed his sickly pale skin and black hair. Similar to his brother, however his brother had more. His skin was slightly tanned and it added to him looking healthy, his hair was longer and shinier, and he had a confidence that just added to his beauty. Sasuke was easily forgotten; nobody forgot Itachi. He looked over at the calendar and tore it off the wall. He returned to his brother and sat on the stool beside his brother's laptop.

"Sasuke have you eaten?"

"Yes." He lied. He almost never ate. He couldn't he was more worried about his brother, if he ate too much he would get fat, and then his brother wouldn't like him.

"Are you lying?"

"No, Aniki." Itachi spun to look at him. Those pitch-black eyes glanced across him.

"You don't look well… do you feel like lying down?"

"No, Aniki."

"Are you sure," he asked. He reached up and felt my forehead. "You feel warm; go get the thermometer." Sasuke hopped down, grabbed the thermometer, and walked dejectedly back to his brother. His brother hit the button and stuck it into his mouth. "Don't take it out." Itachi ordered and watched for the slightest movement from his little brother. Sasuke tried to work the little bar out from under his tongue. Itachi saw the little telltale movement.

"Stop it." Sasuke sighed and stopped. The timer went off and Itachi extracted the little rod from his mouth. "40.6… go to bed." (99.9 degree Fahrenheit fever.)

"No, I can work today…" If Sasuke can't work then he is of no use to his older brother.

"Fine, but if you feel faint you will go to bed."

"Hai, Aniki." Sasuke smiled and tipped his stool back and forth. He giggled slightly.

"Otouto… you'll fall."

"And you're a worry wart."

"Don't be silly I am much prettier than a worry wart."

Sasuke giggled and Itachi watched him out of the corner of his eye. "Our first client is… Mr. Hatake. He plans to buy some new outfits… did you get those finished?"

"Hai…"

"Then it's Tsunade-san. Did you finish her order?"

"Hai…"

"Gaara, Kimimura… they are all before lunch. Can you handle that?"

"Hai, Aniki."

"We have an hour or so before Hatake Kakashi shows up… Are you hungry?"

"Hai, Aniki."

"What would you like?"

"Anything…" Itachi frowned, Sasuke was a generally picky person; he would pick and fuss over what went on a pizza, over the buttons on one of his dresses not being the exact distance away from the others. He was picky and it was a well-known fact.

"Are you sure you are okay, Otouto?" Sasuke smiled that heartbreaking smile that said he was happy and yet not and nodded.

---- Itachi helped his brother into his uniform, which consisted of a much longer and simpler maid outfit upon Itachi's orders, and let the boy out into the lobby where his clientele waited. He had a clipboard and hand and reading glasses perched on his nose.

"Hatake-san, you are first." He saw Kakashi grab his boyfriend Iruka and lead them back into the room that Sasuke stored all of his works of art. On the way they held a simple conversation.

"Your order was very difficult you had many selections, but I finished the last, last night."

"On top of everything as always, Sasuke-kun." Sasuke offered Kakashi a smile.

"How have you been, Iruka-san."

Iruka was blushing and trying to look anywhere, but at Sasuke. "Well."

"Iruka-san, there is no need to avert your eyes; I know you mean no harm."

"Well, Sasuke-kun I mean no harm, but you do look quite nice in your uniform…."

"Stop, you're making me blush and giggle! Itachi won't let me wear my favorites." Sasuke pouted cutely. "Here is the room we will work in." Sasuke walked in and closed the shoji door behind his customers. "As you requested the half trim maid outfit has a rip seam, I can't wait to see your performance. Where can I get tickets?"

"Well, we knew you would want to come and so we procured tickets before hand."

"Ah, thank you. Give them to Itachi on the way out, please. I don't know how I can thank you!"

"Well, if your designs are half as lovely as they usually are; then I believe that is enough." Sasuke thanked them politely and demonstrated the proper way to put on the costumes.

"As usual Itachi will discuss the prices with you. Thank you for your patronage." Sasuke crossed back into the waiting room.

"Tsunade-san! Always a pleasure to see you! Jaraiya-san, you come along as well. This is unexpected; would you like both of your orders together?"

"Not today, I am just visiting with Tsunade-hime."

"This way then." Sasuke led the way to another room similar to the one that Kakashi and Iruka had perused their items in.

"Here is the box of… items," Sasuke said handing it to Jaraiya. "And over here," reaching in to a standing closet. "Is your gown…" He pulled out a long gorgeous gown that consisted of a flowing silver material. "As requested 13,000 diamonds and sapphires have been embedded into the material." He pulled up the plastic and showed that the belly button had been cut out and surrounded with diamonds and sapphire in a swirling rune;(think Naruto's curse seal) each stone carefully but into the design that Tsunade had asked.

"Oh, Sasuke-kun you are indeed a master."

"Thank you, Tsunade-san." He said while pinning a description tag onto the bag that would go to Itachi. He handed the dress to Tsunade smiling. She returned the smile. All of the sudden Sasuke felt a little shaky, and then the world turned upside down. He heard voices calling.

"Oh god, Sasuke-kun." Hands were touching him. "You're burning up. Jaraiya go get Itachi-san." He heard the door open and then close.

"No, don't get Aniki. If I can't work then I am useless. No, Itachi-" He heard the door open again. "Itachi doesn't love me."

"Shh, Shh calm down Sasuke-kun." Tsunade looked up at Itachi who looked absolutely shocked.

"Aniki, Aniki forgot." Itachi's eyes widened even further. He walked calmly over and looked at the calendar. Eyes scanning the calendar he observed dates and clicked them off. Today was the twenty-third of July, Sasuke's birthday.

"Tsunade would it be too much to ask if you could watch over the shop and cancel all appointments for the next two days at least."

"Not at all."

"Thank you." Itachi lifted his little brother into his arms, and carried him off to the car. Slipping him into the passenger seat of the Mustang GT, he drove down the road. His brother was mumbling broken sentences.

"Aniki, he didn't, can't eat, Aniki won't love me anymore. If I can't work I am of no use. Take me back. I have to work… Aniki…."

"Do:shite?" Itachi's hands tightened on the steering wheel until his knuckles were denied blood by his tight grip. "I'm a fool…" He finally drove into the hospital emergency room. Carrying his young brother inside they placed him on a stretcher and carried him into the emergency room. Leaving Itachi on the outside. Two hours later the doctor emerged.

"Uchiha-san, are you his brother?"

"Yes," he's an American doctor?

"Are you his current guardian?"

"Yes."

"Follow me." He walked into the room they were holding Sasuke in.

"Sasuke." He gasped and flowed over to his brother. Glad he had had the sense of mind to change his brother from his maid's outfit.

"What is his condition?" Itachi asked in fluent English.

"Bad, he is sick from lack of nutrition and sleep. Answer a few questions for me." Itachi nodded. "What are both of your current ages?"

"My brother is thirteen today, and I am recently eighteen."

"How recently?"

"A little over a month."

"And where are your parents?"

"Why all the questions?"

"Answer."

"Dead. Died when he was eight and I was thirteen."

"Who took care of you?"

"We took care of each other. We lived alone and lived off of some of our parents money, until I graduated college."

"Did you quit?"

"College? No, I finished at the age of fourteen. Masters degree in business, and psychoanalysis, " stated Itachi. "My brother recently graduated high-school."

"You are both very intelligent."

"My brother may be smart, but I believe he should care more about himself than he does about me."

"Do you care for your brother?"

"If you are implying that I do not take care of my younger brother then you are sadly mistaken."

"That is exactly what I am implying."

"Tsunade Sannin comes and checks on him every week, I buy him the best in everything, I ask him if he ate every morning, I feed him every noon, and night, and I have always put my brothers welfare before my business, and myself."

"It doesn't seem that way."

"YOU ARE OUT OF LINE!" Itachi boomed at the shocked doctor.

"Let's ask your brother then." The doctor took Itachi and hid him behind the curtain. The doctor walked over and woke up the sleeping boy.

"Sasuke-kun, do you like living with your brother?"

"Yes, very much Aniki takes good care of me."

"Does he feed you well?"

"Yes, but I sometimes don't eat it. I really don't want to gain any weight and Itachi doesn't watch me eat because he trusts me and so I throw it away. And he asks me if I have eaten, and I lie. I don't want him to get mad and so I lie. I usually drink health shakes for breakfast; Itachi says that it isn't real food and to eat the food he orders for me, or that he cooks, but I usually don't. Can I go home now, please?" Itachi walked into the room and smiled at the doctor.

"So is he released?" The doctor nodded and handed over the papers for the payment and release forms. Itachi takes his little brother home. Thanking Tsunade and Jaraiya for their assistance. I spot Sasuke as he trots toward the kitchen. I catch up with him.

"Sasuke you are going to have to eat. I won't think any less of you if you gain a few pounds it is only natural and if you get sick I won't get mad at you." The doorbell rang and I went to open it. I take the proffered package from the man at the door, pay him, and thank him for his quick service.

Sasuke pranced back into the room in a tiny sailor style schoolgirl uniform. It was red and black and ended at a point that Itachi could see the boy's underwear with every movement he made. The top was skintight and he had the floppy socks. "Aniki, what is in the box?"

"For you…" Itachi said shortly, and walked off. Sasuke opened the box and gasped. He placed the box on the table. Itachi walked off leaving Sasuke; it was as if he didn't even hear him.

"Aniki, I love you. I want to be with you forever." Itachi stopped and turned back to Sasuke. "Happy Birthday, Otouto."

"Arigato, koibito…" Itachi came back and kissed Sasuke.

A/N: Chapter three is up now… IT HAS A LEMON!!!!!!! SKIP IT IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT!