This Chapter Is Dedicated To Im in love with a Uchiha23 for being my 200th review!

Colz: Okay so the upcoming chapters are going to be short to moderately long. It depends on the chapter I'm writing. I have no idea but sometimes I can only write something for one chapter and its not a lot and then the next chapter is really long. Well I'm writing chapters ahead of time as you know so this story should be over fairly quickly. Sorry but I really need to work on Make Me Sane. Also it'd be cool if you guys read it. I'm supposed to be redoing it but so far I only made it to 3 chapters. And people who are reading it are waiting patiently. Even though I only received 10 reviews on 3 chapters. But I'm happy! Anyways, If I don't get around to updating story's its not really my fault, well it is but, its partially my neck and shoulders fault. They are being really mean to me hurting and all. So anyways I'm going to get back to the story and I hope you all enjoy Itachi's little angsty feelings.

Recap:

Itachi looked up at him and pulled him into a big brotherly hug. Sasuke, being uncomfortable with the situation, patted his back slowly to try and calm himself down.

"Its not fair, Sas-Sasuke!" he choked out, burying his face into his younger brothers shoulder.

"Whats not fair?"

Dumb question. Itachi stopped crying and looked at Sasuke, breaking the embrace. Rage danced in his eyes as Sasuke sat there with his hands clasped over his mouth. He knew what Itachi was talking about, and now he would have to face the wrath.

"You know DAMN WELL whats not fair!" He yelled, his voice echoing throughout the home.

Sasuke actually flinched. He hated it when his brother got upset with him. His glares and yells actually, surprisingly, seemed intimidating towards him. He suddenly felt unsafe at the current position he was located in and he moved away from his brother and towards Sakura.

They sat in silence, Sasuke and Sakura stood side by side, while Itachi knelt on the ground. Then, something small fell from the wall, bouncing on the ground then rolling in a circular motion in its position. Itachi glanced at what it was, and he felt his heart being ripped out.

Monster in the Basement

Chapter 13

A moment only meant for brothers.

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There, spinning on the floor, was Ayama's engagement ring. He slowly crawled towards the piece of jewelry and picked it up, shoving it into his pocket. Getting up, he walked out of the kitchen and down the hall towards the living room. Sasuke moved forwards, Sakura following him. He had to stop Itachi, before he did something bad. Sasuke moved with great speed, it was hard for Sakura to keep up but she managed. When Sasuke reached Itachi, he was sitting down on the floor, against the wall.

"Hey." Sasuke said, sitting down next to his older brother.

"Hn." He replied, not removing his eyes from the wall in front of him.

"Hows it going?" Sasuke asked, trying to get Itachi to speak.

He suddenly remembered the last time Itachi had gotten like this. It was a few days before his birthday and everyone was making him feel like he was worthless, like they knew what he thought or how he felt. He finally got fed up with it and began to avoid everyone, thats when their relationship as brothers slipped down the drain. He began to listen to dark, heavy music and wore dark, fishnet clothing. Then he met Ayama, and he slowly began to come out of his shell again.

"Not good." He replied, refusing to make eye contact with his brother.

A long silence dawned upon them and Sasuke grew uncomfortable with the suffocating silence. Sakura had known it was a personal matter between the brothers so she had been waiting on the other side of the hallway, out of sight. Breaking the silence, Sasuke tried to get his brother to feel better.

"Itachi, I know how you feel---"

"No you don't know how I feel! I'm sick of everyone always assuming that just because someone isn't feeling great that they know how it feels!!" He yelled, looking him straight in the eye.

"What are you talking about no one has done th--"

"Yes they have!! See this is why your so foolish. You don't understand anything and wont understand anything until it comes and bites you in the ass!"

Sasuke tensed. He hated it when his brother got like this. It usually ended up breaking out into a fist fight, Sasuke loosing of course. He tightened his fists to calm his nerves down and began to speak again.

"Okay. I'm sorry!" He apologized, looking away from his fuming brother.

"Well I'm not!" he replied, waving his arms around. "How would you feel if Sakura was taken, huh?"

Sasuke paused as he thought about what Itachi had said. Letting the words seep into his mind, he began to think about his feelings for her. Itachi's impatient sighs brought him back to reality and he looked towards his brother, answering him.

"Probably how your feeling right now."

"You know, before I used to hate myself for treating you like I did, because of how Ayama and Sasori were, It made me feel guilty." Itachi started.

"She convinced me to try and talk with you and restart our brotherhood from when we were younger, but every time I talked to you, you shunned me out."

"That's because you would always torture me." Sasuke retorted, receiving no emotions what so ever.

"It doesn't matter now, everything I've lived for his gone." Itachi whispered, his gaze falling towards the floor.

Sasuke felt something inside him break. He didn't know what it was. He knew Itachi was sad about Ayama being taken, but he hadn't realized he loved her this much. Now he really wanted to go downstairs and kick that monsters ass. One, for taking all his friends away, and Two, for making his brother feel bad. Sasuke then did something nobody would have ever thought he would do. Not even Masashi Kishimoto would believe Sasuke did this. He turned towards Itachi and hugged him. Sasuke hugged Itachi! (a/n: -has heart attack-)

Itachi was completely flabbergasted. He never thought that Sasuke would hug him. He inwardly smirked, as he wrapped his arms around his younger brother. Everything then went quiet, only hearing the occasionally sniffles of Itachi from when he had been crying.

"Sasuke, I appreciate this, but promise me, you wont tell anyone we hugged. Okay?" Itachi muttered, causing Sasuke to snicker.

"Okay, anything for you bro."

Itachi smirked, as he and Sasuke broke the hug and continued to bore holes into the wall in front of them. (a/n: poor walls.)

"So how long have you been planning on proposing to Ayama?" Sasuke asked, looking towards Itachi.

"Probably about 2 months now." he replied, fiddling with the ring in his pocket.

"Aa."

"Still cant believe shes gone." Itachi said.

He began to think about her more and more. A shimmering tear, slid down his cheek and fell to the ground. He pulled his knees up closer to his chest again and rested his chin down on them. Sasuke felt really bad. He had triggered something inside of Itachi, and he made him feel worse than actually making him feel better.

"I don't want to believe shes gone, I don't, I wont!" he said to no one in particular.

"She has to live, she has to, were supposed to get married Sasuke, were supposed to get married."

Sasuke stared at him as he rested his forehead against his knees, hiding his face from the world. His body began to quiver, signaling to Sasuke that he was crying again. Never did Sasuke think that Itachi would cry, his older brother. He just seemed to cold to care for anything and now he was crying. He had remembered that Itachi would always say that your weak if you cry.

He hadn't recalled ever seeing Itachi cry before in his life. Maybe he had cried when he was little but still that has slim chances.

"How long." Sasuke asked him, and he looked towards Sasuke in confusion.

"How long what?"

"How long have you lied to me?" Sasuke's question had now turned into an order as Itachi began to register what Sasuke was asking, or rather, demanding.

"About?"

"Not crying."

Itachi sat there, debating whether to tell his brother the truth or not. He decided it was best to just tell him instead of having him pester him all night long.

"Since day one."

"..."
"Every time we would get into arguments and our parents get involved, taking your side of course, whenever I would go in my room and blast my music, I would cry in frustration. Only seeking release when I would 'I'M' or call Ayama."

"Some times, I would sneak out and go to my friends house and get wasted, other times I would just listen to my mp3 player and try to sleep the rest of my life. I remember this one time before Ayama and I became friends, I was so angry and depressed. All I remember is just taking that blade and cutting myself, just to see how much I could bleed."

"And now, looking back on the events, I wonder, if I never met Ayama, would I still be alive, or would I have already committed suicide?"

Sasuke listened intently, trying to absorb all the feelings Itachi was spilling to him. In some ways he felt honored that Itachi was telling him this, it meant that he trusts him with his secrets. But in the other ways, he felt guilty for not being there for him when he needed someone. The only person that pulled him from his depression was Ayama after all, she was his best friend. Thats another reason why Sasuke had hated Ayama and Itachi so much. She was stealing his only brother away from him and Itachi didn't seem to care. But after listening to everything, he had found out that Ayama actually tried to get Itachi and himself to become close again, and that Itachi had tried as well, when he didn't even acknowledge his existence. To just sum everything up into one word, Sasuke was feeling like a complete 'asshole'.

"Itachi."

"What is it."

"I'm sorry," Sasuke said, making eye contact with the Mangekyou user.

"For?"

"Not being there for you. I feel like an asshole."

"Don't be sorry, it wasn't your fault."

"I wanted to understand you Itachi, I really did, but you wouldn't let anyone in. I've tried so much that eventually I just ended up giving up, knowing you wouldn't crack."

Sasuke was now on the verge of tears, which is kind of unlikely, considering him being a cocky fool. Itachi saw this in him, and his eyes darkened with pain. Even though he had a sick, twisted, brother, he did love him after all. He was his first and best of the best, best friends. He just smirked, and placed an arm around Sasuke's shoulders and to much of his surprise, Itachi said something that Sasuke was not expecting at all.

"Stop acting emo, little brother."

He could feel a vein pop out of his head at this which only caused Itachi's grin to grow larger. Now, shaking with anger, Sasuke shrugged Itachi's arm off of him and glared at him, receiving a chuckle.

"I'm acting emo?!" he asked, or actually demanded.

"Yes. You are!"

"Look at you! Your the one who was acting emo!"

"Now, now little one, don't use false accusations, its a bad habit."

Raging with anger Sasuke stood up only to had a smile from Itachi thrown at him. He was about to ring his older brothers neck when something outside of the hallway caught his attention. Sitting, on the tile leading to the kitchen floor, was Sakura's necklace.

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Colz: Oh no! Where did she go!?

Sakura: I know where I went, I went-----

Colz: -covers Sakura's mouth- shut up you dope, don't give away a spoiler.

Sakura: Sorry!

Itachi: I feel incredibly down now.

Colz: Why?

Itachi: You made me look soo emo!

Sasuke: And me!

Colz: I'm sorry, but I had to have an emotional brother moment.

Itachi: True.

Sasuke: You don't have a sister to have moments with do you Colz?

Colz: -sobs- noo! I have two brothers who barely talk to me!

Deidara: Its okay, yeah! I still love you!

Colz: I love you too Deidara!

Itachi: To find out what happens to Sakura and Sasuke and I's conversation, please leave reviews on this brotherly chapter:D