Naruto and its characters belong to kishimoto-sensei

Chapter 2

Denka really disliked his job, but it paid well. He was given a simple task; all he had to do was be distracting, so, as he leapt silently towards the opposition, he thought of a plan. He would need to be careful though. He was only a cat, hardly a real threat, but he hadn't been able to make anyone a scratch post for a while…

Nearing the group he smelt them, two women, four guys, one weird smelling guy and two--

DOGS! Denka thought as the snarling giant sprung upon him. But then the other dog appeared next to him and called the other off.

But he wasn't a dog…

At least, he doesn't look like one," No Akamaru! Heel!" shouted Kiba as the other six shinobi landed around Denka.

I guess I'll have to improvise…

"Its just a Cat!" Sakura pointed out.

Bingo, thought Denka. When the pink haired girl leant forward, Denka jumped up onto the girls shoulder with a meow. Denka began to purr as he snuggled into the girl's hair.

"Aw, he's so cute!" Said the girl when she grabbed Denka and hugged him tightly to her chest.

"Sakura don't hug him! That cat is really suspicious, what's he doing out here in the middle of nowhere?!" Naruto said loudly.

Denka mewed and looked at Naruto. Then he jumped into his arms.

"Eh? Um.. Well he is kind of cute…" said Naruto, but when Denka crawled into his sweater he quickly changed his opinion.

Naruto made all sorts of disgruntled expressions as Denka squirmed his way slowly out of the boy's sweater. But everyone immediately noticed the pouch of explosives, which was once on Naruto's person, in the cat's mouth.

Denka tossed the bag into the air with a smirk, activated the contents of the bag and teleported away.

"Naruto this all your fault!" shouted a few of the shinobi as the bag exploded.

And so Konoha was thwarted by nothing more than a mischievous kitten.

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When Itachi and Sasuke arrived, they found the mansion in near ruin. Overgrowth, kudzu, and weeds threatened to devour the house. Cobwebs were found every two feet. It took them another five minutes to find and entrance, but the door wouldn't budge. They found a bird's nest tucked away in the groove of the sliding door.
If there is a tanuki inside when we get this door open then so help me I'm going to… Sasuke thought bitterly

Three minutes later, with the smaller of the two (sasuke) struggling to reach the nest, found the door half open.

When Sasuke stepped in after Itachi, he wished he hadn't taken his shoes off. Spider-webs donned the ceiling like stalactites, and the dust felt grungy in-between Sasuke's toes.
"I daresay we'll be doing a lot of cleaning during our stay…" he said in a defeated tone.
"Its not like we need to clean the entire house, we aren't going to be living in all of it." Itachi said optimistically
"I never thought you to be the kind to grasp at straws…" sasuke teased
"Before we were interrupted, what were you going to say?" Itachi asked. Straight to business then, Sasuke thought.

Sasuke wondered how to phrase his question when he realized something.
"You never said why you kissed me!" sasuke said, "You only explained that you thought I deserved the Sharingan…"

"Do I have to spell it out for you?" Itachi said with an annoyed note in his voice. " I don't think it is reasonable that we should kill each other at this point."

"I don't hate you; Believe it or not, I regret not being a better brother for you."

"But you don't regret killing our clan?"

"No, they still deserved it."

I guess I should just take what I can get; remembering back now, they probably did deserve to die. Sasuke thought.

"But why did you kiss me, of all things?" sasuke pressed. He could feel a flush crawling up his neck.

"Actually, I'm not sure why."
"What?!"
"I was just trying to get you to stop blubbering, you were acting like a teenaged girl. It was the first thing I could think of honestly." itachi explained, but he added, "It didn't work though…"
"So you say you hate me and then kiss me!"
"What do you think I should've said? Should I have quoted some cheesy romance movie?"
Put that way, sasuke thought, I can't really complain.
"So then the kiss was completely pointless and spontaneous?"
"Yes"
"Then I suppose we can agree to forget it ever happened and move on with our lives?"
"Agreed"
"Ok then" and sasuke walked off to explore the building, the dust caking in-between his toes was a lesser evil compared to suffering another awkward silence with his brother.

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Thirty-one rooms later, sasuke found himself lost on the other side of the manor. He had decided to do a mental log on the rooms he had found. Currently he was standing inside a small garden, or, at least what used to be a garden. He was leaning against a gnarled pomegranate tree. He could only tell that it was a pomegranate tree because it had several ripe ones hanging from its branches. One of them had fallen on his head, and he was currently picking at it in an attempt to get rid of the copious amount of seeds so he could eat it.

All the rooms were empty of furniture so he couldn't be too descriptive about them. Seven kitchens and twelve bathrooms, (he could tell because they had their sinks and plumbing installed.) The rest were just nondescript rooms, but a lot of them had their own little Japanese porch. Itachi and Sasuke had been lucky they had found the actual front door on their first try, because there were far too many entrances. A person could enter the house from virtually any angle, Not exactly a strategically safe place, Sasuke thought.

But honestly the state of this place! Sasuke felt exasperated, he had actually found a small skeleton of some kind of animal (he wasn't sure if it was a tanuki though). It probably got stuck in here and died…

I wonder if I'll die here too, stuck with my brother…

But maybe… if the entire world thinks were dead… he said he wished he had been a better brother to me.
Maybe we could.

Both of them, forgotten by the world, could start over and find a better life, together they could regain what they had left behind. Family, once again…

That hopeless, purposeless feeling that sasuke had been feeling lifted, just a little. But to Sasuke it felt tremendous.

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Sasuke had finally finished his pomegranate when Itachi found him; the sun was setting. Itachi looked critically at him.

"What?" sasuke asked, a little self-conscious.
"You've got red all over your face." Itachi deadpanned
"What? Oh, it's the pomegranate," Sasuke dug a spare bandage out of his ammo pouch, poured a little water on it from his canteen and began cleaning the sticky pomegranate juice off his face.

"Those cat ninjas came back just now, they're looking for you"
Sasuke finished wiping his face and answered, "Why didn't they just smell me out?"

"Its probably too dusty,"
"Yeah," sasuke said. He figured they could probably hear pretty well so he called out to them, "Hey Denka, Hina! I'm over here!"

And soon enough small catlike blurs were making their way toward him.
"Sasuke, where's my pay?" Denka hissed "I almost got eaten by a dog that was ten times my size!"
Sasuke sighed, "so much for paying off debts… listen Denka, Hina can ask you two a favor…?"
"Ha! forget it, if you can't pay us then don't bother!" Denka scoffed
"Don't worry, I'm sure we can work something out, but Me and Itachi… we can't be going out in public incase someone recognizes us…"
"What are you getting at?" Hina asked.
"I believe my little brother is asking if you could bring us supplies about every… Week or so? That shouldn't be too inconvenient…" Itachi offered, but in a much more menacing tone.
"Ah--"
"Well…"
"I'm sure we could get some bargain going, like…" sasuke offered; he looked around, the garden area would be great for growing herbs or something… god no, what has the world come to? Sasuke's expression looked horrified. He slumped and sank to the ground.

"What is it?" asked Hina

"Reduced to drug dealing, to cats of all things…"

"Huh?" Denka meowed.
"Oh," Denka and Hina looked around, upon seeing the wide space that they now identified to be a garden, they stretched their little cat faces into smirks.
"Yes, we could definitely work something out…"
"We could bring you your supplies every week and some seed at first, and in return you will grow us our catnip so we can sell it." Hina said with pleased tone.
"So are we agreed?"
"We need some cleaning supplies soon, but other than that we are agreed" Itachi said, and stuck out his hand for the two cats to shake.

And the deal was sealed.

"Pleasure doing business with you, messing with Konoha was its own reward anyway." Denka waved and Hina and he ran off.

"I never thought I would see the day an Uchiha became a drug dealer to anyone." Itachi said in an amused tone.
"…"
"And of coarse you're the only one who's going to be doing that you realize? You brought the deal up so you hold up our end of the deal."

"What?!" Sasuke scrambled to his feet "Then of course you're the one who's going to be doing the house cleaning! And cooking to! I've got to weed and rake this entire lot before I can even start my new… business." Sasuke said bitterly.

"I wouldn't have trusted your cooking anyway, but keep the pomegranate tree, it has character." and Itachi turned and began to walk away.

"what? Hey! Don't leave, I'm not done yet with you!" Sasuke yelled, "what was with that, you just accepted the bargain for me! that's not fair--"

"we have to divide the work somehow if were going to manage, and this is the simplest solution for now." Itachi explained, he looked at the sunset , walked back to Sasuke to pick a pomegranate from the tree and walked back to the porch. "you should come inside, it will be dark soon. We can start working tomorrow."

Sasuke almost argued but had to suppress a yawn, so he followed his brother inside.

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and chapter 2 is finished yay! I forgot to mention this earlier but I started writing this before the fight between sasuke and itachi had actually started fighting. but they were both heading off to do just that. I started writing this just after chapter 367, I was very excited to finally see the long awaited fight, but a little sad to know that one of my favorite characters was going to die. so I wrote this story. originally it was only going to be a one-shot.

I am getting somewhere with their relationship, I don't like jumping into things suddenly, so I'm going to try and make it build up. I suppose the kiss' only purpose for now is setting up that this fic is not going to be a brotherly love thing in the end.

I've always found Incest to be a a sensitive subject, but when two people grow up apart, even if their siblings, and then come back togethor, it can be easy to develop romantic feelings. Because they never spent any time forming brotherly bonds, their is nothing preventing them from really developing those feelings. and any form of love is beautiful as long as its true.

Next: Spring cleaning! woe is the woman in Sasuke!