A/N: I love you all! Thank you for the fantabulous reviews, they mean a lot. I also realize as a reviewer pointed out that an eighth degree black belt takes years and years to achieve but for this story please go with it-thanks! I'm so sorry for not updating but school has been a complete killer-I officially have no life and time to do anything except get a little bit of sleep, study, do homework, and go to school!
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Chapter 10:
You just have to Love your Family!
"They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers."
-David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
Part 1: Itachi (Sasuke's older brother)
"Cut," Itachi yelled at the actors who were frustrating him beyond belief. "You need to show more emotion, you aren't supposed to look constipated this is a romance scene."
The actor who he was shouting at flinched and mumbled a light apology that meant nothing to Itachi in his line of work.
"We're through for today, we'll finish this movie tomorrow-no exceptions," Itachi said to the whole crew especially the new actor who had never been in a film before.
Honestly, Itachi thought, why did I decide to have him play the part of the main guy! I should have had him play the janitor-Bob! Good lord…Itachi…you are talking to yourself again.
Itachi huffed and got down from his directors chair and laid the script that he had nearly crumpled to dust on top of the dark brown wood podium next to him.
"Itachi," His right hand man-no woman called him.
"Yes Jin," Itachi replied after turning to face her.
She had deep red hair, and wore five-inch heels that he couldn't even fathom how she put them on without tripping. For that matter, Itachi couldn't figure why he had kept her as a secretary when three quarters of the time she was trying to seduce him. Oh the joy in that…
"A letter has arrived for you," Jin stated and leaned over to pick up the letter she pretended to drop on the floor showing off all her X-rated cleavage, that Itachi was getting oh so tired of seeing.
"Thank you," Itachi replied tactically grabbing the envelope from her and sighing.
He could tell from the lettering on the front of the envelope that it was from Mikoto, his mother. After all these years, he still received many letters from her, but he still believed that his younger brother Sasuke got nothing. He sighed as he ripped open the back of the envelope and pulled out the letter.
The letter read as follows:
Dear Itachi, our precious son,
Your father and I have come to realize that we have not seen you or your younger brother, Sasuke in some odd years. While your father is still at work trying to decode another new virus that threatens his company, I've had plenty of time to think on the latter. I believe that it would benefit both you and Sasuke if the two of you would come and stay with us for two month's time. Please tell Sasuke the decision we have made.
You will arrive exactly one week before Thanksgiving and leave the second day after Christmas so that I may get on with my career. We hope that you have nothing planned for those two months and if you do, cancel them.
By the way, Itachi, I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I was voted for sexiest woman in the universe this year!
Your mother and father,
Mikoto and Figaku Uchiha
Itachi rolled his eyes at the letter and whispered, "oh great."
Just when he had thought that, he had no plans for the coming holidays he did-but worst of all they would be with his parents. It wasn't as if he hated his mother and father, he loved them-he just couldn't stand them. They were both highly conceited and vain and wouldn't even properly recognize that Sasuke was their son, because he wasn't born the eldest.
His parents still liked to follow the old-fashioned rules of the eldest child gets everything and all the rest of the kids get nothing. He hated that, but Itachi knew himself to be one who should not say things like this because he too in many ways was the same. He still degraded his younger brother, but they did get along…except well…they only talked twice a year, on each other's birthdays. They talked about random things, nothing of consequence, but all the same, at least they talked.
Itachi sighed yet again as he walked out of the studio and into the limelight of New York. He hated the place with its busy streets and snobby people, but his home was secluded from the rest of the world and this was the place he drove towards. He got in his Mercedes-Benz and started the car trying to avoid all the paparazzi that he knew would be starting to follow him because of what his mom said about winning sexiest woman….ewww…that just sickened him! It wasn't right for a thirty five year old woman to win sexiest woman of the year!
Twenty Minutes later he was home. His house was the size of a miniature mansion-almost. He only had two maids and three butlers who were more or less close friends who needed money and were willing to tidy up his house and cook. He made sure that they didn't use any formalities because he hated them, after years of using them in his parent's home he avoided them.
The newest butler, Dan walked up to him.
"Itachi, a phone call came in for you from a Sasuke person," Dan said and walked off to go help prepare dinner.
Itachi frowned as he ascended the stairs into his room and his sanctuary of privacy. He was wondering why his brother would call him other than on his birthday. The first thought that came to mind-Was he hurt?
Itachi rushed and dialed his brother's cell phone number and waited two rings before he heard his brother's voice on the phone.
"Sasuke you called. Is something wrong?" The words rushed out of Itachi's mouth before he could stop them.
"It depends…I'm not hurt physically…" Itachi heard Sasuke whisper into the phone.
"Then what?" Itachi realized he sounded rude, but he was worried about his brother…He didn't sound like his usual self!
"It's…just I've been thinking a lot and I was wondering if you would…come stay with me for a little while…I………………" He heard Sasuke pause in his speech. "I need someone to talk to about some things…I need my brother."
Itachi was shocked; he had never heard Sasuke ask for anything in his life, but could it be that his brother was broken inside? If Sasuke really needed him, he should help him…but he still had to direct that movie and finish it off…
"Yeah I'll come Sasuke," Itachi said and flipped through his book of phone numbers. "I have to call and make some plans with the co-director to take over the movie but I'll be there tomorrow night. Okay?"
He heard Sasuke inhale a large gulp of air, "Thanks, Itachi." Moreover, he heard Sasuke hang up.
Itachi immediately called the co-director shortly after and had it arranged so that, Francisco, the co-director, would take over and finish filming the movie. The next thing he did was call the pilot of his private jet and had him schedule take off for tomorrow morning at seven.
"Aghhh…," Itachi though as he headed towards his closet-he had to pack!
Evening the next day…
Itachi was in his private jet that was now nearing the Konoha airport…his old home. He never thought that he would so much as step another foot back in Konoha city…but here he was because his brother had called and asked him to come…Itachi still couldn't figure out the real reason why he was doing this.
The jet landed and Itachi walked onto solid ground…and he was thankful. Even if Itachi was famous for his acting, directing, and sometimes producing, he was never known for having a strong stomach when on planes thus making him happy to place his feet on solid ground again.
He made his way to the rented cars lot, and picked his up, driving all the way back to his old house, the house full of many happy and sad memories. He parked his car in the driveway and laid his head on the horn briefly thinking over the reasons why he was here. He became more anxious once he opened the car door and stepped out and his realization that he hadn't seen his brother in six whole long, lonely, yet hard working years hit him hard.
He walked up to the door of the house he used to live in, with its white massive frame that made him feel short at six feet. He hesitated as he was about to knock and then thought it foolish that he would hesitate and began to knock.
A housekeeper opened the door and exclaimed in astonishment, "Itachi is that really you?"
"Yeah, it's me Mish," He smiled at the lovely old housekeeper who now hugged him.
"It's good to see you," Mish said and let him in, closing the door behind him.
"I'm here to see Sasuke," Itachi said to the upbeat maid.
"He's in his room. I should warn you, his been brooding and depressed. He hasn't gone to school for the last couple of days either and has refused to see the friends who have come over to se him." Mish continued on and on about Sasuke's bad mood.
"I'll go up and see him. He still is in the same room he used to have, correct?" Itachi asked hoping not to have to search the ten-bedroom house.
Mish nodded, wished him luck with Sasuke and headed on her way to do the things maids did.
Itachi now ascended the stairs, placed his hand on the doorknob of his brother's room, and turned it. To his surprise, it wasn't locked, so he opened it to find his brother…
Itachi could tell that his brother hadn't slept well in a while because of the many lines under his eyes, and he hadn't changed or bathed recently either. Sasuke just looked…pathetic…and lonely.
"Sasuke," Itachi began and closed the door coming to sit next to Sasuke on the bed. "You really aren't okay are you?"
"No," Sasuke stated.
"What's eating you, you've never been like this before," Itachi said patting Sasuke's knee.
"I need help…advice…anything…I need to stop thinking…I almost feel like I should die inside," Sasuke managed to work out of himself.
Itachi immediately hitched in a breath and pulled Sasuke into his arms as he used to when they were little and Sasuke was scared. "Tell me all about what happened; I'm here to help you."
"I know," Itachi heard his voice muffled by the clothing on his shirt. "But please, what I'm going to tell you will you keep it a secret?"
"Of course," Itachi almost cooed to Sasuke.
"Thanks brother…" Sasuke began to tell his story…
It was a story about his high school life. About how he had sex with many women and girls as he wanted but how he never felt any emotion towards any of them and then one day, a girl shows up who takes him down and makes him pissed. He plays tricks on the girl and she him-they are acting childish. This new girl intrigues Sasuke and from what Itachi understood made him have dreams of wanting her so badly but yet something stops him or they do it and there are bad results after.
Then one day, Sakura (Sasuke had finally told Itachi the girl's name), gets afraid when it rains and he tells her not to worry about it but he cannot figure out why he had said it. Then a couple days after he is walking in the rain with Naruto, his friend, and she invites them inside where he finds out that, she has a kid and that she was raped when she was younger. Sakura's kid calls him her daddy. This makes Sasuke break down even more inside, he feels lost…, and he feels something else…something he cannot comprehend…
Itachi thought he knew what was wrong with Sasuke…Itachi was beginning to think that Sasuke had somehow fallen in love with the girl without knowing it and it made him feel hurt when he found out that Sakura had a kid and that he felt the need to kill the rapist.
Oh, brother…Itachi thought…I'm going to be here with Sasuke for a long while.
Part 2: Sasuke
Sasuke's head lay on Itachi's chest like a girl on a guy's chest. This was different though, Sasuke thought to himself, he's my brother and he really does care. Two days ago, he had tried calling his parents but they wouldn't even so much as talk to him…it made him feel even worse. He was glad when Itachi had called him back and was worried, because it made him feel like he had someone to lean on.
He couldn't put everything that has happened in his life together because somehow now it felt different in a way unbeknownst to him. Sasuke wanted to see Sakura, and talk to her but he didn't know what he would say or do. He had already decided that he was going to call of the bet with the rest of his gangster friends because it wasn't worth it and he didn't want to hurt Sakura in the same way the rapist did.
"Itachi," Sasuke said and moved away from his brother's embrace, "thanks for coming…"
Itachi smiled at him, "What are brothers for if they don't help each other out every once in a while."
Itachi mussed up Sasuke's hair, as he would do when they were smaller.
"Stop that," Sasuke replied humiliated. He had also realized that he might look like a wreck.
"So what you going to do Sasuke," Itachi asked him and sprawled out on the bottom of Sasuke's bed.
"I honestly don't know…I'm lost around her," Sasuke replied truthfully because why lie now? He had already spilled everything to Itachi.
"Are you lost in a good way or a bad way," Itachi directed towards him.
"I don't know," Sasuke replied honestly. He had never thought about it in that light before.
"Well until you figure that out, I' going to go get some shut eye and you should really think about getting some too…that is after you take a bath," Itachi said and got up.
"Are you going to leave," Sasuke asked a little scared about Itachi leaving him alone.
"No," Itachi said. "But I will say this, I'm always here for you, and I won't leave until everything that's wrong inside your head is fixed."
"Thanks," Sasuke cracked the first smile in a week towards him.
"Anytime Sasuke," Itachi said and walked out of the room.
Sasuke got up too and walked over to his bathroom to take a shower. Once in the shower he lathered himself in soap the whole time thinking about whether he liked being with Sakura or not.
He knew for a fact that he was sad to find out that she had a kid but the kid accepted him into her family. Did Sakura think of it like that too? He knew that Sakura had stopped by everyday to ask if Sasuke was okay, but he had told the maid to say that he was to sick for anyone to see. The maid had told his lies but she had told him that every time she said that the little girl holding the pink woman's hand would look to her and say:
"Will daddy be alright?"
In addition, she would respond with: "Of course, Sasuke will be better in no time."
Then Mish would close the door and she could hear the little girl crying on the porch and her mother's hushes.
Now this cut Sasuke deep and he lay down in the bathtub filling it with water after rinsing the soap from his body. He lifted his hand from the water and stared at it and he remembered smiling at Kin…
Good lord, Sasuke thought to himself, his life was truly a mess but he had hurt Kin and Sakura. What does that make him? A man?
Sasuke saw that his cell phone was lying on the counter and he reached for it. He didn't know what he was doing but before he could fully comprehend his actions, he heard the phone ringing and he heard her voice:
"Hello?" Sakura said into the phone. Her voice warmed him but made him feel confused.
"Hello?" She said again after hearing no response.
What could or should he say to her? Sorry for all the trouble but I was brooding over dealing with you? Yeah right, he couldn't say that could he?
"Sakura," Her name was like velvet to his lips, velvet that made him question whether he was really sane or not.
"Sasuke is that you?" Sakura's voice was anxious, he could tell.
"Yeah, I heard you were stopping by everyday," Sasuke couldn't figure out what else he could say. The great Uchiha was tongue-tied.
"Yeah, Kin and I were super worried about you. How are you? Do you want me to bring over some soup? I made some earlier today and was going to take it over to your house tomorrow morning since its Saturday." Sakura said quickly.
Has it really been six days? Time flies by too fast…
"I'm fine and soup sounds good…" Sasuke couldn't even remember the last time he had eaten. He dunked his head into the water to become more relaxed and pulled it back out quickly so he could hear her voice.
"That's good. Kin was really getting worried about you too. Do you mind if I put her on the phone?" Sakura was anxious again, he could tell this easily for some odd reason.
"Yeah sure," Sasuke said, he wanted to reassure her that he was still alive…he didn't like the thought of a little kid crying over him.
"Hold on a minute, let me go wake her up," Sakura said and he heard no one on the phone for a few moments.
He didn't want Sakura to wake up Kin but he knew that even if he had said no to it that she would have done it anyway. Sasuke pushed speakerphone so he could rub his hands through his hair and over his face enjoying the water even more and to contemplate over what he should tell Kin.
"Daddy?" He heard kin's childish voice.
"Hey Kin," Sasuke said back.
"Are you really okay?" Sasuke thought he heard a sob in her voice as she talked to him.
"Yeah, you're going to come see me tomorrow aren't you?" Sasuke was almost relieved by this.
"Mmhhhmmm…can I stay the day with you?" Kin's voice was hesitant as she spoke.
Sasuke guessed she was afraid of what Sasuke would say and he could hear Sakura scolding Kin in the background for asking a 'sick' person this.
"Sure Kin and you can meet my brother too," Sasuke, sighed again, his eyes kept slipping shut and all too soon, he knew that he was going to be sleeping like a rock.
"Yeah," he heard Kin say as he stood up letting the water drip from the body as he grabbed a towel and dried himself off.
"I'm tired Kin, I got to go sleep okay?" Sasuke was nearly falling over as the exhaustion from the past six days hit him.
"Good night daddy." Kin said.
"Night," and with that Sasuke hung up and managed to make it to his bed as he feel fast asleep…and he dreamed of a slight happiness that only comes when thinking about something or someone dear to you…
Sasuke still had a lot to think about but he somehow he knew that in time it would all work itself out…hopefully.
End of Chapter
A/N: I am so sorry by how long it has been since I've updated and am thoroughly ashamed…because this is like the third time I have been on the computer in the past month…no kidding! The chapter was needed and many will say that it was a filler but to me it introduced the next part of the pot and a few new characters!
My new goal is to get to 200 reviews…so that means I want 33 reviews pretty please with a cheese nip on top! I hope that I will be able to update as soon as I get the 33 reviews so I'll see you in the next chapter.
Thanks, moonlesslife
P.S. One of you who reviewed asked me if this would have a happy ending. My response to you is do you want it to have a happy conclusion? Cause I certainly want it too!
P.S.S. Yet again, I didn't have time to check grammar and spelling, so please forgive me yet again!
