Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto and sadly never will. *cries in corner*
Title: Fire in the Wind
Pairings: Sasuke/Naruto (SasuNaru)
Rating: T / Pg-13 (might change later on)
Genre: Drama/Angst/Romance/Humor
Timeline: Actual universe. Also known as 21st century.
Warnings: Will eventually be yaoi! (Sorry mom.)
sorry for OOCness. I won't try to have it that way, but since it is AU it will have to be slightly OOC. Also, I will place warnings on the chapters that have yaoi, so don't worry. Lastly, sorry for typos! I'm going to try and find a beta reader. If interested, please PM me.
Status: Continuing
A/N: Thanks for all the reviews. It was what kept me going xD I enjoyed writing this chapter =)
Fire in the Wind
By Sasurealian
Chapter Three
Life sucks. I know it's childish to say, but life really does suck. I had my head resting on a couch in a cold-ass room that had a neat desk with chairs around it. There was even a candy bowl for some idiotic reason.
Across from me were two boys, both with long hair. They looked scared as they clang to each other for dear life. What was their deal?
I sat there for what felt like forever and tried to ignore the pounding in my head.
My father….my dumbass father thinks he so smart. I mentally slapped myself remembering that I hit him, but honestly, he deserved it, so I couldn't regret it. I hadn't seen Itachi in so long. It's been a year and yet my father, no Fugaku had the audacity to say something like that about his own son. He was no longer my brother.
Yea, a part of me hates Itachi for abandoning me, but deep down I still loved him.
The last memory I have of my brother was when we went out to the beach together. It was the weekend before he disappeared. It was just me and him and his black Camaro. He always had a thing for his toys and whenever he was stressed he'd take me out and we'd be gone for days.
We grabbed some Sushi and sweets and headed to the ocean. We'd usually sit and talk about life. He'd go on about our father and how he was crazy. I'd always listen until I'd fall asleep against him. There was something about Itachi that made me feel safe. He'd never let anything happen to me. He was protective over me and no matter what; he'd never leave me behind.
So I question why? Why was I here by myself now?
The way he spoke of our father made me think that he wanted us dead. Granted he was drunk when he would yell, but that didn't matter. You don't make threats like that to your children. Itachi often said that it was because our mother died. Once she passed away our father slowly got sicker and sicker.
It started one winter night after Christmas. Itachi and I tried to stay there with Fugaku in our mansion, but he started to drink and if he wasn't drinking then he was locked in his room. Itachi had bought me a Pierce The Veil CD along with a necklace. It was the crest of our family and to this day I have never taken it off.
I remember that Christmas I bought him a ring. He had this obsession with rings and I knew there was this special one he always wanted. Money wasn't the issue, it was finding it. It was worn on his right ring finger and it meant vermilion. There were only 10 of them in the world. Let's just say the girl who gave it to me was extremely fond of me.
Once I gifted it to him, he never removed it. It made me feel special and like he actually cared about me. I won't ever forget the smile on his face once he saw it. Priceless.
That Christmas would have been perfect, but as Itachi and I were sitting by the fire eating honey ham, Fugaku slammed through his bedroom door and starting screaming about where his present was. It shocked both Itachi and I, but we sat there hoping he'd calm down.
"We brought home some dinner and prepared it for you. Last week you told us you didn't want anything from us so I decided against it." Itachi reprimanded calmly.
"Oh I see how it is, so first you forget about your mom and now me? You little fuck!"
It scared the shit out of me and I closed my eyes and grabbed Itachi's arm as Fugaku threw a fire log across the room.
"Sasuke get your ass up and go to the store and buy your mom and I a gift, you ungrateful bastard!"
My heart was racing and I glanced up at Itachi and slowly began to stand, but Itachi pulled me back down and wrapped his arms around me, "He isn't going anywhere, the stores are closed and it's snowing out. What are you going on about? Don't you realize mother is gone?"
Fagaku grabbed Itachi's hair and yanked him back.
"Itachi! Dad, stop!" I screamed and tried to get him to let go of Itachi, but all he did was pull on him harder.
"You think your some tough guy huh?!"
"Dad! STOP!" I screamed louder and noticed my eyes were tearing up. Itachi just sat there with glaring eyes.
"Father, your drunk, go back to bed." My brother spoke without flinching. How wasn't he scared?
"Little shit!"
Then he hit him. He threw him into the couch and started to throw cups from dinner, the fire poker, and wood. I sprang up to stop him, but that only pissed him off more.
Itachi was bleeding on his cheek and I cringed and ran into the kitchen to find the phone. I hardly noticed when I grabbed the phone, my dad grabbed the collar on my shirt and headed towards the door. He opened it and tossed me out into the snow.
I pounded my fists into the door once he shut and locked it. He had gone crazy! The only thing on my mind was saving Itachi. I was so scared for him; I didn't care how cold I was.
It felt like hours had gone by and I was now getting dizzy and numb. It was so cold. I felt faint as I slid against the back of the door, "I-Itachi…" I weakly pounded my bawled fists into the door. I never felt so exhausted before.
I ended up passing out after some time and the next thing I remember was arms sweeping me into them and getting into a car. We drove for hours and finally when I came to I saw it was my brother and he looked completely awful. His eyes were both black and his jaw swollen.
That was the first time I ever saw Itachi cry as he wrapped me into his arms saying that he failed me and that he'd never leave me again. Even though he had the shit beat out of him all he could think about was me. That was enough to tell me that Itachi was the most flawless brother I could ever have. He was always there for me and protected me even over his own life.
When I go back to the last weekend I had with him, it makes me feel lifeless. The day on the beach, it was just us and the crashing waves. It was perfect. The sun set on both our worlds because once we came back home and the Monday I returned from school, he was gone. He was nowhere to be found.
When I asked my father where he went the only answer my father gave me was the shrugging of his shoulders.
Days went by and then months and no matter what I tried to do to find Itachi, I never found him. Everything was in vein. He was gone and that was how I slowly lost myself. I became angry and depressed and I stopped giving a shit. I was devoid of life.
I shifted my gaze once the door was opened and Kakashi walked in. He sat behind his desk and folded his hands, "Sasuke, you already know what I'm going to say and as much as I want to ask you why you hit your father, I think its best you just head off to your room for the night."
I swallowed back what was in my throat and stood up. I had nothing to say to my doctor and anything he or I said would not change the situation anyway.
"I'm going then." I headed for the door and opened it. I felt dead currently and Itachi wouldn't leave my mind. I missed him more than ever right now.
Once I left I heard screaming from inside the room. Not a second later, Kakashi shot through the door holding the wrist of a boy with long ink black hair. He was in a white hospital gown and he screeched as Kakashi tried to get him to reason with him.
"Haku, stop it! You got to calm down."
"Let Haku go!" The other boy sitting in the therapy office ran out. He had long pale green hair and magenta eyes. He wrapped his arms around the other boy's middle, "Please doctor, you can't take him."
"Yukimaru, its okay, save yourself baby."
That was when it hit me, those two boys were lovers.
"Hey, Yuki, go back in there and sit down. You both have to learn to be without each other or else you're never going to be able to socialize with others."
"But I can't live without Haku. Anything but this Kashi." He started to cry and Kakashi sighed.
The situation was starting to piss me off. "Hey, Doctor, maybe you should do with them you did me, just let them be."
That was when Kakashi released the raven haired boy and he raced into his lover's arms. I stared as they embraced each other, "It's okay, Yuki, I'm here sweetie."
Shaking my head I slipped my hands into my pockets and walked away. I didn't dare to look back and question Kakashi's stupid smile.
I returned to my block with a slight headache. I wondered why I interfered back there; I guess I just felt bad because they sort of reminded me of Itachi and I.
Once I reached my room, I stopped suddenly when I noticed a girl with long pink hair sitting with Naruto. They were both talking and she had her arms around him rubbing his back sympathetically. Who the hell was she?
"it's okay, Naru, don't listen to the nurses anyway."
I scrutinized Naruto carefully and crossed my arms as I cleared my throat. Both of them jumped as they glanced up at me.
"Oh hey, you must be Naruto's new roommate." The girl stood up and held her hand out to me, "I'm Sakura, his close friend."
I slightly wondered how stretched the word friend went. Sure they were 'friends'. But I didn't care. I ignored her gesture and side stepped her. I was done with girls for the day.
"Okay, or be an asshole, that's cool too. Gosh Naruto, I didn't know your roommate was such an asshole."
Naruto shrugged, "Yea, well, you'll get used to it."
I lie on my bed and shut my eyes sighing. He acted so depressed and it pissed me off. I was the apathetic kid who didn't give a shit and there was no way I was getting involved with anything else today. I just wanted to sleep now.
I could hear the clock ticking on the wall as I tried to go to sleep. Naruto still wasn't back. What was his deal anyway? I tossed over onto my side and buried my head into my pillow. I didn't care. He can do whatever he wants.
That was when the door opened and Naruto came in, "Oh, sorry, Sasuke. I didn't mean to wake you up."
"I don't care." Was my enthusiastic response.
"Maybe you should for once and stop acting like a sick puppy. It's depressing."
"You're one to talk." I interrupted with an icy glare.
"Ha, funny. Talk like you know me. It's entertaining really." The idiot responded vehemently.
"You're so petty."
"Really now? Says the boy who is always angry."
"Did you forget what I did for you earlier?"
"Oh, now you're going to boast? You really are a prick."
I heard him crawl into his bed and ruffle his sheets.
"You really are a loser." I responded quietly.
"Come again!?" I heard Naruto climb out of his bed and over to mine.
"Listen up bastard, I am not going to sit here and take your fucking shit. Stop acting like the king of England and realize exactly where you are right now." Naruto threw his arms into the air, "It's a damn mental hospital! Don't you get what that means?"
I cut him off with gritted teeth, "Shut up! You're being loud."
"It means you're a crazy person and no one cares about you!"
I suddenly felt anxious the more Naruto yelled.
"No matter what you do, they won't listen. They'll pretend like they care, but the truth is, they can't!"
I covered my ears, "Shut your fucking trap!"
"You feel entitled rich kid? Well not anymore."
I began to shake in anger.
"No one will ever love you." His voice was low, "This is why you're here."
Itachi flashed into my mind. His smile, his caring smile that he always gave to me. Another flash of him was beat up, then another of his dead inside a hole in a ground.
"Don't you get it?" Were Naruto's last words before I launched at him.
I knocked him clean to the floor and heard his head slam into the ground, "You stupid idiot!"
I held my fist above his head and was above to release when I thought of my father and his abuse. Here I stood above this small blonde boy and I felt destroyed. I wanted to cry and scream out at the world and as much as I wanted to hit Naruto, I couldn't. I would be no better than my father.
Instead I reached down and touched Naruto scarred cheeks. They marred his fair skin in the most unusual way. He stared up at me with huge blue eyes. He looked like a deer caught in headlights.
"Just….just shut it okay? Please?" I breathed out in a panicked tone, "I know it all. You're fucking right okay? Now shut your trap and go to sleep."
I jumped off the smaller boy and slipped back under my sheets.
That night I dreamed the nightmare of Itachi and I during the last Christmas him and I ever had together.
A/N: Please review =D I'll update once I have time xD I just got a new job ^^
