"You don't seem too interested in my eggs this morning." Sasuke said, eyeing Naruto in scrutiny, leaning back against the kitchen counter. "What, so just because I'm not shoveling breakfast down my throat I'm not interested?" Naruto said, his voice sounding faint. Sasuke gazed at him and shook his head. "You look bad Naru. Your face is pale and you feel pretty hot. You really should go back and lie down."

"It's fine, really." Naruto insisted, pushing away his unfinished plate. "I need to go to this training seminar today. I can't miss it. I'll be good, I promise." He smiled, picking up the blue and white plate and putting it in the sink. Sasuke looked at him carefully. "…Alright…call me if you feel worse."

Naruto nodded slowly so his head wouldn't hurt and gave Sasuke a quick hug before walking towards the door. "Sure you don't want me to drive you?" Sasuke asked suddenly.

A car horn beeped outside. "One second." Naruto apologized, rushing towards it.

"Hey baby, want a ride?" Conrad screamed to him through the window of his Honda.

Naruto smiled at him. "Sure!" he beamed. "Just what I needed."

"Sorry Sasuke." He said, turning to him with a bemused smile on his face. Sasuke gave him an expressionless look and shrugged. "Its fine." He said. "Really."

Naruto walked out of the apartment and unto the sidewalk to Conrad and sat beside him in the car.

"You look kind of sick, are you ok?" Conrad asked.

"I will be." Naruto said bravely. Conrad nodded, shifting his car into gear before driving off.

Naruto rested his head on the side of the smooth leather seat, hoping his head wouldn't hurt as much. There was a warmth on his leg, moving up towards his higher region. He lifted his head. "Conrad…I don't feel so good." He whispered. "I don't think I'm up for anything."

Conrad smiled. "Don't worry, I won't go too far." He said, moving over and giving the side of Naruto's neck a swipe with his tongue, without looking at the road, something that he had gotten quite skilled at over their dating period.

Naruto trembled. "I don't think I'm up for anything." He said, moving away slightly. Conrad looked disappointed. "Not even the game where I guess your ticklish spots by licking?"

Naruto looked at him and gave a small smile. "Maybe later." He said weakly. "Right now I just need to get enough strength up for class."

Conrad drove into the school parking lot and stopped at the curb. Naruto opened the door and walked out slowly. "Thanks. I really couldn't have walked with this headache."

"You're the only guy I know that would actually go to school on a Saturday." Conrad smiled, walking over to Naruto and giving him a kiss. "Well, no parents, no inheritance, all I have is my education." Naruto shrugged.

"I guess you're right." Conrad didn't notice the saddened expression on his boyfriends face as his hand busily tried to make its way to second base.

'Sasuke would've noticed…' Naruto thought, as he once again pushed away Conrad's hand.

Generally, if someone saw what Sasuke did on a Saturday, they would think he had no life, sitting at home all day and occasionally going out for groceries. They would probably pity him, even though no one knew that without Naruto around, Sasuke never felt up to being around anyone else, so it was actually better for him to watch T.V or read cheesy novel in his bedroom.

This Saturday was like all others, save for the fact that Sasuke was worrying about how his best friend was doing. 'He's so dedicated to his work, I don't know what he wouldn't do to better himself.' This was one of Naruto's problems, he always trying to make everything ok which usually put too much stress on himself. Boyfriends, dates, whatever, always had to be perfect, and even when he saw they weren't, Naruto would still try his best to make it seem as if they were.

He reached across the bed to the table and picked up his carton of ice cream which he'd been eating. 'Naruto needs to realize that everyone's a betrayer and he shouldn't open his heart to any of them.'

But he shouldn't be one to speak, he had told himself that he would never open his heart to another and here he was, trusting Naruto with everything he had.

'I'm such a hypocrite.'

His phone rang and Sasuke scrambled wildly, dropping his carton in search for it. He was usually such an organized person, what was going on with him today. He found it on the floor, where he had put it after pulling Naruto into his arms to sleep.

He looked at the caller id. The number was unknown.

Biting his lips he answered the call. "Yo." He said, trying to sound uninterested, though he was worried. No one ever called him with a private number. "Wow, Sasuke is that you? You sound so old!" An excited voice said.

"Who is this?" he said, getting annoyed. He hated when people didn't say who they were, and he had to be chasing after them with phone charade.

"Has it really been that long little brother? I didn't realize I was neglecting you for that long." The voice sounded far more serious now, and Sasuke could recognize it immediately. "Itachi…" he swallowed, sitting unto the bed.

"How long had it been? 2 years? You sound so surprised to hear me."

Sasuke bit his lip harder, still not believing. "It's been four years since you last spoke to me." He whispered venomously. Tears were threatening as memories hit him. "You abandoned me. Even after…after I told you…everything."

There was a pause. "I think that topic is something we need to talk about face to face." Itachi said finally.

Sasuke felt angry. He would think, even after all his brother had done, he would feel differently when Itachi spoke to him, wouldn't feel that same childish quiver, that the anger and hate would be enough to shield him from his brothers charm. "Face to face." he mumbled. "FACE TO FUCKING FACE! I-I haven't seen you in seven years. You…you…completely left me…and then when you did call you didn't explain a thing to me and you didn't care when I told you…"

Sasuke's head hurt and he was sobbing too hard to hear anything any more. This was all to much for him to handle. He flung the phone at the wall and watched it smash to bits through his tears, then sank unto the floor. "Face to face. Face to face." he kept repeating.

"Yeah, your's to mine." Itachi said. Sasuke looked up, wondering if his phone had survived the hit and instead gotten unto speaker. Itachi's voice sounded so real though, and he swore he could feel his breath ghosting across his neck, feel Itachi's arms slide around his waist. He was trembling so hard, he wondered if his insides would fall out. It was a good thing Itachi was holding him. 'Itachi is holding me…'

He looked behind him and his breath caught. He'd been hoping with age, Itachi would look worse, but after 8 years, he looked more beautiful and angelic than Sasuke could ever imagine. He'd hoped his heart would have been able to handle the feelings that came with the seeing of his brother, but he couldn't pull away as Itachi pulled his head close and kissed him passionately. He didn't question it, only moved closer, wanting more. 'Itachi has always had my heart, no matter how much I tried to get over him.'

He moaned slightly as Itachi opened his mouth with his tongue, wishing he could pull back, look uncaring, ask why. Itachi rocked him back and forth and he was straddling him almost, Itachi's suit crumpling against his chest. He pushed it off his brothers shoulders.

He was still crying, and he hadn't stopped since he'd found his parents dead in the living room. That sort of thing was mentally scarring for any 9 year old to go through, just hearing about the death of both his parents, but walking in on it was much worse. Itachi had been walking up and down all day, speaking to the police and some men in black suits. He looked worried.

Sasuke stopped him. "Itachi, what's going to happen to us?" he asked, clinging to the 15 year old's waist. Itachi looked worried. "Sasuke, I-I'm going to have to go away for a while. You'll see me soon enough don't worry.

Sasuke's eyes filled with fresh tears. "No!!" he screamed. "Don't go please! You're all I have. Don't leave me alone!"

Itachi's eyes looked damp as well. "I must. I don't want to leave you. I…I just have to. Business."

Sasuke dragged him down by his shirt and gave him a sloppy kiss, the best he could muster with his small age. "Come back as quick as you can." He whispered. "I- I need to tell you something."

Itachi hugged him tightly still surprised at the kiss. Sasuke cried against his shoulder. 'Everyone's leaving me.'

"You didn't ever come back." He whispered against Itachi's lips. "You left me in my dead parents house all alone, to rot in my pain for so long. You don't know how much I went through, how badly I felt. I thought I'd done something wrong. In kissing you…in telling you…"

Itachi shook his head, moving his lips to sasuke's neck so he could speak more freely, holding him tightly. "You telling me that is what kept me through the last 4 years. Sasuke you couldn't have understood what was going on back then. You were so small, going through so much. I was just 15, and I had to take over a business I had no skill in, a business in dept that was plummeting to doom. I had to go to college and work at the same time, come up with new strategies, sign deals, on 6 hours of sleep. You don't know what it was like for me."

"You never called." Sasuke cried.

Itachi's heart panged. "I couldn't, for reasons you still won't be able to understand for a couple of years."

Sasuke felt helpless, still not able to pull away from Itachi, still not able to be mad at him. He couldn't understand it. The anger was dissolving, revealing the hidden feelings he'd buried under there for so long.

"Sasuke." Itachi whispered over the phone. Sasuke wondered why he was speaking so softly, but his mind was bursting with excitement over the fact that after all those years of receiving gifts and school supplies from Itachi, he was finally getting to hear from him.

"Itachi!" he yelled. "I have to tell you something!"

"I cant stay on too long." Itachi whispered even more softly. "I just needed to hear your voice. You sound so big. How are you?"

"I'm fine, I passed my exam Itachi! Can you believe it!"

"Sasuke that's awesome. I knew you could do it. But I've got to go now."

"I have to tell you something Itachi."

"Bye Sasuke."

"NO! don't go. I love you!!" Sasuke screamed into the phone. All he could hear was the dial tone. He laid his head against his pillow and cried.

"They told me I was too weak to be the boss of anything and to make me toughen up, they would take away the thing I loved most, which was you Sasuke, until I could get the business back to its previous state. That one time I called you I wasn't allowed to. I had to do a lot of sneaking to get it done. You don't know how many tears I've shed for you Sasuke." Itachi whispered, moving his lips back up to Sasuke's. "My heart's been aching for you for the longest time now."

Sasuke stared at him, something filling him inside. It felt warm, like one would feel when some sort of healing mercury was poured into their system. Itachi brushed back his hair. "And you're more beautiful than anything now."

"W-we have a guest bedroom." Sasuke whispered.

"Are you suggesting anything?" Itachi said playfully, running his hand up Sasuke's side.

Sasuke shivered, but stopped himself from flirting back. "Yeah." He whispered into Itachi's ear. "That you can sleep there."

Itachi stood. "Thanks." He said. "I'll stay for as long as I can. I can't believe I finally got away from them. America is nothing like Japan."

Sasuke leaned against the doorframe, trying to catch his breath as Itachi took his bags to the other room. 'He's probably forgotten everything about Japan.' He thought, still trying to catch a hold of his head. 'It could be a trick. Don't open your heart to anything. Don't tell him anything.'

Itachi came into the room, his shirt removed. "You don't know how much I've missed getting to walk around the house like this."

Sasuke averted his eyes in an effort to stop his mouth from drooling. Itachi ran up to him and tackled him, his hair coming undone from his ponytail as he pinned Naruto to the bed.

"I want to know everything." He said in excitement. "But firstly, how's your love life?"

Sasuke flipped Itachi over, kissing him. 'I need to practice self-control. He shouldn't be able to just smile at me like this and I fall for him.' He thought. Itachi looked around with a scrutinizing eye. "You have a room-mate. A boy. Who?"

"Naruto."

Itachi grinned. "Oooh. So that's how you've gotten to be such a good kisser." He teased. Sasuke blushed. "We haven't kissed at all. We're not like that with each other. Best friends and nothing more."

"Oh, so then you're free?" Itachi said, reaching up and licking along Sasuke's ear. Sasuke felt another part of him getting hot. Naruto was coming home soon and as Itachi licked along his neck he realized how interesting the next couple of days were going to be.

TBC…


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