Neji Hyuuga awoke with a start, the kind of transition from sleeping to awake you have when you know you've over slept. He was cold and shivering and within a few minutes, he noticed he was naked. He sat up running his fingers through his silky long hair looking around the unfamiliar bedroom. It looked so different in the morning, much more beautiful. The bed he had awoken from sat against a wall opposite of another wall made entirely of glass. The room wasn't as big as Neji's but the architecture made up for it ten fold. It was perfectly positioned in the house so that as the sun rose from the right of the room it showed a beautiful bright blue sky, instead of blinding sunlight. Neji stood, walking to the window for a better view. The house he was in being positioned on a hill left an outstanding image of their town in front of him, far out you could see the busy city that wasn't that far of a drive away. Neji even noticed that if he peered over towards the sun more he could see his and Sasuke's houses. Neji stood in front of the window, allowing the warmth of the sun to envelop his body, warming his skin, wanting to walk out onto the deck in front of the glass wall, but hesitated, knowing that he was nude. Before he could make any actions to dress himself he heard the sweet voice of an older woman calling from the bedroom door behind him.

"Tenten? Are you awake? It's time for breakfast, please come downstairs." Neji froze in fear as he looked back at the bed he emerged from. He slept with Tenten, it was amazing and yet he was confused that he could wake up and completely forget about it. He tried to ponder and reflect upon their experience, little bits and pieces of it flooding into his mind, making a small smile appear onto his face, but he couldn't let his memories go into detail. Fear had struck once again, as Tenten's mother knocked on the door a little harder, she jiggled the doorknob lightly, so to open it and awaken her daughter. Neji panicked and thought of nothing more he could do other than run into Tenten's closet. It was a walk in closet, thankfully and Neji opened and shut the door behind him with lightening speed. As he did so Tenten's mother pushed open her bedroom door. Neji cursed himself and his snoozing lover for not taking a moment to lock the door in the heat of their passion. Neji placed a hand on the closet doorknob and peeked out to see his girlfriend's mother shaking her awake. He looked around the closet, noticing only now that a light was on and another door was on the adjoining wall to the first. He crept over to it and opened it, it led to Tenten's bathroom, making Neji feel more relieved, at least he could dodge her mother if worst came to worst.

Tenten felt differently, she was having remarkable dreams of being with the boy she loved the most, feeling tender in his arms as they joined together, never to be separated again. Dreams of the pain, that soon turned to pleasure as he entered her and they became one. Tenten felt her mother shaking her a bit harder, she finally came out of the euphoria and unlocked her eyes. Her mother gazed at her aghast and Tenten realized that she was nude. Quickly she covered herself with her bed sheets and jumped out of bed.

"Why are you sleeping like that?" Her mother exclaimed. Tenten yammered caught off guard by her mother and the memories recuperating, the dreams that weren't dreams at all.

"Um, well it was very hot last night. So I just went to sleep like this? What's the big deal?" Tenten hoped this would save her from any further prosecution. She looked around her room nervously. Where was he? Instead of finding Neji she did find his clothes, on the floor next to her bed on the side outside of her mothers view. She darted towards their location, picking up things and placing them on the bed as she scooped his clothes in her foot and kicked them under her bed, quite conspicuously. Her mother eyeballed her daughter's movements, unsure of how to take in her actions. She gawked as Tenten moved quickly from one place to another while holding the light pink sheet over her bosom.

"Are you sure you're all right?" She asked again, this time looking around the room as her daughter was. "Is someone in here?" She added. Tenten looked petrified.

"No! Of course not mother! I'm looking for a fly that was in here last night. It kept buzzing around my face and waking me up." Giving Tenten one last look, her mother shook off her daughter's weird actions and made to leave the bedroom.

"Breakfast is ready. Please come down and eat after you've dressed." She said, as she left and closed Tenten's door behind her. Tenten paused, waiting until her mother was out of range, then she ran to the door to make sure that she was definitely gone. Once secure, Tenten locked her bedroom door and crept around her bedroom looking for traces of Neji.

"Neji?" She whispered almost inaudibly. The dark haired boy didn't miss his cue, he pushed open the closet door slowly to reveal himself. They smiled at each other and embraced once more in an enthusiastic kiss. Neji gently removed Tenten's arm forcing the pink sheet to fall to the floor and took every moment he could to rub his hands over her silken skin, across her buttocks and back. She moved away from him and began to dress herself in lounging clothes. Neji didn't follow suit, but watched her lovingly before she skipped back up to him and pecked him on the cheek.

"I'll bring you some breakfast." She said and quickly left the bedroom, leaving Neji to look at the door happily.

In another house not far from Neji a blonde boy sat at the breakfast table with his guardian.

"So, they were holding each other? What's wrong with that?"

"Ahh Kakashi you don't get it! You had to see it. It looked like, like they were in love or something." Hatake Kakashi stared lazily at his adopted child. He always got so worked up over small things. He sighed and took another bite of toast before answering Naruto again.

"I don't see the problem. They're cousins, shouldn't they love each other?" He said with a full mouth. Naruto had never been so frustrated. How could Kakashi talk about what he had seen like it was normal?

"No, not love as in a family love, love like making out, having sex type of love!" Naruto screeched.

"How could you get all that from them hugging each other?" Kakashi asked just as lazily as before, as he took a bite of bacon.

"Because it was how they were positioned, they were completely entwined and they had their faces right on top of each other, like the fell asleep kissing or something. Sai had his hands up the back of Sasuke's shirt and Sasuke had his hand resting near, near, Sai's butt." Naruto choked out the last part lowly. Kakashi turned his gaze away from Naruto to read the morning paper as he stood up, preparing to leave for work.

"Why do you have to be such a homophobe?" He asked Naruto while he pushed in his chair.

"What?! I'm not a homophobe. That's incest! Are you insane!" Naruto shouted, jumping from his seat and forcing his chair to fly to the ground behind him.

"Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. I'm off to work." Kakashi replied as he grabbed his workbag and opened the front door. "Wash the dishes before I come home. I think we'll have pizza tonight or something of that nature.

"You're just ok with all of this because of what you do with Iruka! Don't think I'm deaf!" Naruto shouted more after his guardian. Kakashi waved him off and left leaving Naruto to fume alone in the kitchen. He grabbed and a piece of bacon and gnawed on it as if it were jerky. "I need to have a talk with Sasuke."

Sasuke was in his own head, oblivious to Naruto's late night appearance. He sat at the breakfast table with his aunt, uncle, father, mother and of course his lover/cousin. Unlike Sasuke, Sai woke up with a smile on his face and he thanked his aunt for the meal she placed in front of him.

"This is delicious Auntie Mikoto." He said happily as he glanced at his sour faced younger cousin. The equally sour faced Fugaku look at his lone child also, as if examining him. When Sasuke had realized his father was staring at him he started to eat once more, though he felt nauseous.

"Sasuke?" Sasuke looked up from his oatmeal to look at his father. He felt that he looked guilty, about numerous things, but mostly about the new relationship he formed with Sai. Sasuke glanced at his father then quickly back into his bowl.

"Sasuke, I want you to clean out Itachi's room today." Sasuke nearly drowned in a milky maple favor. He coughed and sputtered at his father's blatant words.

"Fugaku…" Mikoto called out desperately, but he held up a hand to silence her. Once Sasuke had caught his breath he stared shocked at his father.

"What? Why father?" He tried to stop himself from yelling.

"Sai's going to stay in there for the summer." Sasuke shot a glare at Sai. This was too soon, Sai, no one could just come and take over Itachi's space. Sasuke would not clean out his brother's room.

"But, he can just sleep in there, why do I have to clean it out?" Sasuke asked, not able to hold down his volume. Fugaku closed his eyes and crossed his arms, it was apparent that this day was going to be harder than he had anticipated. He took a breath and said the words Sasuke's whole family dreaded hearing.

"Because Itachi isn't coming back. It's been over a month now. He had been planning this for a while. Wherever he is, he's settled in. I'm actually expecting him to return to get things, eventually." Sasuke couldn't believe what he was hearing. Never in his life had he harbored so much hatred for his father.

"You don't know that!" Sasuke was fully yelling now. "He could come back at any time, we don't even know what happened to him, if someone took him." Sasuke had stood up from the table and was point a finger at his father. "You've given up hope, but I haven't! I know he's going to come back!" Sasuke tried to hold back the emotion in his voice unsuccessfully, everyone at the table seemed to be avoiding his gaze, he half wondered why he wasn't being scolded. Before anyone could do anything about his outburst he stormed away from the breakfast table and back into his room. Everyone sat silently, not knowing whether or not to continue eating.

"I thought you said you'd give it just another month Fugaku." Mikoto asked gently.

"You know he's not coming back, the boy doesn't know all of the facts."

"But still-"

"But still nothing. He growing up, going to be 17 soon. It's time he learned how to be a man. He was too dependent of Itachi anyway." Mikoto quieted herself, acknowledging and silently agreeing with her husband, she picked up her fork and continued to eat, giving the rest the signal to do so also. Sai looked at his parents and his aunt and uncle, unsure of how to take the situation. No one spoke to him nor seem to know he was there, so he stood up, picked up Sasuke's oatmeal bowl and left the table.

Once he had reached Sasuke's bedroom door he knocked, not sure of whether or not it would be ok to just enter.

"Who is it?" Sasuke asked coldly. Sai turned the knob and eased himself in the door way slowly.

"It's me, I brought you your oatmeal." He said holding up the still full bowl so Sasuke could see. The raven-haired boy lay with his head on the foot of the bed, feet planted flat against the covers. He watched the television on the opposite of the room and didn't look very welcoming.

"Whatever. I'm not hungry." Sasuke replied, no longer looking at his older cousin. Sai sighed and sat the oatmeal on the dresser next to him, before he entered and closed Sasuke's door behind him.
"Listen Sasuke. I know you're pissed off but I want to tell you something, don't be mad at me, but-"

"I don't care!" Sasuke shouted, he didn't want to hear Sai's crap. He didn't even want to cry. His family had forgotten about his brother, his parents first born child. He was so upset that they weren't even worried about Itachi, that they were so easily forgetting him. Sasuke wondered if someone were to kidnap him if his parents would give him more than a month to return before someone else hauled up in his bedroom. "My parent's are assholes." He said quietly.

"You don't really understand." Sai replied as he kneeled on the floor next to Sasuke's bed to get at eye level with him.

"And you do?" Sasuke asked angrily, looking at his cousin again. Sai avoided his eyes, they pierced through anyone who was pissing Sasuke off at the moment. He and his brother had always had those eyes, possibly inherited from their father, eyes that could be cold and hot with fury, eyes that made you a little bit more nervous than you would normally be. Sai let a few moments pass before he spoke again.

"Why are you so angry with me. It's not like I planned to stay in Itachi's room. I'd rather stay in here with you."

"Maybe they saw us." Sasuke said lowly.

"What?" Sai asked confused.

"My parents, maybe they saw us sleeping the way we were and decided it'd be better if you didn't sleep in my room."

"That's stupid Sasuke, if they saw us, we'd know."

"Hmm, I don't know….It felt like someone was here last night."

Hours passed and the cousins spent their entire day watching television in Sasuke's bedroom, Sasuke avoiding the task of cleaning out Itachi's bedroom. They had barely spoken to each other and whenever Sai tried to be affectionate with his cousin he was denied. Sasuke has also officially decided against eating, Sai wondered if he were staging this protest to get out of cleaning Itachi's room. Eventually Sasuke had fallen asleep and Sai sat on the floor with his back against the bed looking at him and rubbing his hair.

"Sasuke?" He called, waiting to see if the boy would stir.

"Sasuke?" He asked again, but still there was nothing, Sai continued to pet Sasuke affectionately until he spoke one last time.

"Sasuke, you should forget about Itachi. He's all fucked up." Sai leaned in a kissed Sasuke on the forehead before climbing in bed next to him and falling asleep himself, this time, not cuddling his little cousin.