Hey guys, it's been awhile! Well, it took me a long time to come out with this for a few reasons, personal ones and me having to decide which one of the few routes I wanted this story to eventually go. This chapter officially marks the second half of this story and things get very serious from here own with the boys. Not a lot of Naruto but a lot of Itachi and Sasuke together and insight into their deeper emotions(like you wanted, lol). Enjoy, hopefully.

"Ahh! That's cold." Sasuke hissed at the burning freeze sent through his shaft. He shifted his weight quickly to try to avoid the sensations but was held in place by Itachi's body on top of him.

"Don't be so frail." Sai ordered. "Just chill out." He chuckled and grazed the melting cube of ice down Sasuke's organ.

"Let's change positions and see whose frail then! Uhhh, ahhh…" Sasuke panted going through bouts of pain and pleasure while his older brother lay across his stomach, licking at his nipples gently.

"Let up on him." Itachi said lowly. "It's liable to fall off the way you've been going at it all this time." He said and continued to swirl his tongue around Sasuke's erect nipples while the younger brother groaned underneath him. Sai smiled and tossed his ice cube on to the bed. He crawled up behind Itachi and began to kiss the nape of his neck softly, eventually licking and sucking tiny traces of salty sweat off of it.

"The way you say 'it' almost seems like you're afraid to be vulgar." Sai whispered playfully.

"Not afraid…" Itachi corrected while Sasuke's hand found his head and his fingers danced around his scalp. "I just don't see the point in being unnecessarily vulgar." Itachi said and Sai giggled, making Itachi stop and look back towards him. When he had had his older cousin's attention, Sai brought their lips together and slipped his tongue into his mouth. Itachi ignored the annoyance he felt for Sai and let their tongues slip around each other while he rolled around to face his cousin.

Sasuke opened his eyes, no longer feeling the tingling Itachi was making in his nipples. He looked at the back of his brother's head as it wobbled fluidly in motion with Sai's while they made out. He started to sit up, forcing the two of them to glide downwards on to his legs. Sasuke observed his brother and cousin lost in their kissing until the tension in his groin urged him to make a move. He cupped his palm under Itachi's chin and forced his brother's head to turn slowly; wrenching him from his lip lock with Sai. As soon as the older brother had looked up, Sasuke brought his mouth down and evaded his brother's with his tongue.

"Heh, rude." Sai said amused. He brought his hand to Sasuke's face and brushed his bangs out of the way. After admiring his cousin's he brought his lips to Sasuke's forehead and kissed it tenderly, laying more and more tiny smooches on Sasuke's face, etching down to his cheek. Sasuke's lips parted slowly from Itachi's and met with Sai's as they trailed down the side of his face and reached his mouth. The cousin's then continued the endless three way kiss that made Itachi smile gently as his heavy eye lids created a widescreen border for the beautiful display. "Mmm." Sai moaned, unable to stop himself from grinning. He started to pull backwards away from his cousin but continued to kiss him passionately. When he felt Sasuke starting to pull away as well he grabbed on to his cousin's face and pulled him forwards. Sai pulled himself and Sasuke back until he sat on his butt on another section of the bed. He pulled Sasuke on top of him, making many grunting sounds while Sasuke fumbled between crawling over Itachi and keeping his lips to Sai's.

Finally, Sai had gotten them in the right position and he brought his hands down and rested his weight on his elbows. With a loud smacking sound Sasuke broke free from his kiss with Sai and looked over to his brother on his right who faced the both in them, naked sitting Indian fashion. He shuffled onto his knees on top of Sai who smirked broadly.

"What the hell on you waiting for?" Sai asked mischievously, yet with a hint of impatience. Sasuke looked back to his brother who sprung to life and started over towards them. He looked at Sai whose eyebrows jumped in anticipation and lifted his buttocks slightly. Sai brought one of his hands to his erection and positioned it at Sasuke's opening as the younger cousin slide down and enveloped it with his ass. Just as Sasuke began to bounce in tune with Sai's upward thrusts Itachi met with them once more. He sat up on his knees and placed his hands on Sasuke's waist, pulling and pushing his body up and down to aid in his fucking. Itachi came closer to Sasuke and his tongue met Sasuke's neck as he licked and bit it delicately making Sasuke coo in delight.

"Brother?" Sasuke panted as the intensity of Itachi's aid began to increase and he felt the slight sting of his skin slapping against Sai's. Itachi kissed his way to Sasuke's mouth and dip his tongue inside quickly before answering.

"Yes?" He whispered almost inaudibly.

"Wh…what is this?" Sasuke stammered. Itachi stopped guiding Sasuke's hips and trailed his hands up Sasuke's sides then to his chest. He kissed his brother once more, struggling to stay intact as Sasuke began to grind back and forth on Sai with his older cousin's help. They sucked on each other's tongues for a moment before Itachi answered his brother simply.

"I don't know. I don't think it matters." He said and placed a peck on Sasuke's lips that went down his chin, neck chest and stomach. Itachi paused as he reached Sasuke's dick and the younger tensed greatly at the thought of what was going to happen.

"Woah!" Sai said exuberantly, feeling Sasuke's tightened ass. Sasuke went to block his brother from sucking at his organ, feeling that he couldn't take so many sensations, but he failed and merely ended up grabbing his brother's hair as he groaned out loudly.

"Brother! Fuck!" Sasuke whimpered and reduced to grunts as Sai began to thrust into him once more. Sai had long since relaxed on to his back and grinned, biting his lip happily at the sounds and display in front of him. He looked to his older cousin whose wet tongue glided around the head of Sasuke's dick, sexily. Sai inched his hand to Itachi's knee to get his attention and the older cousin looked over at him, never stopping from pleasuring Sasuke's cock.

"Sit." Was all Sai said and Itachi understood from his gestures what Sai wanted him to do. He released Sasuke's erection briefly and planted his butt on the bed, leaning over on his hip and left leg slightly so that he could balance on his left arm and still blow Sasuke. As he slipped his brother's cock into his mouth once more he felt Sai's soft warm hand wrap around his hard cock and start to pump it. He looked at Sai who had just licked his palm sloppily and brought it back to his dick then closed his eyes, deciding to get lost in the moment.

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"Naru-chan?" Kakashi said at the door of his son's bedroom. He rested his shoulder against the doorway and crossed his arms long moments ago and had been in that position for awhile before speaking to his son.

"Hey." Naruto said, looking back at his father then out of the window again. He sat Indian fashion at the foot of the bed and stared out of the window at the orange morning sun and sighed out deeply before turning to face his father again. "What's up Kakashi?"

"I'm about to head off to work." He said and glanced towards Gaara's sleeping body at the top of the bed.

"Wild party." Naruto explained.

"Official is it?" Kakashi asked knowingly and Naruto nodded. "Well, I hope you don't just start sleeping around. It's pretty cliché."

"Kakashi..." Naruto said seriously but smiled and shook his head while looking at the floor. "Dad…" He added.

"What are you thinking about?" Kakashi asked, unmoving. Naruto sighed deeply and glanced at Gaara.

"Everything."

"You're not married you know."

"I regret nothing."

"Then what's wrong?"

"I don't know…." Naruto said honestly, feeling lost in his random thoughts. "Do you think my parents would have been upset about me being gay?" He asked and Kakashi stifled a pang that shot through his chest.

"Probably not, they were really understanding, non-judgmental people." He said and Naruto nodded slowly. "I've got to get to work." Kakashi said and he stood up straight to leave.

"Dad!" Naruto called quickly then twitched when he thought he had woken Gaara.

"Yeah?"

"Why'd you tell me?" He asked, feeling relieved and stressed at the same time.

"It's been so long. I thought you'd never asked me that." Kakashi said as he walked up to Naruto. He placed his hand behind his son's head and kissed the top of it gently. "I thought you should know. I had always planned to tell you." He said and Naruto nodded more. He felt his face crinkle up and buried it in his father's stomach.

"I love you." He said and Kakashi smiled.

"I love you too." Kakashi replied and ruffled Naruto's hair before departing from the room. Naruto looked around the room, feeling slightly awkward then his eyes fell upon Gaara once more. The red head lay on his side facing away from Naruto slightly, soundlessly. Naruto smiled as he watched Gaara's breath rise and lower his body rhythmically and gently. He crawled over to him and slipped in the sheets behind him, even getting caught in them in a small fight between man and cotton, but Gaara still lay asleep. Naruto brought his arm over Gaara's waist and pulled the red head closer until his mouth was at his ear.

"Gaara?" He whispered a few times until the other stirred and turned around to smile at him sleepily.

"Is it time to get up?" He asked weakly, falling asleep as the words escaped him.

"No." Naruto answered, surprised that his boyfriend's breath smelt like dull mint and not morning funk. "I was just checking on you. You drank a lot." Gaara laughed lightly and nuzzled his face into Naruto's neck while the two embraced.

"I'm fine. Get some sleep." Gaara said.

"Alright." Naruto said and he closed his eyes and let his face rest in Gaara's silky red locks. They were quiet for a moment, but Naruto spoke again. "Gaa-kun?"

"Hmm?"

"Promise me you won't leave?" Naruto said lowly. Gaara sat up slightly to look into his boyfriend's eyes. He kissed his lips, settled on to his back and brought Naruto on top on him to lie on his chest.

"After tonight, the only way they could separate you from me is to pry you from my cold dead fingers Naru-chan." Gaara said seriously and Naruto snickered.

"So morbid."

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"Ahh, come on cousin." Sai pleaded as he arched his back more. "It's been a long time." He said looking towards Itachi with his neck bent uncomfortably. Itachi placed his hands on Sai's cheeks and eyeballed his cousin's backside briefly before scooting up to it.

"Lower your ass a little, this isn't porno." Itachi said and Sai crawled upwards on to Sasuke's lap so that his butt wouldn't be pointed so high. Sai looked away from his older cousin and brought his attention back to his younger one's organ. He slurped and sucked on it loudly and groaned with it deep inside his mouth as Itachi pressed into him. The older cousin pumped and glided Sai slowly while memories of their past encounters flooded him. He grabbed on to Sai's hips and started pushing into him more vigorously; becoming aroused by the moaning from his brother and Sai beneath him. Itachi's hand traced the indent of Sai's spine and to his shoulder. The other followed momentarily, getting stuck to certain section of Sai's sweaty skin. Itachi grabbed on to Sai's shoulders and rode him fiercely, making his cousin's head bob up and down on his brother's cock. He rocked his hips diving deeper into the warmth of Sai's hole and grunting airily in tune with his own movements. He squeezed Sai's shoulders tenderly as the younger cousin swiveled his hips with Itachi's. Itachi panted and slapped against his cousin's ass forcefully, exuding strength over the situation. His hand found Sai's hair and he played with the soft locks letting them graze against his already tingling fingertips until he grabbed on to them unrepentantly. He forced Sai's head up and down the best that his reach would allow him so that he would gag and Sasuke's dick.

"Ah yeah…"Sasuke said, with a long sigh as the wet hotness deep inside Sai's throat sent a shiver through him that pinched in his nipples. He wet his index and middle finger and brought them to his nipple to stimulate it even more as he rocked his hips so that he could push deeper into Sai's mouth. Sai gurgled and drooled on Sasuke's manhood while suppressing deep moans from Itachi's thickness pushing in and out of him. Itachi had finally released Sai's hair and brought his hands back to his cousin's waist to pull his body in motion with his own movements. Sai pulled his mouth off of Sasuke's cock and gasped for air during his temporary freedom, but Sasuke brought his free hand back to Sai's head and forced himself back into his cousin's mouth with a loud groan and much thrusting. Itachi looked on and his brow scrunched as the pressure welled up in his groin. He pumped faster and harder and didn't let up even as Sai pulled away from Sasuke's grasp and coughed. Sai felt a familiar twitch and looked behind himself to yell at his older cousin.

"Don't cum yet cousin." He panted.

"Why not?" Itachi asked with a grunt as he continued to ram into him.

"Because Sasuke's close, cum with him." Itachi's eyebrow lifted slightly.

"How?"

"Pull out." Sai groaned. "Lie next to him." The older cousin complied and forced himself to hold his tension. He pulled out of Sai and crawled to the side of his little brother to lie next to him while Sai continued to slurp at his organ. Itachi looked on and moved his hands as Sai's came on to his organ to stroke it. Soon the impious cousin shifted himself on to his older cousin's lap and sucked at his dick while stroking Sasuke's. Sai kept up with the sordid act until Itachi could hold out no longer. He erupted just as Sai had returned to his cock and began to suck on it. He moaned deeply and Sai squeezed at the base of his organ while it spewed out cum. He licked at it and the sight sent Sasuke to his climax as well. He thrust his head back and moaned much more softly than his brother as his own hot sticky seed appear at the end of his shaft. Sai's attention diverted and he quickly made his way back to his younger cousin to aid in his orgasm. Itachi looked on and when the sensations started to die down the brother's looked to each other briefly and engaged in the night's, or morning's, last lip lock.

Sai sucked on and smiled though not noticeably, at his cousin's affection for each other. As Sasuke's hard on began to shrink in his mouth, Sai decided the moment was over and removed it from his mouth and looked up at his cousin's with a wide grin.

"Thanks." He said when their attention drifted towards him. He sat up on his knees and looked over his cousin sweaty and cum stained bodies. "Not everyone gets to live out their deepest fantasies." He said happily. Itachi, on the other hand, sighed deeply.

"Just another setup I see."

"No cousin, though I wouldn't mind taking credit for that." He said as he bent over to stroke Itachi's almost completely soft penis. "Just a deep seeded fantasy, heh I made a pun."

"Deep seeded. I beg to differ." Itachi said. Sasuke smiled, looking towards his brother then up at his cousin and growing more and more tired. Sai yawned for him and stretched his arms out high above his head as he started moving as if to vacate the room.

"Bed time."

"Wait what?" Sasuke asked, bewildered.

"Baby cousin?" Sai asked, unsure of why Sasuke didn't expect him to leave.

"You didn't finish yet." Sasuke said making both Sai and Itachi chuckle softly.

"Sai's a pleaser. He's fine." Itachi said and he turned on his side slightly, ready to fall asleep finally.

"Yeah, Sai's a pleaser." Sai said mockingly.

"No, come here." Sasuke demanded and he dragged his cousin back to him by his arm. Sasuke sat up and instantly began to suck Sai's still hard cock. The older cousin chuckled and played with Sasuke's hair as he sucked softly and slowly, making a metrical motion with his head you could get sea sick too. Soon Sai found himself moaning gently and rocking himself with Sasuke's motions. Itachi watched on the side feeling his eyelids get heavier with each passing second. He looked on though, unsure of how he felt about the scene now that his desires had been fulfilled. He caught a side glance of Sasuke, forcing himself down on Sai's cock, trying to push it deep into his throat without gagging, and got nasty images. 'He's becoming too much like Sai' Itachi thought, 'too much like me'. He held back a sigh and his disapproval when Sai smiled and prodded Sasuke to continue saying things like "Good!" and "Try to hold it". After a few minutes had passed Sai had came and Sasuke, determined to finish him properly, lick up every bit of his cum. The two kissed sensually and soon enough Sai was gone, off to his own room to sleep the rest of the morning away.

"Brother?" Sasuke called lightly, not wanting to wake his brother who lay with his eyes close, if he was indeed asleep.

"I'm here." Itachi said more normally than Sasuke expected. The older brother opened his eyes and gave a tender stare to Sasuke who returned it silently. Ultimately, Sasuke curled up next to his brother and the two wrapped up in each other arms comfortably, despite the fact that they both needed a shower terribly. "How was Halloween?" Itachi asked once they had settled in their position. "Sai told me he was planning on taking you to a party?"

"Um…" Sasuke replied awkwardly as he remembered his encounters at the party. A heavy weight seemed to rest it's self on him once more and he felt his head becoming stuffy and his brow tense.

"Hmm?" Itachi asked, waiting for an acceptable response.

"It was pretty boring, when I think about it now." Sasuke lied and felt extremely guilty about it. "I found out Sai's actually bi."

"You didn't believe that before?"

"Not really."

"Hmm." Itachi said, now wanting to go to sleep. Sasuke nuzzled his face into his brother's collar bone area and his chest stiffened slightly.

"Are you…actually bi as well?" He asked.

"I suppose, but that doesn't even matter anymore. I have you." Itachi said and Sasuke couldn't hold back a small smile.

"Brother?" Sasuke called after a few moments of silence.

"Hmm?" Itachi asked, finally sounding as tired as he was.

"Where have you been?" Sasuke asked and this time Itachi hesitated to answer.

"We'll…talk about that later Suke. I have things I'd like to do with you."

"Oh?" Sasuke asked, becoming excited. Itachi kissed his brother's forehead and squeezed his body slightly.

"Tomorrow, Suke."

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Tomorrow had come sooner for the brothers than they had expected. It was noon and the sun was at a position where it gleamed into the windows of the bedroom brightly. Sasuke stirred, trying to stay asleep but the incessant buzzing of some unknown, buzzer like object, kept him from doing that. The sun shone into his eyes and he now noticed that a bedroom window had been left cracked open. The sound of busy cars and hundreds of people out and about on their lunch hours heightened the amount of noise and Sasuke growled out angrily.

"What is that noise!" He shouted into his pillow, forcing Itachi awake as well.

"The doorbell." Itachi mumbled sleepily.

"Who could possibly be at the door, did Sai get locked out or something?"

"I have no idea Sasuke. Go answer it." Itachi somewhat pleaded as the buzzing became the more predominant aggravation. Sasuke sighed and crawled out of bed. He fumbled and stumbled along the path to the front door and swung it open angrily waiting for Sai's blushing face to appear at the other side. Instead, a curious Shikamaru lent against the doorway with a smirk and I raised eyebrow.

"Took you forever to answer the door."

"Oh, it's you. I thought you were my cousin. I have no idea of the time. I had a long night."

"I can tell." Shikamaru said sarcastically with a glance downwards and an odd expression. Sasuke's brow furled and he looked down to see his own sleeping penis dangling around freely. He jolted to hide his naked self and ran back to his bedroom to grab some clothes. He pulled a fresh pair of boxers out of his dresser and threw them on quickly before storming out of the bedroom once more.

"Why didn't you say anything!" He shouted at Shikamaru who was closing the front door behind him.

"I didn't notice until just then."" Shikamaru laughed. "Made up with your cousin?"

"Why would you think that! I just sleep naked." Shikamaru made another odd expression and glanced towards Sasuke's lower abdomen again.

"Oh fuck…" Sasuke sighed out. He crossed his arms over his stomach and looked away from Shikamaru as his face grew red with embarrassment. "It's nothing."

"I know dry cum with I see it."

"Hey! Why are you here?" Sasuke asked, wanting his 'friend' to make his leave already.

"Hmm? You told me to come over today. Forgot already?" Shikamaru asked as he sat on the arm of the couch. "I can leave if you're busy…"

"No…shit….Things have changed. "Sasuke said, just as Itachi made his, thankfully clothed, appearance.

"Morning." He said to Shikamaru before turning to enter the open kitchen for breakfast. Sasuke looked worriedly towards Shikamaru then back to his brother who had opened the fridge and started to pull out milk.

"Afternoon." Shikamaru replied and corrected. The statement prompted Itachi to let go of the milk and he grabbed a long roll instead, realizing that breakfast had eluded him.

"Um, Shika…This is my brother Ita-"

"I know who he is. You and Kimimaro carried our soccer team to state." Shikamaru said to Itachi, who looked less than flattered by the statement.

"Oh, that's right…Kimimaro." Sasuke said aloud, but to himself.

"Sasuke are you going with your friend?" Itachi said as he opened a can of tuna.

"No! You said you wanted to do things today."

"I do."

"Then I want to be with you. We erm…" Sasuke said with a glance to Shikamaru who smiled back at him. "…need to talk. Shikamaru you understand right? My brother isn't home all that often these days."

"What a drag, I came all this way."

"Really?"

"Tch, no. You dropped me off; you should know the hotel is only five minutes away. Geez, Sasuke. Anyway, I don't feel like seeing my battleaxe of a mother, so I'm heading to get some lunch then back to the hotel…for awhile. Call me if you…get settled and want to do something tomorrow." Shikamaru said and headed to the door.

"Alright, seeya." Sasuke said plainly and Shikamaru exited with nothing more than a nod and a wave of his hand.

"Friend you made at the party?" Itachi said while he pulled his bread out of the oven and proceed to smear tuna filling onto it."

"No, I knew him from school. We sort of, bonded there."

"Hmm."

"So what are we doing today?" Sasuke asked happily as he watched his brother. Itachi cut the large sandwich in half and put it on a paper plate. He handed it to Sasuke and went back to the fridge to pull out a can of soda.

"We need to talk first." Itachi said softly, not looking in Sasuke's direction at all. At first Sasuke had remembered this as normal interaction between him and his brother upon waking up. Itachi was never one for breakfast conversation. But now, he felt that knot in his chest spring to life. Sasuke remembered that Itachi had had something to tell him and apparently it was really important for it to be told.

"Alright." Sasuke said somewhat somberly.

"I'm going to take a quick shower before I eat. You can go in when I finish. I have to be somewhere so please be quick. Alright?" Itachi asked, finally meeting his brother's eyes.

"Okay." Sasuke said, curious as to where Itachi had to be and where he was planning to take him.

"Actually, showering goes no where." Itachi said to himself and the older brother exited the kitchen quickly disappeared into the bedroom. Soon Sasuke heard the sound of drawers shuffling and he stood idly and somewhat perplexed for a moment before realizing he should eat and prepare his clothes. As soon as he bit into his toasty sandwich the front door swung open and Sai appeared with grocery bags and seemingly talking to himself.

"Alright I'll see you. Yeah. Yup. Yes. Yeess. Just trust me okay? Alright then bye." He said, after dropping the bags onto the glass dining table and setting his cell phone and headset on it as well. "Aww you're eating. I was going to make fajitas." He said.

"I didn't even know you had left?" Sasuke questioned after quickly swallowing a large bite roughly.

"I couldn't sleep, came out here and couldn't find anything I wanted to eat so I went and bought some groceries."

"With what money?" Sasuke asked after forcing down more of the sandwich.

"Some of the money my parents send me."

"You didn't have to waste your money."

"Eh…Why are you eating so quickly?" Sai asked, making a face at Sasuke's offensive eating.

"I'm trying to rush. Itachi will be ready to go soon and I haven't taken a shower. He doesn't want to be late."

"How does that concern you?"

"He's taking me with him." Sasuke said proudly to which Sai gave a concerned look.

"Where?"

"I don't know." Sasuke said. "I've got to go. Finish my sandwich." He said and dashed away, leaving Sai with many questions.

Thirty minutes had passed and both brothers had prepared themselves, almost. Sasuke stood in his bedroom and pulled on a black under shirt and black button up, long sleeve collared shirt.

"Are you two going to be back for dinner or should I not wait up?" Sai asked, entering the room.

"Not sure. Call and ask." Itachi said sitting on the bed waiting for Sasuke to finish dressing. "Well since you're both here and I've got about twenty minutes to spare now I might as well go on."

"Go on with what brother?"

"I have something to tell to the both of you. I'm not sure how you're going to take it."

"So is this about where you've been all this time?" Sai asked, a stern expression adorned on his face.

"Yes, it is."

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"God! That was terrible." Naruto said feeling stupid.

"At least my dad let us take the car out today." Gaara said, trying to lighten the mood.

"We shouldn't have done that. It should have stayed a secret."

"No! I don't want us to be a fake relationship like your last one. My family is fine. They just didn't know how to handle it."

"So you did lie when you said your brother was gay." Naruto said looking out of the window at a small child in the back of an SUV who was sticking his tongue out at him. Gaara frowned and tried to stop from sinking into himself.

"I'm sorry. I just wanted to make you comfortable with me."

"You didn't have to lie." Naruto grumbled, somehow feeling guilty for assuring Sasuke that Gaara wasn't after him, when he obviously was.

"Listen. We told my family about us. They didn't react well, but think of all the people who have come out of the closet and were disowned or dejected. My family just felt odd."

"They looked like they hated me. Especially your sister! I can't believe she brought up Sasuke. 'I thought he was with Sai's cousin'." Naruto mocked. "What if they tell? We'll be ruined in school, Sasuke too."

"Will you stop thinking about him! Do you think he goes by in life saying 'What if this happened to Naruto, or that?' at least think about us." Gaara said, feeling fed up with hearing Sasuke's named.

"Sorry." Naruto apologized and sunk lower in his chair. He just couldn't help thinking about Sasuke. What did Gaara expect of him?

"My brother and sister wouldn't do anything like that anyway. Just relax. They'll get used to us. We just have to show up to my house more. You're never over there it's like I just met the neighbor one day and started sleeping with him."

"You told them we slept together!?" Gaara placed a palm to his forehead and nearly drove off the road. "Woah! Gaara?"

"Sorry, just please…let's stop fighting. I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack or something." Gaara said sincerely and Naruto could tell by his face. He looked over his red head boyfriend who looked strained and worried and smiled over his honest concern for their relationship.

"No, I'm sorry. Let's just go get something to eat and relax." He said and Gaara smiled at him in his almost mistakable for an indifferent face smile.

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"Are you serious cousin!?"

"Yes, Sai."

"And you want to bring Sasuke there?!"

"Sai…" Sasuke said, trying to stop his cousin and brother from arguing.

"I want to show him that it's safe. Now my life doesn't have to be a secret from him. When I was offered the opportunity I thought it would be best for both me and my brother at this time in our lives." Itachi said, continuing to speak as if Sasuke weren't in the room, or even within ear shot.

"Cousin." Sai said beseechingly. He got to his knees and shuffled up to Itachi. Sai grabbed on to his cousin's hands and tried to talk sense into him. "It's just the same as what you were doing before."

"It's not Sai. This is legitimate business."

"Porn! The only difference is now everyone will see what you're doing."

"Only people who watch porn, gay porn. Besides, they only want you to think it's a bad idea to stop me from taking care of him." Sai raised an eyebrow to Itachi but Sasuke spoke before he could comment on the weird statement.

"You're only going to do gay porn?" Sasuke asked as he stood near the bed, feeling left out of the decisions being made and the conversation in general.

"Yes, Sasuke. I'll make more money that way."

"Itachi." Sai groaned and brought his face to Itachi's knee. "Please don't do this cousin. Why can't you just go back to college, get into soccer again or something?"

"Soccer…" Sasuke said inaudibly to himself.

"Sai, I need to make money, more now than ever. I need to take care of Sasuke. He has to finish school, I won't let him work. If he does he'll be corrupted."

"What are you talking about? If you don't want him to work then I'll help! I'll work, we both can work and make enough to pay bills here."

"It won't be enough. Numbers don't match." Sai shook his head and looked to Sasuke whose face was sad and confused. Sai moved in closer to his cousin and whispered to him.

"You told me you had a deal with this guy. Is the porn part of it!?" He asked, trying to keep his voice down as much as possible.

"It's not. It's just for the rent." Itachi said normally.

"How long are we good for?"

"A year." Sai groaned loudly.

"You could only get a year?"

"You have no idea how much rent would be here."

"Then we'll just have to move once the contract is up."

"What are you two talking about!?" Sasuke yelled, frustrated with his family's secrets.

"Don't you know?" Itachi said as Sai continued to shake his head slowly. Itachi looked down at his upset cousin and kissed the top of his head.

"I don't know how you could think this is a good idea." Sai almost whispered.

"It's….more safe."

"How?!"

"Sai, it's a controlled environment, no possible hooker murderers." Sasuke twitched violently at the word 'hooker'. "There are guaranteed paychecks, no worrying about if I'll actually be paid. There are frequent tests, which reduces the risk of STD's greatly and if something were to go wrong…." Itachi paused, making all of them look away from each other. "well, I'd find out in relatively good time."

"Everyone will see you, cousin."

"You say that as if people will point me out in the streets. There's only one person I would be upset to know they've found out about this. That's our mother." Itachi said, looking to Sasuke. "However, the possibility of that is slim." Itachi concluded, leaving Sai with nothing more to say, or argue constructively better yet.

"You've made up your mind." Sai said remorsefully as he placed his cheek against Itachi's knee.

"I have to go."

"Must you bring him!?" Sai asked, still not acknowledging Sasuke as much as Itachi had.

"I feel that it'll reassure him, besides, we haven't spent much time together in awhile."

"You call bringing him to work, spending time together?"

"I'm not having a shoot. I just need to speak to my agent about future plans." Sai groaned once more, ending with a hefty sigh.

"It's alright Sai." Sasuke said, trying to put on a content face. "I really want to go."

"Fine." Sai said standing up. "Then I'll call the two of you later." He said sadly, avoiding gaze with his older cousin.

"Sasuke, will you see if my keys are out there so we can go?" Itachi asked while standing and Sasuke left immediately after nodding in agreement. "Sai…" Itachi said lowly once Sasuke had left. "It's not going to be a lifetime career."

"Sure." Sai replied just as lowly.

"You're disappointed in me."

"I don't know why you won't let me help you, or let Sasuke help himself even a little. Thousands of college students and high school students work while in school. It's not a spectacular thing for a person to do. Your pride angers me"

"I don't know if I would call it pride."

"I don't know what else it would be called." Sai said, looking to his cousin sternly for what seemed to be like an eternity. However, Itachi looked on blankly, unmoving. "What?" Sai asked, not amused by the expression. "Why are you just standing there like that?"

"It wasn't so long ago that you couldn't care less what Sasuke and I did."

"See, that's where you're wrong cousin. I guess you just don't understand me. It wasn't so long ago that you and I were the only ones making love either." Sai said with an expressionless face. Itachi looked away from him and stared blankly, yet miserably at an empty space of floor to the side of him before his eyes etched back to Sai's torso. He grabbed on to his cousin's hands in front of him and pulled them up and around his neck. Sai allowed himself to be moved though he half wanted to not embrace his cousin. Itachi wrapped his arms around Sai's torso and squeezed it tightly.

"It was quite long ago actually." Itachi whispered into his cousin's ear. Sai laughed while he shook his head slightly.

"I knew you'd say that."

"Brother! I found the keys!" Sasuke yelled from the other room and Itachi released himself from his hug with Sai.

"I'll see you." Itachi said and walked out of the room somewhat stiffly.

"Yeah." Sai said quietly, knowing Itachi couldn't hear him as he walked out of the bedroom.

Itachi and Sasuke found themselves moments later traveling downwards into the underground parking lot from the second elevator. Sasuke gazed at his older brother who stood with his arms crossed, seemingly determined to stare at the ground in front of him while he rested his back on what must have been the uncomfortable bar etched around the inside of the cab. Even as the elevator came to a halt and Sasuke shifted oddly between walking out of the elevator and waiting for his brother to follow, Itachi stood quite still.

"Brother?" Sasuke called softly as a man in a trim grey suit hovered in front of the elevator cab that Sasuke was blocking. Itachi still did not seem to notice anything around him and only as Sasuke exited the elevator to make way for the grey suited gentleman and the elevator doors began to close did Itachi's arm spring to life to bounce them back open. He stepped out at what must have been snail speed to the impatient grey suited man and stood before his brother zombie like. "Brother, are you-"

"Let's go." Itachi said abruptly and seemed to bounce back into the present as he led the way to the familiar black van of a deceased man.

"So we're going to an office?" Sasuke asked, once the van had started and they were making their way out of the darkened garage into the bright day of the busy city.

"Yes, in the heart of downtown." Itachi said rather monotone like. Sasuke nodded and set sights on the many people and cars around him as they drove deeper into the most chaotic part of the city. "We're here." Itachi stated and pointed towards a tall circular shaped tower in front of them as they stopped at a red light. They sat in silence once more at what Sasuke was beginning to think was the longest stop light in the city when his brother spoke again.

"What?" He asked confused as he looked behind himself into the emptiness of the van. Sasuke's forehead scrunched and he raised an eyebrow to his brother before chuckling.

"I didn't say anything you're just hearing stuff."

"No, I'm positive I heard that."

"Heard what?" Sasuke asked as Itachi shuffled around trying to get a better view of the space behind him, so intent upon it that Sasuke found himself looking for the source of unheard noise as well.

"We shouldn't park in the garage." Itachi said lowly as the sound of beeping from the cars behind them erupted.

"What? This is downtown, where else will we park? And drive brother!" Sasuke exclaimed and Itachi sped off. Sasuke watched as the massive circular, glass paned building came and went as Itachi became determined to park outside of the buildings garage. "Brother, this is crazy. You're late aren't you!" Sasuke exclaimed after circling surrounding streets for nearly fifteen minutes.

"I'm not parking in there." Sasuke sighed and sat back in his seat, frustrated with his brother's weirdness.

"Look there!" Sasuke cried out as he noticed a family van leaving from its spot, marking a place to park. Itachi sped over to claim the spot as quickly as possible and snagged it easily. Sasuke heaved a sigh of relief and exited the van right after Itachi who walked right across the street and towards his destination. "What about the meter!" Sasuke yelled and grumbled as he pulled out his wallet and inserted enough coins for an hour. "What's with him today?" He asked himself and jogged across and up the street towards his brother. "Are you real late?" Sasuke breathed to him.

"Yes." Itachi said uninterestedly and continued to walk on.

"Then let's run." Sasuke suggested but Itachi shook his head.

"I don't feel like it." He said and stopped to open a heavy glass door and that lead to the main lobby.

The two traveled upwards twenty stories by yet another elevator in which Itachi seemed to be more alert in yet unconcerned about his tardiness. The elevator doors slid open with a loud ding-dong tune and Sasuke looked up to face a plaque with the name Manic Films Inc. on it: the company's logo. Sasuke peered to his left and found wall then right and saw his brother who had walked into a room at the end of the wood paneled, bright hallway to a receptionist desk whose front almost came up to his chest. Sasuke walked to the end of the hallway into a half circle room occupied with two of the bustiest women he had ever seen personally. The blonde and brunette duo sat side by side in front of the curving large floor to ceiling window in thin cloth and wooden chairs. They both stared at porn magazines, perhaps looking for themselves or another friend, with their legs crossed towards each other and their shoes clanking loudly against one another occasionally 'I'm too gay to even enjoy this', Sasuke thought to himself.

"You're an hour and a half late Itachi." The receptionist said lowly with what seemed like more concern than she should have.

"I apologize, some things came up."

"He's on a business call, I'm sure he'll see you still though. He likes you a lot."

"Mmm." Itachi replied. "I have to use the restroom. Take a seat Sasuke." He said and walked past the receptionist desk to a make shift hallway behind it; consisting of a real wall and a freestanding right angle one that made for a wall behind the receptionist desk and a wall obstructing those two doors from the view of anyone sitting in the waiting room. Sasuke saw his brother walk into one of the two doors and looked to his right to see another hallway with many more doors and the same wood paneling as the other. He looked back to his left at the two women whose attention he had caught and then to the receptionist in front of him who grinned.

"So you're Itachi's little brother that I've heard about so many times?" She asked happily.

"Yeah, how do you know my brother?" Sasuke asked more interrogatingly than he intended.

"Oh, he's a friend of a friend." The woman said dismissively, obviously not taking any offense. "You can sit down if you want, you don't have to keep me company." She said with a smile Sasuke was quickly learning to distrust.

"Alright…Sunan." Sasuke said as he peered over to check out Sunan's name plate. Before he could even walk over to the busty women peering his way, simultaneously his brother reemerged and Sunan's desk phone bleeped.

"Yes Mr. Richardson? Alright, I will." She hung up her phone and turned to Itachi who approached calmly. "Go ahead." She said.

"Alright." Itachi replied and turned towards the longer hallway.

"Brother?" Sasuke called, unsure why.

"Hmm? Alright come on." Itachi said and Sasuke looked confused, not expecting an invitation. "Hurry up." Itachi added and walked down the hallway. Sasuke followed and had just reached his brother as he entered and seen a man who looked a lot more casual than Sasuke had expected him to look.

"Close the door and who's this kid?" Mr. Richardson said.

"My brother." Itachi said as he sat down in one of the two seats facing Mr. Richardson's desk. Sasuke closed the office door behind him and looked at the man in his black T-shirt who was observing Sasuke with great interest.

"Hmm, do you have a lot of muscle tone kid? If not I can definitely get him solidly into some twinkie movies."

"He's only seventeen." Itachi added, much to Sasuke's delight.

"Bummer." Mr. Richardson said plainly.

"Anyway Tony, you said you need me to sign some papers?"

"Yeah." The man said as Sasuke sat down. "I need you to sign some release forms and resign some paperwork that accidentally got shredded."
"Terrible mistake."

"It could have been worse also, I want you to do a movie next week. It's double what you've been making." Tony said, clearly trying to sweeten up the deal. He smiled widely and Itachi froze as he was writing on a paper to look up at him.

"That sounds like it'll be double the work." Itachi said knowingly.

"A few more guys, nothing you can't handle. This shoot can really start to give you a name."

"You say that as if I want to become huge in this business." Itachi said plainly.

"Look…." Tony replied, losing his cheerfulness. "honestly I need someone to cover this shoot. I had a guy booked but he backed out before signing any papers."

"That's reassuring."

"I'll give you a larger percentage. I just can't have this client upset. They're high end."

"How much higher." Itachi asked, his interest perked. Tony sighed and shook his head while he pulled out some papers and a calculator.

"You porn stars, it always comes down to the money." He said with what appeared to be sincere disappointment. Tony wrote on paper and pushed the buttons of his calculator a few times then slid the paper Itachi's way, out of Sasuke's view. "I can go that high, no more." Itachi seemed to think of the prospect more seriously now.

"How many guys?"

"Four."

"Genre?"

"Double stuffed." Itachi nodded slowly and Sasuke became concerned. What did he mean by double stuffed?

"Alright." Itachi agreed and Tony's cheerfulness return and he clapped his hands together happily as he pulled out more forms.

"You're a life saver." He said as a bleep came across his phone. "Yes?"

"Mr. Richardson, K's here."

"Tell her to give me about five minutes."

"Yes, sir."

"K?" Itachi asked with a casual curiosity.

"Ah, she's a gem. A gangbang queen. I see in you what I saw in her, if only you did straight movies. Maybe a bisexual flick sometime?"

"Tony." Itachi said threateningly.

"Right, right. Anyway, call on Monday so you can come back to get tested."

"Alright."

"Brother?" Sasuke said even more concerned as Itachi signed his named quickly over numerous pages. Itachi held up his hand to stop Sasuke from talking.

"I need to have a private moment in here before we leave. Alright, Suke?" Itachi said with a stare that prompted Sasuke to leave.

The younger brother stood up dragged his feet to and out of the office door. Once it had closed behind him he walked back into the waiting room where the two busty girls had disappeared and only the receptionist sat.

"Where's Itachi?" She asked when Sasuke approached the desk.

"He'll be right out." Sasuke said glumly as he rested his elbow on the desk and fiddled with Sunan's cup of pens.

"K?" Sasuke heard Sunan call to someone who must have been in the bathroom.

"Yeah?" K said and Sasuke's brow furrowed. She sounded oddly familiar.

"He'll be with you in a moment he's finishing with another client." Sasuke faintly heard Sunan say as he turned around to came face to face the supposedly infamous gangbang queen K.

"Ka-Karin?" Sasuke asked as the bright pink haired neighbor he met yesterday appeared before him.

"Sasuke?" Karin asked confused. "What are you doing here? You're a..?"

"No! I mean, no." Sasuke said more calmly. "But that means you are?"

"Ah, well yeah." Karin said with a slight giggle.

"But, you're in high school. You're seventeen." Sasuke said, unsure of how this could be possible.

"Well…" Karin added, finally sounding embarrassed. "I lied. I'm actually eighteen. It's just that I flunked my last year of high school and have to repeat it so when I moved here I just started telling people I was seventeen so I didn't have to go all into explanation." She said.

"Wow." Sasuke said, unsure of how he should react.

"So what happened to you today?" Karin asked, sending Sasuke into a whole new wave of confusion. "Last night," Karin added, "you said you wanted to meet up at two." Sasuke's eyes widened and he felt himself becoming hot under the collar.

"Oh, that's right." He said dumbly. "Last night, after we talked was pretty…" Sasuke said as he thought back to the Halloween part; getting high, finding Naruto, finally severing their tie, becoming real friends with Shikamaru and having a threesome with his brother and cousin, "eventful. Last night was very eventful and I woke up really late and completely forgot I'm sorry."

"It's fine. Are you….free today still?" Karin asked cautiously.

"Well no. My brother's usually really busy and he's free today so I wanted to take the chance to spend some time with him." Karin's face turned hurt and she nodded her head in silent understand.

"You're not…turned off by this are you? I mean my job, sort of." She asked as Sasuke had a mental image of a group of guys crowding around her naked body.

"Ah, no." Sasuke stammered making Karin stare at him inquisitively. "Of course not." Sasuke somewhat lied and forced a weak smile.

"I'm ready." Itachi said seemingly appearing out of thin air into the tension between Sasuke and Karin.

"Yeah." Sasuke replied.

"Let's go." Itachi suggested and Karin waved goodbye to Sasuke who stiffly returned it and followed after his brother who was already entering the elevator.

"It's pretty business orientated as you can see." Itachi said, once they were making the long twenty story drop.

"Yeah, that was all very…enlightening." Sasuke said.

"So what do you want to do now?" Itachi asked plainly. "I'm all yours." Sasuke chuckled and tapped his knuckles against the cold metal of the elevator cab.

"Get away." He said vaguely not expecting to be taken seriously as the elevator came to a stop.

"Alright." Itachi said and exited the elevator.

"Alright?" Sasuke replied, wondering what Itachi had in store.

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Hours had passed and the mid fall chill swept over the air as darkening clouds approached over head. It had been a long awhile since Sasuke had left his brother's agent's office and the two had spent a relatively normal day together. To Sasuke's surprise Itachi had had the idea of going a little ways outside of the city to a few of the spots he had remembered from his adventures with the soccer team years ago when he was still in high school. They had lunch at a small luncheonette with the best and freshest tasting Panini's Sasuke had ever had. They went to another surrounding town just to follow up with a light dessert of specialty ice cream at a place Itachi's soccer team had found upon getting a flat tire in their van on their way from a match.

Itachi recalled the journey over his bananas fosters ice cream as a small smile etched its way across his face, hardly visible. Sasuke grinned at his brother's appearance; entranced in his memories. He looked at his disheveled appearance and wondered why his brother hadn't made more of an effort to groom himself today, while simultaneously finding his somewhat messy hair cute. Sasuke stirred his cappuccino absent mindedly and gazed lovingly at his brother who seemed lost in some other reality at the moment.

"Can I get you boys anything else?" A waitress asked, startling Sasuke out of his gazing and Itachi out of his thoughts.

"No, we're fine." Itachi said gently and the waitress nodded and left.

"Now what brother?"

"One more stop for today." Itachi said and he pulled out some bills, placed them on the table and left with Sasuke's hand in his own.

Soon, Sasuke found himself being awoken by the clanking on the outside of the black van coupled with slight rocking. Sasuke wiped his cheek, realizing that he had fallen asleep and drooled slightly on top of that. He frowned, never being one to drool, and sat up from his position with a small ache in his lower back from leaning on to the van window for so long. After stretching slightly he looked around himself and finally noticed that the van had stopped moving and Itachi was no longer inside of it. He peered outside of the windows to look at the blue silhouetted soccer field the van had been parked directly on.

Sasuke peered at the clock in the radio; it was almost six in the afternoon and the sun was setting behind dense rain clouds that rumbled gently over head. Sasuke stretched his arms out further and yawned loudly as his senses started to come back to him fully. He fought off his remaining sleepiness and got out of the van sloppily in search for his brother. It had started to mist outside already and Sasuke walked along the slippery fresh cut grass to the back of the van whose door was slightly open.

"Itachi?" Sasuke called wondering where his brother could have gone and not seeing him anywhere on the field.

"Up here." Itachi replied, making Sasuke lurch and jerk his head upwards to the top of the van. Sasuke dashed around the other side of the van where he could clearly see his older brother sitting Indian fashion on the roof. Sasuke grinned making his eyes form into tiny slits.

"What are you doing?" He asked happily.

"Just observing the field." Itachi said quietly as he stared out on to the horizon.

"Ah, so you do miss soccer." Sasuke said knowingly.

"This is where I had my last game." Itachi said, seeming as if he was merely talking to himself about his own memories. Sasuke's face went back to a content appearance and he walked over to the front of the van, managed to get himself on to the hood and carefully climbed up the windshield glass to the roof. "That seemed easier." Itachi said even though he hadn't watched Sasuke climb up or even looked away from his original gaze. "I lifted myself up from the back." Sasuke sniggered and relaxed himself next to his brother with his feet and calves daggling over the side of the van.

"Well, you have more upper body strength than I, brother." Sasuke said affectionately, to which Itachi only nodded.

The brothers sat in a comfortable silence until it became hard to see as darkness made its arrival. Sasuke shifted in his hoodie. He pulled the top over his head and pulled his arms inside the torso part to hug himself. Sasuke shivered as the mist turned into small rain drops and looked to his brother who sat as still as ever in his same position even as the rain fell on him.

"Itachi, do you want me to get you a sweater?" Sasuke asked while looking at his brother's increasingly wet T-shirt. "You have one in the back of the van." He reminded but Itachi didn't reply. Sasuke's head titled as he became more and more perplexed by his brother's ignoring him. He slid his right arm back into his sleeve and patted Itachi's shoulder guardedly; Itachi still did not respond. Sasuke shook his brother as lightly as he could manage, worried that something was wrong.

"Brother?"

"Do you think of me strange?" Itachi finally spoke.

"What?" Sasuke asked bewildered.

"Am I strange?" Itachi asked more coherently as full rain began to fall.

"Why would you ask something like that?" Sasuke asked tenderly as he scooted over closer to his brother. "Of course I don't think that." Sasuke said more assuredly than he actually felt.

"Father thinks so." Itachi revealed. Sasuke became mute. He hadn't a clue on how to debunk Itachi's statement.

"I thought…You didn't care what he thought?" Sasuke asked, hoping this would be a reminder of good emotions. Regrettably, Sasuke's effort had failed and Itachi's once void expression became somber directly. "No, brother…" Sasuke whined as his brother began to shrink before him in the rain that traced down his cheeks like teardrops. "…you're not strange." Sasuke declared as he wrapped his arm around his brother's back. Itachi shook his head slowly and his face contorted into a heart shattering frown. "I'm serious!" Sasuke said, feeling his own happiness being sucked down a tube. "I don't think you're strange. Sai doesn't either. No one else matters." Sasuke informed, but his words were not piercing.

"I'm strange. Perhaps, I'm too strange to take care of you anymore." Itachi said weakly.

"Itachi! I don't need you to take care of me. I'm not little anymore I can take care of myself." Sasuke forced out his words in a panicked rush as his heart began to pound in his chest. What was happening to his brother lately?

Itachi finally pulled his legs apart from their sitting fashion and planted one of his feet flat on the hood of the car so that he could bury his face in his knee.

"Brother, please?" Sasuke pleaded for Itachi to come to his senses as he wiped water out of his eyes; the rain started to fall harder. Itachi held up a finger, signifying that he needed Sasuke to leave him for a moment, but Sasuke stayed and rubbed his brother's soaked back to console him. Soon, Itachi's head lifted, hair sopping wet and clinging to the sides of his face. Sasuke moved in closer to see his brother's red eyes, full of sorrow and worry. Itachi blinked repeatedly as if he wasn't recognizing his brother then placed his hand on Sasuke's which had found solace in resting on Itachi's lower thigh.

"I love you." Itachi said meekly before parting eye contact. The statement did little more than state an obvious fact. Sasuke felt his chest tighten and did the unexpected and pushed his brother on to his back. He placed a palm against Itachi's chest to keep him pinned and in the dull lighting of the empty soccer field Itachi saw his brother's stern damp face staring above him.

"If that's the case then why are you still doing this?" Sasuke asked harshly, leaving Itachi dumbfounded.

"What?" Itachi barely got the word out before Sasuke continued.

"What are we?" Sasuke rushed out.

"What are we?" Itachi repeated, not understanding how Sasuke wanted him to answer.

"Us! Together! What are we?" Sasuke shouted and his voice cracked.

"We're…brothers." Itachi replied as if the answer was obvious. Sasuke bit his lower lip and face became red as if he were about to explode.

"Wrong answer!" He bellowed and thumped his hand on the metal roof of the van, forcing his weight on his other and sending pain surging through Itachi's gut.

"Sasuke?" Itachi breathed, taken aback by his brother's anger.

"We're not brothers anymore!" Sasuke screeched and his eyes welled up and began to redden.

"That…doesn't make any sense." Itachi said, beginning to question his own logic even.

"Yes it does! When this happened, when we start making love we became something else." Sasuke said, his voice calming down. "We became lovers! We're not brothers anymore! And as your lover I won't accept you treating me this way any longer!" He affirmed, his voice reaching deafening heights once more.

"I'm not treating you nicely?" Itachi asked.

"No!" Sasuke beamed, dying for his brother to understand. "You're not treating me fairly. I'm not your child. You have a whole life that you're always hiding from me. I'm not frail! Why won't you tell me what's wrong with you? Why won't you let me help?" Sasuke demanded answers, but Itachi's eyes closed as Sasuke shifted his body and it no longer shielded his face from the rain. He looked so peaceful, almost like he was asleep until he sat up and redirected his gaze to the van's roof. Sasuke grimaced and began to grind his teeth in frustration. Why did nothing he say ever seem to have any effect on Itachi?

"I'm not hiding anything from you." Itachi grumbled lazily.

"Liar." Sasuke proclaimed and he looked away from his brother, worried his lackluster expression would make him even angrier.

They sat in their positions for a moment before Itachi spoke again.

"You know, we can never stop being brothers no matter how much you would like that." Itachi said calmly.

"That doesn't negate my words! Just because we're related doesn't mean you have to take up being my father." Sasuke said, forcing himself not to look towards his brother as he crossed his arms in his soaking wet hoodie.

"I don't think of myself in that way, but I feel obligated to protect you. Not out of parental duty, or even brotherly duty. It's just something I feel I must do, even though I'm failing as of late. It's that so different from…regular lovers?" Itachi asked. Sasuke didn't answer him, he clung to himself more tightly than ever, wishing that his brother's logic wasn't coming over his own and hating how he always seemed to have an answer to ever thing.

"Failing." Sasuke repeated; that particular part of Itachi's statement sticking out to him. "How so?" He asked more gently than he had expected he would.

"Don't you still hurt?" Itachi asked after a moments thought. Sasuke turned back towards his brother, more interested in where he was going with his question. He looked to see that Itachi had still been in his same position staring at the same empty space of roof as before.

"What do you mean?" He almost whispered, becoming suspicious.

"I know you still hurt. My abandoning you, Sai's, Naruto's, you're so confused and I'm sure that's my fault. I've taken you away from our family, your friends and most of all…" Itachi trailed off. He sucked in his bottom lip, actually making a visual display of discomfort. "Most of all…" He repeated, trying to muster up the words. "This van." He said and Sasuke started to shake.

"What about it?" He asked, attempting to be dismissive.

"It's his, I'm surprised you even get inside of it." He said and made etches into the water gliding on the metal.

"Itachi…" Sasuke warned and his heart began to pick up its beat once more.

"I know you still hurt from that as well."

"Just don't bring it up!" Sasuke yelled and brought his knees to his chest and faced the other side of the van.

"Why?" Itachi asked serenely.

"Because I don't want to think about it, or talk about it at all!"

"But why?"

"If I do it'll never go away." Sasuke croaked. "I want to forget it happened. I want to forget what you…" Sasuke couldn't continue. Itachi's eyes unglued themselves from their spot and looked to his little brother's back. He outstretched his hand and grabbed the back of Sasuke's dripping hoodie and pulled him closer. Sasuke turned slowly to meet his brother's gaze; his eye's looked sleepy with sadness. "What if they find him?" Sasuke whispered, but Itachi never answered. He shuffled his and Sasuke's bodies around and brought Sasuke's legs onto and around his own. He embraced his little brother tightly even though he could barely feel his body's warmth between the layers of wet clothes and his own cold numbness. The only heat he felt coming off of his brother was his breath on the nape of his neck as Sasuke nuzzled his face into it.

Itachi turned his head to kiss Sasuke's cheek. He lifted his brother's chest from his own and came face to face with him again. The two simultaneously shut their eyes and pecked each other on the lips. Once, twice and so forth until one brother cracked open his lips and they found the sticky heat of each others mouths. They kissed silently and caressed each others freezing chests underneath their soaked clothes as above them the cloud's rumble extended throughout the soccer field and they forgot their worries for this moment.

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Shuffling, then jingling. The sounds clattered gently in the living room, so soft, yet so annoying. Sasuke tumbled in his warm bed sheets and comforter and turned to lie on his brother who until that moment had been sleeping quite soundlessly.

"Sasuke?" Itachi grumbled as his brother's constant shifting awoken him. "What's wrong? Take the comforter off if you're hot." Itachi suggested as he turned to lie on his side and cuddle his brother who had then shifted away from him.

"What's that noise?" Sasuke asked angrily, expecting his brother to know for some reason.

"I don't know." Itachi said, nearly inaudibly as he fell back asleep on his brother's back. Sasuke sighed, unable to ignore the tiny tingling noises coming from the other room. He ripped the comforter off of himself and exited the bedroom, stumbling. He looked around for the source of the noise, hearing the jingling towards Sai's bedroom he went to turn the corner when a tan mound of fluff no more than a foot tall went streaking past him. He looked for the animal, wondering if a cat had gotten into his house.

It played with a notebook situated behind the far end of the couch. Sasuke crept over to it, noticing that it started to look less and less like a cat.

"Hello?" Sasuke called to the animal and it turned and sprung to life at the sight of him. The tiny little Pomeranian puppy jumped at Sasuke's legs, barking happily seeking his attention. Sasuke smiled and bent down on his knee to play with the puppy that nipped and ran around him in a hyper fit. "Itachi! Sai!" Sasuke called dully.

Moments passed in which Sasuke repeatedly called his family members and finally they arrived. Itachi entered the room first and his face scrunched slightly as the puppy ran around him. Eventually he bent over slightly to pet its head and for the first time the Pomeranian seemed to relax as it sat and licked his hand.

"It likes you." Sasuke said happily as he lay on his side on the floor, yawning loudly.

"Where did it come from?" Itachi asked.

"Well, either a puppy snuck in our house or Sai bought it." Sasuke said and Itachi nodded.

"What is 'it'?" He asked. Sasuke whistled to get the puppy's attention and it ran over to him, regaining its energy. He picked it up and it wiggled around in his hands, seemingly nervous.

"Girl." Sasuke confirmed as he placed her down and she ran after Sai who emerged from his bedroom. He rested his shoulder and body weight on the bathroom door's wall in front of his own and looked down at the puppy that was happy for him to be awake again.

"Do you like her?" Sai asked to no one in particular.

"She's cute." Sasuke admitted. "Did you buy her?" Sasuke asked wondering if Sai was merely pet sitting the puppy.

"Adopted. I didn't think a bigger dog would go by well here and she was the only small puppy."

"Why did you get her?" Itachi asked.

"I thought Sasuke needed a friend." Sai said with a loud yawn.

"Thanks." Sasuke grimaced, slightly offended.

"What's her name?" He asked. "Does she have a name?"

"Nope. I'm going back to bed." Sai said and turned on heel, disappearing into his own bedroom.

"I'm going back to bed too." Itachi slurred slightly and disappeared into his room as well. Sasuke grabbed the puppy Pomeranian and lifted her above his head. He sat up and rested her on his lap where she relaxed and allowed herself to be petted.

"I'm going back to bed as well…..Lily." Sasuke hesitated a moment after he stood up once more. "Yeah…Lily."

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Weeks had passed until it was deep into the chilly gusts of November. The trio of boys had spent fairly normal times together and separately in a state of blissful monotony that made Sasuke grin as he lounged on his couch late into the night. He brought his feet on to the arm of the couch and crossed one leg over the other while shaking his foot anxiously. He shuffled around trying to find a couch pillow behind him to rest his head on as he looked at the cable box's clock.

"He's running late." Sasuke said to himself, abandoning the search for a throw pillow. The dark haired boy had grown, if possible, too accustomed to his brother's new routine. Itachi's work in the porn industry had become quite steady, so much so that Sasuke was able to always pinpoint his brother's arrivals and departures.

On top of Itachi's new predictable schedule, Sasuke had officially become a steady high school student again. After his sob story to the principal and a short meeting with the Board of Education, Sasuke and Itachi were able to secure Sasuke a spot back into high school, granted he pick up his grades and got himself back on track with the rest of his peers. Shikamaru had also become apart of the routine over the past three weeks, as he became Sasuke's personal tutor.

Sasuke titled his head backwards uncomfortably to glance outside at the night behind him. He thought of Karin who he hadn't seen nor had any contact with since his meeting with her at the porn agency. A feeling of guilt bubbled in his stomach. He wanted to talk to her, but couldn't bring himself to do it. Whenever he thought of her he could only imagine her in a crowd of men waiting to have their chance at her. The thought made him think lesser of her and in turn lesser of himself; the hypocrisy. Sasuke tried to make excuses for himself mentally, telling himself that he only felt odd about her promiscuity because she was in fact a girl; but that thought only made him feel sexist. It was a lose/lose, a stalemate that he had come to over and over again and for the millionth time he swallowed his guilt and forgot about it; setting sights back on to his brother and cousin who both should be walking in the door eventually.

As if on cue Sai came rushing through the door, only to hop over Lily who greeted him eagerly.

"Yeah, yeah Lily I've got to pee." He said and began to unbuckle his pants before the door had even come to a completely close. Sai shuffled his way to the bathroom and Sasuke watched him amused until he disappeared into the bathroom with a deep sigh of relief.

"What took you so damn long? You were out of school this afternoon. With that chick again?" Sasuke said as if he tasted something nasty.

"No, I wasn't with Temari." Sai called from the bathroom before the sound of a flushing toilet went off. "But," He said, emerging from the bathroom. "our plan of hiding out here on Thanksgiving is null and void."

"What? Why?" Sasuke asked and sat up quickly.

"Yeah, my parents met me at the campus. They were at my dorm. I was at your parents house most of the day, basically being interrogated on things here. I practically had to pull out the chair and whip so that I could get back here without my parents driving over to see this place."

"Oh man." Sasuke moaned and buried his face in his palm. "I don't want to see my father."

"Sorry." Sai said lowly and moved Sasuke's legs so that he could sit on the couch, only to rest them back on his lap. "He seemed eager to hear about you, Itachi too."

"I'm sorry he was." Sasuke grumbled sarcastically, starting a long pause of silence after he lay back down.

"You should go for your mother." Sai finally said.

"I'm going regardless." Sasuke moaned just as Itachi entered. "Guess what?" Sasuke said to him lazily and proceeded to tell him the awful news. Itachi, unsurprisingly, had little reaction to the news and merely sat on the love seat near Sasuke's head, starting the next long pause of silence.

Ultimately, Sasuke looked over to his brother who minutes later was still sitting in the same slightly tilted position he was in when he originally sat down. Sasuke stared at him for a moment, then another and so forth. He frowned as he started to unconsciously count the seconds in which Itachi hadn't blinked. Eventually, he slid his hand over to his brother's knee and shook it gently to get his attention. Itachi didn't seem remotely phased by the movement, but after awhile slowly, and somewhat creepily he turned to his empty gaze to his brother.

"Are you alright?" Sasuke asked concerned, with a raised eyebrow.

"Me…fine." Itachi said as he seemed to become unstuck and moved around in his seat. He kicked off his sneakers, brought his feet up and rested the side of his face on his knee. Sasuke turned on his side, still observing his brother who had gone from a completely catatonic state to what looked to be worry. Itachi's eyes looked around the room cautiously until he spoke to his brother again. "Sai's asleep." He said and Sasuke looked over to see his older cousin's head wobbling and his mouth slightly open. Sasuke grinned and turned to crawl over to Sai's lap. He rested his back on it and pulled Sai's shirt up to reveal his nipple. The older cousin stirred and before he could wake up completely Sasuke sat up sucked hard on his nipple making Sai jolt awake with a loud hiss.

Sasuke pulled off and chuckled loudly as Sai rubbed his nipple and bit his lower lip.

"You're terrible." He mumbled and shook his head as he began to laugh as well.

"I'm going to bed." Sasuke stated and bounced off of Sai quickly. "Come on, Itachi."

"God, you get me hot and then you just leave. It's lonely in that room." Sai said with a fake sad face and pouty lip.

"Take my spot." Itachi said lowly, as the stare seemed to be making its return.

"What? Where will you sleep?" Sasuke asked.

"I'm not going to sleep….right now."

"But what about when you do?"

"I'll push Sai on to the floor."

"Works for me." Sai said happily and he grabbed Sasuke's hand to pull him into the bedroom, but Sasuke halted to stare after his brother who did not seem fine.

"Are you sure you're alright?" Sasuke asked, unsure if he should leave his brother to sleep. Itachi nodded gently.

"I'd like to sit here alone." He said and Sasuke couldn't help but feel a little rejected. Still, he pried himself away from Sai and dashed back to his brother to plant a long goodnight kiss on his lips before allowing himself to be slowly dragged away.

"Goodnight." Sasuke said.

"Yeah, goodnight." Sai said a lot more happily, but Itachi replied to neither of them. Sai turned Sasuke around so that he couldn't look at his brother anymore and started to push him into the bedroom.

"Why are you so anxious?" Sasuke said abruptly with a slight stomp of his foot. "I'm going straight to sleep, no funny business."

"Sure, that's what you always say." Sai said and pinched Sasuke's butt and shoved him roughly into the bedroom and closed the door behind him. Sasuke stifled a laugh as Sai plopped on the bed and patted a space near him and stood awkwardly, feeling uneasy.

"Are you sure we should leave him? He doesn't seem right."

"He's probably tired. Just let him be." Sai grinned and rubbed circles into the bed sheets.

"I'm going to sleep." Sasuke smiled and pulled off his white T and blue plaid PJ bottoms then slid into the bed belly first. Sai pulled off his own shirt and pounced on to his cousin; kissing his lips and instantly grabbing at his member.

"Yeah, eventually." He teased and Sasuke objected no longer starting the beginnings of a late night romp and twisting the lid a little further off of an unknown can of worms.

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Darkness. Sasuke had awoken and there was only darkness. Not the dimmed kind of darkness he awoken to when the shades were down in the morning, but pure night. He lifted his head and looked at the clock; 3:00 AM. He'd only been asleep for about thirty minutes and no wonder he had woken up. Sai's moist hot organ rubbed against his back and his cousin's body enveloped his under the huge comforter in the well heated bedroom. Sasuke's body was sticky with sex sweat and now fresh sweat. He pushed his behind backwards a few times to get Sai to turn over off of him then distanced himself from his cousin's heat and onto a cool section of the bed. He was comfortable, but not so much. Sasuke thought back to his brother's odd face and vacant stare and became uneasy once more. He wasn't tired anymore, now he was fully awake. An inner battle raged as to whether he should compromise falling back asleep easily with checking on Itachi. The former was winning as his eyelids began to get heavier until a small crash was heard outside of the bedroom.

Sasuke shot up and looked around the dark bedroom. His eyes still hadn't adjusted fully to the void surrounding them but he got out of bed anyway and held out his hands like a blind man for the bathroom door. He slid it open and only the pale light from the living room television came from under the bathroom's other opposing door. Sasuke spotted a pair of pants on the bathroom floor and through them on not knowing who they belong to. He tied the draw string on the thick sweat pants and moved cautiously to the other door of the bathroom. He slid it open slowly but before he was half way open another crashing sound came from the kitchen.

Sasuke gulped and his heart started to pound, deafening him to his surroundings. He popped his head outside of the bathroom and didn't see Itachi on the couch where he once was. He crept out of the bathroom, unsure of why he was so nervous. He started to walk towards the living room when another crash sounded and he pressed his back against the wall. A few seconds went by and Sasuke heard someone moving dishes inside of the cabinets. He shuffled over a little more, got sight of the loveseat Itachi was once at and nearly fainted as his head spun and he lost his breath completely. On the table in front of the loveseat and splattered around it was what appeared to be a good amount of blood.

It was so dark inside of the living room. The television was silent and was on a channel that had finished its broadcasting day, for only multicolored bars were on the screen. Sasuke tried to breathe, he choked in breath and grabbed at his stomach. As he felt he'd throw up. What should he do? Go back for Sai? Another crash sounded from the kitchen. Who was in the house and what had they done to Itachi? Sasuke frowned as a small rage burned inside of him. He mustered up whatever courage he had and turned into the room quickly only to come face to face with his own brother.

"Itachi?" Sasuke sighed in relief, but his tension soon started to return. Itachi stood, quite still, so still in his position that he looked fake and mannequin like; with his arm outstretched and a glass cup resting frailly at the tips of his fingers. His eyes were wide and everything about his very appearance resembled a 'deer in headlight'. "What are you doing?" Sasuke asked with an upturned eyebrow. Itachi twitched gently and Sasuke's hands lifted and he pointed his palms to his brother, hoping to calm him down and hoping even more that his glass weapon wouldn't come flying at him. Itachi, seemingly shocked, confused and on the defense, stood even more still and in the dim glow of the T.V. began to look scary. "What are you doing?" Sasuke asked again in almost a whisper and now, only now did he notice the scarlet dripping liquid coming from both of Itachi's arms.

Sasuke frowned, completely worried and yet quite fearful as he inched his way closer to his disturbed brother.

"Give me the cup, please?" Sasuke asked as he tiptoed towards his brother and Itachi merely squinted at him, as if he had no idea who he was. Sasuke made his way towards Itachi and eventually his hand made contact with the now blood stained cup. Itachi's muscles loosen as Sasuke eased the cup away from him and set it on the table. He took Itachi's hands into his own and turned them over to reveal his forearms that were coated in his own blood that had dripped little puddles on the floor beneath him. "Oh God." Sasuke moaned as he tried to hold back tears. "What happened?" He asked aghast to which Itachi looked at him plainly and spoke.

"Accident." He said with the blankest of expressions. Sasuke looked into his brother's clear eyes with his own glistening ones with his mouth half open lost for words.

"Sai." He called. "Sai!" He yelled as he hands started to tremble with the warm scarlet liquid flowing onto them.

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Hours passed and 7:12 AM came way too soon. Sai and Sasuke sat in one of the back rooms of the local hospital trying to stop from dozing off. They sat on the hospital bed that was positioned all the way up side by side sprinkled, and in Sasuke's cause doused, with Itachi's blood.

"Hello?" A nurse walked into the 'room', pushing the curtain aside gently.

"Yes?" Sai said as he straightened up quickly.

"Shouldn't be much longer now. He's still being analyzed."

"After that he can go home?" Sasuke asked and the nurse frowned sadly.

"I'm…not sure. They may want to keep him." Sasuke sulked and sat back once more as the nurse exited. Sai and Sasuke didn't speak to each other, both deciding to leave their emotions to themselves. After ten minutes had passed a doctor walked into the area holding a clipboard and looking very concerned.

"Hello, Sai is it?" He asked, speaking to the older of the two.

"Yes? Is he alright?"

"Well, he's adamant in saying that what happened to his arms was an accident, but according to his story that he dropped some glass into a garbage disposal and later went back to search for a ring he may have dropped in there…"

"Yeah…"

"It's, not likely, it doesn't even explain how his other arm was injured. He clearly did the cuts to himself. They're deep, but none of them are deep enough to have caused him to bleed out that quickly. I'm pretty sure he did the damage and then kept adding more cuts on top of the old ones. By the time you got here most of the scars were already drying. It doesn't look like legitimate suicide and as far as an evaluation goes he's pretty shut down." Sasuke and Sai nodded slightly. "Basically, I can't get him to talk right now about what he did and why. He seems very depressed, manic, but since according to his account," The doctor pointed at Sasuke, "that Itachi says it was an accident and the scaring and situation suggests it wasn't an actual suicide attempt I can't keep him unless he wants to. I suggest you take him to a specialist. There's obviously something wrong. Maybe this doctor can help him. Cutting, especially with this severity is very dangerous and can lead to accidental death. Please make sure to get him mentally evaluated. It's obvious there's a problem." The doctor said and handed a card to Sai.

"Thanks." He said sadly. The doctor nodded and walked away and Sai sighed greatly before burying his face in his palm. "Sasuke…" He began, but got knocked off of track. He composed himself, took a breath and managed to start up again. "Sasuke, are you sure about what you saw? What he said?"

"Yes." Sasuke croaked, the memory of Itachi's words stinging into his memory. "He was just dropping the cups. I don't know why, he was already bloody when I got there. He told me I wanted it, that I wanted it to happen and that he was sure of it." He said. Sai sighed once more and took Sasuke's hand.

"It's alright. I don't know. Maybe he is depressed. Maybe we shouldn't have…Never mind…I mean…he said he wasn't trying to kill himself." Sai began to croak as well. "I hope that's true."

"No! He wouldn't! He wouldn't just…" Sasuke said and broke off as Itachi appeared at the opening. He held his hands together quite childlike and looked from the floor to his family sheepishly.

"Let's go." He said and started to walk away slowly. Sai and Sasuke followed closely behind him and the trio made a long completely silent trip back to their bloodstained apartment.

As soon as the door had opened Itachi walked straight into his bedroom, ignoring the destruction he had caused. Sai and Sasuke glanced at each other until Sai walked off towards his own room.

"Sai?" Sasuke called, not wanting to be left alone.

"He's calm now, just go to sleep, I'm here if you need me." He said and walked off. Sasuke hovered around the entry way for a moment until his own sleepiness got the best of him. He hesitantly entered his bedroom to see Itachi sitting up in bed, shirt off and gently grazing his nails against his bandages. He looked miserable, but more so the state of him looked miserable, his actual expression was quite dull.

Sasuke closed the bedroom door behind him and Itachi looked up at him sleepily in his boxers.

"Hi." He said.

"Hey…are they bothering you?" Sasuke asked, pointing to Itachi's bandages.

"No." Itachi said plainly. He shuffled downwards and lay on his side before closing his eyes. Sasuke had a mixture of emotions he couldn't account for. All he knew is that he felt completely tortured by Itachi's actions. He walked into his bathroom and cleaned himself up quickly; he slipped into bed and sat up slightly and uncomfortably, but chose not the move.

"Brother?" He called sadly. "I'm…"

"Shh." Itachi interrupted. He slid over to Sasuke and rested his head on his chest and stomach and Sasuke merely rubbed his fingers through his brother's hair before drifting off to sleep, luckily having more than a week to sort things out with his family before school restarted.

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Honking and screeching of the cars outside forced Sasuke's eyes awake as an early afternoon crash happened outside of his apartment. He rubbed his blurry eyes and rolled over to peer at the clock which informed that it was quarter to three in the afternoon. Sasuke grudgingly pulled himself out of bed and dragged to one of the massive windows to close one of the push out corner windows. He peered outside at the wreckage as police cars and ambulances arrived quickly on scene. After a deep sigh and a dread of seeing the chaotic kitchen and living room he turned on heel and went to exit.

Immediately, the smell of hickory smoked bacon gushed into his nostrils and the sizzling and frying sound of the skillets coupled with the tingling and sweeping noises from the glass being swept off of the floor accompanied it. Sasuke stepped outwards to find his cousin cleaning the floor and found the new scent of bleach and pine cleaner as well.

"Morning, well afternoon." Sai said rather plainly, as if the night's previous occurrences were a distant memory. Sasuke watched as he scooped up the last of the remains of glass from the floor and emptied them into the trash. Sai moved on to the mop and bucket full of pine cleaner and pushed the dining table aside so that he could clean the still blood stained area.

"Let me do that." Sasuke interjected.

"No it's fine." Sai declined and pulled out the mop and began sweeping it across the floor. Sasuke stepped back and only then looked over to see his bandaged brother fiddling with food and pans as he pulled out pieces of bacon from them and set them on paper towels near a plate of scrambled eggs. The brother's exchanged tense glances before Itachi removed the frying pan from the heat and walked off. Sasuke sighed and quivered, holding himself from the slight chill in the house. "Turn the heat up if you're cold." Sai suggested as he squeezed out his mop for the second time.

"Are you two mad at me?" Sasuke asked. Sai paused in his position then stood up slowly.

"No, I'm not mad at you. I'm sure he isn't. It's just weird right now. He's not really talking to me either." Sai informed then went back to work. Sasuke nodded then walked off. He went into his bedroom and didn't find his brother there, instead the faint sound of running water could be heard and he followed it to the bathroom where he found his naked brother stepping into a running bath. Itachi turned off the water and sat into the bath, oblivious to Sasuke's presence and with his body now hidden behind the freestanding shower.

The younger brother stood hidden by the shower until he noticed that he could see his brother through the large mirror parallel to the tub. Sasuke stiffened, knowing that if he could see his brother, his brother could see him, but Itachi had relaxed and rested his head on the wall behind him with his eyes closed. Sasuke exhaled and rested his shoulder against the shower glass as he observed his brother. A small smile crept onto his face but was soon washed away as Itachi had become too relaxed and let his arms fall into the water. He hissed loudly as the soapy water stung his scars and sat up abruptly causing the overfilled bath to spill.

"Itachi?" Sasuke exclaimed, revealing himself and coming to his brother's aid. He took Itachi's closer arm and pulled off the bandaging.

"What are you doing?" Itachi asked, becoming concerned as his scars were revealed.

"You can't leave them wet." Sasuke informed. He took Itachi's other arm, unbandaged it and then left to get the supplies the hospital had given them to rewrap Itachi's arms with. Sasuke cleaned and placed fresh wrappings on Itachi's arms and sat on the bathtub's side. He aided Itachi in washing his back a few tims so that he wouldn't wet his dressings again. The silence remained for a few more minutes until a deep sigh emitted from Itachi and he decided he felt like speaking.

"I'm not angry with you. I'm not going to any doctor." Itachi stated.

"You don't have to go if you don't want to." Sasuke muttered even though he felt his brother needed to meet with a specialist.

"You're only saying that now, because you're afraid that I'm mad at you."

"No…"

"Admit it." Itachi grumbled.

"Well…" Sasuke said after a long breath, "you aren't happy."

"So?

"If you go to talk to someone maybe they can help. That's all."

"I don't want to talk about this anymore." Itachi said and he wasn't urged to go on. Sai walked into the bathroom from the opposite entry in his boxers with his towel.

"Oh, I thought you two were in the bedroom. I finished cleaning the couches by the way. He said and sat next to Sasuke on the side of the bathtub. "I guess you're talking something out." He said bored.

"Mmm." The brothers said in unison.

"Oh come on." Sai groaned. "Last night was, scary, but we can get through it. I know you don't want to see any doctor Itachi, no one's making you. But what do you want Sasuke and me to do?"

"Nothing?"

"Then why are you so upset? Is it because last night we-"

"No." Itachi said more firmly. "I want to work through this on my own. That's all. I'm not upset with either of you." Itachi stated, flat out. "I swear…I'm not upset." He added at the look of disbelief on his family's faces.

"Alright then, we'll put this badness behind us." Sai agreed and let himself slip into the bath water with a loud splash and his boxers on. "In or out Sasuke?" Sai asked, but his younger cousin stood.

"Out, I'm going to eat some of that cold food out there." He said and walked out of the bathroom.

"Good idea." He shouted after him. "Get his strength up for this Thursday." Sai said to Itachi.

"Thanksgiving?" Itachi asked.

"Unfortunately."

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The weekend ended and soon it was early Thursday morning. Thanksgiving was beginning and Mikoto had already called her sons three times before noon to be sure that they would arrive for dinner. Sai tussled in his big empty bed looking out of the floor to ceiling windows in front of the patio. The sun burned into his eyes as it rested high above with the tiny bit of water separating the city from the suburbs that opened into a lake bouncing its rays off playfully. It looked as if it was warm outside, but Sai knew better. He exhaled deeply and pondered his attire for the evening. Tiny knocks came at his bedroom door and he looked over to see Sasuke approaching and closing the door behind him.

"Hey." The younger cousin said as he stood about Sai's bed.

"Aren't you cold?" Sai asked, looking at his cousin oddly as he stood only in his boxers.

"Nah, our bedroom was so hot last night."

"Mmm." Sai said and looked away. "Gloating?"

"What?" No, the heat was turned on too high. Geez." Sasuke said, turned off by Sai's assumption for some reason. Sai stared up at his cousin who looked away from him oddly as he seemed ready to make his exit. He grabbed Sasuke's wrist and pulled the raven haired boy on top of him so that Sasuke's chest hit the bed and his legs lay over his cousin. "I'm too tired for this!" Sasuke grumbled into the blankets and turned on to his back to glare at a grinning Sai.

"Relax. I know you're tense about tonight, but it won't be too bad."

"For you." Sasuke said lowly. "This is going to be the most uncomfortable night of my life." Sasuke whined just as Itachi entered the bedroom unannounced. If Sasuke had appeared to be worried and upset, Itachi must have been overwrought and distraught. He plopped on to Sai's bed and dropped his forearms on to his knees, staring out in front of him in a daze.

"Maybe we shouldn't go." Sai said abruptly.

"We have to go." Itachi muttered.

"We could always go off to some diner, use the pay phone and say our car broke down." Sasuke suggested, becoming delighted with the idea of ditching Thanksgiving.

"They'd want to know why we went to a diner and send Father to pick us up." Itachi informed.

"Fake a kidnapping?" Sai suggested. Itachi sighed. "Fine then, how about we just go late? We'll get right to dinner and wing our way out of the place."

"Alright." The brothers agreed together.

Hours later the trio scrambled to finish dressing. Unfortunately, the old plan of arriving late was out of the window. The boy's hadn't counted on Mikoto checking in on them several times before departing nor Sai's parents informing them of the great and clear commute. There was no reason for them to be late and dinner began in two hours, which meant they needed to leave immediately.

"The way they're pressuring us to get there early…." Sai said, "you'd think they had a trap set for us or something." He said with a rush as he fixed his tie in the bathroom mirror and scurried past Itachi who had finally found a sweater he could wear that would cover his scars and wasn't tight around them either. They hustled and soon enough were all dressed and exiting the apartment, just as the phone rang once more.

"Tch, my mother…" Itachi muttered to himself as he turned of the light and closed the door behind him.

They drove in silence and dread and sooner than later the familiar home the boy's had grown up in was feet away from them and they were exiting the van apprehensively. They walked up to the door, Sasuke made contact with the doorknob and it ripped from his hand as the door flew open and Mikoto appeared from the other side looking overjoyed.

"Sasuke!" She said as she threw her arms around her youngest son and nuzzled her face in his soft hair. She squeezed him tenderly as if she hadn't seen him in years.

"Hey, mom." He said, letting go and embracing her in return. She kissed his check and moved on to hug Sai as Sasuke walked past her into the house. After spending a brief moment with her nephew she made eye contact with her first born who lingered in the background oddly as like a stranger. Mikoto smiled and held out her hands for her son to grab. Itachi hesitated at first, glancing at the cement underneath him, but soon enough his palms and his mother's made contact and he pulled her into him to embrace his mother's warmth and nostalgic sweet scent.

"How have you been?" She whispered into his ear.

"It's been okay." He said more normally and Mikoto pulled away from him still looking pleasant as usual. She kept one of her hands attached to his and pulled him gently into the house as if she were concerned that he'd scamper away, which was entirely possible. Itachi felt a pulse in his head that made him think his brain had twitched as he crossed the threshold of the door. Mikoto closed it behind him and continued to guide him forwards. He felt as if he were moving in slow motion. Itachi look upwards at the familiar zigzag stairwell and had memories flash into his mind of his childhood with Sasuke and how they would play dangerously there. They walked further into the house, and passed the den door. Itachi immediately thought back to the night he had set Sasuke up to be caught with Naruto and how he and Sai gloated in their success. Now he was feeling absolutely dizzy and his heart was racing. What was this an anxiety attack? They walked onwards and voices and faint laughter were heard from Itachi's cloudy ears and soon they entered the living room where his brother and Sai were seen greeting Sai's parents. The couple caught sight of Itachi and Mikoto let go of his hand. He felt himself reaching out for his mother, feeling abandoned at that moment as Mikoto disappeared into the kitchen to the side of him.

"Itachi!" His aunt grinned and she walked up to him and hugged him far too tightly, which he assumed was on purpose.

"How are you boy?" Sai's father asked happily. "I've heard you've got your own place now?" He said as he shook Itachi's hand roughly. 'Of course you have,' Itachi thought to himself.

"Hello Aunt Uruchi, Uncle Teyaki." Itachi said stiffly and Mikoto reentered the room.

"Hey everyone, due to Tekka and his family having to leave early we'll be having dinner now if that isn't a bother?"

"Oh, Mikoto?" Uruchi asked.

"Yes, Fugaku informed me in the kitchen."

"Well that's fine I'm starving." Teyaki said happily.

"Alright then, let's join everyone else in the dinning room." Mikoto said as she made sweeping motions with her hands for a moment then disappeared into the kitchen again. Uruchi and Teyaki walked into the back hall before the boys and Sasuke looked as Sai made a reverse punching motion signifying his happiness with starting dinner early behind his parents. Itachi walked forward, but Sasuke grabbed his hand and stopped him. He looked behind for his mother and spoke lowly to his brother.

"Join everyone else? Who else do you think is here?" He asked worried.

"Well, obviously Uncle Tekka, Aunt Ayame and Inabi are here. Maybe that's it?" Itachi said plainly and continued down to the end of the hall way. The already opened double sliding wood doors to the left at the end of the hallway revealed that not only were the expected family members there, but yet another branch of the Uchiha family.

"Hey, hey, lone wolf Itachi. I thought I'd never be seeing you again."

"I could only be so lucky, Madara." Itachi said as he, Sai and Sasuke sat across the long dinner table from their cousins.

"Madara, stop the bickering! You're too old for it now." An older man called from a two seats down.

"Yes father."

"Thanks Uncle Yashiro!" Sai said happily and the man nodded in his direction and turned conversation back to Tekka near him.

"Listen here Tekka! The man just shouldn't be president, he's a radical!"

"Oh everyone's a radical to you! I'm surprised you don't issue out citations to all the women wearing pants." Tekka said with a wave of his hand as he turned to face another direction.

"Oh! Brother I swear!" Yashiro raged.

"Pft, bickering eh?" Madara snorted.

"Both of you shut up and make room for this turkey." Fugaku stated as he entered the room with one of the largest Thanksgiving birds anyone in the family had ever seen.

"Showing off little brother?" Yashiro asked as he ruffled his wavy hair after moving around a few side dishes.

"Oh, stop being jealous just because your spread last year paled in comparison little brother." Teyaki chimed in at the right end of the table.

"Oh, alright men you've established dominance." Suzume said as she pushed up her spectacles. "Let's get ready to eat. My Izuna is diabetic and hasn't eaten all day."

"Mother, Izu's eaten several times already." Madara said.

"Don't correct your mother." Yashiro said. Itachi sighed deeply and rested his elbow on the table and his forehead in his hand.

"Don't worry brother." Sasuke said apologetically. "At least with everyone here we'll fade into the background."

"Alright, is everyone seated and comfortable?" Mikoto asked as she lit the candlesticks on the table. The crowd agreed and she took her seat at Itachi's left. Fugaku stood and made eye contact with his sons briefly and awkwardly before looked away.

"I'll say thanks." He said, as if the very idea sounded laughable. Fugaku stood and mumbled a few words of thanks and asked that everyone have an inner moment to say their own thanks as well. After about a thirty second stand off in which Sasuke saw various people peeking their eyelids open and looking around, Fugaku finally raised his head and slapped his hands together. "Alright, let's carve the turkey." He said. Fugaku pushed his chair at the right end of the table in from across Inabi and made his way to the center of the table where the turkey and consequently, Sasuke sat; across from his aunt Suzume. Fugaku fumbled in between his sons as he forced the two boys apart and began to cut into the turkey with his electric shaver.

"Oh it's marvelous." Ayame finally spoke at the left end of the table opposite her husband Teyaki.

"Thank you." Mikoto said as she peered down from Itachi's left on the left side of the table.

Moments passed and finally everyone had been served and various dishes were being passed around the great table. Eventually Sasuke found himself to no longer be eating but instead taking up the chore of being the main person passing along the side dishes from the left to right. He looked over at his aunt Suzume annoyed, wondering why she couldn't bother helping as she had been one of the lucky two who were directly in the center.

"Just stop and eat Sasuke. Pretend to not hear anything and someone else will get it." Itachi suggested as he ate and became half way through his very small plate.

Time went on and the large family sat at the table in a rather abnormal way, each person engaged in short conversation with the person closest to them, the various glasses of wine beginning to take their toll. The four brother's Teyaki, Yashiro, Fugaku and Tekka battled fiercely over politics as their wives walked along the tables offering up seconds, all except Suzume who had taken her usual interest in her younger and delicate son Izuna, much to Madara's distaste. The older of the two sat back with a lackluster stare and eyeballed his foreign cousin's from the other side of the table, while occasionally sending a word or two towards his mute cousin Inabi.

So far so good, Sasuke had thought as he sat back and watched his father and his brothers talk; so affianced in their topic that he and his brother seem hardly noticeable until Mikoto had sat down once more. Itachi sat with his elbow on the table again and his head in his palm, lost in his sickness. The idea of being around his family members made him tremble; the actual act sent his mind spinning. Various thoughts crossed his mind, self destructive thoughts that seemed to plague him more and more lately. Itachi started to tap his foot up and down so vigorously that his whole body went along with the motion. Unconscious to his movements, he continued on and neither Sasuke nor Sai had seemed to notice soon enough as Sai was wrapped into conversation with his mother in which he had dragged Sasuke into.

Soon Itachi's too loose sweater started to fall, the sleeve on the up turned arm bounced on until it slid down just enough to reveal a slight corner of his bandages.

"Itachi?" Mikoto asked and grabbed on to his wrist. Before he knew it, Itachi's mother was pulling down his sweater sleeve and gasping as the covered up flesh.

"What the hell?" Madara asked from across Mikoto. "Why's you arm all covered like that?

"Itachi? Did you have an accident?" Fugaku asked, speaking to his son for the first time that night. The table went silent and Itachi stared off unsure of what to do, in their displeasure with having to arrive for the holiday never had the boys thought of any sort of back up story in case something had gone wrong.

"Um, it was my fault." Sai said, attempting to come to the rescue.

"Your fault!" Uruchi shouted. "What have you done to your cousin?

"Nothing!" Sai said, becoming defensive with his mother. "We were just...wrestling and he scrapped his arms."

"Wrestling? What did you push him?" Madara asked, forcing Sasuke to send him a piercing glare.

"No, well he was on his knees I guess?" Sai tried to explain, failing completely in his lie.

"Oh his knees?" Inabi said from the end of the table, much to everyone's surprise. "That sounds so gay." He said as he revealed the Game Boy he had been playing with from under the table.

"Well duh." Madara said. "You didn't know Sai was gay? How far behind are you?" Inabi shrugged but Uruchi's eyes widen, outraged.

"What do you mean he's gay? Why is he saying your gay?!" She asked.

"Oh will you relax Uruchi." Teyaki said next to her. "Sai is not gay." He said assuredly.

"Exactly." Sai agreed as he sat back and crossed his legs. "Clearly I'm bi."

"What?!" His parents asked in unison.

"Fugaku I thought you said your kid was gay?" Tekka called from his end of the table.

"You told him what?" Mikoto asked aghast.

"Oh God." Sasuke groaned and he lowered his forehead to the table.

"What do you mean you're bi?" Uruchi shouted.

"It's sort of a jack of all trades. Don't worry you'll have children."

"Sai!" Uruchi and Teyaki shouted.

"Oh, so he's gay or bi, whatever. Let's start dessert." Suzume suggested. "My Izuna needs to fill up."

"Will you let the boy grow already?" Yashiro moaned.

"Fugaku I can't believe you said such a thing." Mikoto said, a pained strain following her words as she unconsciously rubbed Itachi's arm.

"I didn't Mikoto."

"What? You told me you caught him with some blonde boy." Tekka asked.

"Shut up Tekka!" Fugaku yelled.

"Don't shout at me just because your kid's gay!"

"Blonde? Ew, I hate blondes." Izuna said as he swatted his mother's hand away from his face.

"Will you all relax?" Suzume asked, bored with the argument.

"Yes please." Ayame chimed in.

"This whole thing is unimportant. Who cares if Sai or Sasuke or gay?" Suzume asked. "Unless their gay with each other." She joked, forcing both boy's hearts to race fiercely. "Itachi's arms…don't be silly." Suzume said, sounding drunker than ever. "It's the drugs. He's probably hiding all the evidence of him shooting up. I heard they do that on a documentary." She said rudely.

"Watch your mouth!" Mikoto bellowed, coming to her feet.

"Hey!" Yashiro yelled, defending his drunken wife. "She's only saying the truth."

"The truth my ass!" Fugaku yelled. "You don't know anything about my son."

"Tch, sure." Yashiro gloated.

"At least we know of our child's capabilities. Not like you lazy good for nothing children." Fugaku said proudly.

"I resent that." Madara said sarcastically, not caring for what any one has to say.

The arguing continued and began to worsen and Itachi felt as if someone were pumping air into his head, forcing his eyes out of their sockets. Finally he stood with a loud thud as the chair behind him fell to the floor.

"I can't take this." He grunted and grabbed Sasuke's hand. "We're leaving."

"Itachi, Sasuke!" Mikoto yelled but Itachi continued to drag his brother along.

"I don't think the gay bars will be open today." Madara said and smirked, finding himself hilarious. Sai jumped up just as his cousins reached the door and tossed a dinner roll into Madara's face violently.

"Shut up." He said and scurried off.

"Where are you going?" Uruchi asked, utterly shocked.

"To gay sex a man, obviously." Sai mused and blew a kiss to his mother. "Love you." He said and exited the room. He ran up to his cousins who had made it to the living room once more. Just then Itachi let go of Sasuke's hand and stumbled. Sai reacted quickly and stopped him from falling to the ground as Itachi held on to his head as it rolled around. The older brother looked as if he had become instantly intoxicated and Sasuke's nerves got to him. He trembled at the sight and tried to help Sai in holding up Itachi. "It's okay, I've got him. Get the front door so we can peel out of here." He said and tossed Itachi's arm over his shoulder and walked slowly with his cousin. "Its okay, Itachi. We'll be out of here soon."

Sai scuttled through the edge of the living room and down the foyer where Sasuke stood by the open door way. He got Itachi past the doorway and into the fresh night air. The cold breeze relaxed him as he felt it crisply upon his forehead where he had began to sweat. After a few steps outside he got his balance back and by the time they had reached the van and Itachi place his body against its cold metal, he was able to stand on his own again.

"What the hell was that?" Sai asked Itachi who opened the van door and sat in the passenger seat, legs out.

"Anxiety attack I suppose. I was hot and dizzy I needed some air." He said. Sasuke looked on at the doorway and exhaled after seeing his brother regain some composure. He dashed back into the living room and grabbed Sai's coat from the huge pile of them.

"Leaving with them again?" Fugaku asked, appearing seemingly magically at the hall leading to the dinning room. Sasuke sighed and looked towards the front door.

"Itachi's sick, I have to go." He said.

"He'll always be sick. I thought you would have realized that by now." Fugaku replied, but Sasuke didn't speak. He only stared out ahead at his brother and cousin who talked to each other far outside. "I don't know what kind of lifestyle you're living, but I hope you're going to school, getting good grades and thinking about your future, not Itachi's." Fugaku spoke on as he stood in the hall leaning against the wall.

"I know what kind of future I want." Sasuke said, meeting his father's eyes. "I'm working for it." He said and Fugaku nodded at him. Fugaku stood up straight and turned to walk back into the dinning room.

"Visit your mother sometimes, will you?" He said as he walked down the hallway.

"Sure." Sasuke said back to him. "And father?" He added, getting Fugaku's attention. "Thanks." He stated.

"Get going, before the rest of the family follows you." Fugaku said and disappeared back into the dinning room. Sasuke looked after him, down the hall for a moment before Sai's shouts for him to hurry up came. He clutched his cousin's coat tightly and ran out of the house, slamming the door shut behind him. Sasuke jumped into the back of the van and Sai into the driver's seat while Itachi sat lifelessly in the passenger's seat, already buckled in. Sai and started the engine, then peeled off. The van sped through the town and Sasuke crawled up to the front of it to look at his brother who appeared to be asleep.

"Are you alright?" He asked and Itachi nodded gently. Sasuke smiled and looked out of his brother's window just as Sai hit a stop sign and caught a before glimpse of Naruto's house as they made the turn. He frowned looking at the orange lit window and felt a sliver of his brother's pain as he became hot and dizzy when he saw Naruto and Gaara sitting near each other outside of the house.

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Thanksgiving weekend came and went. The trio had spent the majority of their weekend indoors, renting movies and in Sasuke and Sai's case; making love. Sasuke threw his blue sweater over his head slowly as he grudgingly dressed for school. He peered over at his sleeping brother who lay on his side delicately and grinned at him. Due to his scars Itachi was unable to work until they were healed enough to cover with makeup. Consequently the older of the brothers had begun to spend much time asleep in his bed, leaving Sai and Sasuke to their vices.

Not more than a few seconds after Sasuke had tied up the laces on his boots did the buzzer sound at the door. Sasuke heaved a sleepy sigh and walked out to open the door.

"Hey, Shika." He said to his lazy friend as he pulled himself into the room sleepily.

"I hate this. I've already gotten used to waking up late over the long weekend." Shikamaru stated as he plopped on the couch.

"Let me toast a bagel then we can leave." Sasuke said as he rummaged through his cabinets.

"Alright. Are you sure you don't just want to skip today?" Shikamaru asked, half hoping Sasuke would agree.

"Can't, my asshole teacher scheduled a test today and I think I've missed enough school this year." Sasuke said and sat by idly waiting for his bagel to toast. Once the bread had popped out of the toaster he smeared strawberry cream cheese on it and wrapped it in a paper towel before heading to the door. "Let's go already." He said to Shikamaru who was falling asleep on the couch.

"Fine, fine." Shikamaru said and pulled himself out of the seat. Before he had properly stretched another unexpected buzz, rang from the door and the two exchanged curious glances. Sasuke opened the door apprehensively and was grated by a dirty, anxious looking Deidara; a face he had hope he wouldn't meet again anytime soon.

"Is Itachi here?" He asked, his eyes dancing along all the corners of the room.

"He's asleep why?" Sasuke said rudely.

"I need to talk to him." Deidara said, sounding more worried now.

"Call him later, I'm heading out." Sasuke said and began to walk out of his house. Deidara placed his hand on the doors opening, restriction Sasuke from leaving.

"No, please. It's very important. I have to talk to him now." Deidara stressed and Sasuke looked him over for a second.

"Hold on." He finally said and walked out of the living back into his bedroom. He reemerged a minute later and tilted his head towards his room.

"Go ahead, he say's it's alright." Sasuke informed and walked out of the apartment with Shikamaru on heel, feeling thoroughly irritated.

Sasuke parted with Shikamaru in the hall of his school with a wave of his hand. Despite being relatively lazy in the morning the two had always managed to show up around ten minutes early for homeroom. Sasuke stood at the entry way of the door, hesitating as usually. He peeked inside of the class and saw that it was mostly empty; most of the students stood in the halls chatting with their friends before the first warning bell sounded, alerting them that they'd be marked tardy soon. After checking the room Sasuke sighed in relief; Naruto wasn't there yet again. Sasuke stepped inside the room, feeling silly and shaking his head to himself; Naruto always barely, if at all, made it to homeroom on time. It would be odd for him to arrive this early, but he still always felt the need to check and mentally prepare himself.

However, much to Sasuke's dismay, the classroom was not as empty as he had hoped for. Once his body had become entirely visible only then had he noticed that Gaara sat idly in the corner of the room, outside the view from the door. Sasuke groaned slightly and sneered as he caught eyes with his ex's new lover. He looked away from Gaara quickly, who too glared in his direction and made his way to the opposite side of the back of the room.

Sasuke plopped his book bag on the desktop and buried his face in it, tired and already put in a bad mood before school had officially started. He drifted off into a temporary sleep and was woken up by the slamming of the classroom door as the homeroom teacher entered to take roll call before the first class began. She immediately sat down at her desk in the front of the class and began reading from an exhausted list just as sleepily as Sasuke felt.

Sasuke looked over at the other side of the room and saw his ex blonde lover chatting it up happily in the seat in front of his new redheaded lover. Sasuke watched him intently, with his head down on his backpack in arms. Naruto looked just as happy and cheerful as he always did; he didn't even glance Sasuke's way that the raven boy wondered if Naruto had even known he was there. He found himself going through various scenarios of how Naruto could have not noticed him, but was broken out of his trance once his name was called. He shot up and grumbled out a "here" while rubbing his eyes. Directly after Sasuke name came Naruto's and he looked over at him after his "right here" sounded. The two made brief eye contact in which Naruto's happy disposition seemed to lose composure and Sasuke turned his head and looked out of the window, where he noticed the first traces of snow beginning to fall.

The snow continued on and only two hours later a considerable amount of it coated the outside of the school. Sasuke dangled his pen lazy from within his mouth, letting saliva coat a tiny portion of the end of it. He gazed outside at the increasing pure whiteness surrounding his school as the pen slid across his moistened lip. As he began to space out once again a piece of paper from in front of him hit him square in the eye and he grumbled and concealed it in his fist as his biology teacher looked up from his desk at him.

"Is there a problem Mr. Uchiha?" He asked behind his thickly rimmed spectacles.

"No, my throat itches." Sasuke replied lazy, not all that interested in lying. His easily agitated teacher sensed his insolence and leaned over his desk to get a better look at his pupil.

"Oh, well would you like me to run out and get a lozenge or could you keep it down so the rest of the class can continue independent study?" Sasuke's teacher asked sarcastically.

"Oh, no I'm sure it's all the biology fumes in this lab. Not from us of course we only read books, I'm sure I'll be fine soon enough." Sasuke replied equally as sarcastic and with much snickering from the other students.

"Listen here-" The teacher began but the bell had rung and the class stood up instantaneously. Sasuke snorted to himself as he stood up from his seat, opening the crumpled piece of paper Shikamaru had thrown at him.

"Lunch here or out?" Sasuke asked.

"Yeah." Shikamaru confirmed. "I think it's a meatloaf day."

"We can't go anywhere." Sasuke said as he walked past his friend and a staring group of girls at the door. Shikamaru followed and the two ignored the females and walked up the hall to the cafeteria.

"Well why not?" Shikamaru finally asked as the entered the giant room and the unappetizing smell of loafed meat wafted in his nostrils.

"It's snowing too badly outside. I'm sure they'll ploy the roads right before school dismisses." Sasuke sat as he grabbed a tray and entered the lunch line.

"Come, on I can't eat this stuff and there's no hills around here we'll be fine. Oh wait never mind they've got sandwiches." Shikamaru said as he walked past Sasuke to grab one of the quickly going pre-wrapped sandwich rolls. Sasuke smiled gently and looked on as his friend pushed past various students without a care as to who he was shoving aside.

"Get me turkey!" Sasuke informed and Shikamaru merely gave him a thumbs up before disappearing into another line.

Sasuke moved onwards, grabbing chips and water for both he and Shikamaru, but only one cake for Shikamaru.

"Sasuke!" A loud screechy voice called. Sasuke looked over with dread as his one of his usual admirers approached him. "Hey Sasuke." Ino said happily as she crawled under the rope for the lunch line, cutting many people.

"Hey." Sasuke said plainly as he walked along the path to the cash register.

"Oh it looks like you're having lunch with someone?" Ino asked noisily.

"You know I always have lunch with Shikamaru." Sasuke said as he handed the cashier some bills.

"Well, you used to have lunch with Naruto." Ino said, clearly in the dark. Sasuke took his change, stared at Ino annoyed and walked away to a far table. He was so annoyed by Ino's statement that it had taken him a few minutes to notice that Naruto, Gaara and various other people sat at the other end of the table, unaware of him. Sasuke made to stand up but Shikamaru plopped down in front of him, tossing a sandwich his way and grabbing what he knew to be his portion of the food on Sasuke's tray.

"Hey, let's move." Sasuke suggested, but before Shikamaru to agree or object another person sat next to him.

"Hey, Chouji." Shikamaru said as he unwrapped his sandwich.

"Oy, Shika. No cake Sasuke?"

"No." Sasuke grumbled with his head in his hand.

"Sasuke's having a bad day." Shikamaru informed and Chouji nodded and started on the plethora of food before him.

"Hey Sasuke." Came a sweet light voice.

"Sasuke's day just got worse." Shikamaru said and Chouji chuckled aside him. Sakura appeared walking towards the table and she sat on the other side of Sasuke in front of Chouji happily.

"What?" There were sandwiches?" She asked.

"Sakura!" Ino called, making another appearance as she too joined the table and sat on the other side of Sakura. "Hey, what's up?" She asked. Sasuke stared ahead of himself, determined not to look Naruto's way and hoping that Chouji's girth and the girls crowding over his would shield him from view. He looked on as Shikamaru and the rest chatted and Shikamaru squirted mayonnaise and piled chips on top of his sandwich.

"Uh, Shika, why are you doing that?" Sakura asked.

"It's good and it makes the sandwich have a little crunch. It's a salty replacement for lettuce." He said and Ino looked on curiously.

"That looks kind of cool." She said and started to copy him as did the rest except Sasuke who still hadn't started to eat.

"Sasuke you don't want your food?" Chouji asked while his hand slowly crept over to Sasuke's tray. Shikamaru slapped it away, waved his hand and shook his head disapprovingly. Ino frowned and looked at Sasuke, feeling guilty.

"Sasuke did I put you in a bad mood?" She asked.

"How would you have done that?" Sakura asked.

"Well, I brought up Naruto and he got upset and glared at me. Did they have a fight?" Ino asked innocently to Shikamaru.

"Something like that." Shikamaru confirmed, but Sasuke still stared away, becoming annoyed with every utterance of his name and Naruto's.

"We'll that's silly." Sakura said defiantly. "You two are the closest of friends."

"The absolute." Shikamaru joked and Sasuke frowned at him.

"You shouldn't be fighting. Naruto!" Sakura called over to the other side of the table. "Naruto come over here!" She ordered.

"Why!?" The blonde shouted back.

"Just come over here!" Sakura said once more. Sasuke pushed his tray aside and his forehead made contact with the table. Naruto scurried along and soon came to the other side of the long table, confused expression on his face.

"What?" He asked, looking at Sakura directly who hit him across the head violently. "What was that for!?" He shouted.

"Stop being stupid and apologize to Sasuke for whatever it is that you've done to him." She order and Shikamaru nearly choked in laughter.

"Seriously. Get on that Uzumaki." He said.

"Sasuke? I haven't done anything to Sasuke, where is he?" Naruto asked and the others pointed to the previously hidden dark haired boy who only lifted his head, placed his elbows on the table and his chin on this interlocked fingers. Naruto stared at his previous boyfriend, curious as to what was going on when well timed fate rang the bell once more, notifying that the lunch was over and the students needed to depart.

"Ugh we'll deal with this later!" Sakura said and she grabbed her purse and walked off quickly, having a class at the other end of the school.

"I'm gone. I've got class with miss busy body here." Shikamaru said before standing, patting Sasuke on the back and quickly walking out of the room.

"Later." Chouji said and grabbed Sasuke's still wrapped sandwich, placing it in his back pack before leaving. Only Ino remained with Naruto and Sasuke took his chance to stand with her and attempt to walk out, but Naruto grabbed his hand.

"Wait." He said, knowing he and Sasuke could spare the time, both of them having to endure class with each other that was only down the hall.

"Bye guys." Ino said and she scampered off getting lost in the crowd of students exiting the cafeteria.

"What was that about?" Naruto asked once she was out of ear shot. "You told them?"

"Of course not!" Sasuke said indignantly. "They're just being noisy and making assumptions."

"Alright." Naruto said, still gripping Sasuke's hand. The two stared at each other awkwardly for a few moments before Gaara was heard from the other side of the table.

"Naruto!" He said and the blonde released grip on Sasuke's hand fiercely. He jogged away, leaving Sasuke alone and feeling battered. He stood against the cement wall of the cafeteria and waited until most of the students had exited. After the bell for the next class sounded he made up his mind; he had had enough of seeing Naruto today, so he skipped his next class.

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"Deidara, stop pacing. You're giving me a headache." Itachi said lifelessly as he rested against the head board of his bed, smoking a cigarette.

"How can you be so calm? They're going to find out we did it! We're going to jail Itachi." Deidara cried out as he started to sob. Itachi sighed and motioned for him to come to the side of the bed. Deidara fell to his knees and crawled over to him, sobbing and shaking like a lost child. When he had reached Itachi, the dark haired stoic man grabbed the front of his hoodie and pulled him forward harshly.

"Relax. They found body parts to a known drug dealer who you happen to have been seen in contact with a few times. I highly doubt they'd look that far into it without many leads." Itachi muttered fearsomely before releasing his grip and tossing Deidara back some. He had such disdain for the younger blonde. "And you smell terrible."

"But…but" Deidara bumbled and gave up completely with a heavy sigh and slouch of his shoulders. "Well, what am I supposed to do?" He asked sadly.

"About what, the cops or the smell?" Itachi asked nonchalantly as he puffed on his cigarette; lying with his side rested against a few stacked pillows, away from Deidara.

"What do you expect? I'm homeless." Deidara said sounding hurt enough to annoy Itachi.

"We made copious amounts of money hooking together, especially off of Orochimaru." Itachi stated, making Deidara frown and look away. "You could have gotten and apartment. You could have been well off for awhile. Don't expect me to pity your gambling habits and drug abuse."

"My drug abuse?!"

"I don't expect pity for mine."

"So I guess that means you don't want any candy?" Deidara asked apprehensively.

"Who did you buy it from?" Itachi asked, sitting up and becoming more interested in his blonde friend.

"Our usual guy, I'm still good with him."

"Let me see." Itachi ordered, sitting up and dangling his left leg off of the bed between it and the night stand while curling his other leg up to his chest. Deidara pulled a tiny clear baby blue bag out of his jeans pocket and tossed it at Itachi who held it up in the air examining it. "Get me a plate from the kitchen." He demanded and Deidara hurried up and scurried away. He returned with a small saucer and set it on the night stand next to Itachi gently. "In my sock drawer…" Itachi pointed behind himself. "…there's a pair of blue socks in the left corner with my pipe in them. Bring it here." He said and Deidara went digging into the high drawer for the right pair of socks.

"These?" He asked innocently.

"Yeah." Itachi said after flicking the bag with his finger.

Deidara scuttled over to Itachi and handed the socks to him. Itachi unraveled them and dug into one of the socks to retrieve his tiny glass pipe with the mesh cleaning brillo at one end. He hovered the contraption over the plate squeezed the sides of the tiny bag in his other hand in between his thumb and index finger so that it popped open. Deidara looked on hungrily as he began to get antsy and bounced gently on his knees below Itachi.

"Is this all you have?" Itachi asked with a pause.

"No, I've got another bag." Deidara informed and dug into his hoodie. He retrieved another clear blue bag and shook it in his fingers above his head near Itachi's face.

"Fine, that one's yours." Itachi said as he dumped the tiny rock into one end of the glass pipe. The rock fell into it and was caught by the mesh stuff inside almost at the end of it, leaving only enough room for the crack rock.

"Okay." Deidara said, a he looked on.

"Alright, leave."

"What?" Deidara asked confused.

"Take a shower, your smell is bothering me." Itachi said as he grabbed his lighter off of the night stand near his cigarettes.

"Fine." Deidara sighed, standing up and turning to his right to the bathroom door. Itachi looked after the blonde until he disappeared into the bathroom. He lifted his lighter to his pipe, but before it made contact with the glass the front door slammed off in the distance. Itachi startled, dropped the pipe on to the small saucer and shoved the saucer into the night stand in front of him. He sat awkwardly for a moment, waiting for someone to enter the room but all he heard was the sound of the shower starting.

Itachi stood and made to exit his bedroom through its door, but halted and decided to go through the bathroom door. He walked past the stand alone shower with Deidara humming inside it, the bath next to the shower and to the parallel door on the other side of the bathroom. He peeked outside of it to the left, looked at the living room and at the windows glare, trying to see if he catch a reflection. Feeling highly suspicious for unknown reasons, Itachi crept out of the bathroom and towards the living room. When he entered it and looked over into the dining area and kitchen they were both empty as well. Itachi wondered if he was hearing things again.

"Hey, who's in the shower?" Sai asked behind him, startling the raven haired man once more, but his body gave no inclination of it.

"What are you doing here?"

"I skipped my last class to get a book I left here." Sai said, brandishing his textbook in the air.

"Why?" Itachi asked disbelievingly.

"I have a test in my next class. It's one of the last before the semesters over and I need to bring up my average before the final." Sai informed. "And again, who's in the bathroom?"

"Why do you want to know?"

"Why are you being so secretive and weird?" Sai asked defensively, but Itachi only looked away from him. "Sasuke didn't go to school?" Sai asked, confused by Itachi's odd expression.

"No, it's Deidara."

"Why is that guy here!?" Sai asked viciously. "What are you planning with him?"

"Nothing, nothing at all. He had some information for me."

"Information?" Sai asked, becoming more and more interested now. "Like what?"

"It's not important, he's just being too worried about nothing." Itachi said and Sai stared at his older cousin, now on the disbelieving side. "Really." Itachi added.

"Fine." Sai sighed. "I don't have time to argue this with you anyway. The snows coming down hard and I want to get back on the bus before they stop running or something. I can't miss this test." Sai said and walked past Itachi who looked out of the living room window and had only just noticed that it was snowing.

"Alright." Itachi said, not turning to watch Sai leave.

"See you at dinner. Have your phone on in case you need to get Sasuke or myself and don't open my door the puppy is in there sleeping and she's learning to use the floor pads." Sai said with a wave of his hand as he left, closing the door behind him. Itachi stared at the whimsical flakes of snow falling gently outside of the window in a trance. He looked on for quite a few minutes, only stopping when the shower water had ceased running.

Itachi shook his head and put his palm on his face before walking into the bathroom with a naked Deidara.

"Chi I need a towel." Deidara whined and Itachi pointed to his left at the built in towel rack behind the toilet directly opposite of the shower. "Oh." Deidara said stupidly. Itachi walked past him and back to his spot on the bed, back into his former position. He opened the night stand then slowly and gently placed the saucer on the top of it. The crack rock had fallen out of the pipe and Itachi watched as it rolled to the other side of the plate slowly since it was placed half way on a small stack of papers.

Itachi picked it up, stared at it then sighed, looking out of the window at the falling snow he once hadn't noticed.

"Chi, can I use your pipe? I don't have mine I think I dropped it." Deidara said from the bathroom, but Itachi didn't answer. He exhaled, closed his eyes for a moment then picked the rock back at the end of the pipe, held by the stuffed mesh. He lit his lighter, moving much faster now, and brought the flame directly to the glass under the rock. Black soot caked the area with the flame and Itachi placed his lips tightly to the other end of the pipe, making sure to keep to opposite end tilted upwards. As the vapor from the crack filled the pipe Itachi sucked on it enthusiastically, inhaling as much as he could. He sucked in tiny puffs over and over while relighting and letting go of his lighter.

After a minute or so the effect started to flood him. He felt strong, and awake. He wanted to get up and fix things, to cook for Sasuke, Sasuke. The thought of his little brother made Itachi feel elated and more so aroused. He took a few more puffs of his pipe and then Deidara entered the room. He watched the blonde who hadn't dressed and only came in, in a towel.

"I didn't put on my clothes because they're dirty." Deidara informed. He scratched his head and arms, feeling itchy after finally cleaning himself after such a long time being dirty. He looked over at Itachi who merely stared at him in a sleepy, sedated way, yet his dangling leg wriggled around loosely and the one curled up to his chest bounced happily despite his expression. "Is it good?" Deidara smiled.

"Mhm." Itachi said, with his pipe stuck between his lips and a rather long emphasis, much unlike himself.

"Did you finish?" Deidara asked, easing over towards Itachi. Itachi didn't reply, but answered by bring his lighter back to the pipe in his mouth and sucking in a few more vapors. Deidara grinned and sat next to him, watching and waiting until it was his turned.

Finally, Itachi released the pipe from his lips and handed it to Deidara who quickly opened his balled hand to open the bag inside of it to drop the crack rock inside. After it was securely put inside of the pipe Deidara placed the other end to his lips as well and motioned for Itachi to hand over the lighter. Soon, the blonde puffed and sucked at the pipe as well and felt his anxiety about the cops wash away. Itachi stared at the blonde, still bouncing around, more so than before and felt as if he would burst with energy.

"Deidara." Itachi called.

"Hmm?" Deidara said, turning only slightly to glance at him.

"I need to do something. I have to move."

"Hmm." Deidara said again, but much longer. Itachi stared on at the blonde who was so preoccupied with his smoking. He glanced at his wet hair and brought his fingers to it, feeling as if the touch of his silky hair was never so enjoyable.

"You washed it."

"Yeah." Deidara said, now becoming more aware of his high friend. Itachi rubbed his fingertips through Deidara's hair slowly. He grabbed a small bunch of it between his index and thumb and squeezed while pulling downwards so that the water dripped on to his hand and down his forearm. Afterwards, Itachi moved in dangerously close to Deidara and sniffed his now clean hair and body. Deidara's groin pulled happily and the blonde turned to face the other. "Can I?" He asked, mischievously and Itachi nodded.

Deidara pushed Itachi backwards until he lay on his back with one leg off of the bed and the other with its foot planted on the bed. Deidara sat down his unfinished crack pipe on the plate on the night stand then crawled closer to Itachi. He tugged at his boxers and unbuttoned the top of them. Deidara giggled and dug his hand into Itachi's boxers. The dark haired man shivered slightly as Deidara's cold skin came in contact with his hot organ. Deidara stroked the flaccid penis tenderly then popped it out of it's dwelling. He stared at it as it had already started to become stiff. Deidara licked his bottom lip and glanced at Itachi once more before he slid his shaft into his mouth, reminiscent of older times.

Itachi felt his urges getting the best of him. The days upon days without having sex had taken its toll. He rubbed his fingers through Deidara's wet hair and pushed the blonde on to his dick forcefully; making him bob up to down only briefly before he pulled Deidara's head to his. Itachi slipped his tongue into Deidara's mouth, kissing him violently while he tasted a slight hint of his own seed. Deidara climbed on top of Itachi fully and Itachi brought his other leg up to the bed, scouting over slightly to gain balance. The blonde removed his towel, tossing it aside and positioned his opening above Itachi's hard organ. Itachi bit his lower lip and grabbed hold of Deidara's cock, pumping it vigorously as the hot tight sensation of Deidara's ass hugging his manhood sent surges up his spine.

Soon Deidara bounce speedily on top of Itachi, with his hands planted on Itachi's stomach. Itachi moved his hands to Deidara's waist and guided him up and down his shaft, not caring about being kinky for a client or a camera, or loving for his family members; concerned only with the unparalleled feeling of satisfaction he received from rough sex.

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Sasuke stepped off of the public bus and nearly fell as he slipped on the just previously plowed road. The sheet of ice still lay on the ground and he grabbed on to the bus's folding doors for balance.

"You alright?" The bus driver asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Good thing my house is right there." Sasuke said. The bus diver nodded and Sasuke stepped over a big mound of snow on to what he assumed was the sidewalk. The bus driver looked on waiting for Sasuke to gain his balance. When the raven haired boy waved a sign of approval the bus driver closed the doors of the bus and drove away slowly.

Sasuke stood in the snow, bemused by how much of it had fallen so soon. He walked into it, making loud crunching noises and made his way to his apartment building. Eventually, he made it to the front door and he shook his head when he entered the main entrance, knocking off the snow from it and patting himself off as well.

"Cold?" The security guard asked.

"Freezing." Sasuke informed and he made his way to the elevator, up nine floors and to the nearest door to the elevator. Sasuke entered his key slowly, not wanting to make a lot of noise in case Itachi was still asleep. Sasuke crept in and closed the door behind him gently, hearing a constant thumping noise that at first he thought was the washer or dryer with something odd in it.

Sasuke turned and noticed the noise much more now. He peered at the area of the washer and dryer and was sure they weren't the source of noise. He walked into the apartment further and everything started to make sense to him. The source was in the bedroom, his bedroom and as he approached it slowly, grunting and cooing was heard.

"Sai's home? Did his classes get cancelled?" He asked himself as he made his way to the door that stood, open. Sasuke pushed open the bedroom door, ready to play jealous at his brother and cousin's love making when the unexpected scene burned into his eyes. He watched as the blonde Deidara, who he had completely forgot was once here moaned and bounced on top of his brother with his long hair and thin body; so feminine that he almost looked like a girl.

"Chi, chi…" He panted, not even noticing Sasuke as his and Itachi's eyes were closed tightly. Sasuke felt a repulsion and anger bubble inside of him so badly that he didn't know if he was going to be sick or punch the girly man straight in the nose. "Chi.." Deidara continued to groan, every utterance of his brother's broken name sending a new wave and anger through Sasuke's uneasy stomach.

Then, with the utmost shock at noticing Sasuke, Deidara screeched a quick, loud "ah!" and tumbled off of Sasuke's brother's body on to the floor clumsily. Itachi's eye's widened, finally expressing and sincere picture of being caught off guard. He sat up and grabbed the comforter aside him to cover his hardness while Sasuke's fists clenched and his body trembled.

"Sasuke…" Itachi breathed while Deidara peeked at the boy from the floor below. He crawled away into the bathroom and dressed himself on the floor in his dirty clothes as quickly as possibly.

"How long?" Sasuke asked through gritted teeth.

"Just this once, I…" Itachi began, but has just no excuse for his actions this time. Sasuke walked over to the other side of the bed near Itachi and seen the crack pipe on the night stand. He picked up the plate and observed the pipe on it, some of the rock still inside.

"You're high. You've been getting high." Sasuke said, more calmly than he looked, but Itachi didn't speak, he kept eye contact with his brother not knowing what else he could do. "Get out of my house." Sasuke said, directing his attention to Deidara who sat on the bathroom floor.

"Alright." Deidara said, standing and cautiously walking back into bedroom. "Itachi, what about-"

"Get out of my house!" Sasuke yelled as he threw the plate and pipe at the wall near the door to the bathroom with an ear shattering smash.

"Just go." Itachi said and Deidara jogged out of the bathroom, exiting through the other door for some reason around a minute later Deidara was heard exiting through the front door.

"I can't believe you. You move me out here, you promise me you won't do drugs anymore and here you go."

"You don't understand." Itachi said lowly. "I can't just stop! All these voices all this pain, I feel like I'm dying all the time."

"Save me your sob stories! If you wanted help I would help you, Sai would help you. You deny us every time." Sasuke shouted, feeling as if he had never been this angry; anger beyond tears. "I compromise everything for you, my family, my schooling, my health!"

"I never asked you to stop school because of me. I didn't want you to. I only asked you to leave home to be with me."

"For what? What's the point in me being here? I give you everything Itachi and you don't even try. I let you prostitute yourself, I let you become a porn star? And still it's not enough for you! You have to fuck that dirty crack head? You even fuck our cousin!"

"You fuck our cousin!" Itachi shouted, completely shouted, taking Sasuke a few steps back. "You fuck our cousin every single night." Itachi said with a more normal volume; pounding his fist on to the night stand. Now things started to make more sense to Sasuke.

"So…" Sasuke began, breathing heavily and trying to choose his words wisely. "if you had a problem with it why didn't you say anything? Why did you let that threesome happen?"

"I just want you to be happy. If being with him makes you happy who am I to stand in your way? But don't think for a second that I like sharing you."

"You're so selfish!" Sasuke exclaimed, slapping his hand to his forehead. "You think it's easy for me to share you with any random person? At least Sai is our family, someone we know and can trust."

"It's a business, I do what they want for money. I'm not making love to them."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sasuke asked with a slight frown.

"You're in love with Sai. You never stopped being in love with him…maybe you should just be with him. He can take care of you." Itachi said lowly and Sasuke shook his head, biting his lip to steady himself.

"You don't get, you still don't get it. I don't care about Sai. I only care about you. I only want you. I want us to be together before I want anything else. You just don't believe me!" Sasuke said, becoming heated again and the two fell into an unsure silence. But, after a few seconds a creaking was heard at the door and Sai stepped into the door way to reveal himself.

"So…the truth comes out Sasuke." He said somberly.

"Sai…" Sasuke said astonished. "You're…here."

"I got a call from Temari about classes being cancelled just as the bus hit downtown, so I came right back."

"Sai, I didn't mean it as harshly as it sounded." Sasuke said and Sai nodded and turned to leave. "Sai wait!" Sasuke said and ran after him. He caught Sai with his hand on the doorknob and stood in the dining area, confused and lost. "I don't know what to say, I'm sorry."

"You've said enough."

"No! I'm just frustrated with him. I do care about you. He just thinks that I love you more than him and I don't…I mean, I love you, but-"

"Sasuke." Sai said and looked to his younger cousin who stopped talking and stared. Sai shook his head, no words, no anger; he merely shook his head and smiled at his cousin then opened the door. "You can keep the puppy, see you." He said and exited the apartment. Sasuke sighed and stood not knowing where to go from there. Once again it seemed like everything that held his life up was slowly starting to crumble around him. Sasuke stood even longer, wanting to cry but feeling too detached to shed any tears.

"I'll be back." Came Itachi's voice abruptly.

"Where are you going?" Sasuke groaned.

"I have something to I need to handle. I'll be back I promise." Itachi said and left the apartment as quickly as he could.

"You promise…like I can believe that." Sasuke said to himself. He dragged his body to the living room and flopped on to the couch, burying his face into the material and soon drifting off to sleep.

Hours later a sturdy knock sounded at the door and Sasuke awoken with a start. He looked around the darkened living room and soon realized that no one had returned to the apartment yet. The knocking came again and Sasuke stood up, groggy from his nap. He opened the door and a man and woman stood at the other side, looking serious in their trench coats.

"Uh, hello?" Sasuke asked, thinking these people had the wrong door.

"Hello, this is Detective Aburame Shibi and I'm Detective Inuzuka Hana we're looking for a Mr. Uchiha Itachi. Does he live here?" The brunette woman asked. Sasuke felt his heart and gut do tiny back flips, he stood, wondering if he should lie.

"Um, yeah why?" He asked.

"Is he home? We'd like to speak with him." The female detective asked.

"No, he left not long ago. I can leave a message." Sasuke said, feeling as nervous as ever.

"Alright then, tell him to come down here, when he gets a chance." The woman said, handing Sasuke a card with a police department address.

"I will, thank you." Sasuke said.

"And tell him to show up as soon as possible or we will be coming back here again." The brunette man said, finally speaking; cold and stern. Sasuke nodded and the two turned their backs and hit the button for the elevator which opened immediately.

"Um…" Sasuke said, getting their attentions. "May I ask what this is about? He's my brother." The detectives looked at each other and finally the woman spoke.

"A murder. We found the head of a well known drug dealer buried near in the quarry. We think your brother might have some connections to this man."

"I see." Sasuke said, the shock on his face evident.

"Well then, have a good night." The woman said and she and the man entered the elevator that closed in front of them. Sasuke slammed his door shut and pressed his back against it as he slid to the floor and placed his head in his hands.

"My god…it's over."

A/N: Well how was it? I bet you guys forgot about our little cop issue, lol. Reviews are nice, especially since it's been awhile. Hope you liked it, see you next time!