Chapter 4
"Sasuke..."
The pale Uchiha whirled around but saw no one. He turned in every direction but he was all alone.
"Sasuke..."
He continued turning. It was that voice. The voice which had been calling to him for a few hundred years. It was soft and warm; it enveloped him in a feeling of contentment, like he would never be troubled again. He had heard it so many times in his dreams, had followed it some many times only to find himself alone: always alone. He chased after his soul every night only to have his dreams be crushed with darkness.
"Sasuke..."
This dream was different though. This time, he knew that voice. He knew who was saying his name so beautifully. He knew where his soul was. He wasn't surrounded by darkness anymore. In this dream it was bright and warm. He didn't shiver, and he felt no loneliness.
He kept turning and walking: searching. He would never have to search again.
"Sasuke... Over here, Sasuke..."
Sasuke turned once more, and there it was. His soul, his heart... He was standing a short distance away and smiling softly at him. His big blue eyes were sparkling and surely no ocean could ever look as spectacular. His bright blonde hair shined and waved slightly in the smallest of breezes, surely silk could not appear so soft. His tan skin looked soft and inviting, surely the clearest glass could not look so smooth. And his smile, the most beautiful in all the world, was full of feeling; it wasn't one of his biggest smiles, but it certainly meant a lot. It held love, warmth, acceptance, knowing... It was filled with everything that Sasuke had always wanted to see looking at him and surely the sun couldn't be as warm or as important as that smile was...
"You found me Sasuke..."
There was the smile. The smile that Sasuke had always wanted to see. It was one of utter happiness; it said everything that words could not. It was even better then the other smile that Sasuke loved. 'You found me'... Yes, he had found him. As long as he lived, nothing would ever take that smile away.
"Little brother!"
The smiling beauty pouted and began to fade away.
Sasuke desperately reached his arms out in attempt to grab his fading heart. 'Don't go!' he wanted to scream.
"Little brother! Wake up!"
Sasuke jumped out of his bed so fast that before Itachi could even move (or blink for that matter), he had his big brother pinned against the wall. "What?" the youngest Uchiha growled.
Itachi laughed. "Did I interrupt another one of your sex dreams?"
Sasuke sighed and popped his brother on the head before releasing his grip on the man. "I do not have sex dreams," he replied, running a hand through his sleep mussed hair. "And I still do not know why you must stay with me. You have your own place to stay, do you not?" He walked to his bed and began to make it, very neatly of course.
Itachi plopped down onto the freshly made bed. "I do have my own house," he replied. "But what kind of brother would I be if I didn't bother the hell out of you?" He smiled.
Sasuke resisted the urge to roll his eyes. "Oh, really? You are just staying with me to be annoying? I thought it was because Gaara is staying at the Hatake house because he wishes to go the public school with Naruto, and Kankuro (who is coming back from his schooling around the globe) adores his baby brother and will undoubtedly stop by here for a few days before going to his sister. But, you are saying that Kankuro has nothing to do with your staying here... Correct?"
"Kankuro?" Itachi repeated, "I never even thought of him." He said it in a matter-of-fact way.
Sasuke smirked. "Okay Itachi, if you say so."
"I do!" Itachi exclaimed.
Sasuke chuckled. His brother couldn't lie to him. He knew that Kankuro was exactly why he was staying with Sasuke. The young man had been gone for five years, traveling all over the world for school. He didn't have to leave for so long, but he said he was going to do it for Itachi. When he left he was still shorter then Itachi and looked younger than him. He said he would go out and come back in Itachi's favor. In short, he left and no one had seen him since. Itachi acted like he didn't even notice, but it only made it that much more obvious.
Sasuke pushed his brother off of the bed and straightened out the wrinkles. "Why don't you go over to Iruka's house? I believe Gaara might have said something about a certain visitor..."
Itachi cleared his throat. "I certainly hate to bother Sasuke," he said calmly, "So I guess I shall go see what Iruka and Kakashi are up to."
Sasuke shook his head as his brother disappeared. He had no idea why Itachi couldn't just openly like Kankuro, they were marked together after all... But then again, he did kind of understand. He didn't openly speak of Naruto or anything like that, but he and the blonde were different...
Naruto didn't know that he shared a mark with Sasuke.
Iruka and Kakashi had asked him the night they'd found out that they were marked together if they should tell Naruto soon; Sasuke had told them no. They were surprised, but Sasuke had his reasons.
You see, an immortal has to love their marked one; they can only love their marked one. But a human partner didn't have to love their immortal half. The mark a human bore only meant that some immortal somewhere loved them; it didn't gaurantee that they would love their immortal. Sasuke, although it pained him, wanted to give Naruto the option of loving someone else. He knew that if Naruto knew they shared a mark, then Naruto would be with him out of obligation especially since not accepting Sasuke meant the youngest Uchiha would die. He didn't want Naruto to be with him if he did not love him.
So his reasoning was this: by not telling Naruto they shared a mark, then Naruto could possibly fall for Sasuke without knowing, if that happened then finding out that they shared a mark wouldn't matter at all. But if he told Naruto, then Naruto would be with him regardless of his feelings... And Sasuke was sure that having Naruto be with him out of obligation would be worse then dying.
He had refused to allow anyone to share his mark with Naruto: Kiba, Iruka, Kakashi, anyone who talked to Naruto; Sasuke refused to allow them to tell Naruto who he shared a mark with.
He walked to the window in his room that gave him the perfect view of Kakashi and Iruka's backyard. Naruto, Gaara, Kiba, Iruka, Kakashi, and now Itachi, were all out around the pool.
Sasuke didn't swim, so he was content to watch from a distance...
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