A/N: Sorry this took so long. This chapter is really goofy- and would be pointless if it weren't for the plot. You guys didn't forget that there was one of those involved, did ya?
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The Uchiha's weren't the only coven in the Konoha area. There were two other pure-blood covens, the Subaku's and the Hyuuga's. Then there were the less prominent covens, the Nara's and the Inuzuka's. The Uchiha's were by far the most respectable though, which is why Itachi was so opposed to the idea of shaming his family name when Sasuke made an absurd suggestion one day.
"Absolutely not."
"C'mon, not everyone just our closest friends!" Sasuke pleaded, tugging insistently on his brother's sleeve as if that would do something to assist his case.
"What exactly would you have us tell them? That we kiss? That we take a sip of each others blood from time to time?" Itachi asked.
He was quite disturbed with this request. He himself wasn't nearly as much of a social butterfly as his brother- and certainly couldn't understand why on earth Sasuke would want to tell people about their relationship- if you could call what they did a relationship.
"No, silly! We'll tell them that we're going steady!"
Itachi chuckled. "Honestly, Otouto. You've got to stop watching 50's movies."
Sasuke stuck out his tongue wiggled it childishly at his brother. "Shut up! I barely even watch 50's movies!"
"Wasn't it just last week that you were bragging about how you've memorized the entirety of Grease?"
"I will have you know that Grease is not a 50's movie! It's a 70's movie that happens to have a 50's setting! So there!"
Itachi shrugged. "Okay, whatever. That's not so bad anyway, the obsession that disturbs me is you and these old-time Dracula films... They're completely unauthentic."
"Aniki! You're changing the subject!"
Itachi sighed and leaned back in his chair, deciding that if it really was just their closest friends then maybe this would be somewhat tolerable. "Okay, fine. You can tell the closest of our friends. Don't say anything outlandish though- like that we're going steady."
"Yay! Okay, I won't! I'm gonna go hunt now... unless..." Sasuke looked at his brother with a seductive smirk.
"Are you trying to kill me? You drained me half-dead at sunset already."
The younger only giggled. "I guess we can call that the extra special vampire version of morning wood. Ne, Nii-San?
Itachi frowned. Sasuke knew way too much about human culture. It was really unsettling. It wasn't normal for a vampire to think of humans as anything other than a meal- yet Sasuke was always fraternizing with them, and reading about their history, and using their vulgar terms, and their slang and- ugh! It was terrible. He was almost as bad as Shisui. Except for the fact that Shisui was actually up-to-date, while Sasuke seemed trapped somewhere between the late 50's and early 90's... Itachi chuckled. His Otouto truly was adorable. Even now at thirteen years old there were times when Itachi could swear he saw the exact same tomato-faced little ball of a child. Then, of course there were the times where at only thirteen years old Sasuke appeared before him as some sort of deity with a divine mission to seduce him without even trying.
Sasuke hunted. He'd learned far earlier in life that he and Itachi couldn't hunt together- once the bloodlust took over, they never remembered to focus on the human. It was quite pathetic actually- so they went separately. He found a nice guy, probably around seventeen, wouldn't miss a drop of his blood. Slowly, and gracefully, Sasuke leapt. He sucked only for a few short moments- having filled himself with Itachi's blood that morning. With a satisfied grunt, he shoved the now- sickly body away from himself and stood. Now, what to do? Oh! Right! He could go tell everyone!
Gaara...
Sasuke and Itachi arrived at the Subaku complex quite early in the night. It was still only around eleven p.m. and everyone was a little groggy from waking. Gaara, however- wasn't to big on sleep anyway, and he had the bags under his eyes and the lack of eyebrows to prove it. (Sasuke had a theory that eyebrows only grew when you were asleep, and that's why Gaara never seemed to have even the tiniest hint of a hair above his eyes.)
"Good Morning, Gaara!"
The woeful looking young vampire lord gazed up at his friend with disgust clearly displayed on his features. "It's not the morning, Sasuke. I know you're into these mortal phrases as of late, but if you must use them, at least use them correctly."
Sasuke pointed to Gaara with his thumb, grinning broadly. "This guy's a riot!" He said with a hearty laugh. Itachi just stared at his brother blankly, not at all understanding what on earth that meant.
"Anyway, Gaara. We're actually here because we have a very important, interesting, engaging, and captivating announcement."
"You're overselling it Otouto." Itachi mumbled under his breath, knowing that all of those adjectives would be overkill to any normal person. To someone as monotone as Gaara, it was even more inaccurate.
"Okay. Then announce it." Gaara answered calmly, looking down at his nails as if he was trying to decide if it was actually worth the energy to pick at one in boredom.
"Itachi and I are going steady!"
Itachi face-palmed. He had specificallysaid that they could call it anything but going steady.
Gaara just looked up at Sasuke with the same disinterested expression he always wore. "Is that all?"
"You're not excited?" the young raven asked with a pout.
"You guys have been breaking the rules together since you were kids, haven't you?"
"HOW DID YOU KNOW?" Sasuke asked. Itachi even raised a curious brow. He knew they weren't that obvious about it- or else Shisui would already have found out and told everyone. Then again, Gaara was quite the observant individual.
The red-head shrugged. "Lucky guess. I remember all that fuss about you biting Itachi a while back, and you guys are so much more close than I am with my brother that I just assumed there was a romantic interest as well."
Sasuke pouted. He had hoped that for once in his life he'd actually succeed in surprising his friend- but no luck there.
Shikamaru...
Shikamaru Nara stared blankly at the excited black eyes across from him. "Sasuke, what are you doing?"
It wasn't normal for the Uchiha brothers to show up in his study as early as midnight and it was even less normal for the younger of those brother's to randomly sit down across from him at the Shogi table.
"I'm gonna play you at Shogi!"
"Why?"
"I wanna bet on this game."
"Why?"
"C'mon! It'll be fun."
"Whatever." Shikamaru replied, setting up the board for a new game, since he'd originally been playing himself.
"So, here's how this works- If I win, you have to tell me a secret, and If you win, then I have to tell you one!"
The strategist frowned. "Sasuke, if you want to tell me-"
"NO! We're doing it the fun way!" Itachi shook his head, watching as his brother moved his piece on the board. He sat back in the chair, hoping that maybe he could take a quick cat nap before they finished... It didn't work out that way.
-forty eight seconds later-
"There, I won. What's your secret?"
"Itachi and I are secret lovers!"
"Oh, right... Gaara told me you were probably gonna waste my time with that sometime this week..."
Again, Sasuke pouted. No luck here either.
Neji...
"Yes, let them in." the long haired teen set to the servant girl assigned to his wing of the house. The Uchiha brother's strode in confidently, and the Hyuuga held a finger to his lips, signaling them to be quiet.
"What is it?" he whispered.
"We've got big news!" Sasuke squealed, paying absolutely no mind to the fact that they were clearly supposed to be using their "indoor voices"
"Hush! It's 4 a.m.! If your news can't wait until Naruto's awake then at least say it quietly!" Neji whisper hissed in reply.
Sasuke frowned, realizing that perhaps out of all the vampires he knew, Neji was the worst to visit at this time. Everyone else would have thought it a convenient hour... Nonetheless, Sasuke respected his friend's wishes and lowered his voice.
"Itachi and I are a couple!" He whisper-yelled with glee.
Alas, Sasuke's announcement was met with a reaction- but still not a surprised one. It was simply a gentle smile. "That's pretty interesting..." Neji commented.
Itachi chuckled. He'd known that the Hyuuga would barely be phased.
"Interesting? That's it? What about risqué, or taboo, or forbidden? Aren't you going to judge?"
Neji scoffed. "Don't be silly, Sasuke. My lover is a human. In our society that tops brother ten-fold. Why on earth would I care what you do with Itachi?"
Sasuke glanced over at the sleeping blonde bundle in his best friend's bed. "You haven't changed him yet?"
Neji shook his head. "He won't be a pureblood when I change him, he'll stop ageing as soon as he crosses over and no one wants to be thirteen forever."
"Oh, right. Hmmmm... I never thought about that. Nii-San, you're eighteen, aren't you ready to stop aging?"
Itachi shook his head. "I like our age difference. I'm not stopping till you stop... I was thinking I'd stop at twenty-five, and you can stop at twenty."
Naruto shifted slightly in his sleep, blinking his eyes open and gazing around the room confusedly.
"Why's he looking around like a lost idiot? Doesn't he live here?" Sasuke asked.
"It takes a moment for human eyes to adjust. I'm going to try and coax him back to sleep, else he won't be well rested for his school day tomorrow, please see yourselves to the door." Neji hissed, immediately defensive that Sasuke had called the love of his life an idiot. That was one of Neji's signature characteristics, he was very easily upset- but he didn't hold a grudge for very long. -Although he'd never actually forget what the person did, and could easily get himself upset over it time and time again...
Sasuke and Itachi bowed respectively and exited the room. They only had one stop left.
Kiba...
"Aniki, help!"
Itachi was on the floor laughing. Sasuke's decision to tell his fellow human-made-vampire-film enthusiast about their relationship had backfired- in the most amusing of ways. Kiba had been surprised, and that satisfied the little Uchiha a lot. However- his next reaction was to burst out in song, and Sasuke was not happy about that.
"Sorry, Otouto. You're the one who decided to tell him. It's almost over, this one coming up is the last verse, isn't it?"
"IT'S FUCKING ANNOYING!"
Kiba ignored their mock-argument and continued on with his song.
"My Shangri-La! I can't forget! Why you were mine! I need you nnoooooooooowwwwww!" The canine-like vampire yelled at the top of his lungs- truly putting his all into the tune. It was a good song... that wasn't the problem.
"Kiba, SHUT UP!" Sasuke screeched.
The Inuzuka, of course, did not comply. "Cryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy little Sasuke! Thou Shall not faaaall! Cooooome, come to your brother! Thou shall not diieeee! Unnnnchain me Sasuke! Thou shall not feeeaaarrr! Looooove is with your brother! Thou shall not kiiiiiiill!" He repeated that bit several times before finally shutting up.
Sasuke glared at his friend angrily. "You tool!" He yelled.
Kiba barked out a hearty laugh. "Oh, c'mon! It's a really good song!"
Sasuke pouted. "I am not a girl!"
"No one's calling you a girl!"
"YOU'RE SUBSTITUTING MY NAME FOR THE WORD SISTER!"
"Okay, but that's very indirect. C'mon, don't be like that. I'm seriously really happy for you guys!"
"Really?" Sasuke asked dreamily collapsing onto Itachi's lap on the floor in an unauthentic display of dramatic affection.
"Yes, really. Now get out of here before I get sick of you two!"
Itachi stood and carried Sasuke along with him. The boy was still pretending to have fainted and didn't help to support his weight at all, but Itachi was plenty capable of carrying him anyhow. After such a long day together, he didn't care if he had to carry the teen all the way back to their bed, as long as they got there. Those were the moments that counted. The sensual, passionate time that they shared alone during the day. when no one was awake to see. There was a moment when Itachi laughed, realizing that Sasuke had pretended to be passed out for so long that he'd actually fallen asleep.
"Foolish Otouto." the weasel whispered lovingly, pecking the boys forehead as they entered their shared bedroom.
He let himself collapse on the bed, fully intending to leave Sasuke there and go hunt- but he was perhaps even more foolish than his beloved little brother, because by the time he lied down with the intention of sliding Sasuke out of his arms, he was already pulling the boy closer to his chest and drifting into sleep himself.
A/N: Not too terrible, I hope? I know it's VERY silly, but these characters are all necessary at a later point, so I had to introduce them and I thought this would be the most simplistic way.
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