What Lies Beneath

"You're late." The emotionless voice stated as Sasuke closed the door to his house.

"I walk slow." Sasuke retorted trying not to let it sound so sarcastic.

"The social worker called today." He began walking over to the door and locking it. "He says that your inability to let anyone into your life has caused him to think you need professional help."

Sasuke bit his lip. He didn't want to say anything and make this worse. However if he didn't stop himself he'd probably yell about Itachi being the one who told him to act aloof when meeting with them.

"I told him that I would talk to you." Itachi added. "And I've done just that, Sasuke…"

Sasuke mentally cringed when the elder approached him. He refused to show weakness most times…that is…until he was forced to.

"What do you have to say for yourself?"

"You told me to act like that, Itachi. If anything, it's your fault." Sasuke answered immediately regretting it as an emotion crossed his brothers features. One he knew all to well. One he'd come to know as a warning for what was soon going to happen. Itachi was pissed.

If the flicker of emotion wasn't enough of an indication then when Itachi knocked him against the wall and held him there should have been. "What's gotten into you?" Itachi asked…no demanded. "You've been like this for a week now. Not that I mind punishing you, but you don't seem to care either. You just do it again the next day."

Sasuke let his eyes drop to the floor.

"Is something wrong, Outoto? Do you think you're being treated unfairly? Or are you doing it on purpose for other reasons."

Sasuke could feel himself shivering, tremoring, he was terrified. "I-I'm sorry, Aniki. T-that was w-way out of line…I'm j-just stressed…that's all…" Sasuke lied.

"I don't believe you." Itachi stated simple as that. "Don't lie to me."

"It's nothing really!" Sasuke exclaimed looking back up and even daring to look him in the eye. "I didn't mean what I said, and I am stressed really."

"C'mon you can do better then this." He antagonized.

"It's nothing." Sasuke tried again. When you try to convince someone of something for so long, you start to believe it yourself. It was nothing right? Nothing but him of course. The blonde haired blue eyed boy who say through every single lie. Every single attempt to cover up what was so wrong. He was stressed, there's no telling what could happen if Naruto found out about this.

Sasuke refused to let anyone find out. It wasn't an act of pride. If it was, then he would've gone running to the nearest police station in an instant. He didn't want to end up with a foster family. He knew they were bad, not that they could be worse then this. Itachi covered all the bases of abuse. Physically, although he never left scars for evidence. Emotionally. Mentally. And Sexually. It was a simple matter for Itachi to do all four while only trying to do the last one.

Physically, of course it hurts like hell. Itachi always made sure it would. He liked the painful sounds that would escape.

Emotionally, it's an act of betrayal. What seems like forever ago, Sasuke had looked up to him, his sadistic hero.

Mentally, the act itself was enough to drive someone insane. He couldn't tell if something was wrong with him anymore. The more it happened the more he got used to it. The longer they did it the more a part of him liked it.

The final, sexually speaks for itself really.

"Y'know I can tell when you're lying." Itachi interrupted his thoughts. "But I'm willing to let it slide if you make it up to me. Is that gracious enough for you, or do you still think I'm being unfair." He backed away letting Sasuke drop to his knees.

"No, you're not unfair Aniki. I'm sorry. I'm foolish." Sasuke agreed as he was taught. He knew better, now he was an actor with great skill. He can grovel without meaning it. But a part of him always died when he did. "What do you want me to do for you?" He asked knowing very well what sadistic answer will come out of his brother's mouth.

-XxX-

Naruto picked up the large phone book his Mother kept under the coffee table.

"What are you doing?" She asked really hoping her son wasn't going on another prank call binge. Last time they'd had the cops come to their door and he ended up grounded for a month. He still says to this day that it was so worth it.

"English project." He stated simply. "He wants us to see if we can identify any English last names. Weird right? But it's Iruka-sensei, so what would you expect?"

She made a face. "Fine, but if the cops show up again, you're grounded for a year."

"So worth it…" He commented quietly before running off to his room.

He opened the book and searched for awhile until he reached the U's. After some more searching he finally found the last name he was looking for. Uchiha. There were a few names listed here. Tazu Uchiha, Kaori Uchiha, Itachi Uchiha, Tekka Uchiha, Inabi Uchiha, Shisui Uchiha, Obito Uchiha…He sighed. This might take awhile. He closed his eyes and pointed to a random name.

Shisui it is then. He picked up the phone and dialed.

"Hello?" A voice asked on the other line.

"Hi, is this Shisui Uchiha?" He asked.

"Yea…" The voice replied as if he was listening yet paying attention to something else.

"Um…well I was wondering if you could tell me how to get a hold of Sasuke Uchiha?" Naruto asked.

"Little S'uke? I honestly have no idea. I haven't seen him since Auntie Mikoto's and Uncle Fugaku's funeral." Then he hung up just before Naruto could ask who he might call to reach him.

He sighed and dialed in the next number.

"Hey thanks for calling, but I'm busy, so I guess you'll just have to leave a message and wait for me to call back. It's a long wait, but hey I'm a popular guy!"

"Obito! You're supposed to leave your name!"

Beep

Naruto hung up. Maybe he'd try again later.

Who's next?

-XxX-

After much answering machines and getting hung up on before he could say more then two words he was eventually down to one name. The Weasel. He dialed in the phone number and waited for an answer.

"This is the phone of Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha, we are unable to get to the phone right now, so please leave a message and we'll get back to you."

Beep.

"YES!" He exclaimed before realizing he hadn't hung up yet. "Oh shit."

Beep.

"What are you doing in here?!" Kushina asked looking at her son who had the phone. "Tell me you weren't prank calling anyone?"

"I wasn't! Mom! I got done with my homework and tried to call a friend…"

"Uh-huh. Naruto Uzumaki if I find out you were lying, you're doomed to a year of extra chores and you are so not leaving this house again."

He snickered. "Really, if you knew the guy that I pranked last time, you'd wanna prank him too! He's that much of a…"

"Language!"

He chuckled. "Sorry."

She rolled her eyes then smiled at him. "Could you please get your dirty clothes in the laundry room, I'm gonna start it up soon. And you should be getting to bed as well, it's getting late."

"Yea, yea…" He replied.

She sighed and left him alone. He looked at the Weasel's number which also happened to be the Sasuke's number. If they bothered to answer the phone at all, or even let Naruto speak more then two words, he managed to learn something. Mikoto and Fugaku were connected to Sasuke. And judging by how it was implied. They had been his parents and had died awhile ago. And now he was living with Itachi who was also an Uchiha.

Maybe nothing good comes from meddling. But he knew there was something wrong was already going on. And not something that had happened almost ten years ago. What was going on…it happened recently. It might even still be happening. And his gut told him, and he believed it for some reason, that he really didn't like Itachi.

-XxX-

Sasuke snuck out of his brother's room. It was already past 2 in the morning and Itachi had fallen asleep only a few moments ago. He had intended to go to his room and attempt to sleep which he knew probably wasn't going to happen when he noticed the blinking light. Had someone called? He didn't hear the phone ring.

Whoever it was left a message so he assumed it was either a social worker or the therapist the social worker assigned to him so he pressed play.

"This is the phone of Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha," Itachi voice made his hands turns to fists, Itachi had made then sound like normal brothers. He thought about it, he really did, but if he fought Itachi, punishment was sure to be harsh. Very harsh.

Beep.

"YES!" The rather familiar voice exclaimed then sudden silence. "Oh shit."

Beep.

Oh shit was right. Naruto knew how to reach him. He quickly erased the message and decided that tomorrow he was going to tell the blonde not to call him. Although now he had to think of a lie as to why the blonde shouldn't call him. He was getting too close.

"I'm sorry, Naruto." He whispered quietly before going to his room to get some sleep and think up a lie.

But he wasn't the only one that night who heard that message.

All in all you're no good

You don't cry like you should

Let it go if you could

When love dies in the end

So I'll find what lies beneath

Your sick twisted smile

As I lie underneath

Your cold jaded eyes

Now you turn the tide on me

Cause you're so unkind

I will always be here

For the rest of my life

What Lies Beneath by: Breaking Benjamin

NearKunn: Y'know how I said last Chapter took me forever to write? Well this one took me about two hours. I don't think I'm putting enough thought into my work…

Sakura: What happened to those graphic scenes?

NearKunn: They're coming, so fret not! I just need a little inspiration, so to help me with that, I went and searched ItaSasu rape fics and I'm using those to build up my inspiration on what is to come. Gosh I'm a pervert!

Naruto: That's Pervect!

Sakura: …?

Sasuke: You probably don't wanna know.

Ino: Okay my pretties! I've got a proposition for you, you review, and I won't kill you take your cookies and feed them to Gaara.

Gaara: Why?
NearKunn: Cause you're cool like that Gaa-chan!

Itachi: FLAMES SHALL BE USED TO FUEL THE FIREBALL JUTSU THAT BURNS THE ONE WHO WRITES IT!

NearKunn: Not that you'll flame me right? ;) If you've read this far, then you probably like the story, so if you don't like it and you keep reading it, I'm just going to cry, cause I know you guys are going to flame me someday. So if you have any intention of flaming me and my…pervertedness…then I suggest you pick a different story.

Sakura: That was the nice way of saying: "Fuck you! I don't care if you hate my story! I'm gonna cut now!" Of course NearKunn-sensei doesn't cut, so she'll make Sasuke-kun do it.

Sasuke: What?