A/N: Itachi-sama is my Lord. But L is my God. #has perched on her chair, will buy a flip cell phone for no good reason but to hurt wrist holding it and has decided to hold things as if they are diseased# Typing one handed is slow though...and I can't eat sweets like he does...#frowns#

Yes I have a new obsession.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto…or anything, pretty much.

Because I Love –To Torture- My Brother

Chapter Five

Itachi sighed loudly, melodramatic. Home was such a lonely place without Kitten. No bright red eyes rolling at him, no hissing from atop the bookcase, no claws taking swipes at his face. Also no warm feet at night and almost affectionate headbutts on the way by…

But Sasuke needed Kitten. Way more than he did.

Itachi just had this feeling that Kitten was just what Sasuke needed. It was like Fate had dropped the fox in that store for him to find. The intelligent, fire-red fox would get Sasuke back to the brother he knew and irritated. Instead of this one who just took it with a scowl and empty threats.

Not that he missed the yelling, screaming, indignant thing he'd had for a brother while Sasuke had been dating Neji. But at least then he'd also caught flashes of what they both could have been. Happy, outrageously happy if some of the occasions he'd seen them out together spoke true, content with life, even if only a painter and even more content with home. A place just for him and his lover…

Kitten would fix it. Itachi nodded to himself as he sipped a scotch, undoing his tie for the day. He just had to lie low for a while. Maybe really get an out of town meeting and just leave Kitten a week or two to work his magic.

Mah, he just hoped Sasuke didn't work up the balls to call the company and ask where Itachi was. He wouldn't usually risk it for fear news of his call reaching it back to their Father and the resulting questions of why he hadn't stopped to talk to him or if there had been any luck in his and Sakura's conception yet. But if Sasuke got fed up enough with Kitten's being at his house…he might call.

Itachi put down his tumbler and threw his head back with a groan. It was so hard being noble.

The next morning Sasuke woke to something warm and heavy lying over his feet. He groaned in his sleep and tried to shift but the…thing wouldn't move. So he kicked it.

A loud yelp followed by a thump of something hitting the floor roused him and Sasuke sat up, duck-butt hairstyle rumpled around his head as he looked around blearily.

"What?" Had he dropped something? He blinked, once, twice and rubbed his eyes irritated. What the hell had just woken him up?

The fox picked then to jump back on the bed and bristled indignantly at him.

"You?" Sasuke squinted…then his brain caught up. "What the fuck were you doing in my bed!? No animals in the bed!"

Kitten jumped back down, presented his –the fox was a he- butt to him and stretched his body out long, claws scratching the floor.

"Hey! Do you pay for the buffing here?" The fox gave him the equivalent to a raised eyebrow, a look that practically shouted 'Do I care?' before huffing and trotting to his door.

Sasuke looked at the closed door again, confused. He'd shut his door after he'd come in…the door was still shut. How had the fox got in??

"I think I have to change your name to Houdini. Did you do this with Itachi too or are you just fucking with my head?" Sasuke rubbed his hair dazedly.

"Sasuke who are you talking to?" The fox hopped out of the way as the door opened. "What are you do-EEEK!!" Sakura scrambled over to the bed and climbed onto it. "What is that THING doing in here!?"

Sasuke deadpanned. "It slept in here. Right where you're crouching as a matter of fact." The fox blinked as him as Sakura gaped and bared its fangs in a foxy grin as she bolted from the bed for the master bathroom and shut herself in.

"Get it out." Came through the door, muffled.

"Sakura stop being immature. The fox is obviously well trained. It's not going to attack you." Sasuke rolled his eyes as the fox lay down just next to the doorway to watch this conversation.

"But it's dirty. It's surely smelly. And it's…it's an animal!" Sasuke gave the bathroom door a look of incredulity.

"Are you a germophobe?"

"…" Well, that answered that. Sasuke frowned. "Seriously, I'm not talking to you through a door Sakura. Come on, Kitten's well trained. You avoid him he'll avoid you. Hell, he spent the most of yesterday in front of the TV. Itachi's trained him to be a couch potato."

The fox…he really was going to have to change that name…yipped indignantly.

The door opened hesitantly. "Can't you…put it outside? Tie it up or something…"

"Yeah. All we need is for the neighbours to report us for animal cruelty…" Sasuke stood from the bed with a disapproving frown. "Look. You know what? I'll just take it downstairs with me now. It wants to get out anyway. You come out when you're ready."

"I-I just don't want it near me…" Sakura's green eyes peeked around the door. And met the carmine eyes of the grinning fox sitting in front of the door. "AAACK!" And the door was slammed again.

Sasuke blinked. "I'm sure that wasn't nice." The fox yipped, fanged-laugh still on its face and turned to the door again, pawing at it. "You're definitely Itachi's…" He stood and headed to the door with the fox. "But why in God's name did he name you Kitten…?"

A/N: Again, only one person answered correctly! Star Eyed Unicorn! And thank you for your jokes too! Loved the robbers on the 13th floor. Pay Backs a Bitch, a cookie for…err, true, ah…creativity.

Ano sa...ehh...What did the tablecloth say to the table?