Part 0002. Itachi/Sasuke
"Aniki!" Sasuke cried, clutching his brother's body close to himself. He'd discovered the truth too late and now Itachi is gone. He laid his head down on his brother's chest and wept until the tears could no longer come, his heart tearing apart within him. The sky wept alongside him as he sobbed and he laid down beside his brother's bloody corpse with an ear pressed to the still chest hoping against all hope to hear a even so much as a single heartbeat.
Thoughts of his youth drifted to mind and he closed his eyes and trembled. Cherished memories that had been repressed for years flooded forth in a torrent that threatened to take his mind in drown it in the insanity that he'd barely kept at bay. Sasuke drifted into his mind, no longer fighting for his grasp on the reality of here and now. He fell into his memories, the eldest coming first, faint and distant.
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One year old Sasuke waddled on not quite steady legs as he reached up to the seven year old Itachi, "A'ki! A'ki!"
"Ohayo, Sasuke-chan," the serious little boy greeted the toddler warmly. Picking up his little brother, Itachi pressed a soft kiss to the baby's cheek, "I will always love you, otouto. And I will always do whatever I can to protect you."
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Three year old Sasuke played with a rather large wooden kunai as he watched his brother practice a few low level ninjutsu on the pond behind the Uchiha complex. Nine year old Itachi sighed and walking back to the shore gathered up his little brother into his arms and kissed him gently on the corner of his mouth. Sasuke giggled and offered the toy kunai with a soft, "Aniki."
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Sasuke cried at four as he scraped his knee while climbing a tree. He choked on his sob as Itachi, at ten, opened his arms for his brother to step into. "You must be careful, Sasuke-chan. You might fall out of the tree next time and break a limb."
"I want to get to the top, Aniki! Shuisei says you got to the top!" Sasuke pouted. Itachi smiled gently at his brother. Motioning for Sasuke to get on his back, Itachi started for home as the sky began to darken.
"While I did get to the top when I was your age, Otouto, I did it carefully and on a smaller tree than that." Itachi glanced back at Sasuke just in time to get a kiss on his cheek from a giggling little boy.
"I got you, Aniki!"
"So you did, Otouto."
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"Otouto," Itachi called to his five year old brother. Sasuke turned towards eleven year old Itachi and got a big kiss right on his lips. "Now I have got you, Sasuke-chan."
"Aniki! I'm not a baby!" The smaller Uchiha pouted adorably at the elder who chuckled, unconvinced by his brother's argument. He pulled the smaller boy into his lap and kissed him again as Sasuke cried out at the indignity of it all. "Aniki!"
"Are you too big to be my Otouto now as well?" Itachi asked the squirming boy. Sasuke shook his head vehemently.
"No, Aniki," he said softly into his brother's warm chest, finally settling down after a moment with a kittenish yawn, "I'll always be you're Otouto."
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Itachi at twelve was his little brother's role model and his biggest love. Sasuke followed the older boy when he could, but had decided that at six he was too big for kisses and hugs all the time where others could see. Itachi had taken to poking the younger boy with two fingers in the middle of his forehead when they were not within their set of rooms. Sasuke also watched Itachi sleep sometimes, curious as to why his Aniki would sometimes moan in his sleep and call his name.
So it was on one such morning that Sasuke had snuck into his brother's room, tilting his head to the side and watching the older boy as Itachi's deepening voice groaned. Thinking that Itachi was in the grasp of a nightmare, the smaller boy slid into the futon beside the elder boy and wrapped his arms around Itachi's waist. Itachi startled awake and calmed seeing that it was Sasuke pressed against his side.
"Aniki, it sounded like you were having a really bad dream," Sasuke said softly. Itachi didn't speak only turning to layer Sasuke's face with kisses as he tried to calm his heart.
"It wasn't quite a bad dream, Sasuke-chan," Itachi said exhaling slowly. He ignored the smaller boy's outcry of injustice and pulled the warm body closer. He pressed another slower, somehow deeper kiss to Sasuke's lips. "I love you, Otouto."
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Sasuke gave his brother a confused look as the thirteen year old told him to only wear his boxers to bed, but did as he was told. The seven year old boy had asked to sleep with his brother that night and Itachi had agreed. The summer was heating up and the Uchihas' had taken to leaving the windows open for the fresher breezes to enter the buildings. Itachi, also in only his boxers, held up the thin sheet for Sasuke to crawl under. The cool cotton felt good on their skin and Sasuke snuggled up to Itachi's side, skin to skin in a way that sent a shiver down Itachi's spine.
"Aniki," Sasuke murmured sleepily, "I love you. Can we get married when I get older?"
Itachi froze then relaxed with a sigh, pressing a kiss to Sasuke's forehead, "If you still wish to marry me when you are older, I'll do anything in my power to make it so, Sasuke-chan."
The younger boy smiled, laying a kiss on his brother's chest grazing one of Itachi's nipples with pale lips. The teen stiffened slightly, barely managing to swallow a moan. "Aniki, I don't think that there will ever be a time that I don't want to marry you. I love you too much."
"Alright then, otouto," Itachi said softly, hand gently stroking through silky stands of baby fine hair that adorned Sasuke's head. "How about we get married when you turn fourteen? Is that old enough for you, Sasuke-chan?"
"I don't want to wait that long, Aniki," Sasuke whined softly, "How about as soon as I become a gennin? Ninja are adults, like you Aniki!"
"Very well, Otouto," Itachi chuckled deep in his chest, "We'll marry as soon as you pass the gennin exams and become a ninja of Konoha. Shall we seal this with a kiss, Otouto?"
"Okay," Sasuke said, sleep heavy in his voice as Itachi leaned down to kiss him again. This time however, he startled a squeak from the younger boy when he gently pressed his tongue to his brother's lips and slid between them. Sasuke's eyes widened then closed as he tried to process the feelings of Itachi's tongue sliding against his in a way that felt really good. This kind of kiss was really new to Sasuke, but the boy decided that as long as it was Itachi, that it was okay.
Itachi pulled back and pressed saliva slickened lips to Sasuke's throat just under his jaw. Sasuke sucked in air as he lay across the top of his brother's chest. "I'll look forward to taking you as my bride, Sasuke-chan. We'll always be together, Otouto, forever."
"Of course we will, Aniki," Sasuke smiled warmly, blushing softly, "I'll follow you anywhere, to death and beyond to be with you."
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Sasuke gasped as his memories rushed forward and he touched his lips in remembrance of what he once had. Itachi's head now in his lap as the rain died away, Sasuke touched those long locks with tender fingers. Faintly he could feel familiar chakra signatures approaching but he ignored that presence as they gathered around him, encircling him.
Sakura cried in relief, Ino sighed, Shikamaru murmured a quite troublesome, and Kakashi seemed to want to reach out to him. Neji stood to the side silently, Tenten looked away respectfully, and Naruto heaved a sigh, "So you finally got that sick bastard! Good for you, Sasuke-teme."
Sasuke closed his eyes and gathering his brother's body in his arms he laid a kiss on Itachi's forehead. Leaning his forehead against his brother's he whispered to him, "Aniki, you promised me, but you couldn't keep you're promise. Would it be okay for me to keep mine?"
"Sasuke-kun, let's go home now!" Sakura said brightly thinking that everything was over now, that her love would return to the village and her life now.
Sasuke smiled then his arms tightening around his brother's body, "Yes, Aniki, let's go home now, together."
"Sasuke?" Kakashi called, worriedly.
"I'll always love you, Aniki, now and forever, to death and beyond." Sasuke then kissed Itachi's cold lips and silenced those watching. His body heating as he molded his chakra into the only internal jutsu he'd ever learned, the words softly muttered like a lover's prayer, "Kamikaze no Jutsu."
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