Review repleys, thanks for r&r again!
Hanai-kun: I'm glad that you liked the chapter! We never did something with toys, so we decided to let Sasuke be a bad boy and use them. Twins would be nice indeed, but I think both Neji and Sasuke will become crazy ;)
koko: Well here's the new chapter! And I really thought you meant NaruNeji or something, hehe. We mostly don't do Naruto because we don't really like his character. He's too.. loud. I think both Neji and Sasuke would get crazy of him, just like Neji's always annoyed with Lee and Sasuke with Naruto. ;)
patty: Of course it won't end here! We have like five other chapters to go, I believe even seven. So enjoy!
UchihaHyuuga: And here's the update! Enjoy!
Chapter 8: Every little thing is going to be alright
Neji frowned and worriedly followed Sasuke, sitting down on the edge of his bed.
"..Sasuke.. I'm sorry.." Neji softly said, stroking through Sasuke's hair.
"..G-go away..." Sasuke said. His whole body was covered under his sheets. Only his head was still visible. He had his back to Neji.
"..Don't you need some distraction now..?" Neji softly asked.
"..No...I h-hate my life.." Sasuke cried. He hated this. Everything went wrong. His life would never ever get better again. He had destroyed it.
"Sasuke please... you can't give it up now.." Neji said, still stroking through Sasuke's hair with his hand.
"...A-after fifteen years of r-ruining my life...I t-think I can.." Sasuke sobbed and then cried even more.
Neji sighed softly and moved closer to Sasuke, putting his head into Sasuke's shoulder and holding him a bit from behind, still stroking through Sasuke's hair.
"..You have people who care about you Sasuke.. please don't forget that.. "
"...I d-don't.." Sasuke said. He loved it though, how Neji tried to comfort him. Stayed near to him.
"..I care about you.. and your brother does too, else he wouldn't react so heavy like this.." Neji said, kissing Sasuke's ear softly. Not meant to excite Sasuke, just to comfort him.
"...He h-hates me.." Sasuke said, trying to stop crying now. He felt so weak.
"Of course he doesn't.." Neji said. "..Shh.. calm down.. Sasuke if he hated you he wouldn't even try to explain it to you. He would just have hung up the phone the moment you started talking to him.."
"..Well he h-hates me now.." Sasuke said, feeling new tears dwell up in his eyes.
Neji was silent for a moment and then pulled Sasuke up and turned him around, hugging him closely.
Sasuke was surprised at first but then clung himself to Neji, not planning on letting go. "..P-please...please don't ever leave me.." He begged.
"I won't..." Neji said, stroking through Sasuke's hair again.
Sasuke dug his head into Neji's neck. "Thank you...for being here.." Sasuke said.
"..Don't thank me for that.. please.." Neji softly said. "..Didn't Itachi said something about what he expects from you..?"
"...That I should learn a lesson..that I should ask him things before I do them...And I know I should..I really try..I just forget when it comes to it...except for with you living here...I just got scared that he would say no and I wanted to help you so badly.." Sasuke said, not letting go of Neji.
"..I know.." Neji said. "..I didn't think of it either with my stupid head.."
"You don't have a stupid head...you've got other things to think about..I should've asked it...but he would say no anyhow..I thought that if maybe I just did it..he would give in..." Sasuke said.
"..I think that he would actually have said yes you know.." Neji said, frowning.
"..He wouldn't...you saw how he reacted when I told him too.." Sasuke said and nuzzled his nose behind Neji's ear.
"..Yes but then you said that I was going to live with you guys..." Neji said, shrugging a bit.
"Yeah and he flipped because of that. So he'd just say no when I would've asked him." Sasuke said.
"He flipped because you said I was going to live with you guys, at least that's what I think." Neji said. "You didn't asked. But well... we can't change that.."
"...He won't come back.." Sasuke softly said and stopped himself from crying again.
"..I know.." Neji softly said, already stroking Sasuke's hair again.
Sasuke grabbed Neji even tighter. If even Neji confirmed it...it was true...he had lost his brother..the only person he loved..He lost someone again..
Neji knew this was hard. This had to be so hard for Sasuke. Neji kept stroking Sasuke's hair and held him tightly. Poor Sasuke..
"...I don't wanna lose him too.." Sasuke said, feeling tears running down his eyes again. He would never stop crying now.
"..I understand..." Neji said. He wasn't going to say that Sasuke just hadn't been able to handle the situation.. he had said things that had made Itachi even angrier.. but Neji had been the one that had pushed Sasuke into calling Itachi. "..I'm so sorry for pushing you.."
"..It's not your fault..it's m-my own fault...I s-should just think...I'm j-just so stupid.." Sasuke sobbed again and started to shake a little from all the crying.
"...You're not stupid Sasuke.. everyone makes mistakes.." Neji shushed, still hugging Sasuke.
"..Yes..but I made so many of them..I p-proved I'm stupid..." Sasuke said. He felt Neji's shirt getting wet from his tears.
"...You'll learn from your mistakes Sasuke.." Neji said.
"...I know..but I can never p-prove it to him...that I learned..H-he'll never come back.." Sasuke said.
"...And what if you show him that you learned?" Neji asked.
"..H-how the hell should I s-show him that..?" Sasuke asked back.
"..Apologizing and asking him to come back?" Neji asked. "Because you never asked him. You commanded or begged, but didn't ask it. I guess he wants you to respect his choices."
"...B-but I do...I just d-don't want him to leave me.." Sasuke sobbed again and pulled Neji closer.
"..Of course you don't want that, everyone understands that.." Neji said, making a shushing sound again, stroking Sasuke's back, comforting him.
"..H-he apparently doesn't.." Sasuke sniffed.
"Of course he does, he's your brother.." Neji said. "I don't think it's a very smart move of him, but maybe he is desperate, doesn't know what to do anymore.. At least, that's how I see it."
"...N-nobody knows what to d-do with me..I'm impossible.." Sasuke answered.
"..You're not Sasuke.. you're not.." Neji said, kissing Sasuke's forehead.
Sasuke shook his head. "..Y-you don't know me a whole lot Neji...I'm s-sorry." He said and wiped his tears away slightly.
"Perhaps I don't, but at this moment I know what to do with you." Neji said, wiping the rest of Sasuke's tears away softly with his hand.
"..M-maybe now..." Sasuke said and looked into Neji's eyes, trying to find out if Neji really was this sincere. This nice.
"We're living now, right?" Neji asked, looking back. He smiled softly.
Sasuke nodded. "...Yeah.." He said. Neji really did like him. Really wanted to comfort him. Maybe Neji would stay.
Neji looked at him and sighed. "I'm really sorry. Come here you." Neji said and brought Sasuke close again, hugging him again.
Sasuke hugged him back and closed his eyes. "..Thanks.." He softly said. Neji really was great. He comforted him so well.
"Don't thank me for that. You deserve it." Neji said, kissing Sasuke's neck softly.
"I am still thanking you...You're great.." Sasuke said and sighed. Neji felt so good.
"Thanks for the compliment." Neji said, smiling.
"You're welcome." Sasuke said and smiled a little too. At least he had Neji. And he would never let go of him.
Neji let go a bit of Sasuke and gave him a soft kiss on the lips.
Sasuke returned the favor. "..I'll ask him tomorrow.." He softly said.
Neji nodded. "And think of it before you ask. Think about what you're going to say, is my advise." Neji said.
Sasuke nodded back. "...I will..Thanks Neji.." Sasuke said and smiled again.
"You're welcome." Neji said. Then he yawned, quickly putting his hand before his mouth.
"We should go to sleep." Sasuke said and kept smiling. Neji was cute when he yawned.
Neji nodded, a bit sleepy. He was so tired all of sudden. "Good idea." He said, standing up from Sasuke's bed to brush his teeth.
Sasuke followed him into the bathroom and grabbed the toothpaste and his toothbrush. "Tomorrow's our free day off." Sasuke said.
"I know." Neji answered, yawning again while taking his own toothbrush in the hand he wasn't holding before his mouth.
"How come you're so tired suddenly?" Sasuke asked as he started brushing his teeth and gave the toothpaste to Neji.
"I don't really know, I always have that." Neji said softly. "One moment I'm full of energy and the other moment I can fall asleep every moment." He accepted the toothpaste and put it on his toothbrush.
"That's weird. Ah well, it's late now, so it's no wonder you're sleepy." Sasuke mumbled with his toothbrush in his mouth.
Neji nodded, while brushing his teeth.
He looked at himself in the mirror, standing beside Sasuke. He never thought he'd see himself like this, two weeks ago.
Sasuke looked at him. "What are you thinking of?" He asked curious.
"..It's just strange that the two of us are together." Neji asked with his mouth full of toothpaste. He continued brushing his teeth.
"..Why?" Sasuke asked surprised and drank a bit of water, then spit it out again.
"Well I'm the freak of the school, you're the hottest and most popular guy of the school. See what I mean?" Neji asked.
Sasuke laughed a little. "Yeah. I know. Though I'm not the most popular guy in school anymore." Sasuke said.
"And that's one of the many reasons you should go to school again." Neji said.
"No it's not. I have work." Sasuke answered and cleaned his face.
"Yes, three times a whole day in the week and four times in the evening. You should drop those three, make them into one on Saturday and just go to school. I get a lot of money of the restaurant and tomorrow I have a conversation with one of the teachers about this. Please Sasuke, go to school again." Neji said, then he spit out the toothpaste and cleaned his mouth.
"We need money for later. For when the baby's born." Sasuke said and dried of his face.
"Yes but if the child gets older he or she won't be having much at a parent who didn't follow education." Neji said. "It's better to have it hard now then later."
"If I go to school now we'll have it hard later because we won't have enough money then." Sasuke said and started putting a cream on his face.
"Well I guess I'll be the one who brings in most of the money when the child is born." Neji said. "I'll be the one who'll have graduated and therefore have better jobs." He was brushing his hair now.
"...Maybe you will yeah..Look I really wanna go to school, but we need the money. Especially now that Itachi isn't paying anymore either." Sasuke said.
"Sasuke we have more then enough money you idiot." Neji said.
"Now we do. But we didn't pay the rent yet and I know from experience that if I slack it now, I'm gonna have to work three times as hard after." Sasuke said.
"Yes but now you only look at your money." Neji said. "How much is the rent?"
"1200. If not more. The homekeeper doesn't really like me." Sasuke said.
"That's too much. I'm going to talk with him tomorrow too." Neji said, sighing. "For this apartment you should pay 700, not more."
"Don't talk to him. He'll kick us out if you complain." Sasuke said.
"Seriously?" Neji asked, surprised.
"Yeah. He almost did that when me and Itachi complained about it too." Sasuke answered.
"Hm..." Neji said, thinking.
"...So. I'm going to bed are you coming too?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes I am." Neji said, nodding. He put away his hairbrush and walked to Sasuke's room, getting his sleeping shirt from under his pillow.
Sasuke pulled of his clothes too and got into bed with only his boxer on.
Neji pulled off his clothes now, except for his boxer, and put on his night shirt. He closed the door of Sasuke's room and got into bed too.
Sasuke turned off the light on his night desk and turned around to Neji. "Night." He said softly and tried to pull Neji closer.
"Goodnight." Neji said, laying down closer to Sasuke, closing his eyes with a sigh.
Sasuke held Neji and not long after, they both fell asleep.
The next day, when Sasuke was off to buy some food for the night, Neji went to the housekeeper. He had sought up where this man lived. He walked to the door of his house and ringed the bell.
After a while a tall man, muscular and bold opened the door. "What do you want?" He snapped.
"I wanted to discuss something with you about the rent." Neji said and put on his most sweet and irresistible face.
"About what rent? Who are you?" The man asked and narrowed his eyes at Neji's face.
"I'm currently living at the house of the Uchiha's and I saw that their rent is 1200 every month." Neji said. "That's ridiculous." He was leaning against the door frame now. Hm. His charms weren't working.
"Really now? And what do you think you're going to do about it hm?"
"I want you to lower it." Neji said, looking the man in the eyes.
"Well tough luck kid, I won't. Now scram." The man said and pushed Neji away from his door so he could close it.
Neji stopped the door and glared at the man. "You know, it will be a lot cheaper to just lower the rent then that I go to the judge now." Neji said, smirking from the inside.
"And why do you think you can do that hm? What will you tell them? This man wants us to pay the rent?" The man snapped, but he obviously was a little nervous by Neji's comment.
"No, I'm going to tell them that this man wants us to pay more half of what we are supposed to pay." Neji said. "The maximum money you can ask for apartments like these is 700. You are 500 over it. The judge won't like that I guess."
The man gave a grunt. "Those two Uchiha's should be lucky they can live here, so don't whine about it kid. Now go away." The man said nervous.
"There are lots of other flats they can go to. But fine, if you want me to go so badly, I'll go." Neji said. "And you won't care if I pay a visit at the judge then, hm?"
"What do you want?" The man snapped. He was obviously not so fond of that idea.
"That you lower the rent to 700, I thought that was a bit obvious." Neji said. "Since you're obviously one of those men who can't get enough of money. Believe me, a bit less money would be good for you. Look at your belly." Neji was laughing 'so' hard in his head. He had to stop himself from letting a huge grin, even a smirk, on his face.
The man grunted again. "Fine. 700. But no less. And if I ever hear anything from you, you're out." The man snapped annoyed.
"Yes sir." Neji said, smirking slightly. "I expect it to be changed this month, else I'll go to the judge nevertheless."
"Yeah yeah, whatever. Just go now." The man snapped and shut the door in Neji's face.
Neji smirked and then walked back to the apartment. That was done.
When Neji entered the apartment again, still smirking, he saw that Sasuke was already home. He walked to the kitchen and saw Sasuke there, being busy with giving all the food a place in the kitchen.
"Hey." He said.
"Hey. Where were you?" Sasuke asked as he placed the milk in the refrigerator.
"Talking with the housekeeper." Neji said, still smirking and now started to help Sasuke.
"What? I told you not to do that. Why are you smirking?" Sasuke asked surprised and confused.
"Ah well, he just lowered the rent to 700." Neji said, while his smirk even got bigger.
"What? You're kidding right? How did you do that?" Sasuke asked shocked. He stopped unpacking now and stared at Neji.
"Ah I just told him that I'd go to the judge to tell him that he was 500 over the maximum." Neji said. "When I'd do that, he'd loose a lot more amount of money then if he'd lower the rent. And I said he'd be better off with less money since his belly is fat."
Sasuke laughed. "You actually said that? My god Neji, I never expected something like that from you. And that you actually pulled it of is amazing." Sasuke said.
"Thanks." Neji said, laughing too. "You'd better watch out, I'm full of surprises."
"I'm noticing. Can't wait to see what else you've got on your sleeve." Sasuke said and smiled widely. Not only did he now have to pay a lot less rent, Neji proved him he wasn't just a nice guy, but also had a way with words.
Neji grinned. "Ah well." Neji said. "At least you can go to school again now."
"..Yeah. That'd be good." Sasuke said and smiled at Neji. "I'm going over to Itachi's after unpacking." Sasuke started to put the groceries away again.
Neji nodded. "Alright." He said. "Should I cook tomorrow? I'm learning how to make sushi now."
"If you want to. You have to do some more shopping though for that." Sasuke said.
"Ah no, tomorrow morning from four to six I'll be making sushi in the restaurant and after that I can take some with me home, they said." Neji said and smiled at Sasuke.
"Oh. Well that'd be great." Sasuke answered and smiled back.
"Ok good, I thought for one moment you wouldn't like raw fish." Neji said.
"I don't think I would like it if it wasn't sushi. But I like sushi so no problem there." Sasuke said. "I'm going to Itachi now." He added and grabbed his coat of a chair.
Neji nodded. "Alright, good luck." Neji said, smiling at Sasuke and giving him a small kiss on the lips.
"Thanks. I'll be home before you know it." He said and ruffled Neji's hair with a smirk before quickly leaving. Neji was very fond of his hair he found out.
"Hey! Don't touch my hair!" Neji snapped, just so Sasuke could hear it, hurrying to a mirror to bring it into model again.
Sasuke stood in front of Sasori's house. He knew Itachi was there. Itachi was always there if something was going on. He rang the bell and waited.
After a while the door opened and an uninterested looking redhead opened the door.
"Yo." Sasori said, looking at Sasuke. "What's up?"
"Is Itachi here? I have to talk to him." Sasuke said.
"Yeah he is here. Up the stairs, first on your left." Sasori said. "But I don't know if it would be wise to talk to him." He frowned. Itachi had told him everything.
"I have to talk to him." Sasuke said and looked at Sasori determined. He wouldn't leave before he had talked to Itachi.
Sasori nodded and mentioned him to go upstairs.
Sasuke thanked Sasori and walked inside, then up the stairs and knocked on the first door on his left.
"Come in." Itachi's voice said.
Sasuke slowly opened the door and found Itachi behind a desk. Probably making homework. "I have to talk to you.." Sasuke said.
Itachi looked up to him, saying nothing for one moment. "About?" He finally said.
"...Well..first of all..I'm sorry Itachi..I know I can be a pain in the ass and I know I crossed the line..I'm sorry.." Sasuke softly said.
Itachi looked at him. "..Do you realize why you have crossed the line?" He asked.
"..Yeah..I should've asked you...I can't bring guys in the house without asking..I know.." Sasuke said and looked to the floor.
Itachi nodded, waiting for him to continue.
"...I know you probably won't come back anyway but...will you please come back home..? I miss you so much..I don't wanna live without you around.." Sasuke continued.
Itachi looked at him for a moment and then stood, hugging Sasuke, holding his as close as possible.
Sasuke was caught of guard a little but hugged back after a while. "...Will you just please..please come back?" Sasuke asked.
"..I will Sasuke.. I will.." Itachi said, stroking through Sasuke's hair.
"...Really..?" Sasuke asked in disbelief. Was Itachi really coming back?
"Yes, really." Itachi said. "I see you really learned of this."
"...Thank you..I did...I really did.." Sasuke said, hiding his face in Itachi's neck and holding him tight. Itachi really did care about him.
"I love you Sasuke. Never forget that." Itachi said. "I was just so angry with you, because you just didn't understood what I meant."
"...I know you were..I'm so sorry...I love you too.." Sasuke said back, still not letting go of Itachi.
"..We'll search a way for the bills.. with that stupid rent..." Itachi softly said.
"..Neji took care of that...we only have to pay 700.." Sasuke said happy.
"Huh? What?" Itachi said, pulling apart from Sasuke, looking at Sasuke surprised.
"He went there today, to the housekeeper and made sure we just had to pay 700 for rent." Sasuke said and smiled.
"..No way." Itachi said, surprised. "Like the housekeeper would ever do that."
"Neji said he'd go to court for it otherwise. So he gave in." Sasuke said.
"Wow." Itachi said and then smirked. "He can stay."
"He wasn't going anywhere anyhow. You'll like him, I promise.." Sasuke said.
"Hmm ok." Itachi said, nodding.
"So..Can we go home now?" Sasuke asked and smiled again. Home sounded so much better now.
"Of course. Let me get my things and tell Sasori." Itachi said and smiled. "We're going home."
That evening, fifteen minutes past six the front door opened and Neji stepped into the apartment.
"I'm home!" He said and hung up his coat.
"Welcome back!" Sasuke yelled back from Itachi's room. He was unpacking Itachi's stuff with Itachi.
Neji walked to the kitchen for a moment to put the sushi there, and then walked to Itachi's room, since Sasuke had been there.
"..Why are you.. hey." Neji said, when he saw Itachi. He got a bit nervous.
Itachi smiled at him. "Welcome in the family Neji." He said. Neji looked at him for a moment and then he smiled. "Thanks." He said. "I brought sushi."
Sasuke smiled at the both of them. "I already told him. Let's eat." Sasuke said and got up and walked to Neji. Itachi and Neji nodded at the same time. Itachi walked past Neji, to set up the table and Neji smiled at Sasuke. "I'm proud of you." He said.
"Thanks." Sasuke said and kissed Neji on the cheek. "And thanks for knowing how to cook." He said and smirked as he pulled Neji with him to the kitchen. Neji smirked too and let Sasuke pull him with him. Itachi was already done with setting up the table and was now putting the sushi on the table.
Sasuke pulled the milk out of the fridge and then sat down on a chair. "Itachi, did I tell you already I'm going back to school?" Sasuke asked.
"No you didn't." Itachi said, smiling at Sasuke. "Good."
Sasuke smiled back and started putting the sushi onto plates. "Did you realise you're gonna be an uncle?" Sasuke asked.
"...No I didn't." Itachi said, looking at Sasuke with big eyes. "..Holy shit, how should I behave then?"
Neji started to laugh at this. "Please, just be yourself, then it will be alright." He said, still laughing.
Sasuke laughed too. "Don't worry, I'm sure it'll like you." He said and gave Neji and Itachi their plates.
Itachi smirked. "I hope so." He said. "Thanks."
Neji nodded his thanks to Sasuke too when Sasuke gave him his plate.
"I can't wait to see Neji with a big belly." Sasuke said as he ate his first bite of sushi. Neji snorted, taking a bite too.
"Why?" Itachi said, smiling. "Of was that a joke?"
"It would be funny. And I'm sure it'll look great on him." Sasuke said and smirked.
Neji smirked and gave Sasuke a soft hit on his head. "Idiot." He said, while Itachi started laughing on both Sasuke's as Neji's actions.
"Don't you hit me." Sasuke said and ruffled Neji's hair with a smirk.
Neji gave a low growl and ruffled through Sasuke's hair too now. Both Neji and Sasuke cared for their hair. But there was one difference. Once Sasuke's hair was a mess there was almost no saving it. Neji could easily just brush it again, then it would look great again. But Sasuke used lots of gel. So he wasn't happy now.
"Hey! You know it takes ages for my hair to look the way it does!"Sasuke yelled, annoyed now. How dare Neji make a mess of his hair. It took him ages to get this mess neat again. He grumbled.
"So?" Neji asked, putting up his angel face.
"You learned now to never touch Neji's hair, else you'll have to face the consequences." Itachi said with a smirk.
Sasuke just grumbled and hit Neji on the head softly. "I'll get back at you." Sasuke said.
Itachi smirked. "You are allowed to use my bed tonight." He said, winking at Sasuke while Neji took another bite with a smile on his head.
"Thanks." Sasuke said and smirked back. "We could use some more space, Neji likes it kinky." Sasuke smirked at Neji as he finished his sushi.
"I do?" Neji said, pulling up one eyebrow.
Itachi smirked and finished his sushi too. He and Sasuke were always finished at the same time.
"Yeah. You do. You almost fell of my bed last time because of your squirming." Sasuke answered and smirked some more. Neji went red now.
"Ah well, let's stop this conversation and watch the movie that I took ok?" Itachi said. "And I'm going out tonight, so probably I will come home tomorrow morning."
"Where are you going?" Sasuke asked as he stood up and put his and Itachi's plate and put them in the sink. He'd do the dishes later.
"Sinra's. You know, that new club." Itachi said. "I'm going with Sasori and Deidara."
"Oh. I heard it's pretty good. What movie did you bring?" Sasuke asked.
"The Ring. Horror thing, you know?" Itachi said, smirking.
Neji finished his sushi now. "Sounds good." He said. He actually liked horror movies.
"Do we have to watch a horror?" Sasuke asked. He, unlike Itachi and Neji, wasn't very fond of horror movies. Not that he was scared of course. No way Uchiha Sasuke was scared of horror movies.
"Pff, fine." Itachi said, smirking. "I have scary movie three too."
"...That's still the same. Just watch the Ring." Sasuke said. He didn't wanna sound like a scaredy cat or something.
"I know you don't like horrors you idiot." Itachi said. "And scary movie isn't creepy, it's to laugh."
"Well you wanted to see it, so consider it my apology that we can watch that one this time." Sasuke said and smiled.
Itachi shook his head grinning and walked to the television, putting in the Scary Movie DVD.
"I don't want a screaming Sasuke next to me." Itachi said.
"I'm not gonna scream, I'm not scared of them, I just don't really like 'em." Sasuke said and raised his head. Neji didn't need to know he was scared of horror movies.
"Jeez Sasuke you toddler." Neji said and started to laugh.
Itachi smirked. "Do you just let someone say that to you, Sasuke?" He said, smirking. "If you want I can go to Sasori already."
"But we were gonna watch a movie." Sasuke said as he calmly hit Neji on the back of his head. Not too hard of course.
Itachi smirked and shook his head. "Let it be, it was a hint." He said, putting on the TV now. Neji smirked at Sasuke in the mean time.
"Pfft whatever." Sasuke said. Maybe living with Neji AND Itachi wasn't really smart. They were both a lot smarter and a LOT less dense then Sasuke. Sasuke now sat down on the couch.
The movie started and from that moment the three focussed their attention onto the television.
A/N: Every little thing is gonna be alright.