Junai No Bad Romance

Chapter IV

Sometimes these feelings grow numb with all the pain, I do not want to be seen, I hide from the light of the world…wondering if you would ever come in and look for me. Am I even worth looking for? I don't think I am....

The dates had been planned.

Sasuke had stood everyone up.

He had gone home the day that Temari left and ran into his room, thinking that it was only to take a break from the world and reset his thoughts. The house seemed to empty with his mother at work and his brother on a business trip. He felt so lonely at that moment, even when he wanted to have hope. It was embarrassing, it was shameful but he felt that he had no other choice, he could not be forced to do something he didn't want to do. He didn't want to date anyone, and he didn't want to lead anyone on that he might like them. Temari he understood, but everyone else…it had to be a joke.

After all, wouldn't it be when you were in love with your one and only brother? Sasuke had thought it was a joke also to think about telling Itachi about his feelings.

Deciding on it, he had locked the door to his room, closed the windows of all light and turned off his cell phone since he did not want to call his brother or have him call, well, only after the call he had gotten from Temari that she had made it and was safe and planning to return soon. She also mentioned something about being so happy, being engaged, and living her dream, it was unfair that she would have her happy ending, one that he still couldn't have because it was too far away. He then buried his face into his pillow and decided to never come out.

He did not want to be seen.

To not be heard.

He for once, just wanted to hide.

He was not sure of what had gone on after he had done that that day, but in the morning, he had gotten up, went to the bathroom, bathed and washed his teeth and went back to his room. Around noon, he got up again and ate something knowing his mother was not there and the house was empty because Itachi was still not back, and then went back to his room after taking a small break and stretching out. Truth be told, he was not feeling good. No one was in the house once more, not even he was supposed to be here but there was no way that he was going to go to school.

The next day came, it was the same.

Then the next and it was more of the same.

Therefore, here he was now. It was morning once more, but he was not going to get up just yet. Of course, that was when his door was knocked on harshly because other people had other thoughts in mind that did not match his. "Sasuke?" It was his older brother, his eyes widen and his ears perked up. His heart soared; he swore though that it did not. He swore by all that was holy that he had not missed his brother as a lover misses his soul mate, and he certainly was not going to say how good it felt to hear his voice once again, or how much he wanted to open the door and hug him tight. There was just no way. Such thoughts and feelings belonged to the back of his mind. To forever, be buried in the back and to never be uncovered. "Sasuke, I know you are in there, open this door!"

Sasuke mocked him, not that his brother could see him.

"Sasuke, I also know you've missed school, your friends have been asking for you! You know I don't like that kid. Now stop being childish and making things hard for me and come out," Itachi hissed, leaning against the door in hopes to hear his little brother. He knew Sasuke had run away once, but had promised him to never do it again. He knew the boy was there, but he had no idea what was bothering him. 'Damn you Sasuke, always making me worry. if only you knew....' Itachi thought.

Inside the room 'Damn that Naruto and not minding his own business' Sasuke thought bitterly, but then again what the hell were friends for if they were not there to annoy you and support you in any way possible. That was when he sat up and said, "Well, you can't make me go either way nii-san!" He was being childish, he knew this. However, he was also testing his brother's patience, and that alone was dangerous. He heard a snicker come from the other side. Obviously, his brother's friends were there as well. After all, they were thte perfect audience to witness the two brother's fighting over opening a door.

"Stop laughing Deidara, he's going to punch you," Kisame said, but it was too late, Itachi had already made his move.

"Ouch"

"Too late"

"Kisame, break down this door" Itachi ordered.

Sasuke's eyes widen. He looked around the room. "Sure. I was looking for something to break down today" Alright, Sasuke had to come to the conclusion that he was still in his pj's but nothing matter now than escaping his brother. He ran to his window and nearly jumped in surprise when he heard the first loud thump to his door. It seemed as the door nearly flew of the hinges and it made him swallow hard. His brother was losing his patienve.

"Damn" Kisame said, "Let me try again"

"You know Sasuke!" Itachi called as he stopped his friend for the moment "This is going to hurt your door, so it'll be smart to just open it and tell me what's bothering you" Mentally Sasuke was cursing Itachi as he pushed his window up. 'There is such a strong desire in me to tell you that this is your entire fault Itachi, your whole fucking fault for being my brother' Hurrying Sasuke managed to push up the window and then locked it so that it wouldn't fall down on him.

He then climbed out of it, it was big enough to fit two people through, he was glad for that. Once he was out, he closed the curtains around the window, also glad that there was barely a breeze in the morning and ran out of there. He ran around the house and managed to get out. But he could also heard the loud crashing of his door folding into itself as Kisame broke through it and a loud round of applause and a loud 'Un, he did it' From Deidara.

Sasuke ran down the street, and slowed down when he was down the block. "That was close," he said to himself. However, he knew that right about now his brother was going to be pissed off at him even more. Eventually he was going to have to face him, but not now, Sasuke could not handle facing his brother at this moment. Being in his pajamas was no big deal; he still knew one more place where he could go at the moment.

Deciding to go there, he walked all the way to Kimimaro's house. It was the first house at the beginning of the second block, covered in tall green pine trees, a beautiful grass setting, and various types of flower littering small hedges. It was like a small warm home. He jumped the fence and ran to the black metal door that had multiple dots in it. "Sasuke, what are you doing here?" the silver haired man asked as he answered the door and looked at the young boy before him. He was taller than Sasuke by a few inches, but he was also someone who cared a lot about him. Not to mention that he lived with his boyfriend Juugo, the two of them could already be husband and wife.

"Long story short, I had to escape my brother. Can I hang here for some time?" Sasuke shrugged "Just please"

"Uh, sure" Kimimaro said moving aside and allowing the smaller boy to walk in and closed the door behind him. At the same time he was wondering why Sasuke was not at school, he knew the raven was hiding from something once again. "You can take a bath, a change of clothes in the bathroom closet, you know the drill"

"Yeah, yeah" Sasuke said.

Kimimaro was once upon their pimp, he practically still was. He was older than all of them for like five years, but at one point in their lives, even Sasuke had somehow come to him. They had run away, a group of kids that were lost and didn't feel wanted in their families. Kimimaro had this aura for drawing in stray kids that had run away from home and pulling them to him. Suigetsu, Karin, Tayuya…all of them, there was probably even more. For some time, they were all working for him, selling drugs, and some selling their bodies for money, it was all for the , he had convinced them all to go back home, and had even provided for them.

He still did. But he never forced them to do anything they didn't want, even though he seemed tempted to do so.

As soon as Sasuke was finished, he walked out and saw Juugo leaving off to work. "So, what are you running away from now?" Kimimaro decided to ask. This was one of the people that Sasuke could not lie to, he sat down and Kimimaro served him up some breakfast.

"Well" he said "You know that feeling when you like someone, but inside you are screaming, there is no fucking way I can like this person, it's just nasty kind of thing…that's what I'm running away from" Kimimaro turned towards Sasuke once more and sat down in a chair shaking his head with a smile on his face.

"Nope, I've never thought that way, please enlighten me"

"You see" Sasuke said, barely eating some of his food. "I like someone, but I told everyone even myself that I don't just so I won't have to face it, so…it hurts you know" Kimimaro raised a brow.

"I understand that you said you were never going to fall for someone, what made you change your mind?"

"It's not what made me, is what I fear…you know…you have to be insane to be in love with" Sasuke couldn't say just so easily, the words came out in a low whisper "With your own brother…"

"Oh" Kimimaro said, "that is serious, but I guess not so bad" Silence fell over them. There had to be something done, and Sasuke was going to have to face this feeling eventually. Still, running away from them did not seem so bad now. It seemed like the best thing to do. Still, Sasuke knew he had to tell Itachi.

Back at the house

"He's not here," Sasori said. Itachi sighed as he glanced around the empty and messy room.

"He must climbed out his window and runaway once again" Itachi knew it had happened before, now it was clear that something was bothering his little brother. Still, he also knew his little brother would come to his senses and come back to him, after all the boy had promised to never do something as stupid as runaway once again. There was something bothering his brother, and he needed to find out what it was "I wonder what he is hiding?" Deidara grinned when Itachi said those words.

"You still don't know? You'd think it'd be obvious with the way that Sasuke is acting" Deidara had to ponder back on what had happened this week "Didn't Sasuke tell you something a while back?" Itachi thought about it.

"Well, he was acting strange and seemed to nearly faint and then he told me that he had been set up on dates" Itachi shrugged as if it was no big deal.

"And you don't care about that?" Kisame asked this time "You know, to have other people want to date your little brother" Kisame shrugged a couple of times, as if he was doing this in a suggestive manner. Itachi narrowed his eyes at him, not liking the way Kisame was grinding himself up in the air.

"What the hell are you trying to say? I am sure Sasuke can handle himself around other people. He's not that fragile," Itachi said in a calm, soothing but dangerous voice that made everyone cringe and afraid to over step boundaries. Deidara and Kisame shook their heads; Itachi was so dense to his brother's feelings, but what could they do when the Uchiha acted like he did not want to hear it. It was clear that Itachi cared for his brother, but that never reached over the boundaries of brothers. Sasori on the other hand decided to change the subject.

"Should we go out to look for him?"

"No" Itachi said, "Let's stay here today, I'm sure sooner or later he is going to return home, If he doesn't come soon then I'll go hunt him down myself" Still, worry was nipping at the edge of Itachi's heart. This was his one and only beloved little brother, and he was scared that he might not return. A part of him wanted to run after Sasuke, but something pulled him back.

With Sasuke

It was already late in the evening.

Not late, but still it was selfish and childish, what he was doing and he was aware of it. He had to stop running away "How long are you planning to stay here?" Kimimaro asked when he saw that Sasuke was still there. The boy looked up and shrugged. He did not know, but a part of him was wondering what he should do, he really did not want to go back. Still, there was a part of him that also wished…That was when he decided to get up.

"I guess I'll leave now"

"Make sure you go home Sasuke"

"Yeah Yeah" With that, and a borrowed pair of shoes, Sasuke was out the door. He really did not want to go home, but either way, he was going to pass by it to see if anyone was there at the moment. Maybe it was not fair, what he was doing. He did not have to miss school over this, there was still so much that he had left to do.

Once he got near his house, there was a huge problem there already. The lights were all on, the windows were all open and Itachi was outside with his friends arguing. What Sasuke didn't know was that they had called the cops. Still, that much became obvious when he heard the sirens heading their way. "I'm telling you Sasuke is going to be simple to find, there was no need to call the cops!" Itachi yelled, "He hasn't even been missing for twenty four hours, I could have found him!"

"We know! Still, they are coming!"

"How the hell did you manage to get the cops to come?"

"He threatened them with shooting his gun down the street, un" Deidara said, pointing at Kisame.

"Smart"

"I'm surrounded by imbeciles" Itachi hissed under his breath. That was when wheels screeched and the cops came rushing out of their cars. There were at least three cars.

'This doesn't look good' Sasuke thought when he saw Kisame pull out a gun from under his shirt. The police, of course approached with caution. Many stayed by their cars, behind their open doors and waiting to shoot if they had to. Two male police officers came over to Itachi and his group of friends "So, what is it that you guys are trying to pull, you know this is dangerous right?"

"Yeah, we know" Deidara grinned "But he has gone completely bonkers!"

"Gimmie little Sasuke back, gimmie Sasuke gimmie him!" Kisame said dramatically falling to his knees. Itachi face palmed and then decided to speak. The officer that stood in front of them though, was ready to shoot Kisame if it may be, he was taking no chances.

"Wha is going on here!"

"My younger brother left this morning and hasn't returned, we were just worried because he never stays out this late" The worry was evident in his voice and it looked like he was trying hard to contain that simple emotion.

"But it's just seven" The other police man as they gazed at the slightly darkened sky, the sun barely peeking over the houses "If he would be out and it was perhaps one, it would be an emergency. Does he not have a phone to call him in?"

"He left it" and besides that, it was off. Itachi nodded as the police man started to ask him more things. Sasuke on the other side did a silent scream as his blackberry was in Sasori's hand, and the bastard was going through it. That was an invasion of privacy. Sasuke was glad when Itachi snatched it away from Sasori and sighed in relief as he slipped it into his own pocket. Good, now it was safe, and his brother would never go through his things.

He trusted him.

"I'm sorry for all of this, I should be the one to go out and look for him" Itachi suddenly said and it made Sasuke's heart kick a little. His brother was seriously worried about him, guess he couldn't hate his own brother after all.

"Still, you called us out" the police officer was angry that he was pulled out of his job "And someone made a threat with a shootout" the man tapped his foot and Itachi shook his head.

"I didn't" Itachi protested. "That would be him"

"SASUKE!" Kisame was on his knees on the floor waving the gun around. This made everyone stand even more on-guard.

"Would you stop waving that thing, un!" Deidara yelled, running to Sasori and wrapping his arms around the redhead's waist. "Sasori, we have to get away from here!" Deidara started to fake sob and breathe in deeply as if he could not.

"It's a terrorist!" Yelled a woman from across the street, a small girl hiding behind her skirt.

"Shoot" Kisame said, and then the gun went off on itself. It shot into the wall in their house and then there were a at least seven other guns pointed at Kisame. The man was scared, not knowing what to do he grabbed the nearest thing to him, which happened to be Itachi, as a shield. This made Sasuke feel angry, and he gripped the fence he was hiding behind from, what if they killed his brother? That was something that he was never going to forgive of no one.

He would become the avenger and he would kill everyone at fault for taking his precious brother's life. That he vowed to. Still, he was also not going to stand around and let his brother get killed, what is Kisame thinking!

"Release him!" A loud cop voice boomed.

"Not till you place your guns down dudes" Kisame brought up his gun and pointed it to Itachi's head making Sasuke gasp and flinch and anger rise within him even more. Itachi remained impassive with a glare on his face "Or he will die along with me!" Why the hell was Kisame doing this!?

"Drop the gun and release him." The officer said once more "Don't you dare do something that will cost you more than surrendering right now?" Unconsciouly tears started to stream down from Sasuke's eyes. He could not allow this to happen, just seeing a gun pointed to his beautiful brother was enough to suffocate him from the inside out with worry and need to protect him. All other emotions set aside, Sasuke would die for Itachi.

Even if his love was not returned.

"You drop your gun"

Sasuke's heart faltered when Kisame pulled back the trigger. Itachi's did as well and he started to squirm, thinking that for once his friend could be serious about killing him. there was still so much in life that he had not done. This is not how he wanted to die "Let go Kisame, I have to go find Sasuke. You know you want us to find Sasuke right. Stop this"

"No" Kisame smirked "Gimmie Sasuke, I want to see him and then I will let you go" A car suddenly came near and stopped ahead, the mother of the victum came running, fear clear on her face.

"What the hell is wrong with you!" Mikoto said as she tried to run towards Kisame to pull Itachi away from him. She was stopped by the police though and not allowed to go in there and save her precious first born. Shaking from head to toe, watching's Kisame's finger on that trigger, looking like it could pull at any second. Or if he slip it could go off at any time, the pressure.

Then it happened so fast, Sasuke came out from behind the fence and out of the bushes and ran fast into the action.

He came in-between all the guns that were cocked on when he made his appearance.

Everything froze then. Everyone froze.

The danger that Sasuke had placed himself in was clear to everyone. Mikoto by this time felt like she was going to faint, she couldn't lose any of them, not one. She loved her boys to much. "Let go of my brother and drop the fucking gun Kisame!" Sasuke yelled in a demanding way, as if it was torn from his chest. Kisame smirked and nodded his head.

"Done" Was all he said while he also shoved Itachi to Sasuke making them fall safely to the floor and then randomly shot the gun. This made the police alert and shoot their own. All the bullets missed, all but one. One that came and embedded itself into Kisame's right leg and he fell to the floor. Police officers rushed him, tackling him down to the ground and then cuffed him up, and decided to wrap things up here and take him to prison.

"AAAH GAH IT HURTS! IT HURTS!" Kisame yelled "FOR LOVE WHY DOES IT HURT!" That was clearly a pun that only Deidara and Sasori caught. They sighed, in relief that it was all over and no one but the dumb shark was hurt.

Sasuke was shaking in Itachi's arms as they stayed down crouched in the floor. Itachi soon tightened his hold on his little brother and kissed him on the forehead. "Sasuke, what you just did was so foolish" Itachi snapped, "Foolish, you're so stupid, so, so, stupid!" Itachi's voice faltered then and Sasuke looked up.

That was the first time he saw a tears in Itachi's eyes.

It was heart wrenching, that it left him boneless and breathless.

Maybe I need to stop hiding and allow myself to pursue my dreams, to pursue you. I wouldn't know what to do if I face your rejection, I don't know what to do if you no longer want to see me again, but I'll cling to the last hope that I have, for me and you to write our bad romance…

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