Junai Bad Romance
Chapter IX
Something just has to give, even if the truth will disgust you….
They woke up late.
For the first time in their lives, they had woken up late and it felt great! Itachi glanced at the clock that read eleven in the morning and decided to get up, as much as he would love to stay in bed with his naked little brother he had to go somewhere today. He glanced over at his naked little brother beside him and kissed him on the cheek. It looked like Sasuke was still tired and was not going to get up any time soon. He decided to go shower and dress and then wake him up.
That was why when Sasuke woke up ten minutes later, he was alone in the bed. He sighed, wishing Itachi was still in bed, for he had no desire to get up just yet. As soon as he started to snooze again, he felt someone slap his behind and he quickly turned over to glare at his older brother who was smirking at him. "What's the matter little brother? You can't get up yet?" Sasuke sat up and crawled over to him. And kissed Itachi before pulling away, and climbing out of bed. He hissed at the pain on his lower back.
"Motherfucker" Sasuke said as he made it to Itachi's attached bathroom and leaned by the door as he opened it. Itachi chuckled.
"Watch your language Sasuke"
"It hurts!" Sasuke snapped and glared at his brother. "And it's your entire fault!"
"You are the one who begged for it" Itachi deadpanned and Sasuke knew he could not argue with the truth. Itachi walked over to him and kissed him on the forehead. "I'll see you tonight okay, I'm going to hang with Kisame and the others. They said something about Sunday being dooms day" Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Alright," He said. "But if you do anything stupid I'll personally kill you"
"I know" Itachi said, "Do you want me to help you into the bathroom?"
"No!" Sasuke snapped "I can do it myself" and with that he got into the bathroom and slammed the door closed in Itachi's face. Inside, Itachi heard a loud thump making him flinch, and he knew Sasuke had fallen to the floor hard. "Fuck!"
"Sasuke, are you alright"
"Yes" came the sulky reply, and Itachi sighed. His little brother was just too stubborn for his own good.
"I'm coming in to help you," Itachi said, but as he said the words, he heard the lock on the door click and that irritated him a little. On the other side, Sasuke had an embarrassed blush on his face. He could not let Itachi see him looking his worst!
"Just go away already, damn you!" he yelled. "And come home soon"
Later that afternoon
Sasuke sat with Naruto and Kyuubi. He had only met Kyuubi a couple of times over, he was never expecting to see him again. Still, when he had managed to take a bath and had to go to his room to get dressed, and went downstairs his mom had told him Naruto called. He decided to call Naruto after breakfast and it had led to this. Naruto had even said that he had to cancel his special date with Gaara for this. Of course, Sasuke suggested he invite Gaara over and Naruto said that no, he was going to go somewhere even better with Gaara that evening.
Kyuubi was the only one that seemed happy to be there, "So, Sasuke how have you been?" Sasuke shrugged. He was not sure how he was going to answer to Kyuubi anything. As far as he knew, the orange haired male seemed excessively interested in his life at the moment.
"Fine, I guess"
"That's good to hear!"
"There's something different about you, though, Teme" Naruto suddenly said. His sapphire eyes narrowing in a way to better inspect Sasuke who backed away from him.
"Really? What?" Sasuke asked. Naruto shrugged and went back to eating his Ramen. After all, that is where they had gone, one of Naruto's favorite Ramen restaurants. All ramen all the time over at Ichikaru's.
"Ouch!" Naruto cried out as Kyuubi stomped on his feet. Naruto looked over to him and was about to snap something when he saw that Kyuubi was giving him the signal. He huffed, threw his chopsticks down as well as a napkin and made a dramatic stand. "I am going to the bathroom, Teme, Worst brother in the world, if you will excuse me!" Naruto huffed and left. 'Oh my god, what if Kyuubi tries to make a pass at Sasuke! Urgh, I'd never live it down.'
There was silence when Naruto left. However, Kyuubi soon decided to speak. ''Better now than never' He thought. "So Sasuke, you got a boyfriend?"
"Yeah" An awkward silence followed. Kyuubi then decided to give a little laugh and it got even more awkward when Sasuke giving a look.
"So… Sasuke"
"Hm"
"I was wondering…If you don't think it's too weird, I would like to ask your mom out on a date. If it's alright with you of course," Kyuubi looked determined, but the image of his courage was ruined as Sasuke spat out his soup all over him.
"What!" Sasuke said, looking startled by the question and coughing a couple of times.
"I really, really like your mom, so, I was wondering, If I could date her, of course I will ask her as well. But you are her son…how would you feel at her being as old as she is, dating a twenty four year old guy like me?"
"First of all, my mom is thirty eight, she's much too old for you, and my dad barely died not too long ago. I wouldn't know what she would say, but…you really like my mom?" Sasuke shook his head "That's just a little weird, although, wouldn't be fair for me to say that when I'm…" Sasuke trailed off. Kyuubi raised an eyebrow, as Sasuke seemed to have an internal battle with it all. "Can I get back at you on that? Wait…are you going to ask her?"
"Yeah, sure"
"What…" Sasuke shook his head. Sasuke stood then. "Well, it's not my problem; you are going to have to tell her yourself". Kyuubi stared after him confused. Sasuke just left 'It's not as if we are that much old. She's only like fourteen years older than me. Alright then, I'll call her up later and ask her out on a date!'
"Hey, where is Sasuke going?" Naruto asked and then glared at his brother "you didn't tell him something stupid did you!" He snapped.
"No, of course not!" Kyuubi defended "Although, I'm going to need the number to his house, if you don't mind" Naruto's eyes bulged. 'Say it isn't so, my brother can't be in love with Sasuke'
Sasuke on the other than was having a debate. If his mom found out that the son of her best friend had something for her, how would she feel? She had always been in love with Fugaku, their father, and since he died, she seemed happier. Still, was that the reality or was she putting on a front. She did cry a lot when he did die. Still, their mother had always been a strong woman. Sasuke sighed and decided that something had to be done.
It was not his place to go and tell his mom that he knew that Kyuubi had a crush on her. Although, what was Kyuubi thinking in telling him? It made no sense at all. It was not as if it was going to be his decision. It did not take Sasuke long to reach his house and when he walked in he sighed when he saw his mother.
He was not going to tell her anything.
"Hey Sasuke"
"Hey mom" he walked over.
"You're back early sweet heart, is something wrong?" Sasuke shook his head.
"Nothing" Sasuke sighed and then asked, "Mom how did you and dad meet?" Mikoto seemed taken aback by the question. She never thought that one of her son's would ask her about how she had met their father. It made her happy, and she gladly went to sit on a chair so she was facing Sasuke.
"I never thought you would ask!" She said. "Well, how I met your father was simple; falling in love with him was kind of hard"
"It was?" Sasuke asked. he found it that he could not escape love when it came to his brother.
"Well yeah, back then I couldn't tell the difference between admiring someone and being in love with someone. I used to be a straightforward kid and stubborn. I was sure I was in love with the popular guy in school, the heartthrob, but it was all about the challenge I had with my friends" Mikoto shrugged "I didn't want anyone to stand in my way, but Kushina set me straight in the end.
"Oh" Sasuke said.
"I and your father used to be neighbors and we had known each other since we were in diapers." Mikoto started. "To me, he had always been there, although we didn't get along"
"Why not?"
"Well, it started with your dad mocking me that he was taller than me for one centimeter. I could not stand it and had to grow. But he kept growing faster than I could. It was always a silly challenge after the other. Who had the better grades, and who could make it I into the better schools" Mikoto shrugged "And then it happened. We were arguing, and out of nowhere, he kissed me"
"Really? And then you realized you loved him?" Sasuke asked.
"No, I made a scene and tried to report him to sexual harassment" Sasuke sweat dropped while his mother looked sheepish at her behavior back then.
"I see"
"Yeah, Of course, it was noted in his record at school, but we were asked to see a counselor about our issues and all. Of course, your father was willing but I was stubborn enough to argue about there being no problems" Mikoto sighed. "So after a counselor I decided to stop all competition and I decided to put distance between us. I wanted him out of my life so I started to ignore him, and act like I didn't know him."
"And what did dad do about that?"
"He just kept trying" Mikoto sighed, "The thing was that he had also gotten a girlfriend then and I just couldn't stand the thought or the sight of it. I wanted him completely gone. His girlfriend got fed up with his behavior and then he decided to grab me again and kiss me" Mikkoto paused.
"And did this one do the trick?"
"Oh, no. I slapped him hard for that, but he kept trying" Mikoto shrugged "I then had a talk with Kushina, she'd always been my best friend, but I was fourteen and she was sixteen, she was pregnant and already engaged. I couldn't understand it." Mikoto smiled at Sasuke "Until I learned that all those feelings Fugaku had stir within me actually had meaning. I was in love with your father, but I thought I had learned that too late. I had already pushed him far away"
"But you guys still married and all"
Mikoto laughed "Well, when I was seventeen. He tried once again. I acted immature and he said he had lost all hope then, but this time I kissed him" Sasuke looked surprised to his mother "I confessed, and then a year later I was engaged and pregnant with your brother. It was easy for us. With the help of day care, Itachi was taken care of during the day while I both worked and went to school, in four years I was deep into my career and I thought I did not want another child. Since I barely got any time with Itachi"
"So you never planned to have me?" Sasuke asked.
"No, I didn't, but Itachi decided to make sure you were still borne"
"He did?"
"Yeah, It scared me deeply, but Itachi was persistent that you be born and that you were going to be his. He was the happiest when you were born" Mikoto looked thoughtful "In fact, it was strange how Itachi came to be a genius and worked himself to reach the level he is in now. There was nothing ever strange between the both of you. Other than Itachi always smiled at you and was gentle with you. He grew up to fast"
Silence lingered between them. Then Sasuke asked, "What did dad think about Itachi's behavior?"
"Your father was thrilled Itachi was a genius and called him his prodigy. I guess he never believed me when I told him that Itachi was the one to ask for you to be born or anything. For a moment I thought I was crazy and going paranoid with the fact that Itachi was my first born, I thought I was a bad mother and all" Mikoto shrugged again, "I see I raised two fine children. Except for the fact that you both turned out to love each other"
"Is it bad?"
"It isn't bad" Mikoto said "I guess you can't help who you end up loving, after all, what was the chances that you would fall in love with Itachi? The only thing is that I won't have any grandchildren"
"Oh" Sasuke said and smiled at his mother. "I'm not even good with kid's mom," Sasuke laughed.
"I know" Mikoto laughed as well.
With that, Mikoto and Sasuke talked even more about the past and how Sasuke had come to fall in love with Itachi. Both ended up spending the rest of the afternoon together and then ended up cooking together. Sasuke had asked his mom to teach him how to cook so he could cook for Itachi.
Later that evening, Itachi came home to find his mom and Sasuke in the kitchen eating and talking actively. "Hey" he said.
"Hello sweetie" Mikoto said as she stood up to get Itachi a plate of food. Itachi sat down at the table and Sasuke smiled at him.
"How was dooms day?" Sasuke asked.
"Horrible." Itachi shrugged. "I don't think Jail time changed Kisame at all"
"I think it's too late to get him to change" Sasuke muttered and Itachi nodded in agreement. His mother set the plate down in front of Itachi and he started to eat.
"Thanks mom"
"What is dooms day?" She asked.
"Kisame's weird imagination" She was still confused and was about to ask what he meant when the phone rang and she got up to go answer it. As she walked away, she watched as Sasuke and Itachi both talked with each other and she smiled to herself. Sasuke looked so shy whenever he was talking with Itachi, she could not contain it they looked so cute together. That was not hard to accept. When she reached the phone, she clicked the talk button and pressed it to her ear.
"Hello?" She asked.
'Hello, Mikoto-san, it's me Kyuubi'
"Oh, hello Kyuubi, how can I help you" She said. Confused as to why he was calling, Kyuubi never actually showed interest in becoming friends with neither Sasuke nor Itachi. She doubted he even knew Itachi, since Itachi was always gone at school when he would drop by.
'Well, Mikoto-san, I was kind of wondering if I could…well, if you would go out with me. On a date' Shocked silence followed and Mikoto then decided to laugh it off.
"You're joking right?" She asked. "That's a good prank Kyuubi"
'I'm not joking! I mean it. I want to be with you. Please, date me…Mikoto-san'
It had to be a joke. Mikoto's mind was screaming at her and she felt scared. She did not know what to say, so she did the one thing that came to mind at that moment.
She hanged up.
Because if falling in love with you is wrong, the maybe I do not want to be right. But How can you describe the way I feel, when I can't even deny that I might adore you…
PS I also Updated Kill Me so go check it out! Well, here we are. Another up date. For Junai Tell me what you guys think! and thank you to all who reviewed before my computer broke down.