Day 2

Longing, it is more than an emotion.

When you are cursed to live this type of life, when you wish, you had this person by your side, to hold and embrace. To be driven up to the wall wanting to tear out your hear and scream cause you've had it up to hear, you can't help but be sad and let the sadness wash over you like waves. When this separates you and makes no sense…

When a thing as insignificant as the day and night, can create two different worlds and separate you…something you never thought possible, something that can kill you.

Something that makes me long for you even more…

Chapter One

These Are The Truths

"Aww man, they simply show the best films at night. But they just won't let us go." Shisui complained as he ate his meal and looked over the paper that listed all the latest hits. To him as everyone else in the day, the night was weird and forbidden. An exotic and dangerous thing that could never be truly explained. "This one would be the bomb to see late at night and three D." he showed it over to Itachi who was silently eating his meal and pondering other things, "Would you be 'My Bloody Valentine' Itachi?" Itachi narrowed his eyes at his cousin; the man was really getting annoying.

"No" Itachi responded, Shisui could not help but laugh at the response.

"Oh! Look, Paranormal Activity!"

"Shisui, sit yourself down" Fugaku scolded. Mikoto on the other side was yawning and couldn't wait to go to bed, she just stayed up long enough to make breakfast and report how Sasuke and Obito were doing. Still, that was not going to be until Itachi and Shisui left for school that morning, Shisui was whom they had adopted when his father, Fugaku's older brother and his wife died. Watching his wife yawn once more, Fugaku decided it was time for the boys to leave for school. "Aren't you two going to be late?"

"Ah, we better go" Shisui always more vocal than Itachi. "Come on cousin" Itachi finished drinking his milk before getting up and leaving. Sounds always filled the house during the day, weather it was pots, pans, the moving of chairs, the television blaring to the voices of people. All, which they made sure, didn't reach any of the two other boys who resided within the house as well. As soon as Fugaku knew that the two boys were far away, he turned to Mikoto.

"So, how are they?"

"Obito is the same, calm and shy as always. Sasuke is still sleeping great during the day. I have not had to get up half the day just to lull him back to sleep. He is no longer going to be nineteen he will soon to be twenty, we need to celebrate it…..may I go to bed now?" She yawned once again, she really did not want to tell Fugaku about some habits Sasuke seemed to be developing lately, after a while Fugaku nodded.

"Go ahead" With them going to bed different times; you had to wonder how they both ever got down to business to have children. Well, it was simple, Mikoto being of the night was pulled into the light by Fugaku, like it always should be when the time is right and a night dweller came ripe of age. At this time, both Day and Night dweller came together to complete each other, it was something special. A bond that could never be broken, it was more, than just love at first sight. As for Mikoto and Fugaku, they had only planned to have one child, Itachi, who was a day dweller.

Then Sasuke was born, a night dweller. He was not even a year old, but he was already committed emotionally to Itachi, this attraction was off the charts and excessively soon for him. For Sasuke not to die by withering away, they had to separate them. Sasuke had been three at the time and Itachi had been six. It fell harder on Itachi who now thinks Sasuke is with their grandmother in another state and country. Slowly Itachi came to accept that, but it was obvious that he was desperate for Sasuke to return to him.

It could not be said completely that it was easy to separate them or for Sasuke to accept it. Thing was that Sasuke at the time had been restless and would try to look for Itachi's bedroom every day, so Mikoto had to leave for three years, according to Itachi it was just a separation time for his parents. The truth was that Mikoto was just making sure Sasuke slept deeply during the day and gradually unknown to her, Sasuke had completely forgotten about Itachi, had forgotten about his older brother.

He had learned to rely on Obito for support.

In those three years, part of her plan was for her to make sure Sasuke forgot Itachi, which she was not sure if he had but she was not going to risk it by asking, but on the other hand, Itachi never forgot Sasuke and would ask about him every now and then. The answer would always be the same, Sasuke is fine, he's with grandma, he's in another state, and no over there he's already a sleep so you can't talk to him. Other countries on the other side of the world have a different time period. No, we will not let you make a long distance call so late at night! Unknown to them Itachi doubted Sasuke's location. Maybe it was not just because of their differences, but their attachment to the other.

It was exceptionally strong.

Yet, slowly that lie that they told Itachi seemed to become true that sometimes they believed it. For now both brothers were living in different worlds, they wondered what would happen once they got to meet each other once again…they feared Itachi would be hurt.

Yet, they had somehow managed, Itachi asked less and less, and Sasuke lived without knowing of his older brother. Obito had fallen into the routine rather quickly, all it had taken was a kick from Kakashi, his former best friend and crush, when he was a child and forever Obito had remained in the darkness, no one yet pulling him out. It was clear that he had forgotten about his love for the silver haired male, but he adapted a routine. He always went to work while Sasuke went to school and they spent time working on homework or reading. Other than that, the times were crucial, like curfews. They could not afford for Sasuke nor Obito to meet any of the day dwellers, until the day dwellers went searching for them.

It was the rule, and it had to be fallowed.

As if was written by a higher being long after Christ and they came into existence. They were not exactly humans, so they did not have their time running. In addition, they weren't exactly immortals with any sort of superstation power of fangs, or bat wings, or magical powers. They were in the middle of it all, born as humans to grow at the age of 18-25, and then they stop. It is like the time around them in frozen; some of them living during the day other's during the night to balance the other out as children. Once they reached a certain age, they came together to complete each other and forever live in harmony.

What would kill them? Well, the Day dweller leaving the night dweller for another day or night dweller would kill them and vice versa. They could make each other live long eternal lives with their destined partner, or they would split and die. Madara had tried to prove it to be differently, he had killed his supposed destined night dweller, and had ended up suffering, his skin had dried up, he had taken his last breath, and he had suffocated and drowned under the light of the full moon. He had wanted a human lover, but the humans would never truly accept them that way. Orochimaru had been another fool to try this and died just as miserable, no matter how much he tried to change who he was.

No one liked to question it, for no one ever did from the beginning.

For them after all, it was as if they themselves were frozen in time and space, at that moment, a perfect picture no matter what angle you looked down at it. So, maybe they were nothing. Death for them could only come in a two-sided coin, leaving your partner or committing suicide. Many attempted suicide when they could not find their one and only, to share a single world with, both in the day and in the night. It drove them insane; the empty feeling of missing something was too great that they could never reach on their own.

That was when the sky cried the most.

"Did you finish your work for today Itachi?" Shisui was much older than Itachi, and the only reason he was acting on such high positive terms was that he feared losing the ability to breathe. It was already hard to keep his breath, every time he woke up, he was suffocating and something told him that his time was up.

He had lost everything.

The day was something he was tired of already.

However, what everything was, that is something he did not know.

"I always finish my work, who do you think I am a porn artist?" Shisui laughed and shook his head. His goofing off is what kept him in the here and now. Either way, now that he was older he had a choice to continue his schooling or start work. For the fact that he wanted to stay close to Itachi and not be alone, he decided to stay in school until Itachi reached the working age. That age was twenty-five.

"Of course not stupid, why do always have to say the dumbest things," Shisui grew silent then and Itachi barely even glanced at him as they continued walking. "Ne, Itachi, what would you do if I was to suddenly wake up dead" now, this, Itachi thought was something of the dumbest things ever side, so he decided to make a joke out of it.

"How the hell do you wake up dead?"

"Itachi, I'm serious. Dawn is like waking up….so….what if I no longer could stand up" Itachi shrugged.

"I really don't know what I would feel" after all, all he kept doing was waiting for his little brother to return. Every morning he woke up with the hopes of seeing him once again, but there was no such luck. During the night, even if he was forced to go to sleep as such an early hour of seven in the night, he couldn't seem to keep his eyes open long enough to protest. He'd always fall asleep despite his wishes his body would no listen.

"What's wrong with us is as if we don't care about anything in this world" Itachi had to agree with him.

"It's boring," He muttered and Shisui smiled. Yeah, for now it was going to be boring, but Itachi would find an escape. Unlike him, who was already dying on the inside and he knew he had little time left. It was too heavy for him. Today he planned to commit suicide. The soon reached their classroom, their desks exactly the way they left them the day before, and the day after that. Never changing.

Everyone was laughing; talking loudly and not really caring if the teacher walked in at any moment or time, the teacher was always later after all. "Hey Itachi! Shisui, come over here!" Naruto, the loudest of them all called out. A huge grin was always painted on his face and it usually managed to get on everyone's nerves, even though at times that was all they ever needed. A smile here and there and Naruto was always there to offer one when needed.

"What's going on?" Shisui asked, a grin splitting his face as well. Sakura, Ino, Neji, and Tenten all stood around him. That was their group, not one more, not one less. "Oh, you are looking at the movies as well"

"Yeah, we are planning on staying up late at night and sneaking out to see it!" Naruto then pouted as he crossed his arms "I never really understood why we are the only ones who go to sleep at seven; there are so many other kids who go out and go to sleep until ten"

"Maybe because they don't have curfews" Ino made a face "Our parents really are strict and unfair for not letting us out, Itachi and Shisui are also seniors already! Well, Shisui is a super senior, Itachi is twenty-two, Shisui is twenty-five, and they are still going to sleep early." Ino huffed and then looked up as a thought came to mind. There was something fascinating about it all in the end. I mean, she swore, her parents stayed up late! She as well as everyone else was already twenty-one, they wanted to stay up late.

"Yeah" Sakura agreed "and while we are at it, let's make it a horror movie, Valentine's day is coming to a close and My bloody Valentine is hot on the screen, we deserve to see it three D with all the scary eerie air of the night!" Everyone nodded.

This is why Kakashi was late.

It was up to him to monitor conversations in class. Now he knew who were the ones who wanted to get busted tonight, but they were not going to make it out of their bedroom doors. With that he went on with calling parents and their children's thoughts. Every one of them in their having fun and speaking loudly. At least, that was until Iruka-sensei walked by and distracted him. "Kakashi" He greeted with a flirting smile.

Beautiful.

"Iruka" he purred making the brown haired man blush and then Iruka waved away as he begun to walk back down the hall. It was always like that, a flirt here and there, but never would they go beyond that. To think about him in a sexual way was one thing…..actually doing it with him, seemed so wrong. It was something he couldn't understand, but the nights were sure hard to sleep in now. He wanted to meander around every dark corner in search of something new.

But the thought of it alone even scared him. Just like all these children were excited about what might hide in the dark, he too was curious and yet they all feared it. It was like a secret hidden that they were all to scare to find out about until they could hold off no longer and simply had to go out in the dark and look for it.

Though, he was tonight, but not these kids. They were much too young. He was in his late thirties, who cared about what happened to him. Iruka certainly didn't, he was just a tease from here and there, never looking for anything. Getting pissed off and deciding that it was time for class he got up from his spot and opened the door. All the students kept talking until he closed the door loudly behind him and made them all stiffen.

"Alright class, time to get in your seats" There was loud shuffling and people tripping and cursing at one another. "Today we are going to learn a bit about the night" He smirked; there was only a few things to know about the night. It was somehow short and yet tedious.

After Class

"I swear Kakashi grows insane every day!" Cried out Sakura as she pulled at her hair. All the things he had said about the night, the creatures. It all scared the crap out of her! "Come on, singing insects called crickets, he's got to be on crack!" she emphasized that by cracking her own fingers.

"Calm down forehead, he was just telling it as it is, he's an elder, he should know. I bet there is no one telling him he can't stay up late at night. He probably parties while we are all asleep," Ino said as she begun to laugh. The thought of Kakashi partying was simply hilarious, he was simply to old! Though, she had to admit, for someone who claimed to be thirty, he looked to be around his twenties and hot, with lots of energy.

"I think it sound cool though!" Naruto chirped in "I wonder what they look like, the description of something small, gray, with six legs and all….it's unbelievable! Though butterfly's also have multiple legs and so do bee's they fly…." Shisui petted Naruto on the head.

"Never stop that mind of yours from being so open to new ideas" He said and then looked over at Itachi who looked indifferent to everything. He hardly ever spoke a word, he was always thinking. Always had this serious look on his face, it was almost as if he has been waiting for something this whole time…..yet it never seemed to come. It seemed to elude him to the point Itachi sometimes snapped out of nowhere. "So, are we all game for tonight?" he asked.

Itachi nodded his head.

"For sure!" Naruto and the others cheered. Why wouldn't they be?

"This is sure going to change a lot of destiny" Neji said, "Though. Something tells me that we are not going to get away with it"

"True, they probably already know that we are planning it" With that thought in mind they all headed home, in hopes that maybe tonight they would be able to escape.

As it was, as the clock turned to seven at night, all of them were already in bed and asleep. Except for Shisui who felt like there was something, he needed to do before he took his own life. Close by, Kakashi started patrolling the area, waiting for something as well. So far, there was nothing, but it was the first time they saw the setting sun.

They both hoped this night could mean something.

Thank you for all who reviewed!! THANK YOU!! Well, I was thinking the first chapter would be odd, but as the story goes, it'll all be an odd tale. I hope I can keep writing it and that you'll all enjoy.

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