Night 17

Soft, that is the feeling of the promise you made the night before.

It makes me feel good, and it makes me feel like you are the only one that I can give my all to, just you and me, making memories forever. I do not think I can ever get enough of you.

I want to hold you close and never let you go, never let go of me either. I do not want to ever hurt you…I can spend all day watching you, I can spend all night cuddling with you. I really like you a lot, I just really want to be on your mind and we can do whatever you want, whenever you want, and I really would not mind being stuck with you.

Cause there is nothing I will not do, to spend my life with you.

(*Inspired by Lil Rob Stuck With You)

Chapter 17

Stuck With You prt 1

Sasuke slowly opened his eyes the following afternoon. The night before had brought him to see the first sunrise, with his older brother by his side. The light of the day had burned his eyes, but only for a moment, before he adjusted. After that, he had headed to bed sleepily, pulling Itachi along with him. Itachi did not protest the idea of them sharing the same bed again, and this time, no one tried to stop them from doing so. It was not much of a surprise though to find Itachi sleeping beside him, that was a pleasant experience. What did surprise him though was the combination of the room as well as the light that littered every corner and chased away the shadows.

It was different, from the night.

Pulling himself away from Itachi's warmth, he sat up, and looked around. The bed Itachi and he shared was big enough for the both of them, as well as the covers were white. The floor was its usual mahogany brown color and the window drapes that were once black in his room, were white and allowed the sunlight to penetrate through to his and Itachi's room. The small nightstand still looked the same, but the closet door was now a huge mirror that reflected the entire room. Pulling the sheets off him, he carefully set his feet on the floor and stood up from the bed.

Itachi on the other side of the bed stir, and slowly opened his own eyes. Sasuke watched him for a while, catching Itachi's eye, and then dashed out of the room towards the bathroom. His heart was pounding in his chest, heavy with a sort of excitement that he had never felt before. It made him want to hide, yet at the same time it made him want to grin in a ridiculous manner. What were all these sudden feelings he was getting? Was he sick, or something? He was not sure. It did not feel like he was ill. In fact, he felt better than ever! All he knew was that ever since last night, when Itachi looked at him now, his heart would race and he would get extremely shy. The empty feeling that he had felt before in his chest was gone and replaced with something he could not name.

To place it in simple words, he was happy.

Back in the room, Itachi was a little surprised to see his little brother dash towards the bathroom, without even saying a greeting to him. He sighed, and decided to wait for the boy to come back out again, so he sat up and walked over to the closet. He found the full-length mirrors in front of the closet were a little odd but not all out unpleasant. It reflected the entire room, making it seemed as if there were really two, but there was only one now. Inside, his clothes were combined with new ones, obviously Sasuke's. He looked around himself and was shocked to see that the room had changed; it was no longer only just his room, but his younger brothers as well. Pulling out a new shirt and some jeans he placed them on the bed and went to see what else had changed, as he opened the cabinets to the small dresser.

Hearing the closet open, Sasuke's ears perked up and he walked over to the door to press his ear into it. What was Itachi doing in there? Curiosity got the better of him as he opened the door and looked out into the room. "Niisan" he called silently, his eyes wide and fathomless as he looked over to his older brother whom was looking at everything that had changed within the closet. Now their closet.

Itachi turned at the sound of his voice, "Good afternoon Sasuke" Itachi greeted, Sasuke blushed and bowed his head a little.

"Ah…good afternoon" he muttered, finding the words strange. He looked out the window to the glowing curtains. Surely, the sun was still out. It made him feel scared, even though he would never admit it. However, he also felt safe seeing, as Itachi was there to face the sun with him. "What…what are you doing?" he asked.

"Looking for clothes, so I can take a shower and then change" Sasuke nodded his head. He should do the same. He was eager to face the day with Itachi, and started to get himself pumped up.

"Are we going to go out somewhere today?" he asked, his voice still soft, but frowned when Itachi shook his head. He was about to ask why they could not go out today, but Itachi saved him from having to ask by explaining.

"No, mother and father said, it might not be safe for you to go out yet" Itachi said, as he remembered what his mother had told him all day yesterday as she had tried to prepare him. His mother had said a lot of things, but this one in particular had worried him. He didn't want to do anything that might hurt Sasuke.

Sasuke pushed the door open and crossed his arms with a mild pout on his face. "What isn't safe about me going outside, anyways? I wanted to hang out with you outside today, I want to see your world, in the day" Itachi smiled at him, and shrugged. Sasuke simply pouted. He could not help it, he felt like a child that was being denied his freedom.

"It's complicated, I guess." Itachi answered, "I can only explain it as the rules we have to abide for, the day and the night"

Sasuke dropped his pout, and walked out of the bathroom. "The day and the night," he said more to himself than to Itachi, "Even if they are different, they are still the same, aren't they, Itachi?" he asked, his eyes averted. "The only difference is that one is lighted by the sun, and the other is shadowed by the moon"

Itachi looked over Sasuke, looking him up and down. Sasuke is his brother, and they looked almost the same, but there were some differences that were greatly noted. "Not completely" he answered, agreeing with Sasuke. "Just like you and me are the same flesh and blood, but at the same time we hold different DNA, Genes, and things that set us apart." Sasuke looked over at Itachi, looking him up and down, and then smiled, nodding his head. He could see what Itachi meant.

"Alright, if we are not going to go out today, then what are we going to do?" Sasuke asked, "Or are you going to come out tonight with me?"

"I don't know what you are going to do today, but I am going to go get something to eat" Itachi smirked, wondering if he could get his little brother mad. He wanted him to raise his voice, just so he could really hear him, be loud. The boy already showed signs that he was cocky, why not have a tone that actually went with it.

"Itachi" Sasuke growled, "You are not going to leave me alone to myself, not anymore"

"I never said that I was" Itachi said, grabbing up his clothes after he found some of his boxers and dashed towards the bathroom "I'll see you in a while" he said as he closed the door. Sasuke glared, wondering what game his brother was playing at, and dashed to the closet to grab his own clothes, and everything he needed and decided he would shower at one of the bathrooms in the hall that was open to all of them. He will show Itachi who would be playing with whom, because if Itachi wanted to piss him off, he would return the favor and do the same for Itachi.

Grabbing his own clothes, he walked out the door. Since no one was around the halls, he headed for the bathroom that anyone could use and got in, ready to take his own shower.

After his shower and dressing, Itachi headed down stairs, allowing his long hair to dry naturally. He had comb his hair making it look like silk, and just how it looked is how it felt. He looked around his home, it was high noon but it seemed like the house was void of any other dwellers. He could tell already that his parents were not home, and as he reached, the kitchen his suspicion was confirmed when he found a note posted on the front of the refrigerator.

He quickly snatched it, and read it over.

My darling Itachi and Sasuke,

Now that the two of you are allowed to be together, I need you guys to take a week to think about what you two have.

Don't for any circumstances leave the house.

Both of you will be left completely alone, so make sure that you take this time to, really think about what it means to be together. Your cousins are going to be facing their own little intervals differently from yours, since they do not share the same problem you do, one that has hurt relationships in the past and killed many off.

Are you confused my little ones? Well, on the counter I have left a book. One both your father and I believe will help you understand what we mean.

Love, Mommy and Daddy

Ps: Your father is screaming his head off. Love you both! We'll see you in a week.

Itachi placed the note on the counter, and reached for the book his mom mentioned. It was a black book, small, almost like a diary, and on the front, Purgatory was printed in Beryllium bold golden letters. Itachi had heard that before, it was what they were. They were stuck between the living and the dead, for they never aged, and they were not human, but they also were not any other kind of creature. But, it was a curse, the soul, stuck in purgatory. Only judgment day can actually tell them what would happen to them. However, he doubted whatever it was they had done, would never be forgiven. Just as he lifted the book, his younger brother walked into the room, a slight scowl on his face.

Sasuke would not admit it, but he was glad to have found Itachi. For a moment, he thought that his brother had gone missing on him. He watched his brother as he was dressed in a black button up shirt, and faded jeans. Itachi was also bared foot like him, just plain clean white socks on his feet.

"There you are I thought you'd probably left."

Itachi turned and smiled at him, "Not likely otouto, want to look for something to eat?" Itachi looked over his little brother's appearance. Sasuke was wearing a simple black shirt, with some jean shorts that left part of his legs bared. The boy looked like he had taken a shower and then just hastily walked around.

Sasuke nodded, his eyes straying to the book in Itachi's hands "what's that?"

"A book mom and dad left us" Itachi said as he placed it down and handed the note over to Sasuke. Sasuke took it and Itachi moved to open the refrigerator to see what he could find to eat. He settled on some ham, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, mayo, and avocado. He placed it at the table in time to see the disgruntle look on his brother's face. "Something wrong?" he asked.

"A whole week stuck in the house?" Sasuke pouted, "I wanted to go out with you at least during the night"

"I know, but it seems that both mom and dad think it's necessary. But look at the bright side, a whole week, just you and me" Itachi smirked as he watched realization hit his brother and he moved to get some bread.

"A whole week, me and you," Sasuke mumbled to himself, feeling oddly satisfied with that. "What are we going to do then?" Sasuke asked wondering what there was to do at home. He rarely had any time to do anything and anything he would do had to be quiet. Itachi looked at him and shrugged as he signaled for Sasuke to get busy with something. Sasuke jumped at it, grabbing a knife as he decided to slice some tomatoes.

"How about we read the book together right after we eat. After that, we see what we do."

Sasuke nodded. He did not know what his parents wanted him to think about, all he wanted was to be with Itachi and do anything and everything. There was no way he was letting his brother get out of his sight for too long!

After eating something, and washing the dishes, which turned into a soap and water, blasting game, both Sasuke and Itachi found themselves both soaking wet and curled around each other, in the floor of the living room. There were couch cushions all around them and Sasuke had one of his legs slung over Itachi's hip, while Itachi had his leg in between Sasuke's, and his arms around his little brother's waist, while Sasuke had his around Itachi's shoulders. Both were simply relaxing against each other, Itachi's head was buried in Sasuke's soft spiky hair and Sasuke's right under Itachi's chin, his face pressed into his brothers delicious throat.

Both of them were jolted out of their semi-consciousness when they heard a loud thump right next to their heads, as if something had fallen from the coffee table. Itachi made to move to see what it was, but Sasuke only tightened his hold on him. "Sasuke let me see what that was"

"No" Sasuke groaned, his voice soft in tone "You're just going to leave if I let go"

Itachi chuckled, "Where would I go? I practically have you attached to me." Itachi said, adopting the same soft tone Sasuke had.

Sasuke huffed, "I finally get you and now you want to be away from me"

Itachi pressed a kiss to Sasuke's cheek, "Silly you, there is no one else I would want to be with right now than you. I do not want to be anywhere else either. I'm too happy to be wanting to leave you, otouto."

"Yes, tell me more, nii-san," Sasuke squirmed against Itachi, raising his head to give his brother a lop sided grin, and playful eyes. "Tell me how I complete you, like you complete me, how we will be together forever!"

"Mmm," Itachi smirked, and leaned down to nuzzle his head into his brother's neck, "I want to be with you forever, just you and me. I wanna be everything to you, the one you cling to, cry to, and beg for." Itachi placed gentle kisses into the side of Sasuke's neck and ended up playfully biting him, making Sasuke laugh.

"It tickles" Sasuke managed, but he still held Itachi close.

"What about you, Sasuke, don't you want to be with me forever?"

"Do you even have to ask?" Sasuke gave him a mischievous look. "I want to always know what is happening with you, and know all about you, I want only you…I'll cling to you, cry to you, and beg…for I don't know what…" Sasuke adopted a thoughtful look on his face. Then he smirked, "A kiss?" he asked.

Itachi matched his smirk. "I don't know, I mean, why do I have to kiss you?"

"Because you are dying to do so," Sasuke pouted.

Itachi leaned in close, barely brushing their lips "Ah, there is that face I love," and pressed his lips into Sasuke's pouting ones. Sasuke moaned, surprised and take by surprise as he was left breathless from the very beginning of their lips brushing. They started to kiss more passionately, their lips parting as their tongues mutually met. Both moaned as they hungrily devoured each other's mouth, their lips caressing hard, and their tongues meeting every now and then in the passionate dance that was their kiss.

Sasuke pulled Itachi impossibly closer to him, and just as the two of them started to tug at their clothes, a ruffling noise caught their attention. Itachi broke the kiss and was about to look over his shoulder, but Sasuke pulled him down again to kiss more. "Sasuke" Itachi panted against Sasuke's sultry lips.

"Hmm?" Sasuke broke their kiss long enough to look at him.

"Let me see what's making all that noise" Itachi said, flipping them around, bringing Sasuke on top of him and then looked to his left to see the black book, literally turning itself around. Sasuke blinked, looking at the book with curiosity.

"It looks angry, nii-san"

Itachi nodded, "Yes, it does." He then got an annoyed look on his face "Oddly enough for a book" He was simply pissed that a book was what was trying to take his attention away from his little brother. Then again, their mother did say that they had to read it. He reached out for the book, but his hand was caught by Sasuke, the boy had grabbed his arm and brought it to his chest.

"Don't touch it, what if it hurts you"

"Sasuke, it's a book." Itachi deadpanned.

Sasuke gave him a pouty annoyed look "Yeah, well no one said that being what we are is normal and a book flopping around doesn't look safe. Last mom and dad told me, it can hit your eye with its corners and take it out" Sasuke snapped his teeth and glared at the book as if if it was the biggest threat he had ever faced. Itachi used this moment to his advantage as he flipped them around again and pushed Sasuke into the soft cushion before picking up another.

"Then lets jump on it" Itachi said, throwing the cushion to the book. The book fell flat.

"Well, that killed it" Sasuke murmured as he got to his hands and knees and crawled close to Itachi. Both ravens watched for a moment to see if there would be any further movement from the book. When there was none, Itachi stood up and went to lift the couch cushion. Sasuke wanted to stop him from even getting near, but released a breath of relief when Itachi grabbed the book and he was not hurt. Itachi walked over to him again and sat beside him, leaning on the side of the couch. If their mother could see what they were doing, she would probably blow a gasket. Itachi was thoroughly going to enjoy his time with Sasuke and if the couch had to suffer because of that, then it was a small price to pay.

"Shall we read it?" he asked his younger brother. Sasuke nodded his head. Itachi gestured for him to come in between his legs. Sasuke crawled over to Itachi, his back pressed to his older brother's chest, and Itachi's legs on either side of him as he brought the book down on his lap. Itachi opened the first page then, and it was blank.

The same went for the next five pages.

"There's nothing on it" Sasuke mumbled, and grasped the book away from Itachi, flipping all the pages round. "Shouldn't it have writing?"

"Yes, It should" Itachi murmured against his little brother's neck. For some reason he was finding Sasuke's neck to be the one thing he was really getting attached to. Sasuke placed the book back in Itachi's hands, and let it sit there for a moment. Both brothers were stunned, when after a minute, writing started to print itself across the white canvas of the page. Soon the blurry writing settled the writing in a fluent and straight Verdana writing. Sasuke hummed, and Itachi looked at the odd writing. The words were not all spelled in the correct manner, but they were still the same meaning in the reading. It was odd, really.

"Does that say incest?" Sasuke asked, his eyes roaming each word.

"I believe so." Itachi murmured. Sasuke turned to look at him.

"Can you read it, aloud while I try to read it in my head to make sure we are getting the same story out of this?"

Itachi nodded. "I'll start from the top then,"

If we have someone prematurely chosen for us, why does it sometimes have to be incest? It's like a punishment on top of the already cursed punishment of having to live forever, and never aging, never changing, and always hiding. We can be the figments of someone's imagination one moment, but all we believe is that we are real as they breathe life to us.

I always thought I was destined for more, but if anyone would be reading this at any rate, it's because apparently I was wrong to go against the rules of something I detest so much –Purgatory.

At first I wanted to leave, I found no purpose to leave any trace of me, or who I was in this world. I met a human. A real human named Hashirama Senju. He was the most gorgeous thing I had ever seen, I believed it to be true. I wanted to believe that it was true and then I started to think- the more I saw him the more my own thoughts became foolish to believe it would happen. As I thought, repeatedly, is there any way to escape this dreaded curse.

I wanted to live so badly under the night, as I did during the day. I could never understand why I couldn't stay up at night. I questioned it every time and rebelled against it every second of the day. My parents would simply repeat the same thing. When your stop time comes, then you will see and understand the meaning of our purgatory. They had to be joking. I was getting too old, and I felt like I had out grown everyone around me. I wanted to be away from all of them.

It wasn't until the damned fated day that I planned to run away that I reached my stop time and my parents both stopped me and said.

You're going to stay, and you're going to take your brother as your night dweller.

It was like a slap on the face.

If we have someone prematurely chosen for us, why did it have to be my own flesh and blood, my baby brother?

I thought it was disgusting.

Sasuke traced his fingers over specific words, like flesh and blond, baby brother, and disgusting. Somehow, they made his heart wrench painfully, almost as if hearing the words be Itachi's own. But he knew that wasn't true, for his brother held him tightly. Itachi had paused in his reading as soon as his brother's hand blocked his line of sight and took in the tense state of his brother's body. He immediately understood his pain. "Are you alright, otouto?" he gently asked, nuzzling Sasuke's neck.

"Yes," Sasuke took a deep breath, "Please continue, niisan"

"As you wish" Itachi whispered, and then turned back to the book, his arms and legs holding, and squeezing his brother gently but firmly.

There was no way.

Who the hell were they to decide that my brother was meant for me? Was this some sort of physiological corruption to keep me from going where I wanted to go…form escaping the pain from this existence? They didn't know what I felt, the empty void in my heart was so large that it made me want to cry, I, Uchiha Madara, the strongest rebel out there, crying had to be the last thing in my mind.

However, I knew I was missing something. Therefore, I ran away. I decided I did not need to listen and I was not going to follow any strange mumbo jumbo that they threw my way. The first thing I did was go see Hashirama. His smile made me pause and really take it in, it was unique and human.

"I've been reading about what you might be" Hashirama had said, his voice a melody to my ears.

"And what would that be"

"A zombie perhaps"

I laughed, "I am not rotting at the flesh."

"No perhaps not." Hashirama grinned "But you are alive and that is enough." Alive, I wanted to say, and will live forever unless I found a way to break the curse.

"Don't bother trying to figure it out, you'll never know what I am, it's not so easy to understand."

If I did not understand, no one else did. You could never know the pain of loneliness until you actually faced it. The feeling of being trapped in an endless day that never let you see and enjoy the night. A piece of you torn and you don't know who to believe anymore. All you want is for the feeling to end, all you want it to feel complete, full…but that seems so out of my reach right now. No one can understand.

Human's get it so easy. They know they are alive, and I am not. I bet they know when they are dead, I do not, and I am neither, here or there. "I just want to be with you, and know that I am alive!" I told him and he nodded his head. But I should have known that he was never trying to help me. He might have been called a human with a heart of gold, but all he ever wanted was to show me off to other people. To meet scientist so they could explore my body and learn what I was, but there was no way of telling what I was.

I ran at a frequency higher than any of their machines, and computers!

I started to smoke I started to act out. I wanted to be in control, but I felt that I was losing it. The sun was starting to burn my flesh and the nights became hard to sleep through. What was going on with me? The night seemed to be calling me in, and even if it was something, I had wanted for so long I feared that it would trap me. I was lost and wondering but I was not about to admit that to anyone, not even myself. I was right where I wanted to be.

I welcomed the scorn of the sun and felt betrayed by the longing the moon elicited from my heart. It was wrenching, as I kept to myself, my bones themselves twisted inside my body from the scrutiny that I was denying in myself. I wanted to roam the earth and ignore all the legends, all the stories, and all the fables. That is all that they were. There is nothing more that I wanted than to be normal!

And then he came looking for me.

It left a bitter taste in my mouth that I found him to be so gorgeous.

My baby brother, Uchiha Izuna.

Itachi stopped reading as soon as he felt Sasuke grip his hand, and start shaking in his hold. When he felt warm tears fall on his arm, he moved to turn his brother to him, "Otouto, are you alright?"

Sasuke looked like he was in turmoil.

And if you have ever felt the need to guard your heart from me, I'd let you know there is no reason to do so.

I want to be stuck with you, I'll do anything for you. Anything you ask me for.

I like you a lot, I just want to be in your mind, and we can do whatever you want, whenever you want. I will never get enough with you and not for one second would I mind being stuck with you. There is nothing I won't do for you.

And I don't wanna move too fast

Fool around, Fall in love and crash

But anytime with you would be worth it

A lifetime with you would be perfect

You're beautiful and intelligent too

The last thing you need is an arrogant foo

Who don't know how to treat someone like you

It's lucky for you that I do

Hey don't let no one get you down

Not even me but I won't let you down

Smiles on my face when you come around

But when you leave it turns upside down

You could be my confessions to my expressions

My expressions will answer any questions

I only have eyes for you

I only want you and I won't except no exceptions - Lil Rob

Thank you for your reviews, I'm glad people still enjoy this story and i know it's been some time. Also some of the italic is not mine as well as the bold. Lil Rob is one of my gods. I luves him! 3 see you around!

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