"Itachi! Let me come!" Sasuke couldn't believe his brother was being so cruel. He couldn't believe that, after so long, he would deny him the one thing he knew Sasuke wanted so much. "You're evil, Aniki." Itachi just smirked, pulling away completely.
"You have no idea."
*
Itachi pushed away the unwelcome thoughts of just how 'evil' he truly was. He wanted nothing to keep him from pleasuring Sasuke. He leant back down, placing a chaste kiss on the tip of Sasuke's penis, smirking at the annoyed groan of sexual frustration.
"Itachi… why do you have to tease me? Don't you love me?" Sasuke tried the 'pouting otouto' act. Itachi's face went dangerously stoic. His back stiffened.
"Don't you ever question my love for you. Do you understand?" His voice was soft, clear and… desperate?
"H-hai." Sasuke was unnerved again. What's gotten into him? That bastard thinks he can distract me with sex! Think again, arsehole! "Itachi. Stop." Sasuke forced his voice to sound serious and commanding; as though he were ordering around his ANBU squad. "Tell me what's going on, now." He got up, retrieved his pants and put them on, showing how serious this was.
"Sasuke?" Itachi was hoping he could get at least one round in before he had to have this discussion; before he had to let Sasuke go.
"Itachi. I don't care how you tell me. Give me a mission report, for all I care! Just tell me what's going on! Why are you acting so strangely?" Sasuke pulled his brother up to sit on the couch, next to him, wrapping his arms around him, making sure he knew he was there for him, no matter what.
"I… what I have to tell you… will make you leave me. I was hoping to get a round of sex in before I had to let you go." There. May as well get the truth out in the open.
"What! I'm not going to leave you! We can have sex after you've told me." Sasuke swung his leg around so he was straddling Itachi's lap, hugging him closely; proving that he wasn't going anywhere.
Itachi took a deep breath. He closed his eyes and hugged Sasuke to him as though he'd die if he let him go.
"You know I love you. Don't ever forget that."
"Get on with it." Another deep breath.
"I was late here because… I killed Akatsuki. All of them. Leader included."
"Oh, Itachi! Why would I leave you for that? Silly Aniki! That's good news! It makes my job a hell of a lot easier, too!"
"I wasn't finished. I… killed the ANBU following you. Including your old team. Uzumaki, the girl and Hatake. They'd been getting suspicious for a long time, apparently."
Sasuke didn't know how to feel. He wasn't sad. He wasn't happy, either. He hugged Itachi even tighter. "Thank you," he said. "I guess we're both missing nin, now?"
"You don't have to be. I killed them. Not you. You can go back if you want. I'll understand." This was the part Itachi wanted to avoid. He didn't want Sasuke to leave him, but he knew what he'd done would probably drive the boy to kill him, if not simply leave him there and never look back. There was silence for several minutes. "Sasuke?"
"I'm not leaving you. I didn't love those people, but we got along… mostly. How did you kill them? They're so strong. And you're only one man. Yes, you're the great Uchiha Itachi… but… how did you kill ANBU and three of the most powerful shinobi in Fire Country?"
"… I could have killed them any time I wanted. I let them live because of you. I killed them now because they were a threat to you. And me. To us."
"Ah." He didn't know what else to say. Itachi squeezed even tighter, nuzzling his face into Sasuke's chest, taking in his scent. "So… where are we going to go? Should I go back to Konoha and get all our money? We'll need it." Itachi let out a disbelieving laugh.
"Oh, Otouto! Are you serious?"
"Dead serious."
"Where do you want to go?"
"Water Country? I'm sure we could find somewhere to hide there… the new Mizukage doesn't like Fire Country, so I'm sure no one will expect us to live there."
"That's exactly why they'll search there first. Perhaps… now that Orochimaru is gone… Sound?"
"No." Sasuke didn't want to step foot in that place ever again.
"Well… we can stay here for the next month. Any longer than that and we could be found."
"What about the Akatsuki hideout?"
"Only if you want to help me clear out the bodies."
"We'll leave tomorrow."
*
The Uchiha boys cleared the hideout of the festering bodies of Akatsuki.
"When did you say you killed them? They shouldn't be this rotten after only a couple of days." Sasuke had is face covered with a mask to block the stench of Kisame's corpse.
"I killed them about a week ago. I planned this quite a while before I got to your team. I knew I could kill them all with no problem. I just didn't really know how long it would take to kill your teammates," he admitted.
"What happened to 'I could have killed them any time I wanted'?" Sasuke teased.
"I could have. I just didn't know how long it would take to actually do it." Itachi smirked. Sasuke was always trying to fluster him. Heh. Foolish Otouto.
"Damnit! You'll have to help me with this one. He's too big." Sasuke couldn't believe how heavy Kisame was. He didn't know how the shark man could walk around weighing so much!
"I always told him he needed to go on a diet…" Itachi muttered, grabbing Kisame under his arms while Sasuke grabbed his ankles.
They soon had them all in a pile, ready to be burnt.
"What about Hidan? Where is he?"
"I'll show you in a moment." Itachi smirked, using Katon to burn the pile of Akatsuki bodies. Sasuke was intrigued. He wondered what on earth Itachi could have done to the immortal to make him smirk so evilly. He was just glad it wasn't him on the end of that smirk. He suppressed a shudder, imagining many horrific scenarios.
"Come on, little brother." Itachi pulled him by the wrist, back into the large hideout, down long corridors and steep staircases. He lead the boy to what seemed to be a large dungeon.
"A dungeon?"
"Just wait." Itachi's voice had a hint of amusement in it, his eyes uncharacteristically twinkling with mirth.
As they neared the room furthest from the entrance to the dungeons, Sasuke could hear moaning. It seemed Hidan was in a world of pain.
"I thought he liked pain?"
"He does."
"What did you do?"
"Just wait."
They finally made it to the huge, iron door. Sasuke braced himself for what was beyond the door. He knew what his brother was capable of. He shuddered to think about what Itachi could do to make Hidan moan in pain.