Oh, mygosh! I am just getting over the worst case of writers block I've had in a LONG time. Also I finally think I'm going to get some quality writing time only to arrive at school and be assigned a 6 page English paper and a 3 page history paper. Pain in my butt…anyway, moving on. Ok, sorry, the last chapter kind of jumped around a lot, but I wanted to go back to when he wrote the duet because so many people asked about it during take a bow and it took me FOREVER to find one that would work. Anyway, I don't own crap, press the pretty green button at the end please!
"Hello little brother," came a calm voice from the door.
"Sshh!" I quietly prompted. My eyes darted to the sleeping blonde on my bed. I gently closed my piano I had been playing on and stalked out of the door, taking my brother with me. "Naruto's asleep."
"My my, you sound…worried." Itachi chided. I glared hard at him as I closed the door.
"Why are you here Itachi?" I asked in a clipped voice.
"We're having a concert nearby so Kisame drove me up." The metal stick in his hand skid across the carpet. "I may have seen you recently, but Kakashi and little Naruto, no." he smirked a superior smirk at me. "So why is the little blonde asleep in the middle of the afternoon anyway?
I shrugged, speeding up slightly, "She's been acting strange all for the past two weeks."
"So as long as you've been home?" he asked with a chuckle.
"Hn." I sped up, already growing irritated with my brother.
Some how my BLIND brother managed to easily keep stride with my near jogging pace down the stairs. "Little brother," he chided, "You're the one that is supposed to know whats wrong."
"She won't tell me damn it!" I spun on my heel and glared.
He chuckled again, tousling my hair.
"Itachi?" came the questioning voice from upstairs. I looked up to see a head of bright blonde hair come tearing down the staircase and nearly tackling my older brother. He dropped his stick expectantly and caught her easily. "ITACHI!" she giggled happily as she hugged my brother tightly.
"How are you Kid?" he asked laughing.
"I'm great!" she answered instantly. Itachi gently sat the blonde back on her feet.
"Well, how about you come to our concert tonight, its just outside of town."He handed her a handful of tickets with the words backstage pass written on them. "Why don't you go call your friends?"
"Yay!" Naruto looked like a little kid as she jumped up and down, darting out the door and taking out her bright orange cell.
"Well, she seems better." Itachi laughed, bending to grab his walking stick.
I glared at my brother, furious that HE was the one to get her back to normal. "Why did you REALLY come here?" I challenged.
"Jiraiya and Kakashi called me a few days ago," he relented, "They were worried about her. Jiraiya says she hasn't been sleeping the entire week he's been home. We were worried and our tour just ended so we scheduled a VERY last minute concert. It wasn't THAT hard with Pein's connections." He shrugged, leaning back against the wall.
I glared, angry that I felt the slightest bit of gratitude towards this betrayer. The small blonde bounced back into the room simply glowing, plummeting my mood further to realize it hadn't been me to put the grin on her face. "Sakura says she's sorry but she can't come, but the boys can!"
"Well then, shall we go pick them up? I believe it has been a while since I have seen Gaara and Sai." Itachi answered, waving for her to lead the way out.
Naruto's gaze turned to me and her eyebrows furrowed at my expression. "Teme, would you stop being prissy! Your brother doesn't get to visit often!" her voice was irritable as she mock glared at me.
I sighed relinquishing as her glare turned to a very formidable pout. "Hn." I grumbled, slouching my shoulders and shoving my hands into my pockets. Though most wouldn't consider this an improvement in attitude, Naruto was appeased. She skipped happily towards the car before catching sight of Kisame and breaking into a full out run.
I snorted as I followed after her, but glared as I caught sight of my brother's greater than thou smirk. The sudden sound of my phone ringing startled me out of brooding. Without looking at the id I flipped it open.
"Hn." I answered it.
"Sasuke, I hope I am not interrupting, but I would like to gather the band members for a practice. I have organized studio time to check on your sound. Be at the studio in a half an hour." Without waiting for a reply the line went dead.
Itachi POV
I turned as my little brother growled at his phone in frustration. I could imagine him as glared darkly at the phone and was shocked I didn't hear it crumble in his grip. Naruto was duly distracted by my fish like band mate at the moment near the car.
"Something wrong little brother?" I interrupted his glaring match with an inanimate object. I felt his glower turn to me.
"I have to go." He growled as he spun toward the house, his heel making a scraping sound on the walkway.
"Bastard!" Naruto called from behind us, "Where are you going you damn Teme!"
"Orochimaru called a band meeting. Later." The front door rattled from the force Sasuke exerted to close it. I heard Naruto release a gentle sigh as she came beside me. I placed my hand on her shoulder to find them slumped in a defeated posture as she faced the door, but as soon as my hand touched her shoulder she immediately fixed her stance to not give away her unhappiness. Her response answered the question of why she had been upset lately.
"Does he always call last minute like that?" I asked gently, but in an indifferent tone.
"More and more lately." She answered with a shrug, pulling out from under my hand. I heard her normally lively steps skid across the ground. I followed her with a defeated sigh, *Sasuke, what are you doing.*
"What, the ice princess not joining us?" Kisame asked as we neared the car.
"Apparently not." Instead of joining Kisame in the front I sat in back with the little blond.
"So who was on the phone exactly?" I asked Naruto as I lounged back into the leather seats.
"His manager, he's a creep. Names…..Orochimaru I think…"
"What?!" Kisame suddenly barked, "Your kid brother's manager is THAT circus freak?"
"Yeah, you lot know him?" her voice was laced with surprise.
"Yeah, the creep used to work under Pein, guys got a grudge. Wants to make his company close down." Kisame's voice growled.
"Hmm… He creeps me out… Oh well, he's still helping Sasuke chase his dream I guess." Her voice got quieter, she must have turned to face the window. "Never thought he would leave so soon though." I heard her slide down in her seat with a sigh.
*Little brother…What the HELL are you doing.*
A side story present because it has been so long since I've posted.
Itachi's point of view
"Why hello little Itachi. Its been a while since you've come around with your dad hasn't it?" The over jubilant blonde man opened the door to allow my father and me inside.
"Yes sir." I answered in the most polite tone I could to the man that employed and was best friends with my father.
"As polite as always I see. So rare in a 6 year old." He mused, grinning but shaking his head in exasperation.
My father chuckled, ruffling my hair. "Mikoto and Sasuke will be over as soon as he gets up from his nap."
"I see, Naruto is already up at the moment. You haven't gotten to meet her yet have you Itachi? Mikoto has you helping out with little Sasuke that you all haven't been over in a year. Well, besides you Fugaku." Minato grinned happily, waving us both inside.
I followed them in to where Kushina sat on the floor entertaining a giggling baby.
"Why hello Itachi. Its been a while since you've been over here." Kushina rescued a lock of her hair from the baby's vice grip as she turned to greet me. She swept the small bundle off the floor and almost instantaneously, I had the slightly pudgy baby in my arms. I stared shocked up at Kushina then down to the bundle, rearranging my arms in a practiced way. After all, I wasn't necessarily unused to having babies randomly placed in my arms considering my brother was the same age as the one year old in my arms.
The small child frowned up at me, staring with the brightest blue eyes I had ever seen. Her blond hair framed her face in a wild manner. Her small, tan fist swatted at my cheek, as if scolding me for not smiling at her. I automatically grinned, and her response was to giggle. This did shock me. My little brother could never be accused of something as normal as giggling, it would be too cute. For a one year old he had two expressions, indifference and pissed.
"She gets irritated if people don't smile at her. I once even saw her blow a raspberry in a politicians face when he glared at her." Minato laughed as he watched me offer my finger to his daughter.
"Well she won't like Sasuke much then." I muttered. She pulled my finger into her mouth and gnawed on it. "Ouch!" I jerked my hand from her grip, causing her to pout and then burst into tears. I jumped in surprise, but before I could react further she was swept fro my arms and placed on the floor.
"Now now Narut, its not good to cry just because you got scolded." Kushina scolded the crying baby.
"My my, what happened here?" I turned to see my mother walking in with an aggravated looking one year old.
"Naruto is just a little bent out of shape." Minato laughed, scratching at the back of his head.
"I see," Mikoto placed my raven haired little brother next to the crying blonde. My brother glared at the noisy baby beside him before reaching out a small fist and crashing it on the back of her head.
The blonde baby's head jerked up as she gazed teary eyed at Sasuke. Everyone in the room gasped, holding their breath to wait for reaction. Instead of renewing her crying the baby girl simply leaned forward and pinched both of Sasuke's cheeks, pulling on them. Then, with a satisfied giggle released him. She sat back laughing in a cute squeak laugh while my brother glared at her. What truly shocked me was the fact that instead of his usual deep frown Sasuke now sported some form of smirk.
"Well, that went well." Mikoto laughed.
"It's a good thing that they seem to get along." Fugaku mused, "she'll be his charge, and yours Itachi Atleast until Sasuke is old enough to do it on his own." Mom placed a loving hand on my shoulder.
Our charge huh?...I could live with that. I smirked down at Naruto as she got my brother to smile for the first time.
And that is it for this chappy…PRESS THE PRETTY GREEN BUTTON…PRESS IT!!!!!!! Wow…I'm really in a weird mood aren't I? Oh well. Laterz!