Hey! Sorry fr the delay I've had a few things to sort out for starting my year long placement in the hospital. Hope you enjoy this one, next chap should be up in the next few days!
Chapter 7. Sasu POV
"Care to explain what is going on here, little brother?" I stare into the bottom of my empty cup, my hand tightening around it. "Why are you here, wearing her clothes?" I cringe at his cold tone. I've not heard him speak that way to me in a long time.
"I'm sorry," I manage to get out. I walk over to the couch to change into my clothes. Itachi sits down on the couch pulling me down with him once I'd folded up the clothes Naruko had let me wear.
"For what?" I rest my elbows on my knees, link my hands together and rest my chin on the back of my hands.
"For being an idiot. Spoiling the Uchiha name. Anything. Everything." I hear him sigh and he puts a hand on my shoulder, squeezing it slightly.
"You've never spoilt our family name, Sasuke." I shake my head at him.
"I have, and I do. All the time." I rub my face before running my hand through my hair, noticing that it smells like oranges.
"Sasuke... Why do you smell like Naruko?" My hand stills before bringing it down.
"She washed my hair..." And other parts but I choose not to mention that, feeling my cheeks redden.
"You didn't have a... girly sleepover with her did you? Is that why you were in her clothes?" He looks at his watch before looking back at me. "Shouldn't you still be at school?"
"I didn't go to school today..." He just looks at me, and I can't tell what he is thinking. Not that I could ever read him much anyway.
"And she didn't turn up to Uni. Someone from her class asked about her." He says nothing for a few minutes and neither do I. The bathroom door opens and closes; and I sneak a peek at her before she heads into her room. I can just see the start of her scar above the towel that's wrapped around her. The bedroom door closes behind her and I hear her giggle from inside. "Sasuke. What is going on here?" I sigh.
"She caught me drinking." I hear him grind his teeth.
"She caught you doing what? Sasuke. Please tell me you weren't drinking, again?" I let my head hang low slightly.
"I'm sorry."
"Where were you?"
"The Kyuubi. I didn't know she worked there..." He grabs my shoulders and turns me to face him.
"Don't you listen to anything I say to you? Don't you remember how worried I was when one of your so-called friends rang me to tell me you were in hospital last time?" His voice gets louder as he goes on. The sounds coming from the bedroom stop. "That you had to have your stomach pumped and I had to hide it from our parents because you were so foolish and could have killed yourself?" I stay silent as I listen to him trying to slow his breathing. "How many times since then, Sasuke? How much have you been lying to me these last two years?"
"At least once a week..." I whimper. I glance at his face and physically see him snap. Before I can move away, his fist connects with my nose and I fall off the couch with the impact. They must have heard because I faintly heard her door open before seeing her kneeling beside me. I hold my nose as blood gushes out.
"Itachi! What the hell do you think you're doing?" She pulls me up, dragging me towards the bathroom.
"What does it look like, Naruko? I'm sick of the way he's been acting. Nothing I say gets through to him." We stand just outside the bathroom.
"Oh, so you'd rather pummel it into him, huh?" I look up at her and flinch at the look on her face. "So he gets hammered nearly every week, so what. I've done worse things than that, and you never laid a hand on me. So don't do it to your own brother. Especially in my home." He gets up to leave, but she points at him. That terrifying look still on her face. "Don't you dare. You're not going anywhere. I'll clean him up, then you's are going to sort this, Uchiha." Before he can reply, she drags me into the bathroom, slamming the door behind us. I can hear Deidara and my brother arguing and sigh. This is going to be a long night.
Sorry it's so short. I promise they do get longer, though the longer they get the longer it will be until the next chapter. I'll update soon, hope you enjoyed it!