Hey guys welcome to the third "not-too-late" update, go me!

CW: self harm in the first half

"He's dead" Mikoto said. Sasuke's face dropped, he didn't know how to react to the news he had just been told. He didn't believe what he'd heard,

"what?" Sasuke asked quickly. He felt his lower lip trembling but he couldn't cry.

"Your brother is dead" She said once more, refusing to look at her youngest son. Shock set in and Sasuke felt as if he couldn't move, his whole body tensed up and felt as if he was watching himself from behind. Sasuke tried to move his body, he wanted to get out and run, he wanted to run as fast as he could but his body wouldn't move. Sasuke felt the anxiety, the pain, the shock filling up inside him creating an overpowering sickly feeling in his gut. His lip shuck but no tears came to his eyes, he was stuck in place. "Sasuke?" Mikoto asked, the sound of his mothers broken and croaky voice pulled him out of his daze causing the young Uchiha to jump back almost hitting the wall.

"Sasuke it's okay" Mikoto tried to reassure him

"no, no get away from me" Sasuke shouted and turned around, he ran through the house quickly dodging tables and bumping into walls and doors until he slammed his bedroom door behind him and sunk to the floor below him. Not being able to cry, Sasuke let out the most pained scream into the empty room.

"Sasuke.." Mikoto asked gently from behind the door, "come on.. let's talk"

"No! Fuck off" Sasuke shouted and screamed again, jumping up and grabbing the nearest ornament and throwing it at the door smashing it into a million pieces. Mikoto sighed and walked away from the door as the tears finally filled Sasuke's eyes and he dropped once more among the broken pieces of pottery and let his heart break as the crying screams echoed through the house. Sasuke couldn't handle sitting in one place as the agonizing pain forced him to keep moving. The Uchiha jumped up and grabbed a handful of his hair and pulled at it, pulling some of it out, as he let out yet another scream. Sasuke grabbed a pillow off of his bed and flung it across the room knocking a picture from off of the wall and smashing the glass in it on the floor. He grabbed a collection of Itachi's books and threw them at the wall and ripped some of them up before launching them at the floor. Sasuke kicked Itachi's bookbag and flung the covers off of his bed.

"Fuck you Itachi" He screamed through his tears, "fuck you you said forever"

Sasuke let out another agonized scream before storming over to some broken glass and picking it up, his anger was mixing with the pain he was feeling causing him to become a temporary nuclear explosion of emotions as he held the glass firmly and ripped into his skin. Sasuke screamed in pain as the blood oozed from the open skin. The anger started to die down as he continued slicing into his once clean arm until he was left with nothing but an empty hole in his chest and blood dripping from each side of his arm. Sasuke felt the tears fall quicker as he spotted Itachi's jacket that he always wore hung neatly on the hanger in the room. Picking up the jacket Sasuke wrapped himself into it and lay on Itachi's now trashed bed and cried into his pillow.

In the other room Mikoto was stood pacing around the living room, "I don't know what I expected" she said to herself, "I didn't think he would react this badly... I know I shouldn't have lied but.. It's for the best, right?"

XxX

Itachi looked up at the big house. "Am I at the right place?" he asked himself as he looked around the neighborhood. Itachi took a deep breath and knocked on the large door. Soon after, a tall man opened the door. He had long black hair which seemed to have not been styled in years and had a scar going across his face. The man took a lot at Itachi, he seemed to recognize him from somewhere.

"Itachi?" The man asked quietly, not sure if it was in fact Itachi or just some kid that needed something. Itachi nodded gently and the tall man's harsh expression rested and a smile formed upon his face, "Itachi" he said again, only this time confident. The man pulled Itachi into a warm embrace and stroked his back,

"is that you, uncle Madara?" Itachi asked and Madara nodded into his shoulder. Itachi hadn't seen his uncle Madara for 16 years so he didn't even think he would have been recognized. When Itachi got kicked out he didn't have anywhere to go, however he did remember a certain thing he was told when he was 6 years old and saw his uncle Madara and uncle Izuna for the last time.

I know it's wrong for me to love my own brother, but if it was you in this situation I would understand completely and provide the complete support you need. Itachi's uncle Izuna had said that to him, but at the time he didn't know what he meant. I'll always be here if you need me. Due to those words that stuck in Itachi's head for the following 16 years he knew exactly what to do when he was promptly removed from his own house for the same reason as Madara and Izuna. Once Itachi realized he was truly on his own he grabbed his phone and dug through all of his contacts until he finally found Izuna and Madara's address.

"What are you doing here?" Madara said as he pulled away, also pulling Itachi out of his daydream.

"It's a long story.." Itachi said and continued to look at the floor,

"I see, come in" Madara said and placed an arm around Itachi and walked through the door into the large living area. "Izuna, we have a visitor" Madara called out into the house and soon enough a man who looked like an older Sasuke appeared.

"Oh my... is that?" Izuna asked as he spotted Itachi, he instantly made his way over and placed a hand on Itachi's cheek. "It is.. I'd remember that face anywhere, Itachi what on earth are you doing here?"

"Well you see.." Itachi started but tears filled his eyes as he ran the story through in his head, how could he be so stupid as to forget what Sasuke would do when he got home.

"Sit down, love" Izuna said as he directed Itachi towards the large sofa. "Go at your own pace it's okay, we're here" he said as him and Madara sat opposite him on some form of coffee table and held his hand.

Itachi took a deep breath and began, "everything started when Sasuke was 12 and I was 18" Itachi paused and looked up at his uncles to see their reaction, Izuna nodded at him to continue, "I started to get these... feelings... But I'm not a pedophile I promise I'm not interested in kids" he suddenly blurted out after realizing how screwed up this whole story sounded,

"it was just Sasuke" Madara added in and Itachi nodded and hung his head in shame, "that's okay, continue"

"so... I started to notice him at 12 but I just thought it was something else y'know so I ignored it.. But then when he was 14 it just didn't go away it just got stronger, I would get jealous of his girlfriends and his boyfriends and anyone he brought home I just wanted his attention and you must think i'm some form of freak or something"

"no of course not, just please tell us the story so we can provide support"

Itachi nodded, "so by the time Sasuke was 15 nothing changed and I couldn't handle it so I... Tracked down Izuna.."

"Wait" Madara interrupted, "you saw Itachi last year and didn't tell me?"

"I thought it was too risky, he wanted advice so I gave it to him. I've been up to date until this point, all I knew was he seemed to have this crush on Sasuke so I told him to do what he feels is right"

"does he know about?"

"no, I didn't feel like he needed to and there was only a set amount of time until it became dangerous" Izuna said and the looked back at Itachi, nodding at him to continue.

"well a few months later I accidentally confessed to Sasuke and turns out he felt the same way.. So we started this thing and basically last night our mom caught us and kicked me out. Sasuke doesn't know where I've gone and I'm terrified that you guys will judge me and it's so stupid because you're the uncles that got removed from the family because you did the same damn thing"

"wait you know?" Madara asked, shocked,

"well of course, I was alive when you told my mom and I was awake. That night is my only memory of you two of course I remember it" Itachi said and pressed his head into his hands. "I don't know what to do" He admitted.

"Well..." Izuna said, "since this how has kinda became the reject bin of Uchiha's we could make up a spare bedroom and you can stay here with us. I'm not sure what will happen about Sasuke but I think for now it's best to leave it. Knowing Mikoto she's thought up some crazy scheme to remove you from Sasuke's life so it would be best to let him adjust okay?" Izuna said and stroked Itachi's arm.

"Is this my fault?" Itachi asked, "have I ruined Sasuke's chance at a normal life?"

"Of course not, sometimes love just does crazy fucking things" Madara said.

Hope you enjoyed this update, wooo Itachi's not dead! As if I'd kill him off this early into the story, we gotta have that Uchihacest goodness first;)

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