Am I foolish aniki?

Chapter 9

Sasuke was still sitting there, leaning against the wall and feeling the coldness of the concrete seep through his thin clothing. He knew that at least his pants were going to be caked with dust and dirt from the ground when he would get up, but at the moment he didn't care about small things like that. So he continued to sit there almost unmoving, only occasionally changing his position to a more comfortable one until he setted to rest his elbows against his knees that were drawn to his chest, with his head between his hands and his fingers tangled into his short black hair.

He had been there for nearly two hours, but he couldn't tell for sure, and Sasuke wondered if he should be heading home now. Sakura would wonder where he was and Kakashi as well, and if they found him from here they would be searching for him from here in the future too. That would mean that his privacy would once more be completely lost. He sighed, but didn't get up, he still had some thinking to do.

As Sasuke was deep in his thoughts he failed to notice the darker shape among the shadows of the alley he was in. It was tall and thin, blending perfectly in the darkness and if it had wanted it would have been practically invisible. However it was waiting to be seen and was rather curious of why Sasuke was failing to notice it.

The shape came forward, out of the shadows and into the dim light of the alley. It was much easier to see now, yet still Sasuke was clueless of its presence and even if he had noticed it he would have most likely assumed it to be just another friendly ninja passing by. However if he had looked at the person Sasuke would have seen the red, white and black Akatsuki cloak that screamed about danger and power. Another thing he would have seen and had mixed feelings about was the solemn red eyes that looked like they saw right into his very soul.

Itachi walked next to Sasuke and once more waited for his brother to face him. He was curious about his younger brother's unusually dark mood too, but not so much so that he would have asked about it. Asking wasn't his style, he would make Sasuke tell him.

"Weak." Itachi huffed, like he was offended that Sasuke hadn't tried to kill him yet.

"I knew someone was there. I hoped you'd go away if I ignored you." Sasuke replied, but still didn't raise his gaze away from the ground. He couldn't feel the anger and hate anymore, right now he felt only empty. Like all his emotions had been carved away from his chest with his heart that was no longer in his possession.

Itachi walked in front of his brother and frowned, small lines forming between his eyes even though he was still young.

"Are you crying otouto?"

"Would you care if I was?" Now Sasuke did look up at his brother that was standing no more than an arms lenght away from him. There was no tears in the boys eyes, there had been, but they tried up long time ago.

"It makes you weak."

"You make me weak!" Sasuke snapped, raising his voice as he became annoyed. He had never been good in taking his brother's critizising, hated he him or not. "I can't hate you! No matter what you do! No matter how much you push me away! I just can't hate you!"

"Fool." Itachi said and shook his head as he started to leave, clearly implying that he had had enough of his brother's stupidity.

"You are the fool! I hate you, don't you dare to leave me like this!"

The older of the Uchiha brothers stopped, he knew that Sasuke had never been very logical when he was in an emotional state. His brother was getting angry already, he always got angry fast. Itachi smiled a true smile, not worrying aboit his image as the cloak hid the lower half of his face and besides, he had his back turned to the person he wanted to hide his current emotions from.

"Foolish." He stated and turned towards his younger brother again.

Sasuke was being aware of every move he made, not trusting him for a good reason. The boy had no idea of his intentions and no desire to be hurt because of any mistake he would make if he continued to ignore Itachi. He didn't feel anyone near and he didn't know if that was a good or a bad thing. If Itachi was here in peace no one would find them and start a fight, but if he was going to kill him no one would be around to help him. Of course he was only a genin, so that he couldn't detect anyone didn't really mean no one was there. Itachi would be able to tell if there was people in hiding, but if he chose to do anything about it was a completely different thing.

He stood and looked deep into Itachi's eyes and was sure that he had all of his brother's attention centered solely on him. Sasuke felt a small burst of joy in his chest where his heart would be, this was something he had wanted every day as a child, but what he had never gotten. Alas, his happiness was short lived as he noticed that something was off, way off. He was standing still, as Itachi had been too, but now they were colliding fast.

Itachi on the other hand had known what was coming as no genin ninja could hide from him, but had decided to stay where he was. There was no attack a genin could do to harm him. However what had happened had taken him by suprise, not that he would ever admit it, and when he felt the strong push on his shoulderblades he had lost his footing.

There wasn't enough time or space so that either of them could stop what was happening, but when their bodies crashed against each other and their lips met, they knew who was the one to blame.

Behind them Naruto did a little happy-dance and congratulated himself of a successful mission.

-tbc-

Author's notes:

And there it is, happy now people? Is anyone reading this anymore? Hello?

I finally gave up on finding my missing original notes on this and made new ones, luckily I like this version better. I think I will end this version same way I was going to finish the original and if it goes the way I want it to it will be so cute. One more chapter and this thing will be finished (and who knows when I'll post it), then I might rewrite the other chapters because they are so horrible and short and full of mistakes. Btw, did you notice my improved writing and the lenght of the chapter? My writing doesn't suck as much as it used to. Yay!