I Touch Myself

ItachixSasuke: The Yaoi Excerpt

Introduction

Characters © Masashi Kimimoto

Fanfiction © Eziah

Itachi stood by the doorway entrance to their small house within the Uchiha clan. He was awaiting his father's return. His dad had left to go on an important mission and left his prodigy son to watch over their mom.

A figure leaped out from the darkness of a corner and attempted to pounce on Itachi. With almost no effort, Itachi turned around, grabbed the figure by his collar, and dropped him to the ground. "You don't scare me Sasuke." He reminded his younger brother.

"Ugh…nii-san…Can't you just purposefully let me pounce you successfully for once?" Sasuke asked, on his stomach.

"Then you'll never feel a challenge in it."

Sasuke stood up and pouted. "Then why don't you help me? Teach me how to be more skillful."

Itachi merely sighed and gestured for Sasuke to come closer. Sasuke did as told, smiling. Only to be welcomed by two fingers injuring his forehead.

"Another time."

Another time, another time, another time… those words were heard all the time whenever Itachi and Sasuke were in the same room. "Is it possible for you to say anything else, nii-san?" Sasuke asked getting very close eye contact with him. A moment of silence surrounded the area, with Itachi's cold eyes staring him down, but he didn't budge.

Itachi admired his brother's bravery to confront him so, but bravery came with consequences. He picked him up off the ground by his collar, again. "You should show more respect for your brother, Sasuke-chan." Itachi said, while closing his eyes.

Sasuke struggled to get out of Itachi's grasp, wriggling like a worm on a hook. "I liked it better when all you did to me was poke my forehead!" He whined.

When Itachi finally did let Sasuke go, it was in his room.

Thinking quietly to yourself of your actions and decisions will help you become a better ninja. Sasuke reminisced about what Itachi had said to him. He was meditating, following his brother's advice, but he couldn't get a moment of peace. Outside, there were kids playing poison tree, yelling at each other about who tagged who(Poison Tree: One person stands in the middle of a selected area, only able to move from left to right. The other players have to try to run past without getting caught. If someone is caught, they stay in the middle with that person and try to catch more people.) And inside his house, he could hear his pet cockatoo whistling beautifully. Which wasn't utterly disturbing… but it wasn't utterly appropriate for a time such as this. "Tsubasa-kun…do you have to be so noisy?" Sasuke asked the bird, who only chirped happily in reply to his owner's rude question. His brother had gotten him the bird for his birthday because he said Sasuke resembled a cockatoo. Sasuke didn't think he looked like a bird. He thought he looked like a cute cat. At first his mom and dad didn't agree with having an animal in the household, but after some convincing from Itachi that this would keep Sasuke company their parents agreed.

An hour had passed, where Sasuke had tried to meditate in the disturbing environment, but he gave that up and exited his room. He did manage to conduct a plan on how to improve his shuriken throwing though.

So, he left to go train in the woods. Itachi had helped him setup five targets to practice throwing shurikens and kunai. It had helped him ever since school started since now they were learning the proper way to throw weapons.

By the time he arrived in the woods, it was almost in the early evening. The long walk had already tired out his small legs, but he was determined to not have that disrupt his training. First, Sasuke threw a kunai. It hit the second circle on the target, but then fell to the ground. Sasuke tried his luck with multiple shurikens. All those ended in failure. He felt like a complete idiot, coming all the way out here to accomplish nothing at all. With his last bit of effort, Sasuke threw his last kunai. Like an angel in a time of need, Itachi appeared from behind the tree with the target nailed on it and caught the kunai in midair. Sasuke's eyes widened and he yelled out," That one was going to make it!"

Itachi shook his head doubtfully. "No, it wouldn't have." After he said that, he realized Sasuke wasn't coming back at him with competitive remarks. Instead, he just stood there. He looked as if he were going to cry. "What's wrong?"

"I can't do anything right." Sasuke choked on those words.

Trying to cheer him up, Itachi said," No…but you can do everything wrong." That didn't seem to help, considering Sasuke started to cry harder after that. And people wonder why I'm silent… Itachi thought helplessly to himself, frowning. So, he stood behind his little brother and stole a shuriken from his pocket. His back, facing the target, was straight and well postured. "Observe." With one quick swipe of his arm, the shuriken flew out of his hand and hit the exact middle of the target.

Sasuke was in awe. His mouth almost dropped and his pupils were watching Itachi in amazement. "Su…goi…" Sasuke whispered to himself.

"What have you learned?"

"That you're amazing!" His eyes lit up.

"…No." Itachi replied coldly.

Sasuke had to think about what Itachi did differently. "I didn't see anything that you did differently than what I did." He said, crossing his arms.

"It's not something you can see." Itachi said. "Your mind was full of various thoughts...It's distracting you."

"How do you know I was thinking about things?" Sasuke asked, giving his brother an annoyed look.

"You give it off when you're cursing beneath your breath." He replied calmly.

Sasuke remembered earlier, how he had been cursing silently. But, that was after the fifth unsuccessful kunai that he threw. That means Itachi was watching him the whole time. "You stalker!" Sasuke shouter after adding it all up in his mind.

"Such a harsh name to call me by, Sasuke-chan."

"Don't give me such a cute suffix…"

Changing the subject, Itachi said," Don't forget to work on clearing your mind. If you can't rid of thoughts, then think about aiming correctly."

"Wakarimashte." Sasuke replied. Why did his brother have to be so smart all the time?

"Sayonara, Sasuke." Itachi said and began walking off.

Sasuke chased after him. "Matte!"

Itachi turned around and questioned him," What?"

"You're not going to just leave me here, are you?"

"If you didn't want me to, you could have just said so. But it's getting dark and we really should start heading home."

"Um…nii-san…"

"Hm?"

"Could you carry me? I'm tired." Sasuke asked modestly.

"…Jump on." Itachi squatted, awaiting his little brother to get on his back.

Sasuke smiled happily and jumped on his back, accidentally making Itachi fall over. "You need to work on your balance, nii-san."

"You're heavier." Itachi said and pushed himself off the ground. Then, he stood up and held up Sasuke's butt with his hands tied behind his back.

"Don't call me fat…" Sasuke growled.

"I'm not."

Halfway home, Itachi readjusted his posture. His fingers moved lightly over Sasuke's butt and Sasuke immediately tensed up and blushed.

Itachi stopped and asked if he was all right. All Sasuke did was nod with a straight face.

When they arrived home, Sasuke was sleeping peacefully on his brother's back. Itachi turned his head to look at Sasuke. Sasuke's dark bangs hid his closed eyes and he was breathing steadily. A small, barely noticeable smile crossed over Itachi's face. It was a pleasant surprise to see his brother so at rest. Itachi would never smile in public, only his brother had the opportunity to witness his smile.

Itachi pushed aside the silky curtain that was used as their doorway. Inside it was quiet and dead. Itachi stepped carefully over the wooden floor. Even though he was being as careful as possible not to make a sound, the creaking still rang throughout the room.

Reaching Sasuke's room, he laid his brother down on his small bed, and covered his body up with the covers.

Itachi took one last look at his brother. He used his hand to shift Sasuke's bang out of his forehead.

"Goodnight." Itachi whispered in the darkness.