Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Brother's Can't Be Trusted ❯ When the Tides of Love are Raging ( Chapter 11 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

An infuriated Uchiha sating fuming in the back seat as the car finally came to a halt. The teen's charcoal eyes never looked so furious and unreasonable as Itachi opened the back door and took the blond up into his arms. If not for Sasuke's seat beat securely holding him back, he would have jumped Itachi that very moment and ripped off his head. Even Sasuke didn't believe he could feel this much sadness and frustration over one little thing, but in truth, Naruto was worth it.

Angrily, Sasuke watched the older Uchiha carry his friend off to the front door of his home. Despite his knowing Naruto didn't mean anything that happened today, Sasuke still couldn't help but hold a grudge toward the blond who so willing allowed himself to be hooked, lined, and sinker. Itachi kindly handed off the sleeping boy to a rather grumpy Jiraiya, and explained that he had been working on his project with Sasuke all day to excuse his tardiness. Jiraiya seemed to accept that answer and took the blond in with a glare.

The ride home had to have been the most fearful night in Sasuke's entire life. There was nothing but an eerie silence looming over the two brothers. Of course all sorts of things to be said were running through both of their thoughts, but neither had the urge to say them aloud for it would only begin unwanted conflict on the road, which wouldn't be safe for either of their health.

"Sasuke?" Itachi finally broke the silence carefully. he glanced up at the rearview mirror at his pouting little brother, crossing his arms and glaring menacingly at his reflection. "I fine it hard to believe you are making any effort to win him over." The man chuckled, only adding more to Sasuke's anger.

"Well not all of us can be as experienced as you Itachi," Sasuke growled deeply. "I like to keep my battles clean and fair and not use dirty tricks to win people over. If you think Naruto is naive enough to fall for that joke in the end, then you are dead wrong."

"Then I guess we'll see my dear brother, won't we?" Itachi smirked as he listened to Sasuke's silence once more. "I do hope I can spend more time with the boy, for a noob, he's not a bad kisser." Itachi remarked, finding amusement in Sasuke's immediate reaction. Itachi ignored the countless profanities yelled at him, for his thoughts were content with thinking of the blond and his adorable behavior this afternoon. He had Sasuke to thank for his stupidity, Itachi would have never been able to experience that moment if Sasuke hadn't gotten in trouble or hurt the boy's feelings.

Itachi took pride in the way his brother shoved open the car door and stumped out and into the house. Itachi quickly and amusedly followed behind, snickering occasionally as he watched Sasuke fumble in the removal of his clothes. The younger Uchiha hurriedly prepared for bed, hoping that when he woke up, all of this would have just been a horrific dream. But even he knew that was an unlikely occurrence considering how terrible his life has been so far.

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Sasuke scolded vehemently as he heard relentless knocking at their front door. Turning in bed, he muffled the aggravating sounds with his pillow. Thanks to Itachi's little confession, Sasuke was haunted all night with images of his brother kissing and ravishing Naruto. And surprising to say, that had not given him the usual arousal he was accustomed to whenever Naruto was involved. So to say in the very least, he was grumpy from lack of sleep.

But the knocking repeated, building up Sasuke's anger until he finally yelled and threw his blankets off of his body. He glared at the clock on his nightstand as it blinked '7:45' in bright red numbers. Damn, he had missed the bus five minutes ago. It looked like another day he would have to walk all the way to school or worse, catch a ride with Itachi.

Sasuke stumbled down the hallway and finally opened the door with a malicious tug. "What do you want?!" He yelled instinctively. He paid no mind to the fact he was only in the boxers he had sleep in and his hair was a disheveled mess of crabgrass. He just considered sleeping in for the day, though it would ruin his perfect attendance record, how cares?

"Ohayoo Sasuke!" Cheered the ecstatic, lively blond standing at his front door. Sasuke blinked surprisingly. Was he seeing things? Naruto was actually at his door. "I was worried you got hurt yesterday going home alone, so when I didn't see you at the bus stop I came here." Naruto explained. "I glad to see you are alright," he chuckled.

He was worried? He actually missed the bus so he could check on him? Somehow Sasuke found this all very hard to believe since Naruto had spent most of yesterday with Itachi, why should he give a damn about him?

"Uh, thanks...I guess." Sasuke remarked confused. How come he got the feeling if he hadn't been the one to answer the door, Itachi would be the one Naruto would happily be greeting in the morning?

"Well are you going to get ready for school?" Naruto asked, hoping Sasuke realized he was hardly dressed for going out. The young Uchiha glared down at his appearance and growled something incoherently before walking off to his room. He simply left the door open for Naruto to come right in. So the blond did, thought it was awkward sitting alone in silence while the other worked.

Naruto couldn't help but wonder if Itachi was still asleep too or if he already headed off for class himself. He really wanted to thank the other for cheering him up yesterday and taking him home. But Naruto had woken up in his own bed with no one else in sight. Plus, he was disappointed he had seen Sasuke much at all that day. So what better way to make up for it than walking to school with him.

"Come on dobe, let's get going." Sasuke yawned, stepping out of his room in some wrinkled black shorts and a plain, long sleeved blue shirt.

"Hey! You are the one who woke up late, so why am I dead last?" Naruto complained, immediately waving his arms in defense. A dumbfounded look came over his face as Sasuke started to chuckle softly to himself. He wanted to know what was so funny, but judging by Sasuke's weird sense of humor, Naruto was sure he wouldn't understand it.

The two walked to school silently at first. Sasuke naturally had no idea how to strike up a conversation that wouldn't end up with him mentioning Itachi. The last thing he needed to hear from Naruto's mouth was his brother's name. But apparently he missed the opportunity when Naruto was the first to say something, as usual anyway.

"Why did you beat up Neji the other day?" Naruto asked, facing Sasuke to see any signs of lying.

Sasuke wished the blond didn't ask that question. He was sure Naruto didn't want to hear the truth certainly if it involved Neji accusing him of being a slut. "He was making fun of Aka-chan." Sasuke lied, his eyes drifting off to the side as he stared at the grass breaking through the cracks of the sidewalk. "I couldn't help it, after all you did work really hard taking care of her."

"We worked really hard." Naruto corrected with a sincere smile. "I just wish you didn't have to get detention, so we could have spent more time with her before the project is done."

Sasuke's eyes narrowed and he mumbled a rough come back. "But I'm sure she enjoyed spending time with Itachi."

"What?" Naruto asked, looking clueless as always. "What makes you think that?"

"I'm not an moron, Naruto. Plus Itachi isn't exactly secretive when it comes to gloating about dates." Sasuke hissed. He wished he was able to control this testy attitude, but it was impossible when Itachi was the subject of the conversation.

"Date?" Naruto repeated. His face went red, only causing Sasuke to fume more. Surely the blond didn't think so too, right? "He said that...?" Sasuke's jaw dropped. His ears had to be defective, because Naruto actually sounded...happy about that. But who in their right mind would be happy going out on a date with Itachi?

Naruto on the other hand was thinking the complete opposite. Who could anyone not be happy when on a date with Itachi, not that he had went on one with him? But he felt amazingly warm all over. He couldn't believe Itachi thought of it as a date and was bragging about it. At the most, Naruto would have thought Itachi never mentioning it to anyone, simply because he was some annoying little brat too young and immature for him.

"It wasn't a date..." Naruto explained, trying to convince both himself and Sasuke of that fact. "He just took me out for ice cream after school." Sasuke sounded somewhat relieved over that claim as he sighed deeply. " I didn't even know they had Miso flavored ice cream," Naruto chuckled, his eyes curving into perfectly happy half-circles. "It was great! I personally thought Itachi should have tried, but he wouldn't even eat his own ice cream."

Naruto had unconsciously started to ramble on about the so called 'date', mentioning every funny and kind thing Itachi did. Sasuke, how had managed to have high hopes after Naruto's objection to it being a date, was slowly digging himself back into a hole of despair. He had never heard someone brag about his brother like this, but Naruto was like an endless fountain, never shutting the hell up about it! But Sasuke's heart sank completely as Naruto started to describe the perfect sunset they had shared in watching on the bench together. Of course Naruto was so kind as to skip out on the kiss before then and the second kiss they had secretly shared during the sunset.

And here Sasuke thought he could win Naruto back. The blond seemed to be long gone and out of Sasuke's reach by now. Sasuke grew agitated by the fact they had reached school and Naruto had yet to close his mouth. Of course he ran out of things to say about Itachi, but that didn't keep him from talking about nothing in particular.

By the time they reached their lockers, or rather Naruto followed Sasuke to his, Sasuke was a ticking time bomb, ready to explode any minute. If Itachi was so much as implied in Naruto's next sentence, Sasuke would be on the offense, attacking any helpless soul that happened to be around. Sasuke jerked open his locker and ungracefully started to slam his books into the metal container. As if this wasn't proof enough to the naive blond that Sasuke was hardly sane at the moment.

"Naruto don't you have to get to class?" Sasuke growled temperamentally. Of course he knew they both had classes together, but he would last longer through the day if Naruto just went ahead or at least shut the hell up.

"Yeah, duh Sasuke," Naruto quickly instated as if it were the obvious thing in the world. Yet it seemed so irrational that he couldn't grasp the other obvious things going on around him. "Oh, Sasuke today is the last day for our project, tomorrow we have to turn in a report on Aka-chan." Naruto suddenly mentioned.

Sasuke sighed. Not that he didn't absolutely love and cherish the egg they made together, but he saw it simply as another person to compete with for Naruto's affection. Why was everyone except him an obsession of this blond?! Sasuke had long ago figured Naruto probably didn't talk about him to others like he talked about Itachi, Aka-chan, Haku, and food. So where was he on Naruto's love list? Probably not even on there while his brother was at the top.

"Sasuke? Are listening to me?" Naruto interrupted, noticing the teen had been out of it through another of his pointless ramblings.

Sasuke wanted to answer back with a grumpy 'unfortunate you are all I hear', but he knew it wouldn't sound quite as angry as he had wanted it to be. He only wanted Naruto to notice his frustration and annoyance, but that seemed like to much to ask for.

"I was saying that I think you should hold Aka-chan for the rest of the day." Naruto repeated, this time his words were clearly heard. "I mean haven't been doing your part like we promise the first day, so I thought you need to spend some time with her before the project is over." Naruto at least was conscious enough to know Sasuke wouldn't willingly spend time with the end once the project was through, so it was better to get him to do it now. For unlike Sasuke, Naruto actually wanted to keep the egg, despite the fact that it could rot in his room after a long while.

"Why can't you keep her, we stay in the same classes the entire day, I'll still be there." Sasuke hot-headedly explained. He slammed his locker shut and was about to walk off until Naruto raced right back in front of him.

"Come one, Sasuke. That's not the same as actually caring for her." Naruto insisted and held up the egg and raised it out for Sasuke to take. "Please. She's going to start thinking you don't love her."

Sasuke glowered at the egg with it's stupidly drawn smile, of course the smile only looked stupid now when he wanted nothing to do with it. "I told you I don't want to take care of a bothersome egg all day." Sasuke snapped back. He slapped Naruto's hands away so the egg was no longer looking him in the eyes.

"What are you saying? She's are baby, Sasuke." Naruto was growing easily irked by Sasuke's refusal. "You're not going to get fair credit on the project unless you do your share!" Naruto handed out the baby again, hoping Sasuke would finally agree and stop his bitching.

But that wasn't the case, at the most it made Sasuke more angry. "Get it through your stupid little blond head, I don't want to waste my time on this idiotic egg!" Sasuke snarled, unknowing that their little argument had grabbed quite a few eyes.

"Aka-chan is not idiotic!" Naruto defended. Sure there were plenty of times he was called stupid, but he could care less about that at the moment, despite that it was Sasuke this time to have said it. "Aka-chan is our responsibility, so 'we' have to take care of her!" Naruto quickly shoved the egg into Sasuke's hands, but he wasn't expecting the Uchiha's final resolution of conflict.

"Why don't you get Itachi to take care of her since you like him so fucking much?! I'm sure he'll make a better father than me!" Sasuke jerked the offered egg away. "Better yet, how about no one takes care of her?!"

In a brief spurge of fury, Sasuke had raised the egg eye and threw it hard onto the floor. Immediately as if a dark wave washed over the entire school, the hallway went quite, for everyone's conversation was interrupted by the dreaded and fearful cracking sound against the tiled floors. Those with enough sense about the situation, slowly disappeared into the safety of their rooms, but those that knew what was to come next were anxious for the play through.

Jet eyes glared furiously at the suddenly petrified blond before him. People could have sworn they saw a ghost by how pale and lifeless Naruto turned the very next second. The blond simply stood there in a disbelieving apprehension as the tides of realization followed desperately into his mind. Those normally big, beautiful cobalt eyes were dilated and empty as they were directed to the mess on the floor.

A thick flow of yellow yolk cascaded from the fragments of the broken shell and spread out onto the floor. Sasuke could care less at the moment for he could only glare hatefully at the astonished Naruto, in his coma like state. He wanted the blond reaction so bad, so he did the next 'worse' thing.

"I suppose you want me to take care of her now?" He mocked resentfully. Sasuke nearly stiffened as the blonde’s head shot up, sending him the most fearsome of gazes he had ever seen on the blond. He was sure Naruto's eyes were glowing bright red, but it could have just been his imagination.

"How could you do that, you asshole?!" Naruto screamed quickly. In a flash, Naruto was pathetically hitting and punching in Sasuke's chest, hollering frantic "I hate you! I hate you!"

"Well I hate you too!" Sasuke snarled back, not feeling too much pain from Naruto's attacks. He had figured the blond was more sad than anything else, so that’s why he was so weak. Sasuke heavily shoved Naruto back.

But Naruto came back, pushing Sasuke a step back. "Akurei! Akuma! Yaro!" He yelled, starting to kick Sasuke.

Those who were watching, shamefully cast their eyes to the side. Of course they didn't know the whole situation, but even not knowing they could feel the sudden pain emitting from the blond.

"You have no right to call me a demon, when you have no loyalty for anybody! I see why no body wanted to take you in! You're fucking annoying, loud, obnoxious, and stupid!" Sasuke hollered back. For a brief moment he hadn't even realized he said those words until Naruto roughly punched him in the face. Now that really hurt.

The blond tackled him to the ground and was now angrily punching the Uchiha in the face and stomach as he topped him. "I hate you Sasuke! I never want to see your fucking face again!" He screamed, continuing to punch the crap out of the other.

If Sasuke wasn't being beaten to a bloody pulp, he would have been able to see the unstoppable rush of tears pouring from the other's eyes. But Sasuke wasn't just about to let the blond beat up on him, no Uchiha went down like that.

Sasuke managed to slip in one formidable punch to Naruto's face, knocking the boy off of him. And without hesitation he repeated Naruto's actions as they were sent out into an all out brawl. Punches and kicks were through everywhere, and the terrifying sounds of screams and attacks filled the hallway. Neither of the boys had noticed some of the students running frantically to retrieve a teacher, until they were finally forced apart.

"That's enough you two!" Iruka yelled, while pulling Naruto away from Sasuke, though he had a tight grip of the Uchiha's hair and refused to let go. The blond fumbled crazily in the other's arms, still screaming curses and profanities at the Uchiha.

Kakashi finally stopped being lazily in school and actually assisted in holding back the raven haired teen. He had the boy in a vice clamp around the boy's head and arms. He struggled effortlessly against Kakashi tight hold, but was finally pried away from the fight and down the hall. "Calm down Sasuke, you want to get expelled?" Kakashi questioned, worriedly looking at Sasuke's flaring expression, red with anger.

"Naruto, are you okay?" Iruka asked concerned. He released the blond, who hadn't the strength to stand and simply let himself fall onto the floor near their fallen egg. Iruka tried to place his hand on the teen's shoulder, but the boy flinched away form his touch. "Naruto, don't worry about it-"

"Leave me alone!" Naruto snapped, his eyes hardening as he glared at the worried teacher. If not for the unbelievable amount of tears coming form the other's eyes, Iruka would have insisted taking him down to the office. But he simply shied away from the thought and headed there alone to call the boy's guardian.

Naruto returned to helplessly looking at the broken egg, trying softly to himself. He tried the best he could to gather the countless pieces of the shell, but it was difficult when he could not see clearly through the high shore of tears. "Sasuke you jerk..." Naruto whimpered, letting the fragments fall from his hands and quickly cupped his face in his hands.

To Be Continued...

A/N: I am just as shocked as all of you, that I could write such a depressing scene. Sure I felt really bad for Sasuke myself in the last chapter, but it was really stupid of him to let his anger cloud his judgment like that. And now Naruto is the one suffering for it. Please, please review! And thanks so much for you that are, you all are the best!

Next Chapter: Sasuke and Naruto's friendship are on the rocks, unless they can put away their differences and accept help. But maybe some help on Naruto's side, will not be very beneficial to bring the two boys back together. In matter of fact, when Itachi decides to assist, he might just make everything worse, forcing the two farther apart. Will they be able to over come this barrier of their unknown love are let it separate them forever?

Dictionary:

Ohayoo- good morning
Dobe- dead last
Akurei- demon
Akuma- devil
Yaro- despicable person (bastard)