Learn to Love (Complete)

A/N: thank you for all your reviews! I love you all. OH and i'd like fanart if anyone isinterested. I'd do some myself but then I'm not too good at it! so that's all for now! Pleasew enjoy!

Chapter 3:

This party was as boring as all the other his father had held. Sasuke wondered why his presence was required…oh right, it was so that the Uchiha could present their ‘perfect family’ image. He sighed. His mother was a few feet away from him hobnobbing with the glamorous wives of his dad’s business partners. His brother was talking to said business partners all ready establishing his role as their new partner. His father was running around making sure everyone was comfortable, the perfect host.

Sasuke rubbed his head making his way out to the garden. They were the perfect family. They didn’t need him, they never even cared except to make sure that he never did anything untoward or sullied the Uchiha name. The fights he constantly got into irritated and angered his parents no end. The teachers had actually suggested a shrink but they refused to send him. An Uchiha never needed help. The mantra had been fixed into his head since he was a child.

“Sasuke?” A soft voice yanked him out of his bitter musings. He turned around to see Itachi and stiffened instantly. His brother frowned a little. “What are you doing out here, Sasuke? You should be out there mingling…it could be fun you never know…”

“Why do you care? It’s none of your business. How come you aren’t out there kissing your partners asses? Leave me alone.” Sasuke glared at his brother, trying to hold back the urge to hit him.

“Cool it.” Itachi commanded. Then his gaze softened a little. “I’m just concerned, was wondering why you don’t give other people a chance to get to know you.”

“I don’t want to know other people….they’re just a fucking waste of time! And since when have you been so concerned, almighty Itachi? I’ve been like this every fucking party, we have had…how come you notice all of a sudden? You never did anything about it before you fucking prick!” Sasuke was no longer trying to be calm.

Itachi’s eyes glinted dangerously, but his voice was calm. “I really don’t know what I have done to anger you, Sasuke. But I will not be spoken to like that. We have guests, you better guard your tongue….don’t bring any shame up on our…” he never got to finish as Sasuke’s fist connected with his face.

“SASUKEE!” his father thundered. Sasuke looked up at him with a glare as well. He knew there’d be hell to pay for this later, but for the moment he didn’t care. His father caught hold of him by the collar holding him away from Itachi…he wondered if his father could sense the murderous rage he was in right now. It was well that he was being held back, he’d kill his brother right now.

“Go. To. Your. Room. Right. Now.” His father guided him to the staircase. Sasuke pulled away and made his way up the stairs silently. It was Itachi’s fault for bothering him in the first place. If the asshole had left him alone then everything would have been fine.

Sasuke walked over to the punching bag at one end of the room and shrugged his dinner jacket off. Loosening his tie, he began to punch and kick the bag until he was exhausted and the rage had gone. He looked at the time; it had been an hour since the ‘incident’. The guests would leave soon.

He sank down onto his bed. A knock on his door roused him. It was his mother. “Sasuke, your father is waiting for you in the study. He wants to see you at once.” She spoke in a low voice, just showing him how disappointed she was. Sasuke looked away.

I don’t care. I really don’t care. He walked passed his mother with out a word and went into the study. His father gave him a disgusted look as he entered. “Would you mind explaining to me what that was all about?” His father’s voice was ice.

Sasuke glared back at him. “Itachi bothered me. I told him to leave me alone, but Mr. Perfect wouldn’t listen to me! So I hit him…to make him understand.”

His father raised an eyebrow. “To make him understand……no matter how I look at it, the explanation makes no sense whatsoever. I cannot understand how you can let go of yourself like that at a party. Do you realize what you just did to our prestige? My partners would be laughing at me! I’m the man who cannot even keep my younger son in check. “

Sasuke didn’t break eye contact, still glaring at his father. His father tensed. “Don’t look at me like that Sasuke. I’m your father, show some respect.”

Sasuke continued to defiantly stare. His threw his hands up in despair. “Why don’t you understand anything? Why do you rebel so much…have we ever denied anything you have ever wanted? Why do you cause us so much pain?”

Sasuke grit his teeth. “Because you assholes deserve it.” he murmured, but loud enough for his father to catch it.

Fugaku looked at him eyes wide with anger. “What did you say?”

“You heard me. I said it’s because you asshole deserve it.” Sasuke yelled, the fact that his father was coming towards him in fury, not even registering. But the slap that almost broke his neck did register.

He looked up to see Fugaku staring at his hand in shock. His father looked at him with pain in his eyes. “Get out of my sight Sasuke. Only you could make me lower myself to your standards. You’re no son of mine. I could hit no son of mine.”

Sasuke opened the door and walked out, past his mother who stared in shock at his cheek and his brother who was standing outside the door. His mother ran inside to his father and he could hear her yelling at him in a high voice. His brother put a hand out to catch him, but he wriggled out of the grip. The last thing he wanted to see right now was his perfect brother.

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Itachi watched Sasuke walk past him, in concern. He was just as emotionless and stoic as the rest of the Uchiha’s but he really wanted to make thing all right with his brother. They used to be so close. He could see four angry marks on Sasuke’s left cheek,. He couldn’t believe that dad had struck Sasuke. Yes the idiot did get on your nerves, but what the hell had he said to make dad so mad.

He tried to catch hold of him so he could talk to him or comfort him, but Sasuke just wriggled out of his grasp, and the slamming of his door could be heard later. He frowned. The family was really breaking apart he could feel it. It was the first time his father had raised his hand against anyone. Itachi made his way to his own room, he needed to get to bed, and the events of the day had exhausted him. He was about to fall asleep, when the picture of Sasuke’s smile as he looked at the blonde boy in the hospital flashed through his mind. Itachi sighed; he would do anything to get the boy to smile like that again…just to keep the family safe. He turned around and tried to drown out the loud voices of his mother and father yelling at each other. He wished they’d close the door, the room was soundproof then.

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Naruto looked at the clock. Where was Sasuke? He had come at this time yesterday and the day before. As he thought that the door opened and Sasuke walked in. Naruto turned to smile at him in greeting and gasped as he noticed the angry bruises on the other boy’s cheek.

“Sasuke what happened? Are you alright?” Naruto asked his concern showing in his voice.

Sasuke clenched his fists to hold back the torrent of emotions that rose inside him at the concern in Naruto’s voice. He would not breakdown in front of the dobe. “Nothing dobe, just got into a fight.” He wanted to say something cutting but didn’t trust his voice right now.

Naruto pouted. “Why do you always fight bastard? Someone would think that you liked getting hurt.” Naruto regretted saying that immediately as Sasuke’s mask slipped a bit.

“Yeah, I’m a masochist dobe. And it’s fun to fight. Now have you had your medicine?” Sasuke asked a small grin on his face, which almost yelled ‘fake!’.

“Yeah Sakura came by earlier to give it to me. So what do you want to do now Sasuke?” Naruto asked brushing aside the blatant change of subject.

Sasuke considered. Then he decided that he could stomach being kind of nice to the one person who actually cared what happened to him and didn’t care just because of his looks or money. He sat down on the bed. “I have no idea. Why don’t you decide dobe?”

“Don’t call me dobe!” Naruto yelled. Sasuke was sure he had lost an ear drum. Naruto grinned. “Um…we could play on my PS2. I got this awesome fighting game. I bet I’ll kick your ass.” He loved the way Sasuke brightened up at once.

“You wish dobe. If you lose we’re going to do whatever I want to do.” Sasuke said with a smirk.

Naruto grinned. “Same goes for you bastard! I’ll have you licking my boots by the end of this day!”

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Sasuke was happy that Naruto didn’t want him to lick his boots. He had lost by one point and that was only because Naruto had pulled a surprise move just as Sasuke was winning. He hung his head in defeat and looked at Naruto.

“So what do you want me to do, dobe?”

“Firstly don’t call me dobe!” Naruto growled. Then he brightened up again. “I want you to sit! No I want you to stand! Sit! Stand!” he shut up when Sasuke growled and pinned his arms against the head board.

“Don’t play with me baka. I’ll do whatever you want, but I’m not going to be made a big fool of nor am I going to play childish games.”

Naruto gulped and nodded, but not before whining. “That’s not fair, Saaaasukeee. You promised…whatever I wanted.” He pouted.

Sasuke’s eyes widened and he looked away. He couldn’t fight that look. “Fine, whatever, but don’t do the sit stand thing again.”

Naruto nodded. “Ok, I know! Let’s read together!” Sasuke rolled his eyes. Naruto nodded a few times. “I’ve always wanted to read together with someone. Lie down next o me.”

Sasuke snorted. “That’s not a king size bed dobe! It’s not even enough for you, how am I supposed to lie down?”

Naruto frowned. “But you have to lie down Sasuke. Other wise we cant share the book. Though you’re right too, help me find a way Sasuke!”

Sasuke sighed and looked thoughtful. Then he came up with a way, but he didn’t know if the blonde would be alright with it. Heck, he didn’t know if he would be ok with it. He shrugged; well Naruto would be the only person he might open up to, so maybe this wouldn’t matter. He walked over to the blonde.

Naruto looked curiously at what Sasuke was doing. Then he suddenly felt one of Sasuke’s arms snake around his waist and lightly felt the other arm under his knees. Before he could protest he was being lifted up. Then Sasuke made himself comfortable on the bed and Naruto found himself being arranged on Sasuke’s lap. He gasped and stared at Sasuke.

“Saaaasukeee, what are you doing?” Naruto asked a little shrilly. Sasuke smirked at him.

“You want both of us to lie down dobe? We are. Did I make you uncomfortable?” Sasuke asked suddenly concerned, though he tried to keep it off his face.

Naruto heard the concern and almost smiled. “No this is ok. I’m just surprised; you don’t seem like a touchy-feely guy.” He looked up to see Sasuke genuinely smile at him once more and wondered why he was feeling so happy.

“So what do you want to read dobe?” Sasuke pointed at his bedside table.

“Um…that manga on the top. Its fun, it’s called Until the Full Moon.” Naruto said. Sasuke fished it out and then put his arms around the blonde so that they could both read. Naruto contentedly snuggled up onto Sasuke’s chest.

He liked how firm and nice the chest felt. Sasuke and he role played the characters with Sasuke as David and Naruto as Marlo. Sasuke kept teasing him about wanting to become a girl like Marlo did every full moon night. Naruto of course yelled the place down.

They finished the manga and just sat silently, enjoying each others company, when the door opened. Sasuke looked up, and his jaw dropped. It was a very gorgeous red head. His hair was longish, falling into his eyes. He’s got beautiful golden eyes and his eyebrow was pierced. His clothes were designed to make people aroused the moment they looked at him. He was wearing a really short sleeveless grey t-shirt, which ended half way down his middle and the tightest black jeans you ever saw. Sasuke noticed his lip was pierced as well as his belly button. It took a lot of nudging from Naruto to get his jaw back up.

Naruto grinned at him and then turned to the red head. “Kyuubi!” he held out his arms and waved them up and down almost crushing Sasuke in the process. “Kyuubi I missed you!”

The older boy…no he was a man, came forwards and hugged Naruto giving Sasuke a curious look. Naruto pulled back saw it and smiled. “Sasuke, this is my brother Kyuubi and Kyuubi, this is Uchiha Sasuke he comes to take care of me for his community service.”

Kyuubi nodded to Sasuke, who felt a small bit of jealousy…Kyuubi was …there was no other word for it…cool. He watched as Naruto regaled the man with all the stuff they’d been doing together. Kyuubi smiled then. He turned to Sasuke. “I have to thank you, Sasuke-kun; you’ve made Naruto really happy. It’s nice of you to come and work here.”

Naruto grinned at that. Sasuke blushed. Naruto just grinned more. “You know, Aniki, you wouldn’t think that if you were here day before yesterday. I punched him! He was being such an asshole.”

Kyuubi smirked. “So I take it that’s your bruise on his left cheek?”

Sasuke shook his head. “Um… no. I got that while…fighting. Naruto gave me this one.” He pointed while Kyuubi leaned forward, almost nose to nose with him.

“Aww to think they marred your beautiful face like that…but you’re still very hot!” he said in low sultry voice. Sasuke thought he was going to get a nosebleed.

Naruto violently pushed Kyuubi off. “Aniki, stop that! Urgh, get off him!”

Kyuubi grinned. “Why…you jealous Naru-chan?” Naruto started to blubber…and stammer, while Sasuke was too out of it to notice. Shizune walked in. she gave the two young boys an odd look and then smiled.

“Boys, I’m going to borrow Naruto for a while. He needs a shower. I’ll have him back in no time.” Shizune bundled the blonde into the wheelchair and took him out. Which left Kyuubi alone with Sasuke.

“So tell me, kid…where did you get the bruises on your left cheek?”

Sasuke grimaced. “I told you. I got them in a fight!”

Kyuubi smirked. “I can tell that you didn’t. I’ve been in enough fights, to know that no one slaps you in a fight. Punches yes, back hands, yes, but not a full out slap. So who did you piss off?”

Sasuke looked away. “I don’t want to talk about Kyuubi-san. Please.”

Kyuubi nodded thoughtfully. Then he grinned. “So you like basketball huh? That’s nice, I wanted to ask you when Naruto told me, but then he doesn’t give anyone a chance.”

Sasuke nodded. “Kyuubi-san how did this happen to Naruto? I know about the accident but what happened exactly?”

Kyuubi looked away, but Sasuke caught the pain in his eyes. “Well, he had a soccer match which he was late for. So dad and mom were driving at top speed to get him to it. And dad cut a red light and this other car which was also speeding hit them, head on.” Kyuubi gulped. “I wasn’t there….we didn’t get along, my parents and I. I was the bad son; I got into bad company and then moved out. I love Naruto a lot though. So I was there for the match, but he never turned up. Then I got informed of the accident. Mom had died instantly. Dad had hit his head really hard and was undergoing surgery.”

Sasuke put a hand out to clasp the older man’s. Kyuubi cleared his throat and continued. “Well. They told me Naruto had hit his spine really hard, because he wasn’t wearing his belt and was thrown out of the rear window. Then they told him that he was paralyzed…it wasn’t too bad, but then it could take years for him to get better. The nerve was not too badly damaged so he retained some feeling, but he can’t walk. That’s all.”

“I’m sorry. I hurt you by asking.” Sasuke said softly.

Kyuubi shook his head. “It’s ok. It still hurts though, but I’ll be fine. Naruto should be back by now. Shouldn’t you be going home?”

Sasuke shook his head. “No I’ll stay longer…it wont be a problem.”

Then the door opened and Naruto came in. Sasuke picked him up and placed him in his lap again before Shizune could object. “I’ll stay a while longer” was all the explanation he gave. He didn’t add that he felt better with Naruto close to him.

Silence fell as Kyuubi went outside for a smoke. When he got back he saw that Sasuke was asleep and Naruto was running his fingers through the raven hair. He closed the door again and leaned outside it. He heard footsteps and looked up.

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Itachi blinked. He wasn’t seeing things…at least he hoped he wasn’t. There was the most gorgeous man he had ever seen, standing by Naruto’s door. He looked into those beautiful golden pools. He stopped when he realized that the man was looking back at him.

“Is Sasuke there?” Itachi asked, his voice sounding really far away.

“Yeah he is. Let me guess, your Uchiha Itachi, prodigy of the Uchiha’s. Youngest to take over at the company, am I right.” He asked, his voice sending shivers up Itachi’s spine.

Itachi smirked. “Well, I’m just Itachi. And you are…?”

“Naruto’s brother, Kyuubi. Nice to meet you, I don’t think you want to go in there.” Kyuubi smiled.

Itachi raised an eyebrow. “Nice to meet you too, Kyuubi-san. Why wouldn’t I want to go in there?”

“Have a peek.” Itachi looked in and gave a small smile at the sight on the blonde on his brother’s lap, with his hands in his hair. His brother looked so peaceful and happy. “Well, Kyuubi-san, as much as I like the picture, my parents want Sasuke home. Would you mind assisting me?”

Kyuubi shook his head. “Be my pleasure…assisting you.” He whispered the last word into the Uchiha’s ear causing him to stiffen.

Itachi shook the younger Uchiha awake, as Kyuubi carried Naruto. Naruto was all for yelling in his ear, but Itachi advised that it wasn’t a good idea. Sasuke looked up groggily. “Aniki?”

Itachi’s eyes widened a little. Sasuke hadn’t called him that in ages. He smiled. “Come on, baka Otouto. We have to get home.”

Sasuke nodded, waking up fully at the word home. This meant he went back to his bastard self in front of his brother. “Whatever. Let’s go.”

He nodded at Kyuubi and turned to Naruto. “So…I’ll see you tomorrow then?” Naruto nodded. Then Sasuke noticed the way Kyuubi and Itachi were looking at each other and the glint in Kyuubi’s eyes. He wondered what was going on as his brother looked away suddenly and bade the other two goodbyes in a soft voice, yanking Sasuke out with him. None of them saw, Kyuubi grin with a canine poking out.

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A/N: yay! Kyuubi’s in at last! I love Kyuubi and Itachi together…

Itachi: WHAT? Taka…I thought you were mine! You gave me away to Kyuubi?

Taka: ehehehe…um…I love you Itachi, but…

Itachi: what did you call me?

Taka: I love you Itachi-sama….but Kyuubi is cool with you …if you know what I mean….

Kyuubi: Yo, its cos I’m hot…and if taka doesn’t mind a threesome, then you shouldn’t either, both of you are hot.

Sasuke: ok Itachi’s mauling Kyuubi, he’s very possessive. Review people.