Baby Sitting

Baby Sitting



The Cold Shoulder Treatment



After having two peaceful wake-up calls from his brother that day, Sasuke new he wasn’t going to be so lucky this time. And you know what? He was right.



The young Uchiha shot up in bed rubbing his sore head; his face consorted in pain as he glared at its cause. The baby. Lying on its back, swinging its legs in the air while holding a few strands of black hair, laughing. Loving the reaction it got from pulling Sasuke’s hair out every time.



The Uchiha then turned to the other occupant in the room, glaring at the next laughing figure in the bed. His brother. The corner of his lips twitching; amusement glinting in his dark eyes so similar to Sasukes’ own.



The only thing holding Sasuke back from punching his brother was the fact that he was holding the baby in one of his arms. So he did the next best thing to annoy his brother.



The younger Uchiha lay back down on the bed. Careful to be a safe distance from the infants’ hair pulling fingers and turned to face the wall, putting his back to his brother.



Sasuke inwardly smiled as he felt the bed dip more towards his side almost instantly. He knew it was childish. But it has worked for him since he was 5 years old. His brother had always hated the ‘cold shoulder’ treatment from his little brother. Sasuke could scream and shout at him; he could try to punch and stab him but it wouldn’t faze him as much as the ‘cold shoulder’.



Most of the time it was done half heartedly but he knew it reminded his brother of a few nights when it had been full or raw emotion.



For months after the Uchiha massacre, sasuke had used this treatment on his brother. It hurt the older uchiha mentally when his little brother was upset and didn’t want him for comfort and sasuke knew it.



He might have screamed at his older brother until his throat was soar; he might have pushed and shoved at his brother when ever he had wanted to hold him and make Sasuke fall asleep in his arms with exhaustion and he might have used his brother as a target when throwing his kunai knifes to perfect his aim. But none of that affected his so –called emotionless older brother, not like the ‘cold shoulder’ treatment.



And yet Sasuke - even after the murder of his family; through all the pain and grief and loss - would only use the cold shoulder either playfully at times like these or as a last resort when he himself was feeling depression beyond caring what happened. Because his brother was still a murderer and he still had to deal with the hurt the treatment gave him somehow. The younger uchiha already had a lot of dead innocents in his mind and didn’t want any more because of his brother.



The first time sasuke had discovered how badly the ‘cold shoulder’ affected his older brother had been when one of the other ANBU Black Opps had decided to act on their lustful feelings towards his brother, who had not yet been promoted to squad leader.



~~~~~~~~flashback~~~



The other ANBU had been sent to give Itachi the brief of an important mission that was said to last a week in all and little Sasuke was trying to squeeze in every last minute he had to spend time with his beloved brother. When his brothers’ team mate arrived he quickly glanced at me before walking over to Itachi, both were wearing ANBU gear minus the masks.



The other guy had his mask on the side of his head, while I had my brothers. I would always hold my brothers mask until the last minute because he wouldn’t be allowed to go without it. It was my way of making him stay those few minutes longer just to get his mask and to make sure little Sasuke got his goodbye kiss.



My brother had been leaning casually against a near by tree, observing me as I practised the training I had currently been learning at the academy, commenting every now and again with either praise or advice. My older brothers’ team mate had leant against the same tree as Itachi throughout their discussion of the brief, every few minutes or so shifting centimetres closers to my brother. But itachi had paid no attention to him and continued to watch me.



When I glanced over to my brother to smile when I hit my target dead on, I would see the emotions in the man’s eyes. Jealously towards sasuke for getting his brothers attention; annoyance at the fact that his brother had never shown an interest in his presence, only acknowledging his arrival but most of all the lust he felt towards his younger team mate. Sasuke had seen that look in his brothers eyes directed at him more than once. The man was transfixed on Itachi’s face. Studying it. Looking for any emotion to show him that his being here affected Itachi in anyway…….. like it must have been affecting the other ANBU.



He most likely found none.



So next time Sasuke had looked towards his brother for some kind of praise from his training, to say his jaw hit the floor would be an under statement.



The other ANBU had gently but firmly grasped Itachi’s chin between his fingers and pulled his brothers lips to meet his own. The man had quickly moved to press his body over the older Uchiha’s, pinning his arms at either side of his head and deepening the kiss. The man had also managed to nudge his leg between Sasukes’ older brother’s and took full advantage of the situation by starting to grind his thigh against his brothers crotch, while kissing the still surprised Uchihas’ lips passionately.



Itachu had been so surprised it had taken him minutes to process what was happening and before he had chance to do anything, Sasuke was gone.



All the young Uchiha had thought was that his brother had shared their special kiss with someone else. It was only supposed to be for us he had said.



The little boy had run into his room, locking to door on the way before burying his head in the pillows. Hiding his water filled eyes from everyone.



There had been a knock at his door moments later.



“Brother….please open the door” it was Itachi ”Please Sasuke, we need to talk” he repeated after receiving no response.



The little boy looked up and glared at the door, wiping at the tear tracks on his cheeks “No. Go talk to your team mate, he wants your company a lot more than I do right now.”



He heard a sigh from the door before the sound of retreating footsteps. Sasukes’ eyes watered again. ‘He’s gone back to that man hasn’t he? He must be. Why else would he give up an argument so easily?’ the little Uchiha tensed when a pair of arms wrapped around him from behind. He turned to look at his brother in surprise, water still running down his cheeks, gently being wiped away by his brothers soft thumb. As Sasuke looked past his brother, he saw the open window to his room.



If his glare was made of fire the window would be a burnt hole of smouldering ash for daring to let his brother through when he didn’t want him.



Sasuke immediately began to struggle in his brothers grasp, jerking his face away from the hand softly stroking it. “Get out! Just get out. Leave me alone!” the little boy shouted.



“Little brother, calm down and hear me out please. I want to be with you, not him. Always you...” his brother admitted softly still holding on to his baby brother. ”and besides you can’t kick me out of my own room.”



Sasuke’s body gave one last jerk before calming down slightly. Deciding instead to just ignore his brother. With that he folded his arms and closed his eyes.



Itachi just accepted the change in attitude used to his brother’s mood swings. “Sasuke you know that I love you more than anyone, Zack just ….wanted to get my attention. You do things like that all the time and Zack just thought it would work for him too.”



No response.



“Sasuke?” the older Uchiha shuffled around Sasuke, still holding him, to face his little brother. But Sasuke moved himself to face the opposite direction, folding his arms again.



His brother just sighed and held him closer before carrying on with his explanation, hoping this treatment wouldn’t last. “He’s like the girls at the academy for you. They keep pestering you for attention but you ignore them. Well he just got tired of being ignored.” Itachi explained, mentally begging Sasuke to just take in what he says without having to explain that the guy wants to do more than just kiss him for attention. The Uchiha may only be 10, but you learn a lot in ANBU about adult behaviour.



No response.



The older Uchiha started to panic. “Sasuke?...”



“Brother, please talk to me…. “



Itachi pulled Sasuke on to his lap and rapped his arms tightly around him. Burying his face in his brothers’ soft spiky hair, Itachis’ mind raced to think of possible examples that a 5 year old would under stand. Explaining all of them to Sasuke. Using his favourite books and fictional characters as examples. Even going as far as saying the wolf wanted to get the little pigs attention by blowing their houses down in his panic.



The clock ticked by getting closer to the time he would have to leave his beloved little brother. Itachi knew he couldn’t go. His mind was in a state. He would have a better chance of screwing up such an important mission than helping.



By then they were both lying on their sides on the bed they shared, Sasuke still hadn’t turned around and Itachi still hadn’t removed his arms from around his little brother.



His ramblings had stopped when he had realised how desperate his reasoning’s had become.



The room had become silent apart from the occasional plea from the elder of the two.



He was tearing inside. No sound from his brothers’ lips for so long was actually scaring him. In the few hours his brothers attention wasn’t on him, when all he’s been able to talk to was his back, when he was being ignored with no response of any kind, he’d become an emotional wreck.



“Son? Its time to go”



The sound made the eldest son jump slightly, but he knew Sasuke had felt it. The older brother sighed and untangled himself from his little brother to make his way to the door.



“Here, you need this.”



Itachi spun around before he reached the door and rushed over to the bed to lean over his little brother, trying to see his face, to kiss his lips for making a sound, to bring himself back from the insanity without his baby brother.



But he didn’t make it half way.



He saw what Sasuke meant. His mask. The younger held it behind his back. Still facing away from him.



Itachi could have cried then and there.



He pressed his fingers over his eyes for a second, taking a deep breath to calm his emotions to face his father. Releasing a long breath the older pulled his hands away from his eyes and calmly walked over to the bed.



Itachi place his hands over his little brothers and moved to take the mask, but instead of walking to the door, he took Sasukes arms and placed them over his-own chest, over Itachi’s ANBU mask.



“You keep hold of it for me.. I’m not going anywhere little brother”



With that he placed a light kiss to the younger’s temple before walking downstairs to talk to his father leaving a very confused sasuke.



When the older Uchiha came back, he lay down behind Sasuke but before he could put his arms around his baby brother, Sasuke turned to face itachi. “You’re not going on the mission?” the little boy asked quietly.



“No, I’m not going to leave you like this. I won’t be at my best knowing you’re not ok. Plus I don’t feel like seeing Zack, knowing that he hurt you.” He said while wrapping his arms around his beloved little brother.



“You really don’t like him? Then why did you kiss him?” Sasuke felt confused. Mother said you only kiss someone you love. But brother obviously doesn’t love this Zack guy.



“He kissed me and no I don’t like him like that. He was just a team mate. But I guess he liked me more than a friend.” ‘Damn it’ itachi thought ‘I’m going to have to talk to him about the real world…this is supposed to be the parents job.’



Sasuke, oblivious to his brothers’ discomfort continued his questioning “But why would he kiss you if you don’t like him?”



Itachi sighed “Little brother… you know when I kiss you.. does it feel nice?”



“Of course it does. I love it when you kiss me! It makes my tummy tingle” Sasuke replied with a small smile, blushing slightly.



The older let a small smile of his own slip “Well, he wanted me to feel like that towards him. He thought that if he kissed me I would feel all tingly, so I would pay attention to him, like I do you.” Itachi leant forwards and pressed his lips to Sasukes, tightening his arms around his little brother, bringing them flush against each other, deepening the kiss.



When they pulled away his big brother whispered “But don’t worry, you’re always the only one on my mind.”



A week later he over heard his father talking to a man from the missions office saying that one of Itachi team mates had been severely injured by unknown means and would be hindering such a high level team like his brothers.



A few days later Zack was removed from Itachi’s team and the next time Sasuke physically saw him was at the hospital when he and Itachi were visiting a relative. Zack had looked to be in a sorry state on long term recovery from whatever had happened and as soon as his older brother was in Zack’s line of vision, the ex-ANBU visibly flinched and looked away. Sasuke had also looked away and let out a small smile to himself, one that only his brother had caught a glimpse of which made him let out a slight secret smile of his own.



~~~~~~end flashback~~~~~



Since then when ever sasuke used the cold shoulder, his brother would stop everything and just hold him.



So when Sasuke felt the bed dip towards him the younger knew exactly what to expect. Sasuke turned to face his brother whose eyes were filled with uncertainty, all amusement gone from the baby pulling his hair. The young Uchiha silently relished in the feeling that only he could bring so much emotion to those eyes before pressing his lips to Itachi’s.



As he deepened the kiss Sasuke reached over, burying his fingers in his brothers silky hair, moving Itachi onto his back while moving himself to straddle him. His brothers’ fingers wandering over still naked hips, grasping his backside while digging his nails into soft flesh, hinting at the activities from the previous night. Sasuke arched his back, grinding himself into his brother. Itachi gasped giving Sasuke the opportunity to nibble his older brothers’ bottom lip. The older Uchiha rocked his hips against the younger’s in ecstasy. Sasuke kissed his brother passionately again, still playing with his hair, rocking against him before…….



“Ow!” the eldest Uchiha yelped, rubbing the soar spot on his head as his brother dashed off the bed, clutching a few silky black strands of hair, his brother hot on his heels.



Sasuke giggled at his brothers’ scowl as he was pinned against the wall inches from the door, hands held on either side on his head by the wrists. Sasukes legs automatically wrapped themselves around Itachis’ waist as he was kissed fiercely.



One wrist was released, leaving the hand to once again venture through the silky locks on his brothers head while the now free older Uchihas’ hand began a slow journey over the skin on Sasukes’ thigh. The thumb dipping to trail over the sensitive inner thigh before being pulled with the rest of the hand to explore even more sensitive area’s.



Sasukes back arched as he moaned, his skin felt on fire where ever the other’s hand went. Then the hand left Sasuke skin. Sasuke looked into his brothers lust filled eyes, both their bodies becoming slick with sweat. The younger gasped, eyes locking with his brothers in a trance as he felt something else being positioned for a repeat of last nights events. Sasuke closed his eyes as Itachi lent forwards, the hand on Sasukes hip pulling his body down while the elder thrust upwards before…..



Both stop their movements abruptly when they heard a squeal and a cry for attention from the bed.



The baby.



Sasuke ‘s eyes jerked open in surprise and looked over his brothers shoulder at the infant, whose eyes were briming with tears from being ignored. He looked back to see the disbelief and shock in itachi’s eyes, his expression held a look of ‘That did Not just happen’.



Sasuke looked to the baby again before closing his eyes and resting his head on his brother’s shoulder. He sighed “And to add to my list of things I hate about babies: Complete mood killers.”



Itachi could only nod as he held onto his little brother.



The younger Uchiha glared over to the infant ‘I wonder if the cold shoulder treatment would work on Haru.’ He thought