If I Was Your...: Chapter 4

If I was Your...

by Kaline Reine

WARNINGS: Contains male on male, boy love, incest, brotherly love, etc. If you don't like it, don't read it. There is going to be: Traveling, jealousy, torture, fighting, bloodlust, torture, pants, no pants, torture, evil, goth music, torture, kissing, and (gasp!) UCHIHACEST!! Oh, and torture... But not necessarily in that order. ItaSasu and SasuIta for those who don't know the pairing by now it is ItachiXSasuke or SasukeXItachiand for the record yes I do expect to get flamed for wiriting this, but they're hot so too bad!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or anything associated with it. Blah!

Please enjoy, and have a sexy day! :D

Chapter 4: Arrival

They had been traveling for almost the entire day, and it was starting to get dark out. Sasuke had been tired for a while now. He'd been skipping out on his training with Kakashi-sensei again. Itachi was leading the way, and every few minutes his little brother would fall behind, casuing him to slacken the furious pace he ahd set for them. The older Uchiha had a way of getting things done quickly and efficiently. He just wanted to complete the mission as soon as possible, with no problems.

"Niisan," Sasuke managed between pants. "Do you... think we could... rest for... a minute?"

"Why must you be so weak, otouto?" His brother glared at him.

Itachi didn't say anything else, he was a man of few words after all, but he did reach behind his brother to pull the sleeping bags out from his pack. There was only one there, and he was taking things out, trying to find the second one.

"Sasuke-chan, why did you pack only one sleeping bag?" Despite the harshness of his words, he wore a somewhat playful expression. "There should be two here."

"No, that can't be!" The boy shrugged off his pack and began rummaging through it frantically. "Let's see... There's food, water, kunai, shurikens, the scrolls, but... That's impossible! I know I-" Suddenly, it hit him. "Wait..."

Itachi had to control the urge to laugh. "You didn't, did you?"

"Gomenasai, aniki. I guess I was just so upset at what you said to me earlier that I stopped packing everything halfway through. I don't think there is enough food in here to last us the entire trip, either."

"Foolish otouto," He poked his forehead, just like when they were kids.

"Stop it, baka! It's your fault I forgot to finish packing in the first place! So don't blame me; you were the one who-" '-has a really sexy body that keeps distracting me when I try to think. Damn it all!' While Sasuke was lost in his thoughts, his older brother was already unrolling the plain green sleeping bag.

"Were you really that shaken up by seeing me naked?" Itachi muttered, causing his baby brother to blush profusely. It was almost like he could read his mind.

"No!" Sasuke snapped. "It was what you said that pissed me off, and you know it!"

'Was it really what I said to him?' Itachi wondered. 'Or was it... something else?'

He ignored the ranting raven behind him, and proceeded to take the food and water from the pack as well. "Only because you were angry with me for taking my sexy body elsewhere and leaving you all alone, without my sexiness." He chuckled.

"But- I- no, you... Aniki, there's- no way- uh... I didn't- I d-don't-"

"Stop blushing, otouto. Your face may stay like that."

Sasuke paused in his random stuttering for a few minutes before regaining his composure enough for a decent comeback. "How did you know I was blushing? You have your back turned to me!"

"I can hear it in your voice."

"Teme..."

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There was just nothing he could say to that, so he flung the only insult he had at his older brother. While they were arguing, Itachi had managed to unpack everything they would need for the night, and even get a small fire going. It was late, and he was tired, but he did not want his aniki to know that. Once they had finished their dinner, Sasuke leaned against a tree, content to sleep there anyway, since he was still mad at his big brother.

When Itachi looked up from his meal, and saw the boy sleeping peacefully against the base of a tall oak tree, he felt a sense of peace fall over him. He leaned down over the fire, and poured the remainder of the soup he's made in it, effectively putting it out.

"Sasu-chan..." He muttered, cradling Sasuke in his arms, and taking him with him to the sleeping bag. "You're so cute when you sleep..."

Sasuke stirred a little in his sleep at his brother's softly spoken words. They lulled him into a deeper sleep like a beautifully played melody. He didn't know how he'd gotten there, but he knew he was safe and warm with his big brother now, and that was all that mattered.

When Itachi felt him snuggle closer into his chest, it made him feel a lot better about teasing him like he had earlier. He knew the boy had to know that he wasn't serious. Right?

Itachi buried his face into the younger one's hair, content to sleep like this until morning came. But just before he drifted off, he heard his little brother say something.

"Nnn... Naruto..." The older of the two looked at him questioningly, while raising up to see his face better. "Mrhrr... Wha..." Sasuke snored. "Wh... happened?"

The weasel couldn't keep the smirk off his face. He was dreaming of his friend. Probably some childish nonsense from long ago. Who knew?

"Sasuke?" He shook him lightly. "Otouto, wake up."

No response.

'Stupid little brother...' Itachi thought. 'If he keeps this up, I'll never get to sleep!'

"Stop it," He spat at his younger sibling's still form.

"Nnhm... Wha-?" Sasuke rolled over on his side, and drooled a bit when his mouth fell open.

'If only he would drool like that for me... Is he toying with me again? Damn incestuous thoughts... Why won't they go away?!'

"'Tachi..." He thought he heard him say his name, but he wasn't sure. Itachi had always heard you could control a person by speaking to them through their subconscious when they were asleep, but he wasn't sure if that was true or not. "Aniki..."

He decided to test him to see if he were really sleeping. "Aww Sasu-chan, are you dreaming about your aniki again? How sweet," He remarked in a mocking tone.

"Mhmm..." Sasuke mumbled something incoherent. "Ita... i-san..."

Itachi looked down to realize he had inadvertently placed his hand on Sasuke's thigh during this whole process. He was still trying to figure out what to do, while his little brother muttered all kinds of weird things into the chill night air. Grinning with a devious smirk, the former Akatsuki member got a devious idea.

He could feel Sasuke kind of flinch away, as he moved his fingers over his baby brother's smooth hips enticingly. He smiled when he recieved the appropriate reaction. The boy arched up a little, and gave in to his touch.

'Hn. This could be fun.'

"Mmm..." Sasuke moaned in his sleep a little.

He was driving his brother crazy! Itachi couldn't help his actions anymore, he moved his hand gently over his brother's erectio- Wait, erection?!

'What the... hell?!' Itachi wondered. 'Is he having a wet dream, or...?'

When the skin made contact with his arousal, Sasuke hissed in his sleep, before muttering something incoherent. It sounded vaguely like his brother's name, followed by a short sentence, but Itachi couldn't be sure. After deciding to stroke him once, just for the hell of it, he tightened his grip and ran his fingers over the tip of it a few times.

"Ohhhh, fuck me!" Sasuke cried out, with a delightfully pained expression on his face.

Itachi almost got a nose bleed, just from hearing it. Even if it was directed at a dream, and not at him, he still felt a certain amount of pride that he had gone this far with the object of his desire. But those thoughts led to other, more dishonorable thoughts, and that was when it hit him. He couldn't do anything more with Sasuke. His conscience would not allow it. He had to stop, even though it was all in good fun up until now. Deciding to make a big scene in the morning by rubbing this little occurence in his brother's face, Itachi rolled away from the temptation that lay beside him, and drifted into the darkness of sleep.

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Sasuke had just finished packing up the sleeping bag and other supplies, while Itachi made them something to eat. Onigiri was practically the only thing that was practical to make under these conditions.

He wanted to tease him, to embarass him to the point of no return. But Itachi couldn' bring himself to say anything to his little brother about last night. If he brought it up, he knew that would mean he had to admit to actualy touching his brother while he slept, and that would only lead to his own discomfort. So he kept his mouth shut about the whole thing.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Sasuke asked, as they sat eating breakfast.

"Huh? Oh, it's nothing, Sasu-chan."

"I told you, don't call me that!"

Itachi shrugged. "Whatever. We should get moving. It's still a long way to Sunagakure from here. And we wouldn't want to keep your little boyfriend waiting for these scrolls, now would we?"

The little Uchiha blushed again. "Shut the hell up!"

His brother raised an eyebrow. "Care to make me, otouto?"

"Just forget it," He sullenly picked up the pack that he had somehow gotten stuck with the job of carrying. "Let's go."

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They traveled at breakneck speed through the forest, until they reached a place where the tall trees of fire country ended. Sasuke knew that mean they were close to the Village Hidden in the Sand. And it's Kazekage, who had had his sights set on the boy for some time now.

"We're almost there," Itachi muttered, as he ran just beside his younger brother. "We're not stopping for the night this time. We can sleep in Sunagakure."

Sasuke just nodded, and a little over an hour later, they arrived in the windy village. He began to lead the way, as their pace slowed to a casual walk, when they neared the edge of the city. A guard stopped them just outside the gate.

"What business do you have in Sand?"

Itachi, being the dominate one as always, spoke up. "We are here to deliver some scrolls to the Kazekage. This was an urgent mission, given to us by the Hokage."

Wordlessly, the man stepped aside, to allow them through. He recognized them from there Leaf Village headbands. They had been given new ones after they had both been accepted back into Konoha by Tsunade and the others. Both boys had decided to keep their previous ones, which ironically both had a large slash across the Konohagakure insignia.

Sasuke had buried his deep in his closet, never to be taken out or looked at again. But not Itachi. No, the elder Uchiha slept with it under his pillow, next to his kunai and katana; a constant reminder of the mistakes he had made. He would not make them again.

"Welcome," The Kazekage, who was rumored to be a man of very few words, greeted them in the doorway to his house. "Sasuke-chan, to what do I owe the pleasure of seeing you again?" The Uchiha moved aside to reveal the taller man standing behind him. Gaara only nodded slightly in regards. "Itachi-san."

"May we come in?" Itachi asked boldly. "It seems that my foolish otouto only packed one sleeping bag for both of us, and as a result we have not slept well recently."

"Of course," Green-blue eyes, surrounded by a thick kohl black outline watched their movements carefully, as if studying the two brothers. "You are welcome to stay here."

"That's okay," Sasuke replied quickly. "We have enough money for a hotel. Don't we, aniki?"

"...No."

"It's fine," Gaara became insistant. "So what brings you here in the first place?"

"We're just here to deliver these two scrolls to you," Sasuke adamantly stressed the "just" part.

Itachi picked up where he left off, as he handed both of them to the Kazekage. "Tsunade-sama said that they contain communications between the Sound and Leaf villages. Guard them well."

He nodded in response, tucking the scrolls away somewhere in the folds of his clothes. With a quick motion for them to follow him, Gaara led them into the next room. Gesturing for them to take a seat on one of the small cushions that were placed near a low table, he sat down as well. There were various styles of food, already spread out for them.

"We were just about to eat," He stated simply, as if that weren't obvious enough.

Temari made her way out of the other room with a large tray of tea. "Gaara, you didn't tell me we were expecting company!" She tried to control her blush when she saw the older Uchiha. Her boyfriend Shikamaru was nice, but this guy was too hot to handle! She loved him, but a little harmless flirting never hurt anyone, right?

"I wasn't."

"Then why are they here?"

"If we're not welcome here," Itachi growled. "Then we can go. Come on, Sasuke-chan."

"Will everyone please stop calling me that?!"

"No, not at all. It's perfectly fine," Temari smiled. "I didn't mean for it to come out that way. I just wasn't prepared, that's all. Gaara never said a word about anyone else being here. It's nice to have someone else around once in a while..."

"Besides just your husband?" Itachi cluelessly remarked.

Gaara and Temari both visibly stiffened at that comment. "Husband?!" The tea he was currently sipping went flying out of the Kazekage's mouth.

"I'm his sister," She replied, as calmy as the blonde could manage. "Forget it, that's alright. It was an honest mistake." Gaara just looked at her, wondering how she managed to keep from losing her temper. She usually did when people said things like that.

Itachi raised an eyebrow, but didn't appologize. He never said he was sorry. Instead he bagan eating, and everyone else soon joined him. He became lost in his thoughts after that.

'Does being siblings make it... wrong to be so affected by the other?' He wondered, getting lost within his own misery once again. 'I wish my brother and I were closer. But is it because I have brotherly love confused with some other emotion? Or do I really want...'

Soon the meal was over, and it was time for them to go to bed. They had made small talk all through dinner. Gaara said nothing, just left the details to Temari. He sensed a change in the Uchiha he had known before. That definetely wasn't the same Sasuke.

"Well I hate to be the one to tell you this," Temari sighed, looking primarily at Itachi, and ignoring his little brother completely. "But you guys are going to have to share a room while you're here, too. We never get any guests, so logically we only have one guest room. Unless you want to take your chances letting your little brother sleep with Gaara-sama... I wouldn't reccommend it!"

Itachi turned to look at Sasuke, who was just staring at the ground and blushing. "We can manage."

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A/N: Yeah, yeah... I know Itachi knows who Gaara is and they've met in the show and all that. But b/c it is easier, and I have not seen shippuden yet... I'll jsut say they haven't, for lack of knowledge about what happens when and all that. And jsut for the record, I AM going to watch it. I jsut have to finish all the Naruto episodes first! :D So chill! Anyway, I know there wasn't much in the way of lemon or etc. in this chapter, but Sasuke's earlier reaction to Itachi was pretty interesting, ne? Don't worry, there's more fun ahead. And I appologize for taking so ridiculously long to finish this chapter. But I am working on my main story (Chains and Bells) right now too, and it's not easy doing two stories at once! I will try not to make you wait too long for the next one. Review and comment, pretty please?

-Kaline Reine