Broken

Chapter 26: One More Night

After everyone left – except Naruto's parents and Sasuke – the food was put away with the six of them sitting around the living room. Naruto kept glancing at his past love, wondering why he was there when he didn't want anything to do with him.

"So have you decided a college yet?" Sasuke asked, noticing what his friend was doing.

"Yeah. I'm going there this fall. That's one of the reasons why I moved in with Itachi." Naruto explained with a smile.

Getting up, Kushina and Minato walked toward their son, giving him hugs and ruffling Itachi's bangs which made him put them back in place with a scowl. "We'll see you later musuko. Remember you can call us."

Nodding, Naruto closed the door behind his parents after he got out of the spot he was in. Walking back to the couch, he sat down next to Itachi, looking at Maiko's baby bump. "How far along are you?"

"Let's see here. It's June now. I think it's three months now if not four." She answered. "I can't remember when I found out."

"It's four." Sasuke corrected, looking around the room. "So you finally graduated nii-san."

"Yeah. But that doesn't mean I'm slacking." Itachi said, getting up and walking into the kitchen for a cup of water. Walking back in, he watched Maiko walk around and pull a book out of the bookshelf.

"I remember reading this when I was kid. I was a big book worm when I was a kid." She announced, looking through the child's book that she held tenderly in her hands. Flipping through the pages, memories of when she was little came back. She would always try to stay up to read a book every night, especially when she didn't have school the next day.

"Oka-san used to read it to us when we asked her to." Sasuke said, smiling as he got up from where he sat and walked over. Looking over the spines of the books, he noticed a lot of books that their mother used to read them. Turning around, he stared at his brother. "Did you take them all?"

"Pretty much. Only my favorites." Itachi answered, setting his cup down on the wood encased glass table. "Why? Do you see one that you liked?"

"No. I was just wondering. When Mikoto gets born, can I borrow some so I can read to her?" Sasuke asked, noticing Where the Wild Thing Live or something along that. Pulling out Aesop's fables, he skimmed it over. He would ask for his mother to read it to him all the time when it came to bedtime. He tried to dissect the works and try to understand what they meant.

"Fine with me." Itachi shrugged, leaning over and putting his legs over the arm of the couch with his head resting on the blond's lap. Watching his brother, Itachi noticed something different about his brother.

His brother was finally getting stubbles across his face for a beard of some kind of facial hair. His hair was longer with it still holding the same style he had for years.

"Sasuke, let's go home. They look quite tired." Maiko noticed as she turned around to look around the room. Grabbing her purse that she set down, she shook their hands. "It was a pleasure to meet both of you."

"Ours too." Naruto yawned, covering his mouth with his other hand.

"I'll see you guys around if you're in town." Sasuke called as he shuffled to get his shoes on and walked out with his lover.

Once they heard the sound of the challenger starting up, Naruto relaxed, slouching a little. "I'm surprised that Oka-san and Oto-san would show him where we live."

"You're not the only one. I think everyone was when they saw them. At least he didn't try anything." Itachi said, thinking of the what ifs his brother could have done. Smiling, he turned his head and stared into the cerulean eyes of his love. "We got food out of the deal too. I'm surprised that Kisame would give something."