Itachi stared at the two boys sitting obediently in front of him in a training field away from the creepy trail of blood.
"How did you two meet each other exactly?" Itachi decided to question. He needed answers and he needed them now. At the moment he didn't care that he was talking to four year olds. The whole thing was mind boggling. How did a training session with his little brother turn into a friendship reunion. Sasuke didn't have friends! At least to his family's knowledge. Not that Itachi wasn't happy sasuke had a friend it was just a bit strange in Itachi's opinion. I mean sasuke was just antisocial. Almost as if he preferred to be alone.
"Oh that's easy itachi!" Sasuke said.
"Yeah your gonna feel really stupid that you asked that question" naruto beamed.
"Enlighten me" itachi encouraged.
"It was about a month ago and i was practicing my shuriken throwing."
"Teme you suck at throwing shuriken" naruto said butting in.
"I'm better than you!" Sasuke shot back.
"That doesn't say much teme" naruto countered.
Both boys glared at each other. "Just continue the story teme we'll debate this later"
"Fine" sasuke said. Turning back to itachi.
"I was practicing my shuriken throwing when i missed one and it flew past the target and through the trees. I went to go get it when i tripped over something lying on the ground or well someone. When i turned around naruto was lying on the ground unconcsious. He looked a bit beaten up actually how did you get like that again?"
"Oh i was protecting the really cute hyuuga girl from some bullies! They were making her cry and i couldn't just let them off the hook for that!" Naruto exclaimed waving his hands around energetically.
"but anyways i went to make sure he was okay. Then the dobe decided that was the moment to wake up and bash his skull into mine." Sasuke said giving naruto a playful glare.
"I said i was sorry!" Naruto exclaimed.
"That didn't change the fact that my head hurt."
"Headbutts hurt both way's duckass"
"Better then being a dumbass" sasuke mumbled.
"Language" itachi calmly reminded them. Even if it was a baby swear they shouldn't be swearing at four.
"Your no fun" naruto commented.
Itachi merely gave him a blank look. "Why do you always do that!?" Naruto exclaimed.
"Do what?" Sasuke questioned.
"Is your brother always this..... Tense?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke scratched his head in thought. "I refuse to answer that question with him 2 feet away." Sasuke commented almost sagely.
"Boy's story" itachi reminded.
"That was the story" sasuke said.
"Yeah were you not listening to sasuke?" Naruto said with a grin slinging his arm around sasuke.
" you asked how we met not how we became friends big brother"sasuke pointed out.
As much as itachi loved his little brother there were times when sasuke could be most annoying. This was one of those times. The small uchiha had got up and started throwing shuriken at a target missing not once not twice but every single time.
"Your supposed to hit the target teme" naruto advised.
"Your supposed to be throwing these things with me dobe" sasuke shot back with a small scowl.
"But it's so fun watching you fail miserably" naruto snickered.
"Naruto!" Sasuke snapped turning his head and throwing a shuriken hitting the target dead center and he wasn't even looking. All three boys stared at the target dead center in the red. It wasn't even an inch off. Then all hell broke lose between naruto and sasuke. Or at least their banter had started and itachi felt a growing head ache.
"Nice shot"
"Doesn't count"
"Yes it does"
"Wasn't looking"
"So? You still hit it"
"It was a fluke"
"I doubt that"
"It was a lucky shot"
"You aren't lucky teme"
"Says the guy who broke a mirror. That's seven years bad luck dobe"
"Seven's our number teme"
"Hn"
"That's not a word"
"Hmph"
"No still... still a noise"naruto said sighingly making his last two words make an oi! type sound.
"That's your job To. you annoy"
"Aaw yeah but only you!"
"Ah" sasuke commented.
"Your such a conversationalist" naruto said.
"Says the hyper active knuckle head" sasuke shot back.
"This coming from the uchiha shuriken throwing champ" naruto said sarcasm clear in his tone.
Sasuke snorted and naruto had a gleam of mischief in his eyes. "Teme i think Itachi is broken" naruto said pointing to itachi.
"Naah he's probably faking"
"Yeah your right"
"Of course i'm right!" Sasuke said sounding affronted.
Naruto picked up a nearby stick and began poking itachi with it. Itachi on his part didn't rip the stick out of naruto's hands and char it into nothing but ash. Instead he was saved from being poked with a stick by the nine tailed fox container by his little brother. Although itachi wasn't sure how getting flicked in the forehead repeatedly was any better than getting poked with a stick.
A tic mark appeared as sasuke and naruto somehow went from flicking him to flicking each other. This soon led to an all out fist fight between the to boys. Although itachi wasn't sure if rolling around in the mud classified as such. "Hey big brother?" Sasuke questioned from the double headlock he and naruto were now in. "Yes sasuke?" Itachi questioned. "Do you think it would be okay if naruto came over tommorrow?" Sasuke queried. "You would have to ask mom" was the answer sasuke recieved. "Okay!" Sasuke chirped as he went back to wrestling naruto slipping out of the headlock and flinging a bit of mud at his friend.
"You can't do that!" Naruto yelped flinging a bit of mud in protest.
"Why not? Your not hokage yet!" Sasuke declared jumping on the blonde.
"So you really think i can?" Naruto asked excitedly springing up making sasuke stumble backwards.
"Of course after all it's in your blood. Your very nature" sasuke cryptically replied.
That comment made a chill go up his spine. Did sasuke and/or naruto know who his parents were!? That would not be good because that means the two know about the fox demon sealed inside of naruto. And yet Itachi mused watching his little brother and his friend attempt to get the mud off of themselves and out of their hair sasuke still chose to befriend the lonely boy. If sasuke deemed naruto to be a friend. His only friend. His best friend. Well that was good enough for itachi as long as sasuke stopped sneaking out of the compound to train in some training ground in the woods without adult supervision. Sasuke was getting a talking to about that. At the end of this crazy meeting with the jinchuuriki boy itachi couldn't help but feel happy. After all his little brother had finally made a friend. A best friend at that.
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Okay i know this one's kinda short but i promise the next chapter is going to be much longer. Also what do you think? Is itachi out of character probably..... Will he cease to be yes. I just needed a way to further this story a bit more. Okay guys i love you all! Please tell me what you think and if you have any suggestions or requests or something. I'm thinking of starting a naruto oneshot book. But anyways tell me in the comments!