Title: Remembering My Love

Author: nikki ([email protected])

Chapter: E

Chapter Title: Remembering My Love

Rating: PG-13

Genre: Romance/Drama

Warning: INCEST, YAOI. OOCness. If you're squicky about this, don't read. Oh yeah, and like my other fics, it's unbetaed.

Pairing/s: Itachi/Sasuke, Naruto/Gaara, a bit of Lee + Sakura

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto.

Author's notes: Heh... It's the epilogue already... Err... Hopefully you guys enjoyed this fic.

//blah// - thoughts

"blah" - speech

//"blah"// - speech from a past memory or speech that was not really part of the dream



~Epilogue: Remembering My Love~

Sunlight streamed through the light curtains and illuminated the room. Apparently, it would be to one's misfortune that one of it's rays would be centered on your eyes, waking you from a fitfull slumber in the process. Itachi was one of the unfortunate ones.

His eyes fluttered open, a frown on his face. //This is not my day.//

The only thing good about waking up was to be able to watch Sasuke sleep beside him. And said lover was currently curled up beside him with the blanket barely covering his slender body.

Now all he needed was to wake Sasuke up so that he could have some early morning "fun". It was a consolation to him for being woken up by the stupid sunlight filtering through the curtains.

Unfortunately, it was not to be as the alarm clock suddenly rang just before it met its untimely end by having a fist smash into it for disturbing the younger Uchiha's sleep. One thing that could now be noted was that one must never disturb a sleeping Uchiha. It was bound to be hazardous to one's health.

The older sibling's eyebrow twitched. Yes, it was definitely hazardous to one's health but it was what one would risk to be with the person you loved. He had yet to visit the cemetery and apologize to his parents for Sasuke's sake.

He took a glimpse outside and saw that some of the shop owners had begun to set up their wares. It was about time that he got ready for work as well.

Work was nothing as glamorous as beating the crap out of other ninjas but it did give him something to do.

~~~~~

Yes, the work did give him something to do but did he ever mention that he hated having the girls in his afternoon class ogling him whenever he walked in? That was a definite downside to all this.

The good thing about it though was that the girls did score higher in their efforts to impress him. But it was still annoying having them fawn all over him. It was suffocating.

Anyway, it as wasn't as if he didn't want to go on missions. It was just that he couldn't. The council made sure of that. It was rare that he was given one and in those rare instances, he would only get a D ranked mission. Boring.

At least being with Sasuke more than made up for everything.

Thank goodness that class wasn't due for hours yet.

~~~~~

He felt that he was wrong to hope that the afternoon class was going to be his only problem today.

Damn it. He hated being wrong.

Itachi's eye twitched, a reflex he picked up after a year of teaching veritable monsters. It was no wonder all the teachers in the academy were prone to high blood pressure.

He had only been out for five minutes, only to return, finding his class in complete chaos and him soaked from head to toe. Those little imps really knew how to make his blood pressure skyrocket and soar to new heights. It was a miracle he hadn't snapped... yet.

As if that wasn't enough, they had to gall to use one of his biggest weaknesses...

Those big, twinkling puppy-dog eyes were so cute that you simply couldn't deny them anything. (With the exception of Naruto of course, who'd probably bleed your wallet dry if you weren't careful. Thank goodness it only works on Gaara and Iruka. Besides, Sasuke would kill him... by abstinence of course. No sex would definitely mean sleeping alone on the couch. Something he was not inclined to do unless he had Sasuke in his arms. By then of course that wouldn't be sleeping alone now would it?)

Twitch, twitch, then a sigh of resignation, a slight wave, a rush for seats and class resumes. Wringing the water from his hair, he took his place in front of the class before the blackboard. He couldn't help but sigh.

//Sometimes, I wish they wouldn't do that...//

~~~~~

Things got worse as the day progressed. His afternoon was filled with answering stupid questions for girls who definitely did not have brains. They were practically all over him.

He was practically running for the door as soon as the bell rang. A big switch in roles one could say. He was waiting for the bell to ring to get out of there when it was supposed to be the student's job. Oh well.

Passing by the ramen stall on his way back home, he gave a slight nod to Gaara who was most likely suffering from nomoneyilitis aka empty wallet. Well, if not now, then maybe a little later. Yeah, one could tell especially when there's a particular blonde slurping down what would look like his fifth bowl of ramen.

He ran into Kakashi who was hiding a bouquet of roses behind his back. It was probably for Iruka. Really now. Hiding roses behind your back when everyone else could see it was... amusing. Well, it's not really his problem anyway.

Sakura was watching Lee practice and cheering him on. Beside her was Ino with that lazy bum, Shikamaru. Strange. That Hyuga brat wasn't anywhere within the vicinity...

Oh, there he is. There hiding in the tree. Really now, playing hide and seek is boring. He should just get down there and drag the other boy into some room somewhere get all that tension out. Being repressed is not good for one's state of mind. (Of course, he'd already experienced that first-hand when he merely stated that Hyuga had a nice bottom. Sasuke wasn't too happy about that. One week of abstinence nearly drove him nuts.)

Then finally he got home. As he was removing his shoes, Sasuke walked out of the kitchen and smiled at him, as beautiful as always.

"Okaeri."

Itachi smiled back. "Tadaima."

At that moment, all his troubles from earlier seemed non-existent. As long as Sasuke was with him, everything seemed worth it.

He slipped his arms around the younger Uchiha and whispered into his hair, "I love you, Sasuke."

~~~~~

~OWARI~

Author's notes: Oooookayyy... This is officially over. I will not be making a sequel for this. You guys can think what you want about what happened to the Akatsuki guys. It's not that I don't want to write any more ItaSasu stuff, it's just that I can't. I still have other fics to finish and adding another fic just doesn't seem to be a good idea at the moment.

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Started: November 26, 2003

Broke off: November 29, 2003

Resumed: March 1, 2004

Ended: March 1, 2004

"Remembering My Love" started on July 29, 2003 and ended on March 1, 2004.