Prologue

The smell of chemicals and disinfectant was strong in Sasuke's nose, and he wished he could be anywhere except in a hospital waiting room. He had been staring at the clock, watching the hands move. To him it seemed like every minute dragged on, teasing him. His phone had ran out of battery about an hour ago, and the TV in the waiting area was playing some cheesy soap opera from the 90's. He supposed it could be worse. He could be having his ear talked off by a certain blond idiot. At least in the waiting room he could enjoy some much needed silence.

His brother's surgery had been going on for over three hours now. Sasuke knew he could've just left, especially since chances were that Itachi would have to stay overnight. But a part of him, which he stubbornly refused to acknowledge, was worried for his brother. Anything could go wrong and he'd rather be here just in case.

"Uchiha Itachi?"

Sasuke's head snapped up, "Yes? I'm his brother." He said as he walked towards the nurse.

"Your brother's was successful," She smiled, "He's going to be taken to the recovery room for post-anesthesia care. We need to monitor him for the next hour before transferring him to his inpatient room. Tsunade-sama will come get you once he's transferred."

A wave of relief swept over Sasuke.

"Your brother will need to stay here overnight," The doctor, a blonde woman named Tsunade said, "The eye was removed successfully. Unfortunately, this means your brother will be blind in his left eye, as you already knew."

"Yes," Sasuke and Itachi knew this was the only way to save his life. Had they not caught it on time it would've continued to grow. It had been a shock when Itachi had told him, but now Sasuke was just exhausted.

"We need to run some tests for the next two days before he's able to go home," she continued, "He's going to have some trouble with depth perception while he gets used to having vision in only one eye, and I'll need to see him in a month after he's healed so that we can fit him for a prosthesis. That's all there is to say for now. The rest we'll talk about in a month"

Sasuke nodded at her

"I'm sure you'd like to see how your brother is, he's in the inpatient area. Room 135"

"Thank you," he muttered at her.

Two blushing nurses came out of Itachi's room, giggling like a bunch of schoolgirls. Sasuke resisted the urge to roll his eyes at them. Better Itachi than him though, Sasuke had a low tolerance for fangirls.

Once Sasuke entered the room, he looked at the bed his brother was laying in and took a moment to study him. An IV drip was inserted in his hand, his left eye had an eye pad taped to it, his right eye was lowered from exhaustion, and his face and lips were pale.

"You look like shit," Sasuke finally said.

A small smile appeared on Itachi's face, "Is that really any way to greet your older brother?"

"Hn," Sasuke sat down in the chair near his bed, "You'll have to stay here for the next two days."

"Yes, I figured as much. I'm guessing you spoke with Tsunade-sama?"

"Yeah, she said you'll also have to come back in a month for prosthesis fitting."

"Hm. Do you know the time?"

Sasuke glanced at the clock by the room entrance, "About 1:30 in the afternoon"

"Have you eaten anything?"

Sasuke snorted indignantly, "Seriously? You're the one who just had his eye removed and you're worried about me?"

"I am your older brother," Itachi stated, looking at him

"Yeah, yeah. Spare me the sentimental bullshit" Sasuke crossed his arms.

Itachi smiled, knowing that even though Sasuke acted like this, his little brother had been worried about him. "I'll take that as a no. You should go get something to eat. We can talk more later."

"Alright, fine. If it means you'll get off my case," Sasuke stood up and made his way towards the door, he actually was hungry having drank nothing but coffee since six in the morning, "Be back in a bit."

Sasuke had just stepped foot out of his brother's room and was walking down the hallway when he hear an annoying, familiar voice coming from behind him.

"Huh? Sasuke-kun is that you?"

Oh hell no.

Shit, he forgot she was an intern at the hospital. Of course it'd be his luck he'd run into Sakura.

Sasuke pretended not to have heard her and started walking fast down the hallway, leaving her behind him. He was in no mood to deal with her and her insufferable rambling today.

"Hey Sasuke-kun wait up!" She called after him.

Sasuke took a random right turn hoping to lose her, but paused when he saw who was in front of him.

God dammit! It was the other insufferable girl. Thankfully Ino had her back turned to him, but now Sasuke was stuck between Sakura and Ino. And knowing them, they'd get into a cat fight over him with him stuck in the middle of it all.

Without really thinking about it, Sasuke opened the door to his right and nearly jumped into the room, closing the door behind him. He stood there holding the door closed, listening to what was going on outside.

"Hey Pig, did you see Sasuke-kun just now?" Sakura's muffled voice said.

"What? Sasuke-kun? No I didn't, and even if I did why would I tell you Billboard Brow!"

Great, now they were arguing right near the door. How in the hell was he supposed to-

"Um, hello?" Sasuke's thoughts came to a stop when he heard a soft voice behind him.

He turned to look at the person who had spoken to him.