Edited Chapter Three. I hope you enjoy
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CHAPTER THREE: Blood
After finally returning to sleep, I awoke again to the putrid stench of yet another thermos full of pig's blood. My favorite. I grimaced and set it aside after only a few swallows. I couldn't bring myself to drink more even if they refused to feed me anything else. Tsunade ordered Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura, Shikamaru, Hinata, and I to site on Kakashi's couch so she could make a speech. I lounged impatiently while everyone else focused intently on either her or me.
"Well, after significantly too much research, we found that Sasuke has no soul! Don't worry though, he probably can't enter anyone's house without being invited—" She would have continued, but…
I don't believe Naruto knew how to keep his mouth shut. "Probably?"
"We haven't tested it yet."
"Oh."
"Anyway. Technically, he's dead. But we can all see that he moves around and such just fine. He can survive in sunlight, so I guess that one's not true. But he doesn't have a reflection, and holy water seems to sting a little."
"A little?" That shit stung a lot!
"More than a little then. I looked all night, but I can't find anything on reversing the process. I don't think it's possible. So there's nothing we can do but keep him supplied with animal's blood, so he keeps away from humans, and send him home. I'm sure we can find something for you to do around here." Naruto grinned, probably thinking of completely pointless things to suggest. "For now Naruto will be watching you and is to report to me whenever he can get someone else to keep an eye on you, Sasuke-kun."
"But Tsunade!!!!!!" Why didn't Naruto ever just SHUT-UP. "Why do I have to watch Sasuke? He's the one who got himself…vampired?"
"Idiot." Of course, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to insult him any more than he could avoid speaking.
"You two are so troublesome. Why don't you just…chill or something." Shikamaru wore his default annoyed expression.
Tsunade cleared her throat. "You're watching him, Naruto."
Naruto sighed, whined, and said he'd only do it if she bought him ramen, which she actually agreed to. He still alternated between stamping and moping the entire way home. He lived in a fairly small, single room apartment, so he ordered me to sleep on the couch. For a month we both lived relatively peacefully in his apartment. I took to sleeping in and staying up late; it freaked Naruto out a little at first but he eventually got used to it.
I slept more peacefully without the strange dreams of nothingness, but waking up to the smell of ramen every day bothered me almost as much as nightmares. It stunk. Tsunade only assigned Naruto small, unimportant missions that I could go along on. Technically, guarding me was his primary mission.
I drank my pig's blood at the table with Naruto as he ate his ramen. Tuesday. I became a vampire on a Tuesday, and that day was a Tuesday too. The blood didn't disgust me as it usually did. I by no means enjoyed it, I just… I didn't care. Like my mind was on something else. I heard a soft thumping sound. I looked around, but couldn't find its source anywhere. "Do you hear that?" I asked Naruto, still searching.
"Hear what?" He asked, giving me the 'either Sasuke's imagining things or using his super vampy hearing again' look. Until I started living with others again, I never would have though anyone could say so much with a glance. I learned girls especially seemed to speak volumes with a blink after moving in with Naruto.
"That… thumping sound." I glared at him. How could the moron not hear something so loud?
"I don't hear anything, Sasuke." He glared back, but it looked comical since he hadn't changed out of his pajamas yet. The stupid hat especially. I don't think even Itachi could look scary in that thing.
His neck.
"I think I should…go." I spoke hurriedly, standing a little too quickly.
"Oh, no you don't!" Naruto leapt over the table to grab my arm.
The sound grew louder with Naruto closer to me. I'd already suspected where it came from, but now I knew. His heart. I heard the pulsing that sent blood through Naruto's veins. Through his body. To his neck, where I could so easily claim it for myself.
"Let. Me. Go. Naruto." I spoke forcefully, glaring at him with eyes I knew were red, but without the Sharingan.
"I can't let you go anywhere, stupid." Naruto looked so determined in his stupid hat. I couldn't let myself hurt him.
"You have to!"
"Why? What could be so important that it could justify my letting you out of my sight?" Naruto usually acted like a child, but he never let himself fail a mission if he had even the slightest chance.
"I…" His heart. "Just… just let me go." I squeezed my eyes shut.
"I can't. You know that."
"Sorry."
"For what?" I heard the confusion in his voice.
"For this… Naruto-kun."
I reached for his neck and sank my fangs into his soft flesh. Hot, red liquid seeped into my mouth. It didn't taste bad, not like the pig's blood. It tasted better than anything I'd ever had before, intoxicating like sake, warm like cocoa. I drank my first human blood hungrily, almost forgetting who I was, who Naruto was, how much blood he could afford to lose. I almost killed him.
I jerked back, my mouth filled with his blood. Frantically, I carried him to the couch, trying desperately not to look at him. Once I laid him down, I grabbed the phone Tsunade had given him and called the hospital. I told them only that he was hurt. He'd lost a lot of blood.
Tsunade wouldn't let me stay with him. She wouldn't let me stay with anyone. She shoved me in an empty cell, saying she'd take care of me once she knew Naruto would live. I sat down on the cold hard stone floor and waited.
I sat alone in the cell for three days, waiting. I didn't move, eat, drink, speak, or even sleep. I sat completely motionless for the three days it took the Hokage to return. The cold of the stone would have seeped into my flesh, if I hadn't been cold enough to first cool the stone. Either way, I sat there freezing, tired, hungry, and in a very bad mood.
"Sasuke." She spoke, her voice nearly as cold as mine. "You bit Naruto."
I nodded my head slightly.
"And you drank his blood."
I nodded.
"So you've proved that all vampires are blood thirsty monsters and that you can not be trusted with any human!" She nearly shrieked.
I only stared at her with eyes as black as night and cold as ice.
"What, you think I'm wrong?"
"I stopped."
"He's critical."
"But not dead."
"You think that makes it alright?"
"It makes him still alive. Though I'm still not." I heard her heart beating rapidly in her chest, and the silence from within my own.
"Don't make this a pity party, Vampire." She filled the last word with disgust and contempt.
"I'm not; there's no party here, Hokage-sama. Just a dead guy and an old hag. Not my ideal party guests?" I looked away from her.
"Don't even try feeling sorry for yourself, Vampire. We let you live, hoping part of who you once were had survived. And that it was a large enough part to keep you from killing any of us. We were wrong, and now we'll take care of it the way we should have in the first place. Once we settle it with everyone." She mumbled the last sentence, but I heard it clearly anyway.
"And how would that be?"
She turned to storm out of the room, but first, in a voice hard and cold, she told me. "We'll finish killing you."
END CHAPTER
Kisei: Sooo, did you like it? Didya? Didya? Didya?
Shikamaru: … I was just a random background person, wasn't I?
Kisei: Yea –shifty-
Shikamaru: Kay, that's cool.
Kisei: -relieved sigh- Everyone, I'm sorry this one took me a while longer to post, but I went to Texas for a week, and when I got back, I was without internet –sobs uncontrollably-
Sasuke:… The End?
Kisei: NOPE! There's still more to go! -happily tortures meh fave chara-
