Chapter 7: Lust

By this time, everyone in the Leaf village was up and going about their day as usual. Well, almost everyone.

Sasuke was still fast asleep in his warm, spacious bed in the dark bedroom. He felt wonderful. A strange, indescribable feeling washed over him as he lay there beneath the covers. He inhaled deeply letting out a contented sigh and tilted his head to the side. He never wanted to wake up. He wanted to lie there forever in this wonderful bliss. He drew his arm tighter around his pillow and rested his face on its hairy texture.

Wait a minute.

Since when did pillows have hair? And when did they suddenly grow bones and flesh?

His eyes snapped open and he looked down. He was in bed with Crystal laying on his chest, her arm draped across his waist and the other tucked under his back. His left arm was wrapped around her hips and the other had a hold of her free hand. They were both tangled up in a sea of blankets and Sasuke just became aware of another thing: She was still wearing his shirt, but he wasn't.

In his panic, Sasuke gave a high-pitched shriek and tumbled out of bed, landing with a loud thud on the wooden floor in a crumpled heap.

Crystal woke with a start and peered over the side of the bed. "What's the matter?" Her innocent expression only severed to irritate Sasuke further.

Scrambling to his feet, Sasuke threw his arms about his exposed chest and sputtered, "W-where're my clothes?!" He was relived to see that he was still wearing pants, but he still wasn't happy about being topless. "What happened to my shirt?"

She pointed to the corner of the room. "You flung it behind the chair in a fit of passion," she explained. "You were a little frisky this morning." Seeing his jaw drop she quickly added, "But don't worry, you never took off your pants of anything. Just the shirt… Oh, and your armbands. They're over there." She pointed to two different places. One hung from a lampshade and the other was wedged behind the pillows.

Sasuke had never felt such a mixture of confusion, frustration, embarrassment and rage before in his life. He wanted answers. "What did you do? What happened to me?"

Much to his great annoyance, Crystal seemed very nonchalant when she answered, "Nothing."

"Tell me NOW!" he demanded. "What happened? Why were you in bed with me? And why the Hell am I topless?!"

Sensing his bewilderment and terror, Crystal got serious. Sitting in the middle of his bed, she revealed the truth. "You were doing your job. You're my mate after all."

Sasuke cocked his head to the side, asking for clarification.

"You're male, I'm female, and we're both vampire and the only ones in this village. You've got to pair up with someone and I'm the only natural choice. I'm your mate, and this morning you were just displaying your affection to me."

Sasuke's jaw hit the floor. "WHAT?! I never agreed to that! Wh-what are you saying?!" His thoughts were racing and his body was shaking.

"It was instinct, Sasuke. You don't need to concede to it. It just happens."

His mind was buzzing. This was all happening too fast. He didn't understand.

"But wait a minute, what do you mean 'instinct'?"

"Oh, you don't know, do you?" He shook his head. "When a vampire bites a human and turns them into a vampire, a special bond exists between them. Since I bit you, you have gotten close to me and developed feelings for me, being opposite genders and all. You can't help yourself."

Sasuke swayed slightly. This was hard to take in.

"How should I put this?" she pondered. "You see, your emotions are going haywire. The only way to keep them in check is to express them. The best way to do this is through kissing. That's what we did today. That's why you're calmer now."

"Calmer?!"

"Ok, bad choice of words, but you see my point. If you don't vent your emotions through kissing, then you become uncontrollable and act out on impulse. You'll become a, uh… a love-crazy wild man and attack me in a fit of passion the next time you see me."

This wasn't something he wanted to hear. "Isn't there anyway around this?"

"No, we have to kiss so you can vent. If you don't…" She trailed off. "On the plus side, it's very pleasurable for the both of us."

He glared at her. There was no way he'd become her love-puppet. He had to think of a solution fast.

Finally, he came to a conclusion: If he only got that way when he saw her, then he'd just stop seeing her.

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For the last two and a half days, Sasuke had successfully avoided her. During this time, he didn't see of speak to her. This strategy seemed to be working. He felt no lustful urges at all. However, without anyone to train him, Sasuke had to learn to train himself. He hadn't learned anything new, so he just practiced what he had already learned from her.

On the third day was a whole different story. It was a good cloudy day and Sasuke couldn't be happier that the sun wasn't shining in his sensitive eyes. He and the other members of squad 7 where heading into town for lunch.

"I haven't seen Crystal around lately," Sakura was saying. "I hope she's ok."

Yeah, I bet Sasuke thought to himself bitterly. There was no way he'd make-out with a vampire girl everyday just because she said he did. What was the worst that could happen?

That's when Sakura called out, "Hey, Crystal! Over here!"

Oh, dear God, no!

Crystal ignored Sasuke completely and immediately started talking to Sakura.

Good, at least she was leaving him alone. Maybe if this kept up, he wouldn't have anything to worry about.

Then why couldn't he stop staring at her? Oh, no…

Naruto stood there tapping his foot on the ground impatiently. "Come on, I'm hungry!" he whined.

"Then go ahead, Naruto! I'll catch up," Sakura threw over her shoulder. She went back to chatting with Crystal.

Naruto pouted. "Man, what is it with girls anyway? All they ever want to do is talk. Right, Sasuke?" He didn't answer. "Sasuke?"

He was staring at Crystal with uncharacteristically large eyes.

That was strange.

Naruto approached him and looked at his pale face. He was staring straight ahead, face frozen with the expression of shock. Naruto poked him in the arm and received no response. He jabbed him harder, and still got nothing. Sasuke was a statue.

This was very bizarre; so unlike Sasuke! To make matters even stranger, now his face was turning red. Naruto put a hand to Sasuke's face. He was so hot! What could be causing him to burn up like this?

That's when Sasuke's face spread into a mischievous grin. His eyes went big, brows raised, and the goofy smile got wider.

"Sas…"

Before Naruto could finish, Sasuke had knocked him aside and bounded forward. He pounced onto Crystal's smaller body knocking her to the ground. Sakura jumped back with a shriek of surprise. Naruto spun around and watched as the lustful display unfolded.

Sasuke straddled her hips and pushed her shoulders into the dirt, kissing her furiously. Crystal seemed to be trying to push him off of her, but Sasuke held fast to her body. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pressed his chest against hers. They rolled over each other, fighting for dominance. Now Sasuke was on the bottom. As she pulled away from his kiss, his arms coiled behind her neck and pulled her back in, pressing his lips tightly against hers once more. Again they rolled and when they stopped, Sasuke was on top.

Naruto was in shock. Was his rival really doing this in the middle of a public street? He turned to the others. Sakura's face seemed to be stuck in a silent scream as the color drained from her face. Kakashi's visible eye was abnormally wide and the book he was reading nearly slipped from his slack grip. He wasn't moving a muscle.

The kissing frenzy continued. This emotional hurricane swept away all of Sasuke's dignity and composure. He couldn't stop himself. If there was anything hotter than her it was him. All this kissing was working up a sweat. He was starting to overheat. Still kissing her, Sasuke stripped off his arm bands and threw them to the ground. It wasn't enough. His sopping wet shirt was sticking to his clammy back. Unable to take it anymore, Sasuke broke the kiss for a moment and ripped off his shirt. He threw it over his shoulder and went back to kissing his angelic beauty. He nuzzled her neck, caressed her body and moaned passionately through the kisses.

This was almost too much! Naruto couldn't bear the sight anymore. He stepped forward calling his name. "Sasuke!" Said ninja batted him away, still kissing. He just wouldn't stop! Sasuke was completely out of control.

Naruto was about to drag Sasuke off her body when the strangest thing happened.

As if a giant pipe had sprung a leek, a massive title wave of water washed over them. The icy-cold water drenched Sasuke and his lip-candy from head to toe. They shrieked and hollered in surprise, flailing around as the abrupt flood engulfed them.

Naruto spun around to discover the source. Standing by the side of a building was none other than Kakashi himself, holding a large hose. With the two kissers completely soaked, he turned off the hose and set it back down.

The drenched Sasuke coughed and sputtered. Crawling off to the side and shaking himself like a dog, leaving a sopping wet Crystal to herself, he slowly looked up.

Kakashi looked less than pleased. "You," he drawled dangerously. "Come with me."

He didn't know what to do. He was still trying to make sense of what just happened. After turning to Crystal, then to the muddy ground, he picked himself off the ground and followed Kakashi silently, hanging his head.

Finally regaining her senses, Sakura turned to asked Crystal what that was all about, but she was long gone. It was as if she had disappeared. Naruto wanted to talk to her, knowing how hard it must've been for her to watch her crush kiss another girl. But he decided against it. Instead he watched Sakura's back shrink into the distance as she made for home.

Meanwhile, Sasuke was wringing out his damp pants and waited for Kakashi to speak. His sensei tossed him his moist shirt and arm bands and ordered him to get dressed. He wrung out his soaking wet shirt and held it up to his chest, not wanting to put it on just yet.

Kakashi seemed to be having a hard time with this. Never had he witnessed Sasuke in such a disgraceful situation. Never ever! Seeing Kakashi pace and avoid eye contact was a bit unnerving. He opened his mouth as if to speak, but closed it again, shaking his head. Sasuke waited. Again he opened his mouth, but he shut it that time, too. This was indeed an awkward situation. How in the world was Kakashi going to lecture his student on something that was so… so bizarre? So creepy? So… unlike Sasuke?

He scratched the back of his head and sighed. "Well…" he began. "What do you have to say for yourself?"

Sasuke shrugged.

Still caught off guard by the strange spectacle, Kakashi took his time in finding the right words. This wasn't going to be easy. How do you lecture an Uchiha on such an, ahem, touchy subject?

"Is there anything you want to talk about?"

Again, Sasuke shrugged, avoiding eye contact. He had never been so humiliated in his life; and in front of everyone!

"Well, you see, Sasuke…" Kakashi trailed off as if searching for words. "I think it's great that you've found someone, ahem… special to you, but could you try to keep your feelings a little more private?"

Oh, no. He wasn't going to talk about the birds and the bees was he?

"It's no business of mine what you do in your free time. In fact, I don't really care what you guys do with your personal lives…"

Sasuke hoped that that was as far as he'd go. He was wrong.

"… but could you perhaps keep it to yourself and not put on a show in the road?"

He shut his eyes in horror. Did he really have to bring that up?

"I mean, we all have our desires. As men we have our manly urges, too."

Sasuke winched. Did he REALLY have to say THAT?

"Sometimes our hormones get out of control, especially when we see a cute girl, but we need to keep those feelings in check. Sometimes a good way to do it is to have a cold shower. That's one reason why I doused you."

He cringed at his words. He couldn't bear any more.

"Public display of affection is ok, but what you did was… a little uncalled for."

"OK! I get it!" Sasuke stopped him right there. He would have stopped him sooner, but he was still in a state of shock. "It won't happen again! I promise."

Kakashi nodded, apparently relived that he was cut off. "Good. See that it doesn't." His eyes shifted from side to side and he seemed to be somewhat embarrassed about this whole thing. He looked at his watch. "Well, I think we handled that pretty well. You guys are dismissed. Later!" With that he zoomed off.

Sasuke slapped on his wet shirt and stuffed his armbands into his pockets. This was humiliating! He felt so mortified. Was he really going to act like that every time? He had thought that avoiding her would be a good thing, but if he acted like that just after two days what would happen if he went without seeing her for a week? He was aware of what he was doing, but he couldn't control himself. It was like he was possessed by a horny animal or something. He banged his head against the wall and groaned.

"You have to keep emoting or this will happen."

He turned and saw Crystal standing behind him looking almost sympathetic.

"Go away!" he ordered. He didn't want to see her.

"Sasuke, you don't understand." She laid a hand on his wet back and stroked him in a calming manner. He liked her touch. He let his eyes droop and listened. "You're full transformation is almost complete. By the time it's over you probably won't act out the way you just did. We'll still need to kiss, but you won't be as off the wall as you were today. Believe me, I know. I've been a vampire a lot longer than you. I know what I'm doing."

Now much calmer than he was before, Sasuke turned to face her. "Crystal, I don't like having my emotions played with."

"I'm not playing with them. It's instinct."

"Maybe, but maybe there's another way. Isn't there some other way we can do this so I don't have to kiss you all the time, just be normal?"

"Sasuke, I'm a walking Aphrodisiac! You can't help yourself! The longer you're away from me the harder it's gonna get." She had never raised her voice to him before. It was kind of scary. "Look, we don't have to kiss every night, but you can't stop seeing me. That'll make things worse. I can help you but only if you let me. Soon, this'll become second nature to you."

She extended her hand for him to take. He looked at it. Should he accept this? She did seem to know what she was doing. And he did need a trainer. Maybe she was right. After all, she was standing right in front of him and he wasn't going crazy.

After several thoughtful moments, Sasuke finally took her hand.

Looking into her damp face, he could feel her spirit quell the storm in his heart. He felt reassured. This was ok. He could handle this. As long as she was at his side, he'd get through it. He trusted her.

Soon he'd be able to tame his inner beast and defeat any obstacle that stood in his way.

"Training tonight?" he asked softly.

"You bet," she giggled. "And tonight I'll show you something new."

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