Edited 13/10/016
Chapter 7
He felt loss.
Felt dread.
Felt anger.
He had regained control for an instant and that instant was enough for him to snap out of his haze and scuttle back.
Tsuna panted harshly, his lips still wet with his bodyguard's nourishing blood.
It took a moment to register what he'd actually done before hurrying back to the raven's side. His features twisted in terror and fear. Numbly he searched for a pulse on Reborn's wrist. He breathed a sigh of relief when he felt a faint fluttering against the pads of his fingertips. Damn it Reborn, why didn't you listen to me?!
Tsuna coughed and his stomach contracted.
Tsuna immediately pulled out a pocket knife and a cell phone and rested it beside the man. His hunger was coming back with a vengeance, the blood saturated into the air was slowly clouding his mind. He got up shakily and spun in a panicked circle, looking for something that might calm him down enough to act. He saw the fallen woman and his eyes widened.
He didn't have time to feel bad or disgusted with himself, he immediately dashed towards the red headed nurse. He yanked her up forcefully and sank his teeth, fangs and all into her flesh and yanked his own head viciously backward. He chewed the flesh and muscle in his mouth hurriedly. The violence done to her tender flesh, woke the woman up and she managed a soundless scream and a violent jerk.
Tsuna snapped her neck.
He went back to her body, tearing her clothes and began eating.
He felt his stomach fill and his heart begin its once again arduous task of pumping blood to his pale body. With the blood now running joyously in his veins, he regained a little colour to his cheeks and some of his sanity settle back into place.
Pulling back he grimaced at his sloppily eaten meal.
Remembering Reborn, he rushed back to the man's side and picked up his cell phone, dialling 119. The other end picked up just as Tsuna flick his pocket knife open and stabbed into the meaty part of his bodyguard's shoulder to the area in which he had bitten the other. Worryingly, Reborn did not stir.
He re-sought Reborn's wrist and flapped his hands in a panic when he felt the irregular beats.
"Hello, I need help! He's hurt! I need an ambulance for-" he continued to talk to the woman on the phone for a minute or so telling the other of their location and the condition of Reborn before hanging up. Tsuna pulled him into his arms and tried to keep him warm and at an angle where the blood would not constantly run. He eyed the blood from the wound and grimace at how little it bled.
He took too much...
Hopefully the ambulance would arrive on time. He glanced back at where the woman's remains were left and looked away with a held breath. His thoughts running a mile a minute.
A chuckle came from the mouth of the alleyway. Tsuna snapped his head to face the unknown with glowing vermillion orbs.
Oh god no… Tsuna stared at the man with startled fear and betrayal.
Amused red eyes gazed fondly over at the carnage deeper in, "My, my, were you really that starved? I have not seen such a messy meal since the savage times of the world." Sniffing in Reborn's direction, "Aren't you going to eat him too? Surely one person was not enough?" he questioned mockingly.
Tsuna shielded Reborn from his sire's sight, "I will feed properly on other prey later." He spat. Tsuna then looked behind him briefly, when he turned back, his sire was just a hair's breath away from his face.
Tsuna fought back his trademark shriek and glared at the older creature, "I need him alive. I don't want them coming here." Tsuna growled.
The red eyes of his sire narrowed and then a humorous chuckle escaped his lips at Tsuna's defensive attitude.
"I see…" Tsuna could tell he knew, he knew exactly what Tsuna was hinting at almost too well, "Then I will dispose of that hindrance for you." He said referring to the carcass and throwing a wet cloth at Tsuna's face, "Good children need to clean themselves up after a meal." He laughed.
Tsuna had ignored him and hastily began wiping at his mouth and hands. Lest he gives the personnel on the emergency ambulance reason to report him to the police.
Glancing back into the alley, Tsuna saw no trace of the body, his sire and mostly importantly, the blood that signified the scene of a crime. Grudgingly, Tsuna whispered a 'thank you' to his sire, an echo of the man's chuckling resounding in response, just as the wailing of the sirens became audible.
He reluctantly let go of the barely alive body and went to attract the attention of the vehicle to their spot, then ran back into the alley to check on Reborn. His was already becoming cold.
Tsuna's breath hitched, he looked out to see men garbed in white exiting the vehicle, "Over here! Hurry!" he shouted over urgently.
They hurried over.
Tsuna's body was covered in Reborn's blood, his blade and the handkerchief tucked away, and his phone forgotten to the side.
"Save him!"
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Several pairs of eyes watched in shocked disbelief as a suited male was carted into the white vehicle and a heavily sedated brunet along with him.
When the ambulance left, four figures came out of hiding in different areas, completely ignorant to what had actually happened. Two men grouped together and went into the alleyway to investigate. One heading for the still running car to take it back to the condominium and last, a woman was on the phone waiting for her boss to pick up.
A click was heard and before Iemitsu could even speak, she began reporting to him.
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From above, pearly white teeth bared into a savage grin. Tsunayoshi really was the best. His son was truly a creature of deceit.
TBC…