Here is the 10th chappie ppl! I hope you like it. I have a winner for this fic in terms of the most reviews and that person is Crystaldrops14! She will receive the same pic black55widow will get for the other fic as soon as they contact me.

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Chapter 10: Itachi's awakening

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Sasuke fidgeted. It was not often he got nervous, but in the few times that he did, he suffered. "W-what do you mean?" he stuttered and cursed himself for the weakness.

Itachi smirked, almost a mirror image of Sasuke. "Don't play with me. I can smell her on you and Sai as well."

"Why do you want to know anyways?" asked Sasuke. There was no way he was going to let Itachi get everything he wanted.

"She's new meat. Her blood is pure."

Sasuke's eyes narrowed. "She is not some piece of meat. There are plenty others out there for you."

Itachi's smirk widened. "Yes there are others, but not as pure as she is."

"Look can we just change the subject?" asked Sasuke, as he leaned into his chair. "She is Hyuga, that's all you need to know."

"Hn, Hyuga with the white eyes," said Itachi standing up. "She's forbidden."

Sasuke was thoroughly confused. "Forbidden? What do you mean…forbidden?"

Itachi walked to the door and looked back. "No time for idle chatter, little brother."

Sasuke sighed. He would find out what he meant soon enough.

"How did you get here so fast anyway?" asked Sasuke, as the wheels in his mind started to work overdrive.

"Idiot. How do I get anywhere?" said Itachi softly and a fluttering of wings was heard. Just then, the traveling cloak he was wearing melted into dozens of crows and concealed his form until there was only one bat left and he was gone. All in the span of a couple of seconds his presence was absent. (I used crows as used in Shippuden instead of bats for a reason)

"Man, I hate when he does any of that vampire stuff," said Sasuke to himself as he rubbed his forehead. He had forgotten his brother's way of travel and life. When he had first seen even a part of Itachi's way of life, he nearly wet himself. He was only six at the time and Itachi was about to become a stage three vampire.

"So what do you have to do to become a full vampire?" asked a six year old Sasuke.

"I have to go through certain procedures to be a true vampire," said Itachi. They were just sitting idly on the step of his former home which was a few miles away from Konoha or on the outskirts. "You are too young to understand."

"Oka-san and Otou-san told me the same thing."

"Because it's complicated."

"Can I become a vampire just like you?" asked Sasuke with unveiled interest.

Itachi smirked. "Yes, but your heart is not strong enough to handle it."

The six year old pouted. His brother was a vampire. The beings always fascinated him when his mother told him bed-time stories about it. Never in a million years would he have guessed his family was harboring the creatures.

His father had taken him with Itachi to the country and it was then that he knew. His father simply told him Itachi was a vampire and so was he as though it was just another boring conversation over the hamburgers they were eating- well that Sasuke was eating because his father and brother had not eaten a morsel- and that was that.

That was a year ago and Itachi was newly a stage two vampire. He should have guessed by the way he was acting all superior to most children in the neighborhood, never eating and hardly even drinking anything and never lost any weight.

He knew now that his family was part of the Uchiha clan of vampires. One of the few clans in the world.

He released those thought when a question came to mind out of nowhere.

"How come Oka-san is living?" he asked, remembering some of his cousins who had lost their mother to siblings.

Itachi sighed. "You know, for having the privilege of being related to me, you have no brain," he said, earning another pout from the small boy. "Oka-san is not a vampire, Otou-san is. So you put her in no harm."

"Why couldn't I be a vampire from the start? It's unfair," said Sasuke frowning. It was enough that his brother was good at school and at anything he attempted to do.

"There can only be one heir," said Itachi shortly and then he stood up. "Are you done with twenty-one questions?" and he flicked Sasuke on the forehead, making the younger boy flinch. "Good."

"Can I go with you when you turn?" he called, as Itachi started to walk away.

Itachi looked back at him. "I don't think you'd be able to stomach it."

Sasuke did not doubt it either. He'd seen Itachi take his wrist before and was horrified that someone should drink their own blood. Lord knows what he would have to do when he was a stage three.

Itachi was advanced for a child his age. As far as Sasuke knew, vampires awakened at around the age of sixteen, but here was his brother, a stage two at that and on h is way to becoming a full vampire in less than twenty-four hours.

The very idea made him shiver. When he watched vampire movies or read the books, it sometimes made out the beings to be blood-sucking monsters draining the lives of poor, innocent people.

Well…technically, that was true, but they were not monsters. Humans? No. But not monsters either.

It was the middle of the night when Sasuke woke up from the slight change in the atmosphere. The house felt bare somehow; cold.

Sasuke got up and went into his parents' bedroom to see that they were gone. Panicking, but keeping his cool as a trained Uchiha should, he stalked off to his brother's room and opened the door slowly to peep inside, seeing no one occupying Itachi's bed.

Where had they gone? Did they abandon him?

No, no that wasn't it. Itachi's full awakening was supposed to be tonight. He sighed in relief, knowing not where exactly they wee, but at least they were coming back. Sasuke would just calmly go back to bed and go to sleep.

Who was he kidding? He was a six year old, alone in the dead of the night and knew that somewhere, his brother would become the youngest stage three in the clan.

He just had to witness it.

He tiptoed unnecessarily back to his room as though everyone was still in the house. Slipping on a jacket, Sasuke nearly jumped a foot in the air when he heard a noise coming from the garage. They had to be in there.

Sneaking down the stairs, avoiding all the areas of the stairs he knew that creaked, Sasuke finally reached the back door. With a soft click, he made a crack in the doorway and slipped through, putting a shoe in the way so that if he needed to run back into the house, he would be able to make a quick escape.

And Itachi said he had no brain.

Sasuke walked through the forest towards the dim light he saw there, roughly in the middle of the mass of trees as the same trees tried to hold him back from what he knew would probably be the greatest terror of his life but he shrugged the apparent hands off his shoulders and continued until he heard voices and saw who was in the clearing.

Sasuke breathed slowly and calmly in through his nose, out through his mouth, concealing any hint of a scared to death boy hiding behind a tree.

His mother and Father were there as well as Itachi. He was sitting in the middle of the group, while the others stood with candles around him .The clan elder and a few of the persons Sasuke was sure had to be stage threes as well.

His breath hitched as he heard the oldest clan member, Uchiha Madara speak. Just hearing the man's voice sent chills up the six year old's back.

"We are all here to witness the full awakening of Uchiha Itachi," Madara said, softly. "All of those who object say now." There was a seething threat in the sound of his voice that dared anyone to disagree with the situation.

No one moved and inch.

"Good to know," he said. He reached into an old, worn out sack and pulled out a box a matches. "The awakening will now begin."

Madara gave the box to another Uchiha that Sasuke never even saw before. Fugaku and the other chosen vampires, he assumed, formed a circle around Itachi who was looking as though he was seated at the dinner table at home. His mother stayed where she was, looking afraid.

The woman who had the matches, walked anti-clockwise around Itachi and lit all the candles, casting an eerie shadow over Itachi's already scary face in Sasuke's opinion and took her place in the circle.

All the Uchiha's were sitting on their feet and bowed.

Madara was the only one who was not in the circle. He stood in the circle, next to the sitting Itachi, his cold obsidian eyes glinting in the glow of the candles illumination.

He reached into the sack without even looking inside and took out a dagger with a hilt of what looked like the very stone of his eye's sake and garnet stones from what the boy could tell from his position. He reached in again and took a rather large silver goblet and set it down in front of Itachi on the ground.

"Your hand." Everything the man said was a demand.

Itachi held out his hand, palm up to Madara with an expressionless face. Sasuke was sure that had it been him in that circle he would have been shaking like a leaf, not that he was not at the moment.

Madara took Itachi's hand and ran the dagger over his wrist before any objections could be made and Itachi winced, showing just for a moment a flicker of fear before schooling his face to being the stoic rock it was.

Mikoto inhaled sharply and covered he mouth quickly when Madara shot a glare in her direction as he was still holding her son's hand that was now bleeding uncontrollably into the goblet.

A sweet, metallic scent wafted through the air towards Sasuke and it made him feel excited almost as he felt the meager muscles in his stomach clench.

If Sasuke thought that Madara was cruel for cutting his brother's wrist, it was nothing like what he was sure was about to happen.

"Your hand," said Madara again and Itachi slowly gave him his other hand that was slit across the wrist like the other had been and now both Itachi's wrists were turned down to allow the blood to flow freely into the goblet as Madara held both his hand together, overflowing to form a patch of gore on the forest floor as Itachi winced even more.

Sasuke stole a glace at his mother to see she was shaking as badly as he was but she dared not move or make a sound. Madara took up the goblet and, to Sasuke's mortification, lifted the dripping container to his mouth and drank some of the contents as he closed his eyes as if relishing the taste, which Sasuke did not doubt.

That was not the worst part. Madara took the goblet from his blood drenched lips, licking the thick liquid from them and then he opened his eyes.

Sasuke was sure his eyes would pop out of his head any second now and his throat would collapse from the silent scream that was fighting so hard to be released. Madara's eyes were now as blood-red as the blood he just drank and the ruby orbs glowed as though seeing every move made at that moment. Sasuke froze, breathing as slowly as he could manage through his nose, because if he dared opened his mouth, he would surely be caught from the shriek he would let out and he was sure his mother felt the same way, for she was as stiff as a board.

Madara looked down on the bowed figures before him. "Rise," he said in an animalistic voice that caused every hair Sasuke possessed to stand on end. The other vampires did as was told, with their eyes closed and Madara placed the goblet in front of Fugaku who, like the others, had not opened his eyes yet. As if by pure instinct, Fugaku reached out and grasped the goblet accurately and lifted it to his lips as well.

What of Itachi? He was still sitting there all emotionless, but his eyes held so much interest that Sasuke had never seen before. He looked completely drained and pale and his dark eyes were drooping, the posture forgotten as he slouched from lack of blood in his body.

Sasuke looked at Fugaku as he sipped the blood, licking his lips as he passed the goblet to the person next to him until the last person had a drink and threw the empty goblet to the middle of the circle, still blinded by eyelids only to lift them with the blink of an eye to reveal the same terrifying,, gleaming eyes, as piercing as the dagger Itachi had been sliced with.

Sasuke gasped and immediately saw his mistake as all bloodstone orbs flickered in his direction with menacing glares.

Sasuke did not know if to move or not, but he thought that his body made the better judgment for him, for he turned and pelted in the other direction towards his home without looking back. Looking back caused you to trip over your feet and he could not risk being caught right now because he knew for sure someone was running behind him.

Sasuke saw his house and picked up his speed throwing his feet about him as he propelled himself forward. At this rate, Sasuke was so afraid that he felt as though he would go on all fours to see if he could go faster as he ripped his clothing as the trees mocked him by trying to hold him back as if saying 'I told you so.'

Sasuke pulled open the back door, shoving against the house with a bang and started to run but turned around quickly and heaved in the door, locking it.

Sasuke felt as though he had just run through heaven's gates as he scrambled up the stairs to his bedroom and shut the door, locking it as he heard the door rattling with the pressure of being forced open.

He stood there petrified as he heard the footsteps coming closer to his bedroom when he felt a warm sensation creeping down his legs.

"Sasuke, honey? Are you okay?"

That was his mother's voice.

Scratch that part about nearly wetting himself. He did wet himself.

Sasuke sighed as he remembered the humiliation of opening the door to his mother to see that he, a proud boy of six years old who never even wet the bed, pee his pants.

Thank Kami he and his mother cleaned up before his father and Itachi came home. Itachi being carried by his father to his room.

Sasuke wondered what had happened but was never told.

He sighed again and rubbed his eyes tiredly as he signed out and dragged his feet to the bathroom to have a warm shower.

He still wanted to know what Itachi meant when he said that Hyuga were forbidden.

There you have it. The 10th chappie! I should be at my cousin's house right now but I stayed just for a day so I could update for my lovely readers. I would have made the chapter longer but I want to start the Halfmoon in a new chapter where Hinata will be the dominant character just as Sasuke dominated this chapter.

I hope this chapter is long enough to keep you sane until next week and I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. I pray it's not too dark for you.

Would you believe me if I said I've never read a vampire book before? It's the truth! I plucked all these ideas from the top of my head so I hope I don't offend any religions or dented beliefs with this chapter.

This chapter should clear up most of the questions you may have but there are a lot more explanations in other chapters that will clear up and quench your thirst for answers. Be sure to read my other fic as well if you have not done so yet.

Until next week…

Ja ne!

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