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My Heaven My Paradise

The ballroom is a magnificent work of art. The two stories room is hung with three dozen chandeliers casting a muted light over the 500 square feet room filled with hundreds of large round table drape in the finest ivory silk arranged on either side of the room leaving the middle empty.

These tables were laid with glittering goblets, golden plates, and a bouquet of dazzling fresh lilies, rosemary, and daisies.

In the middle is an ice carving of a fiery phoenix standing about 20 feet tall; at the end a piano virtuoso playing the all famous Fur Elise by Beethoven.

The night has just begun.

Sasuke quietly push open the large ornate door of the ballroom a little and peep through the small gap. He just wanted to see for himself how dazzling the ballroom is and secretly how gorgeous Itachi is in his kimono.

He may not be allowed to be there but just a peep won't hurt right?

Sasuke have never imagined such a beautiful place. It was hard to believe that this wasn't heaven and that the ballroom isn't in some way design by magic.

All the guests are clad in the finest tuxedo or gowns reaching all the way to the soft crimson carpet. It wouldn't be hard to spot Itachi as he would be the only one in a kimono.

Sasuke longed to be there, to be by Itachi's side though he would never admit.

Sasuke couldn't help but smile whenever the memory of the activity he had earlier with his master flashes through his mind.

That was the first time sex hadn't been just agony, in fact it have been every bit as pleasurable as can be. He couldn't deny he had loved every second of it.

He hated himself for that.

Why must the best sex he had ever enjoyed have to be in the arms of a vampire?!

It sucks!

Literally…And worst, he couldn't even totally convince himself that it will never happen again or that he would never give his body so willingly ever again. In fact he can't even convince himself that he didn't want it to happen.

Sasuke's thought was cut off when a hand closes tightly over his upper arm, close with a pincer like grip. Wincing, Sasuke turned to see who had been holding him.

He saw with a thrill of horror that it was Itachi standing right behind him, white with burning rage.

"You dare disobey me when I give you a direct order?" Itachi's voice shook; he roughly pulls Sasuke away from the door and shut it quietly.

Itachi was gripping Sasuke's hand so tightly that he was feeling numb.

"You are hurting me…" Sasuke pleaded trying to wriggle lose the titan grip.

It was scary; Itachi's fangs lengthened considerably, his eyes filled with nothing but rage. Cold power surged through the hallway.

"Are you incapable of understanding my orders?!"

"S-sorry…"

"A pet that disobey their master deserves be killed or the very least whipped!"

"I just want to see the ballroom…" Sasuke whimpered; his gaze direct to the ground.

"Who allow you to have a look?! Whose permission did you ask?!"

"…"

"Answer me!"

"I just want to see….I'm sorry…"

"Answer my question pet!"

A tightly wound ball of sorrow hit Sasuke with tremendous force at the harsh tone of Itachi's voice. His head slumped involuntarily to his chest; he didn't want to see the hatred that must be burning in Itachi's eyes.

He didn't know he wasn't allowed to have a look. In reality it isn't the ballroom that he wanted to see, it was something else.

Sasuke just wanted to see Itachi in kimono…see Itachi at his party…see the smile on his face…and most of all wanted to belong…wanted to be apart of his family, apart of him…

Is it wrong?

"N-no one…no one gave me permission…"

"And you know why?!"

"Because I'm not worth anyone's attention…"

"Stop whining! You are getting on my nerves!"

"I-I just want to see y-"

"Get out of my face!" Itachi threw Sasuke against the wall opposite them.

"You will be in my room when I get back…" Itachi warned before entering the ballroom himself, shutting Sasuke out.

Sasuke slumped down the wall, his face nested in his hands.

It wasn't the fact that Itachi had yelled at him that make him so despairing or even the harsh treatment that he received; but the fact that he knew he had brought this all to himself.

There's nobody to blame but himself.

He has been a flat out coward and still is.

His body has no complication; it had wanted Itachi every bit as much as Itachi wanted him and maybe even more but he just couldn't bring himself to admit it.

He couldn't understand what was going on.

Wasn't he just a pet? Why does Itachi want his acceptance?

Sasuke didn't know what to think anymore. He didn't want to think, didn't want to understand. However what was real and inescapable was the awful pressing feeling on his chest that seems to get worst by the second.

A hand shook Sasuke on the shoulder, snapping him out of his thoughts.

"It's time to go…" Asuma whispered.

"Where?" Sasuke didn't bother looking up.

"Home…We will not go back on our deal…we did promise you that we will take you if you help us"

"I betray you…"

"You still did help us…but if you prefer to stay th-"

"I'll come…I have some things to take care off"

Sasuke knew there's no hope in repairing his damage tonight. He might as well go back to Konoha to sort some things out with Naruto. He wanted to see Naruto one last time, to hear his voice…to say his last good bye.

He knew he could never leave the vampires. They will come for him. They will hunt him down, burn the entire village looking for him.

He couldn't let Naruto waste his life on him. It's not worth it. He knew deep in his heart Naruto is still waiting for him. He'll stay with Naruto as long as it takes the vampires to find him and for Itachi to cool down.

Sasuke let Asuma guide him in a dreamlike state.

He ignores the strange hurting feeling he felt as he left the mansion.

Left Itachi…

He couldn't understand it; this was beyond him…he had never felt this immense hurting before; not even when he was separated from Naruto.

It's best not to dwell on it. Best not to understand it…it scares him to know what it might mean.

He didn't even question when they left the vampire metropolis without Kakashi.

Two hours later…

"Itachi…why don't you go entertain your guests" Sasori suggested through gritted teeth.

Hell he wanted to be alone with Deidara after the banquet and Itachi is making that quite impossible.

"Have you seen the way they look at me?"

"What about that?...You look great in that kimono…"

"That's the point…the females look as though they are about to tear off my kimono and worst still the males look like they are about to rape me…"

"And sticking with me isn't going to make it all go away…"Sasori frowned.

"…"

"Oh come on Sasori Kun…I don't mind Itachi sticking around us un…" Deidara pouted.

"Excuse me…" said a voice tapping Itachi's shoulder.

Itachi almost rolled his eyes in annoyance as he slowly turns around.

"Can I help you?" Itachi arrange his face into a force smile.

"Yes…do you mind if we have a little chat?" a silvered hair man clad in an elegant Dolce and Gabbana suit suggested.

"W-"

"Oh yes he would be honored to accompany you!" Sasori said loudly.

"Perfect…"

Itachi turn to Sasori glaring maliciously and wishing him the most painful death.

"Don't keep your guest waiting Itachi…it's not nice…Where are you manners?! I'm sure your father brought you up better than that!" Sasori said in a melodramatic angry tone.

Oh yes! Now he can spend some well deserve alone time with Deidara.

"Itachi san…"

"Yes I'm coming…" Itachi grudgingly followed the man.

"Itachi san…do you mind if we go some place quite?"

"Moving a bit fast don't you think?" "I like it here…"

"I'm not here to flirt with you… little demon…"

"..."

"Your dear Sasuke is in Konoha right this moment…"

"What the hell are you talking about?!"

"Do yourself a favor Itachi…don't keep running to daddy for help…and use some brain in that dense skull of yours to do a little thinking"

Itachi's crimson orbs held onto the stranger's and wouldn't let go; wouldn't lighten up.

Itachi was taken a back at being treated as an idiot. He is a vampire prodigy and this guy just come up out of no where and treat him like an ignorant school boy. Who is this guy anyway? There's something seriously off about him...

Itachi narrowed his eyes; studying his strange guest and found with a jolt of horror that this particular guest have a distinct wolfish feature.

"You are not on the guest list are you?" Itachi hissed.

"Go figure…you really do have brain...that's new..." he smirked and disappears into the crowd.

A sense of premonition hangs in the air. Itachi could sense the stranger eyeing his every move, smirking at him, laughing at him.

Damn!

Itachi knew what he had to do…he knew what the stranger intend for him to do…the stranger knew him well, too well in fact…

Sasuke sat alone on a long wooden bench in Konoha's park, his gaze concentrated on the ground. He has no intention of going back to his father anytime soon. He would definitely be punished and rape if he showed up on his doorstep after disappearing for more than a month.

He didn't know where to go or where he would find Naruto. Naruto have never told him where he stayed and he had never bothered to ask. He was just glad with their relationship the way it was. He hadn't any friends and whatever Naruto had to offer he would take with a grateful heart, not demanding for more.

Asuma have so high handedly dumped him at the entrance of Konoha and left before he could ask about Naruto.

Sasuke sigh…

It sure feels strange to be home. He should be have been extremely happy, and jumping for joy that he have at last escape the clutches of the vampires; delirious to take back the freedom that have been brutally ripped from him.

But instead he felt neither, a feeling of dread, sorrow, remorse, and guilt drapes him.

But why?

Why does he feel so bad for leaving Itachi?

Itachi hated him…he yelled at him didn't he?

Itachi called him a whore!

Sasuke slumped restlessly against the bench and stare forlornly onto the cloud covered firmament. He could hear the growl of distant thunder.

He closes his eyes tiredly.

Itachi is going to find him…It will happen sooner or later and there's nothing he could do about it.

In this terrible silence and loneliness Sasuke felt an overwhelming need to be held by someone… anyone…as his mind wondered back to the vampires.

Sasuke remembered their kindness, their gentleness; their goodness that just shines out of them that fuels his hope, his faith more than ever that he too could be someone significant.

He listened nonchalantly to the casually familiar rustle of swishing trench coat, the martial click-click of designers' shoes and the familiar laughter of someone he once knew.

Sasuke snapped his eyes open as Naruto's familiar voice waffled through the night.

In a distance he could make out the all familiar spiked up locks of his lover.

"Naruto!" Sasuke rushed towards the blond.

He couldn't believe his luck. He wanted to hold the blond, to tell him it's all okay, that he is back and things will be as it was.

But, something was off. Naruto's features were one of pure shock and rage. If anything, it just wasn't happy.

Sasuke stop a distance from Naruto. His heart gave a hurtful jolt, wiping the smiles off his face.

Naruto isn't alone; he has his hands wrap around a red head…Gaara. And by the look of it they were snuggling each other before he interrupted.

"I think I should leave…" Gaara said and left before anyone could say anything. He didn't want to be there when Sasuke demand an explanation.

"What were you doing with Gaara?!" Sasuke demanded, when Gaara was out of ear shot, hurt evident in his voice.

"What I should have done a long time ago…"

"…"

"You are not supposed to come back…"

"What the fuck are you talking about?!"

"You are supposed to be as good as dead…"

"You don't fucking seem very upset about it!" Sasuke clench his fist restraining the urge to punch the blond.

"Of course not…I am the one that sold you out…"

Silence fell between them; Sasuke stared at Naruto for a long time, trying to absorb the incomprehensible truth of his words.

"Sasuke…"

"No"

"Listen to me…"

"Shut up! Why would you betray me?! Don't you love me?! Don't I matter to you?!"

Sasuke didn't want to believe it. He has given Naruto everything…his trust…his love…his life…his virginity!

Isn't it enough? What more could Naruto want?

"What you thought as love between us is an illusion…a lie! It's my mission to love you! I am an ANBU! I love you on order!"

"Why are you fucking telling me this now?" Sasuke's voice shook. His breath hitched in his throat, pressure building at his chest…his heart aches as though being shredded into thousands of pieces.

"Because it ends tonight…I am s-"

BAM!

BAM!

"Holy shit! Fuck you!" Naruto drop to his knees gasping and cursing in agony, a free hand press against his bleeding nose.

Sasuke had punch Naruto in the face and kick him in some highly sensitive organ.

"I don't think you will be fucking anytime soon bitch! I never want to see you again!" Sasuke turn away and broke off in a run.

Itachi…he gave Itachi up for nothing!

He could not draw breath…as a terrible darkness engulfs him.

He yearned not to feel…he wish he could ripped his heart out, his inwards, everything that was screaming inside of him …He has been a fool…a blind fool to think that Naruto loved him.

He gave up genuine love for one that's a pack of lies!

The heavenly bodies open up sending rain hammering down towards earth.

Sasuke ran through the rain, his side throb, his chest burns for air, his legs shook beneath him...when at last he could no longer move, Sasuke collapsed to his knees.

He directs his gaze to the heavens; wet bangs stuck to his porcelain features; rain water slide down the crook of his nose.

Sasuke clench his fist tightly till his knuckles were white, nails digging into his flesh.

"What have I ever done to deserve this?! Was it the sins of my father to love a demon that I am punish?! God! Do you hear me?! God is merciful! God is a loving father! What about me?! Am I an exception to your love?!" Sasuke cried out loudly in rage.

"I am a failure of your many creations aren't I?" Sasuke gave a humorless laugh before letting his head slumped to his chest.

He has always believed that miracles could happen to anyone…love would find their way for anyone. It seems that it just never happen to him. He was an exception.

"Just once…I want to feel love…to be precious in ones eye…even for a fleeting moment…" Sasuke whispered.

"You don't have to shout…God hears you loud and clear…" said a silken voice as a hand came and wrap around Sasuke's lithe torso.

Sasuke let out a strangled yelp and immediately whirled around to confront the stranger.

He was met with a pair of crimson orbs very much like his. His breath hitched, Itachi was staring straight at him.

Silence fell between them; only interrupted by the growl of thunder and the flash of lightning.

Sasuke was hypnotized by Itachi's presence. He watches as beads of rain water cascade down Itachi's jaw line; his porcelain skin was almost radiant as if they were somehow glowing like a mythical angel.

An angel from heaven…

Sasuke reached up to touch the delicate feature. He wanted to make sure this was really Itachi…not a mere ghost…a figment of his imagination.

His shaky hands were met with cold solid flesh, he ran them firmly over Itachi's cheek, trace his jaw line and finally his thumb brushes over Itachi's mesmerizing walnut eyes.

Itachi leans softly into his touch in approval.

"Y-you are real…" Sasuke said softly.

"…"

"You are really here…"

"I will never leave you nor forsake you…"

"W-why would you still want me…? I am a pain…why do you still come for me?"

"…Love expects nothing…"

There was a shock silence as Sasuke absorbed Itachi's words.

Itachi have to admit that those weren't the most romantic thing that had ever come out from his mouth. They hadn't been particularly elegant or original but they were sincere.

That has to count for something…

Unknowingly…those simple words cause something to collapse inside of Sasuke. The invisible wall that Sasuke had build to protect himself from Itachi's love crumbled.

For the first time he understood what love meant.

Love isn't calculated by how many gift or kisses ones is showered with or the amount of attention ones receive. But it's the small seemingly insignificant moments that count.

"Don't leave me again…" Sasuke softly tucks Itachi's kimono.

"…"

"Please say you won't leave me…"

A spark of guilt struck Itachi. He couldn't say it….

"W-why wouldn't y-you say it…?" Sasuke sounded pleading.

Itachi pulls Sasuke towards him and wrap his arms around Sasuke's torso. He held him gentle in his arms, stroking the spiky locks.

He could feel the sadness that coursed through Sasuke entered him.

Itachi have never seen Sasuke quite so vulnerable, so open to him. As much as Itachi wanted to tell Sasuke they would always be together he didn't.

He couldn't…he didn't want to make a promise that he fear he could not keep.

Itachi knew he himself wasn't much of a lover. He did not really have the knack for it; he tended to shy away from intense emotion of any kind since Sasori left him. He didn't want to be hurt anymore…he used to drop a relationship whenever it gets serious.

But through the years he had never loved anyone or desires anyone as much as he wanted Sasuke.

Still…it isn't in a vampire's nature to stick with the same lover for eternity…the same mate yes…but never lovers. It would be decades before he is ready to mate; he couldn't be sure if Sasuke aged like a human or have an eternity like a vampire…

He didn't want to take the risk.

"You deserve to be free…" Itachi sigh, reaching behind Sasuke's collar he unclasps it with a click. The collar lightly fell onto Sasuke's lap like a dead weight and slide to the damp ground with a clank.

Panic surged through Sasuke, adrenaline pumping in his veins.

He didn't want to lose Itachi again…Not for the second time in that night…not ever...

"Don't leave me…please d-don't leave me…" Sasuke grip the front of Itachi's kimono tightly, clinging onto him for dear life.

"…"

"Please don't do this to me…" Sasuke shut his eyes tightly; a single tear trickled down mixing with rain water.

Itachi reach below Sasuke's cheek, softly tilting it up.

"Look at me…" he cooed.

"Please take me back…" Sasuke's features were desperate as he held his gaze on the liquid crimson.

"I love you…Sasuke…"Itachi whispered leaning forward. His warm breath brushes over Sasuke's cold skin.

Before Sasuke's mind could register what was going on, their lips locked in a tender kiss.

Rain poured over them without relief; soaking them to the bones but he couldn't care less.

Itachi could feel Sasuke's sadness melts away as they drift into some unknown world. Sasuke moves closer to him; to be envelope by the warmth of his heat and explored his lips.

Just for now, Sasuke wanted to feel what any lover should…

He knew he was safe…this is where his heart truly belongs.

He knew whenever Itachi looked him in the eye he would catch a glimpse of heaven…

Itachi is his paradise…his fantasy…his happy ending.

The reason he could held his head high…the reason he could live for tomorrow…

Itachi is the light that makes his darkness disappear.

His solace…now and forever…

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