One flower, in the middle of other 100000 thousands of flowers, maybe even many, with different and distinct color, shape, high, beauty, perfume, and grace.

One lone flower in many others is unimportant, even for the gardener, even if that flower withers; the gardener wouldn't care for just one, 'cause he has many others.

Though, if someone would stay with the gardener for at least one month, and if he'd watch all the work which the gardener completes, and inspect his every move, he'd realize that the gardener isn't touching, and isn't even looking at one certain flower.

And then, if the man would give enough importance, he'd ask the gardener about his reason, why he's ignoring it, and why just that flower.

And every time, when the gardener it's asked about the same one flower, the gardener always answers with the same expressionless face, and with the same steady voice, and always with the same old answer:

"That flower, once you plant it, she lives alone, and it never needs attention, fertilizers or water. It's different from all the flowers, it doesn't even need sun or darkness, and you touch it just when you plant it, but never touch it again, until she dies."

Chapter 11: Close your eyes

They said that he has come, and when I saw his figure in the darkness, a tear has fallen from my eye.

"Let him go, Itachi."

I heard someone saying, and the voice, so familiar and so harmonious that it melted my fears, but opened a new pain, while my eyes have already begun searching stubbornly in the darkness for the owner, for a body which can talk with a voice which I know so well.

And in the obscurity, I saw, pale skin which could be from any other vampire from this room, but no, I've touched that skin, and it's not as tough as it looks.

And then I saw its black hair, black as the darkness in which its ends of hair are lost, but which my fingers want to touch and feel its softness.

But what I didn't acknowledged were the eyes, 'cause I once knew them as endless as the sea, my eyes watching from the surface of the sea to the deeps, trying to see the bottom, but I knew that the sea's water it's warm just for me, that only I knew how to travel to the bottom, 'cause the sea approved me to do so.

But no more, 'cause the eyes aren't the same, the blackness with its warmth isn't there for me to watch and to penetrate.

Instead, I stare at eyes as red as the blood, and even as cold, but no matter how much I wish, their deeps are unreachable even for me.

But the name which has been called, responded. Behind me, I sensed someone, and then I almost seen, while his hands are around my neck and I look at his sharp black nails which are embracing my neck, and for a minute, I thought of his hands as I thought of snakes.

"I can't do that my little brother."

With his head on my shoulder I could see his features, and I couldn't be lying more to myself when I tried to convince myself that this man isn't Sasuke's brother.

His hair black, his eyes red, and his skin white, but despite what I feel for Sasuke, what I feel for his brother, it's just as different as the sky and the earth. I just wish I'd have never had the chance to meet him.

No matter how curious I am about his past, I just wish I knew his name just from Sasuke's mouth, telling me his story about his past, telling me about his family and telling me this man's name, but nothing more.

But I do not own this option anymore.

"What do you want?" I've heard Sasuke saying and now, he is in front of me, five steps distancing us.

Still, the vampires around us are swarming around us, in circles, like hungry rabid dogs prepared to attack their prey, their eyes holding no doubt, their hunger not knowing the word failure.

The single light after all, is above my head, a hanged light bulb.

"Now, now, my dear little brother, we hadn't seen each other for centuries and you don't even tell your older brother how much you've missed him?"

I've realized that maybe this will be the only joke which I will ever hear from him, but in the same time, his voice didn't betray any humor.

"Please, it you wanted a family reunion then how you'd expect me to act according to its laws when you're inviting me with such a pathetic act?" His voice also holds no humor, not even remorse for its impact.

"Watch your words little brother, the dice is in my hands, not in yours." The vampire said with a smirk on his face.

After whole seconds of silence, the man has lifted my head with its hands, or with its nails. And it hurt me but I can't even realize why.

"Forgive me, brother." Sasuke has said almost immediately in a grave tone, and I even saw him biting his bottom lip after.

The rabid dogs have begun to laugh at the show which is before them, laughing proud, now that the spotted rabbit has lost one leg.

"Approved. But brother, you have to show me that you really feel sorry for what you've done."

I've heard the man which still holds my head saying, but I didn't really understood his sentence, its meaning, but the same man has spoke with a voice that I knew that it was his but in the same time, it was like the Devil has talked with his mouth:

"Bow!"

I stared alarmed, 'cause after he has finished saying the word, I heard a sound, the sound of someone dropping to the floor. And before me, I stared, at Sasuke on the ground, in his knees, bowing before us, but for me, it didn't felt right, I just wanted to get up and to make him get up, help him, force him, but the ties didn't let me, I struggled until all that I succeeded was to draw their attention to me.

"Oh, look, little brother, the human wants to help you, how nice." The man said but just then I realized that I no longer could speak, the thing they tied around my mouth didn't bothered me until that very second.

Still, it isn't just my mouth, but my legs, hands and back tied to the chair.

However, I am the only one who has not realized my situation, it seems.

"I'll do exactly as you say, just let him go, alive."

Sasuke said, and I just felt hopeless, powerless over these creatures. I felt like… like...a human.

"Beware little brother, swear, and I might as well consider your offer." The man said with a voice which is slightly in ecstasy, a spark lighting his red eyes, with guile and cunning.

However, Sasuke already started talking:

"I ..."

The hyenas have suddenly begun to yell, stopping him from talking, they're singing like they're happy, but with a terrifying voice, now that the rabbit has lost its both legs, the luck is on their side, after all, they were the ones who've broke it off.

And then, the man which has begun to play with my blond hair has begun to talk again with the same voice as before.

"This human bewitched you, little brother, you never used to play a game without knowing the rules first, I should've let you swear, but I forgive you for your irrational mistake. So, now, the conditions."

I listened knowing, or already knowing that these rules, conditions will decide my life, my future, or my curse.

"I allow you to take this human to his house, alive, and I give you three hours to do so, and after that you'll come back to this place. But within these three hours you also have to make him understand that he will never see you again, and that you will never see him again. Also, it goes without saying that if he'll ever utter a word about our existence, you and he will be punished; even if, I doubt that someone will believe him, maybe they'll label him as crazy, but nothing else. Therefore, we'll discuss about your next order when you'll come back. I made myself understood?"

The vampire has said these words, and we all listened but I just can't believe what I've heard.

"Understood." Sasuke said but Itachi almost yelled right after:

"Won't you swear?"

I begun to move my head right and left, saying no from my very core, but Sasuke didn't pay any attention to me.

"I swear."

I heard his voice echoing within the room, even in the darkest corners.

The vampires have vanished in one second, all of them, without Sasuke. And he has finally rose up from the floor, and came to me, I watched while he untied me.

And in the end, he took the thing that was covering my mouth, but even if my mind was filled with millions of thoughts, despite what I thought, that I have so many things to say to him, that I want him to explain everything, and even more...despite what I thought I had to say with that thing on, now that it no longer restrained me, I said nothing at all.

In the moment when he has taken that thing off, it also took all of my words with it, thoughts and voice.

"Are you harmed?" He asked me and all I could do is to move my head from right to left, forming: no.

"I'm glad." He said and then he picked me up from the chair like I weight almost nothing, and holding me on his back, he ran with me, but the whole time, we never said a word, and before I knew it, I was right in front of my block.

We entered as always, which means, accessing the window.

He laid me on the bed and he just stared at me.

'Stop it.' I thought in my mind, while I stared at him while he stared at me, with black warm eyes but not mine, not anymore.

I know why he's looking at me in that way, like taking a mental picture and storing it forever.

I hated it 'cause I didn't want to say goodbye, and maybe that's why we don't even talk.

The wind slowly entering from the only opened window, disturbing the curtains. But even so, we both know, outside, its day and where we are, it's dark, like it's the middle of the night.

All we did, in the end was to hurt ourselves, and just ourselves. We knew the truth, we knew that what we wanted is impossible, his mission didn't even existed anymore, and he became a traitor once he's walked in my apartment. Once we did what we did.

But still, I can't let it end like this.

"Don't leave me alone." I told him and I realized that I also make a mental picture in my mind.

"You have to forget that I ever existed." He said and I just try to find my words, while I feel more than shocked.

"What? So you're just giving up? That's it?" I almost yelled, as I wanted to rise up from my place, but he kept me on it.

"I always expected the worse; I can't put you in more danger." He said while he rubbed my cheek.

"Then let's run together, let's hide, just..." I started but couldn't end it.

"Listen, I already broke the rules, they're already searching for me, and my brother is also a traitor, that's why, just now after so much time, he has come to me, I can't do anything now, its' too late, I've ...swore." He said with the saddest expression that I ever saw on his face.

And what if you swore?" I begun and I already felt my pain rising, spreading to new horizons within me.

'It hurts.' I thought.

"You don't understand. If you swear you have to take your promise to the very end, even the laws can wait in front of a promise." He said, explaining, with the same sad voice.

"I don't get it; you just said it, that's all..." I began.

'My chest burns.'

"To swear is for a vampire more than it is for a human, is even more valuable than a contract, or than a life." He said, finishing, too tired to say more.

'More than my life?'

"Then promise me..." I tried but he cut me off:

"The first promise is more important than the second; it has to be done in an order." He said and he kissed my cheek.

'More important than me...'

"I can't live without you..." I said even with the risk to sound cliché, but he didn't budge.

"I'm not supposed to exist in your life, I've already told you, we have less than two hours to spent together, and we won't spent them fighting."

He said and he begun to kiss me, I kissed him back but my throat feels sore, and bitter, like I haven't drank water for three days.

'I want to cry…'

"Don't move." He said suddenly, but I just nodded.

After some seconds, he came back and he sat as before, in front of me, and before I could say something, he spoke:

"Close your eyes." He said and I felt him kissing my neck but before I could say something:

"Open them." I did, and I just stared at him, sitting before me in the same position as he was when I closed them.

I touched my neck, searching, and then I touched something, when I looked, I saw a necklace with a cross.

"Happy birthday." He said with a happy voice, and as I stared at his smile; a forced smile...

'Don't force yourself for me, stupid...'

"Thank you." I said and we embraced while he begun to talk again:

"I hope you didn't forget about it..." He began when I cut him off:

"Of course I didn't." I said.

'I completely forgot.' I thought.

And I've begun to laugh until a tear has appeared in my eyes. I quickly began to wipe the tear, pretending that it's from laughing.

'I can't let you see me like this...'

But his hand stopped me and he just looked me in the eye while he bent over me, and begun to kiss my lips, until he was on top of me and I was under him.

We kissed like the world depended on it, and in a way, it really is.

I embraced him with my arms on his back and he does the same, trying to be as close to each other as it is possible.

With our noses, smelling each other's smell to always know it, always smell it.

With our fingers, tracing every single feature, every curb, memorizing it, feeling it.

With our lips, tasting our pain but also our love, devouring it with every contact and moan.

With our whole bodies, dancing a dance known just to us, but also, with our minds, knowing.

'It's not enough.'

I don't know how or when, my vision came to almost black.

But I see him, while he is still over me, and I hear him, talking to me:

"I have to leave." He whispers.

'But I don't want you to leave me...' I thought.

"You have to forget that I ever existed, and live, live for me." He whispers again to me.

'I don't want to...not without you.' I thought again.

"Promise me that you'll try." He whispered to me.

'I once promised that I'll accept promises just from you, but I just can't accept this one..." I thought but I said nothing.

"Promise me!" He said.

"I love you." I whispered.

And then, my vision became completely black.

When I woke up, he was gone.

To be continued…

And Done. Can't believe I let you guys with another cliffhanger…well, I'm sorry, I wanted to continue it but I am just too tired and I just don't want to forget something but still I can't believe, it's already chapter 10!

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