bam...bam...bam…
Sasuke banged at the door again. This whole scene was getting childish and he was losing his patience...scratch that, he already lost it long ago.
"Itachi you fucking blockhead! Get out right now or I will break down this door!"
"The moment you break down the door I will be out of the window and gone till I feel it's safe enough to come back."
Sasuke groaned in frustration. He had tried to get Itachi out of his room for about half an hour now.
After yesterdays events at the park Itachi was throughout pissed off and had refused to talk with him and tell him the reason for his bad mood. The moment he came back from work he had locked himself in his room, telling Sasuke to shut up and let him think as the younger tried to get him out.
Sasuke thought that he would have calmed down till the next day, but oh dear was he wrong.
He nervously looked at the watch around his wrist. In less than an hour they had to be at the academy for the appointment with Kibas older sister, before school would start and Itachi clearly didn't wanted to go.
"God damn it Itachi! It's just a short check up! What the hell could possible happen!"
"Let's see...I could get ripped into pieces by the dozen of trained vampire hunting dogs that are walking around the academy, my disguise could get blown and I would have to fight of hundreds of trained vampire hunters and find a way out of a freaking vampire save vampire hunters main base! Did you forget what I am! I could get killed, captured or even worse! Besides, they're going to stick syringes in my ass or hell knows where to give me immunizations for dogs! Not to forget about some horrible tasting anthelmintic therapy! I had a dog once so I know what's gonna happen during a 'short check up'. And I really really hate needles and doctors and hospitals." The last part was whispered but Sasuke could still hear it.
"Don't be such a wimp! Besides, if we want to keep up your disguise we have no other choice but to go!"
That was right. He couldn't cancel the appointment. Sasukes friends would get suspicious and even Itachi knew that, so why was he making such a fuss about it.
"We wouldn't have to deal with this problem if you had simply used that fucking brain of yours! Why didn't you tell them that you already had an appointment?"
Sasuke sighed. Ok, so he didn't think about this, but it was too late now anyways.
"I'm sorry ok. You're right. I wasn't thinking back then, but I can't change it now. But there will be hardly anyone around at this time and the dogs aren't out yet. I can't change the fact that you will have to go through this check up, thought. But I will make it up to you."
He couldn't believe he was actually apologizing. It was Itachis idea to live with him and it was his idea to disguise himself as dog so he should deal with the problems, shouldn't he.
Suddenly Itachi ripped his door open and glared at Sasuke, anger radiating of his body.
"Really now? And what if they take some of my blood to check it for illnesses or whatever. I don't have dog blood flowing in my veins, in case you didn't know! Should they get their hands on my blood these dogs can find me everywhere in the universe! I would have to leave and hide for the rest of my whole fucking live!"
Itachi had a hard look on his face. His eyes were shining with hold back anger and something else Sasuke couldn't quite make out. Uncertain? Fear?
Sasuke gazed at Itachis eyes intensely, but the emotion was gone as fast it came.
"That would be a problem, but I will make sure it doesn't come this far. I will just take some blood from one of the dogs walking around the academy and change it with yours. This should work, shouldn't it?"
"You make it sound like it is the easiest thing in the world to change the vile. What if you don't succeed?" He wasn't convinced from Sasukes plan.
"I won't fail! I will get you out of there alive and make sure nothing else bad happens to you, ok. Can't you have a little more faith in my skills?" Sasuke sounded a little bit annoyed.
Itachis eyes softened somewhat and he let out a desperate sigh, banging his head against the door frame.
"I surely will regret this. You owe me something big for all this shit I have to go through."
He glared again. Sasuke held up his hands in defeat.
"Will do. Let's hurry or we're going to be late."
Itachi shifted in his seat uncomfortably. He had no good feeling about this. Leader wouldn't be happy should such an amount of his blood fall into the hands of the hunters.
Some drops on the earth or a little more on a hunters weapon wasn't a problem. A hunters dog wouldn't find them and even have problems when there is more blood. That is due to the changing scent of the blood, depending on what blood the vampire drank before. Of course the pure blood of every vampire has a unique scent and taste, but normally it is covered by the scent of the blood they drank.
Yes, a vampire body can produce his own blood, but it would never be enough to live. So they needed to drink blood from other beings and their body would than convert it so he could use it on his own.
Should the hunters get their hands on just a small vile of clean blood directly from his veins they could easily extract his pure blood and find him, despite the covering scent of the blood he drank. If the hunter dogs got a whiff of the pure blood they can find it everywhere.
Besides, should they get the scent of his blood the time he had for succeeding his mission would be shortened and he still needed to figure some things out before he could face leader with his decision. He couldn't accomplish the mission right now and if he failed leader would just send someone else. He couldn't let that happen!
"Stop squirming around. You're making me nervous."
"Sorry to make you nervous. At least I have some good reasons to be."
Sasuke sighed. He knew Itachi was taking a great risk upon him to just walk straight into a heavily guarded hunter base. Main base to be accurate. He knew about the methods to extract a vampires pure blood and how dangerous it would get for Itachi should this happen.
But Itachis being so jumpy still annoyed the hell out of him.
"Would you please just trust me. Please?"
He was certain that he would be able to get Itachi easily in and out of the base alive and that he could just as easily change the vile with Itachis blood, if they should take it.
"But I do." Itachi looked up at him.
"I do trust you, in case you didn't notice yet. You said you would make sure that nothing bad happens to me and I believe you. It's just the thought of the syringes making me nervous."
Itachi smiled at him. The things said and the softness in his voice made Sasuke feel weird and the only thing he could do was stare.
Swallowing the lump in his throat he concentrated on driving again.
"Oh..."
'Oh'? Was that everything he could think of? Itachi just confessed that he trusted him. And his attitude was enough proof for his trust, but hearing it from his mouth was something completely different. A vampire trusting a vampire hunter. They were destined to be enemies and still here they were, living together, talking and acting like good friends. And all he could think of as answer was 'Oh'.
"And what about you? Do you trust me?"
Sasuke hesitated. Did he trust Itachi? A vampire? The very thing he vowed to extinguish? He hesitated with his answer.
"Of course I do."
It was only a half lie. He did trust Itachi to some extent, just not completely. Still, there was some doubt about Itachis motives lingering in the back of his head. He was a little apalled at the fact that he even came to trusting Itachi this fast at all. They were hardly living together for a month now and Sasuke already felt somewhat secure around him.
It seemed quite obvious that he didn't tell the whole truth and he was sure Itachi had noticed, but he was uncertain on how he would react to his slight mistrusting.
Itachi wasn't completely convinced with Sasukes answer, but decided not to mull about it too much. That he even somewhat trusted him at all was a great step. Instead he concentrated at the task at hand.
He scrutinized his face at the thought of having some syringes with weird substances in them pushed into his flesh. Of course he wasn't just nervous about the syringes, but Sasuke didn't need to know that he too didn't trusted him completely yet.
Sasuke observed Itachis change of faces with slight worry, wondering what he was thinking about.
He sighed. Why was all of this getting so difficult? He shouldn't be attached to Itachi this fast and still here he was worried about his well far instead of thinking about the fact that he was just about to let a vampire into the secured buildings of the hunters base and that this could be exactly what Itachi wanted. But if so, why would he make such a fuss about going there?
They reached the academy and Sasuke drove through the open gate, greeting the guards and pulling onto the nearly empty parking lot, parking his car a little further away from the entrance.
"Don't forget to behave like the good trained vampire hunting dog you disguised yourself as."
Itachi growled at him. He had turned himself into his wolf form shortly before they passed the gate.
Sasuke got out and walked around the car opening the door for Itachi and locking his car after Itachi had jumped out.
He was looking around the area cautiously as he followed Sasuke towards the building and stayed as close to him as possible. Sasuke lead him through various corridors before he shortly stopped in front of a door, making Itachi walk straight into his legs.
He gave him a pointed look and knocked at the door sharply.
They heard some shuffling and then the door was opened to reveal a young woman with brown hair tied back into a low ponytail and clad in a white lab coat.
"Oh Sasuke, you're a bit early."
"I'm sorry Hana. I hope I didn't interrupt anything important."
"No no, it's all right. Come in."
They walked in. In the middle of the room was a big examination table, on the right and left were different cupboards and shelves stored with different medications, documents and other stuff a veterinarian would need for his work. On the back of the room was a desk with a computer and stacks of papers.
"We will start right away. Get your friend on the table."
Sasuke instructed Itachi to do as told with a short movement of his hand and Itachi jumped on the table, ears slightly laid back.
"Amaroq, wasn't it?" Sasuke nodded his head.
Hana patted Itachis head. "Don't worry boy. You're in good hands."
She looked at his eyes, ears and into his mouth, carefully tested all reflexes and checked his body for wounds and other out of ordinary things.
"So far he seems healthy, but I will give him all necessary immunizations, an anthelmintic therapy, something against flees and take a blood sample, just to make sure. For the immunizations it is better to give him a muzzle. We both don't know how he will react, but he probably won't like it and he got some pretty sharp teeth."
Sasuke nodded and laid his hand on Itachis back, intending to calm him a little. So Itachi was right to worry about his blood being taken.
Hana laid the muzzle over Itachis mouth and walked over to one of the cupboards to get some syringes and the different immunizations.
"Can you hold him down, please. We don't want him to jump of the table."
Sasuke nodded and did as told while Hana gave Itachi the immunizations. Only one time as the syringe was set in his neck did he slightly wince.
"Ok, now I will take the blood sample."
She took a vile and a new syringe from one of the cupboards and walked back towards the table.
Sasuke could feel Itachi slightly shaking as his blood was taken and brought into another room.
"I will have the results tomorrow, you can come and get them in one of your breaks. Now we just need to give him an anthelmintic therapy and the appliance against flees, ticks and so on and then we're done."
She undid the muzzle and held a tube to Itachis mouth making him swallow the white creamy substance.
Itachi coughed and let his tongue hang slightly out of his mouth.
Sasuke grimaced. He didn't even want to imagine how awful this stuff must have tasted.
Hana came back with another, smaller tube with a clear fluid in it and poured it onto the skin of Itachis neck.
"Ok, you're done."
Itachi immediately jumped of the table, shook his head and walked towards the door, ignoring Hanas hand holding a dog biscuit to him. One disgusting tasting thing was enough, he didn't wanted to torture his gustative nerves any more.
"Seems he don't likes me anymore."
Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and walked towards Itachi.
"I better bring him back home before school starts, I will see you tomorrow to get the results."
"Ok, till then."
Sasuke waved a good bye and followed Itachi out of the door and through the corridors to his car. It seemed he had memorized the way.
As soon as Sasuke drove out of sight of the hunters base Itachi turned back into his human form and hastily grabbed the lollypop he had packed earlier. Sticking it in his mouth he sighed in content.
"That was fucking horrible."
Itachi grabbed a tissue and rubbed at his neck. He shifted around. The places he was stung itched and some even hurt slightly.
"And what are we doing now? They took my blood."
"I already told you. I will just change the vile later. Stop being so pessimistic….Does it hurt?"
"It's itching like hell."
They fell silent.
"You know, I will get back at you for this."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow at this.
"It wasn't like I had planned this just to upset you. You wanted to disguise yourself as my dog, deal with it already."
Itachi smirked. "Revenge." He chipped out happily, lollypop still in his mouth.
Sasuke growled.
"Ok, I can admit that I owe you something very big for going through this, but…" He raised a finger at Itachi, glaring. "…do anything stupid and I will come back at you, got it!"
Itachi chuckled, a sinister smile on his lips and mischief sparkling in his eyes.
"Is this a challenge?"