From Dusk till Dawn Ch 20
Sasori opened his eyes. He looked around wondering what the hell had happened. One minute he and Tobi were getting ready to attack and the next there was a blinding gray flash. The room had spun a little and he had seen the inside of his eyelids.
Vampires don't breathe so the only thing that he could think of was that it had to be some Neurological interceptor, causing everything to shut down temporarily. Whatever it was he now had a ringing in his ears. He looked over to where Tobi lay.
Tobi too was sitting up with a confused look. He looked at Sasori and shook his head trying to make the ringing stop. They both stood up a little off balance as they turned to make their way out of the room. In the hallway they could hear the fight still ensuing on the stairs.
They flew down to the fourth floor and noticed droplets of blood that led down the staircase. They followed the trail and came upon the Mentor who once again had Itachi in binds. It was the binds around his wrists that were causing the droplets of blood. They were opening the wounds up and causing them to bleed harder.
Sasori flung a kick at the Mentor's back. The Mentor flew against the wall on the opposite side of them. He turned and hissed again at Sasori and Tobi as they advanced upon him. Sasori moved closer to the Mentor trying to make him drop his guard.
"Tobi, get Itachi out of here. I can handle him." Sasori said through gritted teeth. Tobi stood looking at Sasori as though he had lost his mind. They had just been knocked unconscious by some object that the Mentor was privy to. He obeyed the command but with ill ease.
He picked up Itachi and headed down the stairs to the third floor. Itachi was in and out of unconsciousness and he kept mumbling Kisame's name. Tobi kept trying to reassure the teen but his attempts were becoming futile. He was just lying to ease the kids torment.
Outside on the ground Kisame lay bleeding from every possible orifice. Deidara, Hidan and Kakuzu had run to his side the moment he had hit the ground. Blood ran from his mouth, ears and nose. His head was bleeding heavily and his back was obviously broken. He could no longer feel his legs and he was sure he was lying on an iceberg, for his fingers had turned to ice.
Deidara cried as Hidan tried to hold onto his tears. Kakuzu stayed strong telling Kisame all would be okay. It didn't take a genius to know that Kisame was dying. Kakuzu just didn't have the heart to say so out loud. Kisame closed his eyes and Deidara called his name. Kisame opened his eyes and tried to smile at the blonde.
"I want to see Itachi." Kisame said. Kakuzu looked at the building and sighed. Deidara jumped to his feet and ran for the building. Hidan cursed and ran after the blonde. "I want to see Itachi." Kisame repeated. "Okay Kisame, Itachi is coming. Just relax." Kakuzu said soothingly.
Kisame smiled brokenly. He waited calmly while his friends went to get Itachi for him. Inside Tobi had made it to the fight on the stairs. This was not going to work. He had to get around them somehow. Deidara and Hidan ran into the mill and up the stairs where the noise was coming from.
At the bottom of the stairs it became clear to the teens that they needed to stay back or get killed. Deidara shouted up to the other vampires. "Where is Itachi, un?" Deidara called. Konan turned to look at Deidara. "I don't know but you need to get out of here." She shouted.
"Kisame is….dy…dy…dying, un." Deidara said shakily. Konan's eyes went wide as the news sank in. "Oh dear god." She said as she turned to kill her opponent. The vampire finally went down and she moved up the stairs. "We need to find Itachi and Now." She yelled.
Tobi yelled down to her. "I have him." He said climbing over the rail and dropping through the stairs onto the lower stair case below the fight. Itachi moaned in pain as his wrists were jarred. Deidara and Hidan turned to face Tobi. They motioned for him to follow and to do it fast.
He rushed out of the building carrying Itachi and rushed to Kisame's side. Itachi was more awake as the adrenaline rushed through him. He dropped to the ground next to Kisame. His eyes went wide and then filled with tears. "Oh Kisame! What have you done?" He asked hysterically.
Kisame coughed and blood spurted from his mouth. "I wanted to save you. I promised I would always save you." He said breathlessly. He smiled and tried to lift his hand to Itachi's face. His severed spinal cord stopped him from moving at all.
A loud noise like an explosion came from inside and all heads turned to see what was happening. A fire burst through the top of the windows on the fifth and fourth floors. Deidara jumped up and was about o run towards the mill. Kakuzu stopped him and he fought him shouting Sasori's name.
Itachi began to panic as Kisame began to slip further away. "Turn him!" He shouted at Tobi. Tobi recoiled from the request. "What? No, I can't. I don't have the necessary skills for it." He said in a shocked tone. Itachi held Kisame's hand and began shouting at Tobi to turn him. Even though Tobi had just told him he couldn't Itachi continued to shout and beg.
A window exploded and fire leapt from it in licking flames shooting towards the sky. A moment later a figure plummeted through the window and onto the ground landing on their feet. Sasori turned to face the group.
Deidara ran to him and Sasori grabbed the blonde who was now in hysterical tears himself. He looked over to the scene before him and cursed. He walked over to the group as Tobi was once again explaining to Itachi that he would if he could but that he wouldn't succeed.
Sasori closed his eyes. This was going against everything he believed. He took off his jacket and he placed it under Kisame's head. He looked at Itachi who was hysterically talking and crying at the same time. Deidara wrapped his arms around Itachi and held him tight.
Itachi refused to let go of Kisame's hand and he refused to give up the notion that he be turned. "Itachi, listen to me. I am going to do it. You have to understand that once he is changed he is going to be different." Sasori said. Itachi nodded like a bobble head whose head was about to fall off.
"He will need to be with us for a while after so we can help him with the transition. He will be confused and angry at times and he will need patience and guidance." Sasori said. Itachi bit his lip. Tears rolled down his cheeks. "I don't care, just save him. Please?" Itachi begged.
Sasori nodded. He leaned down and extracted his fangs. Kisame was now unconscious and his heart was so slow it barely beat at all. Sasori sank his fangs in in one quick motion. He pulled back and cut his wrist. He opened Kisame's mouth and allowed blood to run into the dying teen's mouth.
Sasori sat back and watched as the color left Kisame's cheeks for good. He could hear the heart beat as it beat one last time. Itachi held onto Kisame's hand and Sasori looked at him for a long moment before he pulled it free of Itachi's grasp.
"Deidara, take Itachi home. I will call you later." He said. Itachi began to fight against Deidara. Sasori reached out and put his hand on Itachi's shoulder. "It is better if when he comes too that you aren't here. As I said it will be difficult for him and he will need time to come to terms." Sasori said sternly.
Itachi gave up and leaned heavily against Deidara. Zetsu was the first to Emerge from the building and see the teens all standing there minus Kisame. He looked at Tobi's solemn face and he bowed his head in sorrow. He looked at Kisame and he could see the bite marks. He looked to Sasori and placed a hand on his shoulder. He knew what it had cost Sasori to do this.
Deidara led Itachi to Kisame's car. He put him in the back seat with him as Kakuzu and Hidan climbed in the front seat. They drove to Kisame's house and walked inside feeling humbled. Deidara cleaned Itachi's wrists while Kakuzu stitched them up. They gave him some orange juice to help boost his blood back up but he barely drank any.
The tears continued to run and the lost look remained on his face. He knew that Kisame would be okay because Sasori had said so. What he was most worried about was would Kisame still love him or would he leave him? He lay down on Kisame's bed and cried himself to sleep.
Deidara sat on the couch thinking he should call his dad and tell him he was staying with friends. He called Itachi's mom and asked her if he could stay with her. She was all to happy to let him and he thanked her. The three of them sat in the living room for hours waiting for the phone to ring.
It was Konan who called and told Deidara it was done. "How is Kisame?" He asked. "He's a little disconnected. He woke up and was a little lost. We are helping him to cope with it. How is Itachi?" She asked. "He's asleep but he is scared and lost without Kisame." Deidara said.
"Well I have a feeling he won't be without him for too long. The first thing Kisame asked when he woke was where is Itachi? He is still the most important part of Kisame's life." She said softly. Deidara smiled with relief. There was going to be a rainbow at the end of this awful storm after all.