Little Black Feather
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN NARUTO!
Sasuke looked down, and saw a kunai jammed into his stomach. He looked up again, and Orochimaru was gone, the pain was gone, the blood was gone, and the clothes near the door was gone.
Sasuke looked around, sure it wasn't an allusion. Where had he gone!
Sasuke had trouble breathing, his chest rising and falling rapidly. He climbed out of the hot spring and was dressed faster than a flash of lightening. He quickly ran to Itachi's room, getting a questioning look from his Aniki and lover, and dove under the covers, his body shaking and his breathing labored.
Upon hearing this, Itachi got worried and went under the covers as well, setting his book on the nightstand. He saw Sasuke curled tightly in a ball, shaking. Itachi reached to him, touching his shoulder gently, trying to get him to turn around and look at him. When Sasuke jumped and flinch away, Itachi felt his heart clench painfully.
"Sasuke? What's wrong?" Itachi whispered gently, crawling over to him slowly.
"He…" Sasuke whispered, his breathing hitching and shuddering as tears welled up in his eyes, spilling over making the usual deep onyx turn a frightened gray. A choked sob made it's way through Sasuke's throat as he suddenly turned and latched onto Itachi, his face nuzzling into Itachi's throat. Itachi could only wrap his arms around Sasuke, trying to calm him down.
"Who's he?" Itachi asked as he tried to calm his sobbing and shaky lover and otouto.
"Orochimaru. I saw him. In…I-in the bathroom. H-he stabbed me b-b-but then it w-wasn't there. N-no blood or a-anything." Sasuke said as he tried to calm himself as well, although he was only able to take a shuddering breath.
Itachi pulled both of them up from under the sheets. He thought that he knew what was going on, but he had to make sure. He lifted Sasuke's head up from his neck and looked into his watery eyes. He saw it. Sasuke's eyes were turning red, the black being taken over. He was just seeing his worst nightmare, that was all. It would be gone by daybreak.
"Sasuke. This is normal. Your eyes are changing colors is all. And because of that your seeing the thing you fear, hate and mistrust the most. He's dead, remember that." Itachi said as he wiped away the tears. Sasuke didn't seem to believe him at first, but his tiredness was overcoming his fear. Itachi would stay up all night, just so he could make sure that if Sasuke woke up, he was there to comfort him.
The next morning was when it officially begun. Sasuke had woken up with a massive headache. And that wasn't the worst part. Itachi had to cover all the windows, for the light only agitated Sasuke's eyes more. And even after that Itachi had to make sure no one so much as breathed down the hallway their room was in.
And then there was the cramps. Not so much as cramps, but it felt like that at first. Then it felt like his internal organs were moving around, which they were so his new growing organs could fit. And then the burning nauseating pain came after that. Sasuke could feel his eyes water from the pain, and yet he refused to cry. Through the whole thing Itachi had been there, by his side, doing his best to try and keep Sasuke both as calm as possible and in as little pain as he could. He had given Sasuke some sort of herb that would dull most of the pain, and yet he still felt like his insides were burning and being torn out from his body.
"Itachi…" Came the almost choked sob as Sasuke turned on his side and curled into Itachi's side. The older male wrapped his arms around the smaller boy, holding him closer to his body. He could feel the slight shake in his body as he tried to hold back the painful sobs.
"Yes, Sasuke-kun?" Itachi asked as he pulled the younger male closer, nuzzling his nose into his spiky black/blue hair.
"It hurts." Came another almost painful sob. His voice had cracked halfway through and a choked sob managed to escape his throat as he pressed himself harder against the older male, seeking comfort.
"I know. But it'll be over soon. Trust me." Itachi said as he pulled the boy ontop of him. He held Sasuke closer to his body as his shaking got worse. His wings were now on either side of Itachi and his body was fully aligned with Itachi's. His face was hidden in Itachi's neck, his eyes watering with unshed tears.
Itachi was rubbing Sasuke's pack in an effort to calm him down when he felt a sharp pain in his neck. Itachi gasped quietly as his body froze and tensed slightly before he calmed back down. He felt a calming feeling come over his body from the toxins from Sasuke's fangs, yet he wasn't alarmed. He knew that blood would hasten the growing of Sasuke's organs and make it less painful. He also knew that it would calm Sasuke down and most likely make him fall asleep as well, making the change faster and less painful. He just had wait for Sasuke to fall asleep.
