Well, I am not sure if it early, or what, but I'm holidaying and I forgot I was gonna post while I was away... but fear not, I did bring my laptop with me into the wilderness, hotspoted my laptop, plugged it into the car to charge and here I am! haha
So this is the continuation of my first time doing a vamp, the story continues and thanks for the many questions that came up!
Keep smiling everyone!
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Sasuke laid on his bed in the darkness, his eyes staring up at the ceiling and seeing nothing at all. His mind fluttered constantly, images flashing through his mind of a tanned blond haired man, Naruto. His mind wouldn't shut the fuck up the past week, ever since he left Naruto's place that night. His body trembled at times, going through withdrawal-like symptoms, leaving Sasuke practically panting for just another taste of that blond's blood.
His eyes bled red, his mind overflowed with hungry thoughts, feelings and lust. He rubbed his hand across this face, briefly stopping at his throat, feeling the burning on the walls of his esophagus, till he turned to flip off of his bed. His body trembled slightly from the sudden movement, his vision only seeing the floor. A strangled hiss escaped his lips, feeling the burning suddenly rise from his throat, enhancing his instincts to move faster to find his desire. He stumbled slightly to the window, slipping through it and into the still cold night. His instincts lead the way while making his way through shadows.
Watching the building from across the street, his deep ruby red eyes assessed the area before he made his way to the room that housed his prize. A deep thrum of excitement washed through him as he made his way to the simple wooden door that was between him and his delight. He sped away from the door, down the hallway out of sight, when the door handle wiggled and began to open. He peeked around the corner, his eyes narrowing when the blond came out from his one roomed apartment.
Naruto locked his apartment door, pulled the collar of his jacket closer to his neck and shoved his keys into his pocket. Sasuke watched quietly while the blond made his way down the hall and headed outdoors into the night.
Naruto had no car, thus it was easy for Sasuke to follow the succulent scent that he left in the air. Sasuke's instincts throbbed while his brain was clouded with the appetizing scent that practically washed over his tongue. His gums salivated with need and ached to latch on and take that rich blood. Naruto headed for an outdoor market area, several blocks away and Sasuke kept his distance but his vampire eyes focused only on his prey and could see the blond perfectly. Keeping to the other side of the street, he watched as Naruto took in the outdoor street vendors, slowly walking between them and checking out the wares. He watched Naruto stop at one cart that had several different types of fruits. The blond smiled and chatted with the older man, while picking up several different fruits, handed them to the vendor who bagged them. When Naruto was done, he handed some coins to the older man, took the bag of fruits with a smile and wave, and continued down the streets.
Sasuke kept himself on the other side of the street when Naruto came up to large iron gates, the entrance to a church. Naruto turned and headed up the long walkway to the doors of the church and ducked inside. Sasuke growled fiercely when his obsession had left his sights. He shoved his hands in his jacket pockets and slipped across the street, intent on following him.
Now regardless of what the storybooks say, vampires do not turn into a ball of flames when they enter holy ground. Centuries of stories, built up by fear of the unknown and only seeing glimpses of what vampires had done in the past, naturally the human race came up with seemingly hopeful ideas that could save them. Sasuke scoffed at the thought as he slipped through the large church doors.
He quietly made his way to a darker area in the rows of pews, quickly seating himself away from any strangers that dotted the room. The church was old, as like so many others anywhere, with stone structures, heavy aged wooden beams, stained glass windows and of course the altar. Of course the old churches now had electricity, but the character of the time period remained within. Churches were often open 24 hours a day in the heavier populated areas, in hopes to bring in more followers.
Deep red eyes squinted through his lowered bangs of black hair, watching said blond walking between the pews and up to the altar, bag of fruit swinging from his arm. A priest in long deep brown robes was busy wiping down the podium. He turned when Naruto said something to him. The priest had a ponytail on the top of his head, a kind face with a large scar across his nose. His face beamed with a smile when he looked down to the blond and brought him into his arms for a hug. Sasuke had to hold himself back when the urge to rip the man from Naruto. His inner being roared in anger, visions of Sasuke tearing out the throat of the man who was embracing the blond filled his thoughts, the scream, the blood gushing out freely and the body flopping lifelessly to the ground made Sasuke inwardly grin at the thought. Sasuke released a low growl, gripping the edge of the pew, his claws most likely digging into the ancient wood, while watching the interaction. The priest pulled back suddenly, his face now worried as he took in the blond's body. Sasuke could hear the priest asking about Naruto's health, had he been eating properly and so on.
Naruto laughed nervously and only said he was fine. Sasuke scoffed, for he knew the greyish look to the once tanned skin, the muscles that were no longer firm and lithe, the foul scent that reeked out of the blond's skin pores all were hidden behind Naruto's layers of clothing.
Naruto plucked a small purse from inside his jacket and handed it out to the priest. Hearing the jingling within, Sasuke knew it was a money purse the blond brought out. The priest's eyes narrowed in suspicion at Naruto, who only smiled at the man and shoved the purse into the priest's hands. Though the priest tried to protest, Naruto only shook his head continuously and refused to take it back. The priest shook his head sadly and tucked the small purse into his cloak pocket and pulled Naruto into another hug. When he pulled back, Sasuke could see the glistening wetness in the priest's eyes. He pointed behind him and Naruto gave him a bow and headed in the direction the priest pointed.
Seeing that the blond was leaving another direction, he slipped through the pews silently like a ghost, through the front doors and headed around the back of the church.
He saw Naruto come out into the back darkness of the church yard, following a path that was only highlighted by the moon. Sticking to the shadows of the large old trees that were spread out around the church's yard, Sasuke saw that the back area of the church housed a small play aparatas for children embedded in sand. The path went past the area towards a small house, the lights shining through the small windows onto the dark patches of grass around it. Naruto went directly to the front door, knocking lightly. Sasuke's red eyes took in the movement in the home, several voices floated through the air and the door opened to a tall thinner man with gravity defying gray hair. Half his face was covered with a medical mask and his eyes crinkled into a smile when he looked down at the blond who stood smiling at the door. The man stepped to the side inviting the blond in and giving him a gentle pat on the blond's back before closing the heavy door.
Sasuke stayed still, his instincts demanding he go forward, but he managed to hesitate, trying to force his mind into clear thought. What was the blond up to? Why here? How did he know these people? His thoughts were broken when he heard the screams from several persons inside the house and he zipped through the trees up to one of the windows of the small house.
Peeking through the glass, he saw the blond being surrounded by a half dozen children of all sizes, the gray haired man had his arms crossed and leaning against a kitchen counter. The children appeared to be hugging, jumping and demanding Naruto's attention. Naruto laughed and tried to hug each child.
"I brought you all some fruit for a bedtime snack!" Naruto exclaimed, holding out the bag to the gray haired man who gave a crinkled smile through the mask as he grabbed the bag.
"Nii-san? Will you tuck me in?" asked one blued haired boy.
"Nii-san will you see my new teddy?" asked a small blond haired girl.
"Me!" "No me too!" "Nii-san, me too!" Several children started calling out over each other and Naruto started to laugh.
Sasuke stepped away into the trees again, seeing enough. Was Naruto a brother to all those kids? What kind of family did he come from? Leaping flawlessly and silently, he settled himself onto a large branch of one of the old trees, several meters away from the old house. His hunger for lust and the chase of the blond had settled while watching the events of the evening but his eyes still bled red, a hint of instinct lingering within him wanting to devore the blood that flowed through the blond's veins...he wanted it all to himself, it was to be all his, and he be damned if he let anyone else claim it!
He didn't know how long he sat, statue-like and marble still in the tree, but when Naruto had finally come out of the house a while later, the blond took another path that led around the other side of the church. Sasuke floated quietly to the ground and stalked after him.
The other side of the church housed a large graveyard, surrounded with a waist high moss covered stone wall and more old trees that filled around the area. Their large branches covered the many mossy gravestones as if they were being protected by some ancient magic. Sasuke's eyes took in the area and saw that the blond was walking within the stones until he dropped to the ground. Quietly slipping between the dozens of gravestones, he found where Naruto had dropped to his knees. A strong scent of incense filled Sasuke's nostrils and he tilted his head to the side to see that the blond had lit a small stick at the foot of an old, cracked and moss covered headstone. The blond clapped his hands together and dropped his head. "Father ...
Mother…" quiet, somber whispers were uttered from the blond addict's temptatious lips.
Sasuke stepped back suddenly, his morals flowing and smothering his instincts suddenly from the sight. The overwhelming feeling of being intrusive hit him like a brick to the side of his head, guilt creeped into his chest and as he leapt up and backwards. Grasping one of the many large branches of an old tree, Sasuke flipped himself through the branches and settled on a branch, higher up and away from Naruto. He shook his head and ran fingers through his hair, trying to organize his thoughts. The night had certainly brought some interesting facts forward, that wasn't making much sense to him, and feeling out of control was not something he was privy to which had irritated him. He pushed himself to go over the events of the night, while the blond's whispers floated in the night air.
Naruto slowly lifted himself back up from his moment of somber surrender and soon he shuffled his lethargic body through the graveyard. His feet were resoundingly heady and Sasuke could hear his mournful and ragged breathing. Quickly hopping down; swiftly and silently to the lower branches, the raven appeared to watch the blond slowly walk through the headstones and out. He headed back towards the iron gates of the church, but he stopped at the gates and leaned against the tall stone structures that the iron gates clung from. Sasuke could see the puffs of white as Naruto's heated breath cooled quickly in the night air. Sasuke listened to the blond's heart beat, which rang erratically. The sound waves, hitting Sasuke's keen animalesque hearing. He's out of breath? What from? Is he withdrawing? Sasuke shook his head and decided to swing himself over the tall structured iron fence, so that he landed several meters away in the street. He then started to trail up the sidewalk towards the entrance of the church yard.
Naruto stepped onto the sidewalk and Sasuke stopped beside him, making it look like Naruto just stepped into his path. His now onyx eyes focused on the blond that looked back at him in surprise. The blue eyes were shades lighter now, as if their once crystalline colour were draining slowly. Sasuke found himself clenching his teeth to hold back the irritation his instincts were flaring up, the incessant questions of what was stealing away the colour began to plague the dark haired man.
Those blue eyes widened in surprise at recognizing the onyx man, were now narrowing slightly, the blond realizing just who he had come to meet in the darkened street. Sasuke kept his face unreadable and his lips sealed. "Excuse me," Naruto hissed out behind clenched teeth as he side-stepped Sasuke's shadowy figure and began to pass the raven.
Sasuke raised a brow at the blond, not moving and studied the blond's face. It had only been a week since Sasuke had seen the man up close, the differences in his face were subtle, but with his vampire eyes he didn't miss a thing. His skin was now a dull, pasty gray in colour, his eyes sunken back, shadows graced under them, his cheekbones were more prominent and it seemed he had skin hanging down on his neck. Rarely had anything surprised Sasuke, but this visible reality shocked him quickly. Just how many drugs was this blond ingesting?
It was Naruto stumbling just beside him that brought Sasuke back to the here and now. Shooting out his hand to grasp the blond's arm to stabilize him, "are you alright?" Sasuke found himself blurting out before he could stop himself.
"Fine," the blond spat out and tried to pull his arm away. The force from pulling his arm away caused him to lose his balance even more, that led Sasuke to move behind the blond and hold both Naruto's shoulders steady. "Jeezuz fuck," the blond whispered, sounding annoyed at the situation, but he chose not to fight the solid body that was holding him up.
While Sasuke stood behind the blond, the blond hairs tickled his nose and he inhaled deeply the seductive and tantalizing scent which had him salivating and panting like a dog for the past week. The thrumming of the tanned man's quickened heart beat vibrated beneath Sasuke's fingers, causing his gums to tingle all over again, wanting to taste the rich thick substance that pumped through those sunkissed veins.
'Put him out of his misery…'
The whispery sounds echoed through his mind, reminding Sasuke of what he was, what he wanted and he squeezed his eyes shut, focusing on holding the blond up. He suppressed a shudder while he held Naruto's swaying body close to him, making sure the blond was stable on his two feet. "All right now?" Sasuke's whispered voice came out huskier than intended. His instincts jittered in excitement when he felt the blond's body shiver in response to Sasuke's voice.
The blond took several breaths. "Yes, thank you." Naruto took a step forward jerkily, pulling himself away from Sasuke. "I-I'm just clumsy and you surprised me," Naruto breathed out into the night air, not looking back at Sasuke.
"Can I help you get to where you are going?" Sasuke found himself asking suddenly.
Naruto turned his head quickly, Sasuke could hear his sudden gasp in the air. Those pale blue eyes flickered at Sasuke, and he could read them like an open book. Naruto appeared to be shocked at the offer of assistance and Sasuke somehow wondered why he had suddenly asked such a thing.
"Umm...n-no, I'm going ho-"
"I insist," Sasuke snorted out quickly, cutting the blond off and moved to stand beside him. "I've finished my errand." His voice gave no room for discussion. Blue eyes looked at him shocked and Sasuke just gave a firm nod. The blond worried on his bottom lip briefly before humming out a small agreement.
The pair walked down the sidewalk in silence. Both had their hands shoved in their jackets, eyes focused directly ahead.
Sasuke listened to the blond's breathing, his heart beat and the way he walked. Naruto appeared to be trying to keep up a facade of being fine, but Sasuke knew better. The man's body struggled to keep up the pace, so Sasuke found himself slowly down his own steps.
"What's your name? Since you already know mine...I think?" Naruto breathed out, breaking the long silence between them.
"Sasuke Uchiha. And yes, you are Naruto Uzumaki," Sasuke breathed out neutrally. "Pleasure," he added on, being polite. His parents raised him to be so of course.
"You live around here?" Naruto added on.
"Hn."
"So, umm...you go for night walks often?" Naruto's hand moved to the back of his neck, rubbing his head nervously. Sasuke found the gesture cute.
"Hn."
"Pssh, converse much?" Naruto scoffed out, irritation laced in his voice.
Sasuke snorted out a chuckle.
The two fell into another silence as they walked the sidewalk and Sasuke found himself watching Naruto in his peripheral vision. The blond had very impressive bone structure and Sasuke couldn't help but trail his eyes along Naruto's face and neck. The scent coming from the blond's pores hadSasuke inhaling over and over, his mind swirling in eagerness with each breath. He licked his lips subtly when his eyes followed the pronounced vein going down Naruto's neck, the same area he had only just tasted days before. Sasuke grit his teeth, feeling his fangs wanting to release. He instead focused on the noticeability of the sickly skin and hollowed out features in Naruto's face, his thoughts thinking about what drugs caused such a quick change.
"Yo Naruto!" a voice called out from across the street, that had both men glance over. A burley brunette man waved over his head and began to quicken his pace across the street towards the two. Vehicles honked at the man who was busy dodging the few cars that were traveling down the street. The unknown brunette just flipped the bird to the drivers. Said man trotted over to Naruto and slapped a hand on his shoulder.
Sasuke noticed the subtle flinch and gasp of discomfort that came from Naruto's lips, which had him raise a brow. The brunette didn't appear to notice at all as he kept his smile large and began to ask Naruto about attending a local bar, going out for an all nighter, slamming back whatever drinks or liquids he kept rambling on about, completely ignoring the fact that Naruto was currently with someone else, a complete stranger.
"Oh and bring your new friend too!" The brunette finally noticed Sasuke standing there as well and threw him a wink. Sasuke flinched in surprise at the gesture.
"Uh, sorry Kibs, I'm a bit tired tonight, another time yeah?" Naruto smiled out, his voice sounding apologetic and Sasuke could hear the fatigue in his voice.
"Aw come-on dude, you know this is what you need! I'll be over at the Red Cloud with the others, I'll tell em you're on your way! Kay!" With that the brunette slapped Naruto on the back again, causing Naruto to stumble into Sasuke's chest before turning around and heading back the way he came. He didn't even look back at the blond.
Naruto coughed uncontrollably into Sasuke's chest, his muscles spasming around his lungs and Sasuke held the blond up. "S-Sorry, *cough*, I-I will-" Naruto pushed himself back away from Sasuke's chest, his face flushed bright red up to the tips of his ears. Slapping his hand over his mouth, trying to suppress his coughs, he stumbled backwards and leaned against a building wall.
"Are you-" Sasuke moved closer.
"Don't," Naruto held his hand up when he bent over, coughing uncontrollably. After a few moments he stood, leaned against the wall and took some deep breaths. "Thanks for hanging out, I-I'm good from here." Naruto looked down the street, not meeting Sasuke's eyes. Another deep breath, and then Naruto walked away from Sasuke.
Sasuke just stood and watched the back of the blond walk away from him.
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Sasuke mulled over a cup of coffee at the lab the next day. He was lost in thought when his brother came in, interrupting his thought process. Glancing up at his aniki, he hummed out a recognition before looking down into his cup again.
Itachi took a seat at the table, placing his own cup of coffee down along with the local newspaper. He raised a brow at Sasuke. "Something new to share otouto?" he smirked out. Sasuke just frowned in response. "Thought you'd like to know," Itachi continued out as he ruffled out the paper in front of his face. "A certain blond has come in again, he's in room 23B." He pinched his lips in a smile when he heard Sasuke leave the room.
Sasuke grabbed the chart from the strawberry blond nurse at the front with such force, she gasped suddenly at the sudden intrusion from the usual stoic raven.
Stopping at the door of 23B, Sasuke took a breath and ran a hand through his thick locks. He cracked open the chart, taking a look at the inquisition. Running his fingers down the list of vials, he frowned at the list. He's never taken an interest in the requests before this. Why the hell was the blond getting these? Slapping the chart closed, he went into the room. The scent coming from the blond hit him fully causing his gums to tingle and a burn in his throat, but he remained impassive as he continued doing his job. Grabbing gloves and preparing the vials, Sasuke nodded his head at the blond and went about doing his work.
"O-oh hey Sasuke," the blond whispered out. Blue eyes looked upon Sasuke with uncertainty.
Sasuke halted his movements briefly before glancing at the blue eyes. He gave a grunt of acknowledgement and grabbed the paper file. "Please spell your last name and state your birthday," Sasuke asked out in his tone of professionalism but inside he was struggling to keep his instincts at bay. His inner being was vibrating and pushing thirst into his throat, and Sasuke clenched his teeth tight to keep his fangs recessed.
Naruto sighed with a dejected sound and did as he was told. Sasuke rubbed the alcohol swab on the crook of his arm, frowning slightly while he tapped at Naruto's veins, trying to find one. Sasuke inwardly scowled and ground his teeth together in frustration, memories of why Naruto's arms were full of puncture marks and various bruises flashed in his mind.
'Put him out of his misery'
His eyes scanned the various healing puncture wounds on the blond's arm, the same bruising he saw weeks before, and still in different stages of healing. A flare of anger and disgust rose in Sasuke, thinking of all the drugs that the blond was dirtying himself with. Naruto flinched slightly when Sasuke put the needle of the blood tube holder into his vein. "About last night-umm-you know, uhh...thanks." Naruto whispered out while staring at the blank wall across the room.
"Hn," was his response. Sasuke watched the thick substance fill up the vials, and his instincts rose up in excitement as he recalled the taste. Desire in droves began to wash through his body, leaving sparks of tingles through its wake and a burning sensation blazing through his throat that almost had him choking. Naruto's quickening heartbeat pushed his blood heavily throughout his visible veins and thrummed through the raven haired ears, blocking out the sounds of the room.
As Sasuke pulled out the last vial, "-coffee?" He tilted his ear towards the blond, did he just say something? The loud ongoing pulse that was coming from the blond's veins was ringing through his head constantly and Sasuke was having trouble keeping his instincts at bay with visions flashing through his mind of him sinking his teeth into the blond's heated flesh. He glanced over to see those dull, tired blue eyes looking at him. The blond worried on his bottom lip as he looked up at him, hope in his eyes.
"Excuse me?" Sasuke spoke out while putting the final label on the last vial of blood before applying the bandaid over the punctured area on the blond's arm. His eyes looked over the different coloured bruising and stages of healing of the punctured areas on the blond's arms again. His remaining humanity screamed as his thoughts grew to disgust at the thought of the drugs that the blond was injecting into himself, but the dark demon within him flared up at the sight, the burn of hunger and thirst in his throat, the tantalizing scent filling up his head with visions of taking the blond by force, filling his mouth with the warm, satisfying-
The blond pulled down his sleeve over the now bandaged area, a blush on his face, the movement snapping Sasuke's eyes back to the now. "As a thank you, I would like to get you a coffee...or something." Naruto's fingers now fidgeted in his lap.
"Sure," Sasuke found himself saying before he knew what the hell he was doing. What the fuck did I agree for? The blond immediately brightened up and shot Sasuke a huge grin that nearly could have blinded the obsidian man.
Naruto jumped up from the chair and slipped his jacket on. "Great! Let's say tonight about eight at Lotso Java near the church that we met last night?" Naruto's eyes were wide with eagerness.
"Hn," Sasuke nodded and Naruto beamed even brighter.
"See you then Sasuke!" Naruto then left and Sasuke just stood frozen, wondering what the hell just happened.
==intermission==
Sasuke sat at the table, watching Naruto fiddle with his cup of sweet hot chocolate. They had only been sitting for about five minutes and Naruto was not able to suppress his nervousness. Sasuke inwardly found the whole concept of him cute. He scoffed at himself thinking about how he had been using that word a lot lately since meeting the blond.
"Again, thanks Sasuke, for-well being there, I-I appreciated it," Naruto stuttered out while squeezing his hot chocolate cup.
Sasuke leaned his head to the side, eyeing the blond and his lips twitched up slightly.
"You see," Naruto started and brought his hand to the back of his neck, rubbing at it consistently. "My father always had told me to thank those where it was due, and really," he gave a shy smile, "you didn't have to do anything last night when we nearly ran into each other, heh."
Sasuke found himself chuckling softly at the blond's antics and he felt pleased seeing the blond visibly relaxed at the sound of his laugh.
"Have you worked at the lab long?" Naruto asked after he relaxed in his seat hearing Sasuke chuckle.
"It's a family thing," Sasuke said with disinterest in his voice.
"Oh, that's umm...different," Naruto ran his hands up the side of the mug. "Was it something you planned to do?"
Sasuke shrugged. "It pays the bills." He gave a smirk at the surprised look Naruto gave. Naruto then started laughing and Sasuke felt a shiver of excitement go through him at hearing the musical sound.
The pair then spent another hour talking about little things, never discussing personal deep subjects and Sasuke found himself slightly disappointed when Naruto mentioned he needed to go.
The two stood outside on the sidewalk, Naruto looked around, suddenly feeling nervous. He bit his bottom lip and forced himself to look at the dark haired man. Sasuke's stance was perfect, he could be a model and Naruto couldn't stop staring. The way his raven locks fell upon his forehead was mesmerizing, his neck was smooth and the curves around his neck muscles had Naruto lick his lips. The snort from the red lips had Naruto flick his eyes back to the black orbs.
"Cat got your tongue dobe?" Sasuke's tone was teasing.
"What the hell was that teme?" Naruto shot back, trying to sound upset but failing.
Sasuke chuckled but then gave Naruto a serious look. "Be careful on your way home."
Naruto responded with a breathy laugh, "yah, thanks." He suddenly looked down at his hands, his fingers fumbling with each other. "Say Sasuke?" The raven haired man looked at him, and Naruto felt the sudden butterflies in his stomach. "D-do you want to, umm do this again? Coffee you know...umm...with me?" He looked up shyly through his blond lashes at the other man.
The corner of Sasuke's lip curled up to a smile. "Sure dobe." Naruto's head lifted so fast and gave such a wide grin that Sasuke gasped at the alluring site. Even though the unhealthy skin gave a grayish tinge, blue eyes were sunken with black shadows, Sasuke still could not get over the beautiful smile. "Give me your number," Sasuke asked as he pulled out his cell phone.
Naruto's smile immediately fell, dropping his face, allowing his hair to cover his eyes. Sasuke looked up from his phone, shocked at the sudden change in the blond. "Naruto?" he asked with concern in his voice. When the blond didn't look up he asked, "are you alright?"
Naruto shook his head, then shrugged his shoulders. He looked up then and scratched his head. "Well you see, I umm...don't have one." He gave a nervous grin, his eyes not meeting Sasuke's.
Sasuke understood immediately. "Oh, well then that's fine." He tucked his phone back into his pocket. "Let's just pick a day and time now, shall we?" Sasuke dismissed what Naruto said as if it were nothing. It obviously bothered the blond and Sasuke was struck with guilt seeing Naruto suddenly embarrassed or upset that he didn't have a cell phone.
'Put him out of his misery….'
Naruto lifted his face and a smile was once again on those lips. Sasuke gave a friendly firm nod, pushing back the annoying whisper in his mind and the two set another time and place.
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Sasuke followed the blond for the next few nights. Deep red eyes narrowed as the blond walked slowly down the sidewalk in the night, heading home from his place of employment. An all night convenience store that wasn't exactly in the better parts of the neighborhood. Sasuke watched as the blond had to deal with drunks, transients, night workers and so much more. There was so much traffic in the store, that several security guards worked all through the hours and there was always more than one clerk on. And for some reason that he couldn't explain, Sasuke was thankful for that. The thought of having Naruto working alone at that place, well, he didn't want to think of the endless negative possibilities that may happen.
Sasuke's instincts continued to scream throughout his thoughts in the night, demanding he go to the blond, and though Sasuke questioned why, he didn't fight anymore. He began to succumb more often to the call that the blond's blood sang. He was to meet with Naruto in two nights' time, and thus far Sasuke had not learned much more of him, only from what he watched. When the blond reached his apartment, Sasuke would watch from the shadows outside until the blond went to bed.
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Sasuke sat in a large leather chair, one his father used to sit in many centuries ago and he watched the flames dance about in the fireplace of his family's home. This was where Itachi found him, and found the site quite interesting. It was not often his little brother appeared so captivated in his thoughts.
"Penny for your thoughts," Itachi snickered, pulling Sasuke out of his musings. Sasuke looked up at Itachi, a large brandy glass, half full of deep red liquid, still sitting in his hand. Itachi snorted out at the pose Sasuke was in. "You look just like our father, sitting here with such a serious expression and a glass of essence in hand." Itachi took a seat in the matching leather chair to the right of Sasuke. "Father always said he did his best thinking in his chair." He gave Sasuke a knowing smile. Sasuke said nothing but just looked back at the flames and Itachi respected his silence.
Sasuke sat in the welcome silence as he fought to quell the calls that flooded his mind. His instincts wanted the blond. He desired to taste the blond once again, have his cup filleth over, allow the shocks and shivers to electrify his body with erotic sensations. He felt his cock twitch as he remembered that night, when the blond lay upon his bed, with his succulent and exquisite scent filled his room. The dark entity deep within him growled out with a yearning hunger that scratched at his throat and ached his gums when Sasuke remembered the scene in his head.
In the dozen or so times that he had met Naruto on their 'coffee outings' and how Sasuke watched him in the nights, he couldn't see how Naruto supported his supposed other habit. Sasuke frowned and his forehead scrunched up in annoyance when images of the blond's arms, littered with bruises and puncture spots that IV drug addicts often carried. Naruto's scent still had that underlying whisper of a foul smell, and Sasuke knew that it was in the blond's blood. Not to mention his physical body was showing more signs of being eaten away, as if he was wasting away into an eventual dried husk of a human. But in all the nights he watched the blond from the shadows, following the succulent scent through the air, he had yet to see Naruto actually do drugs. He frowned at that thought.
Images of the blond's face emerged, the way he threw his head back laughing when finding something that amused him, the glistening in his deep sapphire eyes with that bright smile, Sasuke's lips smiled slightly and a soothing feeling filled his chest. He looked at the brandy glass in his hand, watching the reflection of the flames on the red liquid within and pinched his lips. Why was he thinking of this man? He downed the liquid quickly and left the room, his brother's eyes looking up in question at Sasuke's sudden movement.
Walking down the dimly lit street, the streets were damp from an earlier rain that had chased the majority of the night population to someplace warmer and dryer no doubt. It was well after midnight, and Sasuke made his way to the all night convenience store that Naruto worked at. Using the excuse that he was out of cigarettes and was picking up some more was a good enough reason to go into the store, right?
The scent in the air stopped him immediately. He knew that scent...it was practically living, breathing through his body constantly, burning his mentality away with thirst every day and it had just passed by his nose. His instincts screamed and blazed through him instantly before Sasuke found himself taking off down the dark alley behind the said convenience store. Two forms were sitting on the wet alley floor, leaning against the wall of the store, with only a hint of dim light coming from the street lamp that was a few meters away. Sasuke didn't need the light to know who one of those forms were. The familiar blond spiky hair glowed dimly in the light. Sasuke's fangs slid down when his anger surged at seeing the stranger beside Naruto. Releasing a deep menacing growl he lurched out at the stranger and slammed him up against the wall.
"What the fuck are you doing!" Sasuke's deep growled voice vibrated through the alley, his eyes narrowed at the dark haired man who was currently in his grasp. He could smell the drugs on this man, could see the glazed look in his wide fearful eyes as he struggled in Sasuke's gasp.
"H-hey...what's t-the deal…" the man slurred out, fear in his voice, spittle falling from his lips as he flailed weakly. Sasuke growled again when he pushed the man harder into the wall, his face only a fraction away from the other.
"Heyyyyy...whatzz going down?" Naruto's slurred voice floated up from his position on the ground.
Sasuke glanced over to see Naruto struggling to stand, sliding his back up the wall and wobbling to and fro. The dark haired man's head flopped back and forth, his hands desperately trying to claw at Sasuke's grasp that held tight onto his collar.
Sasuke clenched his teeth in anger, watching the blond stumble to a stand and then lean against the wall.
"Sassss? Is-is that youzz?" Naruto sounded surprised then giggled out. "Dayyyy-ammm Sas'k, w-what the hell?"
Sasuke's eyes widened in surprise at the sight. Naruto's face was limp, though he was trying to smile, his eyes were dilated like saucers and Sasuke could smell the foreign drug coming from his pores. He looked at the guy he was holding up briefly before dropping him to the ground unceremoniously. The dark haired man fell hard and fell to his side with a yelp, but Sasuke paid him no mind when he stepped in front of Naruto.
Sasuke felt his heart clench painfully as he looked at Naruto's drugged out state. "Naru, why...how come, what have-" His hand cupped Naruto's chin and he turned the blond's head side to side to see what he feared was correct. Naruto was drugged out on some chemical that was leaving him in a state.
Naruto flipped his head away from Sasuke's hand, which caused him to stumble to the side, but he caught himself as he put a hand out to the wall. "W-what the fuck Sas'k," he mumbled out, wiping his hand across his lips.
Sasuke stood still, watching the doped up blond try and stand alone.
"Leave me 'lone...b-bastard," Naruto sputtered out quietly.
Sasuke was at a loss. He had suspected drugs, but to see and smell the evidence so clearly in front of him, his mind was now a flurry of emotional chaos. Visions flashed through his mind swiftly. The times they had spent together; talking, enjoying each others company, the subtle blushes the blond let him see, the slight brushing of their fingers that left Sasuke feeling the warmth from that touch for several hours after, he had began to believe what he at first thought about the blond was false, that there had to be something else. But now...seeing him with this stranger, both under the strong influence of some drug and -
'No.' It had to be something else, Sasuke argued with himself. "Naruto, talk to me, as your friend," he whispered out carefully. He didn't want to spook Naruto that would send him off on a frenzy.
Naruto turned around, his back now to Sasuke, his hand against the damp dark wall to hold him steady and he dropped his head. "I-I can't keep this up Sasuke," the blond whispered through the darkness.
Sasuke stepped closer to the blond.
"Don't!" Naruto barked out and turned back to look at him while stepping back into the wall. His half lidded eyes were boring into Sasuke, a frown upon his face and he continued to step back a little further from Sasuke, trying to meld into the wall. "D-don't touch me Sas'k...I-I …. It's been fun. B-But I can't be your friend…" He moved his eyes away from Sasuke. "Jus-just leave."
Sasuke stepped back slightly, his face stone still as Naruto threw out the words. The anger that had been doing well staying out of his thoughts erupted full force. He clenched his teeth, pinched his lips and snorted out a sound of disgust. "I can't believe I fell for…" he hissed out through his teeth, "and that I actually started to believe-" he cut himself off before he said too much.
The blond did not look up from his position, his hair covering his eyes, his body slightly shook and swayed from trying to stand up as Sasuke spat out the words into the darkness.
"I'm done," Sasuke spat out and walked heavily past Naruto, not bothering to glance at him as he stomped past.
Naruto looked up briefly, seeing the back of Sasuke leaving the dark damp alley. His eyes leaked the salt tears slowly and his bottom lip quivered before he pulled it between his teeth. "It's better this way. Goodbye," he whispered out as Sasuke turned the corner.
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Any thoughts? As I mentioned, this is my first attempt at a vamp fic.
The next chapter should be up Thursday August 12! I will be home by then heh
As always, flames, flowers and thoughts are appreciated at any level! Tah all!