Failed:

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Neji looked at his hands and with a knife cut through his skin. After drinking as much as he needed so that the blood would not spill onto the nice carpeting, he slowly melded his flesh back together. Kiba had earlier offered to hunt through Shino's library for books that might describe his new attributes and the changes he was going through. He had returned with a heavy leather bound book that looked awfully boring at first glance.

"This has all the Vampire clans, including Tzimice, and how the vampire race was created," Kiba explained. Neji nodded, though really didn't need to know much about the other vampire clans.

"It started when Cain, after killing his brother Abel, was banished by god into Nod. He had been the first human to ever take another humans blood, and God wanted to teach him a lesson. He would have eternity and he would have to live on blood. It was his curse, it was his blessing. To keep from Being alone, Cain created for himself twelve sons, they would further the race of vampires for him, each one being a different one."

"The Camarilla," Neji chose to skip this part, seeing as how Tzimice wasn't a

Clan within the Camarilla circle, "The Sabbat, pages 400-670; subcategories, Tzimice page 412-507, Lasombra page 508-603."

He had thumbed through the book to page 412, and had read

"The Tzimice clan of vampires is one of the most evil and vicious. At will they can meld the flesh of others and themselves, which sounds oh so gross. But it helps for healing minor scrapes and wounds, that kind of crap. A Tzimice with enough power can make the flesh of another remove itself almost instantly."

Neji put a candy wrapper he found on the floor in place as a book mark, and that was when he grabbed the knife and cut through his skin.

He smiled to himself as he saw his vampire skills in action. I

It was almost four in the morning. Kiba had fallen asleep a long time ago, but Neji was still attempting to meld his own flesh. And a very disgusting process it was indeed.

Shino knocked on the door and came in without waiting for reply.

"I. Don't. Like. Her." He said harshly.

"Oh? She looked sweet, what happened?"

"She is a terrible fighter. I can not believe that my father wants her to be the queen of the Aburame kingdom,"

"Perhaps she's just battle ignorant. Once you teach her, I'm sure she'll have skills that will compliment your own and you guys will be happy."

"..." Shino contemplated this.

"And your father looks pretty young and able, I'm sure he'll hold out until you and Naomi are ready to lead your clan." Neji continued.

"I hope so. I do not wish to have what my mother and father have, they don't speak" he said. Neji nodded.

"Perhaps, Shino, might I use you in my experiment?"

"Doubtful. Perhaps instead you could remove all the flesh off of Naomi instead and my father could find a more suitable wife for me."

"Aburame-san, might it be possible that your father chose Naomi for her personality? You said your self that your parents relationship is dead, and your mother was chosen for her battle skills right?"

"Yes."

"Maybe your father wished for you to actually like your wife. Instead of focusing on her fighting skills, you should take her to a nice restaurant and get to know her. Do you have any other people whom I might practice on?"

"No," Shino shook his head and left the room. He walked into the kitchen, to make himself something to eat like toast or cereal.

"Oh, you're still awake," Naomi said. She was sitting at the table, sketching randomly and eating a doughnut.

'Oh god; not her again...'

Shino nodded and searched the refrigerator for bread. She returned to her sketching, a pen silently scratching on the paper in a soothing way so that there was not complete awkward silence.

He popped the bread into the toaster and pushed down the little lever thing. He sat down at the table and peered at the sketch from over his glasses. When he saw what it was, he couldn't help but smirk. A vampire feeding on the flesh of a young girl who seemed to resemble herself. But it might've been a coincidence.

"Lately I've been feeling in a vampiric sort of mood," she said before he asked. He was about to open his mouth to ask if the girl was supposed to be her,

"Do you think this girl looks too much like me?" she asked before he could ask his question.

Shino looked it over. It was certainly prettier than she was, but the girl in the drawing looked boring and dull, with an odd expression as if even though she was getting bitten she was feeling nothing. He looked from the drawing to Naomi. Naomi had a curious face, and he had noticed it light up when ever she saw something remotely interesting, but not quick to be saddened, but when it was time to be serious she could do so.

"She doesn't look like you at all." Shino said.

"Hmm." She tapped the roof her mouth the end of the pen and glanced at the toaster.

"Your toast is burning." She said, and she stood up the same time Shino did. Shino walked over to the toaster and Naomi had walked over to the cabinet to get him a plate.

Shino nodded in thanks and her face lit up. They both sat back down, and sat in a comfortable silence.

"Is that a hobby or just something you do when you're bored?" Shino asked. Naomi shrugged,

"Aren't they the same thing?" she asked. Shino shrugged. Naomi grinned,

"It's just something to do."

"I like painting," Shino said. Naomi smiled.

"What do you paint?"

"..." Shino didn't answer. In fact, he was rather embarrassed.

"Come on, as long as it's not porn, it's fine."

"Faeries. There is a mystical quality about them. They are beautiful and have insectual qualities."

Naomi nodded. Shino noted that she looked like a faerie, with messy hair that she didn't tend to, and an anorexic-ally thin body that looked very unhealthy and kind of gross, where you can count the ribs through the skin. And being an Aburame herself, of course she had the same insect like qualities as a faerie did. All Aburame's did.

"I like faerie novels, but drawing them tends to be too difficult because I'm not great and I can barely draw people." She said. Shino could tell she was just being modest, due to the fact that she was pretty well developed in her artistic abilities and he noticed how she looked at her drawing fondly.

"I really love to write. Short stories about nothing, mainly." She said. Shino would've smiled, but he didn't really care. So he nodded, and felt that it would be rude not to ask what her most recent short story was about.

"Oh... a planned marriage separates a lesbian from her bisexual lover that was cheating on her anyways. Her husband doesn't like her. He rapes her and after their child is born, he slits her throat in her sleep, and keeps the child for himself so that he has an heir to the clan."

"..." he wondered if she was a lesbian and the story was supposed to mean something.

"I'm not a lesbian, and I hope to god the stuff about my husband isn't true, but other than that, the story represents me."

Shino stayed silent.

"I hope by the time we get married I'm not a disappointment to you, Shino-sama. I wish to be a good wife, and I want to become an exceptional fighter so that I can help the clan without being a burden."

Shino thought of what Neji had said. He looked at a portrait of his father, hanging in the living room next to the kitchen and back at Naomi.

"I don't want a relationship based on your skills." He said. Naomi didn't know how exactly to take it, so she stayed silent and looked at the tiling on the floor. Shino smiled from beneath his overly large coat collar. Perhaps Naomi wasn't such a bad person after all... but he would do what Neji suggested before finding out completely.

Hinata looked out her window into the night sky and sighed. Neji was most likely dead due to the fact that Itachi had left him unconscious in a field and it was unlikely that he would be unable to get to a shelter in time to avoid the sunlight. Her Neji... was killed by her Itachi.

That's right. Her Itachi. She could meld him as she could meld flesh, which was pretty well because of her lack of doing anything that interesting and having a lot of time on her hands. Itachi was hers just as she was Itachi's. Itachi owned her; he owned her damned soul and her un-life. But it's not like he had chosen a random person to bite, he had chosen Hinata for a reason. And because of that reason, she owned him. That reason was his sick, sadistic version of what one might call love. Or lust.

Itachi entered the room and put his arms around her waist.

"What are you looking at?" Itachi asked. Hinata looked up at him,

"That tree, if you stare at it long enough, it looks like Neji. It's comforting to know that he's with me even in here,"

Itachi glared at the tree. He would have to get Kisame to chop it down. He had left Neji for dead.

"Neji is dead, honey. You asked if you could see him, and I let you."

"Yes, for a moment before you attacked him!" she said scornfully. "That was low even for you,"

Itachi frowned and started petting her hair. "What can I say, I'm a Tzimice?" he said, not sounding at all apologetic.

"Why did you want him dead so much?" she asked. Itachi smiled to himself.

"I'll tell you when you can fully understand." He said. His breath was heavy on her neck, and she could tell he was trying to seduce her. In the four years he had tempted her like that she had never let him do anything more than kiss her neck and forehead area's, or caress her cheek. Sometimes if she let him he would nibble fondly at her ear.

"Itachi, I never let you get anywhere with me. Why should now be any different?"

"Because now that Neji is dead, you have no moral ties to him," Itachi said, and started toying with the zipper of her jacket. She stepped away from him.

"...Itachi, you're a nice guy... what the hell am I saying? Itachi, you're a sadistic ass whole. I don't think that killing Neji will suddenly make me warm up to you. However, since I like you're company and find you interesting, I will not rebel against you."

"You've gotten so sadistic, honey. I've tainted you so well,"

"Neji would be so disappointed. I don't like my new self. But it's hard to change back to what I was now that I'm no longer weak... How about you and I go train?"

Itachi smiled. "Not now honey. It's dinner time."

Will Naomi and Shino become closer? Do they want to? Will Neji find Hinata before she becomes unfaithful to him? Will Itachi score with Hinata? Will Kiba find a girl friend? Will Sasuke get rid of Sakura? Will Sakura score with Sasuke? Do any of these questions even matter? Does anyone care? Tune in for next week's episode of "Soap"....or what's the title again? Oh yeah "Failed". Review please with any ideas you might have for this fic, including any pairings that I will take into consideration.