Ok, Miako - Yes, true, but only Sasuke and Kakashi heard that and...wait, Sakura too...oh whatever. Sasuke and Sakura wouldn't know and Kakashi (based on my personal opinion) would probably let them sort it out on their own, thinking the whole situation was funny in one way and pretty sick in another...--

And you guys said previews so, 3 previews at the end of each chapter! (Oh, I'm so nice! -big smile-) I hope you like it!

Chapter 2

I can hear you...I can smell you...You smell of flowers...I've never tasted flowers before...I want it...

"Who's there?"

Come to me...I want to taste you...I need...blood...flesh...

"Who-AH!"

Scream, scream in terror...Just...let me...

-

Naruto's eyes snapped open, breathing hard again and sweating like before. He went to get out of bed, but something told him that he wouldn't be able to stand. As predicted, the blonde found himself face first in his floor.

"Dammit!" Naruto cursed groggily.

He pushed himself up and walked into the bathroom. His head was pounding like there was no tomorrow and he could barely get himself to the sink before he was bent over double, barfing.

"This tastes nasty..." Naruto muttered, proceeding to wash out his mouth and brush his teeth and floss many many times over.

He took a shower after the taste was mostly gone and began barfing in the shower.

"Perfect." he managed in between small barfs. "Just after the...taste was gone." he decided against ramen this morning, but that meant...no breakfast. Oh, how hungry he'd be...He barfed again at the thought of an upset stomach.

-

"Ohayo S-...where's Sakura?" Naruto asked, coming to a stop.

Sasuke shrugged slightly, then blinked and looked at Naruto.

"What?"

"Nothing..." Sasuke looked at the ground.

'He's getting paler...' he thought.

"Sasuke, Naruto!" Kakashi appeared. "There's been another attack."

"Lemme guess. We're going to the hospital?" Sasuke asked. Kakashi nodded.

"Shouldn't we wait for-"

"Sakura's the victim this time." Kakashi answered. All three of them hurried to the hospital.

-

Sakura's face was pale. Her pink hair was splayed out on the pillow and she looked kinda like a sleeping vampire.

"Her wounds are, again, not fatal. She has the same strange markings on her that seem to point to a canine attack. But I've never known a dog that pins it's prey down before it attacks them." a doctor in a white suit told them, looking at the chart that hung at the foot of the bed.

"Also, it may be that this particular animal only attacks females." he continued. "But, I wouldn't stake my job or my life on that. I could be wrong."

"I see. Thank you." Kakashi moved so that the doctor could leave and that left him and his three students alone.

"Why was she in the forest?" Naruto asked.

"Probably hunting that thing down, but it got her first." Sasuke guessed.

"Probably." Kakashi agreed.

"It's a monster. And I'm sure it only does this because it feels like it...It's bloodlust...scary." Naruto muttered, sitting next to the bed. Sasuke and Kakashi looked at him.

"No way you'll ever be able to kill anyone." Sasuke said in a slightly disapproving way. Kakashi gave him a slight glare.

"That's not a bad thing, Sasuke. Not killing your opponent gives them a chance to start over or come after you. But it is the boarder between humanity and true shinobi. Some of Konoha's best have never killed."

"Few...you mean." Sasuke corrected.

"The actual amount doesn't matter." Kakashi said sternly.

"I...don't feel to good." Naruto stood up. "I'm gonna go...home. Alright?" he looked to Kakashi, who nodded, and left without looking at Sasuke.

-

Naruto's stomach growled. Oh man was he hungry...Ramen? No...he was gonna barf again. He turned a corner on his way back to his apartment and ran right into someone.

"S-sorry..." he stood up and started walking again.

A hand was pushed into his back, turning him away from his apartment and in another direction.

"Hey...what's the big idea?" he asked, his voice slurring almost.

"You're sick. But you apparently aren't capable of taking care of yourself." Sasuke's voice said, turning him onto another road. "I'm gonna take you to my house, since all you own is ramen."

"Y-your house?" Naruto blinked. What? "You've lost me...why do you care again?" his head turned slightly to the left so he could see the other boy.

"I don't really. It's just that, you being so pale...isn't right." Sasuke said in a slightly un-Sasuke-ish way.

"Mmm..." Naruto's brain shut down and he let himself be directed, wherever he may be taken...Even to a death trap filled with snakes and barracuda and being hung and...his head hurt...

Suddenly, an aroma filled him and his brain kick started back into gear. He blinked and looked around.

Who's kitchen was he in?

Where was he?

What was that delicious smell?

He looked down and saw soup. Mmm...soup...Naruto scarfed it down and felt instantly better. What was with the soup? Can someone say, Miracle?

"Heh, thought that would work."

Naruto's head snapped around and he found Sasuke leaning against the kitchen counter, smirking at him. He pointed an accusing finger at him.

"What are you doing here Sasuke-teme?" he yelled.

"And I was pretty sure that...would happen too." he came around the counter and into the dining room. "For your knowledge...This is my kitchen, and you just ate my soup. And I hope you're grateful for it too, cause it won't happen again."

Forgetting the 'lots of talking from the town loner' update that was blaring through his mind, he focused on something else.

"Your soup? Ack! I've been poisoned!" Naruto grabbed his throat and spun in the chair, then gagged and fell on the floor. "Ow...my head..."

"Dobe." Sasuke picked Naruto up off the ground and pointed him towards the stairs. "I don't suppose you'd be as willing to go upstairs to the spare room as you were in coming here?"

Naruto scowled darkly and followed Sasuke upstairs. They entered a room that had barely any furniture and wasn't really decorated.

"I don't have visitors often." Sasuke explained when he saw Naruto about to make a comment. "If you want your clothes cleaned when I do my laundry, I'll let you borrow, borrow, a pair of my clothes for the night."

"Never!" Naruto yelled, holding himself...well, actually, it was meant as he was holding his clothes, but he was wearing them so..."My clothes! You'll never take them from me!"

"Oi...you got loud when your head stopped hurting..." Sasuke rubbed his temples and went to the door. "Don't leave this room. I don't want you snooping around my house." and he left. Naruto frowned.

'Ah, the shit head. But, he's only like that to me!' Naruto thought. Falling back on the bed and going 'girly' in the head. 'It doesn't mean anything of course, he's just a dick head. But he's kinda...my dick head huh?' Naruto mentally slapped himself.

'Someone wanna tell me when I started thinking like that?' he sighed. 'Who am I kidding, I'm like every girl in town! 'Oh Sasuke! You're so brave! Come rescue me any day!' Ugh...' he involuntarily shuddered.

'And what's with bringing me to his house? Maybe he likes me! Ah! I never thought of that! Sasuke Uchiha, town pretty-boy, gay? In love with demon boy, Naruto Uzumaki? NEVER!' He smiled, as if triumphant.

'I guess I wouldn't mind it...But, you know...he isn't and doesn't.' he reasoned. The 'girly' side of him wanted to smack the logical side of him. 'He's just like that. Loner all the way. Straight too. Oh well. I guess I'll have to live a sad...lonely existence. With visions of Sasuke dancing in his underpants floating in my head!' he laughed at the over-dramatized thoughts and joke.

Soon after, Naruto fell asleep, the moon peaking in through the window to watch his still pale face.

-

'Naruto. He's such an idiot!' Sasuke thought as he did his laundry. 'Can't even trust his teammate with his laundry. I swear he wears the same outfit everyday. Has he ever washed it? Maybe I can sneak it off him and wash it. Then it'll shrink and he'll walk around town in a one-size too small orange jumpsuit, trying to mug every person that laughs at him.'

He imagined it in his head and smiled.

'That'd be a sight to see. But no. I'll let him be on this one.'

Sasuke turned the machine on and sat on top of it as it ran.

'I wonder if my mom's soup is still working? It's supposed to make you feel better and then fall asleep. That way, you can get better quicker...Maybe I'll make it again for breakfast.' he smiled lightly at the thought. 'And I'll put any extra in his lunch, without the ingredients that make you sleep. If he stays tomorrow to, I'll make some of my mom's super Sp' Sasuke stopped that thought.

'Why am I making slumber party plans? This is NARUTO we're talking about! He doesn't want to stay even one night here, let alone two. He won't eat the breakfast, or my bento. And he definitely won't stay again just so I can make mom's spaghetti.'

Sasuke hopped off the washer, his expression now a sad one. This had almost been like having a friend sleep over...except...they hated his guts and would never sleep in the same room as him. No matter how much he wanted them t-

Sasuke froze in moving the wet clothes to the drier.

'Was I a mental patient before my parents died, and I just don't remember?' he asked himself. 'Wanting Naruto to spend the night in my room? With me? That's just wrong. And yet...'

Sasuke continued his laundry as the thoughts and possible fun things they could do passed through his head.

'Slumber parties aren't something I Uchiha Sasuke, would do. Let alone plan them. And Naruto would never agree.' he turned the drier on and leaned against the door. 'Well, at least he can't read minds.' he shrugged.

-

End Chapter 2! Previews will be! Yay!

Preview : "Please...Why?"

I'm hungry...I'm so...hungry...

My fangs pierce his soft flesh and I am in paradise for a moment. The blood running through my mouth, it's taste is wonderful...

"No...I..."

Preview #2 : "Naruto! Naruto!" he called, going over to wake him up, but stopped just before he touched him.

Blood. Naruto was covered...in blood...

"No..." his mind was filled with images of dead bodies, covered in and surrounded by blood.

Preview #3 : Sasuke inwardly blinked. The hell? What was he doing? Well...Naruto seemed calmer now...

'I wonder if he's smiling...' Sasuke wondered as he opened his eyes.