Bloody Nightmares - Chapter 3
I'm hungrier tonight. I need more than one taste!
"Come on, gimme your best!"
Two...Two targets...
"Oh yea! This is great training! I'm glad we came out here, Ak-what's wrong buddy?"
More...I must have more...
My feet hit a tree, but don't leave a mark. I soar through the air at my newest target.
"Ah!"
My arm hurts...a weapon? Now you're in trouble. I just wanted a taste.
I land in front of my prey, then launch upwards, my claws catching his wrists and my body knocking him to the ground.
"What are you doing? I thought-"
I glare at him. Then my teeth find his neck. Oh, the skin is so soft...
Pain? I look to my left. The smaller one has me in his jaws...I smirk and peel myself from the first target, who is whimpering. Now, I have a second taste...
My claws find his small body and he is flung away. I can't see them, but I can sense them...That's all I need. Now both of my prey are whining.
I sink my teeth into the small one. He isn't as satisfying as the larger one. I let him go, licking the blood off my lips and moving back to the one I pounced earlier.
"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..."
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Sasuke groaned. Naruto was loud, even asleep. He tossed his covers aside and went to the door. He opened the door and walked down the hallway to his guest's room. Just before he opened the door, Sasuke's nose picked something up.
Blood.
The dark haired boy flung the door open to find Naruto laying on the bed, seemingly fine. He was thrashing about in his bed and was even paler than he had been when they parted for bed.
"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.
He held his head and sank to the floor.
"No!" he yelled. Naruto became quiet for a moment before he gasped and sat up straight in the bed. "Naruto?" Sasuke asked quietly, timidly, almost...scared.
"I...ah..." Naruto's eyes were glazed over and he seemed out of it. "The...and...for-...bl-" he went to fall back but Sasuke caught him, flinching as the blood got on him too.
"C-come on Naruto. We gotta clean you up..." he half dragged the semi conscious Naruto to the bathroom and set him in the bathtub. "Can you...take a shower yourself?"
No response.
"I suppose not..." Sasuke said nervously. "Ok..."
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About 7 minutes later, Sasuke had somehow managed to get Naruto out of his clothes and yet still keep him in the bathtub. Now he was making sure the water coming out of the shower head wasn't too hot.
"Ok..." Sasuke turned to Naruto, who looked horrible, and brought the shower head over, along with about 10 wash clothes and crap you use while in the shower.
He cleaned Naruto's hair first. He put his shampoo, which incidently came in a black bottle, in the blonde hair and washed it thoroughly, then washed it out fully. He then washed Naruto's arms, and noticed the bite marks on his left wrist.
"Huh? What bit you?" he looked to Naruto for an answer but Naruto seemed to be a bit busy...but with what, Sasuke didn't know...
He moved on, to Naruto's back. About 10 seconds after he started washing Naruto's back, Naruto lunged forward and leaned over the drain, holding onto the bar above him on the wall. Sasuke had jumped at the sudden movement, and leaned towards Naruto's head to see what was wrong.
"Naruto?" he asked. He saw a disgusting substance of...something on the rim of the drain.
Naruto puked again and his body started shaking. Sasuke now knew what the substance was. And he wished he hadn't seen it. Eww...He continued cleaning Naruto's back, said blonde puking every few seconds.
When the 'shower' was over with, Sasuke had counted a total of 15 barfs. He nearly puked himself when Naruto let out a particularly horrible sounding sound on the 11th...
Now, Naruto was somehow dressing himself in Sasuke's clothes while said dark boy washed his jumpsuit. He looked up and at his reflection in the mirror.
"Sasuke's right...I'm pale..." he looked at the bathtub and winced. "Barf...and blood...Where'd the blood come from?"
He looked at his wrist, but he knew that all the blood hadn't come from there. The thought of what this could mean sent shivers down his spine and he pushed the thoughts away.
"I'll...clean his tub..." Naruto said, moving over to the bathtub side.
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Sasuke walked into the bathroom again when he didn't find Naruto in his room. Said blonde boy was found bent over the tub, trying to clean it. He was clearly frustrated and clearly sick.
Sasuke made his way quietly over to Naruto and stood behind him. Then he placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder and Naruto flinched at the contact. Sasuke's eyes narrowed slightly of their own accord as he looked at a mark he hadn't seen before on Naruto's arm.
'That looks like a kunai wound...' Sasuke thought. He looked to Naruto's hand, the one not scrubbing the bath tub. 'And that looks like teeth marks. Naruto...how'd this happen to you?'
"What happened to you?" Sasuke asked. "Where'd you go?"
"I...I didn't go anywhere...All I remember is falling asleep...I had a weird dream...I don't really remember what of...and I woke up again...wanting to barf and covered in blood..." Naruto whispered, kinda ashamed that he was showing weakness to his rival.
"Well, at any rate...We have to bandage you up and you'll be staying here again tonight. You won't be training, because you're wounded and I said no." Sasuke stood up "And...you don't have to do that..." Sasuke pointed to the bloody tub, the scrubber Naruto was using, and Naruto's now re-bloodied hand.
"Huh? Oh!" Naruto dropped the scrubber and stood up, trying futilely to get the blood off by shaking his hand. He went over to the sink next to Sasuke and began washing his hand as thoroughly as possible. Something touched his arm and he flinched away.
"Come on, Naruto. You gotta let me bandage your arm and wrist." Sasuke insisted.
Naruto sighed, his shoulders slumping, and trying to ignore the sickly feeling in his gut. Sasuke took this as the go ahead and began to clean the cut, Naruto didn't even wince, and then bandage it.
"Now...your wrist?" Sasuke nearly stated. Naruto gave Sasuke his hand to bandage. Sasuke was in the middle of wrapping it up in...that clothy stuff you wrap things in...when Naruto spoke.
"What d'you think this means?" Naruto asked. Sasuke blinked, then continued his work.
"I think...well...I don't know."
'LIAR!' His mind was screaming at him. 'You think he might be subconsciously connected to the attacker! Whaaaaaaaaah! LIAR!'
Naruto's shoulders lowered again and he exhaled silently. As soon as Sasuke was done bandaging his hand, he pulled it back to himself and held it lightly with his other hand. His eyes were clouded and his expression sad. Sasuke hated that look. It didn't suit Naruto at all!
Naruto gasped as warm arms snaked their way around him from behind. Sasuke laid his head on Naruto's shoulder, eyes closed. 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.
His eyes met the mirror and in it, he could see himself hugging Naruto from behind. It looked like a family portrait or something...and it looked right. Like everything belonged the way it was in the Uchiha household that night...He found himself whispering teasingly in Naruto's ear.
"If you want..." he unconsciously snuggled closer to the blond. "I can make you some more soup..." Naruto was about to protest. "It'll help you sleep tonight..." There was a pause, and then Naruto nodded as he gulped. Sasuke smiled. "Alright then...I'll go make some..."
As he got to the door, Sasuke paused and turned around, still talking softly.
"I just don't like to see you sick...It...It's not...right." he glanced at the mirror, the image in it earlier still fresh in his mind, and then left. Soon after he left the doorway, Sasuke felt a delayed and very strong blush leap onto his face.
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Naruto nearly fell onto the sink after Sasuke left. He took a shuddering breath, trying to control his pounding heart. He felt feverish, but knew it wasn't his being sick. Sasuke...Sasuke had...
Hugged him...teased him...and Naruto found himself wanting Sasuke to tease him some more...A laugh echoed deep within his mind as he tried futilely to brush the thoughts away.
Sasuke's arms had felt so good around his waist...his breath tickling Naruto's ear and cheek...His raven hair brushing against Naruto's neck and mingling with his own blonde hair too. Naruto blushed.
His mind started playing things without him doing anything. He saw...him and Sasuke. Sasuke in a chair, Naruto leaning into his chest, sitting between Sasuke's legs and apparently sleeping. The dark haired boy leaned his head on Naruto and breathed in the scent of his hair.
He saw Sasuke's grip on Naruto tighten slightly into a caring, loving hug. And Naruto couldn't help but desire that...Sasuke whispered something in Naruto's ear, but he wasn't hearing anything. Then...Sasuke's hands descended lower...
Naruto gasped slightly and came out of that stupor. And he was almost certain that the fox had been his tormentor...
"Damn fox..." he muttered. But in his mind he knew that he wouldn't have minded staying in that stupor...augh, fear gripped him.
Was he gay? No...he liked Sakura! No...yea, he liked Sakura, but not like that. And he was pretty sure Sakura was...Naruto gulped.
Oh...bad...verry verry bad. He really was gay! Dang, think about Sakura, have it switch to Sasuke, and then those...thoughts come back. The smell of the soup Sasuke was making wafted over him and dragged him out of those thoughts. Thoughts that could only end badly. And he, basically, forgot about them.
Naruto made he way to the kitchen. Sasuke was at the stove finishing up with the soup and muttering to himself. Naruto couldn't hear a word he said.
"Sasuke?" Naruto muttered. Sasuke's head snapped up and he turned to Naruto.
"It'll be ready in a minute." he said lightly, the faintest of whispers of a smile on his face. Naruto blushed at the smile and then sat down at the kitchen table.
Preview : Blood. It was somehow still slightly wet. He saw marks like a hand had pulled the window open and his eyes hardened. Naruto grasped an area of the window not covered by the blood streaks and slowly opened it. He stuck his head out and looked around.
Preview #2 : He knew he himself was the attacker. He had the Kyuubi in him, and it obviously wanted blood...He was...a killer...Naruto was a killer!
Preview #3 : "Naruto-kun! Naruto-kun wake up! Please!" she begged, taking a step back to dodge again. His swipes became angrier each time he missed her so it was getting harder to dodge in time.