Chapter 4
Naruto slept the rest of the night thanks to the soup. It was a calm, thankfully dreamless sleep that Naruto got so few of. Sasuke was asleep against the side of the bed. His back against it, his head tilted down in a sure show of sleep. The pale boy's legs were crossed, his hands in his lap and his body was tilted ever so much to the right.
The sun crept in through the window, sprinkling the grey/speckled carpet with light. Sasuke head titled slightly and he slowly began...sliding...
Thud!
Dark eyes opened slowly, only half realizing why he woke up. His mind really was retarded in the morning...Once it gathered that he'd fallen over, Sasuke inwardly shrugged it off in an 'I don't care' kinda way.
Yawning, the dark haired teen pushed himself up off the floor and rubbed his head where it connected with the floor. He blinked a couple times, then turned his head to look at Naruto in the bed. A small smile graced his features before he sluggishly pushed himself to his feet, walked to the door, and headed to make breakfast.
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Blue eyes crept to the half-lidded point. The one in possession of said eyes sat up and looked around dully. His mind clicked and he remembered where he was.
Ah crap.
Naruto turned to the window and saw the sunlight. It lit the red and white window sill so nicel-
Hold On...red and white?
The blonde boy crawled to the foot of the bed, noting that Sasuke had changed the sheets when he did the laundry too. Now wide awake, he could clearly examine the sill.
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.
A warm morning breeze swept past him, brushing his hair around his tan face. He gasped at what he saw.
He was on the second floor of Sasuke's house, next to a tree. The trunk of the tree had swirls of dried blood twisting around it to the window, and the area around the window was covered too...like something had latched there while opening the window.
Something...or someone...Naruto gulped and felt he was about to cry.
"Yo! Dobe! You up? Breakfast is ready!" Came Sasuke's somewhat harsh call from the kitchen downstairs.
Naruto pulled his head in, closed the window, and shook his head. He began walking glumly downstairs...
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The day went by moderately slow...Kakashi showed up around noon wondering why neither of them had shown up. He had been planning on going to Naruto's next, but he had found said blonde sitting on Sasuke's couch and shrugged.
Hinata also came by, but she came looking white as a ghost and bearing bad news. Kiba and Akamaru were in the hospital as of now. That made Sakura, Ino, Kiba, and Akamaru. 3 attacks, 4 victims...Naruto gulped and his eyes shook.
After a short visit to the hospital, to visit all their friends (and not-friends), the two boys returned to Sasuke's for the night. Sasuke retreated to his room as Naruto went to his own.
Now we find said blonde strictly tying his hands to one of the bed posts, using his mouth and what little of his hands he could. In his mind were flashes of his dreams, and his conclusions.
"Who's there?" Ino...
"Who-Ah!" Sakura...
"What are you doing? I thought-" Kiba, and Akamaru protected him...
Naruto had come to believe the rest of Kiba's sentence was...'I thought we were friends!'
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!
So he was tying himself to the bed posts. Making it so he couldn't attack any more of his friends...He couldn't bare it...A few tears leaked from his eyes, down his cheeks, and landed on the bedspread.
When the knot and tying was good enough for his liking, Naruto laid down in an uncomfortable position, and fell asleep.
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Ah...I can smell them...They smell so nice...I can't wait to taste their flesh...
My feet push off the ground, barely missing the bed of flowers in this part of the forest. I hit a tree, and travel that way instead.
Flowers. Pfft. They smell to pretty for my liking...
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A girl with black hair and white, pupil-less eyes hummed lightly as she bent down once more. Standing up, she examined the small bouquet of flowers in her left hand. Daisies, wild flowers, and a few lilies.
They were so pretty. She added the small yellow flowers she'd just picked up, which resembled small sunflowers, and decided that these were enough.
"I hope...Kiba likes them..." she muttered. With that, Hyuuga Hinata turned to leave.
A twig snapped and she flipped around.
"Who's there?" she asked nervously. What if it was the monster attacking people?
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There you are...So sweet, so delicate, so...tasty I bet!
I leap from the tree and lunge at my prey.
Ack! What is that? That smell? Flowers? Get them off me!
I begin to scratch at the flowers that now adorn my head. I pull off the lilies and daisies that now permeate my precious air. When they are all off, I glare at my prey, red eyes gleaming. Oh, I will surely kill you now...
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Hinata threw her bouquet at the thing that leapt at her. It flinched away and began to peel and scratch the flowers off, as if they hurt it somehow...She took this time to see what had tried to attack her.
"N-naruto-kun?" she stuttered, seeing the orange clad boy thrashing about in front of her.
Her pause allowed him the time he needed to rid himself of the flowers and he gave her a cold glare. She shivered under his crimson colored gaze. Wait...crimson?
"N-naruto-kun...what's wr-wrong with you?" she asked, backing away.
He swiped at her a few times, but she managed to dodge them all.
"Naruto-kun! Why are you...attacking me?"
The setting sun played across Naruto's face and for a moment, Hinata saw the peaceful look of sleep upon his face...Was that it?
"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.
Hinata gasped as her foot caught a root and she tripped over backwards. When she opened her eyes, Hinata saw Naruto's right hand rushing at her. It was tied lightly by a thick rope...Her eyes widened both from realization and the shock of sudden impact from the blow she just received in both shoulders...
Hinata raised both hands, even though it pained her. Naruto's head comes down, biting her on the neck and beginning to 'eat' her like he did the others. She winced at the pain but managed to put her small hands on each of Naruto's shoulders.
"Naruto-kun...I know you...you don't want to hurt me...You know it's been you...don't you? And you've tried to stop...haven't you?" her voice was unusually steady. "I...I don't blame you...N-Naruto-k...kun..." her eyes were beginning to cloud over from the blood loss...
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'Naruto-kun, I know you don't want to hurt me...'
Hinata?
'You know it's been you, don't you?'
Yes...I attacked my friends...
'And you've tried to stop...haven't you?'
Yea...wait, tried? Hinata! What am I doing right now?
'I don't blame you Naruto-kun.'
Hinata!
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His eyes flashed from crimson red to the lightest of blues...
Blood...He could taste blood...Smell it, he was breathing it...
The blonde backed away from the smaller girl, staring at her with horror evident on his face. She smiled sadly at him, hands still on his shoulders.
"Y-you woke up...Naruto...kun..." her smile turned happy before her form went limp in his arms...
"Hinata?...Hinata!" he yelled, shaking her.
When she didn't move, he picked her up bridal style and began running towards the hospital.
'Hinata...thank you for waking me up...before I killed you...' He began to cry as he ran. 'Please don't die!'
Kakashi was there when Naruto arrived at Konoha hospital. He gasped softly at the sight of a bloody Hinata being carried by a bloody Naruto. But the blood was all Hinata's...
He called for a doctor and they took her away immediately.
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Done!
Preview : Whether it was from concern or not, Naruto didn't care. His eyes flashed to purple as his face showed rage. But as soon as it had come, Naruto gasped softly. He closed his eyes and covered his mouth, backing away into the door away from Sasuke.
"Sasuke...you shouldn't even...be near me..." he whispered.
"And why not dobe?" Sasuke asked angrily.
Preview #2 : The demon's teeth dug into his neck, thankfully missing any vital points as Kyuubi began to taste the blood once more...
'Kyuubi...it's a Vampire!'
Preview #3 : Startled blue eyes met his own, black ones. Naruto noticed the glassy look and his face portrayed fear. Naruto backed away, staring at his hands and hyperventilating...No...it wasn't true...It wasn't true!