Chapter Two

Roommates

After a long day of classes and meeting the teachers, school was finally over.

The only thing irritating Itachi now was the fact that Madara had failed to mention that they were going to be taking residence within the high school. Akatsuki Taka High wasn't just an ordinary high school.

It was a private high school with housing, and many other features that you might find at a University. That is why at the moment, Itachi found himself following Madara, whom was following the crowd to the Office windows, where they could claim their keys. This was the best way for the high school to keep attendance on who had made it to the first day, and would get the best housing.

"They are doing this alphabetically," Madara grumbled, when they reached the windows, and there was a tall strict looking lady keeping charge of the lines. "We're practically at the end,"

"Don't complain when you were the one who chose this." Itachi silently said, and Madara glared at him.

"We had no other choice, if we were going to be attending here, we needed to sign in for housing," Madara hissed, keeping a firm eye on his young charge. Itachi had been acting odd ever since their class that morning. The boy was tense and didn't seem to trust anyone around him. Madara was getting concerned about him.

He just hoped that once they got to their dorm, Itachi would be able to relax.

All things considered, the sun was high in the sky and the lines were long. Itachi had last fed that morning when they had said goodbye to the deserted apartment complex building that he and Izuna had claimed as their nest a long time ago. He knew Itachi had slept well, eaten well, and that as long as that was true, not having consumed blood practically for the last eight hours, shouldn't be bothering him at all.

Yet, if not that, what was bothering him…

Pondering this wasn't going to help.

Itachi was just his son.

There wasn't anything Madara could know about Itachi unless Itachi let him know. He might have an advantage with Izuna being his mate that made it easy to pick up on him and what he was feeling. That was not the case with Itachi, it was hard to pick up on his feelings, and that made him near impossible to understand.

Itachi might be his son bounded by blood, but that did not mean he had any sort of intimate connection with Itachi's feelings or thoughts. That was only something saved for whomever Itachi would choose as his mate, if he ever decided to settle down that is.

However, that was beside the point now.

If he asked Itachi what was wrong, he doubted that he would get an answer. That is why he had not yet asked, nor did he plan to ask. If Itachi ever wanted to talk about what was bothering him, then he himself would say something. Madara sighed, crossing his arms as he stared at the slowly moving line.

"Something tells me we are going to end up sharing a dorm."

Itachi arched an eyebrow. "Do you think that it's wise?"

"Yeah, no problem, it's not like we'll attack them for their blood."

Itachi scoffed. "If we decide to go out at night to get a snack, wouldn't they want to report us?"

"And that is why we make humans our friends, Itachi," Madara grinned at the glaring boy, "I know you don't exactly like to socialize, but when you do, humans seem to like you a lot more than they do me."

Itachi looked away from Madara and forward, waiting patiently for the line to begin moving. Something told him that what he thought was bad enough was just about to get worse. He hated thinking negatively about something he had no control over, but he couldn't take the feeling away.

He wished that Madara would simply go find Izuna so hopefully they could end this game and just leave this school, but the nagging feeling told him that it wasn't going to be that simple. Itachi was lost in his thoughts that he felt jolted when he was snapped out of them, by the feel of another vampire close by.

It had been only for a second, but he was sure that he had just sensed a vampire, besides himself, Madara, and Izuna.

There was no doubt in his mind that it was a young submissive, and an unmated one at that. It had taken a few years of being a vampire for Itachi to learn the difference between males and females when it came to vampires, and he found that despite how strong, each gender had a dominant, and a submissive.

It was rare to come by a submissive male, especially one that was strong enough to hide himself.

Looking around, he couldn't tell where he had sensed the submissive from, but he knew he wasn't mistaken.

Izuna was a submissive, he wouldn't be able to sense him seeing as Izuna was mated on top of being strong because he was older. He only knew Izuna was there because he associated him as his mother, and thus could sense that. No, that submissive was definitely someone else.

Vampires didn't commonly conjugate in similar areas as others. Itachi knew that, because vampires only did that with family members of their clan. Relaxing his body, he decided to let it go.

It didn't matter.

Madara quickly noticed the change in Itachi's body. It had suddenly relaxed and the bad mood Itachi had been in before seemed to have lifted.

He looked around, wondering what had changed Itachi's mood again.

Izuna smirked as he looked at his brother.

His body was getting aroused at the sight of that wild man, and the fact that it knew the feel of those strong hands. It had been too long, but Izuna was still keeping his distance. After all, they were still playing their game. He couldn't just run to Madara and not experience the rush he got when his brother actually found him.

He just wished his mate wouldn't take so long.

"I got the keys,"

Izuna jumped. "Sasuke, what did I tell you about sneaking up on me!"

Sasuke looked at him oddly. "Weren't you waiting? I would have thought you'd know I was coming…" Sasuke tilted his head and then looked down towards where Izuna had been concentrated. Izuna sighed, and looked as well.

"I was concentrated again…" daydreaming about your daddy, went on without being said.

Sasuke slowly nodded, "Who…" he asked, his gaze focusing.

Izuna smiled softly, knowing that Sasuke had never actually met Madara nor Itachi. He had never seen them either. He noticed Sasuke Looking around the crowd of students. The way his son narrowed his eyes slightly so he could allow his vision to zoom in on the faces of everyone, but before he could do that, Izuna had pulled him away from the edge of the building and started to push him to go back inside, so they could take the stairs.

Sasuke glared at him.

"Patience Sasuke, I can't let you know who they are, or you'd just tag them." Izuna said a small smile on his face as he led Sasuke down the stairs. "Also, try not to use your power to much; I don't want either your father or brother finding out that there's an extra vampire attending this school."

"Is that what I am, the extra vampire?"

"Don't get all defensive and shit Sasuke, it's not just about there being another vampire, it'll also be good practice for the humans we are going to be sharing our dorm with"

Sasuke scoffed, "humans." He muttered in distaste.

"What? What's got you so irritated with humans?" Izuna asked.

"They are filth." When Sasuke said that, Izuna paused in his walk and Sasuke turned to look at him curiously. Izuna was gaping, looking a bit startled and Sasuke had to wonder if perhaps he had gone too far in calling his source for food, filth.

It wasn't as if it wasn't true.

He couldn't deny that their blood was starting to taste bitter to him. Perhaps it was the junk food that the younger generation ate all the time that was giving them sour blood.

"Fuck no," Izuna said, his eyes still looking at Sasuke with slight shock. "Oh God, no…" he said, looking at the young spiky haired raven with slight concern that was starting to bug Sasuke.

Sasuke frowned, "Relax, it's not like I said I wanted to start a freaking massacre."

Izuna took a deep breath and shook his head. He was going to have to talk to Sasuke seriously soon, and he was scared about the topic of the conversation. "Sasuke, have you noticed something odd, about males that come around you,"

"No." he answered. There was nothing out of the ordinary. He never understood why other males would suddenly look like they had over heated, and fried their brains with a few words from him, but that was normal. Lately though, it seemed to be happening a lot. Although Sasuke could not deny that, he himself was starting to seek out their attention. So far he had deemed that none of them were worth his time. Scowling, he looked at Izuna oddly, "Why?"

"Just wondering…" Izuna said, looking away from Sasuke.

Sasuke was still young, considering, but even so, the time would come when he will start searching for a mate of his own. As a Submissive Vampire, Izuna knew that Sasuke would be searching for the best blood from his meals, if not, the blood of humans that when turned would become powerful dominants.

If not that, then Sasuke would seek out an already vampire dominant, and he'd expect a powerful one that he could challenge, to see if they were worth his time. Izuna knew this because he had once gone through it, right when he had decided to save his brother.

The brother he loved more than anything.

It was the purest sin, and he had craved it bone deep. It had nearly drove him insane with how he had to find the perfect one, and how his aniki was the only one.

Truly, Sasuke was growing up.

Sasuke was looking at Izuna with disbelief, and after a moment of silence he said, "You were just wondering?"

Izuna frowned at him, "What? Are you thinking yourself that great Sasuke? I'm just worried about you. you are my son after all, I never ask you questions without a valid reason to them!"

Sasuke huffed, and Izuna had to fight not to suddenly smile at him.

It might be that Sasuke was growing up, but by Sasuke's childish antics, he could tell that Sasuke wasn't there yet. He was close, and perhaps they had time to play this game before Sasuke actually felt the intense urge to leave and search for something more to life, but for now it would be better to concentrate on the game.

"Can we just go to our dorm?" Sasuke asked, when he saw that Izuna was just being his motherly self.

"Of course…" Izuna said, and then got a blank look on his face, "now if I can only remember where the dorms are located…"

Sasuke closed his eyes, trying to keep the irritation from taking over as Izuna started to walk once again, leading the way and hoping to bump into any human and ask them for directions.

Sometimes Sasuke wondered how Izuna even found himself in a mirror.

By the time Itachi and Madara were done getting their keys, it was late evening, and dinner time.

The school gates were locked, since for today, no one was going to be allowed to go out. Usually, the school had a policy for everyone to be back in school at eight, and anyone coming any later would be violating the rules, as well as getting their time cut short by an hour, thus creating a curfew.

It would benefit them all if everyone just followed the rules, but there was always someone that would want to break the rules for their own fun. One night of fun didn't seem worth it to have a curfew for the next four years.

Not that Itachi was planning to stay that long if Madara and Izuna decided to stay longer than the first year.

Damn, even the first semester seemed like it was going to be torture. Then there was the fact that he didn't know much of this school. He needed to get a campus map and learn everything instead of following Madara around like a lost duckling.

Itachi hated being clueless and dependent on anyone!

"We should head towards the dorms and drop our things off, then go and find a snack." Madara shrugged. Itachi narrowed his eyes at him.

"What stuff? All we brought were our backpacks, and they have no other clothing, we left everything back at that abandoned dump,"

Madara rolled his eyes. Of course Itachi had not respect for their home. "I had for our stuff to be delivered. God Itachi, why are you so damned prissy today,"

Itachi arched an eyebrow. "What are you talking about?"

"Never mind, Itachi, just you know lighten up a bit."

Itachi paused in his walking when Madara said that and pondered over everything he had done today. He didn't think he had said or even acted any way out of the ordinary today. Yet, the more he thought, the more it brought back the thoughts of what he had seen today and what had made him so tense and angry with Izuna.

How could he have forgotten that he had just seen a blast from his past Kyuubi, in four of his classes no less!

"Madara…" Itachi called, seeing as Madara was still walking and moving away further.

The man paused and turned to face him, "What is it?"

"Is there such a thing…as reincarnation?" Itachi asked, his face looking dead serious that the laugh that wanted to leave Madara died before it even began. He would have wanted to lie to Itachi, that no, people didn't get reincarnated, and that no, no matter how many lives they lived through, they never really got it right.

No one did.

Even when they did marry their soul mate, or married the same person from their past lives, or someone new, no one could get every corner of their lives to be perfect. That was something that Vampires had forever to figure out in one life, with all their memories still intact.

Those memories could never be forgotten, their bodies never forgot.

"Yes, people can get reincarnated. After a few years of death they can come back in another form, with another name, perhaps the same presence, but never truly the same as who they were before. They don't even remember their past lives and some even live their lives trying to regain the memories they left behind in those past lives," Madara looked at Itachi with concern, "Why do you ask?"

Itachi drew back, hiding something. "No particular reason…"

Madara didn't want to jump to conclusions but he decided that it would be best that Itachi would know, "If you are curious if your parents, Mikoto and Fugaku have also been reincarnated…"

"They are not my parents." Itachi hissed, cutting Madara right off. "You and Izuna are. You two have been more parents that those two fools ever were." Itachi was uncomfortable admitting that, but to Madara it meant the world.

"You know that if there is ever something wrong or you need any help, or to understand anything Izuna and I will listen. We are always here to listen to you." Madara smiled softly when Itachi nodded. Although Itachi knew it all, he knew Madara and Izuna loved him, and that they wouldn't do anything to hurt him.

Itachi was confused about the fact that the perhaps the reincarnation of someone he thought he had left behind a long time ago was coming back to haunt him.

If it was so, he didn't need any help this time around.

If anything happened, he could deal with it. Besides, the past was the past and like Madara had said, they wouldn't remember anything. Perhaps…something new could be started here. Itachi's mind suddenly turned to the other vampire he had sensed earlier, and wondered if he could find out who that was. They had an intriguing presence that still pulled at him, not that he could understand.

After a moment of silence, Itachi finally said, "I'm hungry,"

Madara chuckled. "Come on then kid, let's go get our stuff and then hunt down something. I think they also have a cafeteria here…"

Itachi growled, "I also need a map."

Madara sighed.

Itachi was back to himself, it seemed. But he still wondered if maybe Itachi had seen someone from the past, and had been boggled. At least, he hoped Itachi would be alright. He knew Itachi was smart, but even smart can be stupid.

His young charge still had a lot to learn.

They hadn't found the housing area, but they sure had found the cafeteria.

Not only that, but they found themselves seated in the center table, with nothing but girls all around them.

Girls loved them.

Sasuke and Izuna detested them.

Despite that, it was an incredible way to get free things, and Izuna was never opposed to getting free things. That is why they were sitting there, getting free apple pie, strawberries on melted chocolate, and taco's. Taco's being the cafeteria special for today.

"Oh, you two are just so adorable," several girls gushed.

Izuna smiled at them, and caused a round of squeals and fainting as he said a simple "thank you," to the praise to his greatness.

"We are drawing a spectacle," Sasuke muttered darkly, rubbing his ears. Girls sure loved to scream. This is why he hated them even more.

"We probably are, but look at all the free food," Izuna said, his eyes sparkling as he looked at the feast laid out before them. Sasuke sighed, not happy at all.

"And if dad finds you?" he decided to ask, making Izuna jolt up from his seat.

"Fine, you're right. Grab everything you can and let's go to the dorms." Izuna turned and frowned to see that girls were blocking his way. "Um…lead the way towards the dorms?" he asked, and the girls vigorously nodded their heads up and down.

Sasuke who had only grabbed a pie, followed close behind Izuna as they moved with the cluster of girls still around them.

Outside, the doors to the cafeteria where slammed open just as a group of students were about to enter, among them was Madara and Itachi. All of them were startled to see the group of girls walking right out. Madara and Itachi were able to move out of the way before they were completely trampled.

"Was that Izuna?" Itachi asked when he saw that Madara was gaping. It wasn't that he could even see Izuna with so many girls, but he sure that Madara would be able to sense him, after all they were mates.

"ah…yeah, that was him with all those girls." Madara turned to the retreating backs of the girls. Itachi arched an eyebrow.

"Aren't you going to go after him then…?"

"Are you crazy? I risk getting mobbed by those girls, forget it. I'll catch him later, for now let's get something to eat."

Itachi shrugged, and followed Madara inside. They had already settled into their dorms as well as gotten some blood. Now all that was left to do was eat.

Back with the bunch of girls, Izuna and Sasuke made it to their dorms. Apparently they were divided, into all girls' dorms, and all boys.

"Do you two really have to go, we can't go beyond here," one of the girls tried to cutely pout but Izuna only patted her in the head. This made other girls jealous as they shoved her out of the way, seeking the same attention.

"Now, now ladies, you shall all see me tomorrow, go to you dorm and rest." He didn't even have to compel them for all the girls to get a move on and rush to their own dormitories. Sasuke and Izuna sighed in relief, glad to be rid of them and headed inside, to try and search for their small apartment room that they were going to stay in.

It took about ten minutes, but they finally found room seventy nine, and once they went in, they found two males already there.

Sasuke froze, and Izuna smiled, "Roommates?" he asked.

The other two boys nodded. The blond one actually returned the smile, "Yup, I'm Sabaku no Naruto, and this is my big brother, Gaara, we were actually pretty lucky to be placed in the same living area!"

"Great to meet you," Izuna said, "I'm Uchiha Izuna, and this is my…" the word son nearly left his mouth. "...my uh brother, Sasuke, yah, my twin brother Sasuke," he nearly cursed himself at the thought that he and Sasuke were going to be the same age, and to pretend to be brothers would have killed it.

"Awesome, I've never met twins before, what's that like?" Naruto innocently asked but Gaara glared at him.

"Naruto, don't ask such things!"

"It's okay, we're pretty close. My brother and me," Izuna placed an arm around Sasuke's shoulders and the small raven snapped out of his thoughts.

"Idiot, you are going to make me drop the pie!" he hissed, although his blood was still running cold. "I'm going to set it over there," he muttered, and he moved towards the small kitchen.

"Well, this is all new to us, Sasuke and I have never shared a dorm before. Especially not with two other roommates," Izuna said, making Naruto and Gaara turn their attention back to him. "Sasuke's probably also a bit nervous,"

"No trouble at all, Naruto is new at this. I'm a year older than he is." Gaara said, "I've been here before, but I was held back a year."

"How is that possible…" Izuna asked, quite surprised.

"Suspension," Naruto said angrily, "He got himself suspended because he got into a fight, and then has to retake the year all over again."

Sasuke on the other side was a little uncomfortable, but he was trying his best not to be. He still wasn't sure why this was happening, and he needed to talk with Izuna about it. Looking at Naruto and Gaara, he walked up to Izuna, his back to them.

"Um, Izuna, I'm going outside for a bit…" he flashed his fangs and Izuna looked a little startled.

"Oh, I forgot we still had to do that!" he said, as if he forgot something and rushed to put his snacks at the table. "Please excuse us."

"Go right ahead," Gaara said, startled by their sudden departure. As soon as the door closed behind them, Naruto turned to grin at his brother.

"I think we got some awesome roommates."

Gaara chuckled.

Izuna and Sasuke had found the nurse's office, and also a couple of blood bags that were privately stored from the vampire national banks. Izuna could also tell that Madara and Itachi had been there for their snacks.

"What's wrong with you?" Izuna asked, licking the blood around his lips and looking towards Sasuke who was silently zipping his second blood bag in the patient bed.

"Nothing is just that…" Sasuke sighed, "Naruto, you remember that name don't you?"

Izuna thought for one long hard minute and then said, "The brat back in 1952, who loved you so much. You two were practically brothers." Izuna chuckled. "Nothing but pure clean brothers, nothing like what I have with my aniki."

Sasuke scoffed. "Of course not," Sasuke looked sadly down, "I've known what love was, how people loved one another, but I didn't love anyone back then. Naruto was family to me, and yet, I never understood why Neji was so jealous. I know I died, I know that I also took Naruto's life and buried him in my grave…if so…why is he here now!" Sasuke demanded.

Izuna shrugged. "Reincarnation is the safest answer. He was eventually going to return in some shape or form, back to earth to begin another life. Not that you can really dictate what will happen to him this time around. You know, your parents have also been reincarnated, everyone does. Although they forget, something we can't really do. Even if we do try,"

Sasuke licked at his sharp teeth, and then his lips, yet frowning at the lack of satisfaction from the blood. It tasted bitter again. Yet he knew he needed it.

"So, he's been reincarnated, yet I would never be able to truly apologize to him, to tell him he didn't have to sacrifice his life…just so I would have a second chance at this life."

Izuna frowned, "Why would you, can't you be thankful that he did by living your life…"

"I guess," Sasuke muttered, and then an idea hit him, "It is like a second chance for him as well, isn't it. In this life, even though he'd age and everything, we can be friends again," Sasuke said, his eyes shining and Izuna nodded, not really caring what notion Sasuke had in his head. There was nothing stopping him from being friends with Naruto.

There was perhaps only one problem. Izuna frowned and looked Sasuke in the eyes.

"Just don't forget about my game." Izuna zipped some more blood. "Have you decided who the goose is?"

Sasuke shook his head. "Not yet,"

Izuna smirked, "Make your decision fast then little goose, before this duck quacks all the rules to the rest of the ducks…"

Sasuke sighed.

He still had a decision to make.

When Madara and Itachi returned back to their dorm, their two new roommates were there. Madara readily greeted them and introduced himself and Itachi, he was unsure of what to do or say. After all, the world could have been spinning and still he wouldn't want to have been partnered up with these roommates.

"I'm Hoshigaki Kisame," the shark like man said.

"And I'm Namikaze Kyuubi" The red head said.

"It's good to meet you." Madara said. He nudged Itachi who was looking at their roommates with a blank look.

"Yes, very nice to meet you both."

High School Sucked.