I…
I am myself, right…?
No one can ever take over…
-
Naruto looked up suddenly from his very untidy homework. Neji, who was helping Naruto rewrite his homework, looked up as well.
"Did you feel that?" Both vampires asked each other at the same time.
Naruto got up.
"I think that guy I was talking about is transforming into a vampire right about now."
"And what are you going to do?" Sliver eyes blinked uninterestedly.
"Uh. Take a look?"
Neji stopped his fellow companion from walking out the door by tearing an essay into half.
"NOOOO! I SPENT A DAY DOING THIS!" Naruto yelled, grabbing the two torn pieces away before Neji split them into further quarters.
" Moron. Don't get into troublesome things." Neji muttered. A hand reached out and shoved the other vampire onto the chair roughly.
"Stay here and do your work. I'm going out." Ignoring the protests from the blonde, the figure was gone, sealing the house as he went.
-
A soft, feminine hand stopped at the doorknob of the wooden door.
… There won't be anyone in here, anyway.
Sakura closed her eyes, sighed, and stuffed her keys back in her pocket. "Ino…" She muttered. "Yeah, I'll go visit her…"
She turned around, and stopped.
Should I tell her everything?
Of course. She's your friend since young, hello.
Just… Just because of that? I don't want to let her know.
You need someone to talk to, don't you?
The schoolgirl clenched her fists, took in a deep breath, and sat down on the steps of the porch.
"What the hell was I thinking?" She said out loud. "Going to his house just to ask him how he's feeling? He doesn't even care about me."
Confused green eyes looked up at the star-filled sky, and she hugged herself tighter.
"Why should I care?"
Dammit. I don't know what to do. I should… just be carrying on with my life, pretending that nothing has happened, and move on. But I'm still stuck here. What is making me stuck here?
"What is it?" She asked, still staring up at the heavens. "Someone tell me."
"Someone… Tell me."
-
"H-Huh?"
Onyx eyes blinked. It was red everywhere. Just like that time…
"I-Itachi?" Sasuke said involuntarily. "Is that you? Itachi?" He looked around at the pathway, the benches, the trees, the plants, and everything around him.
They weren't black or in shades of dark green, like what people would generally infer as. It was red.
Dark red.
I…
Sasuke looked down at his hands. Raw and bleeding.
…Am-Am I bleeding?
He held them up closer.
It's someone else's…blood!
"WHAT?" He yelled, spinning around.
Two big guys greeted him, lying on the cement ground and a red pool slowly forming around them. They were bleeding; perhaps dead or unconscious.
Sasuke's eyes widened, and in spite of the numerous emotions that were churning in him, he went to them and tested for their breathing.
They were alive. Badly injured, but alive.
"…Covered with deep cuts." The boy whispered upon observation of their condition, and his gaze lowered down to his hands.
There was a pause for a second or two.
"…I…did it…?"
-
"Every night of the full moon…A new vampire appears."
Ten-year old Sasuke glared at the man and jabbed his stake into the table unknowingly.
"Do your best, boy." The grey haired hunter said, adjusting his mask. "I'll help you if that time really comes."
"I don't need your help." Sasuke said flatly.
The man laughed, waved, and he was gone.
-
Sasuke swallowed, observing his hands. The inside of his fingernails were streaked with blood. It was as though he'd clawed his attackers.
No doubt. He was slowly converting.
Without even knowing what he was doing, Sasuke had stuck out his tongue, and was about to lick his hands when a familiar smell slowly drifted in from the surroundings.
-
"NEJI YOU BASTARD!" Naruto screamed, banging the door. "SINCE WHEN HAVE YOU LEARNT THE HUNTER'S WAY OF SEALING HOUSES?"
Neji had sealed the house when he took off. In other words, he'd caused Naruto to be trapped in the house until he came back.
The blonde boy stomped to the table, glaring at the pieces of paperwork. He wouldn't be able to get out unless someone, anyone let him out.
One name came to mind.
Naruto closed his eyes, and started to use very ounce of his detecting skills.
The houses, the roads, the exhaust fumes of the few cars that rode on the road, the trees, some people who were taking a stroll…
He frowned, concentrating harder. Then he caught it.
"Sakura…" Naruto whispered, his arms opening, as if to embrace her, and opened his eyes.
They glowed red.
-
Sakura stopped, her eyes widening. Something seemed to be controlling her. She was getting up.
Her brain had not ordered her to do that, but her leg muscleswere moving, her body was going forwards, her arms stiff. The only muscles that she could control were her facial muscles, and they were twisted in a confused-cum- frightened expression.
Then an image formed in her mind. Red eyes.
She was running; sprinting, her pink hair flying all over her face, and wind gathering around her, almost edging her on as she picked up speed.
-
Silver eyes were what Sasuke could make out from within the redness.
Neji looked at the unconscious men, his fangs bared. There was blood.
He lunged, his features inhuman. Free blood. How could any vampire resist?
A coffin
An ancient window
The tick-tock of the grandfather clock in the corner
A steaming cup of coffee
A rocking chair
There was nothing different.
The lady smiled, hugging the coffin close
Nothing had changed
He was still with her
He hadn't died
She closed her eyes, her features reminding people that of a lady in her wedding ceremony
Reality…
Sasuke shoved Neji away, and the force that came from his arms sent him flying.
Neji halted himself and growled, his hands turning into claws.
The other boy's first instinct was to pick up his stake. And he did, reaching into his pocket, flicking the knife open.
The blade went slicing through the air as Neji ducked the attack.
There was no conversation. Not even a war cry.
Both boys dived straight into a fight of their lives.
-
Sakura stopped in front of a mansion. It was similar to Sasuke's, but older.
Her feet moved, and the gates swung open, allowing her to enter.
A trembling hand moved towards the brown, delicately designed doorknob.
The door opened.
Somehow, Sakura couldn't make out who the person was. He was familiar, but all she could see were those red eyes…
And black.
Naruto caught her before she fell to the ground.
"Sorry." He mumbled, taking in a deep breath of the night air, and choked.
"Urgh. Cars."
He rubbed his nose, looking at the prize in his arms.
"I guess the matter about Sasuke can wait…"
He opened his mouth, and fangs grew out hungrily.
Naruto leaned in, positioning his mouth at Sakura's neck, and bit.
Author: (Starts typing the next chapter)