Blood Bath
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto … at all
Chapter Three: Scarlet Memories
The moon is Shining Bright
The moon is feeling right
I'll kiss you on your neck
People will stare but we won't care
We're high above the ground
We're no where to be found
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Flashback (Still Sasuke POV):
A Month had passed since I was found by the man. I found out that he was very wealthy and was very high in society even though his house was medium in size and was not the prettiest. His daughter, who was brave at first, started to become frightened at the sight or thought of me and tried to stay away if possible. They allowed me to stay in their house for as long as I wanted.
It was a misty night outside the window and inside it seemed like the world had a dramatic change. Halls and rooms were now lit by candle light and were only pleasing to those with a darker eye. It showed misery and sadness. There was only one thing in the entire house that showed a bit of life and radiance, the daughter of the man who had brought me here. I sat and watched as maids were making a fuss over the girl.
I let out a chuckle when I saw her run into my room holding the door so the maids couldn't get in. A red jewel shimmered on her chest and a light smile held to her lips. "Miss, you must get ready, the suitors are almost here!" exclaimed a young maid. The girl turned around and locked the door.
"Then tell them to go away!" the girl then noticed me and stopped. She looked like she was a princess of medieval times. A red dress hung across her shoulders and a crown of flowers kissed her large forehead. Her hair was braided to her waist. Her face was painted with pale pinks and red lipstick.
"So you're finally awake, huh?" the girl walked over. She sat beside me and whispered in my ear, "Do you need any…blood?" Her voice trembled. I laid my hand on hers to comfort her but I could only feel her tremble more.
"You said you weren't scared," I pulled away from her and scooted away so she would calm down.
"I was taught not to, but I'm still scared at the thought of my blood being drained from my body and I cry at the thought of being defenseless," the girl stroked her neck.
"What is your name?" I asked. Her eyes lit up and another smile was on her lips.
"My name is Cherry Blossom, but you can call me Cherry or Blossom, whichever suits you," She stood up and unlocked the door.
"Alright Cherry," I smirked back, "My name is Sasuke."
She walked away and I felt that we would become closer.
I was finally feeling better and decided to take a walk on the terrace outside my window. The midnight was sweet and the moonlight showed a silhouette of Cherry sneaking about below me. Her dress was billowing around her. She ran around, dancing in the dim light.
I jumped off the terrace to meet her below. She jumped up and I showed a slight sign of humor. During this time in my life I was soft but the events soon to come would harden and destroy me mentally and physically.
I notice she had something in her pocket. I pointed to it and asked "What is that?"
She blushed and tried to whisper it under her breath but I still heard her say a poem.
"Well read it to me," I demanded. I could feel her blood pulse. I began to lust for the neck she kept rubbing with embarrassment. My fangs protruded before my brain could process thought.
"Please read it to me and stop the embarrassment act. You're making me angry," my dark side was about to take place if she didn't stop.
Out of true horror she began to read:
"The soft hue of the night laid a sign of beauty on his face,
The stars above kissed his hair
And the angels wept because this beauty was dammed
I forever saw him as an angel with the body of the demon.
I saw him as a pure soul,
Even though he showed me what I could never see
A life
For I am bound to be
The Witch of Spring,
The Keeper to Love,
The Ancestor of the One Who slain
I cry at night knowing that I will die by his hand
Because of what I have wrote
And of what I have done
In the past."
I had no idea of what she was talking about. She stood there, her body tense and her eyes closed in fear. I grabbed her hand and applied a kiss to it. She took a step back and then calmed down.
"What happened to the brave girl I met a month ago?" I asked. She finally looked at me with courage in her eyes and bravery in her voice.
"I should stop acting like a baby shouldn't I? The truth is I'm not scared at all; I'm just a little…shy," Cherry brushed aside a piece of hair in her face and laid finger on her lips. I pushed it aside and bent to her. She looked up at me and flushed. My lips were laid on the red candy of her lips. She accidentally bit me but she bit hard enough to draw blood.
A drop of my blood poured into her mouth. I pulled away, not wishing for anymore to seep through. She never even noticed. I saw her look at me with wondering eyes. "Sasuke, what's wrong?" how could she tell?
"Nothing, I just…" I couldn't finish my sentence.
"I'm sorry," Cherry ran away. I dared not to chase after her; instead I walked around the yard and into a small green room. Flamboyant plants decorated every side of the walls the only place that wasn't decorated was in the middle where a silver pentagram glistened above a small brown bench. On the bench were books that were only half way filled up but what was written on the pages was fascinating. I picked up the books and walked away, back to my terrace, and into my room where I slept softly until the morning light.
Midmorning, Nine Days Later
Knock, knock, I wondered if the banging of fists on my door would ever cease. In rage, I ran to the door and opened it. I almost ripped the door off its hinges. A pudgy maid stood there with a letter in her hand. "Master told me to give this to you," she handed me the letter and I read it:
Dear Mr. Uchiha,
I feel you have over stayed your welcome and should be leaving soon. If you don't wish to leave or don't have anywhere else to go then please meet me in my office so we can discuss a way for you to stay.
Sign,
Lord Haywood
This letter deeply disturbed me. I really didn't wish to stay but where else would I go? My brother was still after me and he thinks I'm still wandering around. Staying in a place like this I would be safe from him.
I asked the maid to show me to his office. I passed the pink haired girl on my walk. She smiled at me and waved. I nodded to show that I noticed her. The maid led me down a series of halls and long path ways. When we arrived I felt like I needed to sit. She knocked on the door and ushered me in. She left me alone with him and closed the door behind me.
I took a seat in front of him and spoke with all the dignity that I could retrieve from my past. "Sir, I am sorry to say that I have no where else to go. When you found me I was wandering from house to house looking for a place to stay. I collapsed from walking so far. I am sorry to ask for your sympathy but this is the only place that has taken me in."
The father looked at me with a wolfish grin and spoke, "If this is true, what happened to where you stayed?"
"My house had burnt down and my family had died. They left me with no money. In fact I was left off the will since I was the youngest. My parents loved my brother more and thought I would never become as wealthy as he was," I finished. My lies were working.
"You can stay as long as you tame my sweet daughter. She is too wild for me. I also wish for you to marry her. You seem like a fine gentleman," the father lit his pipe and began to smoke it.
"Well doesn't the miss have a say in this?" I asked, not wanting to hurt her.
"Not anymore. She has shunned all the other suitors. If you wish to stay then you shall marry her. She has no choice anymore. If you say yes then your wedding will be in a week."
This is all I to do to stay and not be killed. It was my only hope. "I will," I stood up and shook his hand.
"Now I wish for my daughter not to know until tonight at dinner. We'll say you've asked and I said yes, not knowing what I had gotten myself into.
That night, right before dinner.
She came into my room. She was porcelain ready to break. If only she knew what I did and how it would affect her. She climbed up beside me and kissed my ear.
"I know," she whispered. I grabbed her hand and kissed it. It was soft; it was like kissing cream or a feather. Her breathing stopped. "I'm sorry," I cupped her face and kissed her forehead. Tears came from her eyes.
"You can kill me if I get too bloodthirsty or if I try to attack you," I kissed her eyes. She wept and I wept with her. We sat there, crying salt and blood. I had just stolen her from her true love. I don't think I could live with myself if I made her life a living hell.
The clock rang seven. She touched my thigh and pushed away. "It is time to go my love, they are waiting," she stood up and waited for me. I clasped her hand with my right and we both walked down the hall. A blonde maid stared at us with jealousy but she had already known by listening at the door that something was up.
Dinner was surprisingly fast. Cherry made no sound and her father was rather pleased. After dinner Cherry followed me to my studies. She walked around a pile of books, as if looking for something. She picked up a book and handed it to me. "Since we are to be wed, it is best you read this," she laid it on my lap.
I opened it and found that it was a dictionary. But it was no ordinary dictionary; it was filled with terms about vampires and the four sorceresses. I looked at her. She picked up the jewel that had lain on her breast ever since I met her.
"This, my dear, is the bloodstone; you'll never be able to hurt me as long as I have this on. So don't worry yourself. I know many of foreign languages. To activate it all I have to do is speak a very dead language," Cherry sat beside me on the arm of the seat.
"I wish to tell you the truth of my family. You are Japanese?" I nodded to her, "So am I. My real name is Sakura. My father brought me over here so I could be free from the place I was destined." She stroked my face and left. I think she felt awkward.
I opened the book. One word jumped out at me, half-blood. The definition read: A person who is in between human and vampire. All that is needed to become a half blood is to have one drop of blood from a vampire inside you. There is a curse to all half-breeds. After two months from the time they were infected with the blood that they will become a full vampire.
Vampire Lord: the vampire lord, the first vampire, can only be killed by a half breed who is one month into their transformation. The half breed must bare the blood stone.
The bloodstone was made by the four sorceresses of the year. Each of them gave their blood to create it. In return, the women all died on the third rise of the full moon after the ceremony.
I dropped the book. I had contaminated her with my blood. I had to kill her before she became a full vampire. I ran to her room and saw that she had been waited for me. I walked to her and took off the bloodstone from her neck. She looked at me with big eyes. I kissed her for the last time.
Our kiss went too far. I had to stop her breath. I kissed her creamy neck. "Sakura, I have cursed you and now I will show you the cure. I bit her. I heard her heart beat pulse with every splash of the crimson liquid into my mouth. Slurps, gulps and a cold corpse were in my mind. She didn't die as soon as I hoped.
"Sasuke, I really did love you," she spoke her last words. I looked at her. I shook her body and cried. I yelled in anguish. How could I kill her? Her beautiful body laid there, hair strung everywhere and eyes closed. I held her and cried and yelled because of my stupidity. The maid heard my screams and ran to see. It was that blonde maid. She screamed and everyone ran to see.
"Swift and quick,
Nibbling at the neck,
She has no idea of what to come
She believed what he said to her
She believed the lies
She felt his daggers skimming her neck
He bit
And the blood poured
Little by little
He sucked at her neck
Loving the taste
And drunk on the smell
He took more than he wanted
He killed his love,
By the bite of love"
With
these words he ran,
Ran from the town that was ready to stab with the stake
His brother saw him and followed him and he ran again
To America,
And waited to run
END OF FLASHBACK
Sakura closed her eyes. He had stopped. It was finished, she was finished. "Sasuke, I've decided that I want you to make it quick," Sakura looked at him. He was bent over crying.
"Sasuke?" she whispered again.
"How do you know my name?" he grabbed her by her arms and shook her, "I didn't tell you my name!"
"I don't know! Quit shaking me! You're hurting me!" She screamed. Sasuke dropped her. These memories were driving him crazy.
"Go if you don't want to die," Sasuke yelled. Sakura stood up and ran home. When she finally arrived, she threw all her poetry books into the fire that her dad had lit. She only hung on to the first book she ever published. She was afraid.
She slept with her eyes open and stared at the window, hoping he didn't chase his mind.
TBC…
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