Disclaimer- no Naruto for me… Gaara would be mine… I would hide him and then the plot would be all messed up…
'Waking up from that dead sleep for the first time was like being reborn. I stirred and felt Sasuke stirring beside me. The aches and pains of death had now completely left me, and while it would definitely not do to say that I felt 'alive,' I felt quite invigorated. What new world was before me? Sasuke pushed open the coffin lid. It slid off and we sat up. I looked at him, beautiful as always, before me. He smirked.
"Had a good sleep?" he asked.
"Very," I replied. "But what now?"
"The hunt." He said simply. I knew what the answer would be, but I still cringed.
"I'm not sure if I really want to do that again."
"Fine. You can stay here, but don't blame me when the hunger gets to you." And with that Sasuke disappeared from the room faster than the eye could follow and I was left in that lonely room. Sasuke didn't appear for many hours and I decided to wander round the dusty rooms of the Uchiha mansion. Everything was so bare, the furniture all covered. Even Sasuke's bedroom was empty except for a bed and a bookshelf. Was this how he had been living after his clan's death? I wasn't surprised that he ran away. If only I'd known I might have been able to prevent all this. I noticed a picture on his bookshelf and went to pick it up. Smiling, I saw that it was the team photo. I was glad he kept it. I put it back and walked out of his room. The hunger was starting to get to me, but I refused to bend to it. I would not become a senseless murderer. It worried me, a little, Sasuke's apparent unconcern of the death that he brought. Who would he kill tonight? Someone we knew? It seemed pointless to try and stop him.
Whilst I was thinking, I had not noticed the presence of two humans, a girl and a boy, creeping in. They must have been only about fourteen or fifteen, a few years younger than I. A board creaked under the foot of the boy, calling my attention to them.
"Shhhhh!" The girl whispered. "This place is haunted. We can't have the ghosts coming out just yet!"
"Let's explore this room." The boy said. He clearly didn't believe in ghosts. I stepped back in the shadows, not wanting to be discovered. I held my breath before remembering that I didn't have to breathe. It's hard to break old habits. They came close, so close. I could smell the salty-sweaty smell of the boy and the acrid smell of fear on the girl, quickly dispelling all the excitement she'd had before.
"Look, nothing here." The boy said, clearly bored. He was standing just in front of me and my hunger came back at full force. I tried to control it. My hands twitched, two different desires battling within me. "Don't look so scared," the boy continued, "you were the one who wanted to come here in the first place." He stepped back, as though to lean against the wall, but instead came into contact with me. My resolve shattered and I was overpowered with bloodlust.
I grabbed him, pinned him against the wall and swiftly bit him in the neck. The warm, sweet blood poured into my mouth and over my tongue. It was delicious. I could feel the life, the stolen life, pouring into my veins, warming me, making me feel human again. All this time the girl was screaming, but I paid no attention to it until it stopped. The boy's heart had ceased to beat and I looked up. I was met with Sasuke's applause.
"Brilliant, brilliant." He said, laughing. "I go out, leaving the prince of morals, the defender of human life in my house and what do I find when I get back? He's feasting! In my own bedroom!" He walked towards me slowly, predatorily, seductively. "So, what did it feel like, my Naruto? It was good wasn't it?" By this time he was leaning in close, whispering in my ear. "Come," he said, taking me by the hand, "You haven't fed enough." He led me to the girl lying prone on the floor. Sasuke must have knocked her out when he came in. I knelt down besides the girl and cradled her head in my arms.
"She's so warm." I whispered stroking the side of her face.
"Let's share her." Sasuke said, picking up her wrist. The hunger now had ebbed away and was but a dull throb in the distance.
"I can't…" I began. Immediately Sasuke looked up at me sharply.
"Why not?" He asked. "You just devoured her little boyfriend." There was a cruel curl to his lips now.
"I wasn't… I couldn't think straight." I said mournfully. "When he got so close I just… I couldn't control myself. She has a family and people who will miss her and we have a choice."
"If we let her leave alive she will tell of what she saw." Sasuke said, lips coming closer to her wrist.
"It's not right." I rejoined.
"Don't deny yourself, Naruto." Sasuke said. "You will have to accept what you are someday. Don't make it so hard on yourself." I got up to leave.
"I suppose I will have to resign myself to the fact that I always was and always will be a monster." I walked out of the room. I heard Sasuke's voice call after me.
"You can't run away from it!"
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The boy was sitting at his desk, scribbling notes furiously.
"And the girl," he asked, "did Sasuke kill her."
"Yes he did. It's not important though. Shall I continue?"
"Please!"
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'It was almost dawn and it was no point in trying to go outside, so I went to the coffin room and waited. Shortly after Sasuke came in, licking some stray blood off his thumb. His skin had a glow to it now. It looked healthier. I was almost deceived by a pink tinge.
"Come." He said, arm extended, smiling, forgiving, almost parental. "Let's go to bed." His eyes were charitable and I relaxed, forgot about the girl and the boy, and went to his welcoming embrace. We got into the coffin. He turned and faced me and kissed me full on the lips. It was sweet, brotherly, and like a lover's all at the same time. I could still taste some of the girl's blood on his lips. He pulled the coffin over and I fell asleep immediately.
Sorry that it's taken me this long to update… and that it's so short!!! Hides from crowds throwing tomatoes The only excuse that I have is that IB has taken my life away… I think I'm loosing the battle with my education… sniff sniff darned extended essay…. Anywho please review, if you have the heart to bestow kindness on my unworthy self. Constructive criticism is always welcome!!!