There's not a very long list of regrets in my life. It's short, sure...but every single thing on that list is important to me.
I missed having a childhood. I regret joining the organization at such a young age. I didn't get to go to second grade, or middle school, or Prom. I didn't have a first kiss until only a few minutes ago, and despite how perfect it was, I wished I could have enjoyed it on a date with a guy from my biology class, not a co-worker.
Even if I do regret joining the Organization so early, I do not, however, regret joining it completely. I am doing good things with my life. I'm helping people, despite their unwillingness to be helped.
I also regret not giving Sasuke a real chance when we were younger. Maybe things might have turned out differently.
But…you never know. He could never have even been transferred, or we broke up when we were younger.
Meeting Sasuke is one thing I will never, ever regret.
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Sasuke calmed down. We sat together on the bed holding hands, his warm calloused fingers stroking and entwining with mine.
"Do you want to know my story, Sasuke?" He glanced at me.
"I wasn't really sure you ever had one. No one on base ever talked about you."
"After my first mission I was put into counseling. Tsunade ordered people not to talk about it."
"Why?"
"When I was seven, my father was researching a cure…and he was succeeding. In the middle of the night, a horde attacked my home. I was sharing a bed with my sisters, when my mother started screaming. Several vampires burst into my room, and stole my sisters from right beside me." I felt a tear roll down my cheek, and my voice started shaking. "From downstairs I could hear my Father crying and pleading, and then he started screaming too. The vampires were draining my little sisters, so I ran out of my room. My mother was on the floor in the hall, and her blood was everywhere. I made it to the front door when my dad started making this horrible sound, and I bolted. That's when the Organization arrived. My family was already dead though." Sasuke squeezed my hand extra tight, the pain putting a damper on the tears freely streaming down my cheeks.
"Kana…Suzuki….they were five and three…they were so small. My parents…my mom, my dad…I have my dad's eyes…." Sasuke sat up and pulled me close to him. I relaxed and cried for the first time in twelve years.
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It was ten-o-clock. We were headed to the warehouse now, the night making the city's silence eerie and just a tad strange for such a dense population. I felt like something was going to go wrong, despite Sasuke's confidence in me. After fifteen minutes of ducking through back alleys and side streets, the warehouse came into view. A lone light shone on the rusted double doors, and adrenaline started pumping in my veins, thirst aching in my throat. My mouth opened in a silent snarl. Sasuke saw, so I refocused. I couldn't smell any vampires outside, but inside were probably ten or thirteen mature vampires.
"Sasuke, do you know when the ANBU are arriving?"
"They said they'd make it by ten thirty at the latest. Relax. Our pickup order is 2314. Three humans. Don't give yourself away. Act as vampire as you want."
Joy.
Heat lightening flashed in the direction of Sound.
I approached the rusty, ominous doors and stepped inside. The lights were dim, flickering in hanging bulbs from the ceiling. Surrounding me were cages. There were a lot of humans in this room, almost too many to count. They were drugged and unconscious, leaning and lying atop one another. I walked between two of the enclosures and reached the center of the room. Crazy Red, the bartender, was there…and lurking in the background was an eye I would recognize anywhere, the man who had killed my family. He was blond, handsome, and smiling. His whole eye was a bright, electric blue, and the other was disfigured and revolting, almost concealed by his buttery blond hair.
Red smiled his crazy ass smile as I reached him. He was an ancient vampire, probably a vampire longer than I had been alive. The virus keeps them young.
"Hello little Miko. Here for a pickup?" He asked me.
I nodded. "Order 2314. Three humans."
He gave me a once over. "You smell hungry."
"That's why we needed the Order." He laughed—a choked, sick little sound.
"Deidara, we need this lovely lady's Order…number's 23, 67, and 42." My nightmare went to fetch the Order. Now I know the name of the man I wish to kill.
Red spoke, and I almost jumped. Almost.
"We've never been properly introduced, little one. I am Sasori." I nodded my head. "How long have you been a….well, how long have you been one of us?"
I shrugged. "I'm not sure. What about you?"
"Years too many to count." Hmm…that's not vague at all. A hand was suddenly on my shoulder, and it slid down my arm and clenched around my elbow. I shivered, it was Sasuke's brother. Scary.
"Who are you?" he asked me.
"Miko. I am Miko. I have an Order pickup." He nodded, and then inhaled deeply.
"You smell like someone familiar."
"Do I?" I was starting to get nervous. He was intimidating, after all. He was a more than a head taller than me, with heavy set shoulders and arms. Sasori was intimidating in a psychotic kind of way, and Deidara was just plain intimidating. Itachi was intimidating in the scary-I'm-going-to-rip-your-face-off kind of way.
"Do you know my brother by any chance?"
"No?" oops. I made it a question.
"My Mother's name was Mikoto, did you know? Miko was my Father's pet name for her."
"I don't even know who you are!" I snarled at him, playing dumb.
"…You feign innocence pretty well; you're a born actress. However, lies are not acceptable when it comes down to business. Now…how do you know Sasuke?" his arm moved and wrapped around my neck, and lifted me off the ground. My strength was nothing compared to his brute force.
My internal clock told me that I still had five minutes before the ANBU would arrive. I might as well spill the beans, at least partially.
"I'm the one who infected Sasuke!" I choked out. Itachi's fingers loosened a little bit.
"Continue." He said.
"He's in the Organization, and was assigned to get rid of me, but he didn't know how strong I was, and I managed to weaken him by taking his blood." I smiled my strange little smile. "He tasted delicious."
"You are still lying."
Itachi dropped me. He motioned to Sasori and Deidara to take me to a cage, but I kicked Sasori on the side of his knee, making him collapse. Deidara was on me faster than humanly possible, but my own strengths were enhanced as well. I dodged a fist with a snarl, and went for his throat. He growled, low in his chest, and a shiver of fear went through me.
Then, right before my eyes, a needle sprouted from his neck. He stopped, and fell to the ground. I looked around. ANBU agents were pouring in from the only entrance and the high windows, hurrying to contain Itachi and Sasori. Itachi managed to knock out several ANBU before they immobilized them. Sasori was hysterical, laughing on the ground with handcuffs on his wrists, four ANBU struggling to keep him there. He threw one against a cage twelve feet away. He had back handed her on accident.
I went back outside to meet up with Sasuke.
He wasn't….he wasn't there.
All that was left was a blood trail….drops thick and many—still warm, still smelling like Sasuke.
I followed.
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The outskirts of town were infamous for being dangerous, but going outside the city at night was a fool's errand. Only if you were stupid, crazy, or suicidal would you even think it. Konoha was a forested area, and the city was huge, but the forest was practically alive—always changing and shifting.
I may be crazy, but Sasuke was more important than me. So much more important.
I ran as fast as I could, not stopping for sound, sight, or screams. I followed the scent of blood, of fear.
Sasuke was panicking. I ran even faster.
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The farther I went, the more strange I thought it. I already knew he had been taken, but taking him right from under my nose—and the Anbus' noses. It was wrong. It was impossible. Who…?
A thought struck me. It struck me like a brick to my brain, making me stop in my tracks, breath coming in sharp, panicked gasps. Thunder rolled in the distance; warm, moist air covering my skin like a blanket.
Orochimaru. Oh my God….My Lord, My Lord…..
I fell to my knees. How could I fight that?! He was barely human to begin with, and now he was just plain….vampire.
I shuddered, my neck, legs, arms, and back—my whole body—prickling with fear. A fear that clogged my brain, a fear that took my reasons away. A fear that was so encompassing that I couldn't think couldn't breath. I was the fear.
Sasuke. The thought was like a beam of light through my foggy brain. I had to save Sasuke.
I got up, and continued running.
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I was almost to Sound when it started raining, the scent starting to wash away in the downpour, and the sound of water pelting the leaves was overwhelmingly loud.
Coming into view was a gray complex made of concrete blocks. The surrounding area was dirt—the whole thing was sterile and devoid of life, but something in the back of my head told me that there were vampires inside. The strength of one was like a sun in my mind—the three others were varicolored: a glowy, wispy red; an oceanic blue; and custard yellow. The more I looked at the sun—huge, pulsing strength—the darker it seemed to get, until it wasn't a sun anymore. It became a huge maw of a black hole, devouring the world, eating up all the good and the light.
It had to be him.
I felt harder….searching for….there! I felt Sasuke, showing in my mind like a navy blue orb, slowly fading.
I searched the outside of the complex for an entrance. I jumped unto the roof from a tree's branch, and found a vent. I climbed down, sliding over a grate or two as momentum carried me far into the building. It went down a long way, and it started to turn into more of a free fall than a slide after a bit. I grabbed onto an edge of a side vent as I fell, and climbed into it. I came to another grate after a second. I looked below me, to see a floor far away. I was in the ceiling of a huge room, a ball room maybe, with high walls and gilded floors. I removed the grate and jumped down. I landed on my feet, jarring my knees—hands splayed out to balance myself.
I looked around myself…there was nothing here. I went into the hall and wandered, trying to find them. I opened my senses, the black hole sucked me in…and I turned left. I made another left, and then turned right.
A door was in front of me, the black hole sucking me closer, draining my mind. It opened, and Suigetsu ushered me forward, gently grabbing my arms. The air seemed to shimmer, move and wrap around me. I could feel myself smiling and laughing as I was moved toward the center of the dark room, where Orochimaru was waiting for me. This very place was intoxicating. Then I looked a t Sasuke…blood everywhere on him. His eyes were blank and slowly closing.
I couldn't stop screaming.
So yeah....
I re-wrote the ending of this chapter, edited a couple of things...and hopefully it's a little better written than the first version I put up a little while ago.
Sorry if Sakura seems a little messed up toward the end, there's a reason for it.
If you like my story, reviewing would be nice. Thanks for reading though!