A month later...
Sasuke wondered why he ever agreed to do this. Sakura had not even fed from him yet. She kept feeding off the Hyuuga. It was frustrating him. She wouldn't even tell him why she didn't take his blood yet.
When ever he asked she just gave him a glare and walked away. Sasuke also knew he was jealous of the Hyuuga. He was stealing Sakura's attention and further more the pleasure he received from her.
The only up Sasuke had on Neji was that Sakura still lived in his house.
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Sakura covered Neji's mouth as he jerked under her. She had tied his hands to the head board of his bed. She had done this for one simple reason. Hyuuga Neji would not stop touching her when she fed. He was getting too carried away sometimes.
When he grabbed her butt that had been the last straw. She now tied his hands so he wouldn't touch her. Not that she didn't like a beautiful male touching her. She just didn't want Neji to touch her with out her content, plus she didn't really like Neji that way.
She found pleasure in bringing him pleasure, but she found more pleasure in his blood. She knew the Hyuuga was thinking of her as his but it was the other way around Neji was hers. Her blood slave. A sex slave if she wanted. She could do what ever she wanted with the Hyuuga and even Sasuke.
She just chose not to. Though if Neji kept thinking of her as his she would have to teach him a lesson.
The reason Sakura did not want to drink from Sasuke is because she had tasted a Uchiha's blood before and liked it a lot. She was afraid she would like Sasuke's blood just as much. Itachi's blood had been addictive enough. It had taken her months to try to forget that taste. That addictive taste.
Her fangs sunk deeper and the man under her shouted in pleasure. She wanted to sigh. She had to stop getting carried away. Carried away in memories. It was true that she had enjoyed Itachi's blood more then she would like to admit, and it was also true that against her will she had searched for the Uchiha for months after she left him under that tree. Just for one more taste.
She didn't know what it was about his blood that drew her so. It was said you always remember your first. Of course Itachi had been the first Shinobi she drank from but she doubted that was why she craved his blood.
She didn't understand and thus she did not want to drink from Sasuke just yet. He smelt good. Very tempting just feet from her room every day and night. She tried to stay away from the manor and Sasuke for as much as she could. Though she tried to also stay out of town. The town people smelled good too.
She tried to also not drink too much blood from Neji. Since he was the only one she fed from she didn't want to kill him or make him weak. She only drank a little each time. Just enough then she would deal with the pain and hunger because it was not really enough blood. She wasn't getting blood as often as she should or as much as she should.
Though if she took too much people would notice, he would become weaker because blood loss and she couldn't afford that neither could Neji because he was ANBU. Her only option was to either find a new person to feed from too or take blood from the only other person who already knew she was a vampire. Sasuke.
She wondered if she could force herself to take his blood even though her inner vampire told her not too. She tried to tell herself that it was because she was afraid she would be addicted to his blood like Itachi's but somewhere deep in side she knew that was not really the truth.
She had put a claim on Itachi. On every person she fed from. Itachi and Neji the only two Ninja she drank from were hers in a way. She was sure Itachi Uchiha would not like being claimed by her but who cares. He wasn't coming to her and she refused to go after him just for his sweet blood.
If you claim a male it was rude to claim his brother. In a way it was like cheating on the male with his brother. Sakura wanted to slam her head into something but she was still feeding and that was not wise.
Anger pushed her fangs deeper and she nicked the vein she tried to avoid. Blood gushed into her mouth and pleasured vibration sounded in her throat. Neji bucked under her and finally he shouted her name into her hand.
Yes I am your master. Say my name Neji shout it to the sky. You are mine and you will remember it. She spoke through thought into his mind. He shuttered as she closed the wound in his neck. She pulled back with blood running down her chin. She grinned wickedly at him and he shivered under her. His body still trembling from his climax.
Her vampire nature kicking in with the rush of blood. She usually tried to stay calm but sometimes after she fed her darker nature kicked in. She wondered why she bothered to hid it at all. Holding it back also held power back from her. She of course knew that if she let the darkness in her fly then so would all the vampire nature. And unlocking that completely would also give her more of a vamperic appearance.
Make her even more beautiful. Alluring in a way no male could resit. No woman would dare speak ill of. Her fangs would not be completely out, but they would be long enough that if she spoke they would see them. Also her eyes would change much easier to red then normal and thus she would be found out rather quickly.
She was tempted however. Why should she have to hide? She was the superior being. Why did she have to hide herself, disguise herself for all these humans? She scowled and licked the blood from her mouth.
And for the first time when she looked down at Neji he said something that pleased her greatly.
" Yes...Master. "
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Sasuke knew when she came into the house that she was full of blood. She had just feed from Neji and she was still feeling it's affects. The blood lust. The darkness. The pleasure. He flushed just a bit when she came into the kitchen. She sat on the table and looked to him.
He looked up at her in question never being the first to speak he waited for her to say something anything to him, though she did not. She just looked down at him with crimson eyes. Eyes he wished to see more. Wished to see as she was on top of him. His blood on her mouth.
Her fangs were not quiet out, but they were noticeable when she opened her mouth. She stopped before she said anything and frowned at him. Her lush mouth was so inviting. So tempting. He wanted to ravish her mouth with his own. He flushed as she raised an eye brow at him. Reading his mind of course.
" You need laid." She said as she stood. He flushed more and glared at her. She turned back to look at him after she reached the entryway. She smirked.
" Don't look at me like that Uchiha Sasuke. You know I'm right. You have lust vibrating through your body. Lust and frustration." She licked those tempting lips as if on instinct.
" I enjoy your misery however." She smirked wickedly, it made him react down below. He watched her sway out and cursed his manhood for rising like that.
He reached down and covered him self and that small touch drew his breath out hard. He gasped and jerked his hands away as he stood. Cold shower. Very cold. If he was reacting even to his own slight touch he needed too cool down bad.
He knew Sakura was right. He need laid but he wanted for it to be with Sakura. Heck he wanted more then that, to be bitten and feel how good it really was. He was cursing her for not biting him. There was no reason for her not to. She couldn't be getting enough blood from the Hyuuga she only drank from him once a week.
He knew she wasn't taking blood from anyone else. How did he know? Because he followed her most nights. She just walked around. Mostly out side the village.
She paced usually and she looked off into the direction away from Kohona. It was as if she wanted to leave but couldn't. Or rather wouldn't let herself. Did she have some sort of lover or vampire she wanted to go to but couldn't?
It didn't make sense but she would never answer his questions anyway.
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Sakura woke with a gasp. Her fangs were out and her eyes were dark scarlet as she jerked up in bed. She panted as she clutched her head and groaned. Not that dream again.
She cursed her mind for thinking of that stupid elder Uchiha again. Even in her subconscious she couldn't help but want his blood. Though Sakura knew if she stopped drinking from Neji she would want his blood like that too. Maybe...
She was just confused. She drank from Neji multiple time where as she only took blood from Itachi once. She shouldn't want his blood this much. Though she found herself thinking of him all the time. Not just his blood she could admit that.
He was handsome. He was well built and Sakura wanted to care for him. She wanted to curse him for his pain and sorrows, she wanted to fix his eyes. She wanted to feel that body against hers again. She wanted to hear that moan again. She groaned and blushed.
Wasn't it bad enoughs she relived that moment in her dreams almost every time she slept. And If not that, she was dreaming of blood, of death, of pain, and hate. She dreamed of all the memories she received from all the people she drank from. She could see into Itachi's past anytime she wanted to because she had already. She knew what had happened and it only took her one look through his mind to memorize it all. To store all his memories and all the other memories she took from each victim into her mind.
It was an overloud of memories. Painful sometimes too.
Sakura sighed as she ran a hand through her messy pink hair. She knew she had only slept two hours with out having to look at any clock. She could tell the time of day the hour the minute at anytime she wanted. She never had to look at a watch or any thing of the sort. She just knew.
Sakura heard Sasuke's breathing speed up in his bed room yards away. He was having a nightmare. Soon he was trashing in bed mumbling incoherent things. Sakura decided to go see what the trouble was or at least wake him.
He was indeed thrashing back and forth on his bed when she transported herself into his room. She hid herself in the corner because he was going to wake in seconds. As if she timed it he jerked upright and screamed a name.
" Itachi!!" Oh so she wasn't the only one dreaming of him. Though she knew with out having to look into his mind to find the dream that it was not the same. He was dreaming about the murder of his clan and the one who did it. Even though he was ordered to do so, Sasuke did not know that of his eldest brother. Sakura wondered if he would ever listen if he was told that.
Sasuke wiped the sweat from his face as his panting stopped. He sat there and tried not to think of the death and pain. Sakura, of course not being seen, put images into his mind to get him out of the pain and horror he was in.
Of course the quickest thing she could think of was thoughts of her bitting him. The pleasure she pushed into his mind and as she watched his boxers raised. Or rather what was under them raised his boxers. He blushed as he looked down at his manhood.
He was seeing himself under Sakura. She no longer had to put images into his mind for his mind took over. His mind warped the image into her lying under him while they made love. She rolled her eyes.
One, she didn't like Sasuke that way any longer, and two, she would be on top not him.
Sakura realized perhaps she shouldn't be in here any longer when his hand slid down to the bulge in his pants. Though unfortunately she could not force herself to look away and she could not leave with out her presence being made known. Of course he would be embarrassed and probably traumatized.
He rubbed himself outside the boxers and bit his lip. His eyes closed tight as he tried not to moan. The thought in his head was that Sakura would wake from her slumber and come see why he was making such nosies. Of course Sakura wouldn't have to leave her room to know what the sounds came from him meant.
She would smell his lust from miles away. She could read his thought from miles away too. He though of thrusting into her petite body. Of course the picture of her naked was blurred because Sasuke had never seen her naked. Or any woman she read that from his mind too.
He was a twenty year old and he hadn't even looked at porn? Wow...Never even had sex? His innocence strangely made her blood react.
A virgin. Oh virgin blood was so good. She groaned mentally. She knew this because Itachi was a virgin too. As hard as that was to believe. Speaking of hard...
Sasuke grew tired of touching himself through cloth and looked around his room quickly missing her of course in the darkness. He pulled his black boxers down over his staff. It sprang up and he hissed as he stared down at himself. He was pulsing with need.
Sakura shook her head slightly to try to clear the thoughts of actually tasting his blood. Virgin blood. God. She grit her fangs together. Her body trembling just a little as she held herself in place. She would not take Sasuke's blood. Virgin or not.
He gripped himself hard, as if he were angry at it for being hard with out him wanting it to be. He growled and it was low and filled the room. Sakura wondered what was wrong with her. She was liking this. Liking it too much actually. She needed to leave now.
She didn't like Sasuke anymore yet she couldn't help feel...turned on at this. There was seriously something wrong with her mind.
Sasuke started to move his hand up and down, pumping himself, faster, and faster. He grunted and shoved his other hand down to cup his testis. He shouted in surprise and then blushed as he jerked his head to his door. Hoping to god Sakura had left for the night.
Of course she was not in her room but in his. Her scarlet eyes started to glow and she started losing control of her darker side. Blood lust welled up inside her reacting to the regular lust. She felt the small changes start on her body and knew once she gives in to this nature there was no looking back. She would never be able to reverse this. Which mean she would probably have to leave the village or tell everyone she was a vampire.
She would be alluring and too much to resit for all men. She would put off a scent no man could resit. Something to make them hard just by seeing her, smelling her scent. There was no going back. Of course Sakura didn't pay attention to much for the sharp pains and tingling in her own body as the slight changes to her body took place. She would look the same old Sakura just more beautiful. More irresistible.
Sasuke looked down at his hands as he played with himself. Pre-cum slid down his hand from the tip of his manhood and he groaned as the slickness of it helped his hand move even faster. His breath was coming faster and faster until he jerked and white fluid spurted out of his staff and onto his shirtless chest, over his hands, and onto the bed sheets.
He was panting when he collapsed back with his back onto the bed. He was thinking that he had never masturbated right after he dreamed of his clans massacre. He wondered why the thoughts of Sakura suddenly entered his mind.
He raised his hand to his face looking at the white stuff on said hand. He lowered a finger to his lips and let his tongue out to taste. He flushed and shook his head. He needed a shower.
He sat up weakly and looked down at the mess that was his groin and chest. He scooted out of bed and removed the boxers that were covered in semen anyway.
He walked to his bathroom and when the door was shut Sakura transported back to her room where she paced. She realized the pain and tingling had stopped and went to the bathroom to look into the mirror.
She nearly gasped. Okay she looked remotely the same just more...more..sexy. More...god how to explain it. She couldn't so she didn't. She just stripped and took her shower trying to put the thought of witnessing her old teammate jack off in front of her out of her mind.
When she finished she went out. She couldn't stay in the manor right now. Too built up.
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Somewhere in Mist.
Red eyes scanned the village. He was hoping to see pink. That was all he could remember of the girl he had met here a year and some odd months ago.
He couldn't really remember how they met, or what her name was. He just knew this was where he had ran into her. He knew that they either had sex together or that something happened. He remembered waking up to a bad headache, with not only the seal gone from him forever but he had also climaxed. His boxers sticking to his groin.
He wanted to see that girl again. Wanted to know what happened then. For some reason he wanted to see her again and not only find out what happened but do it again. He craved a woman he had met only once but couldn't remember. Nothing but pink hair. He distantly remembered meeting a girl with pink hair a long time ago.
A girl who was teammates with the nine tailed foxes container. His little brother too.
Which meant she would be in Kohona, but that was the first place he looked. Of course there was her headband she left at his side. Either she dropped it there on purpose or accident he didn't know. If she wanted to be found, why couldn't he find her?
He wore her headband on his upper arm under his cloak. He vowed to find her. How did she remove his seal. The seal that kept him from talking about what the elders of Kohona made him do to his clan?
He had to find her. Thus he came back here where they first met. Maybe he should try Kohona again. It had been almost a half year since he had looked there for her. Of course you almost always return to your home village at least sometime in your life. You always have to go back to at least visit. He hoped to at least catch her. Just to know what happened.
Itachi couldn't explain anything even in his own mind. He didn't know why he was so desperate to find this girl other then the obvious reason of what happened then. He didn't know why he craved the girl he didn't even know what she looked like other then pink hair. Other then a sexy scent he could never get out of his mind.
What was happening to the emotionless Uchiha Itachi now? A woman on the mind? A woman always on his mind. Though not any woman. One woman. One woman with cherry blossom pink hair. That was when the named popped into his head.
Sakura Haruno.
Here I come. He thought finally.
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Sakura sighed. A week after the night she watched Sasuke pleasure himself, a week after her vampire nature took over, Now she couldn't even walk down the street with out some guy or another rushing after her.
She had been thankful not run into any of her old friends, or Kakashi. Heaven knows what would happen then.
Of course after she thought it here came Kakashi now. She cursed. What bad luck she had. He luckily had his Icha Icha book in front of his face so even if she passed he would not see her. Though he did smell her and he jerked to a stop and grabbed her arm. She could have dodged it but she didn't.
When he saw who it was his lone eye went wide.
" Sakura?" Confusion entered his eye as he looked down at her. His eyes went down her body slowly she wanted to blush under that gaze. Never thought to be ogled by her own sensei.
He cleared his throat but it was still low when he spoke to her.
" How are you doing?" She nodded.
" Just fine. I am in a hurry however." She said to make him let go. He did not. She could force him but she rather not. She didn't want to hurt Kakashi unless she had to.
" Of course." Yet he still didn't let her go. He stared down at her hungrily.
" Are you too busy to join your old sensei for a bite to eat?" Kakashi asked with an eye crinkle.
Sakura sighed.
" Sadly yes Kaka-sensei. I would love to do it another time though." She said with a twitch of lips.
He nodded and released her. She hurried away. What a bother this was.
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Sakura looked down at Neji. He slept soundly in his bed. She had not fed from him this week or the last. For some reason she didn't feel up to drinking from Neji or anyone. Two weeks with out blood and she felt the effect of that.
She knew she needed blood soon but she just couldn't make herself drink any. She was hungry, she just didn't want any. She felt depressed. She was tired of all the attention she was receiving from all Kohona.
She missed just going where she wanted, feeding from who she wanted. She missed the open air, the freedom. Nothing was really holding her back any more. She could leave if she wanted to.
Sakura didn't want to speak to Neji she had waiting until he fell asleep to enter his room. He had a mission yesterday and was low on chakra still. He was out cold and so Sakura brushing his coffee colored hair from his face did not rouse him.
He slept blissfully on.
Sakura brushed his hair back out of his face and smoothed her hand over his cheek.
If she left now she would be leaving not only Sasuke, Naruto, and Kakashi alone, but also Neji. Though what would be the reason for her to stay? It wasn't like she could remain in Kohona for a long period of time. She never aged. Sooner or later some one would notice she was still eighteen in appearance. Someone would notice her fangs, or maybe she would slip up. Either way it was getting dangerous to stay here any more.
She had been here almost a year already. Had it really been that long? It seemed like just a month ago that she came back to Kohona.
She wondered why she was so cold all the time. It was ironic when she had been dying in the desert she wanted to be cold so badly, to get away from that horrid heat. Now that she was a vampire and she was always cold. Though the powers she had gained were both cold. The wind and the weather power she controlled. Both were more cold then hot. So that added to it.
Sakura wondered if she would ever feel warm again. Other then when she was feeling blood lust overwhelm her. Did she have to starve herself just to feel warm again? Is that what she was doing? Starving herself just to feel warmth?
Is that what the empty feeling inside her was? Was it warmth that was the missing piece in her soul? Was that the key?
Is that what she craved?
Or was it companionship? Didn't she have that already with Neji and Sasuke? They knew her secret, and Neji fed her. She had companionship so what was it she really wanted?
What could she possibly want that she didn't have. That she couldn't get? She could have any male she wanted. No that wasn't true. She wouldn't let herself close to Sasuke but it wasn't really Sasuke she wanted.
There was another she didn't allow herself to have.
Itachi.She though clutching her small fangs. Fangs that were now always there. Not completely extended, but down enough to be noticeable. She wondered why no one said anything yet. They had to see her fangs when she spoke. She could see her fangs and Sasuke could see them. He told her he could when she spoke.
Though most men she came across weren't really focused on her mouth.
Sakura placed a hand on her forehead. What was wrong with her any more. It was getting so hard. So hard to live.
So hard to find a reason.
Sakura stood, then leaned down and pressed her mouth to Neji's cheek.
Perhaps she would take a stroll outside of the village today. She didn't really have to tell anyone but she would tell Tsunade before she left. Tsunade was already jumpy enough with her. It seems Tsunade still loved her like the daughter she never had, but she was still wary.
Everyone was still mesmerized by her but when they weren't near her then went back to normal. So Sakura knew that Tsunade had Kakashi trying to watch her. She was wary even of Sakura's control over the men and woman of the village. If Sakura wanted it she could have them fall at her feet.
Sakura however did not want that. What point was there for that? What reason any more. All the fight seemed to have flowed out of her. All the reason. No one really needed her here. So why did she stay? Was it because she wanted to make Sasuke happy? Was it because she didn't want to leave Neji? They were hers and she didn't want to leave them suddenly with no word or warning. That would hurt them.
Sakura didn't know what to do. She really didn't.
Sakura jumped to the window of the Hokage tower. Tsunade's office window. She was about to open the window and enter when she heard Tsunade speaking to an ANBU. Well the ANBU was speaking first.
" Hokage-sama Akatsuki have been seen on the border." Sakura frowned.
Akatsuki? She perked up at that.
" Akatsuki? Are you positive? How many?" Sakura peaked into the window. The ANBU had a frog mask in play. Sakura had never even known they made masks with frogs on them. She thought it was only the animals from the Chinese Zodiac that they used. ( Is that really true? Oh well)
Tsunade sat behind her desk hands folded under her chin, elbows resting on her desk which was cluttered with everything from paperwork to Sake.
The ANBU was on his knee in front of the desk. The ANBU went still at the Hokage's question.
" Well Hokage-sama that is the weird part. There is only one." Sakura's eyes went red. She cursed and jumped from the window's ledge.
Uchiha Itachi was on the border. The idiot was going to be found out. He was supposed to be pretending to be dead not coming into a village and making himself known other wise. Specially Kohona. What was the idiot thinking. What was he doing?!
Sakura knew he had to be here for a reason. Maybe to tell the Hokage about the clans murder now that he no longer had a seal keeping him from doing so. That was the only reason she could think of.
She had erased his memory after drinking from him. He wouldn't know her even if he saw her again. So he wasn't coming for her, and with that though she felt sad. Some part of her had hoped for some reason he would come for her.
Why she didn't know. She wanted his blood. Nothing more. So why did she feel like that was a lie?
Sakura cursed again and transported herself out side of the gates of Kohona. She smelt the air and wondered where the Uchiha was now. She couldn't sense him close to the village, but he was on the border. Sakura then transported herself to Uchiha manor.
Of course, if he was here to tell the world about the Elders plans and why he had to kill his clan then wouldn't he have to come to Sasuke too? Go back to where it all began? That was what she thought anyway so staying at the Uchiha manor would be a good idea. For now at least.
It wouldn't be good to get too excited. She had to stay away from the Uchiha. Or at least get him away from the village and possibly death. The ninja of Kohona would not just let him walk into Kohona to speak to Tsunade. They would capture and or kill him.
If he was smart he would come to Sasuke first. Even though it sounded dumb it wasn't really. Better to try to explain it to Sasuke then get killed by trying to share it with Kohona. If the person who hated Itachi -Sasuke- was on Itachi's side then maybe he would have a better chance at explaining things to Tsunade and the village.
Of course there was the problem of telling Sasuke all this in the first place. That was the hardest part.
Of course Sakura could warn Sasuke before hand, then he might just go off and tell the Hokage. Though she could just hold him in the manor until Itachi came or until she explained it to him. Though she didn't want to get involved any more then she was already.
She needed to stay away from Itachi not wait for him. She sighed and rubbed a hand over her face. She walked into the kitchen where Sasuke usually sat reading or what not. He was indeed in the kitchen. So what was she going to do?
Not get involved. She sat on the counter and looked down at Sasuke. He looked up at her in question.
" What are you doing?" He asked a little nervous. She was looking down at him with narrowed eyes. Of course she wasn't mad at him but herself. Why didn't she just leave. She needed as far away from Itachi as she could get, because she wanted his blood like no other. Why she didn't know. Though she did. She did know the reason, it was buried in her mind. She knew why, she just couldn't force herself to uncover that part in her mind just yet. She didn't want to really know. She had it hidden and she did not want to find it again.
" Nothing." She said with a scowl. He reached up and touched her cheek. She closed her eyes.
" Some thing wrong?" She wondered why he cared. Before he left for power, he didn't care at all about her or Naruto. Now he was kind to her? Now he cared? She sighed and leaned into the touch.
She didn't really let Sasuke touch her much because she wouldn't let herself drink from him, thus why should she let him touch her? It only made her thirsty. Right now however it wasn't Sasuke's blood that made her fangs longer, that made her undead heart pump fast.
" Perhaps there is something wrong." She said aloud. He frowned at Sakura and leaned in. She opened her eyes. She wondered what he was doing.
" What is it?" She couldn't get involved in his clan's affairs. Even if she was his friend. She laughed to herself. When had they ever really been friends? Maybe she was just being bitter.
" I think I have been here long enough." He looked shocked as she said this.
" W..hat?" he choked out.
She moved her cheek so she could kiss the center of the hand that cupped her cheek. He shuttered. She looked at him from the corner of her eyes as she kissed his palm. He closed his eyes briefly and breathed then opened his eyes. Sharingan spinning wildly.
" Sasuke there is no real reason for me to stay here. It's dangerous to stay too long. Don't you think some one is going to notice if I stay here, notice that I'm different now? Notice that I haven't aged past eighteen?" Sasuke actually looked surprised.
" You were turned into a vampire at eighteen?" He asked. She frowned at him. Didn't he know that? Couldn't he tell her age? Wait...he wasn't here to see her even turn seventeen let alone know what she looked like at eighteen. She could have sworn she at least told him this.
" Yes. I was on my way home from a mission. I was lost in the dessert. I died in that dessert." Sakura's eyes grew cold because she could feel not only them get colder but her insides as well. Colder still.
" Sakura?" Sasuke jerked her out of her thoughts.
" Sorry." She said and sigh and she turned her head from him. He touched her pink hair smoothing his hand down it like you would pet an animal. Isn't that what she was now? Just a wild animal? A animal for her thirst? She wanted to laugh at herself. What an existence.
" I have been here long enough. I shouldn't have returned at all. It was childish to think any of you really needed me to make you happy." Sasuke forced her to face him again.
His eyes were burning with determination. Something she had never seen in his eyes past his revenge.
" I need you. I always have Sakura." She knew what he really needed. He needed a woman to give him children. He needed a family again and Sakura could no longer give children to anyone. She could no longer bare children of any sort. She was a dead human. A vampire, but no longer a human.
" You don't need me Sasuke." His fingers dug into her face from his grip on her chin. It didn't hurt but if she had been human it might have.
" Yes...Yes I do." She smiled at him. He looked shocked.
" No...No you really don't. It took me a while to realize it, but you all are better off. You all need to move on. I should have never came back." She sighed and removed his hand from her face.
" I need to leave now." He grabbed her arm as she moved.
" Wait! Why now?" She sighed.
" I can't stay when he's so close. " Sasuke frowned. So she was running from someone? So there was someone out there she longed for? The person she always wanted to go to. The reason she looked so sad while she paced outside of Kohona? The reason she looked far into the distance.
Why was she leaving when he was coming here? Did she not want to see him? Who was he? Another vampire? Why would she want to get away from him? Is he the one that turned her?
Sakura knew what Sasuke was thinking but she didn't correct him. She didn't know he followed her, which surprised her. She should have realized that, too lost in thought then it seemed.
How could she tell Sasuke the reason she longed to leave? How could she tell him it was his own brother that she was trying to get away from? How could she tell him that she wanted his blood like she had never wanted blood before? How could she tell him that Itachi's scent warmed her.
Sakura blushed. That was it wasn't it? That was something she hid in the depths of her mind. Something she didn't want to really know but did. Itachi gave her that warm she was longing for. Gave her the warmth that would make that missing piece inside her complete. But why? Why Itachi?
Sakura felt something coming up from the depths of her mind. Something that the woman who turned her had told her. Warned her about being a vampire, but she pushed it away. She didn't want to know more. Knowing Itachi was her salvation was bad enough.
To be saved was to be consumed. To be warm meant to belong to someone. To feel whole meant to be with Itachi.
Sakura flinched.
What was really keeping her back? Was it fear? Fear to be consumed by something she didn't understand? Was it fear that kept her from letting herself let go?
Why didn't she just find Itachi and drink from him? Why didn't she find Itachi and... and what?
What was after that? Was it simply to make Itachi hers like Neji was? Though wasn't he already? So what was really the problem here? What did she want Itachi for other then his blood?
What was happening to her? Why did she know that to be near Itachi. To drink from him like she did Neji. To keep Itachi as hers, why did that make her feel like she would be complete then? What was so good about Itachi? What did he have to draw her like this?
How would he be the one to save her? To give her a reason to live? Give her warmth? Why him?