AnimeCrasherz: Short but sweet and kinda bloody...
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Short recap: Our fateful main characters were staying at this old woman's house. They go to sleep in separate rooms, and when Hinata wakes up in the morning Sasuke, the old woman, and her cat are gone.
Chapter 3, What is he?
Hinata frantically searched the house, boldly tearing apart every room, even poking her head under the beds. Sasuke and the old woman pulled a disappearing act on her... There was no indication of anybody being in Sasuke's bed: the blankets were left untouched and tidy. Hinata called out for Sasuke and the old woman, but, realizing the house was empty, decided to go outside.
At first glance, the clearing in the forest was desolate and empty, and her anxiety grew.
Nothing could have prepared her for what she was about to see.
Taking a closer look at the fresh now, she was able to make out footprints leading towards the forest. Naively following them , she tumbled through the path they marked in the snow. The trail led her to an old shack, built behind a grove of trees as if it was meant to be hidden. Surprise dominated her anxiety; the shack wasn't made of gingerbread, it was made of plain wood, and the walls and snow outside were stained with red.
Of course, the liquid could be candy mix (yeah!) and this shack could be some sort of full kitchen, and in her mind Hinata desperately wanted to believe that.
Curiosity gripped her, and though it was not stronger than her dread she had nowhere else to go, nothing else to do but die in this forest alone if she didn't find Sasuke or the old woman.
Cautiously pushing the door slightly ajar, she allowed a white eye to peer inside the very dimly lit room. Although the details were hard to discern properly, she was able to make out most of the horrifying scene.
Two figures stood on either side of the room, or rather, one stood - the other dark figure was crucified on a couple of sloppily nailed planks. Hinata could hear low growls emanating from the crucified figure, and every so often it struggled against the binds on its wrists and legs.
This could only make the tall figure on the other side of the room laugh sadistically. Between laughs he hacked violently, and spit out a wet stick - could it be a bone?- to another side of the room. Following the 'bone' with her eyes, Hinata suppressed the fierce urge to scream as she saw it land on a dripping carcass the size and shape of a small human. Feeling last night's dinner rush to her throat, she gulped down sour acid, feeling tears sting her eyes.
After another belly-laugh, the dark, standing figure walked near small, lifeless pile of - fur?
The old woman's cat! Hinata's mind screamed. The old woman...? Could that mean...
"Come now..." the dark figure's smooth, deep voice suggested malice disguised as playful mischief, "you can't be all that hungry, after that wonderful feast of disgusting food that delicious old woman cooked for you last night!" He (Hinata could only assume it was a "he".) picked up the matted, coarsely hairy mess by its tail and dangled it in front of the crucified victim.
Sniffing the dried blood in the air, the crucified 'creature' violently fought against its steely bindings, squirming and struggling desperately. A primitive hunger overtook his senses and his eyes clouded over. All of his memories were suppressed to an abandoned part of his mind. All his body knew now was an overwhelming, perverse thirst for meat, flesh, blood...
A frustrated cry escaped from his lips and the vibration of it shook the dingy planks he was nailed to. He convulsed more and more until his coughs rippled and shook his entire body.
"You want it, don't you, Sasuke..." the standing dark figure chuckled menacingly, and his smile turned from enjoyment to fury, "You want it, YOU WANT IT!? BEG FOR IT! SCREAM, CRY FOR IT LIKE THE PUSSY YOU ARE!"
And with a slap that's noise pierced the air and caused Hinata to wince, the figure struck Sasuke, and let him whimper and cry in desperation as the battered cat was devoured.
She couldn't help it... Hinata gagged. She knew as soon as the first pathetic little, squeaky coughed escaped her lips that she was discovered.
"You!" The standing figure turned around suddenly and stormed over with shocking speed to where Hinata stood. In a last-ditch effort to escape, Hinata slammed the door shut and ran as best she could through the ankle-deep snow. What she wouldn't give to be in a lonely castle with a boring, 60 year old man right now!!
The figure caught up behind her, and clamped his claws around her neck. Carrying her by her arm and shoulders so that she could not see him, he half-dragged her back to the shack. Once in the acrid darkness he kicked the door shut with such a force that it shook the walls, and dragged a futilely protesting Hinata over in front of Sasuke. Her petrified screams were barely audible over the snorts of the two angry vampires (she figured out that much by now).
"No! No!" she clawed at her captor's leathery skin, but her fingers were the ones bleeding.
"Oh, Sasuke... Dear, sweet, King's brother..." the figure breathed out the words slowly, "I brought you this- this sweet little wench to quench your thirst... here... have a taste!"
The filthy creature ripped out a thin strip of the pale flesh of Hinata's shoulder, dangled it in front of Sasuke for a second, and tossed it inside Sasuke's open, drooling mouth.
Hinata screamed and screamed. Nobody would save her now; her very escort through this hellish afterlife wished to have her inside of his stomach.
Chewing and mashing the tender, warm meat between his pointed teeth, something inside Sasuke awakened. The sweet blood... it was more than he could bear. With one final wanting cry he broke free of the binds and grabbed Hinata roughly. Licking the crimson liquid dripping off her wound and letting it ooze down his throat, he looked up to the figure holding onto her other arm.
Attacking with a primal fury, Sasuke dove for the stunned creatures' throat. Biting down on the tough shred of skin, he spit it to the floor and the shrieking creature - now rolling on the ground, clawing at Sasuke.
This opened a window for Hinata to escape. Running to the exit, she threw her weight against the pine wood door and braved through the pain in her shoulder to turn the large doorknob.
Light poured in from outside, reflecting off of the shimmering snow and invading the room that would have become her tomb. Immediately upon opening the door, the loud shhhhhhh of boiling liquid and steam reached her ringing ears. Instinctively -and stupidly- turning back, what she saw shone a ray of hope through her darkened mind.
The now brightly-lit room allowed her to view the huge, black, leathery wings growing out of the two creatures' backs and stretching out with a filthy majesty. Both creatures were now writhing in pain, rolling on the ground and trying to shield their faces from the light. Sasuke's new victim clawed at his bubbling skin in agony.
Throwing himself towards her, Sasuke shoved Hinata to the side just as his wings disintegrated in a black cloud of steam. He fell, unconscious at Hinata's feet. His broadened shoulders seemed to narrow, and the muscles that were defined against his bloodied skin shrunk to reveal leaner, scrawnier limbs. His teeth, his face became human.
Hinata took a step backwards, and sunk to her knees. Sobs racking her tiny frame, she reached out with her good arm -the one without the piece of flesh torn out of its shoulder.
Hesitantly, she touched Sasuke's cheek, half-expecting his eyes to shoot open and for him to smile and reveal a row of deadly pearly whites.
Her finger smoothed over his face with delicacy, slowly running along the line of his defined cheekbone. She pushed back some of the hair matted to his face by blood and sweat, and as her finger wiped off the blood oozing down his face and dripping to the floor she revealed a more or less clean streak of white, unblemished skin.
Tears fell from her eyes, dripped down her nose and minged with the slimy liquid pooling at her knees.
What was Sasuke?
AnimeCrasherz: I hope the story doesn't get boring... I enjoy writing it and anticipating later -less gory, more feely?- chapters.
Came out a little more violent than expected... Oh well, I hope it's ok?
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