Temptations

Author's Notes: Thank you all for the reviews! I hope you enjoy this chapter and KEEP reviewing! I actually don't know if I told anyone yet but this is going to be the LAST Sakura x Sasuke story I am going to write. I'm in love with Neji x Sakura pairings now. So you can also always read those too!

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or the anime. I own nothing but the story line.

Summary: Every vampire has its own special mate in which they can only love. It is fate that chooses their bride. Everyone found theirs, everyone except Sasuke. Although he had plenty of female company, nothing stirred within him. So on the day when he is called in to find his "Bride", he gets a little unlucky. Because you see every vampire gets a vampire Bride. But in Sasuke's case he gets a human Bride, a pink hair ninja who is scared out of her wits. But after their marriage, things start to unravel to a thousand year prophecy that could end the vampire clan completely.

.:Chapter 5:.

Realizations

I wake up to warmth that I'm sure no vampire is accustomed to. It is questionable where this might have come from, it had such an intense heat that I woke up instantly afraid that it might be fire. Rather than seeing a world of flames, I saw my Bride sleeping next to me.

It would explain a lot, I mused to myself. She is a human after all, a human where they produce heat. I laid back down, finding that I enjoy the gentle heat her body gave off as she rested curled next to me.

During the hours that passed by as my Bride slept next to me, I found myself wondering many things. What would it be like if I were to wake up to her as a vampire and not as human? What if I had been human all my life and I had found her and married her, would it have been any different? Would her blood taste just as amazing if she was not my Bride? What would it be like to take her blood after she has turned into a vampire? Would she ever change to let me have more power? Would it be strange to wake up to a cold body instead of her warm human one?

I sighed and shifted closer to my Bride. I wanted to enjoy the warmth a little longer because it was as close to the feeling of the ray of sunshine as I could ever get in my long life. When the maid knocked on the door, I was surprised at myself for how long I've stayed in bed. I'm normally up the minute my eyes open. My maid was more surprised, I'm sure, when she opened the door to see that I was not out of bed. After I shooed her out of my room after she inquired if I was sick, I returned back to my position of watching my Bride sleep.

She slept like a rock. It's been hours and she hasn't once stirred. It quickly dawned on me that the weeks of trauma and distress, plus all the blood loss, has quickly lead her to this exhausted state. My mind wandered to the thought of would this continue in a cycle if she remained human and me drawing blood from her often?

When Sakura shifted herself closer to me, I felt an odd stir in my chest. Emotions, a thing that has not really occurred to me in my long lonely life until she has come along, came about. Afraid, I slipped smoothly out of her arms. I honestly thought Sakura would still be asleep when I came back from getting ready for the day. I was surprised to see that she was awake and sitting in bed. She looked almost as if she was waiting for me.

Sakura didn't greet me. She simply looked at me with those green eyes of hers. But in the depths of the emerald, I could see a hurricane of emotions. I became afraid of those emotions brewing in those depths. My body tensed when she came to stood up, her eyes captivating mine. I felt like I was entranced into a state of mind where I did not know who I was and I had no control over myself. I wondered if it was because Sakura wanted to keep me still and was doing so by using our bond.

I was in complete shock when Sakura suddenly threw herself against me. She pressed herself tightly against me, wrapped her arms around my neck, and pulled down as she tipped herself up. She did the only thing that I never thought she would ever do willingly: kiss me.

I can't say the kiss was very gentle. It was firm but undemanding. It was a tightly closed lip encounter. After she had pressed her lips against mine, she had shut her eyes. It took me a few seconds to respond by pressing my body closely to her. My hormones were out of control the moment she pressed herself against me.

I turned the simple kiss into something more. We moved our lips together. It became about hunger. It became about this raw emotion that was so deeply laced into our minds that we could no longer separate it away from the other emotions to put a label on it.

We ended up on the bed again. I was on top of her, ravishing her lips. I pulled away to let her get a few gasps of air while I kissed the skin of her neck, careful to restrain myself from biting her. I pressed my lips to hers again after I believed she had gain enough air.

My ears were pounding from this sound that I had only once heard when I hunted prey for fun. It was the sound of a heartbeat. It was the sound of my Bride's heartbeat. The warmth that was spreading all across the body beneath me was too vivid. I felt like it was scalding me in this most undeniable pleasure.

I ground my lower body against hers to elicit a moan, a move I knew so very well no female could resist. I got the respond I wanted and stopped kissing her to bestow kisses on her ears. I didn't travel far because I just couldn't get enough of her lips.

It was her lips that were the warmest. They swelled and turned red, something that has never happened before in all the women I've slept with. They were hot against my cold lips, full of something that I couldn't describe or have ever known to have felt before.

Suddenly, all the kissing stopped. I was pushed back until I was kneeling on the bed. I watched as Sakura got up herself. Her eyes were foggy, a look I knew very well to be an emotion of desire.

I'm sure I had the same fogginess on my eyes as well. The thing that makes us look most human is our eyes. It is our eyes because we can show emotions in it. We can show warmth in it, a change of temperature despite the dead cold of our skins.

It got my hormones raging again when Sakura darted out her pink tongue to run it along her swollen lips. The fogginess of her eyes slowly disappeared.

"I need to…ask you some things."

I wanted to shoot myself. My hormones were so crazy. She looked so tempting just lying beneath me, all flushed. I wanted to bury myself in her warmth again. I want to hear her heartbeat drumming in my ears as I kissed her. It's been so long since I've had a woman.

But I forced myself to stay calm. There was something she needed; even I could see that through my lustful rimmed eyes. I got off the bed and sat down at a chair across from her. It was the only way to distance myself from temptation. I nodded to her, signaling that I was calm enough to talk.

"If I remain human, what will happen to you?" Sakura asked me.

"I remain the same. I have gained a massive amount of power when the bond was initiated."

"Is it enough?"

I was puzzled. "Enough for what?"

Sakura licked her lips again. Damn her. She shifted on her knees so that she was sitting on the edge of the bed, with her feet touching the ground. She folded her hands in front of her on her lap. I could feel that she was nervous. I could even see it, she was avoiding looking at me. I narrowed my eyes, I'm wondering what on earth is going on in her mind.

"For your revenge." She stated. I froze. What?

Before I could say anything, she asked another question. I think it was her way from saving me from my thoughts. I think maybe I gave her some indication through our bond that I did not want to discuss it. And I think she also knew that it probably wasn't enough power to fulfill my revenge.

"If you die, Sasuke, what will happen to me?"

I thought about what type of answer I should give her. Should I be blunt about the truth? Should I lie? What type of answer is best for a fate that was so cruel?

In the end, I decided to be blunt about the truth. I was going to tell her what was going to happen to her. "You'll live for a while after I die. I've heard it's painful for the human counterpart to live after their mate has died. Sometimes they last long, suffering, and sometimes they go mad with the pain. In the end, it is their fate to die."

"How long did a person last?"

"Two months." I answered.

"How much does it hurt?" She asked. She looked up in fear.

I shrugged. I wasn't human, I wouldn't be able to understand the amount of pain they felt. I decided to tell her what I've read in the legends. "It is as if you're wandering in hell."

Sakura bit her lip. "How will I become a vampire?"

The question surprised me. It gave me some insight on what she was thinking. Did she want to become a vampire? Her desire of it made me question why she would.

"We make love. After that, I take your blood and you take mine. A blood exchange."

"When we got…married," Sakura began. It hurt me to hear the hesitation and confusion on the word marriage. "It hurt to become your…Bride. Will it hurt to become a vampire?"

I inwardly sighed. It seemed as if humans were always being hurt when they became involved with us. "Yes."

Sakura bit her lip again. I pushed my desire away, this was something serious. "Will you get more power?"

I didn't reply, I simply nodded. But I did tell her that it was probably more than enough to take my revenge.

"And what will happen to me when you die?"

"You die at the same moment I die."

"So there is no pain?"

I shook my head.

Sakura looked away from me at that point. It seemed as if the questions had stopped. I wondered if I should kiss her again. I thought perhaps kissing her would make her forget because I could tell that my answers have brought her some sort of pain that I could not really see. And I wanted to continue where we left off.

Men think about sex every four seconds, I don't think I should be much of an exception. After all, my Bride is beautifully exotic and very desirable.

Sakura let out a bitter laugh and I was puzzled. It was a strange reaction.

"It seems that no matter what I am, human or vampire, there is pain for me to endure." She said.

"It seems as if humans have it very hard in general."

Sakura let out a hearty laugh at my comment. I felt satisfied that it had brought her some comfort. She stood up from the bed and stood in front of me. She took leaned forwards and took my face in her hands. I leaned forward slightly because I thought she was going to kiss me. She leaned closer and closer. If I had a heart, it'd be pounding right about now. She was so close to my lips. I kept my eyes open and she did too. We were staring at each other as our faces became closer together.

Her breath warmed my face. I was anticipating the kiss.

"Make me a vampire then." She whispered against my lips.

I was shocked.