A/N: Here's the next chapter! This is a plot-central chapter. Much to ItachiSasukeSama's dismay. Don't worry though, there's still a little brotherly love xD

Enjoy!

"Why do you want to know about it?"

"Can't you just answer a simple question without replying through another question?" Sasuke whined in annoyance.

Neji smirked. "Of course I could, but I find your inquiry to be very odd. Wouldn't you agree?"

"It's been done before! How else would a pureblood vampire be conceived?"

"It's done for that purpose exactly. There's no other socially acceptable reason for it."

Sasuke frowned and pouted sadly at his friend. "You do it though. Don't you?"

Neji nodded. "Our situations are quite different, Sasuke. My decision to sacrifice myself in such a way was not based on a desire for pleasure. It was out of love for someone who wanted me in that way- and knowing that the person I love would never understand why it's frowned upon."

"I do love Itachi-Nii! It's not just out of pleasure that I want to have a sexual relationship with him. We'll both feel good, right?"

"Yes, of course. To answer your first question- yes, vampires can feel sexual pleasure. But I'd think you'd know that already by now, Sasuke. You feel sexual arousal, don't you?"

"I try not to. I don't want to embarrass Itachi… it would make him very uncomfortable to know that I get that much out of… whatever it is that we do."

Neji raised a curious eyebrow in disbelief.

"What?" Sasuke asked, suddenly quite self conscious about his words.

"Do we know the same Itachi Uchiha?" Neji asked with an amused snigger.

"What? Yes!" Sasuke fumed, already able to tell that he would be pissed off by the rest of his friend's statement.

"That would be the Itachi Uchiha who devoted every second of his life to you since the day you were shoved into his bedroom fifteen years ago?"

"Yes." The Uchiha hissed.

"The Itachi Uchiha who has on multiple occasions nearly died letting you drink your fill of his blood?"

"C'mon that's not fair! He just-"

"The Itachi Uchiha who never allowed himself a single sip of your blood, lest he may harm you. The same one who still has to be coaxed and persuaded into biting."

"It's not my fault he's so stub-"

"The one who fell in love with you when he was too young to even understand what love is?"

"What are you getting at?" Sasuke insisted in an impatient whiny tone.

Neji sighed as if it should have been obvious. "Itachi has always accepted you, and always love you, and always cared for you- no matter what. You seriously think he's going to be surprised that at fifteen you're showing an interest in sex? I hate to say it Sasuke, but you're pretty fucking dense sometimes."

The raven opened his mouth to retort, only to be cut off by a soft knock on the door.

"Enter." Neji said passively. He then looked up in shock when a tan skinned blonde smiled and walked into the room.

Sasuke rolled his eyes and chuckled as Neji immediately rose to go fawn over his lover. It must have been odd to love a human. They were so fragile and weak, and with the power a member of Neji's coven possessed, he could easily just keep Naruto as his prisoner if he wished.

That wasn't what he wanted though, he allowed the boy to come and go as he pleased. "Naruto, what are you doing here? It's nearly three in the morning, Love. You should be sleeping."

"I needed to see you." The blonde answered, the smile on his face faltered and for a moment it appeared that he was about to break out in tears.

"What's wrong?" Neji asked.

Sasuke tensed, able to feel the heated aura of his friend's overprotective anger from across the room. Naruto took a deep breath and walked slowly and carefully over to the middle of the room. He stood, perfectly displayed in the dim lighting.

"Sasuke, leave." Neji snapped.

"No, he can stay. It's fine. I just- I had to come here because… I don't know where else to go." Naruto whispered. He took another deep breath and started undoing the top buttons of his shirt.

"Why can't you stay at home with your parents?" Neji asked, careful to use a kind soft voice to make it clear that Naruto was welcome there, but still encouraged to go home and get some rest.

"Well, when I walked through the door, they were already… dead."

Neji's jaw dropped. Who in the world would kill Naruto's parents? Why were humans such cruel and unreasonable creatures? He tried to approach his lover, to comfort him, but stopped when he saw Sasuke's eyes widening. The silver-eyed vampire looked downwards towards where Sasuke was staring and gasped.

Naruto had finished unbuttoning his shirt.

"Naruto," He whispered; sadly observing the intricate mark on the tan skin of his boyfriend's stomach.

"It burned into my skin when I touched my mother's bod- corpse."

"Neji… you know what that mark is." Sasuke whispered frantically.

"Shut up." The longer-haired teen snapped.

"Neji, we need to kill him before it-"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

"Then you need to-"

"GET OUT SASUKE!"

Sasuke sighed, taking one last look at the markings on Naruto's stomach. Truly, he barely knew the kid at all, and couldn't possibly understand how a vampire could be so attached to such a mortal and boring creature. Still, it seemed almost unfair for Naruto to get caught up in supernatural affairs.

It sent a shiver up his spine, and he set off towards his house. Anyway, that was Neji's problem. It was highly unlikely that he'd end up getting involved. He had more personal things to worry about, like why he kept having dreams about Itachi's fangs sinking into his skin- or to be more specific, his inner thighs and lower back. Those weren't places that his Nii-San would ever bite him. It was hard enough to get Itachi to bit his goddamn hand. On a rare occasion his neck. The easiest way was still to coax the bite out of a kiss.

And yet, on some level Sasuke knew that it wouldn't be as difficult as it seemed to seduce his brother. Just as he knew that this new drama with Neji and Naruto would end up involving him. It was just a feeling he had in his gut, that Itachi would never disappoint him, and at the same time, involving himself with humans would always be a bad idea. Especially humans who had been… marked.

Sasuke breathed in sharply, suddenly feeling his senses overwhelmed by the smell of his brother's blood. He followed his nose up to he and Itachi's shared bedroom to see the elder sitting calmly on the bed, deliberately letting a small stream of the precious red liquid drip from his lip.

"You bit your lip." Sasuke said dumbly, staring at the flowing blood with a face of pure lust.

"How else would I get you to come home right away?" Itachi asked with a gentle smirk. He'd known that while he was out hunted his brother would never stray too far from the complex. The farthest he'd go would be the Hyūga complex, and as connected as they were Sasuke would easily be able to smell his blood from there. "Are you just going to let it continue bleeding, Otouto?"

Sasuke shook his head, quickly darting forward and lapping at the delicious metallic substance before sealing the wound. It took a major amount of restraint to not bite into his brother's lip and drink more, but he remembered Neji's comment about how he apparently had a tendency to nearly kill his brother when he fed.

Itachi frowned, sensing that his beloved was stressing about something. "It's fine, Otouto. I've had plenty today, I'm a little too full, actually. I'd very much appreciate if you would drink."

Sasuke nodded, and leaned closer to his brother. He gently moved Itachi's hair away from his neck and bit down softly, taking several deep gulps before backing away. It was different. It was hard to open himself up completely to his brother when he was like this, and Itachi could feel it too.

"What's wrong?" Itachi asked, internally freaking out at the idea of not knowing what was wrong with his brother. It had rarely ever happened before, surely during all the years of knowing each other they'd gotten into several arguments and had a few misunderstandings- but never had they been so completely out of touch. "You're not telling me something, what is it?"

Sasuke crawled into the older Uchiha's lap, he knew he was too old for such things, but neither of them really cared. "There's two things, actually." Sasuke mumbled, against his brother's ear, sucking gently at the lobe, letting it graze against his teeth and elongating his fangs, deliberately teasing himself.

"The one that's been on my mind a lot lately is that- well, to put it lightly; I want to take the next step in our relationship."

"What next step?"

"You know… the next step."

"You mean, in a romantic way?"

"Yes, in a very romantic way."

Itachi sighed, wrapping his arms around his brother and leaning back on the bed, letting Sasuke's weight rest on his chest. "I understand. We'll talk about that later, I promise. I figured it was only a matter of time, you're around that age. What about the other thing that's bothering y-"

Itachi gasped as Sasuke's teeth unexpectedly sunk into his neck. The weasel moaned, lost in the feeling of being claimed properly by his brother. Apparently whatever the second thing was, it clearly wasn't bothering Sasuke that much.

But Itachi was wrong. Sasuke was very bothered by what he'd seen just a few short minutes ago. He was sad for Neji, sympathetic for Naruto, but most of all, he was distraught. Distraught because he knew exactly how it got there, and exactly who had put it there.

Even worse, he couldn't dare tell a soul.

A/N: Not too confusing, right? Idk why it would be, it just seemed a little fast pace… anyway, I'm in California at the moment so updates will be slightly less frequent, as I'm not as comfortable sitting in front of my host's computer all day… that wouldn't make me a very good guest. Sorry for any spelling or grammatical errors.

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