Chapter 5

"Violets! Violets for sale!" A young girl's voice rang through the streets of London.

But everyone that passed her just looked straight ahead without even looking at her.

'This is going to be a long night,' the girl thought to herself.

Then she saw a black haired man walking toward to where she was standing. He was even looking at her.

'Finally. Someone that might by some flowers!' she thought joyfully. "Pretty violets!" she said as the came closer until he was right in front of her.

Itachi looked at the young girl that was trying to sell him flowers. 'Tasty,' he thought to himself as he leaned toward her neck and she screamed.

He licked his lips from his delicious meal as he left the girl, lying there dead.

As soon as he turned the corner, he heard a police mans whistle sound off alerting other people of the now dead girl.

He turned another corner and came to a theater. He walked into the theater.

There were hundreds of people there sitting in there seats and watching a show.

As he turned his head, he spotted two women and two men sitting in one of the theater boxes.

One woman had blond hair that was tied into two low ponytails but some of her that was too short to be put into the ponytails gently framed her face. She wore a fancy emerald green dress.

The man sitting next to her had his brown hair tied into a high ponytail. He wore a black suit with a black bowtie around his neck. Across his face, on the bridge of his nose was a scar. He recognized this man as Doctor Iruka Umino who currently had Deidara in his sanitarium.

The man next to him also wore a black suit. But he looked completely different from the other man. For one thing, he was much paler then the doctor was. His hair black with a bluish tint to it and it stuck up in the back.

As his eyes turned to the fourth and final person sitting in the box, his eyes widened in wonderment.

It was a young girl, no older then seventeen. She had pick hair that fell to her shoulders. She was wearing a beautiful white gown with the sleeves falling of her bare shoulders, showing off her slender, lily white neck.

He couldn't get a good look at her from where he was standing. As soon as intermission took place, he made his way to where a nearby stair case was.

As he reached the top, he spotted a maid walking by him. "Excuse me, miss," Itachi called out to her.

The brown haired maid turned to look at him. But as soon as she did, she was caught in his hypnotic stare.

"I want you to tell Doctor Umino that he has a call on the telephone," he commanded her as the maids honey colored eyes glazed over. "And after you deliver the message, you will remember nothing."

She nodded her head and turned to head over to Doctor Umino's box with Itachi following close behind her. "Doctor Umino," she said. "You're wanted on the telephone."

"Yes. I'll be right there."

"Oh Father, if it's from home, tell them that I will be spending the night at Tsunade's."

Just as Doctor Umino was about to step out of the box, into the hallway, Itachi stepped in front of him.

"Pardon me," he said. "I could not help but overhear your name. You wouldn't happen to be Doctor Iruka Umino of London's Sanitarium, would you?"

"Yes I am," Iruka replied. "Is there something I can help you with?"

"I am Count Itachi Dracula. I just bought Carfax Abby. I believe it's next to your Sanitarium."

"Oh, yes that's right," Iruka replied. "I guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other from now on."

Then he turned back to the people that where in his box that were now watching them. "Count Dracula, I must introduce to everyone here."

He turned to the pick haired girl. "This is my Daughter, Sakura."

"Count Dracula," she said as she bowed her head in respect.

"This is her friend, Tsunade," Iruka said, gesturing over to the blond haired girl.

"How do you do," she replied.

"And finally," Iruka concluded. "This is my daughter's fiancée. Sasuke Uchiha."

"Nice to meet you," Sasuke said as he held out his hand to shake Itachi's

Itachi just looked at his hand.

Iruka cleared his throat to stir the uneasy silence. "Well, Count Dracula here has bought Carfax Abby."

"Oh," Sakura exclaimed. "It would be nice to see light in those dismal windows."

"Yes it would," Iruka agreed. "Oh, excuse me. I'm wanted on the telephone." Then, he turned and left.

"But," Sasuke said after a while. "It is a bit of fixer upper. I'll be happy to help you if you want."

"I'll be doing very little repairing to it," Itachi said. "It reminds me of the broken battlements of my castle in Transylvania."

"Well," Tsunade said. "The Abby always reminds me off… Lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter as though the dead were there."

Sasuke and Sakura laughed nervously after her last sentence. "Well, wasn't that pleasant," Sasuke said.

"But there's more, even nicer," she continued. "Quaff a cup to the dead already, hooray for the next to die!"

"Oh, never mind the rest Tsunade!" Sakura exclaimed.

Itachi turned looked at Tsunade. "To die," he said. "To be really dead. It must be wonderful."

"Why do you say that," Sakura asked him.

Itachi turned and looked at Sakura and looked into her bottle green eyes. "There are far worse things, then death. I can assure you."

Before anything else could be said, the lights went out to signal the second act.

Itachi looked over at Sakura, who's attention was caught be the players on the stage. 'She'll make a fine bride. So, young. So, beautiful. So, pure. So, so… scrumptious. How ever,' he looked over at Sasuke. 'That boy could get in the way. Well not for long.' Then he looked at Tsunade. 'She'll make a good meal,' he thought to himself as he left the box with a smirk on his face.

A.N. I bet you thought that I had died or something! Anyway, I'm sorry for not updating sooner. I'd like to thank my reviewers: Bakemono Hana, Millii, AmberStallion, alana124pyro, Lioness Of the fire, and Sam-AKA-SakuxSasuLover. Thank you so much for reviewing! I'll update as soon as I can!

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