Even though Sasuke was in another room, he could hear his heart thumping in his ear as if he was right next to him. Every inch of his body had a mind of its own, wanting to get out of bed and go into the next room.
"Damn it." he said, cursing under his breath.
His head was pounding so much and he could almost smell and taste the blood. Itachi got out of bed with a blanket around him and walked out of his bedroom. He paused when he was in front of Sasuke's door. Without realizing it, his hand was moving to the doorknob. He couldn't take this anymore. He sucked in his breath, walked away from Sasuke's bedroom door, and went out the door.
Itachi, standing on the doorstep, didn't know where to go however. Anywhere he went there were going to be people around him. He desperately wanted to get away from this. Itachi heard footsteps land on the doorstep and he heard no heartbeat from whoever was by him. Itachi looked to see his maker.
"You sure you want to go out there?"
"This is madness."
"There's 2 hours left for the sun to come up. Want to come with me?"
What choice did he have? Being with her would be better than staying home hearing his brother's heart thumping loudly in his ears. He would be safe at least. Mara opened up her arms as if she wanted a hug but what she wanted from him was for him to come into her arms. He hesitated.
"My place is sound proof. You won't hear anything. Only silence."
Itachi took small steps towards Mara as if he was a kid meeting a mom he hadn't seen for a long time. Mara embraced him when he was close enough to her. Itachi laid his head against Mara's chest. There was no heartbeat from her and he was calm while Mara caressed his hair.
"I'll take good care of you," she said softly against his ear.
-The morning-
The alarm was sounded off but Sasuke didn't wake up. He rolled around in his bed, his hand accidently hitting the alarm making the alarm fall and hit him on the head.
"Ow!"
Sasuke sat up, rubbing the head. He grabbed the alarm and saw that it was 7:30. The alarm had been going off for 30 minutes. Sasuke quickly got out of bed and ran to his brother's room. The room was empty.
"Aniki?"
He looked in the bathroom and then the kitchen. He was nowhere to be found.
"Fuck."
He was going to have to walk to school now.
Itachi was sleeping peacefully in Mara's bed. As Mara said, he couldn't hear anything. He was still hungry though but at least now, he was relaxed. Morning came around and he woke up to find a human by his bedside. Itachi, in a blink of an eye, got out of the bed and moved away from the human who tried to touch him.
"Mara!"
"What?"
Itachi was panting. Another second and he could have probably killed the poor human. He was panting not because of the speed he went off to but because the thirst. Mara was in the bed, sleeping.
"What is this?"
"Food. Come here, Eve."
Eve came around the bed, bowed down in front of Mara, and lifted her wrist to her. Itachi stood there and watched what Mara was going to do.
"Don't you want a better view up close?"
Itachi didn't answer. Instead, his feet began to move by itself. His eyes were glowing red.
Mara took hold of Eve's wrist and pointed to her veins and then her neck, explaining that he could bite these two spots.
"Or… the thighs."
Mara offered the wrist to Itachi. He was holding his breath. He was finally going to quench his thirst. Mara watched as Itachi took hold on of Eve's wrist and licked the soft flesh he was about to bite into. Opening his mouth, his fangs came out and bit hard into the flesh.
Fresh, sweet blood was flowing into his mouth. The more blood he squeezed and sucked, the faster the blood would come out. He gulped down every single blood that entered his mouth and his body was burning up. Mara noticed that Eve was getting dizzy.
"That's it… ok, stop."
Itachi was able to stop but he was still hungry. Blood was rolling down to his chin from his mouth and he felt better than he ever did before. This was going to be a new addiction to him. Addiction to blood that he must live on forever.
At school, Sasuke called his brother on the phone but his brother had forgotten it at home. Where else could he be? He was going to have to walk home from school again in the hot sun. He was about to start walking when he saw a car pull up to him in what seemed like his brother's car. Sasuke opened the door and got in.
"Where have you been?" Sasuke asked once he got in and Itachi started driving.
"Hi to you too."
"Are you going to tell me where you were this morning?"
"Taking a walk."
"A walk?"
"I couldn't sleep last night."
"Usually, you watch TV if you can't sleep though."
". . . . . "
"Did something happen?"
"No."
Sasuke raised his eyebrow. Looking closely at his brother, he noticed something was different about him. He just couldn't put his finger on it. Well, he decided to ignore it.
Arriving home, they settled themselves onto the couch to watch TV. Every Thursday night, they would watch Vampire Diaries. They never missed an episode of it. If one of them were sleeping, the other Uchiha would wake him up to watch together. If both of them were sleeping… well there was always the internet. Sasuke moved closer to his brother to cuddle but he shyly moved away when their skin touched.
"Aniki, you're cold!"
"Really?"
"You're not cold?"
"No."
For the entire night, Sasuke stayed away from him.
Some months later Sasuke was beginning to be suspicious of his brother. Every night Itachi would go out around 12 and come back home at 5:00am to make breakfast. Sometimes he brought a girl home with him and the girl would leave before Sasuke would wake up. It was strange.