A/N: Hey guys! Compared to my past chapters, this one is pretty short. I'm sorry for that but my next one, I promise you, will have some drama. Just cope with me on this one, kay? Also, I might try an experiment later. Only because a friend of mine told me about a second season for an anime I haven't seen in a while. I might Naruto-nize it. But it's only a thought.
I do NOW OWN ANY of the Naruto characters or the story. If I did, I would kill Danzo myself and have the Uchiha clan be treated equally with the Senju clan, not gathered in one distant part of the village and be under tight surveillance. God, that still ticks me off… Anyway! Thank you for those that reviewed and I hope you like this chapter! I'm so happy that this story is doing so well. Thank you and enjoy!
Ch. 11: Cats and Hellhounds
Memory 2:Kitty Cat…
"Sasuke, come down from there," Itachi commands, raising his voice so that his little brother can hear him.
Sasuke lifts himself up on the thick tree branch and stands on it. "Why, nii-san?"
On the ground, about eighty feet below were Sasuke is, Itachi is on solid ground looking up at the high willow tree that Sasuke's on. Itachi has his hands on his hips while looking up at his little brother as Sasuke is walking on the tree branch as if he's walking on tight wire. "Because you're too high up in the tree," he answers. Well actually from how it looks, Sasuke is on the lowest branch of the tree. It just so happens to be really high up above the ground. "What if you fall?"
"I won't fall. I climb up here, didn't I?" Sasuke asks, the amusement still on his face. "Besides even if I do, I'll be alright."
"Because you always land on your feet? Or because I'm here?" Itachi asks, an amused smirk on his face. Sasuke pouts when he heard that and he stops walking. This time he has his hands on his hips when he's talking down to him.
"Hahaha. Go ahead, tease me. You don't have to protect me all the time."
Then all of a sudden a wave of hunger pulse through Sasuke's body and staggers him. He suddenly lost his balance and begins to fall backwards. He makes no attempt to turn right side up and land gracefully like he always do from great heights. Seeing him fall like that, instantly Itachi reacts. He rushes over to where Sasuke will land and opens his arms to him, reaching for the little boy. His little brother lands right in them and Itachi falls to the ground from the weight.
"Umff!"
Sasuke lays on top of Itachi and Itachi has his back against the ground. Seeing that the boy is safe, he tries to laugh out of relief and to lighten the mood. "Looks like I do, otouto." He continues to laugh, soon to expect after his little brother stops pouting, he would start laughing too but when the older vampire looks down, he sees Sasuke with his eyes closed tight, his expression in pain, and a hand clench tight together over his throat. His own eyes widen when he sees the little boy in pain and sits up, holding the now trembling boy. "Otouto? Are you alright?"
Sasuke squint his eyes open and his hand reaches for his brother's collar and he grasps onto it for dear life. "I'm…thirsty…" he whimpers, pulling himself up.
Itachi understood. "Right." He helps Sasuke up until the boy's forehead is leaning against his shoulder and his panting breath brushing against his chest. "Go right ahead." Sasuke became more than happy to obey.
The young vampire moves one hand up Itachi's face to his hair. When he grasps his brother's low ponytail, he pulls slightly. Enough for Itachi to tilt his head to the side and expose more of his neck. Then Sasuke uses his other hand to grasp his brother's shoulders and hoists himself up a little more. His eyes red with hunger and his fangs growing longer in his little mouth. The burning in his throat needs to be replenished at once. Itachi sharply gasps when he feels that piercing pain in his neck. But he relaxes seconds later. It seems that the pleasure of his little brother's bite came in sooner than before. Now he hardly feels the pain so long as he gives in early. All there will be is pleasure.
Sasuke releases his brother's hair and wraps his arm around his back. His nails dig into Itachi's skin as his nails penetrate deeper into his brother's flesh. Itachi let out a deeper moan and he couldn't help what happens next. He leans back until he's lying on the ground, his arms on the ground and Sasuke holding him closer. The moans go deeper and very soon, Itachi is sweating. His hair and shirt is soon glued to his face and shoulders by the sweat and his eyes turn red from the blood loss and appear hazy with lust and pleasure. Then to his distaste, Sasuke stops. He retracts his fangs and licks the remains of his blood off the salty, damp skin. As disappointed as he is that it's over, Itachi tries to collect himself when he feels Sasuke releasing him and lifting himself off to hover over the older Uchiha vampire's body. Big onyx eyes stare down at him as he tries to catch his breath.
"Nii-san, you look weird."
Well that's unexpected. "How so?"
"You're under me."
Hearing this causes a smirk of mischief and amusement to appear on Itachi's face as he asks, "How is that so weird, otouto?" Instantly the younger Uchiha vampire flushes red and he sits up, looks away, and fiddles with his fingers, totally embarrassed.
"Well..ah…" Now he's speechless. So cute.
"Want me to change that?" Before Sasuke knew it, Itachi grasps his wrists and tackles him to the ground. "Gotcha!"
"Ah! Nii-san!"
Now with Itachi pinning Sasuke down on the ground, his hands no longer on his wrists but rather leaning on the ground on both sides of the younger boy's head, light-hearted giggles ring out into the night. Itachi looks down at his little brother, stopping his laughter sooner than Sasuke's and he could see the little boy looking at him in confusion while Itachi's smirking. "You know I am getting a little thirsty. Want to feed me, otouto?" Then he leans to Sasuke's neck and starts nibbling on the skin. Sasuke was expecting his older brother to actually bite him. Not tickle him at his sensitive spot.
"Nyaa~ nii-san! Th-Th-That tickles!" He continues to laugh and Itachi continues to tease him. Mixing in with that laughter, Sasuke starts meowing. Hearing those kitty cries, Itachi stops. He pulls away to have him face to face with his little brother. Sasuke stops laughing when he started to feel Itachi's hair tickle his cheeks and cheek bones.
"Not only do you act like a cat, you sound like one. My little koneko-chan." He gives him a small Eskimo kiss and Sasuke giggles from the contact. Then Itachi gets off of the little boy and helps him up. Sasuke still had that small innocent smile on his face until he sees the bite marks he left on Itachi's neck; the bite marks that started to heal. He kept staring at them until they completely disappeared on his older brother's neck.
"Ne, nii-san?" Itachi looks down with a smile from earlier events but when he sees Sasuke's sadden expression, he becomes confused and taken off guard. The little boy doesn't even look at him in the eye as he says, "You don't always have to go so far for me."
"You're right, I don't have to," he answers, shrugging his shoulders. Sasuke looks up at him at that, startled to hear that. "But I want to." Itachi forms a gentle smile on his face with warm eyes complimenting it and Sasuke now has wide eyes, a surprised expression, and a small blush on his cheeks. Not as bad before but still red. The older vampire rolls his eyes playfully at his little brother's reaction to his words. He then pokes the little boy's head with his fingers, like always and he asks, "How many times do I have to tell you? You are my precious otouto. I promise to protect you with my life. I won't ever leave you."
"Forever and ever, nii-san?"
"Forever and ever."
"You want me to what?"
"Exhaust the hellhound puppies. Isn't it obvious?"
Before the two siblings is a small fence surrounding a fifteen radius circled area and inside that circle is a bunch of hellhound puppies playing with each other; or devouring metal, breathing out fire, or having a fight with its own three heads. From the looks of it, there might be sixty of them or is there twenty because Itachi accidently took one head as a hellhound when they have three heads? But yet again, a hellhound has a different amount of heads depending on the breed. Sasuke has a blank expression on his face at the sight of them while Itachi is showing the most emotion he has ever showed anyone; pure and utter disgust.
The older looking vampire turns to Sasuke and asks with a very, very dead voice, "How on earth did you vampires get hellhounds?"
Sasuke answers, as if it were simple knowledge, "Well after you left, a big pack of them attack our lands. Of course we took action and we had no choice but to kill them. However, we found these little guys and took them in, by the Kyuubi's will of course. We're raising and training them so that they may one day protect our castle but it's taking a while. That was more at least twenty years, you know."
Even his thoughts sound dead and full of dread as Itachi thinks, 'I know. It's common knowledge to know that hellhounds take at least thirty to fifty years before they are full grown and these things can live over a good HUNDRED YEARS OLD!'
"For now, they're still pups and will be receiving more difficult training when they're older. Right now, they need to play or they'll tear the castle to shreds and you're just the right man for the job."
'He knows I HATE dogs. That's why he's making me go through with this. Masters usually teach their 'slaves' everything there is to know about how to be a vampire but because I already know that, he's making me go through petty chores as punishment for betraying the family.' "What happened to the one who exhausted them before?" Itachi dares to ask as calmly and composed as he can. Sasuke can actually hear the deep annoyance and distaste in his older brother/slave's voice.
"You can say that he's on a time-out," he answers. A time-out? What is this? A vampire Uchiha Day Care Center? "He did something he wasn't supposed to and I'm going to have to punish him for that. But I can do that later once I make sure you get the job down. I know you won't take long. Now go on. The hellhounds don't tire themselves out you know. Or at least, not for a while." If Itachi would just let his high-class, professional charade slip just one, Sasuke would know the full extent of how Itachi feels about this job. For now, only the Kyuubi will know, that is if he's even interested in listening to Itachi's thoughts at all.
Knowing that nothing will get done with him just standing there, cursing in his head and letting his stoic composure slip away bit by bit, Itachi turns to the contents of the fence and stares at the pups. He knows he better start tending to them otherwise Sasuke will order him to and then he really has to do it. Maybe if he does it pup after pup, it would make this a little easier. Yes, it'll take longer and he's outside in the hot sun with no breeze what so ever but if he tries to take them all at once, he'll defiantly lose his sanity and never gain it back. He looks over the small pack and tries to get into eye contact with at least one of them. One hellhound pup notices that he's being stared at and looks up at the source. Itachi tries to smile at the pup while kneeling down and offering his hand to the little animal, hoping to fool it by showing that he's friendly but he knows just as well as the pup that the smile is totally fake and crocked looking. All Sasuke does is stand there and watch with a blank expression and crossed arms.
Bark
Well that became a surprise and it became more so when the pup with the three heads starts running to Itachi. It looks almost happy to go over to him and a thought passes though Itachi's head that maybe, just maybe, this job won't be so bad after all. He had no idea how wrong he was.
As soon as the pup was close, it instantly chomps on Itachi's hand all three of them. Usually a dog bite wouldn't affect Itachi so; considering that he went through so much worst but this is the first time he's ever been bitten by a hellhound and if the legends were true, their fangs can slash the vampire skin faster than a purified, holly dagger of the church.
There became a really long silence for probably the longest moment anyone has ever seen. Sasuke still only stands there, observing as even the other puppies became quiet. Rather it was the curiosity of how Itachi would react to the bite or the air suddenly tensing and becoming very chilling, no one knows. Everything was silent. Although for one moment, Sasuke's shoulder twitched as the silence and stillness continues to lengthen. Finally it ended with Itachi's other hand rising up to the puppy…
"You can't kill it," Sasuke quickly orders, knowing full well of Itachi's intentions. Itachi's hand twitched slightly.
"I wasn't going to kill it," Itachi corrects. If anyone denser than log, actually denser than Naruto, that person would think that Itachi must be smiling from the sound of his voice. But look into his eyes and you will see every possibly way for Itachi to not only kill the puppy biting his hand but also cause it so much misery, pain, and shame, it'll regret the day it was born for many life times. "I was simply trying to pray him off of me."
"By aiming for their necks?" Sasuke asks, not believing him one bit.
"I was going to grasp the skin on the back of their necks to paralyze them and then pull them off." As the wheels in his head turn at rapid speed to think of ways to have his little brother believe him, one thought came and Itachi, despite how sickened he will be later and how much this is going to hurt his pride, curls his lips up into a reassuring and convincing smile. He very slowly, and the way his hand moved it looks like it was broken and forcing itself to move, petted the puppy, or at least one of the heads and says, "See? Nice puppy." The dog bites harder and Itachi's smile twitched a little as blood begins to come dripping out. Very convincing…
"Wipe that fake smile off, Itachi," Sasuke orders. "It's shameful to resort to your prostitute tricks on me."
Damn…
Itachi completely loses the smile and a vein is pulsing on his head, a really big one. Sasuke lets out a sigh, completely bored and then snaps his fingers. On the silent command, the puppy lets go and runs off to its brothers and sisters. That's all it took? A simple snap of the fingers from the great Uchiha Sasuke? Now Itachi really does feel like killing something as his hand bleeds a little longer before healing instantly. While he's glaring a passage way to excruciating pain and suffering at the dog that dares to run away as if nothing happened, the bored looking vampire walks to Itachi.
"Let me get one thing perfectly clear, Itachi." The older vampire feels Sasuke grabbing his hair again and forcing him to look up. Sasuke's face is right up to his, only inches away from his and he's forced to look directly into onyx black eyes slowly turning to crimson red ones. "You are play with these puppies till they collapse with exhaustion. I don't care how you do it, just do it without killing another vampire or setting them to attack the castle. I am your master and you will not disobey or disappoint me. Tell me you understand, Itachi."
Itachi grimaces at his 'master' but he has to respond. He took a moment but he answers, "I understand, otouto." His scarlet eyes narrow at that, but he lets go of his older brother's hair before he does or says anything he knows he's going to regret later.
But he does grab Itachi's hand and examines it. Itachi watches him as Sasuke confirms that the wound has healed and now there's nothing but blood on his ivory hand. The older-looking vampire was expecting the younger one to lick the blood away but he lets it go and stands up to walk away. He order, "Clean that hand up. That scent provokes more than just vampires."
Itachi looks at the blood on his hands and he becomes confused. Was it not Sasuke who told him that now as his master, he can take his blood whenever he wants? That he belongs to him and instead he gives up the opportunity to lick his blood from his skin and devour his blood. For some stranger reason, Itachi feels almost…disappointed. Like he was expecting more but didn't get it. So then he does as he's ordered, feeling no objection to not follow them but knowing in his mind that he hates to really be ordered around like some item. He takes one lick of the blood and when the taste of it hit his tongue, he looks back at it in wonder.
"You taste better than tomatoes."
'No, little brother,' he thinks, remembering the naïve, innocent words that once belonged to his ingenuous little brother. 'It tastes like dirt.'
I feel like in every Itachi/Sasuke memory, there has to be a bite. I know it's only the second memory but gotta show that Sasuke feeds off of Itachi and he likes it. Oh well. I know the next memory, it'll just be cute. Hehe!
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