Blood (Sasu x Naru x Ita, others)

23: 私達 の 種類 の 第一号 / The first of our kind:

“Someone is watching us Teme, I can feel his presence… why doesn´t he just show himself?”

´Be careful what you wish for child, ` a deep voice chuckled inside their heads.

“Who are you?” Naruto asked the creepy voice.

´My name is Takafuma and I am the first of our kind and I will be the last…`

“Show yourself!” Sasuke demanded while wrapping his arms around Naruto´s waist in an attempt to calm the trembling blonde down a bit.

´Ah another Uchiha has come before me… well, well and possessive too I see. Alright I will give you the honor of seeing me face to face. `

“Arrogant bastard,” Sasuke hissed while Naruto looked confused and scared.

#Kit… it is time to get your ass moving, # the fox growled in the back of his mind. #This one is dangerous. #

“Teme… Kyuu is telling us to get the fuck out of here… and fast.” Naruto grabbed Sasuke´s wrists and dragged the Uchiha towards the dark forest.

“Leaving so soon?” a deep voice asked from behind them when they had walked less than ten steps.

Naruto froze up and even stopped breathing. He had ignored Kyuubi´s warnings for too long and now it was too late because Takafuma had found them. Kyuubi had begun to convince Naruto to leave after they had searched the first cave but the blonde had ignored her pleas even though he had felt creped out ever since they got here.

Sasuke turned around and faced the ancient vampire first as he didn´t feel intimidated at all.
Naruto on the other hand was trembling in fear when he turned to look upon the smirking creature who seemed to enjoy himself.

Takafuma didn´t look much older than a fifteen year old boy. His skin was pure like white marble and it reflected the pale moonlight. His spiky hair just as white as his skin, he was shorter than Naruto and his intense eyes were red like the blood he needed to survive.

“So you are the last Uchiha, am I right?” Takafuma asked while he circled the two vampires, licking his lips hungrily at their hotness. He wanted them… he wanted both of them to become his pets, to be able play with both of them. He could almost taste the blonde´s fear and it aroused him. The raven haired teen was different; proud and fearless… but he was an Uchiha after all.

“I am,” Sasuke growled while embracing Naruto protectively. He didn´t like the hungry look in white haired vampires eyes and realized that they may have made a huge mistake by coming here without a back-up.

He could feel the incredible amount of power which was beginning to form around the white haired boy´s body. It was clear to Sasuke that Takafuma wanted to enslave them, and that he was trying to make them bow to his will by showing off his power.

Sasuke was pretty sure that Tsunade would have helped them if only Naruto had asked her… A few hunter nin would have been a nice help right now… or if he had allowed Sakura to live and had brought her here as a distraction for Takafuma then Sasuke and Naruto would have had better odds for winning a battle against this hungry being. “Who and what are you?”

“My name you already know,” the vampire chuckled. He reached out and brushed his glass-like nails against Naruto´s whisker marked cheek which made the blonde flinch at the cold touch. “He´s a cutie… can I play with him?”

“No, Naruto is mine and I am his… so cut it out,” Sasuke growled. “Tell us who created you… where are you from… are there others like us?”

~ # ~

Tsunade was about to give up on a cure when Hinata brought her a book from her family´s private library. “My father used to tell me stories about monsters as entertainment when I was younger. I used to believe that there were no such creatures who had to drink blood to survive… or who would get hurt when they were exposed to daylight,” the Hyuuga heir said while opening the book onto a page that she had marked before coming here.

“What are you saying? Does your family have records of such a being?” Tsunade asked while walking over to stand next to Hinata to be able to get a better look at that book.

“Well this book is very old and my father told me that his grandfather acquired this book by stealing it from a mysterious cave in which he had be hiding out during a thunderstorm. My great grandfather didn´t know who wrote it nor if it´s content is real… but I think it is worth a try,” the heiress explained. “There are a lot of details about all sorts of strange beasts and creatures… and I think that a lot of the things which is explained about vampires on this page that might help us… and it somehow reminded me of Sasuke and Naruto.”

“Let me see,” the Hokage said while studying the old book. Her eyes grew wider and wider with each sentence she read, and by the time she was finished reading she had a thoughtful look on her face. “I see what you mean Hinata-chan. It says here that there is a cure and that we have to draw these ancient kanji in blood from a male virgin onto the petrified vampire´s body before the
following full moon, or it will be too late to resurrect him. This might be the solution to our problem… but we need to find a way to test it.”

“Maybe we could try it on Uchiha Itachi,” Hinata suggested. “If this doesn´t work then there is no harm done and he won´t feel the difference. It´s not like it will hurt him in anyway if this possible cure isn´t the right one.”

“… Yes that is a very good idea,” Tsunade decided.

“But how do we get the virgin blood from a shinobi before the next full moon which is in three nights from now? We don´t have the time to get another team to meet with Kakashi´s in time to test it,” the Hyuuga girl asked.

“Well I guess we will have to find out if any one of the shinobi on Kakashi´s team still are a virgin… that is our only chance,” Tsunade sighed before she called for Shizune and ordered her to send a bird to Kakashi´s team right away.

~ # ~

“Where to now?” Sai asked the small pug when they took a quick break after three hours of following Kakashi´s scent.

“I picked up on the scent of the Hyuuga boy. He is close by,” Pakkun told the ink-user.

“Is he alone?” Sai asked the talking dog.

“Yes.”

“Lead us straight to hi”-

“Sai wait… look!” Shikamaru interrupted. The shadow bender had detected one of Tsunade´s hawks and decided to call upon it. The brown hawk obeyed his call, landed on Shikamaru´s arm and allowed him to claim the note.

“... I think we need to talk to Kakashi about this since I don´t have a clue what this is,” said Shikamaru. “The note states that we have to perform a certain ritual on Itachi… but I have no clue where Itachi, Naruto or Sasuke are.”

Sai took the note from the brunette and read it. “… Virgin blood from a male shinobi? Are you or Lee virgins by chance?” he asked Shikamaru.

“No,” Shikamaru stated with a bored yawn. “I´ve had sex already, so count me out.”

“I am no virgin either,” Lee mumbled while his face turned red in embarrassment.

“Who have you been with?” Ten-Ten asked the blushing Taijutsu master.

“…Um I… it´s a secret,” Lee said while staring at the dirt beneath his feet.

“Was it Gai-sensei?” the girl asked him with a giggle. Her suspicion seemed to be correct when Lee´s face turned red as a ripe tomato.

“You and Gai, seriously?” Sai teased.

“So what?” Lee chirped. “What about you then?”

“I´m not a virgin,” Sai stated as a matter of the fact. “I lost my virginity years ago to a guy in my unit who had a huge coc-”

“Yeah we get the picture,” Ten-Ten growled since she didn´t feel like hearing more of the pale skinned nin´s perversities. “…And it has to be blood from a guy? I´m still a virgin so if my blood would do then-”

“It has to be blood from a male or so it says in this note,” Shikamaru told them. “And we have to draw these two kanji onto the Uchiha´s forehead before full moon. Time is ticking… Let´s find Kakashi, Iruka and Neji… maybe they´ll know what to do.”

They found Neji near the petrified body of Itachi when they reached the valley at sunset. The Hyuuga had decided to stay with the Uchiha to keep his body safe from harm because he couldn´t bear the thought that someone might pass through the valley and destroy the beautiful petrified nin. Neji had guarded over him even though Kakashi had been against leaving the Hyuuga behind.

“Neji!” Lee and the others ran up to him before they saw the body of Itachi. The Hyuuga quickly told team five what he and team Kakashi had learned before Shikamaru handed him the note from the Hokage.

“… Virgin blood?” the Hyuuga asked while raising a brow at his fellow shinobi.

“Yeah and since I am female and the only virgin in our team, I don’t count,” Ten-Ten told her former teammate.

“So what do we do?” Lee asked.

“Step aside and let me do this,” Neji sighed and walked up to Itachi before he drew a kunai from his holster and cut the tip of his index finger.

“You’re a… virgin, Hyuuga?” Sai asked before he burst into laughter.

“Yeah so?” Neji hissed. He didn’t even spare the ink-nin a glare and he began to draw the Kanji for life 生命 (seimei) and eternity 永遠 (eien) on Itachi´s cold forehead with his own blood. “I am not the type of guy who sleeps with the first person who crosses my path Sai. I want to have sex with someone I feel love and compassion for… Not just lust and need.”

“… Well if that makes you happy,” Sai said dryly. “So how does this ritual work? You have smeared your virgin blood on the Itachi rock and then what?”

“Sai!” the Hyuuga hissed angrily. He just didn´t get it why Sai was teasing him all the time. It was so annoying that Sai used every given opportunity to bug him; was it about the food he ate, the clothes he wore, what he said or even how he kept his hair.

´The idiot treats me like a girl… just because I have long hair it doesn´t mean that I need anyone to protect me. I am a Hyuuga and I can take care of myself. `

“The note states that you have to… um,” Shikamaru handed the Hyuuga the second part of the note that neither of them had noticed up till now.

Neji read the note in silence while he had everyone´s eyes on him. He reread the instructions twice before he let out a deep sigh. “I need you to give me a few minutes… alone.”

“What? Why?” Sai demanded an answer while he stepped closer to the calm Hyuuga.

“It is none of your business Sai. There is one last thing I will have to do to see if this really is a possible cure or not… Please accept that,” Neji said coldly. He didn´t want all of the them to look at him while he had to do the last thing that would hopefully bring the handsome Uchiha back, and the thing he had to do to free him didn´t really bother Neji at all… it actually sounded appealing to him.

“The others can leave but I will stay here with you. I am the team leader and I am responsible for your safety Neji.” Sai told him with a serious voice.

“I can take care of myself Jōshi-san! (Jōshi = boss/chef)” the Hyuuga growled in a patronizing way while he noticed that Shikamaru and the others decided that it would be best to leave them alone so they left. “What is up with you anyway? You treat me like I´m a weakling. I have worked hard all my life to become who I am today… I don´t need you to put me down. Stop it or I will show you what I am capable off, do I make myself clear?”

“…” Sai stared at the beautiful face which glared angrily at him right now. “I understand. I don´t think that you are weak Neji, I am sorry that you got that impression.”

“…Just stay away from me,” the long haired nin hissed while turning his back on the ink-nin whose dark eyes filled with sadness because of the harsh words.

“I have to perform the final ritual before the blood is fully dried or I will have to do everything all over again… don´t interfere!” Neji walked over to Itachi´s petrified figure and made sure that the bloody kanji weren´t dry yet.

“Alright let´s see if this actually works,” he mumbled to himself before he leaned closer to Itachi and pressed his lips against the Uchiha´s cold ones. The stone was slightly rough against his soft warm lips and Neji was sure that he heard the ink-nin gasp in surprise somewhere behind him.

~ # ~

“Tell us who created you… where are you from… are there others like us?”Sasuke repeated with a growl when Takafuma continued to glare at them as if they were his next meal.

“Mmmm does it really matter who I am or where I came from?” he asked the Uchiha who answered him with an angry glare. “But if you really want to know then I´ll tell you. I am an outcast, a demon who was born during a total eclipse and feared by even my own kind because of my longing for blood. I am nearly as old as the demon who has merged with your pet, and I have only turned one other than Madara.”

“Who?” asked the Uchiha while he never took his eyes of the white haired boy.

“Oh I see that some of him lives on in you Sasuke-kun… My first creation wasn´t perfect though he was a true beauty, just like your blonde here. Sora was a weakling who allowed himself to be captured by your former master who then extracted the vampire gene from my disobedient pet,” Takafuma told Sasuke with a smirk.

“Orochimaru?”

“Yesss he modified the original string of my pet´s DNA, mixed it with some kind of jutsu and used it on you,” Takafuma told him. “You have evolved nicely and so has your first pet I see.”

“W-What happened to the one Orochimaru caught?” Naruto asked after swallowing hard. He was scared of Takafuma and feared that he and Sasuke didn´t stand a chance against this creature.

“He died, Orochimaru tortured him to death… he was too weak anyway,” the smaller boy said as if he didn´t care what happened to his first creation.

“And you don´t care? How could you not care? You turned him and you let him die a painful death?” the blonde screamed angrily, his courage regained because of the white haired boy´s ignorant and cold hearted behavior. Naruto hated it when people treated other´s, especially their friends or lovers, like dirt. “You created him, which means that you had the obligation to protect him. Did you only turn him because of his looks? What about his feelings and dreams? Didn´t they matter to you at all?”

“Control your pet, Uchiha or I will do it for you,” Takafuma growled. He might feel attracted to the Uchiha and his blonde but he would not tolerate this kind of behavior from anyone. The ancient vampire stepped forward and was about to slap Naruto but failed because strong fingers wrapped themselves around his wrist.

“Touch him with that hand and I´ll rip it off,” hissed the Uchiha. “Naruto isn´t my pet or my slave, he is my equal and my spouse. We stand side by side in everything we do and we will bow to no one.”

“… I see,” Takafuma said disappointedly. “I had hoped that you would join me but I see that your beauty covers up a stubbornness which I can and will not tolerate… and if you are not with me… then you are against me.”

~ # ~

Neji closed his eyes and placed both palms against the rough stone cheeks of the Uchiha he was kissing to fulfill the final part of the ceremony with a ´Virgin´s kiss` that would hopefully be able to reverse the petrifaction and free Itachi from his prison.

´Please let this work… this man is too beautiful and skilled to remain like this for all eternity, ` begged the Hyuuga.

He didn´t feel any change at first but the he felt how the texture of the lips he was kissing changed gradually from raw and hard to soft and smooth. He felt how the hard cheeks softened and how the skin slowly became warmer when the heat from Neji´s hands was transferred to Itachi´s pale skin.

~ # ~

Midnight black eyes blinked in confusion when he could feel something again… his fingers, his body, the warm hands on his cold cheeks and the soft pressure against his lips. The first thing Itachi saw when he opened his eyes was a beautiful face of the man who was… was kissing him?

Soft lips moved against his and he just couldn´t resist to kiss back. Itachi, though his muscles and bones still felt cold and stiff, wrapped his arms around the dark haired beauty who had somehow revived him from what he had thought was the very end of him.

The Uchiha could hear the rapidly pounding heart in the other man´s chest and smell the tempting and very arousing scent of his savior’s blood and he just had to taste it. Sharp fangs ruptured the other nin´s lip and Itachi moaned into the kiss while the spicy blood filled him with renewed energy.

Neji leaned into the kiss, overwhelmed by the power and sudden surge of need and lust that emitted from the Uchiha. The Hyuuga had never felt anything like it before and it swiped him off his feet.

“Hey!” An angry voice growled at the kissing men. “It worked so you can stop making out now.”

“Mind your own business,” Itachi hissed with a raw voice and it would be like that a while since it was a side effect of the petrifaction. The Uchiha glared at Sai while holding on to a flustered Hyuuga. “Where are Naruto and Sasuke?”

“We don´t know… we hoped that you could tell us?”

~ # ~

Takafuma wasn´t pleased with Sasuke´s response at all. Disobedient pets like the blonde needed to know their place.

Something like considering a creation to be an equal wasn´t logical. The master was always superior to his creation. Why would he want to consider someone weaker than himself like an equal, which was also why Takafuma had never created more vampires than Sora and Madara.

He had selected the blonde Sora because of his beauty, but the boy hadn´t been turned willingly and Takafuma had soon grown tired of the boy´s endless rebellion. He had allowed the boy to run away and that was also the reason why he hadn´t saved Sora when he had been captured by Orochimaru and his shinobi.

The boy had been too weak to free himself so Takafuma had turned his back on him.

The white haired boy then chose to spend his existence alone till he stumbled across a dying man who had been nearly fully buried beneath a pile of heavy rocks. The raven haired nin had only one eye left since the other seemed to have been removed. Takafuma had originally wanted to bite him and drink what little blood that still remained in this man´s body… but then something happened.

The dying man had opened his remaining eye and had glared right at him before he spoke. “A-Are you the angel of death?”

“… Yes, you could say that,” Takafuma had answered while he stared intensely into the active Sharingan of Uchiha Obito aka. Madara in disguise.

“I will give you anything if you spare my life and give me the means to get my revenge on the clan who abandoned me, not once but twice. I tried so hard to regain their trust but even after I pretended to be Obito they still looked down on me because I was stronger than they were.”

“Why do you even bother? Why not just give up and die by my mercy?” the vampire had asked.

“Because I want them to see that only the truly strong will be able to rule the world.”

He had turned Madara that night because he had believed that they were the same. Takafuma was still stronger than Madara but their way of thinking were similar.

´These two, ´ he glared at Sasuke and Naruto, ´Are they involved in my pet´s death? I can see a battle in their memory but I don´t think that any of those two caused Madara´s death… but… They know who killed him. `

“Who killed my pet?” He asked the two nin while circling around them like a predator circles his pray.

“Your pet?” Sasuke growled while he moved so he and Naruto were standing back to back to be able to defend themselves from all sides if Takafuma decided to attack them. “You mean that shithead Madara, am I right?”

The white haired vampire stopped moving and growled angrily at the Uchiha: “Answer me!”

“Your pet was killed by my brother and now we will kill you.”

TBC