Carpe Jugulum!

Disclaimer: ... Not mine.

Also to answer a reviewer question, I don’t like to say particular ages in a story, though I don’t know if I did in this one already XD, but no they aren’t 10, I would say around 15 and 16-ish.

And I have my vampires walk around during the day because I am a firm believer that if life can evolve to survive why can’t vampires develop immunities to the sun? This day in age it would be almost impossible to pass off as a noticeable member of society without being out in the day at least once XD Screwy logic I know, besides it fit the story a lot better ^^

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Carpe Jugulum! (Seize the Throat!)
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From the first time he’d opened his eyes Naruto’s day had gone from bad to worse. The pervert on the train was nothing when compared with the fact that, much like every girl in the school, Sakura-chan, the girl he’d pined after for years, was head over heels for the new guy! That just wasn’t fair! Naruto hadn’t liked the look of the creepy guy at first, but as the day went on and he appeared in more of Naruto’s classes he noticed something particularly irritating. The guy was always giving the same, I am too good to notice you, bored look at everyone. He’d ignore the girls who were already on him like they had never seen a guy before, and ignore the teachers questions when they spoke to him. The guy was completely annoying! Naruto glared holes in the back of the over inflated head and chewed on the end of his pencil zoning out of the conversation as he relaxed in his desk, one leg resting on the polished surface and an arm thrown over the back of the chair.

“Come on Shika! I promise I’ll do it myself next time!”

Naruto turned his attention back to the two boys behind him who had been arguing earlier. Chouji was watching a smirking Kiba as he was begging Shikamaru for the answers to the homework assignment.

“No. If you have time to go over to Narutos and screw around you should have time to do your homework.”

Naruto rolled his eyes but turned around in his chair giving Shikamaru his widest grin, “Yeah. Damn Kiba. You should be ashamed! I, on the other hand, am a different story. Shikamaru will give me the answers.”

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow slowly.

“Why would I do that?”

Naruto laughed winningly, “Because I couldn’t do my homework with Kiba over annoying me.”

Shikamaru scoffed, “Lame. Cheat off of Kiba then.”

“Eh?! That’s so cold!” Naruto pouted.

Shikamaru only smirked as Naruto felt something bounce off the back of his head, he spun around immediately growling.

“Alright! Who’s the assho-...?”

He was face to face with their English teacher.

Naruto grinned and scratched the back of his head nervously. “Oh...Hey Iruka-sensei...”

The brunette sighed and put a hand on Narutos head, pushing the blonde back into his seat as the class snickered. Naruto heard some whispers along the lines of- ‘It’s Naruto and those guys starting trouble again.’ And- ‘Man. What a bunch of idiots.’

Naruto shot glares at the turned heads but listened as Iruka-sensei spoke looking over him and his friends.

“Did you gentlemen hand in your homework?”

Shikamaru, Shino and Chouji handed the teacher the papers but Kiba and Naruto smiled sheepishly.

“Ummm…” The Boys mumbled stalling for time to think up an excuse.

A vain thumped in the mans forehead.

“You didn’t do it again?”

Naruto held up his hands in surrender, “B-but I didn’t have the time!”

“Detention! Both of you!”

Naruto jumped out of his desk again, “Not fair!”

He was pushed back into his desk where he sat pouting and glaring at anyone who made eye contact.

Damn it! And Iruka-sensei was such a nice guy away from school!

He caught site of Sakura and smiled, but she rolled her eyes and looked away. Everyone settled down and Kiba went into his usual habit of hitting on the girl next to him. Poor Hinata looked like she was terrified of the boy but not displeased at the attention. Shikamaru was already day dreaming, staring out of the window at the passing clouds. Naruto reached over, stealing a chip from Chouji, before the hairs on the back of his neck stood. Looking around Naruto paused coming eye to eye with the black gaze of the new pretty boy. Naruto glared then flipped the boy off and turned back around.

“Hey, Shikamaru.”

The brunette looked back at Naruto reluctantly coming back from his cloud gazing.

“That guys’ last name is Uchiha right?”

He nodded.

“Like the creepy old Uchiha place?”

Shikamaru nodded again before speaking, “I heard from Asuma-sensei that he is the last one of the Uchihas. He had lived in the states his whole life, or something like that, but finally came back to live in his ancestral mansion. Sounds stupid to me, but whatever.” Shikamaru shrugged with his last statement.

Naruto nodded in agreement. That was stupid. The place was a mess, barely livable, plus the dead people in the backyard! Just remembering that visit gave the boy chills. Changing the subject for the sake of his mental health Naruto leaned over to Chouji.

“Hey, do me a favor.” The other boy gave a ‘hmm?’ “Hook me up with a job.”

Shino butted in, “Why do you need one?”

Naruto shrugged again, falling into a relaxed position in his chair, “I need some extra money. Besides, if I get a job maybe Iruka-sensei and that old hag will get off my back.”

They all knew what he was talking about because Naruto lived alone, it seemed their teacher and Tsunade, the woman who ran the pachinko place a few blocks from his house, had taken it on themselves to butt in and take care of him.

Chouji shrugged, “I’ll talk to dad.”

Naruto thumped the large boy on the back, “Thanks!”

Spinning in his seat Naruto pretended to listen as Iruka-sensei went on and on, but his attention was all over the place. From glaring at the Uchiha, to bickering with Kiba and then chatting with Shino and Chouji.

“Don’t forget, your poems are due in tomorrow! No exceptions!”

Naruto was about to object to the man looking directly at him when he spoke, but the bell drowned out any shouting he may have done. Naruto gave in and shot up in his seat, grabbing his bag and the uniform jacket before leaving amidst his friends.

“Dude, your failing that class worse than I am.”

Naruto glared around his locker door at Kiba who smiled, “You’re never going to graduate!”

“Ha! As if you’re one to talk! You’ll be held back with me stupid!”

“Says who?!”

“Says logic. Dumbass!”

Kiba pounced and the two scuffled for a moment before Naruto, who had pulled out of the headlock Kiba had him in, bumped into someone. Naruto turned glaring preparing for a real fight but stopped.

“What do you want?”

The Uchiha simply looked at him and Naruto stared back. It annoyed him to see that the dark haired boy was taller than him which forced him to have to look slightly up to stare at the cold, dark eyes. After a moment of the silence Naruto narrowed his piercing blue eyes.

“What? Think you’re too good to talk to me? Or are you just stupid?”

Behind him there were some chuckles from his friends, but the Uchiha’s eyes didn’t release. Naruto was getting uncomfortable and impatient. Just as he was preparing to explode at the boy, he smirked, changing from blank to smug. Naruto’s glare intensified.

“You’re the one who bumped into me. Dobe.”

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DING!! A Siren went off in the blonde’s brain. His eyes….Naruto’s eyes widened in realization as he jumped back pointing a dramatic finger at the boy, who looked like he wanted to smile.

“YOU! It was you!!”

Naruto slowly blushed remembering his discomfort and the boys actions.

Damn it! He was the bastard who...who had been...who'd made him ere-...It was HIM!! That bastard!!!

“Hn. Prove it, Dead Last.”

Naruto’s embarrassment was put on hold as the insult sank in and he fumed, jumping into the boys face and grabbing the front of his perfectly kept uniform.

“Shut up! You bastard! I ought to kill you for that!!”

The eel-ish hands came up and smacked Naruto’s away, while the boy rolled his eyes.

“If I recall the train ride correctly, you didn’t seem that against it at the time.” The boy smiled evilly, “Not even a shout.”

“Was so!”

He smirked, “Whatever, Idiot.”

Naruto was prepared to shout more but the raven-haired boy pushed passed him, walking on, as Naruto stared angrily after him and prepared to go beat the shit out of him but was held back. A hand came down on his shoulder and he turned wanting to hurt someone. He stopped seeing that it was Shikamaru.

“What was that about?” Shikamaru questioned.

Naruto blushed a little, crossing his arms and looking away, “Nothing. I just really hate that guy!!”

Shikamaru exchanged a glance with everyone else and he ignored their obvious curiosity.

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Sharp cold coal eyes watched as Naruto walked from the school chatting with his friends. A slow smirk spread over his face as the boy stood straightening his school uniform...well not technically his, but hopefully no one would really miss the boy it really belonged to. The boy, no more obvious than a shadow among the leaves of the tree he’d been crouched in, was quite suddenly, no longer there.

Sasuke stalked after Naruto and his friends as they walked through the streets; they were probably headed for Naruto’s house. He fought to remove his gaze from the blonde as he leaped silently over the street and landed without a sound on the nearest rooftop. He kept his eyes locked on Naruto as the boy gradually forgot their earlier interaction, which pissed him off slightly. Sasuke wanted his image burned into the blue orbs until everyone the blonde saw looked like him. The boys continued walking and disappeared down into the subway. Sasuke knew where the boy lived; he’d watched him every night since he’d woken up a week ago. Turning in that direction, he hurried to beat them there.

As he ran on, unnoticed in the hustle of human activity, and let his mind roam.

Once he’d managed to pull himself from the grave and forced stiff legs to move him to his house, he’d set to acclimating to this era. He wasn’t shocked by much, after all he’d quietly watched it all form; warping and twisting into what was known as life now. But he’d still needed the week to settle into it and make the mansion at least livable. He mentally scolded himself for letting it fall into such despair. The condition the mansion was in would cause is brother to roll in his grave…well...if he had a grave. Or body. Or awareness. But no, he was simply ashes, dust and no more. He’d thought too much of himself, pissed off the wrong people and brought his death on himself. Sasuke had no wish to make that same mistake so he’d slept. The ones who had made Itachi were not aware that he had turned Sasuke as well because they had assumed that the boy had died. This gave the last Uchiha the opportunity to live, so to say.

Stirred from his thoughts by the familiar scenery the raven haired boy had reached Naruto’s house and avoided his usual seat, for it reeked of the bodies decaying on the floor of the decaying apartment. He had been messy, just leaving them there, but the neighborhood was the type that wouldn’t advertise finding a dead man or two, and Sasuke had been saving his strength.

And now...well, he just didn’t want to touch the nasty things. So, he ended up on the roof of the next building, it was slightly taller than Naruto’s six story apartment complex, so he could look down at the window into the boys home, though the view wasn’t as good as the one he was used to.

Sasuke mused on his plans as he waited. Naruto had pulled him from his sleep exactly a week ago, that meant he had maybe around 2 weeks before his body shut down on him again. Growling a little, Sasuke fumed about the stupid Blood Curse. He had his brother’s paranoia to thank for that little condition.

Fucking bastard and his stupid rules.

/Flashback/

“Now little brother, this is just to make sure you don’t get any crazy ideas of running away.”

“Don’t touch me!”

The pain shot through his arm as his brother slipped a long nail over his chained wrists, the blood tickled lightly as it dripped slowly from the cut. Dipping his fingers in the crimson flow, Itachi began writing the strange markings on him and mumbling something under his breath. Sasuke cursed as he felt the blood pumping through his veins slowly stop, leaving his heart to pump nothing into frozen veins.

“With this Sasuke, you can never leave me. If you do, you’ll be no more than a mindless beast, only the blood of a lover, given freely can save you now, ironic ne? The damned searching out true love. Fruitless and impossible, without me, Little Brother, you will lapse into sleep, waking only every 100 years, then falling again.”

Sasuke glared at the sadistic smile spreading over his brothers face.

“You’re helpless without me, without my blood to give you strength you will be cursed to sleep, living only long enough to hate it before falling again.”

The laughter echoed through the stone walls of their home as Sasuke seethed from his bound position on the wall.

“How about it, Sasuke? Hate me yet?”

/End Flashback/

Sasuke sighed staring up at the darkening sky, still feeling numb to his brother’s death. Granted, it had left him all alone with this damnation that left him a freak, even among the few ones like him that were left. He had pretty much been alone before that as well; living by yourself was the same as living with a shell of a person you once knew. Shaking his head of all the thoughts of his brother, Sasuke looked down, seeing and hearing the 5 boys walking toward Naruto’s apartment building. Again, his dark eyes narrowed picking out the blonde. Naruto was shouting loudly at Kiba, something about a rematch; Sasuke almost smiled at the boys pantomime of what he was going to do to the other boy.

They were again out of sight as they entered the building and headed for Naruto’s apartment. Soon the boys all entered Naruto’s small home, Sasuke relaxed on his seat and studied them. Naruto and his friends were trouble makers, just by looking at them one could assume as much, but they had some pretty decent personalities. The Shikamaru one was smart but lazy, while Chouji was a big eater but seemed like a loyal dog to Shikamaru. Kiba was almost as loud as Naruto but didn’t have even half the guts, the comment ‘all bark no bite’ came to mind, Sasuke smirked. Shino...well...he was just weird. As silent and emotionless as himself, probably more so because Sasuke did have a smug side that showed much to often.

And Naruto.

The boy was cheerful, obnoxiously so, and smarter than he let on; though not a genius by any stretch of the imagination. He was on the short side and that made him very sensitive, he also had an ego and attitude that was larger than life. But, he was nice; not like he advertised it or anything, but Sasuke knew. Besides fighting for acknowledgment, there wasn’t a mean bone in the boys’ body. He had almost as many sides to himself as Sasuke did, which intrigued the Uchiha. Sasuke also had done the ‘reluctant’ chore of making sure Naruto wasn’t hiding any spare arms or legs and he was happy to report that the boy had a very nice form hiding under the baggy clothes. Not so curvy he could be confused with a girl, but slender. And apparently yes, he was a natural blonde.

The memory almost gave him another nose bleed like he’d gotten when he’d made the discovery, smirking, Sasuke watched Naruto as the boy began playing some stupid fighting game with Chouji and threatened to choke the large boy with the controller cord for allegedly cheating. Sasuke made a mental promise to Naruto as he watched him, tomorrow would be just as interesting as today. He was going to make Naruto his blood doll and a lot more.

To Be Continued!


A/N: Hm. Well, just so you know, I am a vampire(blood), really. I belong to a coven located in a nearby town and a Blood Doll is a real word used to describe someone who is willing(no we don’t attack people in dark alleys and drink their blood) to give their blood to a vampire(or vampyre which ever you prefer.) Just thought I would point that out. Hmmm, well to those of you who still like me and my story, if this gets taken off here because I am too lazy to edit the smexy goodness, I will start posting it on TONFA and maybe AFF (if I can get on the stuuuupid site.)