Drowning in Blood Chapter5

[MindLezz]

Chapter 5: Infatuation

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Sasuke stalked toward the mansion, Sakura in tow. He didn't care how the others would react, more specifically, how Naruto would act about the situation. Sakura on the other hand, was panicking. She was still trying to take in all the events of the night and here she was going to go live with some vampire that she didn't even know the name of, what's going to happen to her now?

Sasuke wasn't concerned with that. He was still deciding on whether to revive her memories now, or wait until she was actually twenty-one. He liked the age? and it would only be a few more days? He entered the mansion, preparing for the onslaught of questions. Sakura hid behind him.

"Sasuke?" Shikamaru muttered, glaring at him. 'What the hell did I do now?' Sasuke raised an eyebrow. Shikamaru grabbed his collar. It looked odd though, Shikamaru was quite a bit shorter than Sasuke. "Where the have you been?! You left me alone with Naruto! Naruto, Sasuke! And then I had to tag along with Neji so he can bring home some bloody woman, are you trying to put me through the second level of hell?!"

Sasuke smirked and shrugged. Shikamaru growled. He had a thing against women? Sasuke was still standing there. Shikamaru blinked a couple of times. 'D-did I just see pink?' He released his collar. "Sasuke? what is that behind you?" He tried looking behind the vampire; unfortunately, he couldn't see anything because of his height. Sasuke still wouldn't move, that wasn't until a small sneeze sounded behind him. He turned around and looked at Sakura.

Shikamaru decided to give up trying and went behind him instead. His eyes widened; he grabbed her by the arm. "Wh-? what the hell is this?!" He gaped at Sasuke. 'Don't tell me he got a bride too?' "Another bloody woman?!" Shikamaru glared at the dark haired vampire expecting a good answer. Sasuke grabbed Sakura back.

"That would be Sakura." he replied calmly. She waved shyly. Shikamaru stepped back. Well, at least she was pretty? sort of?

"Don't let Ino see her?" Sasuke shrugged, "is she useful?" Shikamaru asked with a grin on his face. Sasuke glared at him and started walking toward his private chambers dragging Sakura along. Shikamaru smacked himself in the forehead. "Two?" His eye twitched. "Two bloody women in the house? three if you count Ino? next thing you know Naruto's going to-?"

"Hey! Shikamaru guess what?!" Naruto chimed in gleefully and smacked him on the shoulder. "I met a girl? she's kind of weird, and she stabbed me, and slapped me, and punched me, but ahh heck, she's a kind one. You think-?" Shikamaru's glare silenced him.

Shikamaru held his hand in front of his face, as if he were counting. "That makes? four. Four bloody women in the house?" He muttered mostly to himself. He looked distraught. "Four?" With the way he said it, the number seemed evil. Naruto stared at him blankly. Shikamaru held up four fingers. "Four women?"

Naruto grinned. "You really have to get over your phobia of women Shikamaru?" The vampire glared at the blonde.

"I don't have a phobia?"

Naruto stared at him. "Uh? huh?" He stopped for a moment? that probing in his mind was coming back. He grinned. More of Sasuke's dirty thoughts?

"What is it Naruto?" Shikamaru asked curiously. Naruto rubbed his hands together evilly.

"Sasuke is dreaming about his wife again?"

"Wife?! That's who that pink haired girl was?"

Naruto gave him a weird look. "Yeah? how'd you know her hair was pink?"

Shikamaru waved at the air in front of him? "She was right here? that woman was his wife?! Where the hell did she come from? I thought she was dead."

Naruto smirked. "That's? another story. But you said she was here? Strange... I remember, she was killed by Orochimaru's henchmen."

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow. "Are? you sure? She was right here!" He waved at the air again.

"Yeah, I may not have a large memory, but that event was different. I won't forget it. If she was here though? she should be very old?" Naruto placed a hand under his chin, his eyes narrow.

"She looked like she was in her twenties." Shikamaru crossed his arms. Realization hit the both of them. "You don't suppose?"

"Sasuke learned a zombie jutsu." Naruto said grimly. Shikamaru nodded.

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"Those idiots?" Sasuke muttered. He forgot about them for the moment and looked at Sakura, who was currently deposited on the bed and glancing at everything around her. She touched the mattress, the pillows, and the sheets.

"Wow, this is a beautiful place." She murmured dreamily. He nodded, considering the circumstances they received the house in? it wasn't all that great. "How did you guys get this place?" He shrugged but remained silent. He should've asked Kakashi where he was living when he was alive or dead whichever... Regret was looming over him. "Sasuke." His head snapped up in surprise. "That's your name isn't it?" she asked curiously.

He looked away. "Yeah?"

She smiled. "Well, now I at least know a bit more? what are we going to do now?" He gave her a weird stare. "I mean? what can I do around here?? I can help you guys clean up a bit? or something."

"You won't have to do anything around here?" 'Yet.' He added silently. She sighed.

"How long do you plan to let me stay here?" He shrugged. 'Eternity?' he couldn't help but smirk. Silence engulfed the two for a while.

His eyes scanned her. Sasuke wanted nothing more than to rip off her clothes and take here and now, but he's a gentleman? sort of, to her anyway. He's going to have to wait until she was his bride again to do that. He growled in frustration. She was just too damn tempting? just sitting there? glancing at him at times, sighing? He approached her and grabbed her wrist, snarling. He needed to do something... anything to relieve this frustration. She winced slightly.

"Sasuke? what are you-?" He cut her off. His lips settled on her palm, and traveled down to her wrist. He bit down slightly, drawing a little bit of blood. She gasped. It felt oddly? good. She tried pulling her wrist back. He glared at her and licked the small amount of blood, taking in its sweet taste? her taste. The taste he's been waiting for? all these years. He couldn't stop? he wanted more. "Sasuke?" she said softly. He didn't pay attention.

Sakura was starting to feel woozy, and uncomfrotable. Why wasn't she stopping him? She knew why... inside she wanted him too... why, was the question she kept asking. She bit her lip. Sasuke didn't show any sign of stopping soon. What possesed him to start this...? It was something more... an allegory of events she just couldn't understand. He was affecting her more than she could ever imagine. His eyes were clenched shut. He was taking in everything... He opened his eyes and looked straight into her... through her... Sakura gave in.

He moved to her neck. His cold breath caressed her skin, making goose bumps. She shivered and closed her eyes. He kissed it, nipping and sucking slightly. She moaned and leaned into him, taking pleasure in what he was doing. His lips traveled to her ear. She could hear his steady breathing? she could feel his breath? It felt so familiar? she wanted to explore it? she needed to.

Sakura pulled Sasuke up so that his onyx eyes could meet with her green ones. He was breathing, normally, they didn't have to breathe. There was want and something else? something that was meant only for her to see in his dark eyes. 'What was it??' He glanced at her lips, which were a mere millimeter away. He leaned in slowly?A little closer and-?

She grabbed him and pressed her lips against his urgently, sending shockwaves through her. Sakura couldn't resist it. She quivered. This was what she needed. She wanted him, now. He smirked into the kiss? Oh, how he missed the moments when she lost control? he was just about to deepen it? and then-

"Sakura-chan!" the two broke apart abruptly. Sakura gasped slightly, a slight blush tainted her cheeks. He desperatly want to plunge a knife into Naruto's throat for interrupting them. True, Sasuke and Sakura were close, but they never went this far. Sasuke was always under control, but the rush and the excitement of having her again was nagging at him. He was getting far too impatient for his own good? a few more days? Sasuke snarled. It was only a few more days?

Naruto was still banging on the door. Sasuke opened it, glaring at the blonde vampire. His fists clenched. Naruto didn't pay attention, instead he ran straight toward the bed, inspecting Sakura. He blinked. "Wow Sasuke, I'm amazed. It almost looks like the real Sakura." Sakura raised an eyebrow.

"What the hell are you talking about Naruto?!" Sasuke asked irritably. 'He better have a good reason for coming in here like this...'

"You! And your zombie mistress? you know, you're going to have ugly children." He responded out of the blue. Sakura gaped. She was offended. 'Did he just say I was ugly?!' She smacked the blonde over the head. Naruto grinned and rubbed his head. "Hey, you even made it's reactions right?" he placed a hand under his chin.

Sasuke growled. "Naruto, she's not a zombie." Naruto poked her a couple of times.

"Are? you sure?" he gulped. Skin that soft couldn't belong to a zombie. "That means? Sakura-chan! You look the same as you did when you were young!" Sakura glared at him. Naruto reached out and grabbed Sakura into a large hug, laughing like a maniac. 'Now he's saying I'm old?! How does this guy know me??' She was fuming... and gagging. One moment she was enjoying her blissful moment with Sasuke and now all of that was ruined by some weirdo who thinks she's old and ugly.

"Naruto?let her go..." Sasuke ground out, noticing that she began to change colors. Then that meant? Naruto released her immediatly and scratched the back of his head.

"I. Am. Not. Old." Sakura's tone wavered.

"You're a ghost?" Naruto asked Sakura curiously. She sighed?

"Sasuke, who is this?" she asked the dark haired vampire. Sasuke snarled.

"He would be Naruto? he's an idiot? ignore him."

Naruto glared at Sasuke and shook his head a few times. He looked at her straight into her eyes. "All timers is kicking in already?!" Sasuke knocked him over the head.

"She's not old dobe!" Sasuke repeated. Sakura growled. She had so many urges to hit this Naruto guy over the head.

"Naruto?" his name came out as a whisper on her lips. That name sounded familiar and annoying to her at the same time. Her head began to pound slightly. She rubbed her temples? Both Naruto and Sasuke turned toward her.

"Sakura-chan? You? how-?" Naruto didn't know how to approach this subject. One of his best friends were back, and he was extremely glad? but why couldn't she remember him? There was no explanation. Sakura began to think on this subject. Everything was coming together? it was all so familiar? and yet so vague? she wanted to know so badly? why can't she place it? It was on the tip of her tongue?

"She was? reborn." Her head snapped up. She looked at Sasuke with a questioning gaze. Naruto did the same, but grinned.

"Well," Naruto hit Sasuke over the head, "Why the hell didn't you say anything to any of us?!" Sasuke rolled his eyes. Sakura sighed. She lost her train of thought completely. 'What's going on??'

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"Are you going to tell me who you are?" Tenten was getting tired of trying to make conversation with this guy. He was just sitting there, looking at her? and probably waiting for a chance to sniff at her again. She cringed. "Are you going to let me go?" Neji remained silent. "Quit ignoring me!" she yelled in frustration. "Why'd you bring me here anyway?" He glared at her. "Well, at least I got some sort of reaction?" she sighed.

Neji sat there staring at her. He was enjoying it? her frustrated sighs, her pleas, her questions? he liked watching her, and yet, at the same time, he had the urge to plunge a knife through her chest and watch her blood flow? for the heck of it. She was getting to him, to his very nerve and core. She's only been here for two days and she's already affecting him in this way. He looked away. Something was different, and it wasn't her smell, that was a bonus.

Tenten pulled at her restraints. She was angry. He could at least talk to her.

"What are you to the Hyuuga's anyway??" He spoke. She looked up at him surprisingly. He was talking?

"What do you mean?" She retorted.

"I mean, what use are you to those bloody bastards?" He snarled. She blinked a couple of times. 'Isn't he a Hyuuga member?? Why is he speaking about his clan that way?' "Are you a mere servant? Or is the head family using you for some other reason?"

"Why would you assume their using me for something?" She was curious now.

"You? are different." Tenten raised an eyebrow. 'Different? That's the best answer he can come up with?' She shrugged. "Who are you really?" He questioned.

"You keep me here for two days and you never asked me that question?" His glare intensified. "I'm Tenten."

"That much I know? I meant who the hell are you? really." He was losing his patience.

She sighed. "You mean my relation to the Hyuugas?" He nodded. Neji eyed her carefully. She was dressed as a maid? but something told him that wasn't it? "First, tell me who you are, and why you seem to despise the Hyuuga's so much. Judging by your appearance, however, you are also a Hyuuga member, are you not?" If he wanted the answer, he'd have to trade. Neji nodded.

"I'm Hyuuga Neji," he said lowly.

"Branch I'm guessing from what you said earlier?" she confirmed. He nodded again.

"The head family-?" He didn't know how to go about with this subject. What was he supposed to say? He thought about his answer for a while. "It's their fault? that-?" He couldn't say it? Tenten stared at him, and sensed his discomfort with the subject. She was a patient person, she could wait. Patient, not nosy? she eyes him, expecting the answer. Neji was still silent. She wasn't going to get the answer anytime soon. She sighed.

"I'm not a maid in the household." She decided to start instead. "I'm an assassin?" He blinked a couple of times. "That night? you guys appeared I was supposed to carry out my task, but I was afraid I'd been caught? I just didn't expect to be caught by a vampire?" She growled in frustration? "And now, thanks to you, I don't get my reward money and I didn't even get to threaten my target." Neji felt kind of bad. He had gone too far that night? It's all her fault anyway? she shouldn't have kissed him.

"So? who was your target anyway?" he asked lowly. She smirked.

"The Byakugan village baron? the head family's leader." His eyes widened in surprise. They had the same target? No? she would not deprive him of his revenge. Nice smelling and pure or not, he's not going to allow her to do that. Maybe he could use this to his advantage? she's tied up here, what can she do? Neji smirked.

"He won't be your concern anymore."

Tenten scowled, "Your turn." He stiffened.

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"Shikamaru!!" A voice squeaked. He turned around slowly.

"What do you want Ino?" he asked her dully. She groaned and threw her arms around his neck resting her head on his shoulder.

"Have you seen Sasuke-kun?" she asked sweetly.

"He's busy."

"Oh??" She sounded disappointed. "Shika?" she whined. "This is the worst day of my life? if he pushes me away again, I swear I'll snap." She clenched his collar.

"He always pushes you away anyway and I think you've already snapped." He pushed her hands off his collar. Ino was one of his good friends? after Chouji? How she was, he would never know, but he had a suspicion it had something to do with Sasuke and his relation to the dark haired vampire. He didn't really mind having her around as much as the others and that's why she would come to him? usually. Chouji used to tease him about her all the time. He just didn't shrug her off? that's all.

She was the only female he was fine around. Though sometimes, he would get jealous of Sasuke for all the attention he got from her? his thoughts were jumbled and so were his emotions. Would it help if he said she was the last thing that came to his mind before he went to sleep? He told her that once, and she laughed? and Chouji patted him on the shoulder, a fake tear in his eye, and an apologetic look on his face. Though inwardly, he was laughing. Ahh, memories?

"Shikamaru, do you think I can stay here for a while?" she asked casually.

"That was random, why?" he raised an eyebrow.

"I? I just don't have a place to stay for the moment." She laughed nervously.

"I know you better than that Ino, you want to try and get Sasuke again." His eye twitched. "He's not going to be interested, he has a wife?" the words came out more like a growl. Ino grabbed his shirt.

"I promise I won't try? I just need a place to stay. That's it! Honest?" She pouted, and looked at him with large teary blue orbs. The puppy dog look? She knew he couldn't resist it. Shikamaru shut his eyes tightly. 'You can't do it? you'll regret it?' He was debating with himself? but he just couldn't leave her?

Before he could reason with himself any further he answered. "Yes."

TBC?

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BAH... *sigh*

[csmlee]

"Two?" His eye twitched. "Two bloody women in the house? three if you count Ino? next thing you know Naruto's going to-?"

"Hey! Shikamaru guess what?!" Naruto chimed in gleefully and smacked him on the shoulder. "I met a girl? she's kind of weird, and she stabbed me, and slapped me, and punched me, but ahh heck, she's a kind one. You think-?" Shikamaru's glare silenced him.

Bwahahaha! Shikamaru and his phobia of women is too hilarious. And Naruto's description of Hinata... *dies laughing* Naruto is so cute and adorable sometimes!

But damn him for interrupting Sasuke and Sakura!!! *growls* He deserved those blows over his head he received from Sasuke and Sakura.

"She was? reborn." Her head snapped up. She looked at Sasuke with a questioning gaze. Naruto did the same, but grinned.

Uh oh... cat's out of the bag. Now Sakura-chan is gonna get all insecure and stuff about Sasuke's feelings. Of course, both Sakuras in the past and current life are the same person. But hey, which girl wouldn't get worried when a guy randomly shows up, claims you, takes you away, and then you find out that he chose you because of your past life, but not your current one!

She was the only female he was fine around. Though sometimes, he would get jealous of Sasuke for all the attention he got from her?

Aww... Shikamaru has a soft spot for Ino.

Another great chapter! Can't wait to read more!!!

[Baby Girl90210]

She was the only female he was fine around. Though sometimes, he would get jealous of Sasuke for all the attention he got from her? his thoughts were jumbled and so were his emotions. Would it help if he said she was the last thing that came to his mind before he went to sleep? He told her that once, and she laughed? and Chouji patted him on the shoulder, a fake tear in his eye, and an apologetic look on his face. Though inwardly, he was laughing. Ahh, memories?

I'm going for a wild guess: Your gonna have them breed or what ever term you'ld like to use right? YAY!!!! I LOVE INO? SHIKA PAIRINGS!