.x.X.x. Der Vampir .x.X.x.

Chapter Six: Obacht Für Mich Nicht

.x.X.x. Germany, 1929 .x.X.x.

"Iruka!" Naruto said, laughing as he hugged the man around the shoulders. "I've missed you! If you disappear for half a month again, you're in so much trouble!"

"Ah, Naruto." The man smiled, turning around to give the boy a proper hug. "How have you been?"

Naruto stepped back so that his adopted father could enter their home. Naruto felt worried every time the man left the house.

"Good, good. Who's that man behind you?" The blonde whispered his question, as not to be rude for not asking for a proper introduction, indicating to a person he'd never seen before standing on the doorstep.

"I'm Hatake Kakashi," The silver haired man grinned as Naruto released Iruka from his hug.

"Nice to meet you, Kakashi." Naruto offered a hand, to which Kakashi shook lightly. "Are you friends with Iruka, or do you work with him or something?"

"Ah, you could say we work together. We're friends as well." The man winked, and for a second, the scarred flesh running from his forehead down his cheek was connected, before once again his discolored eye was shining at them again.

"You've been working with him? Work work, work, or 'work?'"

"Naruto…" Iruka warned. "Kakashi's part of the Order.

"And speaking of," he grinned sheepishly. "Naruto, I think, only if you wanted to, that. . . You're finally old enough to try and help out."

"Are… are you serious?" His eyes lit up, and Iruka found himself suddenly tackled, a clinging Naruto shivering excitedly. "That would be, really fantastic, Iruka!"

"It doesn't hurt that you've known since the Order since you were little." Iruka mused as he reached down to ruffle his hair. "Although I do remember when it used to keep you up at night."

"Geeze," Naruto glanced at Kakashi sheepishly, "You don't have to bring that up.'Sides, I probably know more about vampires than half the people who actually do work there."

"Still, I'm glad I had you trained in fencing for so long, that'll be a major asset if you do choose to help out."

"Iruka, he'll have to train for a few months before he even gets a partner to start on low ranking missions. Don't get his hopes up." Kakashi yawned, before finally sitting down at one of the chairs around Naruto and Iruka's dining room table.

"Hm," Iruka mused, "That's fine with me. The less danger for as long as possible, the better."

.x.X.x. Germany, 1930 .x.X.x.

The loneliness clawed at his stomach. Whenever Sasuke was gone, he felt broken and lost.

Naruto had come to depend on the other so much. Too much. If he was absent for even more than a day, Naruto felt sick with unease and worry. Food had become nothing, sleep had become meaningless. Breathing felt like a hassle to deal with.

It was pathetic, Naruto knew that. To love someone to the point of obsession. Sasuke was all he thought about. And when he was with him, nothing else mattered, the rest of the world could go to hell for all he cared.

The shadows scared him more than ever now, fear clutched at his mind whenever night fell. There were things in the dark that hid from you, he knew this. He had been raised to know the things of nightmares exist.

Iruka became worried at Naruto's restless behavior, and had sent him on more low-ranking missions than ever to try and take his mind off of things. It only resulted in him working harder, but still not eating or sleeping as much as he should have been.

Sasuke had been his most recent partner, but, due to romantic involvement, the Order had seperated them. They talked of pairing him with the partner he'd had before that, but Sai had been missing for four months and the Order expected him dead. Naruto tried to feel remorse, but Sai had made him feel extremely uncomfortable too many times.

The Order took in fledglings who had been abandoned by their masters before they'd had a chance to feed from humans and the ones who simply wanted to rid the world of some of its never ending evil.

The last kind were few and far between. They were usually vampires who had been made into what they were against their will, and had a hatred for bloodshed. Mostly feeding on the blood of animals over humans, they stuck to forests, woods, and large cities they could blend into the crowd with.

Rolling out of bed, Naruto slowly made his way down the hall to Iruka's room. Knocking on the door, he waited for the man to open it, which happened quickly.

"Yes, Naruto?" He said, looking relieved that Naruto had left his room without him having to persuade him to.

"Just wondering when I'm going to get a new partner. Have they assigned me one yet?" Naruto's voice was raspy, and he decided after this conversation he would get a drink of water.

"Actually yes, they have. If you head over to the station, Kakashi will do the introductions. You want me to walk with you?" Iruka offered.

"I'm fine." Naruto said with a wave of his hand, as he turned and began to walk back down the hallway. "It's a short walk, and I'll be fine, no need to worry."

Iruka nodded, though he wasn't sure if Naruto could see it or not, before he went back into his room, closing the door behind him. Continuing on, Naruto quickly left the house. He would just get a drink of water when he arrived at the station. They were always offering him something to drink anyways, he might as well accept this time.

.x.X.x. Hokkaido, Present Day .x.X.x.

"Sasuke!" Naruto whined when the boy tried to lift his shirt over his head. "Cut it out!"

"Aw, Naruto." The dark haired boy said,smirking. "I haven't got to taste you in how long? Just a nibble, come on."

"No! No means no, pervert. Do you not want to know what happened while you were asleep?" The blonde rolled his eyes.

"Of course I wanna know, but first, I want a bite." Sasuke said licking his lips in anticipation and grabbing Naruto by the wrist, pulling him close. Placing his mouth to Naruto's neck he took a tentative lick, before readying his fangs.

"What the hell!" Sasuke pulled back, a snarl on his lips. "What the hell happened to you? What… did you do?"

"Um.." Naruto looked down at Sasuke's chest, since he was resting on top of the other boy. "Nothing?"

"Don't 'nothing' me. Do you think I'm stupid? I told you specifically not to.. and you deliberately disobeyed me." Sasuke's dark eyes suddenly turned cold as he pushed Naruto from his arms and onto the other side of the bed they were on.

"Oh yeah, cause I was really going to be able to take care of you for seventy-five years as a human." Naruto rolled his eyes. "What did you expect me to do?"

"Not this…" Sasuke said roughly. "I didn't want you to be like this… I told you not to be like this.."

"Like what? Like you?" Naruto said bitterly. "I wanted so badly to be like you Sasuke. Did you really think we would be able to stay together forever if I stayed a human? I wouldn't have been able to protect you, or help you, or do anything. I was worthless."

"Don't say that."

"Why not? It's true."

"Don't say that. Don't you dare say that. There is no reason in hell why you should want to be like me. I don't care if we wouldn't have been together for ever. You're you, I don't want someone as innocent as you to have to kill to live."

"Innocent?" The laughter that cascaded from Naruto's lips was harsh. "I'm far from innocent, thanks. Living like this is hell, but I've put up with it for you, and now you're telling me I've made the wrong mistake, when it's something like this that no one will ever be able to fix?"

"I never told you to do this. I never said I loved you, so you shouldn't have done anything as stupid as to think so and ruin your life."

The words made Naruto's blood run cold, as he stared into Sasuke's eyes. They were dark and cold, but drew him in. He had waited so long to look into these eyes again. He had given up the path of a normal life. He had been hurt and broken and beaten and bloody, yet he never once lost the hope that he would be able to look into Sasuke's eyes again, be able to kiss him again, touch him,feel him next to him.

Yet even now, as he looked at those dark eyes, Sasuke's words betrayed his hope. Even if he looked into his eyes, and even if he felt his flesh, and even if his kisses belonged to him, did his soul?

.x.X.x. Germany, 1929 .x.X.x.

The smirking expression on Itachi's face lingered as he hovered above Sasuke. The poor, little child. He didn't, no, couldn't, even begin to imagine the severity of the words he had just uttered.

"Sasuke, you, you want to be like me?"

"Y-yes." Sasuke felt his voice start to falter under the intense stare of his older brother, who was unrelenting in looking at the younger boy, staring at his small black eyes.

"Then, we'll have to give you what you want, won't we?" Not specifying exactly who this 'we' were, Itachi swift hands came down upon Sasuke's shoulders, holding him roughly to the couch.

Squirming slightly, Sasuke's body tensed up, wondering what was going on. His eyes suddenly snapped shut, as he felt a searing pain on the side of his neck. He could feel it, blood flowing out of the wound. It hurt and scared him. It wasn't like it normally was, tender and sensual. This was terror. Sasuke wanted to scream but didn't trust his own voice and, instead, bit down on his tongue to swallow back the sounds.

Itachi chuckled at the hilarity of the situation before biting into his palm, tearing off the bottom. He spit out the chunk of flesh before pressing the gaping wound to Sasuke's lips.

The boy made a strangled choking sound, before swallowing down the blood offered to him. It hurt to move, even every swallow was an effort.

Even when Itachi stood and walked from the room, Sasuke felt immobilized.

His eyes widened as Itachi came back into the room, but not before his parents stumbled in. The look of horror on his mother's face, and confusion and fear on his fathers made him want to retch. He was lying in a deepening pool of his own blood, his mother began to sob, and Itachi just looked gleeful.

Sasuke heard the scream before he realized what happened. Itachi's hands resembled claws as he literally reached down and ripped their father's arm off. Itachi leaned back, covered in blood, while their mother suddenly slumped to the floor. Her eyes were round, blank, and staring, staring at Sasuke where he lay on the couch.

Limbs suddenly slid from where they were meant to be, and flesh piled up on the floor. Before he could blink, the same fate had happened to their mother.

"W-what are you doing?" Sasuke tried to scream, but his voice came out as a whimper.

"They were foolish, I should've expected as such. You, you Sasuke, you're different."

"I'm dying." Sasuke said, shutting his eyes. "I'm dying, and I hate you. I want to kill you."

He could feel tears now, stinging his eyes. Mother… Itachi had killed her. She had never done anything to warrant such a fate, yet there she lie, not even recognizable by her own child.

"Wonderful, little brother. Try and beat me, I'd like to see if you manage. You, love me too much to hurt me, I think. Poor, little Sasuke." Itachi said mockingly.

The wound on his neck didn't seem to hurt anymore, and when Sasuke concentrated on reaching up to touch it, he was surprised to find that not only could he move again, but the wound was closed and healed.

When he looked back over to where Itachi had been standing, there were only shadows, shadows and the bodies of his parents.

"I'll kill you." Sasuke said weakly before losing consciousness.

.x.X.x. Hokkaido, Present Day .x.X.x.

Standing outside the doorway, Sakura bit her lip nervously. She hadn't, well, couldn't trust Sasuke so soon after him just waking up. After being asleep like that, she couldn't really have any set expectations for their reactions. It would be careless to actually 'leave' Naruto alone with Sasuke.

Still, she hadn't expected Sasuke's words to be so harsh. With her back against the large mahogany door, she worriedly rubbed her hands together. Sasuke… it could just be the effect of sleep, like how it takes someone a little while to become fully aware of their surroundings after waking… but, what if it's not? Naruto… Sasuke had been the only true thing to keep him going, so what would the blonde do if he lost him? No. . How would he react if it was true that Sasuke had never really loved him to begin with?

.x.X.x. End Chapter Six .x.X.x.

A/N: Still really sorry for taking forever and a half to get this out, I'm surprised if anyone would still read it.

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Obacht für mich nicht- Care for Me Not

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A huuuge thank you is going out to Kamikyo, who helped me out with some of the German grammar.