The echoing scream rang throughout the castle halls. Shouts accompanied the scream. The gasps of horror over the noise that disrupted the castle's inhabitants could barely be heard. Heavy oak doors smashed against the stone walls in the rush to reach the source of the shriek. Silence came when those awoken realized the source. Tsunade, Sasuke, and Jiraiya scrambled to wench open the doors of the royal chamber. The doors opened with a boom. The people witness the sight of their King's bloodlust. The image was horrific at best with Itachi's black, soulless eyes and his blood-stained mouth. Sakura's unconscious body was limp in his arms. Tsunade quickly shut the door behind her.

"Itachi, what have you done?" Tsunade looked at the thing that shares the face of her nephew.

Behind the veil in the monster's head lies the subconscious of Itachi. He is shouting out calling for help.

"Tsunade! Tsunade! Save Sakura. I don't care how you do it just get her away from me!"

"Sakura, awaken. Itachi is not able to fight this all alone. He needs you to help him. Hurry if you don't want to die." Tsunade plead with the unconscious queen.

Sakura's body was still limp in the arms of the monster that drained her. Not a breath of life could be detected from her. The monster now done with his feeding carelessly chucked her to the ground, leaving her body to roll to a stop.

Tsunade let out a gasp and clutched her heart with her hands. She could hear the guards attempting to break down the door. Her mind came to a blank as to what to do. The guards would soon breech the entrance and kill the monster that was their king. Sakura would probably be cremated as to not taint the royal burial grounds.

'It wasn't supposed to happen this way. They should be laughing right now and playing jokes on one another not one edging rapidly into the madness and the other gradually fading away.'

The monster began to trek towards Tsunade the blood changing his eyes to an eerie crimson. The blood dropping with a pop on the wood flooring caused her to tremble. It raised its arm the finger pointing toward Tsunade. As she tried to make a break for it, the creature seized her by the throat backing her against the wall. She clawed at the abomination's hand. It clocked his head to the right mocking her futile efforts to escape.

'If only Sakura had awaken early this could have been avoided. Itachi is not responding to anything. Come on, think, think, think, you need to protect the rest. Damn it to hell my vision is getting blurry. This thing is going to kill me! Why didn't you wake Sakura? What is keeping you asleep now? Blood lost? What kept you away from us those days you were unconscious? You should have healed immediately. That's it! '

The entrance to the chambers was beginning to splinter breaking under the strength of the royal guards. Their shouts piercing about the room demanded the status of the royal couple. The subjects were watching on the terrible events that were transpiring in that room. The remaining royal family stood back in shock never before seeing something of this magnitude occur. There in the darkness of the shadows a pale figure smirks at the chaos surrounding the castle. His mission was nearly complete. The royals of the vampire world will crumble into nothingness.

Tsunade made one last ditch effort to get through to man trapped inside his own head.

"Itachi, please come back to us. Saki is dying feet away from you. You're choking me to death. Gain control you idiot! We're all going to die if you don't, including the baby."

The creature's hand stilled and its mouth turned from a demented smirk to a firm line. Its lips mouthed the word 'baby'.

Now it was Tsunade's chance to smirk. "Yes Itachi-chan, your new name is daddy."