Branded

Eek - more SasuNaru (and omg Uchihacest!!)

Also it's a cliché vampire flick - but I love vampires (with an unhealthy passion) and writing about them and I thought that there were many a character in Naruto (which I do not own by the way) that fit the creepy image of a vampire quite well…and some that don't, but I made them vampires anyway…XP

Also I know I'm supposed to be working on Possessions, but I got sidetracked by vampires!!(Anne Rice really is a genius, although my vampires are my own creation since I use them in m own writings…)

Well anyway - here it goes - enjoy!

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Chapter One

Torn flesh and bleeding,

Nothing left,

Only return what soul

Needs healing…

Lonely silence,

Shattered hearts.

Cruel shards slice those fragile

Carefree parts…

A bright reasoning

Brings life into death,

Force-feeding, choking

Drinking down the faith…

Crimson and ivory

Collide,

Lost forever without

Feeling…

Bathed in moonlight

Sun aside,

Trapped

Yet always feeding…

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There they were again. Those blood stained eyes; staring at him from the darkness…he'd been lying there numb for so long it seemed he had come to forget his purpose…he could not even whimper at their loss…

Yet, whenever such a sadness began to creep over him, arms seemed to come from nowhere to comfort him…they held him in a strong hold whenever he felt so alone that he could no longer bare it…and those blood stained eyes would always be there, looking over him…the ivory skinned youth that seemed like nothing more than a mere doll.

It didn't happened often, but when that deep voice spoke it helped stop those images of ten years ago. It stopped them from taking him away again into a prison he could clearly not break out of so easily, one that he had wilfully made for himself so long ago when his hands had become suddenly drenched with the blood of his family…how it hurt him to remember.

Years had passed since that night. Such a long time yet the wounds from it were still gaping and wide, and every now and then, salt would find their way into those cuts and sting him, to remind him of the past that he would certainly have completely refused to face, until that voice spoke to him again one time…it made the images go away - the hurt and the pain…yet it brought up something else within the teen that made life seem wrong…

He whimpered once in his sleep. Alone upon the futon, the blanket fallen from his delicate, white-skinned body, beads of sweat gathering across his partly visible torso as a nightmare had decided to plague him again.

Then those arms. Those smooth and comforting arms that only appeared in his mind, they reached out and held the whimpering beauty close, the comfort and the contact…it didn't hurt to remember that…

"It's alright, Sasuke…" the voice whispered softly into the boy's ear. The raven-haired boy stirred and gasped from the feeling of death he felt around him, the cold that seemed to smother his burning body. Only opening his blackened eyes slightly, still tired from his restless sleeping, he felt the arms around him unknowingly and welcomed the embrace of the body that soothed him from behind.

The voice had woken him finally. That smooth voice. It was familiar in the best possible way…but could it be possible that he had heard it correctly? Wasn't it all in his head?

"You'll never be alone again, Sasuke…" the voice spoke gently into his ear, he felt the arms tighten around his form, his fingers held onto the cold flesh that would not let him go, and his head leant back, he felt the form of the man behind him, felt his chest against the back of his head.

"A…aniki?" Sasuke's voice of reason was quiet. It's only a dream, but that's okay, as long as I don't need to wake up.

"It's me, Sasuke…I'm here…" the voice came in response, just how Sasuke had wanted to hear it. He'd not really heard that voice in ten years…since he'd been eight, when his older brother had been abruptly torn away from him within a night of bloody murder…his family gone with him…all of them had gone…left him there alone…all of them…slaughtered…even his older brother.

"Aniki…how?" Sasuke's voice was tired; his eyelids drooped dangerously over abyss black eyes, threatening to take him away again, back into a nightmare.

"It's a long story, Sasuke…" the voice replied calmly. "But don't worry. After tonight we'll have all of eternity to talk it over…"

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So that was chapter one, I hoped you all liked, it I know its short, it's really more of a prologue.

Sorry if you can't really guess what's going on I have this cryptic way of writing where you have to think (sorry about that) …teehee…but I promise you! Smexiness is on its way people!! (obviously because both Itachi and Sasuke are involved…humph…)