SasuSaku vampire chapter 2

Sakura was walking through the hall when suddenly she heard a noise coming from her grandmother’s room. Silently Sakura opened the door and a bat flew out the room. Sakura then understood that bats made those noises. She wanted to leave but a strange force pulled her inside to an old box, which stood on the table. The box looked very mysterious and scary because on a lid there was a bat statue.

Sakura felt a bit scared, but her curiosity was a lot stronger, so she tried to open the box but unfortunately it didn’t budge. She tried it again and again but the result was the same. After a while, Sakura looked for some kind of bat and while she was looking she cut her finger into a bat's teeth. A drop of her blood dropped into the bats mouth and the lid loosened. The box opened itself.

Sakura saw a crystal inside of it. The crystal's color was dark red, like blood. Sakura wanted to touch it but suddenly...

“ Sakura, what are you doing?” An woman was standing between the doorway. She looked a little bit disappointed with her granddaughter.

“ I was… I was…” Sakura was speechless.

“ I can see that you found my box of secrets and you can even open it.” The woman’s voice was calm and there was even a little smile on her face.

“ What do you mean?” Sakura looked at the box and the crystal inside of it.

“ I understand it’s very old, strange and even scary.”

“ It is called the box of secrets because it’s guarding a secret.”

The woman walked to the table where the box was, she took the red crystal and looked at it as if she was hypnotized, but a few seconds later she came back to reality and looked at her only granddaughter. She gave the crystal to her. Sakura took the crystal into her hand and looked at it very carefully, she wanted to see what her grandmother saw in it.

Suddenly Sakura froze. She couldn’t move and looked like a living statue. Sakura’s eyes became red, but to her everything was dark and her eyes weren’t closed.

Sakura closed her eyes hoping that when she’ll open them and see the room and her grandmother. Sakura opened her eyes. Unfortunately Sakura didn’t saw her grandmother but she did see something.

It was a forest, the same forest where she and grandmother played when Sakura was little. Sakura looked up and saw the moon come out from a dark cloud. The moonlight tried to penetrate through the thick forest tree but only a big shaft of light came through and shined a big patch of ground. Sakura walked toward to the moonlit patch of ground and stood in the middle of it but suddenly she fell down into the ground. She fell quite hard so she had to be hurt very much but oddly she only felt a small pinch.

When Sakura got up, she noticed she was in an underground tunnel. She saw a bright red light at the end of the tunnel and walked toward it. At the end of the tunnel there was a rectangular shaped stone and it looked like some kind of a table. On top of it, a red crystal was shining. The crystal emitted a bright light.

Sakura walked closer to it and noticed that it was the same red crystal she was holding few minutes ago. Sakura tried to touch it but the very minute she stretched her arm to the crystal, it started to shine a lot brighter and Sakura couldn’t see anything. Sakura closed her eyes and when she opened them again she stood in the room with the box, holding the crystal in her hand, and next to her grandmother.

Sakura's hand was shaking as she handed the crystal back to her grandmother. Her grandmother took it from her and placed it back inside the box.

“ The crystal belonged to the one person who I loved so very much” Sakura stopped breathing and she could hear every one of her grandmother’s words about her grandfather. Sakura never knew her grandfather because he died. When she was born and her mother didn’t talk very much about him, actually she never talked about him.

“ Unfortunately, we couldn’t be together. We belonged to different worlds.” After these words Sakura understood that she wasn’t talking about her grandfather but still she found out about her grandmother's secret life.

“ Grandmother, please don’t be mad for what I’m going to ask you, but did you have…”

“ A lover.” Sakura’s grandmother finished her sentence and it made Sakura feel very uncomfortable.

“ I met him when your grandfather was already dead but the truth is that I loved him a lot more than your mother’s father. I never told your mother about him and I want you to promise me that you will never tell it to her.”

“ I promise, but, I don’t understand why I can't tell her.”

“ Your mother loved your grandfather very much and when he died she never admitted it, so when I fell in love again I couldn’t tell it to her. It would have broken her heart. Do you understand?” she looked at Sakura with tears in her eyes.

“ No, I don’t. You had rights to love again. Mum would have understood it.”

“ Maybe she could have, but we separated not because of her, but because we were so different. Like I said before we belonged to different worlds. We were together a long time so he understood that even though he loves me so much, he couldn’t take me to his world. One morning I awoke and I didn’t find him anywhere. On his side of the bed there was a red rose and under it a letter and this secret box with the crystal inside. Although he was gone, he left his life to me because this crystal is his life.” Sakura saw sadness, sorrow and love in her grandmother's eyes.

“ What is his name?” she asked her grandmother with a shaky voice. After few minutes of silence she heard the answer.

“ Uchiha Mandara”

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In a dark room, where the only source of light are some candles on the table, and a windowsill, a young pink-haired girl was laying on a bed. On her neck, there are two bite marks, and they are disappearing with each passing moment. Sakura’s t-shirt is lifted so only her belly is visible because on the right corner of her stomach, there is an injury, but it is healing itself little by little. Next to the bed was Sasuke, he was sitting but this time his eyes weren’t red, they were obsidian.

Sasuke put a cold compress on Sakura's forehead because she developed a fever and it displeased him. He knew that Sakura’s body was reacting to the vampire DNA that he injected into her when he bit her, but he didn’t like the way she was reacting to it, nor did he like her fast recovery.

Sasuke wanted to look at the marks he left on Sakura, but before he could, three men wearing black cloaks, whose faces were hidden by hoods, barged into the room.