Being Human
Chapter 1

He's a hunter out for cold and bloody revenge. She's an innocent vampire, trying to stay human. Two worlds clash, black and white meet… and sometimes the lines blur and they become grey. This is the story of a monster… and a human.

10 years ago, south Montana…

The small cabin he called his sanctuary, their sanctuary he had to remind himself smiling, was dark and that was what surprised him. Was Aiko asleep already? He got out of his car and closed the door of the brand new SUV behind him, locking the vehicle while walking towards the front door. Somehow he had an eerie feeling as he walked through the freshly fallen snow towards the frontdoor. He felt cold and it was not the snow falling from the black sky in the middle of December. He stopped in his tracks, damn it! He forgot the bags in the car, he had only two days to go before Christmas. But forget the damn bags, first he wanted to see how his wife was doing. His heart beat faster as he opened the door only to find it unlocked. Aiko never left the door unlocked after dark!

He knew something was wrong… where was his wife "Aiko?" he bellowed but he got no answer.

His long legs carried him through the small lobby leading into the open kitchen and living room. The oven was still lit but Aiko was nowhere in sight, not on the couch nor on the floor on the small sheep fur that was on its typical place.

"Aiko?" his voice desperate now and he stormed up the stairs into the common bedroom, that there was no light was the thing concerning him. The bedroom door was open and it was freezing cold. He shivered even though he was still in his thick coat. "Aiko!" he dashed into the bedroom and froze. The window was open and snow came falling into the empty bedroom.

There in the bed… his heart stopped and then the horrible reality caught up to him. Sasuke needed two seconds to be on the bed. She was full of blood, the bed sheets were soaked and squelched under his hands as he turned Aiko onto her back. "No! No, no, no, no, no… Aiko!" he shook her shoulders and felt for a pulse, but her skin was already cold her chest unmoving. He looked at her throat… it was torn apart and her arms… what on earth was that? Holes all over her arms and neck, chest and shoulders. Sasuke choked on his sobs as tears started to trickle down his cold cheeks as he caressed the still face of his wife. With a loud roar he lifted his wife into his arms and pressed her cold, lifeless body against his chest. Screaming out his pain and his suffering, as he cried into the stiff neck of his wife.

His hand rested on the swell of her stomach and felt no life in it, his child… his wife and child were dead. Pain wrecked through his body, it made him ache and he gagged on the sour taste in his mouth. He didn't know how long he sat there, it could have been minutes, it could have been hours. He never registered the people swarming into his house, he only felt strong hands pulling him softly from his dead wife.

He shrugged and tried to get rid of the hands "No! No! Let me go, my wife!" he sobbed wildly and grabbed Aikos body tighter to him.

Distant voices filled his head while he still fought against the hands pulling him steadily from his wife, his beloved. Sobbing he roared when he was pulled from Aiko and out of the bedroom.

"Knock him out! Knock him out! Where the hell is Hyuga?" a voice screamed and a second later Sasuke felt a sharp prick in his neck and his world went black.

When he woke up, he expected pain. He was waiting for the pain to overcome him and consume him. The image of Aiko, dead in their bed where they had created mere months ago a life, growing inside of his wife, pained him beyond possible. It hurt, God damn it, it hurt so much and he felt a new sob rise on his throat as fresh tears started to fall. But he tried to keep it down as he slowly sat up. He was in a small room, Victorian furniture, a simple wooden bed he was in at the moment and a table with two chairs. No windows and only one door. And exactly that door opened and a tall man with long brown hair entered the room, he was surprised to see the other one already awake.

"That was fast. How are you feeling?" he asked straight forward and Sasuke sat up, wiping away the tears from his sore cheeks "Where is my wife?"

The brown haired guy pulled a chair from the table towards the bed and sat down "I'm really sorry but your wife is dead, we tried to revive her, but we were too late."

Sasuke chocked anew on another sob "And-" he took a deep breath "My child?"

He looked down swiftly on his hands and then up into Sasukes eyes, true compassion and sorrow in the pale blue orbs of his eyes "I am so sorry, my friend. We couldn't save her or your child."

Sasuke felt as if someone had ripped his heart from his chest, the wound gaping and bleeding all over again. He doubled over and retched again, while crying his heart out. The strong hand on his shoulder was the only source of heat that could slightly warm him. Sasuke suffered and writhed under the sheer pain coursing through his body as he tried to understand the fact that his wife, the love of his life and his child were dead. His child, his daughter… his little Katherine, she would have been born in February. Sasuke sobbed and the hand on his shoulder squeezed slightly "I am truly sorry, man."

As soon as he had calmed down slightly, he looked at the other man, his voice cracked "W-Who was it? Who killed her?"

The stranger took a deep breath and leaned back in his chair "You have two options now. You can either listen and believe, or walk out that door and try to get over the pain and slowly rebuild your life. But let me tell you, option one can give you revenge and you can kill those who killed your beloved."

Sasuke couldn't think, the words the other man spoke, were a different language to him, so he just did what was the easiest "Option one."

Today, Paris…

The Champs Elysees was beautiful. The first time she visited it she was barely eighteen and took everything she had saved all her life and paid a one way ticket to Paris to get away from her parents and life in east London. Walking down the street was the first thing she did after arriving here. She lived in Paris for over five years now and she never missed London. She had learned French within a few weeks, not speaking a few more words than 'oui' and 'bonjour' when she arrived. And now Paris was her home, at least it had been before she became what she was now. Now she felt a stranger to all those things she had loved while she was human.

A change of air made her tense a little, but her feet carried her on down the path between the light up trees. She tensed immediately when she looked to her right and she sighed "What do you want?" she asked shortly and walked down the road faster. Well, at three o'clock in the morning they both looked like a couple going home from a long, nice evening.

"You did not phone, you did not write and you did not take the money. You know the rules, Sakura."

She rolled her deep green eyes and stopped, while looking into the window of Christian Dior. She could see her reflection, the long coat and the tall man next to her. With a deep sigh, she turned towards the other vampire "Sai, what do you want here? I told you all six months ago I don't want to have any contact to anyone of you."

Sai sighed and pushed his hands into his coat "You know we can't do that, Sakura. The rules been set not by me but the council. And we have to follow them, sweetheart, if we like it or not."

Sakura felt anger bubble inside her while she looked up into his pale face "Can't you understand me? I don't want to have any contact to you or your God damn council! I can take care of myself!"

Sai rolled with his eyes when he followed her through the cold night, excusing himself to a young woman he almost ran over as he tried to stay on Sakuras tracks "The hunters are everywhere now, Sakura! Many things changed in the last ten years, years you didn't even expire as a vampire! You are a baby and nothing more!" Now he was getting angry with her childish behavior as he stalked after her down the street "The hunters are all over the world now! They are coordinated and trained! They are able to kill us, don't you understand it? We are all in danger, that's the reason why we have to keep contact with the council!"

"I don't need the council because I will not stay a vamp-" she could stop herself from shouting out and looked around carefully "I will not stay like this. I will find it" she grit out through clenched jaws and Sai sighed, ruffling his black hair "Sakura, it does not exist! When do you finally realize it?"

Suddenly she was pulled into a hard body and he forced her to look up at him "Finally accept what you are and live your life."

Sakura hissed, trying to get rid of his hands around her arms "This is no life! This is a curse, or at least it is for me! I don't want to live like this and I will not accept this! Never!" she spat into his face.

Sai growled lowly and pulled her harder against him "Sakura, this is you now! Try it at least, you don't even want to know what is ahead of you! You close your eyes like a child and you don't see the big chance life gave you!"

Sakura finally managed to free herself of his hands and snarled, she never as someone to become angry easily but he hit a very, very sore nerve "A chance? This is hell! I can't step a foot into sunlight anymore, I had to give up everything I worked for and I had to give up all the plans I had! I wanted children, I wanted to marry and a have a normal life but not this!"

Sai tried to understand her, he really tried but Sakura was out of all the vampires he had to watch over, probably the most difficult to understand "We all felt that way at first but it gets better! Give it a try, Sakura! You don't know the road ahead and you-"

"The road ahead?" she was fuming now "I want to walk that road as human and I will! I don't care how long it takes, I will find the cure!"

Sai was really losing his patience now and he felt anger bubble inside him "There is no cure! When will you finally realize this, Sakura! It's an old story told by a witch no one can believe! You want to hunt after that fantasy? Fine, do that but don't come to me when you are in trouble because the hunters are directly on your heels!"

Sakura hissed, shaking her head "They won't! I never saw one of them and I won't! I am careful, you know that Sai."

The older vampire sighed, he knew she was running into her death when he would let her go. He turned his back towards her he simply couldn't look into her eyes saying what was coming now. She left him no choice "Sakura Haruno, from this day on, I, your mentor and protector order you to stay in Paris as long as I command you. If you disobey this order, you will have to face the punishment of the council. Until you don't have my clear permission to leave, you will stay."

"Why?" that tiny, whispered word made him stop exactly where he was and he looked over his shoulder. She looked like a broken doll, those green eyes pleading him to let her go and find her own way "Because I swore to protect you. And you are running directly into you death if you leave now."

Her shoulders sank down and her head hung low on her chest, the long tresses of her hair almost falling to her belly now "Then let me run! It's not your business, you said it, Sai! I am no one to you or the council!"

Sai turned around with one last, dark stare "Sakura, it's rule, it's tradition. You will stay in Paris and that is my last command for now. Be careful and when you need something, call me. And for God's sake, take the money we send you."

Sakura wanted to protest but he was already gone. Sakura looked down the empty street and she felt even lonelier at the moment. With a defeated sigh, she turned around and continued to walk down the Champs Elysees. She loved Paris more than anything, it was her home but right now… she hated it.

The Hummer parked mere feet away from the pink haired female and the dark haired man turned to his partner "Did you see that?"

The grim look on his face turned to one full of hate "Yeah… time to kill."

Okay Guys, I have seriously no idea where this came from, but it kept plaguing me and I couldn't stop writing this idea down… sadly :D I know this chapter is kind of… awkward but trust me it's going to keep getting better :D I have nothing to write at the moment because I have all the chapters of my stories after the delete of them :D I needed a new story and here you have it. Being Human is for me a new experience because for the first time Sasuke is the human in my story and not Sakura :D

However, I do hope you enjoyed this story and followed or favorite it and most of all… leave me a REVIEW! I do want to know what you think of it ;) Oh and I apologize for any mistakes, I am not English and it is my second language... and it's late :D

Oh, the typical disclaimer, I do not own Naruto, just the plot and this story ;)

See you in chapter 2 of Being Human…!