Samhain

Author's Note: Halloween is coming up. So I couldn't resist doing a Halloween based story. Samhain is a more ancient version of the holiday. So that's where I got the name. This will be a supernatural story where Hinata is a vampire and there will be many other types of supernaturals involved. If any of that bothers you, you might want to turn back now. For those of you still here, I hope you enjoy this story and reviews are always appreciated.

Story Notation: Hinata's personality in this will likely be at least somewhat or even extremely different than usual. This is because the era she was born into and her experiences as a vampire have shaped who she is. That means she's not as innocent as she pretends to be. With that in mind, happy reading.

Disclaimer: I own nothing and make no profit off of my stories.

Chapter 1

"Naruto, what the Hell happened to you?" Sasuke blinks as he tries his best not to gape at his best friend. "You look like a damn clown."

The blonde's face was caked in nearly every color imaginable. He looked like some sort of Flower Child who had decided to join a circus as a clown. Simply put, the blonde looked absolutely ridiculous.

The other University Student sighs and shakes his head. "I guess I must have fallen asleep during my shift." Right. "I was pulling an allnighter last night for a big test coming up and Konohamaru must have gotten me."

Well that did explain everything. Konohamaru was Naruto's cousin and the teenager idolized the blonde, especially when it came to pranks. So he was always pulling stunts like this.

If life was a game of Trick or Treat, Konohamaru always chose Trick…

Sasuke makes a mental note to himself. Under no circumstance was it safe to fall asleep in Amaterasu while Konohamaru there. Not that he was planning on falling asleep while at work anyway, but still.

"Well go clean up." Sasuke snorts at his best friend. "You're damn lucky that we work here and not somewhere else." At least here, the blonde's outrageous makeup wasn't too out of place.

After all, this was Amaterasu. It was arguably one of the most famous retail stores in the country and for good reason. It had everything inside it. No matter the season.

Technically, the place specialized in event planning. All year round, there were things for graduations, birthday parties, anniversaries, and things of that nature. Though what it was really famous for was its seasonal stuff, especially when it came to Halloween.

Amaterasu had coined the concept known as the Halloween Alphabet. It had everything from A to Z. All the way from Angel to Zombie and that was only the costumes. That was before one factored in all the makeup, props, and candy. (Did he mention there were 28 kinds of fake blood inside this place)?

Naruto nods at him gratefully. "Yeah." The blonde was obviously feeling a little embarrassed about the makeup. "I mean I don't mind makeup for Halloween, but come on. Can't he give me something sexier?" The other University Student laughs as he heads towards the bathrooms to wash off his face.

"Naruto, Konohamaru is good, but no one is that good." Sasuke couldn't resist winding his friend up. "No one can make you look sexy." He'd been doing it since they were toddlers. "So cut the kid a break."

Naturally, his best friend flips him off before making his way into the bathroom. "You're such a bastard!" Damn. Naruto was loud.

Sasuke was pretty sure that the entire store heard that comment because he was now getting funny looks directed at him. "Forget about makeup, heneeds is a muzzle or a gag." Hmm. There was an idea.

"We both know that no muzzle or gag would actually work on him." A feral looking red head strides over to Sasuke.

The red head's name was Gaara. He also worked for Amaterasu and he was a damn good makeup artist. Though he specialized in anything bloody. (Honestly, Sasuke was pretty sure he might be the reason why they had so many kinds of blood in the first place).

Sasuke wasn't going to be dissuaded that easily though. "I could make him dress up as a golden retriever for Halloween and give him a leash and everything." Sasuke smirks at that thought. "It would suit him and God knows it'd be better than whatever stupid costume he'll pick out on his own. I'll just have to make sure that it's a really strong muzzle."

"Well you can try it." Gaara sighs and shakes his head. "My sister keeps trying to get me to wear a panda costume she bought for me as a gag." Oh yeah…about that.

The other University student tries his best to look innocent. "A panda. That's really weird." Even though he had been the one who convinced Temari to buy that outfit for Gaara.

Of course, Gaara was a little bit more cynical by nature than their bubbly blonde friend who was currently washing clown makeup off of himself in the bathroom. "You put her up to it." The red head saw through Sasuke's innocent act instantly and that makes the Uchiha slightly nervous.

"Put who up to what?" Thankfully, the bell by the door rang.

That meant there was a customer. Which meant salvation. As hilarious as it was going to be seeing Gaara dressed up as a panda, Sasuke wasn't in a hurry to die today.

Which judging by the way those seafoam green eyes were glaring daggers at him, that was actually a possibility. "Whoops. I gotta go!" He smirks sarcastically at Gaara. "Can't keep the customers waiting!" With that being said, he immediately makes a beeline for the door just as Naruto comes out of the bathroom and unintentionally distracts the angry red head.

Big, hard, and pulsing. That was the first thought on Hinata's mind when she walks into Amaterasu. Clearly, she had just bumped into someone. Someone who was at least half a foot taller than her and who was almost assuredly a man, judging by that flat and muscular chest.

"S-Sorry." Her voice sounds meek, even to her own ears.

Which was hardly surprising. Rarely, did Hinata go a day without stuttering in front of her classmates. "It's alright." This was especially the case when she was dealing with a very obviously male classmate. "I should have watched where I was going."

Silk. His voice was like a silken caress to her ears. Hinata's curiosity gets the better of her and she dares to look up only to find that she was looking at a ghost.

"No." She shakes her head quickly. "I s-should have gotten out of the way sooner." Yes, there was that stutter again. It was like clockwork really, but that was all by design.

He shakes his head and smiles at her. "It happens." The man tilts his head at her. "So were you looking for anything in particular?"

As she looks up at him, Hinata tries desperately to keep her composure. He wasn't Izuna. No matter how much this man looked like him, he couldn't be Izuna.

The similarities were eerie though. He had the same black as night hair. His skin was white as ivory and seemed so similar to the moonlight. This person even had the same aristocratic features as Izuna, but his name tag said SASUKE. That and there was the fact that Izuna was dead and this person clearly wasn't.

"Are you alright?" Sasuke was now looking at her with concern. "Hinata, right?" She must have spaced out too long.

The bluenette smiles at him and nods. "Yes, I'm fine." He seemed to know her though, but from where? "Oh and no. I'm j-just browsing." She smiles at him shyly and fidgets with her hands nervously. "Though I see a few things that are already catching my eye. This place is amazing!"

Sasuke nods at that. "Well if you're looking for a costume, I'd probably recommend a kitten or an angel for you." That suggestion makes her blush outwardly.

"M-Maybe." She smiles at him. "I'll have a look at those. What aisles are they in?"

He didn't miss a beat. "Aisle three and thirteen." Sasuke seemed to take a lot of pride in his work. Hinata was getting the distinct impression that he had every aisle memorized. His attention to detail was rather impressive and so were those biceps.

His employee uniform had short sleeves. Those were nice. Though she really shouldn't allow herself to be caught looking at them.

"Alright." She smiles sweetly at him. "Thank you." With that being said, she turns to start towards aisle three before Sasuke stops her.

His hand was so warm against her own. "Hey, the idiot is throwing a Halloween Party Friday." Of course, that was probably because her own was almost ice cold. "You should come, if you want. I mean we are classmates." They were? "You have Dr. Sannin for Biology too, right?" Ah. Apparently, they were.

It surprised Hinata's family to this day that she was enrolled in school when she clearly didn't need to be. They were all exceedingly wealthy anywhere. She didn't have to work a day in her life, if she didn't want to.

Hinata quite like the challenge of learning new things though. "Yes, I am." It kept her from getting bored. "And that sounds like fun." She smiles at him. "What is it going to be and w-what time does it start?"

Sasuke takes out a scrap of paper from his pocket and scribbles something down. "Starts at eight." He smiles at her. "It'll probably go all night though. It's being held at his parents' place." It was a very nice smile. Similar to Izuna's and yet, not at the same time. "I don't know what they were thinking letting him have it there, but yeah."

She looks down at the paper and clutches it close to her heart. "Alright. I'll be there." She giggles. "I might be the one with the wings or tail depending on my mood."

"I'll make sure to be on the look out either way." Sasuke nods as Hinata darts down one of the aisle.

Well she hadn't expected that, but Hinata now had plans for Friday. This year's Samhain was bound to prove most interesting.

Naruto grins as he looks at Gaara back at the register. "Did you see that?" He couldn't believe it. Had Sasuke actually been flirting with someone?

"Yes, I saw it." The red head rolls his eyes. "Don't get involved. It's not like Sasuke is going to live long enough to go out with her anyway." Oh yeah. Gaara was pissed, but the blonde didn't have the slightest clue why.

One didn't piss off Gaara Sabaku unless they were stupid, crazy, or a masochist. Since Sasuke wasn't any of those things, Naruto was a bit confused about what he had done to earn their classmate's wrath, but he supposed he'd find out soon enough.

Yeah. He knew that Gaara was joking. Everyone said stuff like that, the other Amaterasu Employee was pretty damn vicious when he got mad and now Sasuke was obviously on the wrong side of the red head's temper. That was definitely not a good place to be.

"What'd he do?" Naruto laughs as he checks the register.

So far it looked like everything was in order. All the money and stuff was there. That was good because Naruto did not want to have to take their boss to a nightclub, if they were short.

Gaara was still obviously fuming. "He told my sister to buy me a panda costume and now, she's determined to make me wear it." Oh that was priceless!

Damn. Naruto never would have thought Sasuke had it in him to be that deviant. Maybe, he'd make a good prankster out of the Uchiha yet!

"Well you know, the girls would probably dig it." He grins at Gaara.

The red head was now transforming from annoyed to borderline homicidal. "I don't give a fuck!" Naruto was actually starting to get a little scared now. "I'm not going as a bloody panda and any girl who is into that sort of thing is not my type anyway!"

Bloody panda? That was a new one. Actually, that sounded pretty sad. Naruto quite liked pandas. They were so cute. Then again, this was Gaara. He specialized in making bloody makeup designs. So of course, he'd add bloody in front of it. Wait a second.

"Are you…like English or something?" They were the ones who always said those words.

Oh yeah. Gaara definitely looked like he wanted to kill him. "I'm actually Irish, my family moved here when I was six." He looks a little annoyed at that fact. "I'm proud of it, but everyone expects me to have an accent when I tell them that I'm Irish and then they make a bunch of annoying leprechaun jokes." Oh right.

That would probably get annoying after awhile. "Well think of it this way, you can always tell the girls that you have a pot of gold at the end of your rainbow." Naruto grins at him as he looks over towards where Sasuke was.

"Very funny." Gaara rolls his eyes again. "Well lit sounds like he invited her to your Halloween Party." He pauses and adds as an afterthought. "So if I decide not to kill him, maybe he'll actually get a girlfriend."

Naruto nods at that. It'd be good for his best friend to have someone. He didn't know what Sasuke's deal was, but he'd never seemed interested in well anyone.

The guy was probably just spoiled though. He and Sasuke had both been really popular in high school. If Sasuke had wanted a date, he could have gotten one easily. Though he had always said he had to study. (Seriously, how much studying could a person do before they spontaneously combusted or something)?!

"Yeah." He beams at Gaara. "So are you thinking, what I'm thinking?" To which, the red head groans.

He shakes his head at Naruto. "If you're going to meddle with Sasuke's love life, I'll take you to the ICU or bail you out of jail." Geez. Gaara really was a glass half full kinda guy sometimes!

"You're overreacting." Naruto smiles at him. "Yeah. He might get angry, but it's for his own good really."

That's when Sasuke strides over and raises an eyebrow. "What's for my own good?" Damn that bastard. He had freakishly good hearing!

"You really should at least text him or something." Shisui sighs as he watches Itachi.

Itachi glances down at his phone anxiously. "I know that I should, but eventually, he's going to want to see me." Yes, Shisui could understand his cousin's hesitation there.

It was becoming known as 'The Choice' in the vampire world. Whenever someone became a vampire, they had a choice to make. Well actually, they had several choices to make, but one stood out in particular.

"And if you don't keep in touch with him, he might very well send the police looking for you." Whether or not, they wanted to stay in touch with their loved ones. "Which would be even worse." It was never an easy decision to make.

Itachi presses a few buttons anxiously. "Maybe, a short text then." His hands were actually shaking a bit.

This was nothing like his normally composed cousin, but Itachi had good reason for being so nervous. He hadn't spoken to Sasuke in a few weeks. The human was bound to be getting worried about his older brother by now.

"Yes, that would be a good idea." He nods approvingly at the other vampire.

The question was an eternal one for their kind. Just how much time should a newly turned vampire spend with their human family? The most rational answer was none of course, but whoever said that all vampires were rational. No one. That's who.

He sighs as he watches Itachi send a quick text. "Are you thirsty?" He gestures towards some bloodwine, he had gotten for them.

"I'm always thirsty." Itachi smiles at him.

Shisui knew what that his cousin was trying to make him feel better. In reality, he highly doubted that the younger vampire was happy. He was now overcome with melancholy on most days.

Nevertheless, Shisui pours his best friend a glass of bloodwine. "Of course, you are. It's only natural to be constantly thirsty at this stage." They would eventually outgrow the constant thirst at some point.

That day seemed depressingly far away. Though Shisui knew it would eventually arrive and when it did, he would be very grateful for it. It was hard to focus on much, when all you could think about was blood.

"I know that we're lucky in a way." Itachi takes a gulp of his bloodwine. "Even a hundred years ago, the main way that vampires our age could stay in touch with their families was through letter." That was true and assuming they did so at all. "At least, I can hear their voices and I can see them through webcams and things of that nature, but it's still hard."

Shishi knew that better than almost anyone. "Yes, I know. That's why I reached out to you." And well, that was how Itachi became a vampire in the first place.

A short while after he was turned, he'd reached out to his cousin and foolishly decided to meet with him. Itachi had gotten a damn paper cut and the rest was history…

An hour later and one very annoyed Sasuke later, the younger Uchiha Brother takes out his phone during his break. Jiraiya wasn't a very strict boss. As long as you were actually working on your shift, you could pull out your cell phones on your breaks and at lunch.

"That's weird." Which was apparently a damn good thing.

Sasuke had finally gotten a text from Itachi. His ever increasingly elusive brother. It had been going on two months, maybe three since he last heard from the other man.

I'm sorry that we haven't spoken in awhile. I've been very busy at work. How have you been? ~ Itachi.

To this day, Sasuke still wasn't sure what the Hell Itachi actually did for a living. It was apparently something that required long hours and working the night shift though. He couldn't for the life of him get Itachi to actually call him during the day.

Sasuke suspected that his brother might be some sort of doctor at a hospital. Maybe, he worked on the night shift. Itachi had been studying medicine at Yale. So that would make sense.

I was seriously thinking about sending out a SWAT team to find your ass. I'm fine. Going to a Naruto's Halloween Party on Friday. Yeah. His parents are dumb enough to let him have it at their place. ~ Sasuke.

Sasuke was now an excellent texter. His fingers were as fast as lightning at this point. They had to be. Just in case Itachi sent him a message. He didn't want to give his brother to give him a 'Hi and Bye Driveby.'

Yes, that does seem foolish on their part. So are you going with anyone? Remember, always cover your wand before placing it inside any witch's cauldron. ~ Itachi.

Unbelievable. Itachi doesn't speak to him for weeks and then wants to give him Halloween Sex Ed jokes? That was so not right.

You've been hanging out with Shisui too much. His dumb jokes are starting to rub off on you. Anyway, I kinda have a date. It's complicated. ~ Sasuke.

Hmm. That was very interesting. Itachi hadn't foreseen that happening. Sasuke might not be shy, but he was rather picky. He couldn't help, but wonder who had caught his eye.

How is it complicated? ~ Itachi.

That could mean anything. Though Itachi knew that it didn't mean the girl had a boyfriend. Sasuke wasn't the type to steal someone else's lover. He knew better than that.

She's a girl in my Biology Class. Gorgeous, but shy. I felt kinda bad for her. She was stuttering a lot and I figured it'd probably do her some good to go to a party. We aren't going together, but she said she's going. ~ Sasuke.

Ah. Clever. Sasuke was subtly checking to see if this shy coed was actually interested or not. Well, Itachi couldn't fault his taste. They did say that it was always the quiet ones.

He grabs some more bloodwine at that thought and nods at Shisui. "Yes, it's Sasuke." His cousin had been watching him a little too intently for him not to answer his unspoken question.

You aren't going together, but you're hoping to leave together ;) ~ Itachi.

"Good." Shisui's smiles at him. "See, I told you that it was a good idea to contact him?"

Itachi shakes his head at his smug friend as he gulps down some more bloodwine. The first five or ten years of being a vampire were supposed to be the hardest. After that, things should start to get easier.

He loved being a vampire for the most part. It was mostly the thirst and being away from his family that was driving Itachi well…batty.

Pervert, but maybe. We'll see. If nothing else, she isn't a Banshee like most of the girls at school. ~ Sasuke.

"I actually dated a Banshee once." Shisui chuckles and Itachi rolls his eyes.

Honestly, Sasuke might accuse him for being a pervert, but Shisui was far worse. He had always been a bit flirtatious, but becoming a vampire tended to just magnify one's existing personality traits. So now, Shisui was very much the vampire version of a Playboy.

Much to the delight and disappointment of most of the female members of the supernatural community. (He was quite popular, even if his bark was far worse than his bite as far as actual conquests went).

Well that does sound promising. Does this girl have a name? ~ Itachi.

Itachi swats Shisui upside the head. "You've dated a Banshee and basically every other humanoid species known to our kind." It was the truth.

Well at least he had to give Shisui one thing. His cousin certainly wasn't prejudice. He certainly didn't discriminate.

Yeah. Hinata. Hinata…Hyuga, I think. ~ Sasuke.

Suddenly, all his playful thoughts vanish. Itachi hoped that Sasuke was wrong about the woman's last name, but if he wasn't…Itachi was going to have to intervene.

I don't think that's a good idea. Her family is pretty damn strict. Hyugas are even more blueblooded than us. ~ Itachi.

Hinata had recently started changing more people into vampires or other supernatural beings. Her favorite place to recruit new supernaturals tended to be at Ivy League Schools.

It was the logical choice. Those types of institutions tended to have important guests or the children of important people tended to study there. If nothing else, she was bound to find some incredibly gifted humans to turn into vampires.

I can't believe you. I don't hear from you for months and now, you're trying to tell me who to date? You're unbelievable. I don't care if her family is strict, I'm going to that party. Talk to you later. ~ Sasuke.

Shisui stares at the cell phone screen in horror. "Well that didn't end well." That was putting it mildly.

"It looks like we're going to a party on Friday." Itachi sighs. "It may very well be the only way to keep my foolish little brother from biting off more than he can chew."

"Don't you mean that it might be the only way to keep Hinata from biting him?!" Shisui's snorts with laughter.

Itachi shakes his head. He loved his cousin. He really did. The younger Uchiha admired his Sire greatly, but there were times when he could be an absolute idiot.

Like now, for instance. "Shisui, just go and find us some costumes for the party before I cover your private parts in holy water!" That threat certainly did the trick.

Of course, Itachi would never actually do such a thing. Holy water was like acid to vampires. Sure, they healed quickly and they didn't scar, but that would be nothing short of torture. Still, one couldn't argue with the threat's effectiveness.

"You know one of these days that bluff isn't going to work." Damn.

It looked like Shisui did know it was a bluff. Oh well. "Somehow, I find that highly doubtful." Itachi smirks at him. "That threat is always going to work. Now get your undead hindquarters moving and get us some costumes." They had more important things to worry about. Such preparing for Samhain.