Deidara was soberly walking back to his headquarters, trying to stop himself from crying. Everyday at the academy one of the first rules was always "Just accept a partner's death." But how was it possible? After spending month after month killing satanic beasts that kill innocent people just for food, spending day after day and night after night alone with them, the fact he never started anything romantic with Tobi, well he didn't know. He spent all his time with him sure, but he just never felt that spark.
Not like that vampire, not at all. The way he just walked up and kissed him, like he really meant it, he barely wanted it to end. If the redhead had listened to him and stopped Tobi from dieing, well who knows what could've happened.
The blond had a lot on his mind, but right now on top of things was reporting back to Kakuzu, his commander. He walked into the building, going straight up the stairs and walking into the scarred-up man's office.
"Deidara, you're back, where's Tobi?"
"I failed un." The blond replied, taking a seat in front of his desk.
"It's…not your fault Dei," Kakuzu replied, leaning back in his chair, tapping his fingers on the head of his cane. "Akasuna was too strong, I should have sent someone else."
"Don't blame yourself Kakuzu, it was my fault un, Sasori did something to me…"
Usually when Kakuzu heard someone tell them a vampire "did something" to them he'd pull the sword out of his cane and wait for further instructions from the talking stump in their neck. But this time was different. No one has their partner killed then calls the vampire by their first name.
"What exactly was it that he did?" Kakuzu asked, leaning forward.
"He…he kissed me…he kissed me and I let him Kakuzu, and I liked it un!" The blond yelled, bursting into tears.
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"So Sasori, what was with you and the blond earlier?" Hiruko asked, making sure there were no nicks on his stiletto.
"I dunno, he was cute, I couldn't resist." Sasori replied, staring up at the ceiling.
"And what, you were expecting him to jump on the ground, take off his pants and yell 'fuck being a vampire hunter, make sweet love to me!!' It doesn't work that way, vampires and hunters don't mix too well." Sandaime replied.
"From what I recall you're the only vampire here, Sasori and I are half breeds, we can walk in the sun and are immune to crucifixes, just still need to feed on blood." Hiruko replied.
"And we're still hunted, so in a way Sandaime's still right."
"Yeah but here's what's bugging me, they've probably got info on hundreds of vampires all over the city, why'd they go after one and two half breeds?" Hiruko asked, opening up his wing and folding it over to check out his wound.
"Because they probably aren't ready to go after some of the bigger organizations yet and want to kill any stragglers." Sasori replied.
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"I'm sorry about that earlier Kakuzu…" Deidara said, a little embarrassed for the scene he made. "You're gonna let me go back after him, right un?"
Kakuzu looked at the blond for a second, before opening his desk drawer and staring into it. After a second he took a picture out of it and stared for a couple seconds before carefully putting it back and shutting the drawer back up.
"Sorry, but after what he did we'll have to get more Intel on him before we try again, which means he's off limits."
"What?! You have to un! What about Tobi!?"
"Deidara, do you remember why you became a vampire hunter?" Kakuzu asked, unfazed by the blonde's anger.
"Un…"
"Do you think your brother would want you charging back at this thing or wait until it's safe and we're positive we can beat him?"
Deidara just looked the other way before getting up and leaving.
The whole reason he ever became a hunter was to avenge his dead brother, who was a hunter before him. After he was murdered the agency contacted him, inspiring him to join in an attempt to get revenge.
He left his commander's office and decided to go home since he wasn't allowed to hunt.
He usually didn't mind his commander, he was more lenient than others. There were offices for the vampire hunters all over the world, and at least three he knew of in the city. But Kakuzu was better than most commanders, he was usually nice after someone lost a partner, didn't usually let people go after vampires stronger than them, he looked out for everyone under him. He also had more perks than the average hunter. When someone seriously started badmouthing vampires to him they'd find themselves with a fatal wound. But other than that he was ok.
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a/n – This chapter was just supposed to introduce you to different plot details that'll be important later.