Disclaimer: The day I own Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn is the day Gokudera hands me a box of takoyaki.
Gokudera Hayato licked the blood off of his finger calmly. After nearly three days without feeding, he was content...
...another human girl...should he kill her? He required no more blood.
"w..w-ho...what are...you?" The girl was shaking. Even in the dark he could see her clearly. A young girl about his age...or the age he was before he was...turned...
What am I? Couldn't she tell? He took a step closer. There was a small puddle of blood seeping from a deep cut in her ankle. What a nice scent...her blood...
Dipping one slender finger into the dark liquid, he brought his index finger to his lips. Sweet?
"G-Get away!" the girl screamed, refusing to let go of the body of his previous prey, batting her hand as if trying to scare him away. The rubber band holding together her messy ponytail loosened, revealing the full shoulder-length hair.
With ease, he caught the screaming girl's wrist. The blood was pulsing deliciously underneath the skin. Why? He'd just acquired enough blood to satisfy him for a couple of days...and yet...Using one long nail, he pierced the soft skin...
The human was now whimpering, making pathetic attempts to pull away.
"HANA!"
The hunters were here. "Shit!" The vampire pushed the girl roughly against the floor.
"Itai!" Haru winced as she felt herself getting pushed towards the floor.
She was shaking, her ankles hurt, and she was scared as hell.
Vampires.
Less than two minutes ago, she doubted the existence of such creatures. Now...she wasn't sure...
The vampire, or whatever it was, was at the doors.
"W-wait..." Haru wasn't sure what brought her to say that, but her delicate finger grasped the cold air separating the two.
The vampire turned his head to look at the girl and the withering glare he sent made her stop. There was blood at the side of his mouth. He wiped it off with a sleeve.
And he was gone.
"HANA! Are you okay?" Three figures appeared at the door.
The once-living body that was once known as Hana was crumpled at the floor besides a figure...a girl perhaps.
A scream. "Hana-chan!" A girl pulled away from the group and fell to the ground to the corpse. "Hana-chan..." She sobbed, shaking the body, as if it were asleep...as if there was still life in it.
"...she's gone..." The figure with the katana clenched his fists and looked away.
Then a gloved hand reached out and fiercely grabbed Haru by the collar. "What did you do to her?" A boy asked calmly. His voice was calm and yet tears threatened to fall from beautiful auburn eyes.
"Tsuna...look at the wound. It must be Gokudera's. Only Gokudera kills like this."
"True..." Tsuna's grip on Haru became gentler. "Are you human?"
Haru struggled to remain calm...or at least stop her whimpering. She clenched her chattering teeth. "I'm...human..."
Tsuna frowned, wondering if the unfamiliar girl could be trusted. There were no visible fangs to be seen...it's only a little, but he could detect a bit of body heat from her...blood...was that hers?
"Haru-chan?"
She recognized the voice. It was from the main reason why she came back to Namimori. She turned her head slightly to look into the wide eyes of a pretty blonde. "Kyoko..."
Haru fainted.
"Hey!" Tsuna reached out just in time to grab the girl before she fell. "...She's unconscious."
Yamamoto Takeshi offered to take the girl from his leader. "Should we take her to our base?"
"It's too dangerous. There's no presence of fangs and she's bleeding, but what if she was recently bitten?"
Sasagawa Kyoko, wiping the remaining tears from her cheeks, stood up. "Haru's not."
"But-"
"Tsuna-kun, I don't want to lose anymore friends."
Tsuna sighed in defeat. Kyoko's word was law. "Let's bring her then..."
As they walked outside the now empty house, Tsuna carrying Haru in a style commonly known as the bridal-style and Yamamoto carrying Hana's lifeless body, Tsuna looked up at the cloud-filled sky. "Gokudera-kun...why?"
In the dimly-lit office of the abandoned Namimori Middle, a figure glared at the lowly vampire in front of him.
"You're late."
Gokudera bowed. "My apologies... I was feeding."
Hibari Kyouya frowned. The scent in the air was unsettling. Even against his will, he could feel his fangs protruding, lusting for the blood.
He could even feel his normally poised cronies behind him shifting restlessly.
Pushing behind the sleeves of his prefect uniform, Hibari walked to where the scent was coming from the most.
Gokudera looked up. "Hibari-san?"
Cold lips pressed on his own lips as a tongue eagerly licked at the area where a speck of blood remained.
The gray-haired vampire dared not move. Angering a pure-blood could be fatal, especially one known as Hibari Kyouya, one of the two most feared pure-bloods known.
If only he'd never been bitten...if only he'd remained human...stayed at Tsuna's side...
Hibari broke away, licking his own lips in thought. The blood was tainted with that of another...
"Who did you prey on?"
Hayato clenched his fists. "Kurokawa Hana...she's dead now."
"no...the other one."
He shook his head. "I'm not sure...she might be a friend of-"
A tonfa slamned in to his ribcage and threw him back to the wall with such ferocity that the wall cracked. "Find her."
Gokudera hurried to regain his balance.
"Find her and bring her to me." Hibari sat in his chair once more. That blood is mine...
Bowing once more, the gray-haired immortal being left the room.
