Gah! Gomen! Gomen! Gomen! Gomen! I never actually meant this chapter to take so long to write, but if anyone wants proof that I haven't had time, I have –counts- 58 (WHAT! FIFTY EIGHT! GAAAAH! I'M GONNA DROWN!) unread mangas that belong to various people that I may or may not know.

Wow… I have one more review than when I last checked, and it's a complaint that I stopped updating. X.x

Real quick I would like to point out: If I'm repeatedly stating that I'm working on something, really I am, I haven't stopped updating, I've run into writers block. And I think this chappie shows it too –dies- no bad reviews allowed. It's not as good as the other chapters….but um… it's slightly more fun –sweatdrop- I hate that the smilies I sooooo love to use don't work in here…and I usually use the asterisk for actions too –sob- stupid away all my fun… I'm rambling..

Since this has been asked and I don't think I answered: Yes, Sasuke IS getting better at reading Kakashi's emotions, but it's a combination of his living with Kakashi and his bothering to look. I think he could have read Kakashi before if he had bothered to look, but being able to smell things such as some emotions might help –stupid smilie thing I can't use…sob-

Starting now!

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Once at his house, Kakashi suggested that we somehow celebrate my newly gained freedom. I tried to tell him, repeatedly, that it was a stupid idea; I hadn't even liked parties when I was alive, but Kakashi could be nearly as stubborn as Naruto and Lee together when he wanted to.

"Come on, Sasuke-kun! You should be happier that they aren't killing you!" He sounded both happy and annoyed, which is really hard to pull off.

"I'm living on a technicality, sensei. And it isn't even a good one." I glared at him, but Kakashi was so accustomed to it that he didn't even blink.

"Fine." When he said that, I was so relieved I nearly let myself want to smile. "We'll forget about celebrating your freedom."

"Thanks." I should have known he didn't sound disappointed enough.

"Instead, we'll celebrate your seventeenth birthday. It's tomorrow, right?"

"What?" Since when was it even July?

"July 23rd is your birthday, right?" He asked, digging out a piece of paper that probably had special dates written on it.

"…Yea…" I hadn't even realized it'd been that long…

Kakashi looked annoyed… in an oddly humorous way. "You're spacing out, Sasuke-kun."

"Whatever." I went to what had become my room and lay down on what had become my bed.

I didn't see him again until the next day, but from the moment he woke me up, I could tell he had plotted something.

"Heya, Sasuke-kun!" Kakashi grinned through his mask rather suspiciously. "Get dressed already; it's time for your party." He was still grinning.

Kakashi left my room so I could change. I dressed quickly, but as soon as I was done, I slipped out the window instead of going out to meet him. I knew a place where I could relax and spend the day in peace.

I was a small clearing in the forest containing what could only pass as a lake because the water was just deep enough not to completely evaporate at any point during the year. The water was still and cool, and always gave me the illusion of being clean even if I had already brushed my foot across a fish or strange underwater plant. It was always quiet there, without being the eerie silence of an empty building. My footsteps didn't echo, and there was no reason to feel uncomfortable making a sound because my voice would seem to blend itself into the calm, natural silence of the clearing. I could always see the light of the sun, but even when it was directly overhead, it never blinded me, never got in my eyes, never hurt my skin. When I was there, the presence of someone following me was always harmless, nearly non-existent. I didn't have to worry about anything or anyone.

But when I arrived, it was nothing like that. Kakashi had obviously known I would attempt an escape, and he moved the party to the very place he knew I would escape to. The usually motionless water was being splashed and thrown around. My silence had been invaded by a deafening bombardment of excruciatingly harsh noise that not only failed to flow as my silence had, but it jarred my eardrums and left me feeling as though I had been beaten repeatedly over the head with a particularly large bat. Faced with this onslaught in the only place I had been able to find peace, I did the only thing I could possibly have done at the time.

I ran.

My spontaneous running, however, did me no good. I didn't even make it back to the house before Kakashi had grabbed me and dragged me back to the hideous defilement of my sanctuary. Most of the people I knew were there, and so were a few who I'd never met in my life. They all looked happy as they played around loudly and actually spilled punch in the lake! I was ready to kill them all just for that. Then I saw someone who shouldn't have been there at all. Naruto.

He was innocently playing something that looked like a cross between Duck, Duck, Goose and Hide and Seek with Sakura, Hinata, and Konohamaru's group. I forgot what everyone else was doing, even Kiba spilling more punch into my lake, to just stare in wonder. Naruto shouldn't have come. Did Kakashi even tell him who's Birthday they were celebrating? If he had known, Naruto wouldn't have come, would he?

I decided he wouldn't have when a saw the glare he sent my way as soon as Kakashi dragged me into the clearing. He continued playing his game, but Sakura immediately came over squealing a particularly loud "Sasuke-kun!" into me poor ear. Then, being as how no girl can see another being annoying without joining in, Ino ran over and did the same thing, except for the fact that she nearly knocked my into a tree when she jumped me. The Sakura had to jump her to keep her from jumping me, and I did run into the tree. I was eventually saved from loud high-pitched shrieks so annoying I couldn't even tell what the girls were saying when Kakashi dragged me away with the excuse of presents.

Everyone there had apparently brought something of little to no importance that they expected me to keep and treasure as an amazing and priceless birthday gift. I immediately decided to throw most of it away as soon as I was home. Kakashi had given me new copies of his perverted books, which I would have burned except that He would then give Tsunade a good reason to have me killed. Sakura gave me something I think was a hand made Sasuke-bear, and some rock-hard brownies. Everyone else gave me just as random thins, but the worst one had to be the dog biscuit from Kiba and Akamaru. Naruto gave me nothing.

I was then forced to eat a large amount of cake with far too much sugar to be edible. By the time I began spitting it in Kakashi's face instead of eating it, he had already decided on making me swim a race for what he termed "fun." He dragged me over and threw me out over the water so I would land in the middle of the lake before I had even figured out why a race would be fun. I will give him some credit though, and assume he never knew about the kunai far too conveniently flying towards the same spot. I took the fact that he fell in the lake as soon as he saw it as proof. I, having my "amazing" vampire skills, caught the kunai, threw it back, and fell in the lake. Note the falling in the lake that would NEVER had happened if I was a ninja. Walking on water was one of many skills I greatly missed. Once I had resurfaced, I found that I had hit my attacker, but he was still standing at the edge of the lake.

It was especially odd looking since the kunai was protruding from his unusually pale neck.

The younger ninjas had already run to take cover and the older ones were all ready to fight, but I just stared at him from in the lake. He was tall, dark haired, and red eyed. Based on the kunai and fangs that showed up when he grinned, I guessed that he was a vampire. Why he was there, though, I couldn't guess.

"What do you want?" I knew I didn't sound quite as threatening as I probably should have tried to be, but I really didn't care either way. He just continued grinning down at me. "What?" This time I did sound angry, but he just widened his grin.

"Come."

It was nothing more than a single, harmless, meaning less word, but I found myself unable to disobey it. I tried with all my might not to pull each arm forward and then back in a swimming motion. I repeatedly told my legs to stop kicking. None of it did any good though.

"Who are you?" I stood, dripping, in front of him.

He grinned.

I suddenly desperately hated that grin. I wanted to wipe it off his face, and if I found myself unable to do so and had to simply remove his entire head, I was okay with that too. I lunged at him, ready to tear his head off with my bare hands since I didn't have any weapons with me at the time. As I was running towards him I almost forget that I couldn't use chakra anymore, but I stopped myself from attempting a jutsu just in time to avoid looking like an idiot.

"Stop."

I froze. I just stopped, just like he said and found myself unable to move towards him any more. "What the hell…?"

"Your name is Sasuke, correct?"

I spat on him.

"Am I right?"

"No." I answered angrily.

"Then what is it?"

"Leave me alone before I rip your esophagus out with my mind."

"Sasuke it is then." He smiled. "I am Yukio, but you, Sasuke-kun, will be calling me Master for some time."

Everyone did the annoying and dramatic gasping in unison thing that I've always found to be a bit annoying even when I'm forced to participate in it. I believe I simply looked more annoying than I ever had in my life up to that point. "Hell no."

"Sasuke-kun, you shouldn't be disobedient to your master, especially not when he came all this way to get you. Most vampires show up on their master's doorstep soon after they awaken, but I guess you weren't as good a choice as I though you would be." He sighed disappointedly. "You're going to have to train longer than most. That really is unfortunate considering how much you obviously hate anyone having authority over you."

"What the hell are you talking about?" My annoyance deepened.

False tears welled in his eyes. "You mean you don't even know that much? Oh, what kind of pathetic vampire have I created that doesn't even want to eat something better than a pig." I decided that were he alive, this Yukio would fit in particularly well in Konoha. "With the exception of the demon over there…" He motioned to Naruto. "which is pretty sad, Sasuke-kun. Most vampires would choose even pig's blood over demon's blood. That's what happens with you ninjas though. You all get funny in the head and do crazy things." He sighed again. "That's why we were attacking normal villagers, duh." The he began to grin again. "Anyways! We'd better get going before you miss your first hunt! It'll be great! Especially since you've already done a little bit of training-I can tell because you're strong enough to back talk me- so you should actually be able to catch a good one."

"A good what?" Kakashi asked.

"Meal of course! And since we're vampires that would mean a good human. I could send him after one of you, but that's supposed to wait till after his training, unless he really wants you dead for this party thing that is…?" He looked at me questioningly. "Well?" He asked when I said nothing.

"If I wanted them dead, they already would be."

For some reason, not a single ninja seemed completely happy with the way I had phrased that.

(that was the end... die or lemme use meh symbols-sob-)

Okay, anyway, um… I think this might have actually been longer than the other chapters, but it doesn't signiofy any hope for the futre. This is nothing more than an anomaly and you will all return to being disappointed with the overly shortness of my chapters and how rarely I update soon enough

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Okay, I'm kidding, I'm not actually happy about any of this… if I was a better writer they'd all be long and pretty and perfect and written in periods of time that don't have to be measure in months -sob- I should probably go to be… but I'm hyper… all my sobbing tonight is fake… ohno! I just gave away that I write the before it thing and the after it thing at the same time! …not really but I did now… that's my hyperness for you…x.x good thing I only have Japanese class tomarrow…

THANK YOU JUNIORS FOR HAVING TESTING!