On the way back to their room, Natsume noticed that the girl avoided walking in the sunlight and walked only on the parts shaded by trees or roofs.
When they were back their room, the girl headed straight to bed, as if very tired from walking.
The lad was the only one left awake. When he saw that the girl was asleep, curiosity won over him, and he decided to look at the girl's things. He quietly opened her end table. Inside he found stashes of credit cards, money… and a pack of red pills…which smelled eerily like blood.
He decided to take one pill and put it in his pocket, with hope that the girl would not notice. He walked out of the door quietly, so as to not wake Mikan. He headed for the lab to study what the contents of this pill were.
When he reached the lab, he looked around to see if anyone was there. Not a single person was. That is good news, he thought. He tried to down the pill using a knife. He gently sliced the pill. After succeeding, blood spilled out from it.
"Are you happy now that you've confirmed your thoughts about what I am?" Mikan said, materializing at the door.
Natsume was shocked, although he was confused about which fact he was shocked about more – the fact that Mikan was a vampire, or the fact that he was sure that the girl was fast asleep when she left her, and now, she's standing in front of the door with her arms crossed. Could it be that he felt him brushing the stray hair from her eyes yesterday and watching her closely? He felt a blush coming, but he knew better than to let it continue. This was not the time to be embarrassed.
The girl suddenly appeared in front of him. Way too close for his taste.
Her lips were red and looked very kissable. He wanted to kiss her now, for it was just too tempting. But the girl spoke, as if to distract him from his thoughts.
"You do know that stealing is a crime, right?"
"Yes. And I also happen to know that killing people and draining their blood is a crime too." The lad said, looking at the brunette straight in the eyes.
Mikan could not deny the fact that she had killed more humans than her fingers and toes combined could count. She was blood thirsty – and she was not a good vampire.
"You also do know that I could kill you now, if I wanted to." Mikan tried to sound as scary and convincing as possible.
Then a smirk – a sexy and seductive one, began to form on Natsume's face.
"…but you and I both know how we're eerily attracted to each other. Unexplainably." Then, the lad reached for Mikan's waist and puller her closer and began kissing her. He kissed her gently at first, then the kiss grew wilder and wilder. For some reason, Mikan didn't bother to break away from his kiss. She kissed him back. Mikan accidentally bit Natsume's lip during the kiss- blood fell from his soft lips; and Mikan savored every drop. After gaining some good sense, and after noticing that Natsume was almost out of air, she decided to break away from their kiss.
"Natsume, do you know what it means to kiss and be bitten by a vampire on the lips?" Mikan asked.
"I do. I've done some research, and it goes like that Snow White story…" then he looked her in the eyes again, and put back on that seductive smirk and a knowing tone… "except it's the opposite. If you get kissed by the princess while you're alive, you die."
Today, Natsume Hyuuga was now a vampire, too.