Oh my dear golly god an update! I really thought I'd never have another idea, but here we are!!

Just to let y'all know, this isn't on my 'to do' list anymore, and updates will come only if/as I get ideas, this will make them sporadic so every single person who likes this GO AND READ MY OTHER NATSUME/MIKAN STORY NOW! (It's called 'Arrythmia' and it's on my profile!)

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So enjoy.

Mikan stormed through the forests surrounding her school angrily, lashing out at unsuspecting trees and branches as she passed.

"Stupid Hotaru…" she fumed, "how could she leave just because I was four minutes late?! Grr!" She punched a tree and then swore when she rather obviously hurt her hand doing it.

To her side bushes rustled, and she jumped suddenly and just managed to keep herself from screaming.

"Hey!" Stupid bird!" she yelled and shook her fist at the bush, as inflicting her anger on innocent creatures seemed to be better than assulting the flora, "you frightened me!" She jumped again when she could've sworn she almost heard someone saying 'did I?', but realised it was just the wind in the trees, and scowled even more as she carried on through the forest.

"Stupid creepy forest…" she muttered to herself, and then whirled around screaming and adopted a kung-fu defence position as she swore she heard a twig behind her snap. As if someone had trodden on it.

"…Hotaru?" she questioned nervously, "could that be you? I'm sorry I called you stupid? Hotaru?" she took a few steps backwards shakily, and then as another bush rustled as if being passed through she spooked for good and began to run.

"Ahhh!" she wailed as she sprinted as fast as she could through the dark; twigs whipping her face as she sped past and thorns scratching her bare legs, "I don't want to be eaten!"

She burst out into a clearing and heaved a sigh of relief as the dark shadows of the woods were banished by the moonlight, and slowed down a little to catch her breath.

However, just as she paused the full moon that had been so comforting just seconds ago vanished from view, blacked out by a form soaring across the sky above her.

"Ahahaha that stupid bird!" Mikan squealed and dropped to her knees and put her hands over her head, "it followed me!" she peered up through her fingers and watched the bird turn a full flip with a one and a half rotation and land one leg extended before her, skidding just a little as he hit the ground.

Wait… he?

"I'll have you know I am neither stupid nor a bird." The crouched figure said eloquently, as he slowly rose from his athletic landing pose and watched Mikan through blood-red eyes.

"A-a-a…" Mikan stammered as she cowered, "a person?"

"Yes and no." He replied sinisterly, and as Mikan lowered her hands from her face he cracked a grin; flashing her a set of gleaming white fangs.

Mikan's blood stopped in its veins.

"N-n-n-no w-w-w-way…" she whispered, as the boy (though he was probably sixteen at the youngest) slowly dusted some dirt off his hands and took a step towards her.

"Ahhh! Stay back!" Mikan screamed and held up her hands in the form of a cross, but this only evoked laughter from her vampiric pursuer.

"How quaint," he sneered, and then lifted his back foot to take another step, at which point Mikan turned and tried to run, however the place his foot landed was in fact not where physics and geography stated it should've, but in fact a few inches in front of Mikan's face.

Finding herself suddenly confronted with his legs, Mikan swallowed nervously and tried to stop herself shaking.

"Frightened, little girl?" he hissed, and although she was in fact scared shitless Mikan drew herself up to her full height (about a head shorter than him) and looked him straight in his luminous crimson eyes.

"I'm not a little girl, and nor am I frightened!" she attempted to imitate his first words to her, but made a mistake with it and he only laughed again, displaying his all-too-obvious fangs once more.

"Aren't you brave?" he jeered, and then lightning-fast lashed out an arm and gripped her tightly by the jaw; he twisted her head from side to side. "And quite pretty too."

"Get…off…me…" she forced through her clenched lips, "…vampire."

A sinister grin crossed his face once more, a crookedly evil smile that not only showed off his pearly whites, but also made him look rather devilishly handsome…

'No Mikan!' She thought to herself, 'don't let that distract you! Even if he's attractive it's just a trick to lure you in!'

"Oh I'm flattered you think so," he smirked lopsidedly, and her heart jumped up into her throat as she learned he could read minds. He pulled her face closer to his and pulled his lower lip against his fangs as if he was testing the points, and then slowly whispered, "if you think I'm so handsome then perhaps you'd care for a kiss?"

"Whu-?" Was all Mikan managed to say before he went right ahead and kissed her anyway, and instantly her knees buckled and her stomach churned.

'Aw crap' she thought, 'he's even a good kisser.' He seemed to hear this comment and kissed her again much harder, prying apart her lips with a few light nips, which with his jaws cut razor-fine slices down her lips and started to bleed.

She gasped slightly as he quickly tipped his head and sucked her lower lip between his, running his tongue eagerly across the lacerations, and she felt the intensity of his kisses deepen as he pressed his open mouth fully against hers and moulded his blood-tinged tongue with hers.

'UhOh' crossed her mind, 'uhohuhohuhoh…' she felt his lips twist into another of those grins against hers and a second later he split away.

"I won't bite…" he murmured as he twisted her head to the side with an iron-like grip and bared her neck. He ran his tongue down the length of it and then starting at the very base started to lace it with kisses, varying in pressure and making poor Mikan shudder.

After what he'd said she had suddenly alighted on some kind of desperate hope that he wasn't going to bite her and drink her body dry, as he'd said he wouldn't… and that counted, right?

However, just as he reached the softest and most vulnerable spot on her neck she heard a hiss of breath, which formed a single word, "…hard." And the next thing she knew was pain.

She felt the fangs puncture her skin all too well, sharp and burning hot as they tore through her flesh and ruptured the all-too inviting veins of her neck; then as he fixed his lips on her skin he used a free arm to grab her flailing ones and pin them to her side when she tried to struggle, and then began to suck.

It made her dizzy at first, and as he head span she lost all sensation apart from the feeling of his mouth against her, because even though he was doing what he was doing… it almost felt good. An intoxicating mix of pleasure and pain, and whereas normal kisses Mikan knew didn't make oceans crash or fireworks go off in her head, this horrific thing did.

As her vision started blur, Mikan thought that perhaps this wasn't a bad way to die, and at least she'd have an interesting obituary and Hotaru would feel bad for standing her up; but just as she was about to say her last goodbyes he tore his mouth away from her skin with a wet smacking sound, and wiped the smears of blood from it on the back of his hand.

"Not bad," he said seductively.

However she'd still lost too much blood to stay conscious, and the next thing she heard before everything went back were the words "…for that I'll let you live." And she thought 'oh blimey'.

When she woke up she was in hospital, bandage on her neck and drip in her arm, and the nurses were telling her to be thankful for 'the nice boy who brought her back from those dangerous woods'.

When she looked to her side a vase of blood-red flowers stood on her side table, and the attached note only read.

Until we meet again,

N

X

Natsume makes a ridiculously hot vampire. RIDICULOUSLY. OO

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