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Sorry it took so long. I have been busy, confused and traumatized this last month. I'm planning to update once a month from now on(It means like a month and two weeks).

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Lavi left the unconscious Japanese on the bed. Then, he took a first aid kit from the closet and cleaned the other's wounds carefully, bandaging the ones that were already been cleaned. When he finished, he carefully raised the blue-haired's head to remove the blood-strained pillow and put the clean one that was next to it. The redhead observed the unconscious man, his loose straight hair, his smooth skin, his thin lips. He felt ashamed for mistaking him with a woman, watching him closely it was a stupid mistake to make. But even when he was a "he" and not a "she" Lavi still liked him. Maybe the redhead was a womanizer without cure, but that didn't mean he didn't swung the other way every now and then. He kept watching, from the delicate face to the neck, an intern rage emerged from him when he saw the bandage. *I should have killed that vampire* He thought. He looked down to the sleeping man's chest; he was wearing a dirty beige topcoat over an equally dirty dress shirt. The hunter couldn't just leave him like that; he went to his closet and took out a T-shirt and comfortable pants.

Third day

Kanda opened his eyes heavily, blinking a couple of times before opening them completely; his head hurt and he felt dizzy. He had to thank Skinn later. He brought a hand to his throat when he remembered what Skinn had marked in his neck; feeling a bandage's fabric. Kanda sat in the bed whit an ungraceful movement. Then he rested his elbows on his thighs and his head on his hands and started to rub his temples with his fingers to calm the headache. He looked around the room, but wherever he was was too dark.

- You woke up! – Kanda jumped from the fright and turned to see the source of the exclamation. It was the hunter from last night, who came in the room lighting all the lights that he could from the light switch next to the door (action that made the Japanese close his eyes with a grin full of discomfort ) bringing a silver lidded tray on a room service trolley cart. The hunter stared at Kanda with happiness and relief, but there was something else in his smile that the blue haired couldn't identify. Kanda failed to recognize the redhead at first, it wasn`t until he saw the Dark Order's emblem in Lavi's jacket that he remembered him. That guy was the objective. Kanda started looking on the sly if Lavi had any anti-vampire weapon with him. *Damn it* He thought when he found the tiny hammer resting in the holster adjusted to the hunter's leg. It was necessary to dispose of that objet before he could erase the redhead's existence from the map.

– Oh, sorry. Did I scare you? - The hunter giggled. Kanda flicked his tongue and turned his head to the other side of the hotel room. *Expensive suite* Kanda thought. *He was placed in this city for at least a month* In a normal situation our beloved grumpy samurai would slowly tear apart any random guy just from making fun of him… but this wasn't a normal situation and the redhead wasn't a random guy neither . He was going to have to bear whit the hunter for a bit. – Hahaha, you're really proud, aren't you? – Kanda just send him a non-verbal warning with his threatening look so he would shut up, the redhead got the message, but (honestly) Kanda isn't half as threatening without the handgrip of certain piece of sharp pointed metal named "Mugen" in his hand. Too bad said sword was somewhere in his room inside the Noah's Ark, not in his rightful place in the Japanese man's belt. * Shit* Kanda mentally swore. – Oh, by the way, I thought you would be hungry, so I used the room service. – Next, the hunter took the lid and uncovered the tray. A steaming bowl of thin noodle soup with breaded seafood and topped with shichimi (1).

- I'm not hun… - Kanda was interrupted by his stomach's growl. Kanda flicked his tongue again and looked away to hide his pale pink cheeks. Lavi laughed again and pulled out a dropdown bed tray from below the cart, settled it down on the sides of Kanda's legs and left on the tray a bowl of noodles, a pair of chopsticks and a cup of black tea. - It is soba tempura, eat before it gets cold. - The redhead smiled at Kanda before leaving the room. Kanda saw him going out through the archway that led into a small kitchen. Yu could not see more because Lavi closed the door behind him. The blue-haired looked the noodle soup and his stomach growled again. Feeling defeated, Kanda took the chopsticks and took some soba to put in his mouth. Surprisingly, he liked it and continued eating.

After a while, Lavi returned to the attached room where Kanda was. The rabbit asked several questions about the night before and Yu lost half of his brain cells making up consistent and credible answers.

Following the interrogation, they talked for a while (actually Lavi did a monologue), but the talk (monologue) ended when the rabbit got a call from one of his companions, so they left the hotel because Lavi refused to leave the blue-haired alone because he thought it was dangerous. According to him, vampires usually returned to feed from the victims they left alive, showing Kanda how much did the Order actually knew about the creatures they have been hunting for so many centuries. Kanda changed to his clothes and Lavi took a shower before going to the citadel. In the citadel Lavi got distracted at an old books' store and the next second Kanda had disappeared. He ran around half of the city looking for him, but who he found who was not exactly the ones he was looking for. - Allen, Kro-chan! - Hailed the redhead.

- Lavi! - Said the Romanian.

-Hello, Lavi-, greeted the silver head.

-Good thing I find you ... - Lavi took a little air. -I lost sight of Kanda.

- The one you saved from a vampire yesterday? - Asked Allen.

-Yes, him... we have to look for him ... - redhead gasped again .- ... he's Japanese, about six feet tall, has waist long dark blue hair tied in a ponytail, dark eyes, he's bandaged in the neck and head…

- Why are you so concerned about finding him? - Krory asked innocently.

- Because ... I need you two to see him ... - Lavi took a deep breath again. - ... I'm sure he's a vampire. - Said that the other two nodded and the three split up to search for Kanda.

While the rabbit went into an old books' store, Kanda was caught in a crowd that pushed him from side to side, absorbed in their own universes, too busy to see who they were bumping (We could say that Kanda met his average share of threatening people with his eyes) and was taken in the same way that the sea moves you and drags you into it. When he realized, he was almost at the other side of the city and the small library was not visible. He tried to return to the hotel, but ended up more lost in an untrustworthy alley. He turned to go back the way it came, but...

- YU! - Something or rather someone hug his waist from behind and knocked him abruptly forward. He managed to move an arm, so that his face didn't smack with the floor... that voice...

-Alma- Kanda said, both shame and discomfort being readable in his voice. Seriously, the brunette over did it sometimes, but anyway, to meet a "brother" was the best that could ever happen to him in that moment.

-It has been so long since I last saw you! – Cried his childhood friend. – What have you been doing? Tyki thinks you're dead! – Alma asked in worried voice while he released Kanda and sat cross-legged in the middle of the way, as if he was in his own house, not caring about being in a dirty street.

- You can blame Skinn for attacking me and that stupid hunter for kidnapping me – Kanda said. He knelt and crossed his legs too. There was nobody after all and Alma had made himself comfortable already.

-What? You found the hunter? – The Korean made surprise face a bit exaggerated. – But, how hasn't he found out you're…?

- I have been in blood absence state for a while. The stupid rabbit thinks I'm human and Skinn bit me. – He tilted his head and pointed the bandage so Alma could see.

-Oh…hey…Wait what! Blood absence state! Yu, that's dangerous! – The brunet scolded him.

- I know, don't get angry! I'll quench my thirst soon… - Kanda calmed down his friend.- … from the dying corpse of that stupid rabbit.- Kanda added, cruelly and obsessively.

-Hehehe, the hunter got you in the nerves, didn't he?- Alma let out a light smile, a sweat drop fell from his forehead.- Then why haven't you slit his throat yet? Need help ? – Alma asked cheerfully.

-Mugen…-Kanda said hastily, almost interrupting the Korean.- …with that fucker and his fucking hammer , I being thus useless can't attack him… and search arround the city for more hunters. Make that compulsive gambler bastard move his butt and do something useful for once.

- Okay count on me, Yu! Ah, I have something that can serve you ... - Alma reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a small glass bottle half filled with a crystal clear hazel liquid and handed it to Kanda. - ... Is a stunning poison, if you give it to him he will fall unconscious for a few minutes and when he wakes up, he's going to be too disorientated to be able to stand up .- Kanda took the bottle and nodded in gratitude to Alma.

- Uh, Kanda?...- Another familiar voice. A familiar redhead recognized him in the distance and ran towards him and Alma. The Japanese quickly hid the poison in the pocket of his topcoat and stood up. Alma followed.

- Kanda, I thought I'd lost you! - Lavi said once he got where they were.

-Che the people dragged me away.

-Oh, I see… - Lavi's sight went from Kanda to Alma. – Do you know Kanda?- He asked.

-Yes, I'm Yu's friend. My name is Alma Karma. – Alma smiled lightly. "It's him?" Alma asked telepathically his friend. Kanda looked the other vampire with an affirmative gesture.

-Yu…Is that your first name, Kanda?

"Shit" Kanda thought.

-Mhm…- Alma nodded happily, conscious of what he was doing. - …but he doesn't like being called that.- Kanda was slitting his throat with his eyes and threw daggers at his corpse. Alma noticed and giggled. Lavi put a naughty smile on his face with a little bit of malice mixed in it. Kanda didn't have to guess what was going to happen next.

-Don't think about it, don't you dare to call me by my first name.- Kanda warned him, although it sounded more like a threat, but supposedly it had to be equally as effective…-Why not, Yu?- The rabbit asked making a pout face. –Calling you Kanda is too formal!- … but it was Lavi, so it would not work.

- And calling me by my first name is too casual.- The blue-haired grumbled. His voice marked with some poison. The discussion went for a while, amid Alma's and Lavi's laughter and Kanda's grumbles, until Lavi made clear enough the fact that he wouldn't stop using his first name and Kanda gave up… for the moment.

Alma looked at the sky, painted in orange shades and purplish clouds. – It's getting late, have to go.- Alma announced. – Yu, are you coming?- He asked.

Before the blue-haired could answer, Lavi took his hand.- Yu is staying with me.- Lavi said, with a possessive but soft voice. Kanda went dopey trying to process Lavi's words. – Uh…ok…-Alma said caught in confusion.- Bye Lavi! See ya' later Yu!- Alma shook his arm in sign of farewell , he turned around and walked away. The Japanese awoke from his trance and realized his Korean friend was gone. – We should go back too, don't you think so Yu?

-Why did you told Alma I was staying with you?- Asked Kanda, neither with anger nor venom, just curiosity and a very bad feeling blooming inside his chest. Lavi let go of his hand and went serious, as if he was choosing his words carefully. – Some vampires can turn humans by biting them,-Lavi finally said. Kanda felt the color fade from his face. What Lavi said wasn't entirely true, but pointing it out would be worst for him. It didn't matter, the hunter suspected, if he analyzed him it would be the end of his mission and probably his un-dead existence. He gathered strength to talk. – Y-you are saying… I could be a va-vampire?- His voice was shaking when he pronounced the last word, but the nervousness was giving credit to his victim character – Maybe…- Lavi answered.-… two of my mates must be in the hotel by now. They're the best field analysts of the Order. – Lavi added, much for Kanda's misery. He could not escape, if he did the whole mission would go to hell plus Alma could be in danger too, his only option was to resist the hunters' attacks after the analysis and wait until Alma arrived with Mugen and Tyki. Lavi felt sorry for the other one and took his hand again. Both walked back to the hotel together. Lavi kind of felt like a father taking a son to scared to struggle to his very first visit to the doctor. All the way back he insisted Kanda that the other hunters were kind people and there were no wooden stakes, nor coffins, neither they were going to burn crosses on his forehead or force an entire garlic down his throat. When they arrived to the room, Kanda was ready. Lavi reminded him they didn't know a thing about his kind, so he had a microscopic chance of living (or not dying) after the analysis.

Lavi opened the door, from the arch Yu could see two men, a tall one with dark hair except for his bangs that was white, the other one was a teenager… a vile brat whit a scar in the left side of his face, but his pure white hair made him appear older. Kanda imagined more intimidating people… they were… a deception. Point for Kanda!

-Lavi!-Exclaimed both hunters. Lavi greeted them back with a hand gesture and stood aside to let Yu in. – Are they… hunters?- Kanda asked. Forgetting to be nice enough to dissimulate the deception in his voice. Allen kind of smiled, he felt insulted, but he was a gentleman. – I told you they were kind people…- Smiled the redhead.- He is Allen, he can see the vampire's soul with his left eye…- And he pointed the silver-head. Kanda saw the boy again, indeed his eye was cursed. Point for the hunters!-… and he is Kro-chan, he's a vampire. – And he pointed the Rumanian. They have manipulated a vampire. Another point for the hunters! – Vampire! Weren't you supposed to hunt them?- Point for Kanda! When they discover him he could infiltrate into the Order's ranks. – Well, I have two personalities… the other one is a vampire… I keep it caged with this.- Krory put his hand over the cross in his uniform. –Ahh…- Kanda made a satisfaction gesture. He just solved part of the matter with the traitors the Earl was investigating with Road. He had to inform them later.

-Nice to meet you. – Allen offered his hand to Kanda , who just kept looking at it but didn't shook it. – Seriously, this beansprout is a hunter? – Kanda asked.- …Beansprout?...- Said Allen a bit confused, a bit traumatized. Lavi burst out laughing. Allen sat in fetal position in a corner of the living room looking to the light-cream wall surrounded by a dark aura.

-Beansprout-chan stand up, you have to make an analysis here!.- Lavi said when he stopped laughing .- My name is Allen!- The albino said angry, then he stood up and went back to the others. Suddenly, Krory's white bangs rose; the sclera(2) of his eyes turned black; his irises turned yellow and some wrinkles appeared on his forehead and around his eyes. Allen eye's sclera turned black too and his iris now appeared to be a black and red target plus some kind of gear shaped monocular appeared in front of his cursed eye.. Kanda took a deep breath and closed his eyes while waiting for their answers. He. Was. Doomed.

-You do smell like a vampire, but the smell is too weak.- Said Krory confused. Kanda's eyes snapped open, his eyes fixed on the other vampire. A relieved and victorious smile escaped from his mouth, making his face something you don't see every day.

-You look like a vampire, but I can't see your soul. It looks like the vampire who attacked you didn't infect you.- Allen said. Kanda felt really confused but something positive happened to him.

KANDA WINS!

(1) Shishimi is a Japanese condiment (basically a chili powder). Some people puts it in the soba as decoration.

(2) The white of the eye.

There's an explanation for that ending. I'm using different kinds of vampires that I came up with basing myself on the DGM characters and some real vampires. I'll be writing the profiles at the end of every chapter starting now.

Half mortal vampire:

This kind of night creature loses all his faculties when they spend too much time without drinking blood (Blood absence state), looking like humans (hence the name), but they return to their normal state after drinking blood. This trait is also dangerous for them because if they spend too much time like that they die. Among this vampires is not used to suck from the neck because it's considered too personal.

Abilities: They can become human-like for a short period of time. Their senses are the sharpest and finest among the bloodsuckers. They can communicate by telepathy in between them and most of them are gorgeous and/or attractive. They heal really fast, his speed is ranked second among all vampires and his strength is ranked four.

Weaknesses: Religious objects and vinegar are useless against them. The sun just bothers their eyes and wooden stakes have an effect on them, but not lethal. Their problem starts with running water. They can't touch flowing water (rivers, oceans, showers), to shower some of them put herbs on the water to cancel its proprieties, others use polluted water and others simply don't do it. ¬¬Y

Birth: If this type of vampire gives his blood to drink to an human who is about to die, the human will become one of them. Fledglings usually stick to the vampire who transformed them until they get used to their new un-dead life or they become partners or servants. Half mortals can produce kids like humans too. If this happened between an human and a vampire, the most probable thing would be that the baby is a vampire or that the baby dies before being born. If the mother is the human there's a 95% chance that she won't make it to know her baby.

How to kill: Drowning them, killing them while they are in blood absence state or put them on a diet low on red corpuscles.

Favorite Blood Type: Young, clean people. To them, old people have a rancid flavor and tattooed people tastes like pure bitterness. Some of them tend to drink from people who is under the influence of alcohol or drugs to feel them to.

Vampires in this category: Yu Kanda and Alma Karma

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As you could see, I lack an English beta reader and I'm having trouble finding one. I hope my translation is legible enough for you ^^U

I got obsessed in trying to find why does Kanda hates his first name that much… so after an intensive research I discovered "Kanda" means "field god". After another intensive research I found the kanji for "Yu" and according to that awesome kanji translator "Yu" means "kind", "affectionate", "loving", and such. (XD)