The second song picked up, and the strangest sensation overwhelmed Naruto. It was like he was floating. At the risk of looking un-cool, he spared a glace down at his stool just to make sure he was still sitting there, he was, but he didn't trust his eyes all that much. He averted his attention back to the band, more specifically, Sasuke. The dark haired lead singer was molding the words of the song into something more primal, something alien and beautiful. Naruto had never heard anything like it. It made him feel giddy, almost high, like there was nothing in the world but him and the music. And of course, the music maker.

Sasuke's golden eyes flitted across the audience, scanning the poor souls whom were the main focuses of his "job". The music was doing its job, his voice like a sedative. Numbing the senses to a point of a deluded fantasy of the mind. Yep, he was the LSD of the underground world. He was so proud. Sasuke's glistening amber eyes landed on a pair of steadily glazing blue ones, no, not blue, azure. They were too lovely, to pure to be human. He let his eyes wander over the boy who sat in the back; his eyes fixated on the stage, probably on Sasuke, himself. Like a child watching a colorful pinwheel spin, they wound not be diverted by anything. This boy was under his spell.

Hastily Sasuke licked his lips, That one is mine, he thought to himself.

They were actually hunting, though no one without the proper experience would know it. They were vampires, every one of them on that stage, and the woman with the unmatched eyes knew it. She actually was personal enough with them to know all of their names, birth places, birth dates, and where their current clan resided. They were once her friends, but when the hunts picked back up she left.

That poor child, She thought to herself as she paced down the alley behind the bar in which a certain number of humans would soon become meals for a forgotten race of sub-terrainian cannibalistic bat-people. Though that was technically incorrect, modern vampires didn't have anything to do with bats. I can't believe they're really back here again. Stupid truce, stupid conscience, stupid, stupid STUPID!

The woman named Sera scolded herself in her head for wanting to return to her "family" as well as for not being able to save the humans that would inevitably die tonight.

Naruto's head lolled lazily to one side as he tried to get a more focused perspective of the singer who captivated him so. In his inebriated state he could hardly make out a clear image. What he thought he saw were four band members gaze rather hungrily at the crowd before them. He thought he swathe lead singer lick his lips at Naruto, which in turn made Naruto think dirty thoughts. But they were soon drowned out by the drug-like effect of Sasuke's voice.

Sasuke could feel the blood pulse of the blue-eyed blonde slow. Oh how he wanted it to pulse rapidly through his frail, thin veins. How he wanted that same blood inside of his mouth. He would like nothing more than to leap speedily off this damn stage and whisk that boy away to his personal "home" and end his incredibly mortal life. Oh how Sasuke wished that his hunger wouldn't drive him to think that way, in the feral, primal way of a beast, an animal.

Back when Sera lived with the clan, she had showed him what it was like with the humans, how she was civilized, how she interacted with them. She was completely unaffected by hunger, or thirst to be more precise. But now, Sasuke was so blinded by uncontrollable need, all he wanted was to finish the spell and satiate his thirst in his oh-so-vampirey way. He was a good little monster.

Just as Naruto was about to unconscious like he was supposed to, something snapped in his brain. His mind clicked and some buried instinct told him to get off his loopy ass and get himself out and as far away from that bar as he could.

He didn't really understand himself when his head snapped up and he walked cautiously to and out the door. He was careful not to trip over anything or run into a wall because he had that feeling that he had just gotten incredibly drunk, but on what? Naruto had no idea.

What was that just now? Why did I leave? Man, that singer was H O T. Naruto's thoughts were slightly jumbled but he gathered himself up enough to start to make his way to his apartment.

"Hey, kid. You believe in vampires?" a compelling voice sounded from behind the blonde. As he turned to face that disembodied mystery voice he came face to face with that woman. Sera, his mind told him.

"Uhhhh….what?"

"Vampires, do you believe in them?" She sounded each syllable separately as if to make sure that Naruto was mentally compatible for comprehensive conversation.

"Uh, no? I mean, they can't be real can they?" He replied rather dumbly, mostly because he still hadn't completely gathered himself from whatever it was that had overcome him in the bar.

Sera's eyes flashed strangely in the light, the golden one reflected the orange glow from the street lamp, like an animal's while the other seemed to glow from black to crimson and back to black again. Naruto stared, perplexed at the optical wonder he had just witnessed. He did not want to look away from her eyes in case they changed like that again, but when he noticed one of her eyebrow rise in frustration and he quickly backed off.

"Then you don't know why you just left that little…concert just now?" She spoke the word with what looked like a grimace of illness.

"No, not really. I just sorta…left." Wait, why am I telling this person this? I don't even know her. And what was with those eyes just now?! I think I'm losing it…17 years and I finally lost it…

Sera's face crinkled into a soft smile, her blood red lips curving ever so slightly towards her Technicolor eyes. She looked relieved and somewhat confused. Why? Naruto had no clue, but he was glad she wasn't being creepy like before.

"Well have a nice night!" she said with a smile as she turned in the opposite direction that Naruto was heading.

"You, too," he replied without much thought.

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Shit! Sasuke swore to himself, How is that possible?! He had him! He had all of them! How could he just leave?! The spell was flawless! Sasuke was finishing the last of the spell when one of the band members, correction, vampires, stopped playing and approached Sasuke who was visibly fuming at the loss of his prey.

"Hey, there's always one," the vampire said into his ear, "it doesn't matter. It was just one of them. The rest are happily lost." He waved his hand, gesturing to the crowd of humans looking something like tasty house pets, ready to die for their masters. The vampire smiled a hungry smile and nodded to the other two. They each grinned horribly and floated inhumanly off the stage. Sasuke let his last note hang in the air as he closed his eyes and inhaled the scent of human blood.

He, himself glided down from the stage, feet barely touching the floor. He watched in mild amusement as two of his "brothers" fought over one particular mortal. Sasuke had already known which one he had wanted and had not worried over whom else he might kill. As he approached a young female, he knew he didn't want anyone else but that blonde who had somehow managed to slip from his grasp. But he was too hungry, thirsty, whatever, to be picky in whom he chose. This was his first meal of the year and he needed to be sustained.

Sasuke grabbed the young woman by the waist and hoisted her up effortlessly. She had just enough muscle control to not let her head fall completely backwards. Her vacant eyes stared up at Sasuke, her face a shape of clueless euphoria. He smirked at his handiwork as he tilted her head to expose her neck. He felt the warm blood beneath his lips as he parted them, deftly piercing her jugular and draining her body of its life. Sasuke smiled in contentment as he felt her body go limp in his arms.