Ch 12

Vampire Sanctuary was originally created as a sacred ground where the vampire elders and vampire history was to be guarded. However, when the human race discovered new ways to kill vampires, mainly using guns and UV sanctuary expanded, vampires who simply wanted to live without fear of humans took up residence. Soon, the place was filled with vampires, a place where people lived without fear of showing their powers and their hunger for blood. However, it was in a vampire's nature to seek blood, even among its own kind. A period of darkness fell over the sanctuary, where vampires killed other vampires. In order to contain the darkness, the vampire elders created rogue hunters to kill all the vampires who committed murder against their own. In order to prevent such darkness again, they reluctantly allowed ancient blood to be taken and made into what is known as blood pills, which become the diet of vampires who lived the sanctuary. However, there was one side effect of the blood pill, it allowed the females who took it to gain the usage of their womb and it allowed the birth of children.

At first, the population of vampires was overcome with joy of the birth of children. When, it was said birth of children were hardly happen even among pure blood vampires. The vampire children that were usually produced happened to be if one of the parent was a human that turned right after their death which made the children, half blooded. With the usage of the blood pill, the vampire population was able to gain children. However, it was soon discovered, children that was produced using the blood pills, their abilities become dormant meaning many children had little to no ability, no instinct for hunt or or blood, and their life span was shorter as well.

Under these circumstance, a social hierarchy appeared among vampires. Vampires with so called dormant abilities, were seen as no better than humans, they were often cast out of society to the edge of the city,which had become known as the dormant district. Vampire children who did possess stronger abilities were sent to the academy to be train further to protect the sanctuary or the vampire elders. While the main society was made up of blend of average vampires who did in fact possess average abilities. It become a common understanding among vampires that the more abilities you had, the more rank and power you were able to obtain.

The most superior vampires were known as Vampires Lords. These lords such as Uchiha Sasuke was admired and idolized by the public for their superiority in power and abilities.

Hinata closed the book when it started to mention Uchiha Sasuke. Even when she was running away from him, he was mentioned. It had been a little over a week since she ran away from the main house. The money and food she had on was slowly winding down to nothing. It had been by chance, when she was being shadowed by strange men. She had managed to dodge them by sneaking into the large, public library. She had hidden herself in the section that no one ever visited. The history section, where books could be as thick as her waist, she knew they wouldn't follow her here. Out of curiosity, she started to read up on Vampire Sanctuary's history. She was startled when she entered the city, the Uchiha's face was everywhere she went. It was like no escaping from him, she finally accepted when she realized it seemed to be dream of every female vampire's dream to be Uchiha Sasuke's blood mate. She had never seen such adoration among female vampires for one man. The inn which she stayed, the female owner had a picture of him hanging at the reception desk. Hinata almost left the inn, the moment she saw the picture.

Kyuubi had laughed when she told that she couldn't escape Sasuke. The first, few days were like heaven for her, there was so much to see, it remind of her of the human city she had visited before her banishment. She ate different foods that she never thought could exist like sugar that was made into a pink cloud, called Cotton Candy. Her happiness had burst like a bubble when, she started to notice strange men had started to follow her on the street.

Her sense had told her that they were following her. She knew, it could only be the Uchiha. She knew this because, he had tried to enter her mind a few times but, a trick she had picked up during her academy days helped her to evade him. The trick was if she held her head below water, it nearly impossible for others to enter or read her mind. The sound of the water and the blood rushing into her head would be loud for the other person to communicate with her through thoughts. She had nearly drowned in the bathtub because he was so persistent in trying to enter her mind.

Kyuubi poked its head out from her bag, "So is the coast clear?"

Hinata nodded, putting the book of Vampire Sanctuary history back on the shelf. She had to find a way out Vampire Sanctuary and into the human world. Human world would be too big for him to find her, if she stayed in Vampire Sanctuary. He would find her eventually and she didn't know what he would do when he did. She wondered if he would kill her. She didn't want to face the consequences.

She exited the library, everything felt normal, people walking through the street with their shopping, drinking their coffee, couples with their arms entwine. A sudden chill ran through her veins, when she felt her purser's presence behind. In a split second, instinct kicked in, her kick send one of them flying backwards, while the other tried to grab her arm. She managed to twist his arm behind his back and pushed him into some pass byers. She heard screams but she didn't turn back to look.

In that moment she made a run for it. Her feet carried as fast as possible away from her pursuers. She knew that they wouldn't give up so easily. She jumped on to nearby roofs and sprinted her way across dozen of buildings until, she realized that her pursuers were not slowing down at all. She need a place to hide, in that instant, she tripped, her body fell into one of the cracks in between the buildings. She managed to get ahold of her footing in time before, it broke her neck.

"Ouch, be careful," scolded Kyuubi, as she pressed her back against the wall to catch her breathe

"Sorry," muttered Hinata, getting up and started to run again. Her pursuers were getting closer. She had to find a place to hide. She promised herself she would only use her abilities if it was necessary. The veins around her eyes popped as she ran, her vision scanning for place that she could hide.

A coin laundromat was close by, there was only one person inside. She deactivated her abilities and ran inside. Only a young girl stood there folding her clothes her bright brown hair in two pigtails, she gasped when she saw Hinata.

"P-lease, please... hide me," gasped HInata.

"Huh?"

"They're coming..." The girl's face cringed in thought, the young woman who is stood in front with a terrified look on her face. Her eyes the colour of clouds, begged for her.

"Okay, crawl into here, she opened the empty dryer, it was big enough hold one person. Hinata hurriedly crammed herself into the machine, clutching the bag that held Kyuubi in her arms. After Hinata, crawled in, the girl stuffed a bunch of towels into the machine and shut the door. Hinata forced her heart beat down, and closed her mind as she listened to outside.

"Hey you, have you seen a girl running in here? Long black hair? White eyes?" asked a rough voice outside.

"No, I don't think so," shrugged the girl, continuing to fold her towels. Hinata could feel the men was still searching around the laundromat, opening washing machines and dryers. When they came closer, she could see him lingering around the outside the machine, Hinata bit her lip.

"Excuse me, Mister. That one has my delicates in them. If you don't mind, please don't open it," called girl. The men muttered something about women and backed off. The men left after that, Hinata let out a breath. The girl opened the door of the dryer and Hinata crawled out of the machine.

"Thank you..." said Hinata smiling at the girl.

"Wow, you must be in a lot of trouble if those awful looking men are after you," the girl said as she picked the towels up from the floor.

"Yeah, I suppose."

Hinata reached and helped the girl to pick up the other towels that were littered on the floor.

"So what kind of trouble are you in?"

Hinata looked at the girl, she had good natured face with pretty, pink cheeks.

"Ah..I own them money,"lied Hinata.

"How much?"

"A lot more than you can imagine," laughed Hinata, sitting down the bench with the girl, the girl nodded and made a clicking sound with her tongue. Hinata looked around, there were probably hundreds of white towels that surrounded them.

"Are you cleaning all these?" asked Hinata, gesturing to all the towels. The girl grinned and nodded,"I am the towel girl at the Senju bathhouse. My name is Moegi."

Hinata smiled at the girl's friendliness, "I'm Hina."

"Hina, that's a pretty name. You do look like a doll, " murmured Moegi, looking at Hinata up close. Hinata smiled and offered to help with the towels. They chatted while they folded the towels together. It turns out that Moegi was dormant vampire, a vampire who showed no abilities at all.

"Is being dormant so bad?" asked Hinata, staring at the white towel she was folding.

"Of, course. It's like you are human."

The way Moegi said the word human as if even saying the word was a disease. She wondered how Moegi would treat her if she found out that she was the so called human lover.

"My dream is to attend the academy if my powers appeared," exclaimed Moegi.

"The academy?"

"Yeah, of course. It's everyone's dream. If you go to academy, you might find a powerful bloodmate to marry and your offsprings would be super powerful."

Hinata smiled, "that's everyone's dream now?"

"Well, what's your dream Hina?"

" I don't have one anymore," replied Hinata, letting out a small sigh. Her dreams had died with him. Now, she had no dreams. Moegi sighed, "so you read the articles too?"

Hinata blinked, "what articles?"

"The one that said Uchiha Sasuke has a fiance, a lot girl's dreams were crushed. Don't tell your dream was to marry him too."

Hinata's eyes widen and speechless at Moegi's explanation. What would happen if Moegi knew that she was supposedly, Uchiha Sasuke's runaway bride.

"So what are you going to do from now on?"

"I'm not sure...I want to go to the Human world."

Moegi laughed, "Unless you are friends with the high society people, you are gonna get over the threshold. They would just kill you when you try to cross over."

"I see."

"Well, I think the old lady might know..." murmured Moegi to herself.

"Old lady?

"The drunken, gambler who owns the bathhouse. The bathhouse is where all the higher up comes to relax and rest their souls. You wouldn't believe who visit there. well, expect Uchiha Sasuke, of course if you were thinking about him. He never comes."

"Never?"

"Yeah for as long as I worked there. He never comes at all. Girls would love to a take a bath with him."

Hinata laughed, but her hand unconsciously tightened her hand on the towel she was holding.

"Could you take me to see the owner?"asked Hinata carefully pulling another towel from the pile.

Moegi was quiet for a moment, "I'm not sure if she is there, she might out gambling but you could come, you might be lucky."

Hinata smiled, she might have been lucky after all.