And when you come, I'll run

It was a dark night. Heavy clouds hid the moon behind them and raindrops were clashing loud against the windows. But still, Namimori was quiet, calm. It was one of these nights where you would fall into deep thought and where the mood is just…odd.

One of the buildings the rain fell onto was a big old mansion. Everyone in Namimori knew that there were people living in it, but they rarely got to see them. They were a mystery and many rumors about them were hanging in the air. One of the inhabitants of this house was now standing in front of a large window, looking into the night, watching the rain and thinking.

Sometime earlier one of his servants has come to the man and reported him about another one of those incidents. There are many of them lately, too many. At first it didn't matter. They have never been too obvious for others to get suspicious. But the last ones, they kept getting more obvious, crueler, bringing them all in danger. This newest incident was the worst of them all. The rebellious of his kind seemed to have killed a lot this time. Not just killed, but tortured and used, leaving way too much evidence behind. The inferior herbivores should keep thinking that they were just a myth, but these idiots were risking it and now he had to do something about it. But he would show them what they got for breaking the law and making him angry.

"Kyo san." The man who was standing in front of the window turned around at hearing his name, tough it wouldn't have been necessary because only one of his subordinates called him like that. Kusakabe.

"What do you want?"

"I just heard about that incident that happened earlier that night. Have you decided what to do yet?"

"Easy. I'm going to bite them all to death. Now go."

Kusakabe just nodded. He looked like he already expected his boss answer and got out of the room as fast as he could, because nobody that was in his right mind wanted to make Hibari Kyoya mad, for he was the king of vampires.

After Kusakabe was gone Hibari stared at the door he just went through and began thinking anew. Kyoya wasn't one to care about others, but he still remembered that this subordinate of his had found his mate recently.

The mate. The soul mate was what every vampire was hoping to find one day. Vampires have the gift that they instantly recognize their mates when they drink their blood. But finding them isn't that easy. Actually, it's said that if you go and look for your mate, you'll never find it. That's probably one of the reasons why only so few vampires get to know their mates although it's also said that there is a mate for everyone and anyone. But not only have vampires the gift of recognizing their soul mates, the dragons and shape shifters have too. That is what makes them different from the remaining four great immortal beings. The gods, spirits, elves and demons, they all won't know if what they have in front them is their mate even if they bite, lick, sniff or taste them in any other way.

Having a soul mate is supposed to be bliss. You share a deep connection, a bond that will never break. If you ever find your mate you'll never let it go, you'll know each others' thoughts and emotions, everything. A mate also gives you some sort of power up. It really seems to be bliss right? To have someone who understands you completely and makes you stronger.

But Hibari knows that it's also a curse. When he was thirty years old his mother found her mate. This single event was the cause for two different but horrible stories. The first one is about Kyoya's father. Even though he and the raven's mother weren't soul mates he loved her, a lot. Being abandoned by her caused him to take part in a hopeless fight. He died. The other story took part a few years later. Hibari's mother's mate, who was actually an earth spirit which is really rare, because they were both immortal beings, was killed by his own kind because back then vampires and spirits were in the middle of a bloody war.

After her mates death Kyoya's mother went insane. Death is the only way to break the bonds soul mates share and when they break, there are only a few who don't go crazy. So you see, even if having a mate is bliss and gives you a new strength, it can turn into a curse and make you weak.

Hibari hated being weak more than anything else. In his 618 years of life he had seen many who ended up like his mother and so he swore himself not to make the same mistake they did. The only way to accomplish that was not to find that damn mate wich is waiting for him somewhere. Sure, even a man like him could see the pleasures and possibilities of having one, but it was just too risky. And, to be honest, that wasn't the only reason. Hibari Kyoya didn't like the idea of someone knowing all of his thoughts, his feelings. It would be really annoying.

When his trail of thoughts came finally to an end the raven realized that it wasn't raining anymore. The clouds had moved on and now he was able to see the moon. It was shining bright that night. Maybe that was a sign of good fortune. Not that the king of vampires believed in something like that, but a little bit of luck would be good because he intended to take those damn rookie vampires down as soon as possible. Making him angry wasn't a wise decision and the raven would make sure that they'll never forget that, even in afterlife, because he was not going to let them live. The only thing that Hibari really hoped for was that the Vongola haven't noticed the recent events yet. It would be a pain in the ass to deal with them.