A/N: Just let me make something clear before we get going. THIS STORY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TWILIGHT. In fact, I just took the style of vampire from Twilight, tore it to pieces, stomped on it, and burned it like a piece of firewood. The only thing even remotely similar is the fact that none of the characters feed on humans. At least they try not to.

Now where did I get my vampire inspiration from? GOOD vampire stories. The vampires in this story are an amalgamation of the vampires from the anime Vampire Knight, and a few elements here and there from a book series called The Chronicles of Vladmir Todd. There may also be a little bit of Fortune Arterial mixed in as well. Who knows? If you're into all of the above, maybe you can catch the little tidbits in there.

Vampires are cool.

Twilight is not.

And another thing I just want to say because I find it totally significant right now…The summary for this story is exactly 255 characters long. So yeah. I just scraped the bottom of the fan fiction summary barrel. I NEVER do that XD. I either run out and have to rewrite, or I crunch it down so that there's only 1 or 2 characters left. I hit it DEAD ON this time, and I feel so triumphant. Yeah I do admit I did rewrite it several times over…but even so! Exactly 255 characters!

ENJOY!

Moonlight

Summary: My coven and I have fled to Konoha. We try not to feed on humans, but after an encounter with a slayer, my willpower goes down the drain. Turns out that slayer is harbouring a secret that could get him killed by his own kin. NOT TWILIGHT. NejiTen SasuSaku

Chapter 1: Coven

The wind whipped by my face and through my short brown hair as I sprinted along at breakneck speed. I could hear the whisper of Itachi right beside me. Sasuke was just ahead of me, Temari just behind me. Naruto flipped right over my head and caught up to Sasuke. I could hear them having a faint conversation, but with their voices so quiet and the wind rushing through my ears, I couldn't make it out.

We'd been running for at least an hour straight now. It was only a matter of time before we had to stop.

"Itachi, they're gone." Sasuke stated, dropping back between Itachi and myself.

Itachi sighed. "All right. Let's stop."

I sighed with relief and dropped to the ground. Everyone landed without a single whisper announcing our arrival.

"We'll stop here for now." Itachi stated.

"Are we still going to Konoha?" Naruto asked.

Itachi merely nodded.

I collapsed against a tree. My head pounded from hunger. I'd been deprived of blood for the last several weeks. We all had been. For us, that wasn't the best thing that could happen. In fact, it was completely foolish. To occupy my mind, I pulled the ties out of my hair and fixed the twin buns that was my common hairstyle.

"I'll go see if I can get something to eat." Naruto stated. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm starving."

"Pick something other than rabbits this time." Sasuke grumbled.

Naruto scoffed. "Beggars can't be choosers." He leapt away into the bush.

Sasuke was tense, his eyes bleeding to red as his jaw clenched. The coven had been practicing not feeding off humans for awhile now. Sasuke was considered the newbie. As far as the coven was concerned, he didn't have much willpower to not feed on a human. He liked it, almost preferred it. It was practically an addiction. It irritated the heck out of Itachi, but I knew Sasuke couldn't help it. He still followed us and made feeble attempts to control his hunger, but usually it was to no avail. Like I said before, it was like an addiction for him. He got withdrawal symptoms if he didn't get blood.

On most days, the urge was just too much for him to control. Today was one of those days. All of us could tell. Sasuke was thirsty. And whenever he got thirsty, it hit him harder than it hit any of us in the group. Sometimes, he even resorted to biting himself. Of course, that usually didn't quench it, it just made it worse.

His brother, Itachi, was exactly the opposite. In fact, he had started this coven in the first place. I was the first member of the coven, but soon we picked up Naruto, Temari and Sasuke. Itachi was really good with his thirst. No matter how long he'd been without blood, he never showed any signs of being thirsty. Not only that, but as far as I knew, he was one of the oldest vampires in the existence right now. Most of his past was all a mystery to me. I knew some of it, because I had been with him for the last hundred years, but all of his life before that, I didn't know.

One thing I did know however, was that he was a pureblood vampire. Both he and Sasuke were. There was only one thing I really knew about purebloods, and that was that their bite turns a human into a vampire. Itachi never went into details about it.

About twenty years after I joined Itachi's coven, we came across Naruto. Itachi and I had smelled the blood before we saw what had happened. Curiously, we went to see what was causing the smell and found a house with a little boy inside. He was crying, and when we walked into the house, it was pretty obvious what had happened.

Two adults lay dead on the ground, and the boy was slashing his wrists with a knife, attempting to kill himself. Of course, he was a vampire, so the wounds just healed before he could bleed out. Itachi stopped him from doing it, and all the boy could say was that he was a monster and he had killed his parents. Itachi took him into the coven, and he grew up with us.

Not long after he joined, I noticed a mark on Naruto's shoulder. It consisted of a series of dark blue, crisscrossing lines extending outwards from two points. I asked Itachi what it was, and he told me that it was the mark of a transformed vampire, meaning a pureblood vampire had bitten him. As time went on, I was slightly surprised that Naruto continued to grow even though he was a vampire. Itachi explained that vampires still grow just until they've matured, also known as, when humans finish puberty. After that, they pretty much stop growing.

Moving onto Temari, we met her five years after Naruto joined us. We found her in a massacred town. Though she was a vampire, she was burying the dead when we showed up. She was horrified at what her coven had done, slaughtering the entire small town. It made her feel sick, never wanting to feed on a human again. Thus, she came into our group.

Sasuke came about twenty years ago. Stubborn as a mule, he showed up suddenly and unexpectedly, merely stating he was joining us. Itachi welcomed him, but he made Sasuke promise not to feed of humans. Sasuke agreed to the terms, but I could tell he made no guarantees. Sometimes, his willpower was so weak, I wondered if he even made an effort to stop himself.

Naruto leapt back into the clearing.

"Guys! Guess what I found?" He cried.

"Spit it out." Sasuke growled.

Naruto sighed, his sails deflating for a moment. He looked up again. "I'm going to need your help though."

"What is it?" Itachi asked.

Naruto grinned. "A bear."

We all blinked in surprise.

"A bear?" Temari asked.

Naruto nodded. "I thought it would be a good meal, you know?"

"We're going to beat up a bear?" I asked.

"Well, how else are we going to eat?"

A wicked grin split across Sasuke's face, his red eyes glowing faintly. His razor sharp fangs glinted in the faint moonlight as he stood up. "Lead the way." He cracked his knuckles as if itching for a fight.

We all stood up and followed Naruto through the woods. My body shivered with excitement at the thought of getting a good meal for once. Seriously, living off the blood of herbivores isn't really all that satisfying. Not to mention, I was completely starving.

After a few minutes, we came to a complete stop. Sure enough, there was the bear. It snoozed peacefully, curled up into a ball against a tree.

We all looked to Itachi, waiting for the go-ahead. Sasuke looked like he would attack that bear whether his brother said yes or not.

"Sasuke, relax." Itachi stated.

Sasuke gritted his teeth.

"We might be able to wrestle it down, but it still could be dangerous." Itachi looked around at the group.

"It can't be that hard." Temari stated. "Break its neck, and we're flying high."

"We could club it." I suggested. "Or drop the tree on top of it."

"I like Tenten's idea." Sasuke stated.

Naruto snorted. "You would too."

Itachi observed the bear for a few more seconds. "I think its strongest weapons are its claws and teeth. We should avoid those as much as we can."

"No duh, Itachi." Sasuke growled.

"Sasuke, calm down or you're going to be the last person to feed if we kill the bear." Itachi stated.

Sasuke snorted and looked away, though I could tell he was making an effort to control himself. I knew that Itachi wouldn't make him go without blood. That was a dangerous and stupid thing to do to Sasuke. If he was as hungry as he was now or worse, he wouldn't hesitate to kill a human if he got the chance.

And where we were going, there would be plenty of chances.

"We're all stronger than the bear, Itachi." Temari stated.

Itachi nodded. "That's true."

"And even if we do get scratched, we can heal." I added.

Itachi snorted. "If we get it across the chest, it's game over. There's no healing from that."

The coven nodded slowly. Now we all knew the gravity of the situation.

"So how are we going to take this thing down?" I asked.

"We have to do it before it wakes up." Itachi stated.

"Break its neck, right?" Temari asked.

Itachi considered this for a moment and nodded. Breaking of necks was the fastest way to kill something with minimal blood loss, meaning more blood for us.

And believe me, we needed it.

"Naruto, you're the strongest." Itachi stated. "You know what you need to do."

Naruto nodded.

"Don't screw up." Sasuke stated, leaning calmly against a tree.

Naruto bit his lip and stepped out into the clearing. Every step he took barely made a sound. I held my breath as I watched Naruto slowly approach the sleeping bear. If the bear woke up, a battle would ensue. We'd never fought a bear before, so we didn't know how it would turn out. One thing I did know was that severe injuries could kill us. Broken bones? Heaven forbid. We healed so fast, that for all we knew it would set crooked and we'd be crippled for the rest of our eternal lives.

Naruto was right up on the bear now. He seemed to be calculating how to go about breaking its neck from the position it was in now. Finally, quick as a flash, Naruto became a blur and a sharp crack cut through the silence. The bears head was now limp on the ground.

"Wow! I did it!" Naruto cried, sounding almost surprised.

"All right guys. Dig in." Itachi stated.

We all dove on the bear and made an attempt to bite it. All I got was a mouthful of fur.

"Blech! It's so hairy!" Temari cried, spitting out several coarse brown hairs.

Sasuke pulled a pocketknife from his back pocket and proceeded to hack away at the hairs until a spot was bare.

"Sasuke, do you mind?" I asked. "When you're done?"

Sasuke tossed me the knife and bit down on the bear. I quickly cleared my own spot and tossed Temari the knife. With the first bite, I was in heaven. The bears' heart wasn't beating so we had to really work to get the blood out, but it was well worth it. After months of living off rabbits and deer, tasting the blood of a legitimate omnivore was just divine.

We drained the bear dry. When we couldn't get any more blood out of it, we all backed away with a sigh. We all had gotten enough blood to satisfy us for a week. Or in Sasuke's case, maybe about…three days. Itachi? Two weeks. That's how damn good he was at this.

"Best meal all month." Temari stated, licking the blood off her lips.

"Yeah, that was better than that lynx we caught." Naruto stated.

The lynx…I still felt bad for that. Lynx's are such beautiful cats. If it wasn't for the fact that I was desperate, I would've balked and gone looking for rabbits. I just love cats too much.

"Sasuke?"

The group looked towards Sasuke whose eyes slowly flickered back to coal black. It had been nowhere near enough for him. The poor guy. I felt bad for him.

"I'll live." Sasuke stated. "For now at least."

Itachi nodded. "How are you going to be if we get to Konoha?"

Sasuke shrugged. "Right now? Maybe. Tomorrow, I don't know."

"I was going to say. I don't trust you on a half empty stomach." Itachi stated. "You'll have to get as much as you can before we enter the city. Don't be picky either."

Sasuke grumbled something to himself. It sounded almost like 'shut the fuck up', and I wouldn't put it past him to say that either.

Our coven left the area with the dead bear. We cleared as much distance as we could and then scrambled up several tall trees where we would sleep that night.

"Get as much sleep as you can, all of you." Itachi stated. "Konoha's not too far off now. We'll be there by noon tomorrow."

I shivered. Tomorrow. I hadn't been with humans for…well…A hundred years. A hundred years ago, I wasn't a vampire, so this truly was my first test. Could I get through this without killing anyone?

A/N: Okay guys. How often do you want an update? This story is actually finished. It's sitting in my flash drive as you read this, calling out to me to post it. So yeah. I just need to edit it more. I don't care what you guys say, there is no way I'm putting a new chapter up every day. Does once a week sound good? Every three days? Whenever I can? (Pff, forget that last one. Because I can do it right now, and I don't want to. Why? It's called drawing the story out chapter by chapter.)

There's going to be approximately 10 chapters. Maybe a sequel a bit later, but we'll see.

For now, here's a preview of the next chapter!

CHAPTER 2: THE ARDUOUS ROAD – PREVIEW

"Okay, so now what?" Sasuke asked Itachi, his tone dripping with ridicule.

"I won't lie when I say I didn't expect to see…well that…" Itachi stated. "I don't have the slightest clue how we're going to live in human society."

"Well, there's one thing I do know." I piped up. "If we want to live, we need money, and to get money we need a job."

Itachi nodded.

"Wait a second," Sasuke frowned. "Don't tell me you lead us to Konoha without a plan!"

"Go easy on him, Sasuke." Temari stated. "None of us knew what we would be up against when we came here!"

Sasuke scoffed.

Itachi's eyes flashed bright red. I backed away from him in a second, as did the rest of the coven. He grabbed the front of Sasuke's shirt.

"Do you have a better idea, Sasuke? Do you think you could lead our coven to safety better than I can?" Itachi snarled.

It was a moment of firsts. It was the first time I had ever seen Itachi truly angry, and it was the first time I had seen Sasuke shake in fear.