Started writing this pretty much immediately after that other update. Apparently I like to give myself unreasonable deadlines. I am, after all, an unreasonable person. I don't own Naruto and I make no money out of abusing the franchise. I don't even get any candy.

And since the formatting would be a pain in the sass, the song selection for this evening is...
Human by Ellie Goulding

Sasuke is a vampire tonight. Only because he liked the cape. The teeth were annoying, so those are on the counter in the kitchen where his mother gave up and left them. He spreads his cape in satisfaction and lets her snap another picture.
His father is determinedly watching the game, but he does ask Itachi, in his best disapproving voice, if he isn't too old to go trick-or-treating. Itachi pulls down his ninja mask and says quite simply: no. Their mother tries one last time to get Itachi to wear his glasses, even if they do mess up his costume. She receives the same answer.
The doorbell rings and even in the living room they can all hear Naruto screaming 'trick-or-treat!'.
Mrs. Uzumaki-Namikaze, for she refused to marry if she could not hyphenate, is not at all apologetic for her son's behavior. She actually has the nerve to pinch Sasuke's cheeks and declare him the cutest little bloodsucker she ever saw.
Mikoto isn't sure what Naruto is supposed to be, dingo? fox? moldy log? but she knows better than to suggest Kushina can not sew to save her life. Kushina may be a proud mother and wife of a political figure, but she would definitely come back and toilet-paper the house in half a heart beat.

Ten blocks later, Itachi walks into another black cat lawn ornament and Naruto is helping his mother find and eat all the Reese's they have. Sasuke trips over the fallen plaster cat, with its ineffective light-up eyes, and receives a hard knock to the head. He sits up without shedding a tear and rubs the lump as hard as he can.
When he finally feels better, he realizes he has lost sight of Naruto's mother's horrific orange outfit.
Maybe the it was the fall, but Sasuke doesn't even think about what his parents and teachers and assorted mascots have told him to do if he ever gets lost. Sasuke picks himself up and continues confidently down the road.

He gets just a little nervous about being all by himself; the dimming streetlamps only highlight how alone he is. He would have walked right past the woman in white had he not been getting tired and she sitting on the only bench in sight.
"Hello," she says, offering him a small smile. "Who are you?"
"I'm a vampire."
"So am I." Her smile widens and he can see points, like the awful plastic teeth that came with his costume. And her eyes are weird. Sasuke knows where to get cat eyes or red and yellow eyes; he saw them at the store. But she doesn't have a cape. She's just wearing jeans and a cardigan.
"That's a bad costume," he tells her bluntly.
"I'm not wearing a costume." Her smile grows a little more and all of her teeth are sharp. "I'm too old to wear costumes and go trick-or-treating."
"So's Naruto's mom, but she's trick-or-treating," argues Sasuke. "And if you're not wearing a costume, why do you have the teeth and the eyes?"
"I always have these," she informs him complacently. "Are you lost, Mr. Vampire?"
"No," he snaps.
"Okay." She waits a beat. "Are you sure?"
"Maybe a little," he admits reluctantly. "Did you see a lady dressed like a cone? With a fox and a ninja."
"Fox? Oh! I thought he was a squirrel, but yes, I did." She stands and holds out her hand.
"I'm not supposed to follow strangers." Sasuke tries very hard not to let his voice shake. He doesn't want to disobey this rule but he really doesn't want to go by himself.
"Well, if you tell me your name and I tell you mine, we won't be strangers any more, right?"
"Yeah." It makes sense. "I'm Sasuke."
"And I'm Hinata. Shall we go?"
Sasuke doesn't take her outstretched hand; he doesn't touch girls.

Kushina is about to have a fit, because no one knows when they misplaced Sasuke, but they did and Mikoto is going to kill her and Naruto has had too much sugar and she's pretty sure Itachi is one bump away from breaking his skinny little legs. When she sees the young woman with Sasuke, she lets loose a verbal torrent of 'thank you's and 'thank god's and more than a few made-up words.
Hinata lets her wind down before taking her leave. She gives the boys a parting smile and disappears into the shadowed streets. Itachi pokes Sasuke in the forehead and puts a handful of candy into his bucket.