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Chapter 1
"You cant tell me that you actually think they are completely extinct." Sakura says crossing her arms.
"Of course they are. If they weren't then there would still be a hell of a lot of murders going on." Kiba rolls his eyes at the pink haired girls ignorance.
"Maybe they've changed." She persisted.
Kiba rolls his eyes and scoffs at her remark. "Yeah like that could happen. They are blood sucking assholes that only thought of themselves."
"That's so stereotypical of you Kiba. People change so why can't they?"
"Because they aren't people."
Sakura glares around at their group. "Not a single one of you believe they are still alive, do you?" Everyone casually looks away like they didn't hear her say a word. "Fine. Just keep this in mind. They were incredibly strong and faster than any human. There is no way that people killed them all off." Sakura walked further ahead of them all and into her classroom leaving the four of them alone.
"She's crazy for thinking they are still around, right Naruto?" Kiba says turning to his blond friend who couldn't look less interested in the conversation.
"Drop it Kiba." Shikamaru said in a lazy tone, like usual. Kiba looked as if he was going to say something but he stopped himself. There was no use arguing with Shikamaru. You will never win.
Naruto was currently staring at the white tiled floor as they walked. He liked to avoid the subject of vampires. He hated the thought of them. They only killed people. They never did any good for anyone. Naruto, in fact, despised them. He knew Sakura still thought that they were alive and she actually liked them, so that's why he kept his mouth shut about them around her. He respected her opinion, and he didn't want to say anything to upset her in any way.
Naruto looks up from his thoughts when he feels three pairs of eyes boring holes into him. He looks at all of them and gives them a confused look. "Did I miss something?"
"Well, kinda. I asked you if you were coming over to my house tonight or not."
Naruto smiles slightly at Kiba's question. "Sorry Kiba, I'd love to but I have to get home. I promised Kurama that I'd give him a walk when I got home. If you want you can bring Akamaru and come with us."
Kiba scrunched up his nose and shoved his hands in his pockets. "I would love to man, but my mom's got me going to my sister's boring recital."
"And you were going to drag me along so you wouldn't be the only bored one there, isn't that right?"
"Yeah pretty much." Kiba laughs looking away from Naruto and back to Shikamaru raising a brow. "Hey Shi-"
Shikamaru cuts him off before he can finish his sentence. "I cant."
"Oh come on. I didn't even get to finish my sentence." He stops walking and stands in front of Shikamaru.
"What were you going to say then?"
"Well, I uhm ... was going to say ... uh ... oh come on Shikamaru why not?" Naruto rolls his eyes and a smile forms on his lips.
"My mom wants our family to visit my annoying cousins and take them to dinner. Its a drag, but I can't do anything about it."
Kiba hangs his head and looks over to Sai with a wishful look in his eyes. "Sai?"
Sai smiles his usual smile that is always on his face. "I would, but I'm afraid I'm too busy doing nothing. I'm terribly sorry." Kiba glares at him. Shikamaru and Naruto chuckle a little. Sai always did have a way of being blunt.
The four of them make their way to their first period while picking on Kiba. The bell rings as the last of them step in. They quickly take their seats as Iruka takes roll. When he was finished with that he takes his seat.
"Quiet down and get out your homework from last night." Naruto's eyes widen slightly and he searches through his books in a panic. Iruka makes his way around the room checking that everyone did it. Naruto kept glancing up to see how close he was and he was shocked to see that Iruka was right next to him with his arms crossed. "Naruto, do you have your homework?"
Naruto nervously casts his eyes down to his books. "I'm sure I have it somewhere. Just ... give me ... one second." He quickly finished looking through the books and ran a hand through his blond hair. It was on his desk in his room.
Iruka saw the distress on his face and he tapped his pen on Naruto's desk. "Stay after class." Then walked away. Through the rest of first period Naruto stared out the window and day dreamed. He did his best to make it not so noticeable, but Iruka saw all. He yelled at him a total of seven times that morning.
When the bell rang everyone got out of there like their life depended on it. Naruto of course didn't bother to move since he had to stay to talk to Iruka. When he saw that everyone was gone, he decided to stand and go over to his teacher's desk.
Iruka looked up to him and frowned. "Naruto, I told you what would happen if you didn't do one more assignment."
"But I did it! I swear! Its just on my desk in my room. Please Iruka, you've got to believe me."
Iruka moves his eyes away from pleading blue ones to his desk sighing. "Naruto, you know that I hate doing this. I'm not doing it to be mean or because I want to, because I honestly don't want to."
"Then don't. Please Iruka I cant have another detention this semester."
Iruka's brow arched. "How many have you had?"
Naruto nervously looks down. "19ish."
Iruka stood immediately. "Naruto!"
Naruto looks back up. "I'm sorry Iruka! I didn't mean for that to happen, honest! Orochimaru-sensei has it out for me!"
"It doesn't matter if you didn't mean for it to happen or not, Naruto." He sighs pinching the bridge of his nose. They both fall silent.
"Are you angry at me?" Naruto asked, a little nervous to hear his answer.
Iruka huffs taking a seat again. "No Naruto, I just wish you would take school a little more seriously."
"I do take it seriously Iruka, I just-" Naruto stops himself and frowns looking to the door. "You're right, I'll be here tonight for detention. I'm sorry for the trouble." Naruto quickly walks over to the door.
Iruka stands up looking over at the clearly upset blond. "Naruto, wait." Naruto ignores his teacher and shuts the door going to his second period. Iruka sighs and puts his hand on the back of his neck sighing.
When Naruto gets to his next class he was late. The teacher's eyes don't move from his desk as he asks. "What is your excuse for being late this time, Naruto?"
"Sorry Orochimaru-sensei. Iruka-sensei had to talk to me about something." Orochimaru rolled his eyes and met Naruto's gaze.
"Nice one. Its not like I haven't heard that one before." Naruto glares at him. "Don't give that look. Go take your seat."
Naruto rolls his eyes muttering. "Whatever you say, sensei."
For some reason Orochimaru hated Naruto ever since he first got into his class. Orochimaru is the reason for 18 of his detentions.
Naruto walks passed him to his seat and smiles brightly at Sakura as he passed her. He took his seat in the back next to Shikamaru, who was, of course, already sleeping. If you didn't know him, you would be very shocked that he was the top in the class. Even though everyone knows him they were still shocked. It's reasonable since all he ever does is sleep. No one ever sees him doing work or even awake in class yet he's still a genius.
Naruto opens his notebook and gets out his pencil. When Orochimaru started doing his teacher stuff, Naruto gazed out the window like he usually did getting lost in his thoughts. He had no trouble zoning out in chemistry.
The class went about like normal after Naruto sat down. Orochimaru was teaching. Naruto and Shikamaru were sleeping. Naruto got yelled at multiple times, but no one else ever got in trouble, and of course he falls right back asleep. After a long second period, the bell rang waking the two in the back up and making everyone leave the room.
Sometime throughout the day, lunch came around. Naruto sat next to Kiba, Shikamaru, Sai, and Sakura. Along with Neji, Shino, Lee, Tenten and Choji. They were all chatting about unimportant things and laughing whenever someone said or did something funny. Naruto finished his lunch and looked over to Sakura who was smiling at the joke Lee made.
When she felt his gaze on her she looked back over to him and raised an eyebrow. "You look like you want to say something Naruto."
Naruto's eyes widen and he shakes his head smiling. "No, no. I was just looking at you is all."
Sakura nods and leans closer to him whispering. "You may not have something to talk about, but I do. I need to talk to you in gym." She stands up grabbing her empty tray. "I'll see you guys later, I have to go to one of my teachers for something." Naruto smiled and looked back to the group. Everyone had their eyes on him. His eyes widen and he arches a brow.
"What are you two planning?" Kiba questions.
"Planning?" Naruto asked confused.
"Sakura whispered something to you then left. Its kind of suspicious if you ask me."
"She only told me she had to talk to me about something. Honest."
"What about?"
"Kiba, chill with the interrogation. She just wants to talk to Naruto." Shikamaru sighs.
"Who knows, maybe she's going to confess her love for him." Sai says with a straight face. Everyone's heads snapped to him and his eyes widened slightly.
"That's not likely. Everyone knows that he is gay." Neji adds unamused.
Naruto's eyes go even wider and his mouth shoots open. "Okay, new subject please!"
"Are you embarrassed to be gay, Naruto?" Sai asked honestly curious. Naruto bangs his head off the table and groans, so Shikamaru comes to his rescue.
"Kiba, are you still looking for someone to go with you to your sisters recital?" Shikamaru asks looking over to the dog lover. Kiba perks up instantly.
"Yeah. Can you go now?"
"No."
Kiba glares at the lazy boy. "Then why did you bring it up?"
Shikamaru shrugs and stands up with his tray in his hand. "Not sure."
XXXXX The end of the day came faster than Naruto had expected. It was now 8th period, Kakashi's class. English. Naruto stepped into the room and scanned the students. He was looking for Sakura. She hadn't talked to him in p.e. In fact, she wasn't even in that period. When he scanned the room and didn't see any pink hair, he took his seat in the front. He wasn't going to worry about her much. She could handle herself with whatever she was doing now. Ten minutes into the class, Kakashi finally came in. He normally isn't this late but no one cared as long as they didn't have to do any work.
Kakashi set his papers and book down on his desk then turned to look at everyone. "Sorry about the wait everyone. I know how much you are eager to learn this Monday, but I just happened to get a little lost on the path of life."
"Kakashi sensei, you were asleep in the teachers lounge weren't you?"
Kakashi laughs ignoring his question. "Okay so today we are doing some fun stuff." Naruto smiles thinking. Yeah, he was sleeping. Kakashi pulls out a book showing it to everyone. "We are going to be reading a book." The class groaned and he folded his arms. "Fine. We can just do some extensive report about some really boring literature stuff if you want." The class groaned again and everyone got up and walked up to his desk grabbing a book. Kakashi smiled and nodded. Naruto was the last one up. He got the book and took his seat. "Read to chapter 2 for tomorrow. I'm giving you the rest of this week to read some of this in class. Get started." Kakashi sits in his chair pulling out his book and starts reading. No doubt its not school appropriate.
Half way through the period Naruto fell asleep. He was trying to read it, but it just so happens that whenever Naruto tries to read a book he falls asleep within five minutes. Before he knew it the bell rang and a hand was placed on his shoulder.
"Naruto."
"Hmm?" He hums half asleep.
"Iruka just wanted me to remind you to go to his room." Naruto lifted up his head and looks into the only visible eye of his teacher and nodded
"Okay, thanks Kakashi-sensei." He stood and left the room. He walks past everyone in the hall with some people saying goodbye to him. When he gets to Iruka's room he stands there for a couple of seconds before he opens the door. Iruka hears the door open so his head shoots up to see a very familiar blond boy entering taking a seat in the front row.
"You know what to do, I don't have to go over the rules with you, right?" Naruto nods and leans back in his seat closing his eyes to sleep. Although, half an hour went by and he found that he couldn't fall asleep. He leans forward and lays his head on his arms for another half hour before he gave up on trying to sleep and sits up opening his eyes to see that Iruka wasn't in the room. He arches a brow and all of a sudden a hand lands itself onto Naruto's shoulder making him jump.
He looks up to see Iruka's smile. "How about some ramen?" No matter how upset Naruto was at that moment, the thought of getting ramen made him smile. He nods and stands up leaving the room with Iruka. They get to the ramen shop and claim their usual spots. When their bowls came out Naruto immediately started to slurp it down. He finishes that bowl, along with the following four more, and leans back rubbing his stomach.
"Thanks for the ramen Iruka-sensei."
"No problem Naruto." He smiles pausing for a minute before talking again. "Naruto I'm really sorry for giving you detention. But I had to. Tsunade told me I was being too lenient with you, and that you wouldn't learn your lesson if I didn't do anything."
Naruto looks over to him. "It's okay. I thought about it and I know it was wrong of me to ask you not to give me detention. It put you in a tough spot. I should be the one apologizing."
Iruka smiles slightly and looks to his empty bowl. "How about we avoid these situations from now on and you put your work in your bag after you finish it."
Naruto smiles and nods. "Will do sensei."
For the remainder of the night they sat their chatting. Sometimes even the shop owner Teuchi and his daughter, Ayame, would join in. By the time they finished talking and Iruka decided it late enough, he decides to start to leave.
"I would love to stay longer, but I have to get home and do some stuff."
"With Kakashi's help most likely." Naruto quietly adds. Iruka's eyes widen and he felt a hand hit his shoulder. He chuckled and looked at Iruka's reddened face. "I was only kidding."
Iruka rolls his eyes at his student. "Come on, I'll give you a ride." Naruto, still smiling from embarrassing his teacher, says goodbye to Teuchi and Ayame and gets into the car.
"So, Naruto." Naruto glances over to Iruka and raises his brows. "How have things been at school recently. I haven't had the time to talk to you too much about it. Is there anyone special that you have your eye on?"
"I think we both know the answer to that." Naruto smiles looking out the window.
"How about Kurama, is he doing okay?"
Naruto turned his head to Iruka. "Yeah, he's fine. As energetic as ever." He glances to Iruka out over the corner of his eye. He knew what Iruka was planning on talking about. He always brings it up. Naruto didn't mind though. It was nice to know that he had someone watching over him, but it wouldn't hurt for him to cut back a little bit.
"So you're okay? No problems with living alone?"
"Kurama and I are doing good. We've never had any issues before."
"Alright, but you know that you can always come visit with Kakashi and I if you want. You're always welcome." Naruto smiles and nods. "And you know that my offer still stands about moving in with us if things get too stressful on your own."
"I know, I haven't forgotten. I really do appreciate you always watching over me Iruka." He smiles at Naruto as they pull into Naruto's driveway. "Thanks for the ride. I'll see you tomorrow." He waves goodbye to Iruka and gets out of the car. The ride to Naruto's house was short since it was only about a five minute car ride, ten to walk, from Ichiraku's.
He digs in his pocket and pulls out his key unlocking the door. He takes one step in and he hears the clacking of claws on his hardwood floor. The sound was getting closer, and all of a sudden an orange dog comes running out from behind the corner. It only took him two seconds to barrel into the blond, successfully knocking him onto his butt. Naruto was getting bombarding with licks to his face and neck. He was laughing and trying to push Kurama off of his chest, but of course he was failing.
"Okay, okay come on Kurama. Get off." He managed to wheeze that sentence out as Kurama was attacking him. Kurama stops licking his face and looks him in the eyes. He decided to lick him once more before getting off. Naruto groans and grabs the bottom of his shirt to wipe off his face. "Ugh. This is disgusting Kurama." Naruto sniffed and crinkled up his nose. "You need a mint." Kurama lowered his ears and looked at him with sad eyes. Naruto smiles standing up and patted his head. "Let me go get ready and I'll take you for your walk I promised you."
Kurama stands up wagging his tail as fast as a motor boat. He follows Naruto back to his room as he throws his bag on his bed and goes into the bathroom to wash off his face better. He looks back at the doorway and sees Kurama sitting there with his tail still going making his butt wiggle. "You are the happiest dog I know." He laughs and walks passed him. He goes to the front door and grabs Kurama's harness. He turns and Kurama is jumping around. "Kurama." Kurama stops and looks at him with wide eyes. "Sit." Kurama obeys and sits down without hesitation. Naruto smiles and slides the harness onto him making sure to secure it. Then he grabs the leash and clips it onto the hook.
"Let's go." Kurama jumps up as Naruto opens the door and pulls him out immediately. "Kurama, chill out." Kurama looks back at Naruto and then stops pulling and starts to sniff the ground and walk next to his owner. Naruto looks around noticing that it is starting to get a little darker. He normally doesn't take Kurama for a walk this late, but he couldn't take back a promise he made. That will probably be his downfall. He keeps his promises no matter how dangerous or stupid they may be. Naruto looks down at Kurama who has taken a break from sniffing to look up at their surroundings and Naruto was starting to get a little wary about the time. He hates being out past dark. So many things go wrong when it is dark out.
"Hey Kurama, I know how you like your long walks, but I really don't think we will be able to do a long one today. I really don't think we should be out that long at night." Kurama huffs and then all of a sudden he stops. Naruto arches a brow and glances down at him. The hair on his back started to raise and he started to snarl. "Kurama?" Naruto quickly looks up to see nothing but a growing darkness. It wasn't completely dark yet, the sun was currently setting. Naruto narrowed his eyes and he looks between his growling dog and where he was staring. Naruto didn't see anything. His heart started to beat a little after but he remained calm on the outside. "What is it boy?" Kurama suddenly barks and charges forward slipping the leash out of Naruto's grip. Naruto's eyes widen. "Kurama!"
He starts sprinting after him across the road. He knew that he wasn't going to catch up to him, Kurama is way too fast. Naruto didn't care though. He has had Kurama ever since he was a puppy. He has never ran away from him like this. He also never growled like that before. Naruto was starting to lose sight of him and he started push himself harder making his legs burn slightly. After a couple of seconds he lost sight of him.
"Kurama!" Naruto felt his legs give out making him stumble into a building. He looked up to see a couple people walking towards him. He straightened out and walked closer to them. "Excuse me. Have you-" They ignore him and keep walking right past him as if they didn't hear a word he said. He glares at them. "Hey! I need to ask you a question!" They still ignored him. "Jerks."
"Excuse me." A timid sounding voice says. Naruto turns around eyebrows raised. He didn't see anyone, but then he felt a few a tugs on his bottom of his shirt making him look down. It was a little girl. Naruto crouches down to her level and smiles.
"Can I help you?"
She looks down and then back up to his eyes. "You said you had to ask a question. M-maybe I can help you."
Naruto raised his brows and then smiled. "That would be really helpful. You wouldn't have happened to see an orange dog come running through here, would you?"
She lights up. "I did. He went down that alley and turned to the right. He looked scary so I avoided him."
"He won't hurt you, and thank you so much for your help." He stands up about to leave then he realized that she was alone. He glances down to her and crouches back down. "Are your parents around?"
She nods. "They are just in that building right there." All of a sudden a woman and a man came out of the building and started to freak out. The little girl looks at them then to Naruto. "I have to go, bye." Naruto waved and stands up as she runs over to them.
He then glares and looks to the alley way muttering. "Really Kurama, really." He starts to walk into the darkened alley as cautious as possible. He then starts to run again, but that didn't last long because he got shoved into the brick wall. Its always the dark alleyway. Naruto felt the thing that was pushing him against the wall. It was obviously a human, a damn strong one, but still human. Naruto coughed because where they were pushing him was against his throat. They lightened up only slightly and Naruto opened his eyes only enough to see dark coal eyes, almost the color of silver, staring into his own.
"W-what do you want?" The man said nothing, but leaned closer to him making Naruto widen his eyes and push at his chest. The man didn't budge at all. In fact the harder Naruto pushed the closer he got. Naruto froze when he felt something wet on his neck. Did he just lick me?! Naruto thought.
The man smirked and whispers into Naruto's ear. "You smell awfully delicious." Naruto's eye twitched and he tries to knee him in the crotch, but the man stops him and growls. Naruto tries to scream but his mouth gets covered by a hand. Naruto's heart was beating like crazy and he didn't know what to do. He can't push him away and he couldn't get his arms or legs free. He couldn't scream or bite. He was stuck. He going to die here.
The man moves Naruto's head over to the side more and brings himself closer to his neck and something sharp poked Naruto making him tense. It wasn't more than a slight poke, but then a sharp pain struck him making his knees buckle. It didn't last long though before the man shot back with a hand over his mouth. Naruto could feel something drip from his neck and he saw something drip from the man's chin and his eyes go wide. A vampire. Naruto had just been bit by a vampire. He started to breath heavier. The vampire wasn't moving, but his hand had dropped to his side. He was staring at the blond.
Naruto quickly shot his hand up to his neck when it started to throb painfully. He groaned and closed his eyes tightly, but then tried to open them and look at the vampire. So he wasn't human. Naruto took a shaky breath and pushed himself up the wall to stand. He didn't know what to do. If he ran, he'd possibly chase him down. Not to mention that Naruto felt a little weak right now. But then again, why did he back away like he did just now?
All of a sudden a deep growl came from the end of the alley making Naruto look over even more terrified. It took him a second to realize it was Kurama. Naruto started to smile. He came back. Naruto saw Kurama start to sprint over to the vampire and his eyes shoot open.
"Kurama no!" He pushes himself off the building and grabs Kurama pulling him to his chest. Naruto looked up to see the vampire gone. Naruto tensed and moved his head around quickly. That was a mistake. A sharp pain shot through his neck making him wince. Kurama whined and licked Naruto's neck making Naruto cower. Kurama must have noticed that it hurt him because he whimpered and stopped. "It's fine Kurama, I just have to get home and clean it up. I'll be fine." Naruto stands up and Kurama follows his slow steps. Somehow he got his leash off but his harness was still there.
Naruto was dumbfounded. He didn't know how to react. He had just been bit by a thing that was supposed to be extinct. What was going on? Sakura was right, they are still alive. But right now he doesn't need to worry about that, he has to worry about cleaning this bite. He never would have imagined such a small bite would cause so many problems. He is going to have to tell somebody about this and it's not going to be easy.