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-Chapter 1: Blood and Blades-
It was night in Konohagakure no Sato as two individuals walked together in the moonlight. One was clearly a young male, around fifteen, and the other was a woman around the same age.
"I'm so glad you could come out this evening, despite your busy work schedule." The man said as the woman smiled. She seemed to snuggle close to him a bit. It wasn't a cold night, but it was one of the cooler nights for spring as the woman said, "It's difficult being a civilian nurse, but the rewards are great. I may not know any jutsu, but the patients seem to love me." She said as the man started to look a little shifty and looked around. His companion noticed and asked if something was wrong, but he dismissed it, "It was just the wind."
Two figures followed the two as they continued their date. One of these figures was a blonde boy with three whisker marks on his cheek in black and dark orange battle girl, with a small sword on his back, he wore sunglasses, which was very odd, as he looked. He then grabbed a small book that had the man's physical description and the name Gendo Akari. A radio beeped as he answered it, "Fox here."
"This is Cat, and I've spotted the target. You in position?" A feminine voice said, but there was some silence before the blonde answered, "Yeah, I'm in position. Hokage wants him alive for questioning, but if he refuses to come, then take him out."
"Roger that." The girl's voice beeped off as the blonde moved into position for apprehension or execution.
Gendo still felt on edge, he could not help but feel that something was wrong. He looked down at the women leaning against him. He wanted nothing more then to bite into that sweet neck of hers and taste her blood. It would be finer then wine to him, but he could wait, after he gets her to finally agree to sleep with him. He will drink at the peek of her climax, and it would taste all the sweeter if she did so willingly.
He then heard something swishing in the air. He noticed a glint of metal out of the corner of his eye and he moved away from his pray as a shuriken hit the ground, its course was aligned to where his head would have been. He heard his pray gasp as a figure appeared between them. He growled, before the figure spoke, "Gendo Akari, the Hokage has ordered for your capture, come peacefully or be destroyed."
Gendo laughed, "If you wanted to capture me then why were you trying to kill me a few seconds ago?"
"Because I knew you would dodge that, and to keep you from using this girl as a shield." The figure said.
The woman was confused and wonder why the Hokage wanted a civilian like Gendo and why would they think he would us her as a shield. Then she looked at the shuriken, she wondered how Gendo knew it was coming and moved out of the way so fast.
Gendo smirked, "Sorry but I'm not coming without a fight, and seeing as you had to try stealth to get me shows that you aren't that strong." Before he could do anything he felt a blade enter through his back into his spine and felt nothing before his waist. He fell and saw another figure behind him. "The Hokage said capture you or kill you. Do you think he would send someone who couldn't handle a thug like you?"
Gendo growled before the man in front slammed his foot on the back of is head, knocking him out. Fox looked at Cat, "Was that really needed?"
Cat shrugged, "He wanted him alive or dead, he didn't say what state Gendo should be in when we bring him." The woman was confused as Fox moved quickly to restrain Gendo with some silver wire restraints. She moved closer with and asked, "Why is Gendo-kun under arrest? What are his charges?" Cat looked at her with some sympathy, but she knew she couldn't. Her black hair blew in the slight breeze as the moon showed her fair skin, "This bastard," She kicked him before continuing, "Is wanted for rape, assault, and the attempted murder of three women. He is also suspected of being in contact with a criminal syndicate. Please, return to your home and forget we were ever here." Fox and Cat moved quickly, their shades blocking any access to their eyes, with their prisoner to the Hokage tower.
"Sasuke, this may be a big break for us." Fox said, revealing the girl his age to be Sasuke Uchiha, one of the last Uchiha in the world. She took her sunglasses off revealing her deep onyx eyes, which seemed to glow in moonlight as she looked at fox.
"Yes, this may be the only life we know, but that fiend won't get away for what it did to our mothers. Naruto, I will make that man, and Itachi pay." Sasuke said to Naruto Uzumaki, the 'demon child' and dead last of the ninja academy. It wasn't that long before the two fanged teens made it into the Hokage's office. Naruto stood forward and nodded to Kakashi, who was there at the time, "Gendo Akari, the rogue vamp, has been apprehended. Kakashi-senpai, take him to Ibiki and find out what he knows." Hiruzen was working a late shift as he looked towards the two.
"I see you both have succeeded. Before you ask if I had little faith in you it is not that. I knew you could handle him, but thankfully neither of you two were hurt." Naruto rolled his eyes, he knew the old man meant well but he was not a little kid. "We can handle ourselves old man, you don't need to worry about us."
Sarutobi smirked, "You're right, that's Mikoto's job."
Sasuke scowled, "Hey, leave my mother out of this."
Sarutobi chuckled, "Very well that is all, you are dismissed." And with that the two leave the office. Outside Sasuke signed, "Come on, mom is waiting for us, and we have our team meeting tomorrow."
They moved through the streets till they made it to Sasuke home. After her clan was killed, besides her mother and herself, Naruto had moved in with them. Mikoto approved and was even the one that convinced him to move in. They found Mikoto making the finishing touches on their late night meal. A bucket fill with ice and three blood packs in the center of the table.
Even thought Mikoto only needed blood to survive she mostly ate with them so she could have meals and time with Naruto and Sasuke. Placing the food on the table and sat down. Mikoto looked at the two of them, "So anything new happen tonight?"
"Nothing much mom. Just had to catch a rogue vamp that was illegally turning women, and please put some clothes on." Sasuke said, noticing the state of undress her mother was in. Mikoto Uchiha was simply wearing a black nightgown that was essentially see through, and was short and just covered her womanly parts. Mikoto giggled at the blush on her daughter's face, "You know that it's pretty close to morning. I just back from work and wanted to spend some time with you two before sleeping the day away. Let's eat before it gets cold." Naruto nodded as they dove into the food and good spirits, "How are things with your day team? Kakashi giving you a hard time?" Mikoto asked as the two sighed in unison, "He hardly teaches us anything. Most of our skills we learned from you mom." Sasuke said as she took a sip of blood from her pack. Naruto also took a sip as he mentioned, "He thinks we aren't working as a team, but it's more likely that he's just lazy. Sakura needs to catch up, and he's been giving us nothing but D-ranks." Naruto said as Mikoto sighed at this.
"If it wasn't for my condition then I'd offer to be your jounin sensei. Before I was married I was a pretty good kunoichi." Naruto nodded, as she was a skilled swordswoman and kunoichi, but asked, "Anything happened with you?"
"No Naruto, just a customer at the bar that couldn't handle his sake got a little too frisky with me. I'm not that loose am I?" Naruto and Sasuke shook a no as they finished the meal and got some sleep.
The following morning, Naruto and Sasuke got up and dressed completely different from their escapade last night. Naruto wore bright orange pants with a similar large jacket with blue, and a black shirt under that while Sasuke wore a dark blue shirt with white shorts, both modest while hugging her frame, with the Uchiha crest on the back. They saw their teammate Sakura, a girl with a red battle dress and long pink hair and emerald eyes, waiting for them on the bridge. They walked slowly so they could talk before Sakura could hear them. "So mom's been getting friskier lately," Sasuke said. "She wants you bad."
Naruto signed, "I know I'd be lying if I said I didn't like her like that but I don't want it to be weird between us."
Sasuke snorted, "Please sleeping with her won't change a thing. We will have to deal with our libidos sooner or later." She then smirked before adding, "If anything I might ask to join in."
Naruto was forced to stop for a few seconds to stop his nose bleeding at that sexy image. "Stop joking Sasuke." he muttered.
She smirked at him again, "Who says I am joking?"
Sakura smiled as they got onto the bridge. "Hey guys think Kakashi sensei will give us a real mission this time?"
Naruto shrug, "No idea, but I doubt it. He'll say we need more work at being a team, but I just think he is just lazy."
Sasuke leaned against the railing, "If mom didn't get that skin condition she would have been the one training us."
Sakura nodded, knowing that Sasuke's mother got a skin condition that makes her super sensitive to the sun, and can kill her if she stays out too long. "So what will I train in today?"
Sense Kakashi has been a little 'lax' in their training, Naruto and Sasuke been helping to train Sakura in both Genjutsu and short sword and sometime Mikoto been helping her training as a medic. It had been an hour since then before Kakashi finally appeared, "Yo."
"You're late!" Naruto and Sakura said in unison as Kakashi eye smiled, "Sorry, but a black cat crossed my path and I had to take the long way around, and then I helped an old lady who turn-"
"Sensei, just stop. Let's just get a mission and some training before the sun sets." Sasuke said as she shook her head at the excuse. Naruto also agreed, "If we had to listen to all of your excuses we'd be here till dawn the next day." Kakashi sweat dropped at that as they made their way to the Hokage's office for another mission.
"Here are the missions we have today. There's babysitting council member Katsuragi's child, delivering a package, picking up some laundry, chasing Tora, again." Hiruzen said as they heard the missions available.
"Hey, jiji, do you think we can get a better mission? We've chased Tora, what, 7 times and he still manages to escape. We've got skills, and we want to test them. How about a C-rank? Sasuke and Sakura are ready for it." Sakura and Sasuke agreed to that, but Iruka had other thoughts, "Naruto, you and the team are only gennin fresh out of the academy. Just stick with the D-ranks for now to develop your skills!"
'We've dealt with just as bad in the village' Naruto thought remembering some of his hunts. Naruto rolled his eyes, "We have been training hard and we will not get any stronger just doing D rank mission. How are we going to handle real mission if we don't get the chance to even do them? How can we know what can handle of don't go and try?"
The Hokage was thinking it over. He knew that they can handle tougher mission and they need some more mission under their belt to get farther in the world. He knew that Naruto and Sasuke were helping their teammate out and training her to be better. He also knew that Sasuke and Naruto alone could handle a C-rank mission. Having Kakashi there was well help it more in their favor.
"Very well, if you think that you all can handle it then I will allow you to take a C-rank mission. I simple body guard mission nothing too hard. The client wants you all to protect his life as the travels home and when he is making his bridge. Think you can handle it?"
Naruto smirked, "Yeah, we got this."
"Very well, someone bring in Tazuna."
Tazuna was an old man drinking a sake bottle; he looked at the genin and frowned. "I asked for a ninja team not a bunch of brats, I bet they would run to their mothers at the first sign of trouble."
Sakura scowled but said nothing, as this was there client and it would be bad if she hit him. Naruto and Sasuke were unaffected as they heard worst. Kakashi just chuckled. "Now, now no need for that. My genin are stronger then they look and can handle any danger you would be in. beside I am a jounin and I can take anything that they can not."
Tazuna scowled but agreed amyway. After some brief introductions, they made their way to their individual homes to prepare. Naruto and Sasuke, living under the same roof, headed home to pack for the weeklong mission. Naruto and Sasuke grabbed some chilled blood and placed it in a container with a seal to keep it cool. They grabbed their blades and sheathed them and left a note for Mikoto. As soon as they were ready, they left and met up with Sakura, also carrying a sword and a medic bag. Tazuna was waiting by the gate. Kakashi showed up two hours later, in the afternoon, "Alright, I guess we're all ready to go."
The trip so far was boring, Sakura was asking Tazuna questions, so they would have more information on the country of Nami. Naruto and Sasuke extended their senses for any sign of danger. They rarely left the village, and when they did it was always close by, so this would be there first real mission outside Fire Country.
They then smelt something up ahead. Sasuke and Naruto looked at one another, vampire, two of them. Kakashi looked up from his book and notice them. He frowned, but was on guard. Up ahead two figures wearing large cloaks and large straw hats stood waiting for them. In the shadows made by the hats the vampires grinned their fanged smile, with a great thirst for blood. The group stopped twenty feet from them and Naruto and Sasuke had their hands on their blades.
The two vampires charged forward at great speeds at kill the two in front. However Naruto and Sasuke reacted fast enough and caught their hands that were attempting to grab their throats. Naruto and Sasuke had their blades drawn and went to slash them in half but at the cost of their hands. Naruto looked at them as their hats were knocked off. "The Ganzou brothers, known for draining all their victims of blood through out the land of fire."
One brother smirked, "So someone knows of us, and I see that those blades are silver. Been a while to fight someone who knows what they are doing." He looked at his severed hand, it would take days to re-grow, but with all their blood it won't take too long.
The brothers charged again, Naruto and Sasuke forced them apart and each on took them on. One brother felt his skin start to get hot, without his hat and no shade it will be harder to fight in the sun. Naruto moved fast and slashed at the vampire. The vampire ducked but Naruto kicked him in the chest and knocked him back. The vampire was shocked, that kick was not of a human. And as he saw the blade coming at him, too fast for him to dodge he thought, 'Dhampir.'
Sasuke dodge the other vampire's attacks and counter with her blade. The vampire kept back when she attack and notice that the others' target were too far away to get out without getting hit. The vampire swung his arm with the missing hand and blood covered Sasuke's face. The vampire went in close for the kill but felt pain as a silver dagger entered his chest. Sasuke looked at him, "You think I would fall for just a trick?" before she beheaded him. Sakura saw the speed at which Sasuke and Naruto defeated, and took out the two vampires. She was frightened when the enemy that Sasuke beheaded was turned to ash, with the only remnants of the fact that they were even there were the charred skeletons with the fanged skulls.
"Wha, what were they?" She asked as Sasuke sheathed her daggers and Naruto sheathed his sword. Naruto looked at her and said, "Vampires. Creatures that posses perennial youth, and drink the blood of humans." Sakura started to become scared.
"You can't be serious! Vampires are only in myths and movies, right?"
"I'm afraid Naruto's right Sakura. Vampires are real, but not all of them are like the Ganzo brothers." Kakashi said, but he still had a few thoughts.
"Tazuna, why didn't you tell us that you had vampires after you?" Tazuna became pale at Kakashi's accusation, "What do you mean?"
"The Ganzou brothers were killed because they underestimated Naruto and Sasuke, while ninja can reach the levels of strength a vampire naturally has, these were vampire ninja, and only dhampirs can match them. There are only five potential targets. Myself, as I have a high bounty, but these guys wouldn't be able to match me. Naruto and Sasuke were the second choice as they were both dhampirs, and one is the heiress of a clan. I can't really count Sakura as a potential target due to her civilian background and no knowledge of the paranormal. Then there's you, the client who's been very shifty since we left."
"It's true, we could hear your heart pump with fear if we enhanced our hearing with chakra." Sasuke said as she showed her fangs. Sakura was freaking out before Tazuna started, "Alright, I do need protection, but from a dangerous criminal. His name's Gatou."
"Gatou, the CEO of Gatou Shipping Inc.? He's one of the wealthiest men in the elemental nations." Kakashi said.
"On the surface he's a legitimate businessman with his shipping business, but in reality he's a cruel man that deals with criminal underworld. He bought out our ports, and with our ports under his possession he placed up taxes to a point that we could barely pay for daily needs. He deals with all sorts of criminal activity. I heard rumors he has a group of vampire working for him. My home is on the island of Wave, and our Daimyo is just as poor as the rest trying to keep us fed. My bridge is the only thing that can break his hold on us. You can abandon me and the country dies, my daughter will curse Konoha. My grandson will cry and cry, and the country will die with Gatou going off to another poor country."
Kakashi sighed before looked at his team, waiting for them to decide. The genin looked at one another before Naruto spoke up, "We wanted a tougher mission and we will not back down now. Beside we can't let rough vampires run amuck if we can help it."
Sakura nodded, "That's right, not every mission will be as they were given and we can't call ourselves ninja if we give up."
"We keep the mission," Sasuke added. "Naruto and I swore we would help those from vampires when needed. We will not go back on that promise."
Kakashi looked at them with a proud look on his face. He then turned to Tazuna, "Well I do believe you have a ninja team with you."
Tazuna was looking like he was about to cry before Naruto had to ask. "Hey Tazuna, how do you now about vampires was it because of Gatou?" Naruto asked.
Tazuna blushed and did not look at him in the eyes before Sasuke put the pieces together, "Your daughter you mentioned; she is a dhampire, isn't she?"
"Dhampire?" Sakura asked, she knew of vampires but she never heard of that word.
"It is someone who is born with a parent that is a vampire." Sasuke answered, "You see even if a vampire can make someone else into a vampire they can still reproduce like humans can. Say a male vampire mated with a women or a human woman is turned while pregnant and gives birth. They are half human half vampire. All the strength of a vampire has but few weaknesses."
Sakura looked at the too of them and figured it out. Mikoto's skin condition that reacts to sunlight, Sasuke and Naruto's speed and skill, their fangs she just saw, and their knowledge of vampires. "You guys are Dhampires as well. And Mikoto is a vampire."
At their nods she looked at them and said, "You guys never told me cause you think I would hate you? Do you think so little of me?"
"It's not that Sakura. Vampires, among other things, are a secret with very few people knowing. If you weren't born in the life, then you'd have to be at least a jounin to learn. Iruka doesn't know anything about vampires, and it's harder for us to make friends." Naruto said as they began once more. Sasuke saw her confused look before saying, "Vampires posses seemingly eternal youth, and dhampirs are hybrids of humans and vampires. Naruto and I would outlive just about anyone if we lived a civilian life. There is a reason why vampires are portrayed as sexy as well, and that is we tend to have fewer inhibitions, especially sexual." Sakura blushed at the implication, "So that means..."
"Yeah pinky, vampires like sex almost as much as blood, Dhampirs too. Add in the fact that a vampire can live for centuries they can easily for a person to grow up and screw them all night long." The group looked at Tazuna weirdly as he then explained, "I met my daughter's mother when I was a kid at night. She waited for me to become a man before doing anything with me, but my grandson's human."
"If you see any fangs on him Sakura, it's mostly aesthetic. Any child a dhampir sires or births will take after the other parent, with the only exception being dhampirs as no one really knows how the kid will turn out." Sasuke explained as they kept going.
It was a foggy morning as they rode in the morning to Nami no Kuni. They made it to the meeting point with very little incident after the case of the Ganzo brothers. They had to stay silent to avoid detection, and as they continued to shore they noticed the bridge.
"That is an impressive bridge," Naruto commented, keeping his silver edged ninjato close. Tazuna was quite proud of it, "Yeah, but if it goes uncompleted then Wave will continue to be in poverty until it's completely destroyed." They made it to land and silently made their way to Tazuna's house. Sasuke and Naruto looked around. A misty fog was forming and was blocking any direct sunlight. This worried them for if another vampire comes, they will not have that advantage. Up above them in the tree line a figure looked down on them before he jumped out of view.
He appeared in front of them, and Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi recognize him. He was a tall man with a snarl that looked even more fearsome with his fangs showing. He had little hair, but what hair he did have, was tied into five long dreadlocks. His pale skin gleamed in the mist showing a lot of muscle. He wore an open vest and no shirt, cargo pants and heavy boat. In his hands as a long metal pole taller then he was with oval like ends that had small teeth running along it.
"Scourge," Kakashi said aloud, "A powerful vampire hit-man knows for hacking men to pieces that were drained of blood. Believes that killing is to be a form of art."
Scourge smirked, "Yes, all that beautiful blood spilt, the bodies broken in a great scene of art, but now you are my targets and my newest creation. Let me make such masterpiece here and now."
He had a wicked glee in his eyes as he added charka to his pole and the teeth started to spin and wind charka formed around them.
