Halls of Shifter High
By: Silverwolf
Naruto steps through the halls of Shifter High. He was greeted by the usual antics of being popular. Though he also realizes rather swiftly that this school year included a vampiric shifter. While Naruto was the objection of everyone's attention Sasuke was completely rejected by the rest of his classmates. Such was the life of a shifter that was of vampire's blood.
Younger than Sasuke by a few months Naruto tried to be friendly. Sasuke responded to Naruto's friendliness with spectizum. Naruto couldn't blame Sasuke for that. Expecially after he'd read that shifter's of vampire blood were usually kept by true vampires as slaves. Naruto could state he knew if anyone owned Sasuke yet. But he did know that the vampiric shifter usually got caught sleeping in class. Not that Sasuke couldn't be awake, it seemed he preferred to sleep the daylight hours away. The blonde shifter couldn't blame the slightly older male though. The daylight hours were boring.
Naruto enters a classroom with several students following. Everyone takes a seat. Some turn their attention to the desk secluded to the back of the classroom as Sasuke flops into it. While the lesson begins for most of the students a nap begins for Sasuke. That is until the teacher slaps a ruler against the desk. Sasuke growls threatenly at the teacher only to be told to leave the classroom and stand in the hallway. The teen takes his belongings with him. The class laughs loudly.
Being shunned and laughed at was unfortunately something Sasuke was used to. Every one of his classmates acted if he was just an animal that would attack them for blood at any moment. The truth was Sasuke was least likely to even want their blood. But that didn't stop the rumors of them all claiming he'd attacked them at different points in time. Some days Sasuke wished he had attacked them... then there would really be a reason for them to be weary of him. But he'd never attacked any of his classmates and to tell the truth he was sick of hearing rumors that he had.
Then there was Naruto; a blodne was the ability to become a fox. He was always talking about being friends. Didn't he understand that there wasn't a possiblity of a true shifter becoming friends with a vampiric shifter?
Sasuke stands in the hallway with a sour look. The teen decides to pull a small rolled up throw from his pack and lies across the floor to complete his assignment for the class he was tossed from. With a yawn the Uchiha's head touches the book after completing the last of the problems in the text. Onyx eyes close as the nature of the vampire takes over.
As Sasuke starts to sleep soundly he's interrupted by the slam of the classroom door. Onyx eyes open to see a pair of cobalt eyes staring at him. "Go away." Instead Naruto grins slightly, "the teacher didn't think my joke about wanting a treat for the right answer was funny." Sasuke wrinkles his nose, "you have to the weirdest person I've met. You know you'll lose your friends if you're caught talking to me." Naruto shrugs, "then they aren't really my friends."
Sasuke makes a face and pulls the hood up to his jacket. "Wake me when the bell rings." Naruto chooses to sit along an edge of the throw. "Why do you sleep in class?" Sasuke growls low, "because class is boring." Naruto pulls the textbook from under the other teen's head. "Wow, you did the work without even having an explaination." Sasuke sighs, "the book explains how to do it. I don't need someone standing over me speaking also."
Naruto closes the textbook. Sasuke snatches his book and shoves it into his pack. He also shoves the notebook into his pack after taking the pages with his classroom assignment out of the notebook. He places the sheets of paper into a small box mounted next to the door after writing his name and class period upon them.
Naruto looks at Sasuke, "are you going to go back to sleep?" Sasuke narrows his eyes, "are you going to let me?" The slightly older teen hears a chirp from the other teen. Naruto looks at Sasuke, "I know what they label you, but I've never seen you shift. What do you become?" Sasuke sighs, "well fox since you need to freaking know. I become a wolf. It's no different than you becoming a fox. Got it?" Naruto laughs, "so why is everyone afraid?" Sasuke makes a face, "because unlike you my birth lies with the vampire. And yet I am as rejected by them as I am by the rest of you."
Naruto makes a face, "I'll never reject you." Sasuke narrows his eyes, "what do you really want?" Naruto shakes his head, "just your friendship. I can't imagine what it's like to be alone all the time." Sasuke slowly moves to sitting, "it isn't that bad. I'm used to it." Cobalt eyes threaten to allow tears, "no one should ver be used to being alone." Sasuke looks at Naruto, "only girls cry at the sound of words. So don't start crying unless you want me to walk away."
A/N: I still haven't decided what everyone will be able to become, or if there will be other 'vampiric shifters' later. If anyone wishes to have a character be a certain animal, vampire, or be a 'vampiric shifter' they are welcome to leave a suggestion. Suggestions for other types of creatures are also possible.
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