I have been thinking about writing this for a while now. I'm really excited to share this with you guys. Reviews are most definitely welcome, they keep me motivated. This is a yaoi/ai story. If you don't know what yaoi is then it is boy x boy pairings. In this case Sasuke x Naruto. Also I don't know if I will do yaoi scenes. I might if I'm feeling courageous, but we will see. And if you are reading this wanting them to get together immediately then this story isn't for you. I like to make the relationships as natural as possible. Anywho, I hope you like it. Feel free to review :3

Warnings:Boy on boy relationships, violence, language, eventual lemon, abnormal vampires (but no they don't sparkle)

Updates:Whenever possible

Disclaimer: Do I even have to? Like seriously?

Chapter 1: Damn Alleyways

"They're such a powerful species. You cannot 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 one hell of a lot of murders going on." Kiba rolls his eyes at the pink haired girls ignorance.

"Maybe they've changed." She persists.

Kiba rolls his eyes and scoffs at her remark. "Yeah like that could've happened. They were blood sucking assholes that only thought of themselves. They deserved everything they got."

"That's so stereotypical of you Kiba. People change so why can't they?"

"Because they aren't people." He says almost exasperatedly. "They aren't even alive, Sakura!"

Sakura glares around at their group of friends. "Not a single one of you believe they are still alive, do you?" Everyone casually looks away like they didn't hear a single word she said. "Fine. Just keep this in mind. They were incredibly strong and faster than any human. There is no way that humans could have killed them all off." Sakura walked further ahead of them all and into her classroom leaving the four of them alone.

Kiba scoffs. "Of course us humans didn't kill them all off by ourselves. Doesn't she remember the story? We had vampires help us kill off the bad vampires promising that if they helped us they would be spared, of course we killed them when it was all over though. They only agreed to kill their own kind to save their ass after all. Who's to say they wouldn't have turned on us." Kiba crosses his arms over his chest. "I don't agree with how we did it, but it is what it is." He sighs shaking his head. "She's crazy for thinking they are still around, right Naruto?" Kiba turns to his blond friend who couldn't look less interested in the conversation.

"Drop it Kiba." Shikamaru says in a lazy tone, like usual. Kiba looks as if he's going to say something but he stops himself, deciding he should probably listen to Shikamaru. There's no use arguing with the lazy genius. You'll never win.

Naruto is currently staring at the white tiled floor as they walk down the hall. He likes to avoid the subject of vampires. He hates the thought of them. They only killed people. They never did any good for anyone. Naruto, in fact, despises them. He knows Sakura still thinks that they're alive and she actually likes them, so that's why he keeps his mouth shut about them around her. He respects her opinion and he doesn'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 expression. "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 right after school. If you want you can bring Akamaru and come with us."

Kiba scrunches up his nose and shoves 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 can't."

"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. It's 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 the room. They quickly take their seats as Iruka takes roll. When he's finished with that he takes his seat at his desk.

"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 keeps glancing up to see how close he is and he's shocked to see that Iruka is 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 finishes looking through the books and runs a hand through his blond strands. The memory of it sitting on his desk in his room flashes across his mind.

Iruka sees the distress on his face and he taps his pen on Naruto's desk. "Stay after class." Then walks away. Through the rest of first period Naruto stares out the window and day dreams. He does his best to make it not so noticeable, but Iruka sees all. He yells at him a total of seven times that morning.

When the bell rings everyone got out of there like their life depended on it. Naruto of course didn't bother to move since he has to stay to talk to Iruka. When he sees that everyone is gone, he decides to stand and go over to his teacher's desk.

Iruka looks up to him and frowns. "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 arches. "How many have you had?"

Naruto nervously looks down. "19ish."

Iruka stands immediately, hands flat on his desk. "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, both falling silent.

"Are you angry at me?" Naruto asks, 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 a second." Naruto ignores his teacher and shuts the door going to his second period. Iruka sighs and puts his hands on the back of his neck sighing. He hates when he has to play the bad guy.

When Naruto gets to his next class he's 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 rolls 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 me that look. Go take your seat."

Naruto rolls his eyes muttering. "Whatever you say, sensei."

For some reason Orochimaru has hated Naruto ever since he first got into his class. Orochimaru is the reason for 18 of his detentions.

Naruto walks past him to his seat and smiles brightly at Sakura as he passes her. He takes his seat in the back next to Shikamaru, who is, 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 are 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. It's like his brain comprehends all the lessons that are being taught without him paying attention.

Sleep learning. Naruto wishes he could do it.

Naruto opens his notebook and gets out his pencil. When Orochimaru starts doing his teacher stuff, Naruto gazes out the window like he usually does getting lost in his thoughts. He has no trouble zoning out in chemistry.

The class goes about like normal after Naruto sat down. Orochimaru is teaching. Naruto and Shikamaru are sleeping. Naruto gets yelled at multiple times, but no one else ever gets in trouble, and of course he falls right back asleep. After a long second period, the bell rings waking the two in the back up and making everyone leave the room.

Sometime throughout the day, lunch comes around. Naruto sits 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 says or does something funny. It's a typical day at lunch for them.

Naruto finishes his lunch and looks over to Sakura who is smiling at the joke Lee made. When she feels his gaze on her she looks over to him and raises 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 p.e." She stands up grabbing her empty tray. "I'll see you guys later, I have to go to one of my teachers for help." Naruto smiles looking back to the group. Everyone has their eyes trained on him. His eyes widen and he arches his brows.

"What are you two planning?" Kiba questions.

"Planning?" Naruto asks confused.

"Sakura whispered something to you then left. It's 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 snaps to him and his eyes widen slightly.

"That's not likely. Everyone knows that he's gay." Kiba 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 asks, 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."

The end of the day came faster than Naruto had expected. It's now 8th period, Kakashi's class. Aka English. Naruto steps into the room and scans the students. He's looking for Sakura. She hadn't talked to him in p.e. In fact, she wasn't even in that period. Glancing around the room and not seeing any pink hair, he takes his seat in the front. He isn't going to worry about her much. She can handle herself with whatever she's doing now. Ten minutes into the class, Kakashi finally comes in. He normally isn't this late but no one cared as long as they didn't have to do any work.

Kakashi sets his papers and book down on his desk then turns to look at everyone. "Sorry about the wait everyone. I know how eager you are to learn this fine Monday afternoon, 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 totally sleeping.'

Kakashi pulls out a book showing it to everyone. "We are going to be reading a book." The class collectively groans and he folds his arms. "Fine. We can just do some extensive report about some really monotonous renaissance literature if you want." The class groans again, only louder to show they prefer the book, and everyone gets up and walks up to his desk grabbing said book. Kakashi smiles and nods. "Read to chapter two 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 falls asleep. He was trying to read it, honest, 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 is placed on his shoulder.

"Naruto."

"Hmm?" He hums still half asleep.

"Iruka just wanted me to remind you to go to his room." Naruto lifts his head and looks into the only visible eye of his teacher and nods.

"Okay, thanks Kakashi-sensei." He stands and leaves the room. Walking 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. It's quite unfortunate, really. Maybe he shouldn't have slept last period. He leans forward and lays his head on his arms for another half hour before he gives up on trying to sleep and sits up opening his eyes to see that Iruka isn'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 makes him smile. He nods and stands up leaving the room with his teacher. They get to the ramen shop and claim their usual spots. When their bowls came out Naruto immediately starts to slurp it down. He finishes that bowl, along with 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, they 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 chuckles and looks at Iruka's reddening 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?"

"Yeah, he's fine. As energetic as ever." He glances to Iruka out over the corner of his eye. He knows what Iruka is planning on talking about. He always brings it up. Naruto doesn't mind though. It's nice to know that he has 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 his 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 keeps getting closer, and all of a sudden an orange dog comes bounding out from behind the corner. It only takes him two seconds to barrel into the blond, successfully knocking him onto his butt. Naruto is getting bombarding with licks to his face and neck as he's laughing and trying to push Kurama off of his chest, but of course he's failing.

"Okay, okay come on Kurama. Get off." He manages to wheeze that sentence out as Kurama attacks him. He stops licking his face and looks him in the eyes. Then decides to lick him once more for good measure before getting off. Naruto groans and grabs the bottom of his shirt to wipe off his face. "Ugh. This is disgusting Kurama." Naruto sniffs and crinkles up his nose. "You need a mint." Kurama lowers his ears and looks at him with sad eyes. Naruto smiles standing up and patting 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 with every wag. "You are the happiest dog I know." He laughs and walks past him. He goes to the front door and grabs Kurama's harness that's in the basket. He turns and sees his dog jumping around in circles. "Kurama." Kurama stops and looks at him with wide eyes. "Sit." Kurama obeys and plops down without hesitation. Naruto smiles sliding 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. Without any second warning Kurama 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 one day. 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 that today. I 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 starts to raise, snarls rumbling from deep in his chest. "Kurama?" Naruto shoots his eyes up but sees nothing but a growing darkness. It wasn't completely dark yet, the sun is currently setting. Naruto narrows his eyes and glances between his growling dog and where he's staring. Naruto still doesn't see anything. His heart starts to beat a little faster but he remains 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 lunging forward to grab the leash but Kurama is already too far ahead. "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. He didn't care though. He's had Kurama ever since he was a puppy. He has never ran away from him like this. He also never growled like that before and it's very unsettling. Naruto was starting to lose sight of him so he starts to push himself harder making his legs burn slightly. After a couple of seconds he finally loses him.

"Kurama!" Naruto feels his legs give out making him stumble into a building. Eyes snap up to see a couple people walking towards him. Straightening out and walking closer to them he tries to ask them a question. "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 continue ignoring him.

"Assholes."

"Excuse me." A timid sounding voice says. Naruto turns around eyebrows raised. He doesn't see anyone, but then he feels a few a tugs on his bottom of his shirt making him look down. It's 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 raises his brows and then smiles. "That would be wonderful. 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 realizes that she's 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? An alleyway?" He starts to walk into the darkened alley as cautious as possible. Then starts to run again, but that doesn't last long because he gets shoved into the brick wall. It's always the damn alleyway. Naruto feels the thing that was pushing him against the wall. It's obviously a human, a damn strong one, but still human. Naruto coughs because where they are pushing him is against his throat. They lighten up only slightly and Naruto opens his eyes only enough to see dark coal eyes, almost the color of a deep silver, staring into his own.

"W-what do you want?" He manages to croak out, trying to try the man from his throat. The man says nothing, only leans closer to him making Naruto widen his eyes and push at his chest. Of course he doesn't budge at all. In fact the harder Naruto pushes the closer he gets. He removes his arm from his throat and Naruto freezes when he feels something wet on his neck.

'Did he just lick me?!'

The man smirks and whispers into Naruto's ear. "You smell awfully delicious." Naruto's eye twitches 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 is now beating like crazy and he doesn't know what to do. He can't push him away and he can't get his arms or legs free. He can't scream or bite.

He's stuck.

He officially 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 pokes Naruto making him tense. It isn't more than a slight poke, but then a sharp pain wracks his body making his knees buckle. It doesn't last long though before the man shoots back with a hand over his mouth. Naruto can feel something drip from his neck and he sees something drip from the man's chin. That's when he notices it. His eyes go wide as they're meet with piercing crimson orbs.

A vampire.

Naruto had just been bit by a vampire.

He starts to breath heavier. The vampire isn't moving, but his hand has dropped to his side staring at the blond. Naruto quickly shoots his hand up to his neck when it starts to throb agonizingly. He groans and closes his eyes tightly, but tries to open them again to look at the vampire. So he isn't human, makes sense. Naruto takes a shaky breath and pushes himself up the wall to stand. He doesn't know what to do. If he runs, he'd possibly chase him down. Not to mention that Naruto feels a little weak right now. But then again, why did the vampire back away like he did just now?

All of a sudden a deep growl came from the end of the alley making Naruto snap his attention over in its direction, a slight pain shooting through his neck from the quick motion. It takes him a second to realize it's Kurama. Naruto starts to smile. He came back. Naruto then sees Kurama hunch down and start to sprint over to the vampire. Naruto feels his heart stop beating for a second, eyes shooting wide.

"Kurama no!" He launches himself off the building and grabs Kurama pulling him to his chest. He can feel the snarl vibrating through his dog as he holds him tight. When the growling subsides Naruto looks up to see the vampire gone. Naruto tenses and moves his head around quickly. That was a mistake. A sharp pain shoots through his neck again making him wince. You would think he would have learned from last time. Kurama whines and licks Naruto's neck making the blond cower. Kurama must have noticed that it hurt him because he whimpers and stops.

"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 is still there. How did he manage to do that? Now he's going to have to buy a new leash.

The blond does his best to stay in the shadows to keep out of sight, the blood from his neck staining his shirt and he doesn't want people to see and cause a panic. Naruto is dumbfounded. He doesn't know how to react. He had just been bit by a thing that was supposed to be extinct. What the hell is 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 can cause so many problems.

Whether he likes it or not he is going to have to tell somebody about this and it's not going to be easy.