Haha. A new story! I'm still debating whether this will be yaoi or not, but until further notice, it isn't. I want to draw a chapter cover for this... Tauton is a real school, but I only jacked the name since I couldn't think of anyother good boarding school names. I also jacked a few ideas from an original story of mine, so some parts may seem familar to a select few ^^

Disclaimer: I own no characters in this, despite the fact that I abuse them and make them do things they would otherwise not do. The characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

I hope this all makes sense since I took a long time to write it (heck 9 pages man!) PLEASE ENJOY!

This is the cover I did after uploading this: .com/art/SHAMAN-cover-108267260

The snow was swirling in circles, frosting up the windows at the edges, when Naruto finally made it back to his cold, dark dorm after English class. It had been in one of the classrooms in the the old school building on the edge of the campus. The reason for this was that the roof of the new one had caved in due to the heavy snowfall they were getting. It was only just getting into December yet the trees were already laden with snow and the roads going to and from the boarding school were all covered in sleet, making it near impossible to traverse them. The school was grid locked.

This was Naruto Uzumaki's second year here at Tauton, his boarding school here in England, and he hated it. He hated the teachers. He hated the weather. He hated classes. He even hated the morter holding the buildings together. In fact he had tried to run away from this 'hell-hole'. Twice. But now that he was in his second and one year from last year, he had given up wishing to be out of the place. He knew there was nothing he could do about it so now just lived through life, a daily routine of waking up, going to each of the boring classes, laughing a bit with friends, then do homework back in the dorms and sleep. Rinse, lather and repeat.

Tauton had a day school program running so that many of Naruto's classmates actually left the school at the end of the day and returned in the morning. Naruto and his other boarders called them 'day-scum'. But as this bad weather had set in, all the students had become boarders and because of this, many of the dorms were packed to the brim with day-scum. Naruto's, however, was as empty as ever, consisting of just him, Kiba Inuzuka and Gaara Sunakami. The reason for this, was that for one thing, the dorm was in great disrepair, with boards creaking in the stairs and nails falling out of the ceiling. The second reason was the rumors that surrounded the dorm about how it was infested with ghosts and demons.

The one thing that Naruto liked about Tauton, was his classmates. Though he wasn't exactly close to any of them, he did find their company enjoyable. Sometimes they would play pranks on teachers, get found and reprimanded together. It was this aspect of the boarding school that reminded Naruto most of his old school back in Japan.

Back in Japan, Naruto had been the classclown, the classes entertainment during strict assemblies and exams. He hadn't felt like he had belonged back there, but at least he felt that he did more back there than here.

Dropping his faded, orange rucksack to the floor next to his dilapidated bed, Naruto shrugged off his equally faded orange jacket onto the floor and sat down on it, leaning against his bed. Breathing deeply he shut his blue eyes, his head lulling to one side. That day of school had been more tiring than usual as on their way to class, he and his friends had been caught in a snowball fight and had made it late to class, snow all over them. Naruto smirked at the memory, experiencing it again behind his shut lids. It had been fun getting snow all over the classroom and to actually have a reason for not doing his homework. He had said that he had done it, but it had gotten wet in the snow. Naturally this was a down right lie, but there was no actual way the teacher could prove this as such.

Even though it had been his decision, Naruto hadn't truly wanted to come to England. He had decided that he would when his father became engaged to his fourth wife in just five years. His father wasn't actually his biological one. His biological one had died many years ago and his wife, Naruto's mother, had remarried, to this player. She then died five years ago. The doctors said it was because of a weak heart, but Naruto knew it was because she had taken pills when she found out her husband had been having an affair. Naruto still blamed his 'father' for her death

What seemed like minutes later, Naruto opened his eyes again and found the room much darker than it was earlier. Still groggy, he felt around in the dark and found his watch. He fumbled around with it for a few seconds and finally managed to get the small face of the digital watch to emit a light green light. From this limited light Naruto read off it five forty-five. He had slept for

Naruto groaned and reached for his bag, pulling out a pile of bound paper. He stood and turned on his desk light as he sat down at his desk. On the front of it was the single word SHAMAN, then a few notes scrawled under it in dark blue pen. It was the script for a film that the class would be filming as part of their grade for the year. It was the main project, and the teachers had told them it would account for nearly half their grade. Naruto flipped the book open, skimming over the first few pages, but turning the when he found that they only contained the title page a few times and yet more notes on something that Naruto didn't bother to find out by reading.

The main character of the story was a boy who had suddenly woken up in a strange world. He had then been found by a hundred year old Shaman, Naruto's character. At some point during the story, the Shaman summoned a fire demon in a forest in winter in order to do something. Naruto hadn't gotten that far yet in the story. He had been goofing off with Kiba, playing pranks on the Gaara.

Naruto stretched and looked out his window. It had stopped snowing outside. The blonde grinned and threw on his jacket again, grabbed the manuscript and ran out the door, pulling a scarf from a hook on the wall as he did. What a better way to practice a snowing scene than in a snow covered place? Besides, Kiba and Gaara wouldn't be coming back that night. They were both sleeping over at another dorm. Gaara because of a physics project, and Kiba just for the heck of it. No one had invited Naruto.

The temperature felt below freezing as Naruto ran out into the snow. Most of the lights in the school were on so an eerie glow emanated off the white expanse around him. Naruto grinned and ran into the forest. It was darker between the trees and immensely colder. Naruto wrapped his scarf around his neck a few more times and continued into the trees. Apon finding a small clearing within the trees with a dead stump at it's centre, Naruto decided that this was far enough and set the bound papers on the stump as he shuffled on the spot, rubbing his hands together. He was so glad that he hadn't remember to take off his gloves when he first got back to his room.

Picking up the manuscript again, Naruto flipped quickly to the summoning scene. He had found it the most interesting scene so far in the story so while still in class he'd stolen a wad of Sakura's sticky tabs and wadded a few to the pages. They were pink so they showed up easily in the near darkness.

Walking in a circle around the stump, Naruto ran quickly through the lines, reciting them under his breath. Out of all his classmates, Naruto was probably the best at acting and nearly the best in memorization. But only when it came to things that interested him. When it came to boring subjects you'd have a better chance at making a cactus memorize it than making Naruto do it.

"The lines are so specific..." Naruto grumbled as he stopped circling the stump and sat down on it, still mulling over the lines. Normally movements of the actors were up to the director of the scene or even up the actors themselves. This time, however, the steps and even the directs Naruto was to face were clearly outlined under each line of text, lined up so that he knew what sign he was to do when.

A sudden gust of wind knocked the booklet from Naruto's hands. Cursing slightly he went to retrieve it from the base of a tree to which it had been flung to. Opening it again he noticed that under the title of the scene was a small, handwritten note. It took Naruto a few seconds to realize he had it upside down. Grumbling to himself he flipped it the right way around and read it.

"Caution. Not to be performed under full moon."

Naruto smirked. Niiiiice. Oh and guess what? It's a full moon tonight! Suddenly full of energy, the blonde jumped to his feet and ran back to the stump, taking a position near it so that the moon was to his back.

"Lets see!" he exclaimed out loud. "Kyou Rin Ten Sa! Uhh, Shima Su Na!" he read as he paced eight steps around the stump, one for each word as he scuffed a circle into the ground. "Oh wait, I said that wrongly..." Realizing his mistake, Naruto returned to his first position around the stump and started again. "Kyou Rin Ten Sa, Shima Tsu Na. Shin Ra Ban Sho U, uhh, Dan Kyou Shou." He was now on the other side of the stump, looking toward the moon. He held his hands out in front of him and clapped them together three times. "This looks so stupid..." But he continued nonetheless. He then clasped his hands together in the fire seal, after having found it at the back of the manuscript, then crouched down and placed his right hand firmly on the ground.

"Summoning Complete! Now I just need to be able to do it without the book..."

Standing, Naruto returned to his stump and sat down on it, skimming over the lines again, oblivious to the trouble he had just brought forth. As it happened, the spell that the shaman in the story had performed brought up a fire demon, one of the most powerful in the Demon Realm.

Naruto yawned and put the bound paper next to him, taking the next few minutes to look up at the sky. It had been cloudy that day, with a few drizzling patches of rain, but now the sky was as clear as untainted glass, embossed with thousands of tiny pin pricks of light. Up to his right, the moon shone as brilliantly as ever, giving much light down in the clearing. It was because of it that Naruto had been able to read the manuscript, but it was also because of it that Naruto's life would be utterly and irreversibly changed.

A chill ran down Naruto's spine. I've been out here too long... he mused to himself as he picked up himself up and brushed the snow that had gathered on his clothes. It had started to snow lightly again and now there were wet patches in Naruto's hair. He'd have to have a shower. How annoying.

The blonde sighed and looked up at the sky one last time. He was about to look away when suddenly the moon changed. It had become blood red. Shocked, Naruto stumbled back, tripping on a root. As he fell to the ground he noticed that it had stopped snowing. No. There was snow still in the air, it was just frozen there. Time had stopped.

Naruto eyes were wide as he looked around him to find the source of this, his ragged breathing the only sound. He raised a hand to rub his eyes in an effort to dispel this illusion. As he did he noticed there was something red on it.

"Snow..."

The snow had turned to red. Naruto threw the snow from his hand and tried to skitter back from it. He couldn't. He was rooted in place. Something flashed up above him and Naruto looked up to see what could be a star shoot down towards him. It too was red. The star landed in front of his feet making him cry out involuntarily. In response to this unearthly impact the ground moaned and creaked, a split suddenly spidering out from where the star hit. Again Naruto tried to get up, but he was still gripped by fear and also... exhilaration?

The ground suddenly split wide open and red light shone up from the crack, traveling across the ground all around Naruto to form circles and runes. Naruto yelped when one of these lines touched him. It was blazing hot.

Another suddenly flash of light brought Naruto's eyes back to where the star had landed. A figure was coming out of the ground. Naruto's teeth chattered and his arms shook, but he could neither run nor take his eyes off of what was coming out of the ground.

The light around the hole shone brightly once then completely vanished, allowing Naruto to more properly see what had come out of the hole. The circles and runes on the ground also started to fade, as did the unseen shackles that had kept Naruto rooted to the ground.

Still shaking, Naruto got to his feet, wincing when something wet touched his cheek. He blinked. The world was no longer red and the snow was falling again. The ground too had no sign of having cracked.

Gritting his teeth Naruto trudged warily to the body lying slightly curled on the ground that was the only evidence that anything out of the ordinary had happened. As he neared, he noticed a few things about the body. One, that it appeared human, two, it looked to be around his age, give or take a few years, and three, it had two, twisted horns protruding out of it's head, one on each side. Naruto shivered and this had nothing to do with the cold. What exactly is this thing?

Naruto took a more steps towards the curled, humanoid body and crouched down next to it. It appeared to be male, and had jet black hair and very pale skin. Another strange thing about his appearance, other than the horns, was that he wore only Japanese styled tunic with a thick band of cloth around it over britchers that came down only to his knees. Far from ideal in this cold, winter weather.

Suddenly feeling concerned for the well being of this strange creature, Naruto reached out and touched his forehead, but retracted quickly. It was burning hot.

"Demon..." Naruto murmured to himself, then blinked. Where had that come from? Seemingly at the sound of his voice, the creature on the ground opened his eyes. Red and whirling they trained on Naruto, boring through him, rooting him to the spot. Naruto said sticking out his hand. After staring at it for a few seconds, the creature slowly grasped it and Naruto pulled him to his feet.

"I'm surprised you were able to summon me, Naruto," the creature said. Naruto's eyes widen at not only that this creature could talk but that he knew his name. "How did you summon me?"

Naruto automatically presented the manuscript. The creature took it and flipped through it, but Naruto saw nothing. What the heck is going on?! Was all he thought, other than that, all other processes in the poor blonde's mind were flat lining.

"W-wait," Naruto finally managed to say once his control over his mouth was returned to him. The creature looked up from the manuscript at him, and even in Naruto's confusion he was able to notice that there was something wrong with the red eyes that looked at him. Around the unusually small, black pupils was a ring of black with commas set facing out from it, two in his right eye and one in his left.

"What is it?"

At first Naruto was lost for words, then they all came. At the same time.

"Who are you? No, what are you? Where did you come from? How did you get here? Are those horns real? What was that... lights display before? And and... what's up with your eyes?!" Naruto paused for breath and to give the other some time to respond. During this time he felt curiously deflated after letting go of that torrent, which also helped him to think and observe. At Naruto's outburst, the creature's eyes became sad and … pained.

"You don't- no, I suppose it was stupid of me to think you would remember," the creature said, trailing off at the end so that it was only because of the silence in the forest around them that Naruto had been able to hear him.

"Remember?" Naruto asked, his head again swirling. "Remember what?"

"Nothing," was the reply.

"Bu-"

"You've forgotten. If you're meant to know it, you'll remember it. It's not my duty to tell you." Miffed at this abrupt stop, it took Naruto a few moment to formulate what he would say next.

"Then tell me what the hell you are," he finally said. He didn't think that this was the best way to continue the conversation and would probably provoke the horned creature, but Naruto was so fed up that he decided that he didn't care and would take whatever shouting that came his way. A hardened wall seemed to go up.

"I am a Warlord of the Uchiha clan and the loyal vassal to the Overlord," the creature replied. Naruto noticed that again that pain crossed his eyes when he said the word 'Overlord'. I wonder who that is... he thought to himself.

"What's your name?" Naruto asked. The creature looked taken aback by this question. "Well you already know my name," Naruto mumbled, half to himself. This seemed to change the creature's mind.

"Sasuke. Uchiha Sasuke," he replied. Naruto brightened, noting the asian order of names. He held out a hand to shake, grinning widely for a reason he couldn't explain. He was just bursting with happiness.

"Nice to meet you, Sasuke," he said. Sasuke made to shake his hand but stopped halfway, looking down almost as if he was avoiding Naruto's stare.

"I'm also a … demon."

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He had decided that this had to all be a dream. It had to be. There was no way that there was a demon standing in his room, sipping on a cup of tea. If he got anything out of this dream, then he could probably regurgitate it for a creative English assignment that the teacher had been hinting would come their way for a month.

"You didn't answer my question from earlier," Naruto blurted out. He didn't particularly like silence, and the one that he had just ended was far too prickly for his tastes.

"And which one was that?" Sasuke asked, looking down at his tea while he swirled it gently with small movements of his hand. Somehow this small gesture distracted Naruto and he had to replay the last few seconds to remember what was happening.

"Where did you come from?" Naruto reprized. He did want this question answered, but there were others that he was more interested in. However, he didn't want to antagonize the demon. Not yet anyway. Besides, he didn't even know what the hell he could do.

"I suppose you could say you summoned me from the Demon Realm," the demon responded before taking another gulp of tea, clearly not going to elaborate.

"Uhh... right. So you live in the Demon Realm. Where exactly is that? In China?"

"No, idiot, it's not in China," Sasuke began to reply testily. Naruto scowled at him. "It's part of a separate universe, parallel to this one." Naruto made no motion to say he understood. He didn't. "It's like a carbon copy earth that is occupying the same space as this one, but on a different … wavelength."

"I see..." Naruto said. "So there's like, an England and stuff, right?"

"Precisely."

"So you live in … the 'Demon Realm' equivalent to Japan?" Naruto said, using his fingers to make quotations around 'Demon Realm'.

"Sure."

"Ah... so that explains," Naruto said, gesturing to what Sasuke was wearing.

"Quite," came the dry reply.

"Wait, but then, if you're in the Demon Realm Japan, how did you get to England?" Naruto asked, as he tried to catalogue all this new information in his brain and having little success. "Wait, how does that even work?" At first Sasuke said nothing, appearing to think of how to explain. Eventually he placed his cup of tea on Naruto's desk.

"Do have a piece of paper I could use?"

"Uhh, yeah," Naruto replied as he started to rifle through his rucksack.

It was six in the morning on Saturday and neither Kiba or Gaara had come back since the night before. If it wasn't for the demon in his room, Naruto would have been slightly inclined to go out and find out what had happened to the two of them, but because of the aforementioned reason, he had confined himself to his room until further notice.

Lastnight, Naruto had fallen asleep while still in the clearing and had woken up in his room that morning. On asking the demon, he had said that he'd carried him back to the room and used the key in Naruto's pocket to open the door. The key also had the dorm and room number on it which explained how he was able to know which dorm it was.

After flipping through a clear slip folder and finding it void of a blank piece of paper, Naruto finally decided to just rip a piece out of his Science lab book. Like the teacher was going to count the pages.

"Here," he said, handing the paper to Sasuke. The later took it and set it on the table, picking up a pencil that had fallen out of Naruto's rucksack in his search and now using it to draw a few lines.

"Between the human earth and the Demon Realm, there is a … thin veil which separates the two onto different planes," he said drawing three lines, gesturing to the central one. "This veil works as a barrier and stops anything from either side going to the other side. However, some parts of the veil are thinner and can be seen through, like a one way mirror. We can see you, but you can't see us. I guess you could say we're on a higher plane. Then this top part," he made a light circle around the section between the top and middle line, "is the Demon Realm. And this," he made another circle, this time around the section between the middle and bottom lines, "is the human realm. Are you keeping up?"

"... Sure," Naruto said though this wasn't a hundred percent true. "So how does this summoning thing work? Do demons just … walk through this veil and end up in the same place where they were in the Demon Realm?" At this last part he used his finger to trace a path from the top section of the diagram, through the middle line and into the lower section.

"Right," Sasuke replied. "But as I said before, the veil is a barrier, so we can't just walk through it. Either we use a gate, which is one of those thinner areas of the veil, or we use another means to get around it."

"Like what?"

"Magic."

"Magic? So like, how?"

"There are two ways to use magic to cross the veil," Sasuke started to say, "the most common way is to make a small opening or gate at one of the weaker spots of the veil. There are even gates which are open all the time and they're called Death Gates. Don't ask," he added when Naruto opened his mouth to ask why they were called that.

"So what's the other way?"

"The other way is to teleport past the veil by using an Interdimensional Disc. Now, these are rather rare and extremely expensive, so not everyone has one. The government also puts guidelines on who can have them."

"Why?"

"The government, much like your human one, likes to have complete or near complete knowledge on all the happens in their jurisdiction. Now, if there was a way to move between the Demon Realm and the human one instantaneously and in any position on earth, then the government wouldn't be too happy as it would increase smuggling of illegal goods and such."

"I see... Wait, so if you live in Japan and you just were in Japan, then how come you're in England on this side of the veil?" Naruto asked. He had finally managed to catalog about half the information and though he wasn't nearly done the other half, he wanted to find out more.

"Apparently you teleported me here when you summoned me," the demon said dryly. Naruto's mouth formed an 'o'.

"How?"

"How should I know?" Sasuke picked up his tea again and finished it. "You were the one doing the summoning." At this Naruto scowled but he couldn't think of anything that could serve as a comeback so he stayed silent.

"Do you... have a tail?" he asked finally. He had been wondering this since that morning when he'd notice small, leathery, bat-like wings protruding out of Sasuke's back. Upon repeated questioning, Sasuke had told him that, yes, he could fly, but that he had to extend them more.

"A tail? Not in this form. I do in a higher form."

"Higher form? What's that?"

"Later. Where do you get breakfast here?" the demon said as he walked out to the main living room of the dorm. Naruto scowled but got off his seat and followed, grabbing up a few articles of clothes as he did. He threw them at Sasuke.

"You can't just go outside dressed like that," Naruto explained when Sasuke turned, eyes narrowed. "You need to also wear a hat. People will freak if they see your horns." Much like how I did, Naruto thought to himself but he didn't say this out loud. No need tell the demon he was a coward.

"You didn't freak," Sasuke replied calmly as he pulled the hoodie over his head.

"That's just because you're just a-"

"Hallucination?"

Naruto's eyes widened as Sasuke guessed it right. Feeling guilty for basically saying that he didn't think he was real, Naruto looked down at the ground, unconsciously scuffing his feet on the ground.

"Sorry," he said.

"It's not really a problem," the demon said. Naruto looked up and found that he'd already put the jeans he'd thrown at him on. "Whether you think I'm real or not, doesn't matter to me. Keeping you alive does." Naruto had just picked a brimmed beanie off his bed to hand to Sasuke, but at this latest information Naruto's hand stopped halfway.

"Keep me alive?"

Sasuke took the beanie from Naruto's hand and pulled it onto his head, effectively covering the horns. From the look on his face, Naruto guessed that the demon hadn't planned to let that slip out. Pulling at the neck of the hoodie, Sasuke exposed a section of skin over his right shoulder near the collarbone.

"See that?" He let go of the fabric and it moved back to wear it was before. "That's a curse seal. It was put there when you summoned me and it indicates that my … lifeline is connected to yours."

"Lifeline? What?"

"Basically it means that if you get cut, the same cut will show up on me. Same pain, same blood loss," Sasuke explained as he opened the door and walked through it. He didn't hold it out for Naruto so the blonde had to lurch forward to catch the door. Bastard...

"So uhh... if I die, then you'll die too huh?"

"Right. The curse also works the other way too, so if I get hurt, so will you."

"Oh dear..." Naruto murmured. He himself was clumsy enough, causing himself dozens of injuries throughout the course of a day and now not just he would get hurt if his body suddenly decided to fall down the stairs. They were now at the end of the corridor, about to take the stairs down to the ground floor. "How long are you going to be here then?"

"I'm stuck here until the next full moon," came the reply.

"How come?"

"The summoning spell only works under a full moon, idiot. It even said it on your paper," Sasuke said as he stepped off the last stair at the bottom of the staircase. Naruto followed suit. So I'm stuck with a demon for a month. How do I even know if that crap about the curse seal is true, then he might kill me any second. But complaint only came from a small voice in his head, the rest of him was observing a certain someone who was now walking with a few of her girl friends on the other side of the bushes that lined the path to the dorms and all the school buildings. They were walking toward the cafeteria, same as he and demon were. Naruto's mood lightened a few decimals.

"Sakura!" he called, slightly jogging to meet her. Behind him he knew that Sasuke was still walking, but like that mattered. The girl with the long pink hair turned, her eyes softening as she saw him. She smiled and said something to her friends. They continued to walk on while she waited there on the path.

"Good morning, Naruto," she said when he stopped in front of her, smiling. She bobbed a little to the side to look past Naruto. "Who's your friend?" Naruto turned to see who she was talking about, but he already knew. Who else was behind him?

"Oh, this is S-"

"SASUKE-SAMA!" Naruto's head snapped to look back at Sakura. She knows him?! But he's a-a- "Do you remember me?" Sakura gushed as she ran up to him. "I'm Haruno Sakura, from the seventh squad!" She pulled her hair into two long pig tails on either side of her head with two hands. "Remember me?"

"Unfortunately," he replied, which pissed Naruto off. He shouldn't just squander her affections like that!

"You know Sasuke, Sakura?" Naruto asked Sakura. She turned back to him and blushed, about to answer, but it was Sasuke who replied.

"I used to be the head of her squad back in the Demon Realm," he said indifferently. He started to walk toward the cafeteria and both Naruto and Sakura quickened the catch up.

"Wait, so you mean that Sakura's a-"

"Demon. Yes." Naruto nearly fainted there and then. The girl he had been in love with since he had come here was a demon.

Yes, I have been playing Disgaea way too much *Laharl, Laharl, Laharl* Please review and tell me what you thought of it. It will take me quite some time to come up with the next chapter, 1) because I put a lot of effort into writing so much, and 2) because school is almost back in session. I have a little bit of a plan for this story, which is good. ^^ Cheers!