My moment of madness: hey guys this is my what 4th Naruto story? 5th story all together. I have a habit of dropping hints about what sort of story it will be in a twisted way in the notes on my stories, for example a fluffy bunny is a fluffy story. Only two of those. This story lets see… the bunny had vampire fangs (it's biting my butt to write this story) for the most part it's black but it's a sort of furry black. :P let you work out what sort of story this is now hehe. Ps. I've never written an AU story and help would be great. The dull stuff is that I don't own anything that comes from Naruto, I'm just playing with it to give me practice for my own stories… if the plot is already on this site shoot me cause I made it up on my own, I may have read it and have it stuck in my mind (stupid subconscious memory) and so any other infringements I'm sorry and they are accidental. Okay my nice long notes are done enjoy the story but please review :D

No one knows when they came only that they arrived around the time that humans did. Their leader was Azural, and he claimed to be one of gods angel; God's angel of death. There could be truth in that for it is mentioned in some of the oldest records that god had an angel by the name of Azural and that he traveled through the world taking peoples lives when it was their time to go. However he had followers, creatures known as Dark Angels. Perhaps they went insane with the power they held over mere mortals but they began to kill, no longer the old and sick but on the young and vulnerable abusing their powers, to please themselves, to rule. Desperate to protect his creatures God sent down the Hunters; Angels who gave up their wings so that they might move on earth.

Bloody battles began, lives where lost. The human race became suspicious burning anything that remotely seemed beyond normal. The dark ages people began to refer to them as, and dark they where the ground red with innocent blood. Soon the hunters began to die out, in a desperate attempt to keep the blood line they inter married with humans creating the next generation of hunters. They where not alone, desperate to create an army that would over rule the world again Azural sent his lower angel lose into the world breeding.

The world began to settle into normal as the hunters and dark angels fought silent battles against each other, as time passed different divisions of dark angels began to show: the true bloods, who could trace their blood through nothing but angels back to Azural; the Pure Bloods who could trace their blood through angels without human blood showing; Followed by commoners, who normally had a trace of human in them; the changed where like the servants of the dark angel world as they tended to the needs of those above them; and then their was the mad, creatures that had gone insane for blood, unable to feel anything or understanding anything beyond the taste and craving for blood.

The hunters also began to create a type of democracy one built on power the ability that you showed often helped by having a hunter as an ancestor but these where become few and far between as dark angels slowly but surely killed off the original 13 clans. Desperate to protect them, the hunters association began to try and find them it became a race against the clock. The leader of the Konohagakure Hokage Tsunade called on her greatest hunters the ANBU to track them down, when that wasn't enough she sent out her next level down the Junín, chunin soon had to be sent out to help in a desperate attempt to find all the clans most of which went into hiding, genin where sent out in teams of 3 plus a sensei to keep dark angel numbers down. Because of its secretive nature very few found them unless they knew about vampires. That was the way the shield on headquarters worked and although it was hard Tsunade had to admit they where fighting a losing battle against the dark angels.

Things where getting desperate, everyone began to fear the return of the dark ages and then Tsunade heard new she had been longing to hear. All but one of the clans had been found, all but one team was called back, and the others all partied into the night. Save one team.

Kakashi, Kurenai and Gai sat shivering around the fire their small bottles of sake where not enough to keep the chill out of their bones

"What family would move this far north?" muttered Kurenai Kakashi looked at her as his silver hair fell around his face in a wet mess

"One in hiding" Gai sighed it was rare to find him this sad on a night that should have been happy.

"I just hope we are in time" the feeling was mutual and the team all drifted to sleep Kakashi alone remained awake to keep watch.