Konoha's Lot Chapter 2

Authors note: I went back and rewrote the head vampire's origin story for reasons obvious to anyone who figured out whom she was and is up to date with the manga.

Authors note 2: I also went back and corrected grammar mistakes in this chapter and expanded it.

INTRO

It was a dark time in the ninja village of Konoha, people had begun to disappear throughout the village, and not just regular civilians, ninja were vanishing as well. All of Tsunade's efforts to hide these disappearances had failed, covering up the fact that one or two people had vanished was a simple matter especially for a ninja village that specialized in secrecy, but hiding that a dozen people had vanished was simply impossible. There hadn't been disappearances of this scale since the horrible period when Orochimaru had been abducting people for his experiments shortly before the third Hokage had exposed his wickedness and driven him out of the village.

Making the whole thing worse was that nobody, neither civilian nor ninja could find any evidence of what was going on. Twelve people had simply vanished in five nights without leaving a trace as to what had happened to them. Furthermore it seemed the victims were being taken at random as there was nothing that linked them together; some of the missing were civilians but some of them were shinobi ranking from Genin to Anbu. It was that last fact that really seemed to drive a feeling of dread into the hearts of the people of Konoha. What could have possibly taken an anbu level shinobi without leaving any clues behind? Obviously this abductor was someone of both skill and raw power.

Almost everyone in Konoha was scared to leave their homes at night now; afraid that some unseen attacker would swoop down and take them away and they'd never be seen again.

Ironically enough, this mysterious attacker had made most of the people in the village forget about their fear of the jinchuriki Naruto Uzumaki, indeed most people had even overlooked the fact that he was one of the people missing.

Both of these oversights would prove to be mistakes….

MEOGI

The Genin ninja Meogi continued on her designated night patrol through the streets. These nightly ninja patrols through the village gad become commonplace ever since the disappearances had become so widespread, with Jonin patrolling the areas where disappearances were most likely to occur and lesser skilled Genin were patrolling areas that were considered to have a lower threat level.

It was that last point that was helping to grow the feeling of anger inside her.

Meogi thought that making her patrol this useless area was an insult. Yes she was a Genin but she was an extremely skilled Genin, the top of her graduating class even beating out her teammate Konohomaru for the honor. Not only that but it was one of her friends Udon that was missing.

It was thinking of Udon that dimmed her fiery spirit. Not only because her friend was missing but because she had realized in his absence just how poorly she had been treating him recently, she'd let her success go to her head and because of it had begun treating Udon like dirt. It had only gotten worse once Udon had decided to be a medical ninja instead of a combat ninja. Thinking back on the disdain and the attitude she had given him simply broke her heart. The boy had been her friend quite literally for as long as she could remember and she had treated him like dirt beneath her heals.

It was then that a shadow flashed across her field of vision and Meogi used her ninja like reflexes to turn and face it.

Only to find nothing there.

Meogi began to scan the area, knowing from her ninja training that just because you couldn't see something didn't mean it wasn't there.

Then she felt a staggering blow to delivered to the back of her head and all faded to black.

It was two hours later when Meogi finally awoke to find herself strapped to a medical evaluation table. The young red headed female shinobi futilely struggled against her bonds when a terrifying figure strutted confidently from out of the darkness.

To Meogi's infinite horror she realized that the dark and strangely dominating figure was her lifelong friend Udon.

But not the Udon she could remember from her life growing up with him. The Udon from before used to wear glasses and suffer from allergies constantly, even when it wasn't allergy season and had an air of clumsiness that permeated him; this Udon wore no glasses, there was nothing that hid his newfound terrifying red eyes. The eyes weren't the only thing that had changed. His skin was as pale as ivory and he had huge, terrifying fangs that literally jutted from his mouth. Udon's clumsiness was gone and in its place was a terrifying and uncharacteristic grace.

Meogi began to renew her struggle with her bonds but to tremble when she realized she couldn't escape from them before Udon finally reached her on the hospital table.

He gave her a wicked look and began licking his fangs with his tongue before asking.

"Scared Meogi, you should be considering all the things I'm gonna do to you in a minute". As Udon said this he began to idly fondle one of her breasts.

Meogi began to tremble even more when she finally managed to squeak out," what happened to you Udon, what are you going to do to me"?

"As for what has happened to me, my new mother Shizune allowed me to be reborn, as for what I'm going to do to you, I'm going to use all of my weak and useless medical jutsu to break your spirit no matter how long it takes, then once you finally know your place under my boot heel I'm gonna help you be reborn as well".

She only had a moment for a stray thought to enter her head, that Shizune wasn't his mother, before Udon began to cut into her with his medical jutsu and then Meogi had no time to think of anything else but the pain.

SHIKAMARU AND TEMARI

Shikamaru Nara and Temari Subaki sat silently at the table of a restaurant looking at one another quietly.

They were in a very odd place in their relationship right now. They both loved each other dearly and had admitted as much to each other. They had decided to have dinner together to talk about the possibility of having a future together but when they had began to talk it all they had been able to see where the obstacles in front of their relationship.

The fact that they were both ninja from differing ninja villages, the fact that she was the Kazekage's sister, and lastly that Shika's vile mother was doing everything she could to keep them apart.

After they had listed out all their problems they had begun to just sit at the dinner table in silence.

"Well this is troublesome huh", finally spoke Shikamaru in an attempt to end the silence between the two of them.

"Yeah it kinda is isn't it", agreed Temari with a light chuckle in her voice.

"Well", continued Shikamaru," don't worry about it Temari, as troublesome as it may be we'll find a way to make it work".

Temari could only smile at that, it was uplifting to see her usually lazy boyfriend look so determined about something.

"Anyway, Temari I need to go, I've got patrol duty tonight".

Temari nodded her head in understanding, she knew about the recent disappearances in the village and she also knew that patrolling for answers to these disappearances was something her love was passionate about too, as it was one of his friends and hers that was missing: Naruto Uzumaki.

Without another word the couple got up from their table and went their separate ways.

YOSHINO

Yoshino Nara had simply been making a late trip to the marketplace when she saw her son once again associating himself with the awful girl from Sunagakure.

With a disgusted look on her face Yoshino Nara decided to head home and think about what to do about this situation with her son in greater detail.

AYAME

Ayame was again working late at the Ramen stand, something she had been doing quite a bit lately since her father had fallen ill. In lieu of the recent disappearances her father had begged her to start closing the restaurant early but Ayame knew that if she did that their stand would quickly go out of business and then they'd have nothing to support themselves with. They had spent too much of their money on ingredients and their family would go completely broke if she just allowed them to rot.

However as Ayame walked away from the ramen stand to go to their supply shack she reasoned that her needing to work certainly didn't make Konoha any less creepy at night since the disappearances started.

The thought of all those poor people going missing made Ayame's heart break, but one of the disappearances struck closer to her broken heart then the others; Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto had been her stands best customer and one of the constant figures in her life ever since he had wandered into her family's stand when he had just been six years old, he had been a starving child desperate for a meal and terrified that he was going to be chased off again like all the other food stands had done.

They hadn't chased him off' instead they had brought him into the ramen stand and stuffed his belly. Since then he had been their very best customer

Ayame finally reached the supply shed and began to search for the ingredients she needed when she continued to reflect about Naruto. It was truly reprehensible the way some of the villagers treated Naruto. He was one of the kindest souls she had ever met and all he got for his kindness from the villagers was hatred and scorn.

It just wasn't fair.

That was one of the reasons she and her father had always tried to treat Naruto with extra kindness, that and of course he was such an endearing, lovable person.

Ayame finally found what she needed from the supply shed after a few more minutes of searching and started to head back to her stand when tears started to form in her eyes.

Naruto was such a good soul, he more then anyone else in this village didn't deserve to have been snatched away in the middle of the night by some unseen assailant for a purpose only that villain was aware of.

Naruto had been one of the biggest faces in her life for years, ever since he was a small child and she had just entered puberty, and now that he was gone her soul desperately ached for the young man that held such a huge place in her heart.

Ayame would truly do anything she thought to herself to see him returned to her and the village.

It was then when the beautiful young ramen cook finally reached her stand that the sight of a figure sitting at his familiar bench sent a feeling of both utter shock and joy through her being; Naruto.

She didn't know how or why but it looks like her prayers had been answered!

Her heart brimming with happiness Ayame rushed to the door of her stand and flung it open, entering the shop with a smile on her face that could have lit up the entire village.

Approaching the side counter and with a playful smile on her face Ayame decided on the prefect way to start the conversation with her best customer.

"And what can I get for you today"?

There was a dead pause in the ramen shop as Naruto simply sat in his chair, neither looking up nor responding to her question.

"Naruto" Ayame asked in concern finally taking in his pale pallor and remembering once her moment of happiness of seeing him died down that he had been missing for days.

It was then that Naruto finally spoke in a gravelly voice that sounded like it came from the grave.

"I….want ….to eat…..YOU!"

Naruto then launched himself across the counter in an ethereal glide, landing in between Ayame and the exit completely blocking any chance of escape.

Ayame's heart, which had only been seconds ago brimming over with happiness now began to fill with a horrible sense of dread.

"Naruto what's going on, what are you doing?"

Ayame began to cry.

"Just getting a bite to eat at my favorite restaurant", then Naruto raised his head and Ayame saw his terrifying fangs. Before she even had a chance to scream Naruto buried those fangs in her throat and for an instant all Ayame knew was the greatest pleasure she had ever know course through her being. Her sense began to be flooded with perfect pleasure, her nipples hardened and a lusty moan escaped her throat. Then just as quickly as it started it stopped. Naruto took his fangs out of Ayame's throat and let her fall to the ground.

Her senses now returned to normal and her mind once again clear the pretty ramen stand girl began to weakly sob, now that the fangs were gone so was the pleasure. All she felt now was the pain of her wound and the weakness that came with blood loss.

Naruto bent down in front of the silently crying Ayame and straddled her then he said", Shh now don't cry Ayame, I haven't forgotten your kindness over the years, I just stopped for a second before I finished because I wanted to make sure you realized what a gift it was I was about to give you".

Naruto began to slowly undress Ayame who was too weak from blood loss to even attempt to put up a fight.

"Oh pretty Ayame, I've learned so much recently about the urges Pervy sage was always talking about, growing up by myself I didn't understand what or even that I was feeling such things most of the time, sure I liked Sakura but that started as an innocent childhood crush".

Naruto finished removing her skirt and began to lie up against her while tugging at her shirt.

"But now I realize that I've had these wonderful urges since puberty just like everyone else and that I've also had urges for you for years, every time I looked at you id feel a stirring within that I couldn't understand. A feeling of lust, I even felt them for you when you were captured by those ninja cooks and you became so fat".

Naruto then completed removing her shirt.

"God I didn't realize that gluttony in a woman would be such a turn on for me but it was, and trust me Ayame, you'll find that you being a glutton will be a good personality aspect when I'm done with you, you'll be able to eat as many people as you want my pretty little chef".

Then a horrible, evil laugh erupted from Naruto, a terrifying belly laugh.

Then Naruto began to slowly make love to Ayame but before she could fully comprehend her predicament Naruto bit Ayame again and all she knew was pleasure and then darkness.

TSUNADE

The leader of the village hidden in the leaves sat at her desk in the Hokages office sipping sake in complete darkness.

In just five days she had lost two of her remaining cherished people. Naruto and Shizune had disappeared without a trace. Not a single clue could be found as to what happened to them. It was almost like the underworld had opened up and swallowed them whole.

Now all she can do is sit here and wallow in her misery. Once again the people she loved were being taken away from her. Except this time she wasn't even being allowed the answers and closure that a dead body provides.

Tsunade knew that the village needed her to be a more effective leader right now but she just didn't know if she had the strength, she just felt so empty now, after all these years she just had nothing left to give.

Tsunade took a moment to look at the files on her desk and idly wondered where her apprentice Sakura was, wasn't she supposed to be filling in for Shizune today?

HANA

Hana Inuzuka felt a chill go down her spine as she made her way to the families kennel as she crossed the side of the property that faced the abandoned Namikaze estate.

Recently that place had done nothing but create a strong aura of fear.

However to be fair with the recent death of Doggimaru and the disappearances in the village her gut had a feeling of danger all the time.

Hana and her mother Tsume were the best trackers in this village and even they had failed to find any evidence that would suggest a theory as to what was going on in their village.

Then barks of alarm coming from the kennel broke Hana out of her ponderings and sent her racing to the kennel to see what was wrong. Her ninja training screamed at her to wait for back up but then she remembered the broken faces of those two sad puppies staring up at their murdered mother and she increased her pace. If whatever was spooking her dogs was behind the disappearances it would not escape again.

IT WOULD NOT!

Hana reached the door and flung it open launching herself into the kennel in her best ninja defensive pose to find….nothing.

She glanced around the building and all she saw was her scared dogs, it was then that a fearful thought entered her head, what could possibly spook this many ninja dogs, dogs trained for combat?

Silently a figure descended from the ceiling and Hana knew the answer to her question and then three minutes and a short struggle later Hana only knew darkness, soon she would also know hunger.

YOSHINO

Yoshino Nara was swimming in a lake on the Nara family estate quietly fuming. Yoshino had learned earlier that day that her son Shikamaru had once again gone off on his own and visited that Suna hussy.

That simply wouldn't do at all she grumbled in her head.

She quietly swam to the center of the lake as she continued to think of a way to crush this relationship that was developing between her son and Temari.

Then that a stroke of genius flashed in her brain and a cruel smile crossed her face.

Maybe if she…

It was then that Yoshino got quickly and quietly pulled under the surface of the lake.

First there were bubbles.

Then there was blood.

Then the water was still.

SAKURA

Sakura Haruno moved sluggishly around the bedroom of her apartment. She knew she was supposed to fill in today as Lady Tsunade's assistant but she found that she just couldn't go outside today.

The sun hurt her skin.

Ever since Naruto had disappeared and her dreams about him visiting in the night started Sakura had begun to notice some strange symptoms begin to affect her. She was tired all the time, the sun hurt her skin, she would get sluggish during the day as well but she seemed to feel a bit better after the sun went down.

As a med nin she was afraid she was getting sick but when she scanned herself her results indicated she was fine, maybe just a little anemic.

Sakura got up to go take a look at herself in the mirror.

Slowly she made her way to her bathroom, every step making her feel weaker then before.

When she reached her sink she turned on her bathroom light and looked in the mirror and for a horrible second it seemed like she wasn't there, that she had no reflection. Sakura looked away in horror and took a moment to catch her breath before she looked again.

Her reflection stared back at her; she was just seeing things, how bizarre.

Sakura took a long look at her reflection, god she had become so pale, was this all because of her worry over Naruto, she cared for him a great deal but should worry over his disappearance make her health fall apart?

As Sakura reached for her bathroom light switch to turn it on she finally noticed two strange looking marks on her throat for the first time.

NAMIKAZE ESTATE

The red haired vampire looked through the dining room at her continually growing horde of beautiful vampire children.

In the corner Shizune was blood breast feeding her new and now son Udon, next to them sat a recently changed and quite docile Meogi. Udon continued to partake of the blood from Shizune's breast and all Meogi could do is stare at the sight with her fangs showing panting with her newfound hunger, waiting for the man, Udon, she now saw as her master to give her permission to feed as well .

In the corner Naruto was making surprisingly tender love to one of her other newest children.

She believes that Naruto said her name was Ayame, not that names really mattered to them anymore.

Ayame cried out in pleasure, and then Naruto got his feet and walked over to the master and said.

"Mother, our numbers continue to grow, just let me claim Sakura and build your family a bit more and then you can begin the next stage of your plan".

The vampire master, Kushina Uzumaki, cracked a happy fanged smile.