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NARUTO

Chapter 1-Childhoods

Time skip-10 years

"Mama! Mama! I caught it! I caught the rabbit!" a ball of burnt orange fur exclaimed from behind a bush. It ran toward a female wolf, "See! Now we can eat it!"

The she-wolf smiled, "good job little one. It seems you wont have to depend on me as much anymore for food. Now go cook it since you will be returning to your human form soon."

"But then I wont be able to communicate with you anymore Mama!" The bundle whined

The grey rustled wolf chuckled as it made its way toward the 'little one' who had its ears back and was pouting. "That is not true, we will always be able to communicate my little one."

"But how? I can't understand the wolf language in my human form." he raised his head to look at his 'mother'.

"We are connected, we always will be to. You see, when you care about someone and love them you are connected with them at the heart, " the wolf nudged the little one's chest to emphasize her point. "You see there is an invisible string that connects us to each other. Even when I am dead, now don't give me that look. I will die one day and join the stars. Where was I...oh yes. When I die we will still be connected. A part of me will always be with you."

"But mama...that makes my head hurt...what happens to you when you die? Wont I go with you?"

"No Naruto you wont. You will stay on this planet until the gods call upon you, which they wont do until long after I am dead, you will be able to frolic with me and your true parents."

Naruto yawned in his werewolf form, "I don't want to be alone though!" He exclaimed with big eyes, as if pleading his mother not to leave him. "When you go I will be all alone!"

His mother licked Naruto's coat reassuringly, "Haven't you been listening to anything I've said so far? Even when I die part of me will live within you. Even dead I will protect you Naruto, I will be apart of everything around you. The earth which you walk on, the air that you breath, and the moon that guides you."

Despite all of what Naruto's mother was telling him he still looked somewhat uncertain. "I'm sure you will make other friends to my son. Maybe even take a mate for life." This got Naruto's attention. He swatted at his nose and hid his face beneath both paws. Since he was so young he resembled a young wolf. "It will happen sooner or later young one. It happened with me."

Naruto peeked out from one paw, " I wish I could have met them, your pack that you were once with" he said.

The she wolf sighed, "yes, they were great...I don't think my mate would have been to keen on the idea of letting a werewolf join us so maybe it was for the better that the humans got them..."

"No it's not!" Naruto exclaimed, "Your kits didn;t deserve to be killed by those pesky humans! Nor your mate!" He stood up tall, growling when he said the name human.

"Now Naruto, do not forget that you are also human. It is not there fault either. It is simply the circle of life. Like that rabbit over there. I'm sure it had a family, but you need to eat and survive to. Besides, I wouldn't have met you if my pack didn't die."

Naruto 'huffed' and laid back down, taking a bite of his rabbit. His mother laid next to him, yawning. "It is time to sleep soon so when you are done eating go to bed young one."

"Yes mother, I will." Naruto said in a tone that said he had heard it before and knew he had to get to sleep. He wasn't a baby anymore than needed to be weened. As his mother went into slumber he thought about his differences as a human a 'werewolf'. As a human he could talk to other humans. Some had taught him to write a little bit and speak in their tongue. He had stayed the weekend with them in a cabin, making his wolf-mother worried sick since she hadn't known where he was.

When he had meet up with his wolf mother she laughed at the new clothes he was wearing. The men had made them for him out of animal skins, they even let him have some clothes made of something called 'cloth' or 'cotten'. He had broken one pair of cotten clothing during one of his full moon transformations, the clothes literally ripping from his back.

That led to Naruto thinking about his werewolf side. The only thing he knew about his other side was that he transformed during full moons and other wolves didnt like his kind (well...him because he wasn't sure if there wwere others like him). The only other thing he knew was that he mated for life. That was the only thing that his mom would talk about concerning werewolves usually (though he was sure that she knew more).

Naruto yawned at slowly drifted off into sleep next to his mother, silently thanking her for taking him in after her cubs and group had been murdered. He loved her more than life itself. He didn't know what he would do if she ever did die...

He fell asleep to her heart beat.


(the same day, once night fell...)

"Sasuke!" Itachi yelled , "It's time to eat dinner! So hurry up! Mother and Father want to eat with us tonight"

"Coming nii-san!" Sasuke yelled toward his mansion. He was currently studying an ant hill. He found it quit fascinating actually and was expecting a few books on ants to come in soon. After all, when you didn't have to sleep 8 hours a day and were a child you had a lot to learn about the world. He placed his sick next to the hill to 'claim' it as his before running toward the house. Taking his shoes off he entered the house and walked to the basement.

You'd think that basements would be gross and dark; however this basement was treated as any other room. It was decorated with a few coaches, rugs, and dim lights. He stood next to his brother who seemed to be in an argument with his parents.

"Itachi, it's about time you looked for a mate!" Sasuke's father yelled, "And you haven't been drinking enough! Don't think I haven't seen you sneaking your food into your brothers glass." I blushed, Itachi had been giving me some of his food lately. Itachi joked saying that Sasuke was to skinny, then said that Sasuke would get fat if he drank to much.

"Father, I don't wish to have a mate. And Sasuke needs the extra food. He is still young and growing." Itachi spoke cooley.

"You do realize without taking at least one mate you will continue to age? You don't even have to touch her past your first night when making her your mate. Besides, you know what will happen if you don't get enough blood." Their father warned Itachi, his tone nothing but serious.

Itachi smiled, I shuddered at this sight. It seemed so fake on his face. "Now father, I know you worry about me but I don't think this is the time. Besides, Sasuke is here and is most likely hungry."

Their father nodded slowly, "fine, we will discuss this later. Now, let's eat."

A servant came in, she seemed to be shaking, oobviously human. She went around the table setting a large glass in front of each of us. I had been looking forward to eating with my family, thinking that for once we would be like those other families I had seen on TV; however, after listening to my father and brother talk even Iknew this was probably just a way for my parents to make sure that Itachi ate.

The servant put my cup down, I named her April in my head. I decided to try and smile at her, this caused her to shake more and drop her serving platter. Luckily nothing was on it. This didn't stop my mother from getting angry, "Stupid woman, pick up your tray and head back to your chores before you become our next meal! Maybe you want to extract the blood for our next meal? Hmm?"

The servant shook her head and picked the tray up. Bowing she finally spoke, "No m-mam', please forgive me. I w-will head b-back to my station" With that my mother sneered and the servant was gone. I knew the seriousness of my mothers threat and why it scarred the servant girl April so much. We had another room where blood would be extracted from people from tubes attached to them until there was no more. I had never seen it personally but Itachi had old me about it. Apparently only the most powerful Vampire clans had such a thing, and it was only used once in awhile. It tasted better to drink directly from you victim. Personally something I had never done since I hadn't reached maturity yet. The smile on my face was gone as I remembered that I had caused the girl to drop her tray. Was I really that scary looking?

I studied myself in the red substance that filled my cup to the brim. My face was alright, I was pale and had dark hair that accented my face. My eyes, that's what it had to be. They were currentlyy red since I was about to eat. I tried to smile and frowned as small fangs came into view.

"Sasuke! Drink! You are not leaving the table till every drop is gone!" My father warned sending me a glare.

"Yes sir." I groaned.


Author's Note: M'k I decided to get this chapter out before I went to sleep because I got a review and was really happy! :) So thank you! I'm planning on timing things out(I don't think I timed things out enough on my other story). Some things should be happening in the next chapter or two which will be pretty major in our character's lives! So continue reading!~

p.s. hopefully the abc check saved because I've edited this story three times already but it just doesn't want to save!

p.s.s. The werewolves and vampires will be a little different in this story then what you may be used to (mainly because they are werewolves/vampires at such a young age and it fits with my plot. plus I wanted to do something a little different) :)