(Natural Born Chapter 2)
Mizore was having a great dream, and was so comfortable. She had been in a frozen garden with the most beautiful frost sculptures she had ever seen, as their beauty was enhanced by the soft glow of the full moon. As she sat down on her knees to exam the flowers she noticed something out of the corner of her eye. There was a boy laying there. He had soft white hair, porcelain skin, and a weird black outfit (think the black outfit Alucard had on when he killed Anderson in the anime Hellsing Ultimate: P.S. I don't own Hellsing so this is a disclaimer)
She went to wake him up but got shocked when he opened his eyes. His eyes scared and entranced her all at the same time. They were like two giant rubies with two long black slits in them. She felt like a cornered animal in the face of a greater predator knowing that her time had come, but to her shock the eyes looked away from her and started looking around.
Mizore watched with fascination as the boy stood up and looked around. He seemed to be just as lost in this dream world as she was, but when a soft smile graced his face she felt at ease. He let a breath she didn't even know she was holding out and watched the boy as he walked around.
"These flowers are very beautiful" spoke Naruto as he looked down at the flowers. He picked one up and then looked at it but to his amazement it turned blood red. It still had that crystal look to it and was still see through, but now it looked like frozen blood instead of water.
"Yea, they are, I have been walking around looking at them for some time now" spoke Mizore as she looked at Naruto and eyed him with amazement. She didn't know why but her chest was beating really fast as she looked at Naruto.
Since his ascension into vampire hood Naruto had changed physically quite a bit. His face was no longer chubby and round like it had been before, and now was chiseled and angular. His hair was unusually spikey and he had two jaw length bangs framing his face very nicely. He was a good five to six inches taller than Mizore was and had great muscle definition as well. His outfit was odd to say the least, but that didn't matter to Mizore as she knew what it was like to be different.
"Where are we" asked Naruto as he looked around. Everything around his looked like a dream as it was far too perfect and something was telling him that this was a dream. It was like a sixth sense in the back of his head telling him that he was in an illusion and to not drop his guard.
"I don't know. I haven't ever been here before" spoke Mizore as she walked around. She had a good idea of what was going on. Her mother had told her that sometimes monster's would reach out to one another and see each other in dreams. This must be a combination of their dream worlds mixing together. The frozen flowers were obviously hers and the bloody moon and sky had to be his. It all made sense as when he touched the frozen flower their dream worlds mixed and shared their control over the image giving it the blood color but keeping the crystal look.
"I feel like we're in a dream, but if that is so then are you apart of my dream as well" spoke Naruto as he began to examine Mizore with his keen eyes.
He saw Mizore stiffen slightly as his predatory gaze fell on her. She couldn't help it. Those eyes caused the reaction on a much more primal level then she could fight. He saw that she had long blue colored hair and snow white skin along with beautiful azure blue eyes. She was wearing a light blue tank top with a white skirt and had no shoes on. Naruto raised an eye at that and wondered if she was poor like him. He did notice her face was getting red and she looked pissed off.
"Hey I am not no dream you jerk I am a real person! My name is Mizore Shirayuki, a Snow Woman" shouted Mizore as she glared at Naruto.
Naruto was shocked when he saw the girl's fingers start to freeze into sharp claws and her hair turn into a frozen waterfall with sharp points. That just confirmed it in Naruto's opinion. That great dream he had about killing those villagers was real. Naruto smiled and started to shift through the power in his body causing it to radiate out of him in the dream world.
Mizore was scared that she had just offended this creature because his eyes were glowing a bright red color and the power of his demonic aura was off of the charts. She took a step back and had a look of fear in her eyes.
When Naruto saw that look in Mizore's eyes he stopped what he was doing and looked at her with anger and hurt. Here standing before him Naruto knew she was a monster and yet she was looking at him with fear. Why? Why was she looking at him like she thought he was going to kill her? What had he done to cause such a reaction?
"It's that look! Why does everyone look at me like that? What did I ever do to make everyone think I am some kind of demon" shouted Naruto as tears started running down his face and his power started to erupt from his body.
When Mizore heard him say this she knew that she had hurt him. She stood up and even though she didn't know what she was doing she ran at him and hugged him hopping his aura didn't destroy her in the process.
When Naruto felt someone hugging him the world seemed to stop for him. Never in his living memory had someone hugged him before. He looked down and saw the girl holding onto him for dear life and he knew his power was hurting her yet she held on anyways. Naruto calmed down and like his aura his anger dissipated and he looked down on the girl with sad eyes.
"Why did you look at me like that" asked Naruto softly as he awkwardly tried to hug Mizore back. He hadn't ever done it before but he wanted to anyways. He was tired of being alone and he wanted to be like those other kids who were held by their parents, the same parents who had a look of complete love and affection in their eyes as they looked down on their children.
"I was scared. I haven't ever met a vampire monster before and have only heard the rumors so I thought you would be like them and would be much meaner. I was scared you may try and hurt me, I am sorry" spoke Mizore as she rested her head in the crook of Naruto's neck. Somehow it just felt right.
"Vampire? What is that" asked Naruto as he looked down on the ice girl and was surprised he wasn't affected by cold of her icy hair though this was a dream world so maybe that had something to do with it.
"You mean you don't know? You're a vampire, you know the most dangerous and famous monster in the world." when she saw that Naruto was looking at her with confusion she just continued her speech. "You know the blood drinker, night walkers, the true immortals, doesn't any of that jog you memories" asked Mizore.
"Sorry I haven't ever heard of such a thing" spoke Naruto as he looked down at himself. He did have to admit he had changed but he couldn't have understood why without Mizore there to explain it to him. Maybe that was why their dreams had come together. She was like a guide for him and he was sure that if he freaked out and killed her she wouldn't really die in her real body so she was relatively safe from him.
"Wonder why? I haven't ever heard of a vampire not knowing he was a vampire before" laughed Mizore as she looked over at Naruto with a small smile. "It is kind of funny if you think about it."
"Hahahaha laugh it up why don't you. At least you know what you are I am still a bit confused about what I am. You said blood drinkers, does that mean I will have to drink other peoples blood in order to survive" asked Naruto as he looked down at Mizore. She looked sleepy so he sat down next to a tree and leaned her up against him.
"I don't know really. The vampires like to keep to themselves and feel it is below them to socialize with the lesser creatures" spoke Mizore her eyes nearly closed by now.
"Well that is dumb. If they don't socialize with others then how will they ever learn and change? I don't want to be like that I want to make friends and find people who are precious to me" spoke Naruto as he leaned back and closed his eyes.
"Can I be one of your precious people" asked Mizore though it was almost a whisper.
"You already are" spoke Naruto with a smile.
After that they both fell asleep in a comfortable silence and slowly their dream worlds began to separate.
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The morning after Tsurara found Naruto she had woken up and left her bed chambers and walked towards her daughter's bed room. She didn't know why in particular she had placed the boy in her daughter's room but she felt it was the right thing to do. The boy shouldn't be alone when he woke up especially after what had happened the other night and though she had thought about putting him in her bed it still hurt her heart a bit to think about putting another man besides her deceased husband in her bed even though he had been dead for years now, so she put him in Mizore-chan's room so when he woke up he wouldn't be alone.
She wasn't worried about him going insane with bloodlust like when he had when they had found him because The Snow Priestess had sent down five very special Holy Locks with the most powerful seals that the Snow Women knew connected to them to put on the boy along with demonic suppression beads as well so as to keep the boys powers in check. She still couldn't believe how fast The Snow Priestess had moved in order to get those Holy Locks and those Subjugation Beads but she wasn't complaining.
As Tsurara got up and walked to her daughter's room she put on her white kimono with a purple obi sash, and tabi socks with black zōri sandals. Her light purple almost silver hair was fixed and put up in a ponytail with her bangs hanging down ever so slightly. She looked down with her blue purple eyes and smiled a bit as she grabbed a sucker and put it in her mouth before leaving her room and walking to her daughter's room. Before she could make it to her daughter's room though she heard her new charge yelp in surprise.
"Looks like Naruto found out before I could tell get to him" spoke Tsurara as she continued to walk towards her daughter's room though now at a more brisk pace.
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As Mizore woke up she stretched as she recalled the wonderful dream she had of the mysterious boy she had meet in her dream. She wanted to hurry up and tell her mom, but as she got out of bed she heard something that made her pause. When she looked over she about fell over in surprise as the boy from her dream, though a bit different, was right there sleeping in her bed. Mizore did the first thing that felt natural to her and jumped out of bed and hid so that she could spy on him.
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Naruto felt oddly comfortable, something he never felt in his life, as he sat up unburying his face from a soft pillow that he knew wasn't his, mainly because he didn't own a pillow. The blanket around him was warm and he coldness of the room really made the warmth of the bed that much more appealing to him so he put his head back down and relaxed for a bit before he felt like he was being watched.
Naruto quickly jumped out of bed and reached into his pocket for a kunai, only to find that not only was he absent of such a weapon but that his clothes were still in taters from last night. Naruto was soon hit by what felt like a freight train as memories poured into his head.
The thing that was the most pressing was the 'lives' inside of him. He could feel them. All of those people he had killed while he fled from Konoha were now inside of him and their memories and powers were now at his beck and call. He could see their memories, hundreds of years' worth of memories at his disposal and he had acquired them all in one night. Strangely the memories that mattered most to Naruto were the memories of the dream he had last night.
Naruto slowly sat on his butt and looked around the room with a disinterested eye. The room obviously belonged to a girl, though instead of pink she must have liked purple and blue far more and maybe pure white as well. Naruto absent mindedly picked up a picture frame, but then his eyes went wide. Standing there in the picture was the girl he had meet in his dreams, along with the most beautiful woman he had ever seen by his side.
"What is going on" asked Naruto as he put the picture down and stood up.
"Cheeeeeeeee" was the sound that he heard which caused him to look behind him and what would have been a funny sight almost made Naruto jump ten feet in the girl.
"Ahhhhh, What are you doing" demanded Naruto as he looked over at the girl he had meet in his dream standing inside of a closet and spying on him by revealing only one eye. Naruto had been freaked out not only because he had just meet the girl from hid dream but also because she was spying on him.
"Spying on you" spoke Mizore as if it was a natural and normal thing. Naruto just sweat dropped at her casual description of her actions and sighed a bit.
"Why are you spying on me" asked Naruto though he felt stupid having to ask such and obvious question.
"Why were you in my bed" asked Mizore causing Naruto to freeze up momentarily as he began to scratch the back of his head as he thought of an answer.
"Honestly I am not sure. I don't remember coming here but I do remember passing out in a field. Someone must have picked me up and brought me here" spoke Naruto as he began to look around again. To his eternal shame he jumped up again and shouted as when he looked back at the door he saw that same beautiful woman in the picture with Mizore crouching down spying on them from the door.
"Cheeee" spoke the woman as she continued to spy on them even though she had been caught and rotated the sucker in her mouth a bit as well.
"Why is it that everyone now a days seems to be spying on me" asked Naruto with a dead panned look on his face which caused the older woman to chuckle good naturedly before she stood up to her full stature causing Naruto to blush a bit as she had much bigger and better 'assets' then he had previously believe when he saw her in the picture. If she had noticed this then she didn't let him know about it.
"It's good that you have finally come to" spoke the beautiful woman as she walked up to Naruto and stuck out an elegant hand to him. "My name is Tsurara and I am the one who found you after your little episode in the Elemental World" spoke Tsurara right before she pointed at her daughter who was still in her hiding spot. "This is my daughter Mizore I hope you two can become close friends in the future."
"We already are. Naruto-kun here promised me I was his one and only precious person" spoke Mizore with a massive blush on her face though she tried to hide it with the side of the closet door.
"Oh that was fast. How long have you two been awake" asked Tsurara with a confused look on her beautiful flawless face?
"We have only been awake for about five to ten minutes, but we meet each other in a dream we had and we talked a lot there. I was just surprised by everything that was going on here to be on more friendly terms with Mizore-chan here" spoke Naruto as he pointed at Mizore whose blush got even redder by the added 'chan' to her name.
"A dream?" after that Mizore spent the next half hour explaining their dream and a lot of the things they discussed. Naruto could tell Mizore was trying to keep some of the more personal things secret but her mother seemed really good at getting someone to spill their personal secrets.
"Well that is odd. I may need to speak with The Snow Priestess about that and see what it means. Anyways I am sure you two are hungry so why don't I just whip you guys up some breakfast" spoke Tsurara as she walked out of Mizore's room with a sway in her hips that Naruto couldn't help but follow with his eyes.
"What do you guys usually eat around here" asked Naruto as he followed Tsurara with Mizore following him close behind.
"The usual, bacon, eggs, biscuits, grits, toast, and just about anything else you can think of and after you eat you can drink a delicious slushy that mom makes" spoke Mizore as she grabbed the side of her face and did a little jig with a smile on her face.
"Sounds good, but can I eat that stuff as well? You said vampires are blood suckers so maybe I can only drink blood" spoke Naruto as he entered the kitchen and then sat at the island counter.
"Well Naruto you are correct in that vampires do drink blood and draw power and sustenance from it, but if they so choose they can eat regular foods as well. They just won't be able to draw out the power from and egg like they would a victim they drank from" spoke Tsurara as she put a frying pan on the stove and began cooking some eggs.
"So when a vampire drinks they kill their victim and take their power? That doesn't sound like they have made a lot of friends in this world" spoke Naruto with annoyance clear in his voice. He was tired of being hated and feared. He was ready for a little love and acceptance for once.
"No not necessarily. A vampire can drink a victim dry and take their demonic power but they can just as easily take a sip and take the power and sustenance that they got out of that blood as well. The vampires are both feared and revered for their power, but their attitudes leave much to be desired." Tsurara then some bacon in a frying pan and began buttering some toast.
"Why did you save me? If the vampires are such pains in the asses then why save one who could possibly be just like them?" Tsurara looked at Naruto with a surprised look on her face before it went back to the kind smile that she usually wore.
"Well besides what would have happened to the Snow Women if the Vampires found out we left one of their own to die in some far off world I thought you deserved a chance to live a more normal life" spoke Tsurara as she put their plates in front of them.
"What do you mean?" by now Naruto was giving her suspicious looks that said you are suspicious to me (LOL).
"I learned a bit about that world you were in from the bus driver. He told me about your world and about some of your abilities but it seemed you were not exactly loved in that world based on the way you were dressed so I brought you here to the Land of the Snow Women." Tsurara smiled and sat on the other side of Naruto while Mizore sat on his right she sat on his left.
"So what happens to me now?" that was the question that had been burning Naruto since he first woke up. He knew he was a monster now and that he was no longer in his world, but without being able to seek revenge on his home town and without knowing almost anything about this new world he really didn't know what he was supposed to do.
"Well you could always go live with the vampires. I am sure they would love to have you, but you wouldn't really find a loving family environment. The vampires only care about strength for the most part, and you have that in spades believe me, but if you want to have a real family, give us a shot. I am sure Mizore-chan would love to have you stay with us, as I know I do with you, but the decision is yours to make" spoke Tsurara as she went back to eating her breakfast.
Naruto looked at his drink which was a slushy of shaved ice with some kind of dark red food sweetened coloring that made it look like blood. Naruto took a sip of it and had to admit it was tasty and kept on drinking it. He was curious about what the vampires were like, but he didn't want to leave Mizore either and he was sure she felt the same if her holding onto his hand under the table was anything to go by, and besides he didn't want to fight over power, he just wanted to relax for once.
"Yea sure it sounds good" spoke Naruto as he went back to eating his food.
Tsurara looked very happy and nodded her head and Mizore smiled as well before going back to her own food. Naruto felt his heart lighten a bit by the way these two had looked at him. They seemed to enjoy his company and didn't see him as a monster, something he was very happy about.
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For the rest of the day Tsurara and Mizore showed Naruto around the Land of the Snow Women which he found really… interesting. Everything was made of ice and the snow made everything look so shiny and beautiful in his opinion, but the real kicker was the women there. They all hid from Naruto and then spied on his though it was kind of obvious where they were as they usually only hid about three fourths of their bodies and left the other fourth sticking out. The thing Naruto liked the most though was that they were all nice.
Naruto was surprised when he meet the Snow Men which were more like abominable snow men to be precise. They could transform from their human forms into giant ape like creatures with white fur though they were all really nice as well. Naruto meet one man who wouldn't leave Tsurara alone and kept on asking her out and stuff. Naruto felt oddly jealous but was happy that all of his attempts were good in nature and even more so that Tsurara kept on rejecting his advance.
After that they walked around and talked to various people Tsurara knew and then had lunch over at one of the stands at the base of a mountain. It was all fun until a man in an official outfit came and told them someone named The Snow Priestess wanted to talk to them, or more specifically him (Naruto). Tsurara seemed to obey immediately so that must have indicated that this Snow Priestess was very important.
They led them to a giant frozen building with lots of windows and other things that a giant European castle would have though it looked odd being completely white and all. The rugs were a nice touch Naruto had to admit as he walked through the castle as he had thought it would have either been some intricate design or frozen tiles used to make a pattern.
Eventually they were brought before a woman whose beauty even rivaled that of Tsurara and if Naruto was correct Mizore whenever she got older. She wore a long white gown and had her hair done up in a fancy design. The sash around the sash around her waist was interesting but the ice spikes around her neck were even more so. Naruto absent mindedly wondered if they ever stabbed her or if they were made special somehow to avoid that.
"Welcome Vampire to the Land of the Snow Women. I am the Snow Priestess" spoke the Snow Priestess as she smiled gently down towards Naruto who was the only one standing as everyone else had taken a knee. Naruto had grown up scrapping by on the bottom, but his pride would never let him kneel before anyone regardless of reasons.
"Thanks I guess. Is there any reason why you called me here" asked Naruto. He was used to those in power putting on that fake smile and acting like they cared about him when really they didn't. The old Hokage had been one of these people though Naruto didn't know why he even bothered.
The woman smiled a small serene smile before she nodded and stood up. "Yes actually there is a reason. I wanted to see if the Holy Locks I sent Tsurara-san were up to snuff along with the Subjugation beads as well. It seems that they are indeed doing their job."
There was one word in all of that that Naruto had caught and hadn't liked at all. The term 'Subjugation' wasn't lost to him and he was wondering if this woman was trying to enslave him. Maybe living with the vampires wasn't so bad after all.
"What do you mean 'Subjugation Beads'" asked Naruto as he gave the woman a hard stare that told her he was deadly serious. He wasn't happy when she put a delicate hand to her face and laughed softly.
"Don't worry young man they don't do what you're thinking they do. When the word 'subjugation' is used we are referring to your demonic power. You see, you are what is known as a natural born vampire, something that has only happened twice in recorded history with you being the second one. When the last human turned into a vampire he went insane with bloodlust and it took years for him to gain any form of control over his powers and even then it was only barely. Later on about a hundred years later to be précises he finally gained control over his powers but in that time he must have destroyed half of the world on his own, though the monsters ignored him and stayed away so they didn't really suffer but for the humans it was a different thing. He later founded the vampire race and thus their kind has been around ever since. We put those Holy Locks and Subjugation Beads on you so that you can slowly gain control of your powers over time without harming those who are innocent along the way." by now everyone in the room was looking at the Snow Priestess and Naruto with wide eyes especially Tsurara and Mizore. They couldn't believe Naruto was such an important figure and was also so powerful.
"So if I wanted to I could still take them off on my own correct?" Naruto was thankful for her trying to help but he didn't like the idea of his fate being in someone else's hands. That had been happening to him for far too long and he wasn't ready to go back to that way of life any time soon.
"You could after all even with those locks and beads on you, you still can access some of your powers, though greatly watered down. We do ask that if you do wish to remove the locks that you leave our village as we don't need a blood thirsty and insane vampire in the center of our village." Naruto nodded his head but then got to thinking about something else.
"What if I just removed one when I am in danger? I would be able to control at least some of my power on my own and I should be able to put the lock back on once I am done correct?" the Snow Priestess nodded her head with a happy smile on her face.
"Correct you will be able to remove the locks one at a time to draw forth some of your powers and then put the lock back on later to rain in your great power. I think it would be wise to have someone train you to handle these powers over the years though so you will be able to quickly be able to assume your full power." Naruto nodded his head and after a while was allowed to leave along with Tsurara and Mizore.
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"I still don't see why you decided to allow him to stay here. He is a threat so long as he is here and if the vampires find out they will invade us in an instant and we will not survive" spoke the Familiar Jack Frost as he looked at the Snow Priestess.
"He is the only one with the potential to be strong enough to get rid of 'Fairy Tale'. If we can get him on our side and make him favor our cause then we can finally get Fairy Tale to stop trying to enter our world. We need him far more than anyone knows and without him our world may be in great trouble" spoke the Snow Priestess.
"I guess you know best" spoke the spirit before he disappeared.
"I only hope so" spoke the Snow Priestess.
