Right, this is the actual beginning of the story now guys! The bit you've all been waiting for! Kyaaa it's gonna be so cool!
I felt slightly scared myself when writing this, 'cause I imagined the creepy bits in my head...and it was dark...and I was all alone with my computer...
Anywho, please enjoy, and to those other people who keep reading House Party Hell, I just wanna say, THE LAST CHAPTER IS ALMOST DONE!! I PROMISE IT WILL BE OUT IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS!! I ALMOST FINISHED IT A WEEK AGO BUT THEN GOT SEVERE WRITERS BLOCK!! -dramatic music- I want it to be perfect for you guys, so please be patient.
Right, the disclaimer:
DISCLAIMER!!: I don't own Naruto. However, Sora, Towa, Taro and Kiro are all mine!! MWUWUHAHAHAHAHA!! More of the unimportant characters to the plot are all mine!! -sniff- I'm so happy...
And remember, this is in third person...I think...Using the immortal words of Naruto Abridged, (which is also not mine) If I'm wrong, may I be hit by a giant log! ...I'm sorry if I just mentally scarred any people...I will send those people cyber cookies as an apology...
"Hey, hey! Are you even listening to me?!"
Naruto jerked awake. His heart was racing and he felt sweat trickling down the back of his neck. He cringed. It felt disgusting.
"Naruto? You fell asleep on me again didn't you?! I told you to stop pulling all-nighters you idiot!" Sora yelled into my ear. (1)
"Sora, bugger off before I kill you," he hissed dangerously.
"Don't be mean Naruto! I'm only trying to be nice!" Sora replied nervously.
He slowly lifted his head off of his desk and rubbed his aching neck. Naruto had no idea how long he had been asleep for, but it had only felt like two seconds.
"So what were you saying Sora?" he asked groggily.
"I said, idiot, that I was going out tonight to that new club, and I was wondering if you wanted to go with me!" Sora giggled.
"That club is for over eighteens. Don't call me an idiot when you're coming up with stupid ideas like that."
"Don't worry Naruto! Towa's coming with me! And she's going to get us in too! She told me that with her kind of social status, she could get me anything I wanted. She's a major hottie Naruto. A total babe and a half!" (2)
"Thanks, but no thanks. I have to do my homework. And if I'm not wrong, so do you," Naruto smirked.
Sora groaned in annoyance and picked up his bag from beside Naruto's desk. Naruto chuckled quietly. He always made that weird sound when he couldn't get what he wanted.
"Fine Naruto! But you're missing out on a hell of a lot of fun! I was going to try and get you a date too!"
"Oh perfect Sora! Trying to set me up with another one of your drunken idiot bimbos who only want boys with fast cars, cash and a superiority complex? No thanks."
Sora waved goodbye and walked straight out of his door without another word. All Naruto could do was laugh. Sora was such a weird person sometimes. He was all about girls and machines, things that had repulsed Naruto his entire life. The only machines he needed in his life were computers and cell phones, and girls, well...he just wasn't interested.
He arose from his chair and wandered out into the corridor. To his surprise, there was no one there. He couldn't believe there wasn't at least one sticky kid or one hormonal teenager rampaging around the corridors of Hell. Or using more...accepted terms- St. Tsunade's Orphanage.
He walked straight back into his room and checked his clock. Most of the colour drained from his face and he nearly screamed.
It was half past eight. That meant only fifteen minutes until school started. Naruto was screwed.
"Ru-Ru? Are you in here?" (3)
Naruto turned around and saw Kiba standing in his doorway, with his rucksack swung over one shoulder and his back against the door frame. He was dressed in full school attire, something that could not be said about Naruto. He was still in his pajamas.
"Ru-Ru, why aren't you ready yet? Your teacher's gonna be ma-ad!" he chuckled in a sing-song voice.
"Shut up Kiba! Why the hell do you keep calling me Ru-Ru? Start being useful will ya and help me!" Naruto yelled, running around his room like an insane person, grabbing bits of clothing and coursework that was not yet finished.
"I call you Ru-Ru 'cause it's fun! And what the heck do you want me to do? You seem to be coping quite well without my help...I would just get in the way."
"Kiba, you're ten years old. Last I checked you weren't incompetent. Now help me!"
"Fine! Alright already Ru-Ru! But just 'cause you're the big brother doesn't mean you get to boss me around like this all the time. I mean, you're only four and a half years older than me.."
"Bro, I'm five years older than you. Have you lost the ability to count? Or have you forgotten there are twelve months in a year?"
"Shut up!"
Naruto rushed out into the corridor and into the bathroom where he began furiously putting on his school shirt, tie, trousers and other bits of clothing. When he had finished putting on the last sock, he raced out and checked his reflection in the mirror. A mass of blonde hair. Blue eyes that seemed to have lost their shine years ago. Yep, he thought to himself, it's still me. I'm still here. Two fucking years and I'm still stuck in St. Tsunade's. Two years still not knowing who killed my father. Two fucking years...
"Ru-Ru! Are you done? I have to go too y'know, but I can't start walking without you!" Kiba called out.
Naruto snapped out of his sudden trance and ran towards Kiba, grabbing his bag from Kiba's small hands. Naruto clutched Kiba's hand tightly in his, and they both ran for the door, dodging the Sisters who were yelling at them to slow down. They ran as fast as they could down the street, apologizing to scared pedestrians who they had nearly knocked over; to mothers pushing their prams who they had nearly ran into; and to dog walkers, whose dog leads they got tangled up in many times.
When they finally saw the school in sight, they started to slow down, until they finally reached a pleasant stroll. The Sun was burning bright, but its warmth still managed to evade Naruto. He had not felt the warmth of the Sun in a long while.
"Hey Ru-Ru, I have something for you," Kiba said.
"Oh?" Naruto asked curiously, "What is it?"
Kiba pulled his rucksack off of his shoulder, opened the zip and began rummaging around inside. After a few moments, he pulled out a piece of folded paper and a necklace. Naruto gasped. The necklace was beautiful. It was a silver butterfly on a single silver chain, and it seemed to shine in the bright light. Its wings were decorated so that they looked like the leaves of a flower. It was such a pretty thing. Truly beautiful. (4)
"Kiba? Who's that for? And where did you get the money to buy something like that?"
He shook his head. "I didn't buy it. I found it in the movers' boxes from two years ago. It was in there along with a note, and the note was addressed to you. I thought I should give it to you."
"A note? For me?"
He held the note and the necklace out for Naruto to take. Naruto carefully took them from Kiba's hand and unfolded the piece of paper. He stopped walking. His eyes widened. Naruto recognized the handwriting.
"What is it? Who's it from?" Kiba asked excitedly.
"...It's from Mom."
"What?"
Naruto stared at the letter a long while before he actually dared to begin reading. He was anxious to know what it said. Then again, he was slightly scared too. The feeling was silly, but it was there.
The letter began, To my darling angel. Naruto smiled. That was what she always used to call him.
To my darling angel,
If you are reading this letter right now, it means that I am no longer around. I understand that me leaving so suddenly must have been hard for you and your father to cope with, but he knows why I have left. At this present time, I cannot tell you why exactly. When you're older, perhaps your father may tell you.-
Dad knew? Why didn't he tell me? What was the reason Mom left? Naruto was confused. He continued reading.
You don't have to worry, my darling angel. I am safe where I am now,-
Thank goodness, he sighed. Mom was alright.
but I do not think I shall ever be returning home.-
It felt like a knife in Naruto's chest. What? Why the hell not?! Why couldn't she come back if she was alright!?
Please understand. There is someone who needs me right now. He needs me more than anybody. He is...a friend of sorts. And he will die if I am not by his side. It's complicated. Like I said earlier, your father will explain it to you when you are older.-
What did that mean, 'a friend of sorts'? Did she mean a boyfriend? A lover? Was she cheating on Dad? What did she mean by, 'he will die if I am not by his side'? Surely no one would actually die if they couldn't see someone!
Because I can no longer see you, I leave you this necklace in my place. It was a gift, from the very same man I am trying to save by returning to his side. He said to me, 'I give this to you, as a symbol. A symbol of a beautiful butterfly, that can fly free from its bonds to the earth, and soar beyond the skies into Heaven itself. You are my butterfly...my beautiful butterfly. I want to see you fly free, to soar as far as your delicate wings will take you. This is my wish for you'. And I wish you the same, my darling angel. I give this to you, in hopes that you will fly freely, and where you please as well. I do not want you to be tied down and trapped. Freedom is life, my darling angel. If you are not free, then there is no point in living at all.
Give my love to your father and your brother. I wish that I was able to see my little boy grow up, but I guess you shall have to do that for me. Be safe and well for the rest of your life.You don't have to wear the necklace my darling angel. It might seem slightly girly to you! Just...keep it close to your heart, so I can fly free by your side always.
With all of my love,
Mom xxxxxxxxxxxx
Naruto's knees would not stop shaking. The tears would not stop trickling down his cheeks. They dripped onto his Mother's note that he clutched in his shivering hands.
...Why? Why did she leave us? For a man? Why was that man so important to her? So important, she would leave her own children? He didn't understand. He felt sick.
"Ru-Ru? What's wrong? Why are you crying? What did Mom say?" Kiba asked.
Naruto looked into his worried eyes, and immediately brushed all traces of tears from his face. He smiled a big, fake smile and reassured Kiba that he was okay. That kind of trick worked when he was a little boy. But Naruto knew it hadn't worked this time. However, he didn't say a single word, even though by looking in his eyes, Naruto could tell Kiba knew he was lying. He buried the note deep into his pocket, wishing so much that Kiba had never found it. He lifted the necklace up and tied it at the back of his neck. He hid it underneath his school shirt, because he knew the teachers would confiscate it if they saw it. Naruto knew he shouldn't have put it on, he should have waited until he got back to the orphanage. But...he felt like he had to. For his mother.
So that she could fly free with him.
"So class, for the next few weeks, we shall be discussing this town's own history. To start, we will be looking at the illustrious families of the past. Now is there a family which someone would like us to discuss first?"
It was only the start of second period, and Naruto was already bored out of his mind. He generally enjoyed History, of course. Things such as Ancient Egypt, Rome, even the Middle Ages in England grabbed his interest. But when they started discussing their own lame town history, that's when his brain would switch off.
"Oooh! What about the Okada's? They had the largest crop field here!"
The Okada's were a bunch of drunken fools who got lucky. Everyone knew that.
"No way! The Watanabe's! They helped design and build a lot of the buildings still standing today!"
The Watanabe's stole other people's ideas and presented them as their own. They were thieves and crooks.
"How about the Uchihas?"
He froze. He had no idea who they were. Who the hell were the Uchihas?
"Ah yes! Splendid idea Taro! We shall begin discussing the Uchihas," their teacher exclaimed.
"Um excuse me?" Naruto said, raising his hand, "Who are...the Uchihas?"
"The Uchihas were a well respected family who lived on the hill just outside of town," one of the posh, snooty boys called Kiro explained, "They were one of the richest and largest families in this general area. However, they all began dying mysteriously until only a handful of them were left. Then, one night, they were all finished off."
"Finished off?" Sora gasped.
"Sadly yes," their teacher sighed, "And no one really knows how or why either-"
"I do!" Taro yelled, "They were vampires and got killed off by a vampire hunter!"
"Vampires?" Kiro smirked, "Don't be more of an idiot than we already know you are. Vampires don't exist. They never have, and never will."
Naruto couldn't help but agree. Vampires didn't exist. They were just characters of fiction created by some guy in the Gothic period of literature who wanted to scare a few people. But he couldn't help but think of his father when Taro said the word 'vampire'. Why was he thinking about that at a time like this? His father wasn't killed by vampires, because they didn't exist. They couldn't exist. Something like that was...unthinkable.
"They do too exist! People have been found with puncture wounds on their neck! And people were mysteriously vanishing ever since the Uchihas arrived in our town! As soon as they were killed, those disappearances decreased! You can't argue with the facts smart ass!" Taro shouted at Kiro.
"Language Taro!" their teacher huffed.
"Oh please! All of those disappearances were due to crazed killers and kidnappers, not blood sucking fiends of the night! There is a logical explanation to all of this. You can't go blaming the Uchihas simply because they lived in a Gothic mansion away from sight! Perhaps they just weren't friendly," Kiro argued.
"Bullshit!"
"Language!"
"I know they exist! There was evidence of an attack not too long ago! Naruto's dad got killed by one too!"
Oh crap. He knew it wouldn't have been long until they brought it up, but he just didn't expect it to be so soon. Taro would want him to talk about it. And that he just could not do. Every time Naruto thought about his father, he could see his widened eyes on that stone cold metal table in the morgue. Eyes full of sorrow. Full of fear.
"Naruto! C'mon, tell them I'm right! Vampires do exist don't they?"
Those eyes that refused to stop staring. Those eyes that burned into his soul. He couldn't get them out of his head...
"Tell them! Your dad got killed by one of 'em, didn't he?"
He didn't want to do this. He didn't want to talk about it...
"He did! He got killed by-"
"JUST SHUT UP!"
Naruto could feel everyone's eyes on him when he jumped out of his seat. But he was so full of rage and sadness, he couldn't control himself properly. It was like he was being manipulated, like some freakish puppet. He was helpless.
"You think you know? You think you know everything don't you!? Well you don't! My father was not killed by vampires! I don't know how the hell he died! No one bloody knows! Everyone has tried to find out why, but guess what? They still don't know! I can't take it! You thinking you can sit there and say exactly how everything happened, like you know everything! Whilst I sit here, his own son, and not have a bloody clue! Well I have something to say to you, you miserable ugly fucker! You don't know shit! So stop acting like your King of the frickin' world already! And if you ever talk about my father's death again, I will personally make it my mission in life to hunt you down and kick your ass!"
Naruto gasped. He couldn't believe he had said such terrible things to him. Half of it he didn't even mean. But that anger inside of him still wanted another round. It still wanted vengeance for that asshole even mentioning his father.
"Naruto!" their teacher squeaked, "You have just earned yourself a detention! Now please go outside and wait. I will talk to you in a moment."
He wasted no time in picking up his bag and walking straight out of the classroom. He opened the door and slammed it angrily behind him. Only Naruto didn't stay outside the classroom like his teacher asked. As soon as he shut that classroom door he kept walking and didn't look back. Naruto started jogging steadily until he broke into a sprint, racing through the school corridors trying to search for the goddamn exit. Once he found it, he ran outside and kept going, breathing in as much fresh air as he could. Naruto needed to breathe. He needed space. School felt so claustrophobic. It tightened its grip on him like a vice until he felt like he was going to pass out.
He ran so for long. He didn't know where he was going. Naruto just needed to run. He just wanted the thrill of running. He felt so sad...so angry, it was just something he needed to do to vent.
He stopped for a moment to look up at the Sun.
Even in his dark hour, its radiant warmth still chose to evade him.
"Naruto? Naruto please come out right now!"
As soon as he got back from school, he had locked himself in his own room without saying a word to anyone. Soon after everyone else got back, some weasel told the Sisters what had happened during school, and without warning, they had rushed to his door and they wouldn't leave him alone. They wanted Naruto to repent for his sins, or some idiotic crap like that. He really wasn't in the mood to repent, and he definitely wasn't going to come out any time soon. It was their bloody fault for letting the orphans have locks on their doors anyway.
"Naruto, you must come out! We only wish to talk with you! Come and pray with us! Surely that will soothe your angered heart!"
"I don't believe in God Sister! I stopped believing a long time ago!" he yelled back.
"Ah! Of course you don't mean that! Let us come together and pray for God to absolve us!"
"Fuck off!"
They silenced themselves after that, though Naruto swore he could hear them murmur, 'devil child' through the door. He didn't care. As far as he was concerned, they could say whatever the hell they liked to him. He was still not going to come out.
It grew dark quicker than Naruto thought it would. He thought about his father, Kiba, everything. He thought about Sora. He would probably already be at the nightclub by now, after sneaking out through his bedroom window to see Towa, he thought to himself. He hoped that Sora would have fun, but he couldn't help but feel jealous. About the fact that Sora had a life and he didn't. It was true that Sora was an orphan too, but he was still able to live his life to the fullest. He knew the cause of his parent's deaths. Naruto didn't. He had closure a long time ago. Naruto still could not let go. How was he able to go on living the way he was, after everything that had happened to him, and Naruto still could not? Sora was lucky. Naruto guessed he just wasn't.
He stroked his mother's necklace with a single finger. She wanted him to be free and enjoy life. But didn't she know that he couldn't do that? She had doomed him to live a miserable life as soon as she had walked out of the door. And as for a free life, that dream was growing too distant. Naruto was unsure if he could ever be truly free. It was a dream that he thought he could never hope to achieve.
He was doomed to be a trapped butterfly for the rest of his life. It was simply fate.
Naruto slowly opened his eyes and immediately regretted doing so, when the bright sunlight burned his eyeballs. He hissed and held his hand up against his eyes, shielding them from the Sun's deathly rays. That was when he realized. It was morning. He had fallen asleep.
He pinched the bridge of his nose and took a very deep breath. It was another day of school, and Naruto had to go back and explain why he ran out. That was something he definitely wasn't looking forward to.
He stood up and was about to start getting ready, when he finally noticed a loud murmur from outside of his room. Of course Naruto was curious, so he carefully undid the lock and stepped outside. Almost everyone was outside in the corridor. He sighed. Yep, he thought, this was more like normal.
Naruto turned around to go back inside, when suddenly Kiba ran straight into him and nearly tripped him up. He was about to shout at Kiba for being so clumsy, but when he saw his face, Naruto became immediately concerned. He looked extremely worried.
"Kiba, what is it? Is everything okay?" Naruto asked.
"It's Sora. He hasn't come home! Someone saw him going out last night and he hasn't come back!" Kiba shouted.
"What? He hasn't come back?"
"Yeah! And some people are saying Towa hasn't come home either! Her mum's been worried sick and everyone's panicking! Ru-Ru, I don't know what to do! I'm scared!"
Kiba threw his arms around Naruto and started crying. He couldn't believe how childish Kiba was acting. He had never acted this strongly since...since their father died. Naruto gasped quietly to himself. He wrapped his arms around Kiba and pulled him as tightly to his body as he could. Naruto knew why he was crying so much. He was afraid. Afraid that Sora and Towa were going to die, just like their father had, when he had left that night, two years ago, and never came back.
"Kiba. They are going to be just fine. Don't you worry...okay?" he whispered softly.
Kiba nodded but did not stop crying. Naruto knew yet again that Kiba didn't believe him. But he couldn't blame him.
Naruto didn't believe himself either.
"Do you want to come inside?" he asked Kiba with a smile.
He looked up at Naruto, tears still running down his soft cheeks, his eyes red and blotchy, and gave him a small nod. Naruto wrapped one arm around his shoulders and led Kiba inside his room. He sat him down on his bed and made sure he was alright, before starting to get ready for school.
With all of his clothes in hand, he was about to go to the bathroom when he suddenly noticed something in Kiba's hands. It was a book, with a deep crimson leather cover. It looked quite old, and there was something about it Naruto didn't like.
"Kiba...where did you get that?" Naruto asked him, edging towards Kiba to give the book a closer look.
"It was something else I found in with the boxes full of stuff from our home," he said quietly, "I saw it, and I wanted it. Though...I don't really know what it's about."
"You little crook!" Naruto chuckled, sitting down beside him, "Wait-what do you mean you don't know what it's about? Have you read it?"
"Well, I can't really read the writing very well, and the stuff I can read is all about this family. It has floor plans of their house and keeps mentioning something about, 'Blood Moon'."
"'Blood Moon'? What the heck is that? Let me see that book..."
He took the book from Kiba's hands and flicked through its yellowed pages. On the outside, the book didn't look too old, about fifty years he guessed. But the pages inside told him that it was much older. At least twice that long. The writing was handwritten. And once again Naruto recognized that familiar handwriting.
"This is Mom's!" he exclaimed.
"What seriously?!" Kiba asked excitedly.
He scanned the pages, curious as to why their mother would mention something called, 'Blood Moon' and would draw floor plans of someone's house. It made her sound like some kind of criminal. Although, at that moment it time, Naruto wasn't really sure what their mother was like. After reading her letter, he realized he didn't know her very well at all. For all he knew she could have been a criminal.
He flicked through page after page, but he just couldn't read the writing. It wasn't like the writing on the note. This writing was...rushed. As if she was in some kind of hurry, or maybe even scared for some reason. He kept checking every page to try and see if he could make out something she had written. It was only until Naruto saw a picture, or rather, the name of a picture, that he realized what it was about.
Written in scrawled handwriting that he could barely just make out, underneath a drawing of four people dressed in very strange clothing, and all with stone cold expressions was the sentence:
This is a picture of the Uchiha family. It is a painting that is hanging on the right wall in their Main Hall. They are to be feared.
Their mother was infatuated with the Uchiha family, just like Taro and countless others were. Naruto couldn't believe it.
Why the hell did she write, 'they are to be feared'? What was so scary about them? My mother didn't actually believe the stories...did she?
"So...what is it?" Kiba asked.
"It's about...the Uchihas."
"Seriously? The Uchihas?"
"You know about them?"
"Of course I do. Everybody does. They were a vampire family who died like two hundred years ago. Why? Did Mom write something about them?"
"To start off with, the Uchihas weren't vampires Kiba. They were just antisocial. (5) And secondly, Mom didn't just write something about them. The whole book is about them! From start to finish!" Naruto exclaimed, flicking through the pages and finally noticing the word, 'Uchiha' scrawled on each one.
"They were vampires! Everyone keeps saying so! And they might not even be wiped out yet!" Kiba yelled.
"...What?"
"...Some people say that...they are still alive up there. And...Dad died because...one of them-"
"Kiba, I don't wanna hear anymore," Naruto growled, slamming the book shut.
"But I believe them!"
"I know you do! You've said the same thing ever since Dad died! But he didn't die that way!"
"Then how did he die? Tell me that Ru-Ru!"
"You know no one has a clue!"
"Exactly! Because no one has thought of the most logical explanation! No one believes in them, and that's how they get away with it!"
"Enough Kiba!"
"But don't you see? They're probably up there in their mansion all smug because they can get away with murder 'cause no body believes in them-"
"I said ENOUGH!"
Kiba flinched and lowered his head until Naruto could not see his eyes past his long auburn bangs. Naruto had never shouted at him like that before. He could just imagine the look on Kiba's face. That same look he had when he had told Kiba their father had died. That torturous look. Full of sadness, pain...and betrayal.
"Kiba...I'm sorry-"
"Don't worry about it," he replied quietly, not meeting Naruto's gaze.
They stayed in silence for a little while. An uncomfortable silence that Naruto had never felt when he had been around Kiba before. It was...unnerving to put it nicely.
Suddenly, Naruto was hit with a stroke of genius. It was perfect.
"Kiba...How about we...go and see the Uchiha Mansion up close?" he asked, a small, smug smile on his face.
He could see the surprise on Kiba's face when he looked up at him. He smirked. Kiba was beginning to get interested.
"But...why?"
"You said you believed in vampires, right? Well let's go up there and see if the Uchihas are still there after two hundred years. If they are, then I'll admit that you were right, and I will hunt them down for you if you want."
"Are you serious?" he asked wide-eyed.
"Would I lie to you?" Naruto smirked playfully.
"Wow Ru-Ru!" Kiba yelled jumping up and down, completely forgetting what had just happened, "We can hunt down vampires?!"
"Sure Lil' Bro, anything you want..."
"Awesome! Let's skip school today and go! Then we can check it out first before it gets dark! We have to try and convince the Sisters we're ill, so we have an excuse not to go to school, without getting into any trouble!"
"Sure."
Kiba ran straight for his room to begin collecting various useless items that he thought he would need for a vampire hunting expedition. All Naruto could do was sit on his own bed and suppress the rising chuckle from within him.
I get out of going to school and I get to prove everyone how wrong they are about our father's death. I guess it's a win-win situation for me...
"Ru-Ru! Hurry up damn it!"
Naruto sauntered up the steep hill leading towards the old Uchiha mansion. His legs ached and he couldn't breathe at all. He cursed Kiba for his hyperness. He wondered where the hell his little brother got the energy to be so damned demanding, let alone annoying. He was trying his hardest damn it! After all, he was stuck carrying Kiba's stupid rucksack full of junk for, 'vampire extermination' that he insisted that they take with them.
"Kiba, shut up. I'm going...as fast as...I can. And where the hell do you...get off speaking like that?" Naruto panted.
"It's not my fault your so slow Ru-Ru! And you say 'damn it' all of the time, so why can't I?"
"It's 'cause your the little one and I can't let you speak like that. It's not do as I do, it's do as I say!"
"But you do say 'damn it' though..." Kiba whined.
"Shut up Kiba..."
They continued their hike up the hillside until finally they reached the top. They were incredibly high up, and when Naruto looked out towards the town, everything looked so small. Nothing really stuck out at all. It looked like such a boring town, with rows and rows of identical buildings that stretched on for miles. He was glad he could spend a day away from that place.
"Ru-Ru? Are you coming?" Kiba asked.
Naruto turned to Kiba, who was waiting impatiently in front of the door. He nodded slowly and walked up towards the Gothic castle. In broad daylight, the castle itself did not look very scary. However, Naruto knew that as soon as it got dark, it would look terrifying, with its stone gargoyles and its spindling towers that looked like something out of a Tim Burton movie. He grabbed the brass knobs of the old oak doors and pulled them sharply, but for some reason, the doors would not open.
"Damn old doors..." he cursed, "Kiba, would you give me a hand?"
Kiba rushed to Naruto's side, and grabbed one of the door knobs, whilst Naruto had a firm grip on the other.
"Ready?" Naruto asked, "Three, two, one, PULL!"
They yanked the door knobs, and strangely they opened almost immediately, sending Naruto and Kiba flying backwards onto their asses.
"Ow..." Naruto groaned.
"Ru-Ru what the hell was that?! They opened straight away! Are you that weak?" Kiba chuckled.
"Brat..." Naruto growled, rubbing his aching ass.
Kiba howled with laughter, until he noticed something peculiar. There was a cloud of twirling dust flowing out of the entrance to the castle. Tendrils of it snaked around his ankles and wormed its way up his nostrils, making him cough and splutter. It was a thick cloud that covered the ground, nearly suffocating Naruto, who was still laying down on the earth.
"Ru-Ru...what is that?" Kiba asked as Naruto was choking on the ground.
"I...dunno...but it's definitely...weird," Naruto replied, having to pause several times to cough.
"You're telling me.."
"C'mon Kiba, let's go. The sooner we get this over and done with, the sooner we can go home," Naruto said, picking himself off of the ground after he finally finished choking.
The both edged towards the castle entrance, Kiba clinging tightly onto Naruto's shirt in worry. Naruto felt slightly nervous himself, and felt like cowering behind Kiba, but he was the big brother. After all, big brothers weren't supposed to be scared of anything.
Naruto poked his head through the door and muttered, "We're coming in.." before ushering himself and Kiba inside.
They took a few small steps into what Naruto assumed was the Main Hall. It was absolutely enormous; ten times, or even twenty times bigger than his room at the orphanage. The floor was made of pure marble; the ceiling was decorated with intricate pictures of angels, which surprised Naruto, since the outside looked so scary. The walls that must have been a deep crimson long ago, were now a faded soft red. In front of them was a huge staircase with so many large steps, Naruto couldn't count them all. The staircase branched off three separates ways: one to the right, one to the left, and one that went forward, leading to another large oak door, only this one was decorated in swirls of gold.
"Wow...these guys really were rich..." Naruto gasped.
"Ru-Ru! Come over here a second! I found that painting in Mom's book!" Kiba exclaimed.
Naruto turned to Kiba who was jumping up and down and pointing to a painting on the wall. As Naruto got closer, he realized that it was in fact the same painting that their mother had drawn in her book. He wandered towards the painting to give it a closer look.
Just like in their Mom's book, there were four people: a broad shouldered man with deep set eyes; a long haired woman with a stony expression; a young boy with just as long hair pulled back into a low hanging ponytail; and an even younger boy with short choppy hair. They all had such cold eyes, but in Naruto's opinion they didn't look sad. They looked...no. He couldn't come up with a word for it. They just looked...comfortable as they were to him. Although, he couldn't understand why four miserable, grumpy gits would feel comfortable looking so cold.
"The Uchiha Family. Fugaku, Mikoto, Itachi and Sasuke," Kiba announced.
"How the hell do you know that?" Naruto asked curiously.
"There's a name plate at the bottom of this thing. It says, 'The Uchiha Family. Fugaku, Mikoto and their two children, Itachi and Sasuke. Dated, 1783," Kiba replied, looking quite proud of himself for noticing it.
"1783? Wow...if they're still alive they must be ancient by now..."
"Idiot! Vampires don't age! They stay young for eternity! Don't you know anything Ru-Ru?"
"Oh sorry I didn't pay much attention in Vampire Studies at school. Though I am passing Werewolf Social Skills if that makes any difference," Naruto replied sarcastically.
"Seriously? They teach that in your class?!"
"You are such an idiot..."
Naruto shook his head and began walking towards the stairs, followed by a very flustered Kiba. They decided first off all that they would go right and search that area of the castle for any, 'vampire activity' and then search the rest of the castle afterwards. Kiba insisted if they could not search the entire castle in one day that they should come back the next day and continue their search. However, as Naruto spent more and more time in the castle, he became very uneasy, and hoped that their trip would only last one day.
Kiba enjoyed wandering through the many corridors and rooms in the castle. It was like one massive maze that you could lose yourself in, something else that made Naruto very uncomfortable. He didn't want to go searching for Kiba through the castle in the dark.
They had searched the entire right side and had searched about half of the left side by the time the Sun began to set in the horizon. However, most of the rooms that Naruto and Kiba had tried to search were locked from the inside, so it wasn't exactly a 'thorough' search. Naruto walked into one the remaining rooms when he noticed the setting Sun through a window. He was about to turn around and get Kiba so they could go home, but instead, he found himself looking around the room. He didn't know why he wanted to; he guessed he was just curious. Next to the window on the right side was a large four poster bed, with a purple silk hanging curtain draped over it. On the left side was a writing desk covered in random pieces of paper, several bottles of ink, and a hoard of quills. When Naruto got closer, he also saw there was a small shattered mirror on the desk, one that ladies used back in the old days, Naruto assumed. He wondered why it was shattered, and was about to pick it up, when Kiba poked his head from around the corner and yelled at him, sending Naruto sky high.
"C'mon Ru-Ru! The Sun is setting! I don't wanna be here when it gets dark!" he shouted.
Naruto pressed his hand up against his chest to feel his rapid heartbeat. "Kiba, don't ever do that again. You almost gave me a heart attack!"
"Never mind Ru-Ru! Just c'mon!"
Kiba ran forward, grabbed Naruto's hand and yanked him out of the room before Naruto could say another word. They both quickly made their way through the corridors, trying to remember which way was the way out. When Kiba couldn't remember, he began to get very scared, since the Sun was setting more and more by each passing minute. Naruto stopped, bent down, picked Kiba up and held him in his arms. Naruto cooed softly to Kiba, telling him everything was alright, before he continued his journey through the castle. Kiba buried his head deep in the crook of Naruto's neck, his eyes screwed tightly shut. Naruto groaned. He couldn't believe he had been such an idiot, suggesting they should go into the old Uchiha Mansion. The Sun started to vanish behind the distant mountains, and shadows began appearing slowly from behind ordinary objects, twisting their shapes into something grotesquely terrifying. They made Naruto's heart skip a beat. Even he was beginning to get scared.
"Kiba, just keep your eyes shut for me, okay? Just keep them closed for me.." Naruto whispered, his voice sounding somewhat panicked.
Naruto broke into a run, desperate to find the exit as quickly as possible. It was taking forever, and before he realized it, the moonlight was his only source of light. The Sun had completely vanished, and they were almost surrounded by darkness.
"Oh shit..." he hissed.
"What is it Ru-Ru?"
"Nothing bro, just keep your eyes closed."
Naruto squinted through the darkness, and sighed in relief when he saw the steps leading down to the main staircase. Grinning madly, he ran straight for them, trying his best to ignore the shadows from all directions and the creaks and groans that seemed to echo from all sides.
He raced down the stairs, taking two at a time, until he finally reached the bottom. He smiled. Everything was going to be okay.
Naruto took a single step, and then froze. He could have sworn he heard a door open, but that wasn't possible. It was probably the wind or something, he thought nervously. Then he heard a gasp. He knew that could not have been the wind.
"What are you doing here!?" a loud voice demanded.
Naruto tried to pinpoint where the voice was coming from, but he could not see a thing through the pitch black darkness. He wondered how the hell he could have been seen, until he realized he was standing in a large strip of moonlight coming from a window behind him, towards the golden door. But then he thought something else; something that made him panic.
Who the hell was still living in the Uchiha Mansion?
"Who are you!?" the voice called again.
"What's happening Ru-Ru?" Kiba asked quietly, his little voice shaking with fear.
"Um..I'm sorry! My brother and I came in here just to look around!" Naruto yelled, not knowing which direction to focus his apology on, "We didn't know that someone was in here still! We would have left earlier, but we got a little lost! I hope you can for-"
"That doesn't matter now!" the voice interrupted, "You have to get out of here! NOW!"
Naruto flinched. Why the hell was this guy getting so touchy? He had said he was sorry. And why was he so urgent about getting rid of them? What was the immediate rush? Naruto didn't want to stay any longer in the mansion than he had to, that was for certain, but why did this guy want them gone so quickly?
"Didn't you hear me? I said go!"
Naruto heard footsteps from his left and immediately turned towards the sound. Naruto didn't want the guy to come any closer. What if he had a weapon? Then they were screwed.
He was surprised when a girlish looking guy emerged from the shadows. He had long, blonde hair that was tied back in a ponytail. He wore simple clothes; a loose black shirt and matching trousers. He looked like he was in his early twenties, possibly younger. His eyes were grey, one was hardly visible because a long blonde fringe almost covered most of it. His eyes were full of...concern? No, Naruto thought, that just couldn't be it. Could it? (6)
"Who...who are you?" Naruto asked curiously.
"Never mind that kid! You have to get out of here! They're going to be down here in a minute and when they are-"
A loud bang echoed through the Main Hall. It sounded like a door had just blown open. Naruto watched as the young man's expression turned from angered concern, to sheer horror.
"No time," he murmured, "You! Quickly! Come with me!"
The young man ran towards Naruto and began pushing him away from the exit. Instead, he led them towards a smaller door.
"What the hell are you doing? Get off of me!" Naruto shouted.
"Keep your voice down! Listen, you have to go in here, understand? Stay in here and be quiet!" he hissed.
He shoved Naruto and Kiba into what appeared to be an old closet. It was full of weird contraptions, some broken and left forgotten at the back of shelves, or piled into a large scrap heap in the corner. There was no source of light in there, and once the door was shut, they would not be able to see a thing. Naruto could barely see anything anyway, even with the moonlight shining through the doorway.
Naruto turned around to face the young man and said, "What the hell are you trying to do? My brother is scared to death and we just wanna leave! Why are you-"
"I apologize," the man interrupted Naruto for the second time that evening, "I didn't mean to get angry with you. But please just stay quiet in here until I come and get you. Please," he pleaded.
He quickly shut the door, and everything was immediately submerged in darkness. Panic gripped Naruto tightly, but he tried to push every negative thought to the back of his mind. His heart felt like it was lodged somewhere in his throat.
"Ru-Ru? What's going on?" Kiba asked, shivering slightly in Naruto's arms.
"I don't know Kiba," was all that Naruto could say.
He carefully placed Kiba on the ground and sat down next to him. As soon as Kiba opened his eyes and saw that it was dark, he freaked out and starting yelling, burying himself in Naruto's chest.
"Ssssh Kiba. That guy told us to be quiet right? Well if we do what he says then we can leave sooner, okay?" Naruto cooed.
He held Kiba close to him and rocked slowly backwards and forwards, as he tried to stay as calm as possible. He began humming a quiet, soothing tune, and then began to sing a soft lullably. The one their mother used to sing to them, long ago...
Are you lost, little one? Why do you cry?
Does the darkness scare you on this cold Winter's night?
Come into my arms and become one with me.
With me you can be safe and warm-
Naruto stopped singing as he heard footsteps from beyond the door. Kiba stiffened in Naruto's arms as he heard them too. Was it the young man from before? Naruto wasn't sure.
"Good evening, Deidara-kun," a low, quiet voice said. (7)
Naruto flinched and his eyes widened. That voice made his heart flutter and his legs turn into jelly. Why was that? He didn't know. It just sounded...terrifying, and yet enticing at the same time.
"Lord Itachi-sama, good evening. Did you sleep well?"
Naruto recognized that voice. It was the young man, Deidara, or whatever his name was. He also recognized the other name. Itachi. Where had he heard it from before?
"The Uchiha Family. Fugaku, Mikoto and their two children, Itachi and Sasuke."
Itachi. That was the name of one of those Uchiha kids. Naruto gasped. But...there was no way. It couldn't be the same person. There was just no way.
"Itachi? Ru-Ru, he's that Uchiha! From 1783! I knew it Ru-Ru! They are vampires!" Kiba exclaimed.
"Kiba they are not vampires! More than two people can have the same name! This doesn't prove anything!" Naruto hissed quietly.
"But Ru-Ru-"
"Shush. We need to be quiet!"
Naruto pressed his ear up against the door in curiosity, and heard the man called Itachi say, "Yes. Indeed I did Deidara-kun. Is dinner ready?"
"Of course Itachi-sama," Deidara replied, "But where is Sasuke-sama?"
"Sasuke! The other Uchiha kid!" Kiba said.
Naruto waved his hand at Kiba to shush him, but only heard, "-is a lazy one, my little otouto."
"Itachi-sama, if you will allow it, then I will go and finish dinner preparations."
"Of course Deidara-kun. Hurry though, I am feeling quite hungry tonight."
He heard one pair of footsteps grow faint as 'Deidara' left to finish dinner. Another pair of footsteps grew louder as 'Itachi' walked down the marble steps of the Uchiha Mansion. Naruto pulled himself towards the keyhole so he could get a better look at Itachi's face, leaving Kiba right behind him, holding onto one of his hands to make sure he was still there.
When Naruto peered through the keyhole, once he had found it, he could hardly see a thing. The moonlight was still the only source of light in the Main Hall, and it was beginning to piss him off.
"It's too dark in here," Itachi said softly, "I need some light."
Suddenly candles flickered to life and the entire hall was brightened by the warm glow of fire. Some of that glow crept through the cracks of the door, so Naruto and Kiba were able to see better than they could before. Naruto jumped. How the hell had he done that? He hadn't even moved!
"That's much better.." he whispered softly, which sent a shiver up Naruto's spine.
Naruto pushed himself up closer to the keyhole so he could get a proper look at the man. He looked exactly like the Itachi Uchiha in the painting. He had long, black hair that was tied in a low ponytail with a single crimson ribbon. He wore a large black cloak that trailed along the floor, and the collar stuck up so it covered most of his neck, except for at the front where it was fastened with a silver chain. Underneath his cloak, Naruto could see a red waistcoat, and underneath that was a bright, white linen shirt. He wore jet black breeches and bright white stockings underneath. On his feet were ankle high boots that were tied up to the top. In Naruto's opinion, he looked like something out of one of his history textbooks at school.
"Ah, otouto. What a pleasure it is to see you. Just risen from your slumber, correct?" Itachi called.
Naruto's attention was immediately drawn to another figure standing on the marble steps. He had short choppy black hair, and his fringe almost covered his dark eyes. He wore the same kind of clothes as Itachi, only his were less Gothic. His waistcoat was a beige colour, and was decorated with golden swirls, unlike Itachi's blood red one. And he, unlike Itachi, did not wear a cloak for some reason. What was reason was, Naruto had no idea. When he looked closely at this figure, he realized he looked like the other boy from the painting. Sasuke, if he remembered correctly. He must have been the person that Deidara...or whatever, was talking about, Naruto thought to himself.
"Yes oniisama," Sasuke replied, "I apologize for being late."
"Come now otouto, could you at least try calling me 'aniki' once in a while?"
Aniki? What the hell did that mean? And otouto? Oniisama? What kind of language was that? (8)
"No oniisama, I will not," Sasuke said quite sternly.
"Oh well," Itachi replied, sounding quite depressed, "Come down Sasuke. Deidara-kun will be out with dinner any moment now."
He stepped down the marble staircase and joined his brother in the middle of the Main Hall. They both stood together in a silence that would usually seem unbearable to normal people, but for some reason they looked...content. It was quite strange to put it simply.
Naruto heard some rustling beside him and felt something touch his leg. He nearly jumped out of his skin, but Kiba just giggled silently as he crept past to look through a crack in the door.
"Kiba, what the hell are you doing!?" Naruto asked, quietly screeching.
"I wanna see too! It's not fair that you get to look and I don't!" Kiba whined.
"Okay fine! Just keep quiet, alright?" Naruto said, before turning back round to stare once more through the keyhole.
Itachi and Sasuke stood there for a few more moments in complete silence, until a door that Naruto had never noticed before opened, and Deidara walked out, carrying two wooden chairs. He placed them in the center of the room, one in front of Sasuke, and the other in front of Itachi. Deidara quickly bowed before heading back through the door. Itachi lifted a hand and began to unclasp the silver chain on his cloak. Once the silver chain was undone, the cloak slipped off of his shoulders onto the floor behind him.
"We shall feast soon otouto. Are you hungry?" he asked Sasuke.
"...Starved," he hissed quietly.
The haunting hiss of the younger boy made Naruto gulp, though he felt stupid. Why was he getting so scared all of a sudden? And why could he feel a demonic aura surrounding those two?
Deidara pushed the door open quite suddenly, and with such force it ricocheted off of the red wall behind it. He slowly made his way towards Itachi and Sasuke, holding two large motionless lumps, one in each hand. He was dragging them across the floor. Naruto wondered what the hell was going on, until he heard a sudden groan from one of the lumps.
"There's...just no way..." he murmured.
"Finally. Thank you Deidara-kun," Itachi said.
"Of course Itachi-sama, Sasuke-sama," Deidara replied in a quiet mumble.
He placed the two lumps on separate chairs and stood far back, his head bowed. Kiba couldn't see what they were very well through the crack in the door, but as he turned to ask Naruto what they were, he froze when he saw the state his big brother was in.
Naruto was shaking violently; his eyes widened almost comically as he stared at the scene before him. His mouth opened and closed slowly several times, as if he wanted to say something, but any words just eluded him. The sight of his brother like this made Kiba very, very worried.
"Ru-Ru? What-"
He stopped as he heard a soft groan through the door. He quickly rushed back into his position on the floor and looked once more through the door crack. One of the lumps was moving. It shifted slightly on its chair, and then lifted its...head? It was a person! But-
Kiba's heart missed a beat. A single drop of sweat trickled down his brow.
Sitting in the two chairs, were Sora and Towa.
Why are they here? I don't understand...They must have been kidnapped by these guys! What have they done to them?
"W-what? Where...am I?" Sora croaked, his gaze distant and blurred.
"Apologies for the rough treatment, little one. We did not mean for you to get hurt..." Itachi whispered into Sora's ear, crouching down so their faces were almost touching.
"What? W-who...are..."
Sora was slowly flickering in and out of consciousness. He was obviously badly hurt, or incredibly weak. His arms hung loosely at his sides, and his head suddenly lolled backwards. His breathing was slow and ragged; Itachi knew that the boy would not last long. And so did Naruto.
"His light is dimming, oniisama. I can feel his heartbeat slowing with each passing moment," Sasuke muttered to his brother.
"Yes, otouto, it appears you are correct. Well...shall we begin?"
Itachi leaned in towards Sora and undid his shirt collar so that his neck was in perfect view. Moving in front of him, Itachi wrapped one thin arm around Sora's back, pulling him off of his chair slightly, and with his free hand, he cupped Sora's cheek.
"Be at peace now. The pain of this world will not last long."
Naruto did not have a clear enough view, but he could tell immediately what was about to happen. He reached out to Kiba in an attempt to shield his eyes and ears, but it was too late. In an instant, Sora let out a high pitched scream as Itachi sank large white fangs deep into his unprotected neck. Naruto cringed as he heard the sickening squelch of blood spurt from his wounds onto the floor, staining the pure white marble. Kiba watched in horror as Itachi drank greedily from Sora, draining him of all of his blood. Some blood dripped out of Itachi's mouth and trickled down his chin and neck, until it seeped into his linen shirt. Sasuke then bent towards his own 'dinner' and proceeded in biting Towa too. She also let out an ear-piercing screech, but it was as if Sasuke did not noticed. He continued to drain her, even when her body began twitching, and a little blood ran out of her open mouth.
"Sora...Towa..." Kiba whispered in shock.
He grabbed the sides of his head and tightly closed his eyes. He couldn't control the shakes that ran through his body. He felt like he was going to throw up. And no matter how hard he tried, the mental images, the screams of pain...he couldn't get them out of his head.
He opened his mouth to scream, but Naruto immediately dragged him backwards, pinning his arms down with one arm, and putting a hand over Kiba's mouth with the other. He kicked and struggled, shouting into Naruto's sweaty palm, but Naruto refused to let go. He couldn't let them get heard. If those...monsters ever knew that they were in there...It meant the end for them both.
Panic and fear gripped him once more. The smell of blood clogged his nostrils and made him want to gag. The demonic aura grew so fierce it felt almost suffocating. He wanted to charge at those vampires for hurting Sora and Towa, and yet...
He wanted to run. To take Kiba and run as far and as fast as his legs would take him. A static shock coursed through his system. Now there was no hope in running. This sudden electric charge sent him into a place where fear controls all rational thought. He could no longer think. His brain turned to jelly. Naruto lost his focus, and that was all it took. His grip weakened on Kiba, and he was sent flying backwards into the shelves behind him. There was a loud crash. Naruto silently gasped.
"...What was that, Deidara-kun?" Itachi asked, releasing his fangs from Sora's bloodied neck.
Fuck.
"Oniisama...it appears we have some sort of disturbance," Sasuke muttered, wiping blood from his chin.
"It's probably just a rat Itachi-sama. This castle has many holes that rats can...crawl through," Deidara replied, his voice shaking from nervousness.
Naruto sat still, his knees knocking from pure adrenaline. He couldn't breathe. He didn't dare breathe.
"Otouto...do you smell that?"
Smell what?
"Yes oniisama...I do."
Itachi chuckled a haunting, cruel laugh. It made Naruto feel like his heart had stopped.
"Fresh blood."
Naruto gulped. The way Itachi had said that...with such menace. It was horrifying.
"I-Itachi-sama," Deidara stuttered, "It's probably from your dinner. So why don't you-"
"No Deidara-kun. It smells different. Tastier," Itachi hissed.
Sasuke smirked. "It appears our little rat has cut himself. Poor thing..."
Naruto's eyes widened. He looked over at Kiba, who was staring at him as he sat in a heap on the floor, shaking and whimpering.
Naruto mouthed to Kiba, "Did you-"
Kiba slowly shook his head, and pointed to Naruto's left arm. "Look..." he whispered.
Naruto slowly turned his head and looked down at his left arm. He lifted his right hand and brushed it carefully against his shoulder. He curled his hand into a fist. He felt something wet and warm seep through his fingers.
He opened his hand. And he saw it. The bright crimson stain on his skin could not be denied.
Blood.
"Kiba, get away from the door!"
Kiba scurried over to his brother and cowered behind him, burying his head in his back. Tears trickled slowly down his flushed cheeks. He had heard everything, seen everything. He felt nauseous. He felt scared. His body was shaking so violently. But he could not feel a thing. He felt numb.
Is this what it felt like to be truly scared?
Is this how father felt, before he died?
"Kiba, you stay behind me, okay?" Naruto asked, staying as quiet as he could, as if there was some hope that they could still make it out alive.
"It's too quiet..." Naruto murmured.
He began to crawl closer to the door, so Kiba clutched his shoulders tightly in his quivering hands. He didn't want to be left alone. He was scared.
"Don't go!" he whined.
Naruto ignored his little brother's desperate pleas and wormed his way out of Kiba's grip. Once he was right next to the keyhole again, he took a deep, calming breath, and peered through the hole.
And that was when he screamed.
A single, blood red eye glared at him through the other side of the keyhole. It burned passionately with the intense fire of blood lust. Naruto wanted to look away, but he couldn't. He was rooted to the spot.
Itachi chuckled a cold, cruel laugh, one that sent shivers down Naruto's spine.
"Hello...little rat."
(1) Yep it's the same Sora from 'Thoughts of a Broken Soul' if you have read my other fic. He's still hyper, but doesn't keep talking about alcohol and sex as much. -Sigh- Life goes on...
(2) Towa is not the girl from DN Angel. The name is the same, but she's a different character.
(3) I wanted Naruto's ickle brother to give him a cutesy nickname. And so, Ru-Ru was born! 'Cause his name is NaRUto...so Kiba wanted to call him Ru-Ru...it's cute...right?
(4) This necklace is based on one I bought a couple of days ago. I haven't stopped wearing it! It was £1.49 I think...XD
(5) The best line! XD I laughed even whilst I was typing that! Yes, 'cause everyone mistakes antisocial people for vampires...XD
(6) Three guesses who that is...If you guess right before they mention his name I'll give you a cyber cookie in the next chapter...To some people it will be mega easy, so I think I'll be giving out a LOT of cyber cookies...XD
(7) Did anyone get it? -smiles- It was kind of easy I guess...
(8) Naruto and Kiba are not Japanese. They are American. They know a few suffixes like 'kun' and 'chan' but 'sama', 'aniki', 'oniisama' etc. they have no clue what they mean. Yes their names are Japanese, and a few people in their town are Japanese, but they live in an unimportant American town. I hope that helps you with Naruto's confusion.
So what do you guys think? I tried to make the story as scary as possible. If there is any advice you would like to give, then please do, because I want to make this story as enjoyable for you guys as possible! It's what I'm here for!
The Uchiha boys aren't diabolically evil, like mad scientist 'I wanna kill everyone just 'cause I like bloodshed' evil. They are just evil, as in, 'I want to torture you first because that makes me happy' evil. So really, they are quite diabolical...They are a dynamic duo!
The lullaby that Naruto sings is my own creation. I spent AGES coming up with it, and I'm really glad how it turned out. It's haunting to those who hear it the first time, but a comfort to those who grew up with it...If that makes sense...If you liked it that much, and are wondering where the whole lullaby is, (because Naruto got interrupted part way through) don't worry. The whole lullaby will be sung in the next chapter.
So please review, leave comments and what not. If you want to give advice then that is appreciated too. I hope that you enjoy this story and keep reading!
Well, until next time! Bye bye!
