White Snow (NarutoxRosario)

Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction, all the characters' designs, called names and places mentioned belong to their respective owners.

Before we continued, let's answer a couple of questions…

"If Naruto a hybrid, why is he able to hide his true form while pretending to be a Kyuubi?" – Kamen Rider Ebon. Did I write or imply that he's pretending to be a Kyuubi? Naruto doesn't need to pretend to be anything he's not, at least not this particular Naruto, who has great pride in his heritage and lineage.

"Is this strictly NarutoxMizore?" – rick12. Hmmm… yes, adding more stalkers would ultimately downplay their beautiful romance, and frankly, I don't feel like writing harem all that much.

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"Moka…?" Kurumu murmured while she dropped her prior playful persona and allowed Tsukune out of her wrapping hands. She was surprised that a powerful S-class vampire could be defeated so effortlessly by a new comer, a spiky-haired blond. He did not even need to transform into his true form in order to handle Moka, which was saying much about his unrevealed powers and abilities.

"Mo… Moka-san?" Tsukune uttered as he gripped the Rosario tightly in one hand. This was the second time he had seen Moka defeated when she was in her true form. The first time was against Kuyō of the now defunct Public Safety Commission, but she was severely weakened due to injecting him with much of her blood in order to save his life.

Yukari, who stood behind Tsukune and Kurumu, uttered almost the same thing as Tsukune, her crush, while gripping her wand in dreadful alarm. Her violet-colored eyes stared ahead and landed upon the blond, trying to see his deep oceanic blue eyes. There was something extremely odd about him. Being a witch, she was unable to discern or detect any youki, demonic energy, emanating from others, but the ability to sense and feel external magical energy was another matter altogether. She felt his, and it was ominous – sinister, making her legs weak. "Why… am I afraid?"

"Moka-san! Moka-san!" Tsukune shouted loudly once he broke out of his initial shock. He tried to rush to her aid with complete disregard for his own self, but luckily, a succubus with light-bluish colored hair had enough brain to prevent him from doing so.

"No, you can't, Tsukune," Kurumu called out and wrapped her hands around brown-haired boy's chest from behind in an effort to stop him from charging ahead and basically getting himself killed at the hand of an monster who could block one of Moka's kicks with little effort. No one as far as she knew had ever able to do so before.

"Let me go, Kurumu-chan," Tsukune beseeched as he mustered all the strength within his body to break free of her tightening hold. Despite his best effort, he was only able to move a couple of steps forwards while one of his hands was fully outstretched.

"Stop, Tsukune," Kurumu begged, but the person she had fallen for appear not to hear her at all.

"Moka-san!" Tsukune shouted again and again as the Rosario in his hand cracked. As it did, the burning sensation around his neck drowned out all surrounding noises.

Meanwhile, Naruto stared down at the crater he had created by slamming a silver-haired vampire into the ground through the usage of her extended leg. A pair of red eyes within the hole matched his gaze with a sharp glare.

"Is there something on my face?" Naruto asked as he pressed and rubbed his thumb slowly against his whiskered cheek. The whiskered on both of his cheeks were his birthmark, and for years, he'd wondered why he had them when his mother and father did not. He eventually had his answer. It was the moment he managed to awaken his Youkai bloodline.

Moka inhaled deeply as she lay there, flatly on her back upon the fissured ground, trying to recall what had just happened. She remembered vaguely due to the shock, and as dusty and descending air filled her lungs in full, it revealed several of her ribs had been cracked, shattered the instant she was smashed against the hard earth. Her ankle was also broken, crushed in an iron grip, which no longer exerted upon her. The level of strength and power he employed indicated he was an S-class monster. She tried to read what his youki was through her natural detecting ability, but it told her nothing – only hollowness.

"What are you?" Moka asked. Her red eyes deepened.

"I am me," Naruto responded with a small smile. Seeing her stern expression, he brushed his spiky blond hair back and gave a shrug. "My parents called me Naruto, so you can use that. It's a pleasure to meet you, Moka." His eyes became serious once more. "I admitted I don't know what happened here, but any one hurt Mizore will face my wrath, and you are no exception, lowly vampire."

Slight anger flashed in her red eyes. "Lowly vampire!?"

"When I told you to kneel and apologize, you called Mizore a low level Ayakashi, did you not? I'm only returning the favor," Naruto pointed out. Before the silver-haired girl could retort, he continued with a stern voice. "Don't be so full of yourself, vampire. Your kind might be the top of the food chain here, but where I came from, you're kind is not even the top five of the strongest race."

Moka was a bit surprise. "What you mean where you came from?"

Naruto only wave a hand dismissively. "You don't need to know," he said before slightly narrowing his eyes. A surge of static electricity flashed within them. A second passed before he brushed his hair again and gave a shrug. "The regenerative capability of a vampire is impressive. As long as you're fed, you can heal from any injuries."

Moka blinked before heaving her chest and pulling herself out the crater. Pretending to be injured and defeated in order to acquire information did not work as she wanted. Most of her broken rib had started to mend along with her ankle. She would be in tip-top shape in no time.

As Moka was dropping her façade, Naruto turned away and returned his attention to the unconscious Mizore. Unlike Moka, Mizore did not have the advantage of rapid regeneration. "If you're so high and mighty, I'm sure you could disable Mizore without resorting to injuring her," he said with a frown before looking at his hand. He balled into a fist and gave it a light shook. "Next time, I won't be so merciful."

Moka was shocked at the flat comment. Breaking her leg and slamming her into the ground was being merciful? Granted, Moka could have disabled Mizore without inflicting any injuries on her person, but Moka was a vampire, and vampires were natural battle maniacs, wanting to showcase their physical powers and prowess in any way they could. Besides, Mizore was the one who tried to take possession of Tsukune and tried to kill her. "Next time, I won't be either."

Naruto leered at Moka and chuckled. With a small grin, he removed the distance between him and her with a single step. His red and orange robe, patterned with wavy black lines, swayed due to the abrupt burst of speed. He tapped the air in front of her stunned eyes as his expression morphed into one of deadly seriousness. "Maybe I will just kill you now so there won't be next time?"

Moka, on pure survival instinct, entered her defensive stance, but her reflex and speed had significant dropped due to the injury she had been inflicted with. "I apologize, I didn't mean that…"

"I have told you that anyone hurt Mizore will face my wrath," Naruto reminded. It was his promise, and he'd always kept his promise.

– White Snow –

Naruto grunted lowly as he twisted his left arm with his right hand to the point that the fractured bone inside snapped and broke into shards once more.

Seated by his bed, the purpled-haired thirteen years old widened her blue eyes with alarm, seeing how he had seemingly inflicted a severe injury upon his person. She quickly gripped his broken arm and hand with a deep worrying expression. "Why are you hurting yourself?"

"Because the bones are not being set correctly," Naruto answered as he winced slightly in pain. Even after all the months of resting and recuperating, his body was still not in its top physical condition. He afraid he would never be able to regain his true physical prowess no matter how much time he spent in bed healing. The once crushed bones were mending, but they mended incorrectly, thus required him to break them and allowed them to try to connect once more.

"Not being set correctly?"

Naruto explained roughtly to the girl that if his bones did not heal correctly, his arms and legs would be a great handicap. It was a weakness that his opponent could employ.

"Does it hurt?

"Of course it does, Mizore," Naruto told the little girl. It was excruciating, but he showed none of it upon his features. He had no illusion to pain, but pain was pain. They would come and go just like everything else in his life. He looked around the room he was granted by Tsurara Shirayuki, her mother. "Can you let go of my arm and find me something to make a cast out of?"

"Cast?" Mizore gripped his arm more firmly. A couple of seconds later, she blinked and used her power to encase his arm in ice.

Naruto winced more as the pain shot through his body. The frozen block of ice that his arm was jailed in was counteracting with his own power. It was slowing his metabolism, thus the healing process of his arm significantly. "Mizore… thank you… "

"Do you need more, Naruto?" Mizore asked as she placed her palm onto the block of ice.

"No!" Naruto practically shouted before blinking. Ice was hindering him instead of helping him. That wasn't entirely true. It did help his broken arm stayed in one position. At least until the ice melted. "No, this is already good. You're such a great nurse."

At the compliment, Mizore puffed up with pride as well as a wide smil. She liked nursing her friend as there weren't many things she could do the village, surrounded by winter. There were barely any kids around her age. The entire population of the Yuki-Onna only numbered in dozens, and that numbers continued to dwindle with each new generation.

"If I'm injured in bed, I'm sure Naruto would do the same," Mizore said.

Naruto smiled at the girl, who regardless of her age was his savior. If she did not find him, he would have died due to the massive internal bleeding he had sustained. "I will not let anyone hurt you, Mizore," he said with a silent vow.

– White Snow –

Moka gulped at the threat. It wasn't baseless or emptied. He had demonstrated to her that he could kill her before she could blink. Swallowing her pride, she was about to assure that as long as Mizore did not try to hurt her or those that she considered her friend, she would have no qualm with the stalking girl, but a surge of youki bathed the entire area. She snapped her red eyes towards the origin of that power and found Tsukune gripping his neck. Blood continued to stream between his fingers while his other hand increased the gripping strength he had on the Rosario.

"Tsukune…" Kurumu uttered before yelping as she was backhanded away.

Naruto stared at the black-haired boy with brown eyes. Those brown eyes were shifting into a shade of red while the black hair had silver splits. There was odd marking coming out of neck, spreading across his skin like a cancer.

Narut tilted his head to the side towards Moka. "Another vampire…?" he questioned since the energy felt almost the same as that of Moka's. He then narrowed his eyes at the Rosario gripping in Tsukune's hand. Whatever that Rosario was, it seemed to be important.

"It should happen yet," Moka mumbled while rubbing her ribs. She had injected blood into Tsukune several times to prevent him from dying, but the amount she gave him shouldn't have been sufficient enough for him to transform into…

"He's a ghoul," Naruto said as he scratched his temple lightly. He knew ghouls were possessed corpses as he had fought them before.

"Yes… I will take care of this," Moka declared as she checked her ankle by exert some pressure upon it.

"I wasn't going to do anything," Naruto said. It wasn't his problem, and he already had enough problems to deal with. Before he walked away from Moka and let her deal with it, he added: "You will apologize to Mizore when she wakes up, and she will do the same."

"Very well," Moka acknowledged before approaching Tsukune. Without uttering a single word, she sent him flying with a high kick. She continued her assault with all the intention to kill. Kurumu and Yukari tried to stop her, but their effort was in vain as Tsukune tried to attack anyone in range.

As the battle was going on, Naruto returned to Mizore's side. He crouched down and brushed the bangs out of her face before checking over her injury in more depth. There was some bruising, but that was all. It seemed that he had misjudged Moka since she held back her inhuman strength, desiring not to inflict more damage than necessary. Still, a blow on the neck would have been sufficed.

"Please forgive me, Mizore," Naruto whispered with saddened and sorrowful eyes. "As much as I wished I could reciprocate your feeling, I cannot. This is because I care for you more than I would dare to admit. If your mother knew how much, she would die of happiness, but not before forcing us to bond."

He chuckled lightly before drawling in a deep breath as he remembered his war-torn home. "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be alive right now. That is the truth, but I cannot stay with you. I have to return to my world; a world that is engulfed in a war that you cannot even imagined. I cannot abandon my obligation, I cannot abandon my friends and families, and I cannot abandon all those that had placed their hope and dream in me. I know you placed your hope in me too, but one person does not outweigh billions of lives."

Naruto stroke her hand. He felt a bit warm even though her hand was ice cold. "I wish I could be selfish at time, forsaking my duty and obligation to be with you, but I cannot. I have to return. I have continued fighting even though I know I would die in doing so. I do not wish you to wait for me… I do not wish you to come with me, knowing that our time would cut short." He lifted her hand and gave it a gentle kiss. "I will repay the debt I owed and the promise I broke in another life, Mizore."

"Stop, Moka!" Kurumu called out, trying to stop Moka from delivering the killing blow.

"I have no other way to save him," Moka said as she gripped her wrist tightly. "Vampires by nature are a warlike species; the nature of seeking blood and mayhem. Tsukune is now almost equivalent to a ghoul, mindlessly seeking blood and destruction. His mental state continued to deteriorate until he loses the control of his body entirely. If I don't do this, he would succumb completely, becoming a monster that feds on human flesh. I will not allow that to happen."

"No, that can't be. There must be a way to save him," Kurumu uttered, still trying to defend Tsukune by stopping Moka in any way she could. The wounds she sustained weren't inflicted by Moka, but rather, by Tsukune, who attacked her without any though.

"Get out of the way, Kurumu!" Moka demanded. Her eyes opened slightly as she forcibly pushed the said girl out the way as Tsukune managed to land a hit squarely on her body. The blow was powerful enough to stun her, allowing him to land another.

"Please stop, please stop," Kurumu beseeched desperately as she watched Tsukune pummeled Moka into the ground while the Rosario in his hand continued to crumple. Moka managed to kick Tsukune off of her after obtaining several more solid hits.

"Why don't you just kill him already," Naruto said as he held up Mizore in bridal style while looking at the injured and battered Moka. He knew Moka was holding back greatly. "If you don't do it soon, his bloodlust will increases and he will only get stronger."

"No, we can't," Kurumu uttered with tears.

"Then he will kill each of you before searching for more victims to rip apart," Naruto added as he cradled the sleeping princess closer to his body. He wanted to teleport away, but their hesitation had bothered him – vexed him even.

"Kill… kill…" Tsukune muttered as he clenched the Rosario tightly. He then stared at the blond before roaring: "KILL!"

Naruto sidestepped as the mindless Tsukune tried to assault him. A flurry of punches along with kicks followed suit as he held Mizore tightly and hoped backward. "Stop him or I will."

Moka gritted her teeth and rushed forward, but Kurumu gripped her around the waist, acting like a dead weight.

"You can't," Kuruma called out, refusing to let go even though Moka tried to pull her off.

Naruto rolled his eyes when he captured the two girls in the corner of his eyes, and in that moment of distraction, he wasn't able to avoid Tsukune completely.

Mizore gasped in pain as her arm was slashed.

Even though it was his fault, anger flashed in his eyes as his power spiked to impossible level. He gripped Mizore in one hand while his other hand glowed brightly, emitting incredible heat.

Both Moka and Kurumu widened their eyes as Tsukune stopped assaulting the blond abruptly. Even in his mindlessness state, he looked down to see his entire chest was missing. It wasn't missing exactly. It was completely incinerated the moment a fiery hand passed right through it, burning any flesh and bone that got in its way.

– To be continued –

Harem just ruins any story, turning it into a smut-fest. If I wanted to write a smut fest, I'll just call it Icha Icha – basically porn with simple plot. Luckily for you guys, I'm kind of depressed pretty much lost any motivation to publish more chapters for Icha Icha after Temptation's latest feedbacks and reviews. It has garbage amount no matter how I looked at it.

Anyway, let's see how this story will go shall we? Hopefully, I can zoom through the plotlines and fluffy moments of Mizore and Naruto before I shelved it indefinitely and move onto a brand new story on my ever growing list. I have plenty of plotlines to play around with. A new story always motivates me, but after the initial spark is gone, it pretty much up to you guys to keep me going. When I'm moody about a story not getting what I expect it supposes to get, I don't publish the next chapter – period.

And rick12, I will release next chapter of Youkai no Bikou if you surprise me. I was going to when you said you would release another chapter last Sunday as I want to give you materials to continue your reading story. Since you didn't, I didn't bother either.