A/N: I do not own Naruto.

Also, Naruto is about twelve in this chapter. Also, his werewolf side looks just like a normal wolf so far. :)

Naruto

Chapter 2

A Year later…

The week had gone good for Naruto. He was able to stay in his wolf form (he didn't like the sound of werewolf) for most of the week. It wasn't until a snowy Saturday morning that Naruto knew he couldn't wait any longer and had to transform into his human form. With a quick 'morning' to his mother Naruto shamelessly transformed into his human shape; after all, it was his mom so he had no reason to be embarrassed.

He let his four paws on the ground enter into his tinted fur that was also entering his skin-some of it falling onto the cold floor.

When he was done adorning himself in the skins, he noticed that they were becoming quite small on his growing body. He furrowed his brows, his human form couldn't handle the different seasons like his wolf form.

He heard a low grumble coming from his mother as he fascined the last button on his 'shirt'.

"Oh, you laugh now, but just you wait, I'll bring back some clothes for YOU to wear." Naruto said sticking out his tongue. "Then we'll see who's laughing".

In annoyance his mother gave a low growl causing Naruto to grin ear to ear.

"Oh mother…you know I'm just joking. I'll be back soon. "He said laughing and rubbing his forehead to his mother to show his respect and love for her. "I have to go, hopefully I don't get snowed into the town" he said commenting on the snow that was beginning to fall softly. "It's hard to tell in this form…"

With that Naruto was off, making his way through the many bushes and trees that he knew as his home, making his way to the small village.

Naruto had learned a few things in the past few years, especially about humans. He learned how to speak their language and how to count their currency-memorizing the things he could by at a certain price at each store. In this aspect, he was fine as long as he stayed away from iron-it seemed to be his weakness.

For the past year Naruto had roamed around a few towns, trying to get money from odd jobs in order to maintain his human diet.

"Naruto!" A shop keeper bellowed, "Are you looking for anything particular today? We have some new packs in which are strong and sturdy!"

"Not today, I still have work to do, but maybe when I'm done!" Naruto called back making his way toward the butcher house.

The door produced a small 'ching' to announce his presence. Even without his wolf nose he could still tell the meat was exceptional, drooling over a piece of venison.

"Oy! Naruto! Close your mouth before a fly makes its way in and come do you job before all the meat spoils!" An old, white haired man said.

"yeah yeah" Naruto waved, "It seems like you let all the work pill on so that you can go peeping old man." He said as he started to skin some meat in the back of the store.

"Humph, me?" the man said giving a lecherous grin, "your only twelve! What do you know about peeping?"

"Jira don't complain, it's your fault for writing those books-"

"SH!" jiraiya whispered loudly, "you know what could happen to me if the town found out about those. Crazy bunch oh fellows here. Always thinking that Vampires are going to get em in the dead o night or wolves will devour them into pieces. I've only been to a few places where the people aint crazy-everywhere else hangs and burns the innocent for their own sick enjoyment." He spoke chopping loudly for each syllable.

Naruto was silent for a while at the sudden change in atmosphere. "Do…do they really do that to people that they think are monsters?" Keeping the constant rhythm in his cutting.

"Yep! Nowhere safe for anyone no a days, not even the ladies!" Jiraiya joked. Naruto couldn't seem to escape an eerie feeling though throughout the rest of the day.

Later that day…

after saying by to the old man the blond decided to head back to his mother to see how she was doing with all of this newly fallen snow. Plus, he had bought some weird metal contraptions called 'silverware' for her to look at; after all, Naruto spoke about them to her all the time and he had finally saved enough to buy a pair.

He thought back on what jiraiya had been saying, about vampires and monsters…he had never really known what a vampire was until the pervert explained it to him. The words, "cold lifeless creature that pretended to be man but a rejection by God" kept finding itself to the surface of his lobe.

The first thing to pop I his head was a slimy worm…but before his thoughts continued Naruto smelt something off with his surroundings. Sure, his human nose wasn't as good as his wolf nose but both forms were used to what his home, the forest, was supposed to smell like.

Instead of the refreshing snow that had fallen earlier that day he smelt something that was deeper and burnt his sinuses yet eerily familiar. Curious, he followed the scent as it became stronger and stronger to him. Making his way, a new layer of snow started to fall from the sky as he made his was around trees and over bushes.

It wasn't until Naruto came within a close enough radius that he relised what it was he smelled. Hoping he was wrong, which is what he was prone to be, he hoped that this particular smell was not that of blood.

Speeding up and rounding a few more trees Naruto finally found the source of the smell, his mother.

AN: So, I wanted to get this out, even if it is a short chapter. What are any inputs that you guys have on the story so far? Do you want something different, something to stay the same, or anything that you want more of an explanation of?