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.

Naruto is kind of ruthless sometimes, but that is because of the things he had experienced. The timeline is around chapter 18 of the manga, which is just after the witch ranch.

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Naruto frowned thinly as he looked down at the unmoving form of a pink-haired girl upon the shattered ground. He knew her neck was broken due to his strike, but despite knowing so, he expressed no hint of guilt or remorse upon his whiskered face.

There wasn't any reason to, and as his nine tails swayed and flustered playfully behind him, he stood towering over Moka for a thoughtful moment before raising a foot and practically stomped her head into the hard earth without any hesitation.

Kurumu and Yukari were both shocked and speechless at the sight, but it was only for a moment since Moka's painful and wailing voice snapped both of them out of their induced paralysis.

"Stop," Kurumu begged as her hands wrapped tightly around the brown-haired boy on her laps. "Please stop! You will kill her!"

"Let Moka-nee go, you monster," Yukari demanded, but she flinched frightfully when the blond gave her a dreadful leer while his oceanic blue eyes shifted into crimson red with slits. Those eyes were the eyes of a natural predator, seeing everything as his prey.

"I'm sorry," Yukari said and receded behind Kurumu like a frightened puppy.

"Moka-san…! Moka…-san…!" Tsukune managed to utter eligibly while raising his hand and outstretching it towards the girl he wanted to protect with all he had. When his physical strength began to fail him, he gasped rapidly, trying to fill his missing lungs with much needed airs. With each pointless and laborious effort, his vision became more blurred and distorted. He let out one last dried gasp before his hands fell lifeless against the earth.

"Tsukune!" Kurumu called out. She fanatically tried to wake the brown-haired boy up with everything come to her mind, but he remained completely unresponsive to any of her attempts. "Yukari, please heal him. Yukari!"

"I'm… sorry, Kurumu-nee, I can't," Yukari said as she gripped her wand tightly. Her hands were shaking uncontrollably as her eyes filled with tears. "Tsukune-kun is dead… Tsukune-kun is dead… Tsukune-kun…"

"No…! NO!"

"Naruto…?" Mizore uttered as she tried to approach the blond slowly.

In truth, Mizore didn't like Moka very much ever since she saw her on the first day of school. She felt both envy and jealousy of the girl, who was always the center of attention, and seeing her with Tsukune day in and out as if they were a couple had only reminded her of what she had lost. She wanted it back… even if she had to take it from another.

Naruto tilted his head to the side and gave Mizore a long few seconds before frowning and sighing. He brushed his golden hair back as he removed his foot from the downed girl within a sizable crater. He was curious at her regenerative ability as it seemed to heal all her injuries in matter of seconds.

"Mizore, you do know that beside sunlight, vampires cannot die unless they are beheaded or impaled through the heart," Naruto said as he crouched down and poked Moka with a tree's branch as if she was a corpse.

"I know… but," Mizore said as her eyes examined Moka. "But she's cannot fight anymore… Naruto. Is that necessary?"

Naruto cocked his head and raised his hand. "You mean the stick? Yes, it's fun."

"No!" Mizore called out. She then blinked as she a wave of nostalgia washed over her. She tried to hold in her joy, but it was plastered upon her face. "I mean, did you have to stomp her?"

"I'm just putting her in her place," Naruto said with a grin. "And which one are you referring to?"

"Which one…? I don't understand?"

"Oh… Mizore, give me a minute. After I check something, we can go home," Naruto said as he poked his cheek with the tree branch before throwing it away.

"Home…?" Mizore questioned. "Where is home?"

"Did you hit your head? Home as in the place where your mum is," Naruto responded.

"Yes," Mizore said as she rubbed her eyes a little.

Naruto nodded and returned to the pink-haired girl, who was groaning. He gripped her head, and with a bit of strength, he pulled her head up from the earth in order to see him.

Moka gasped and panted as she tried to open her eyes fully. Even though her body could regenerate any form of injuries, she could still feel all the pain that had been inflicted upon her body from the numerous skull-crushing stomps he had given her only a moment ago. She was trying her best to stay conscious in order to stop Alucard from fully awakened.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked with indifferent.

"I'm… Akasha Bloodriver…" Moka responded after a moment. "I… apologize for my misconduct… I couldn't stop myself."

"Apology accepted," Naruto said as he placed his other hand onto her forehead, "and I'm sorry too."

Moka – Akasha – wondered what he was doing before darkness invaded her swirling vision. Everything went dark soon afterward.

– White Snow –

"Who are you?" Naruto asked the pink-haired girl, who was staring curiously at the endless darkness.

Akasha turned towards him. "What is this place?"

"This is your mindscape," Naruto answered, "Akasha Bloo-driver?"

"It's Bloodriver," Akasha corrected politely, earning an awkward stare from the blond as if he had never heard anyone with that kind of surname before. It was to be expected. "This is my mindscape?"

"Yes, it is," Naruto confirmed as he gave a brief glance at the emptied surrounding. Mindscape usually reflected a person's deepest inner thoughts. "So who are you?"

"I am Akasha Bloodriver," Akasha introduced herself once more.

"And I am Naruto Uzumaki, but does that tell you anything about me? Or do you believe a name defines a person," Naruto responded as he faced her. To him, a name was simply a name. If he was known by any others, would that change who he was?

"Tell me who you are, Akasha Bloodriver?" Naruto asked again. "And I will do the same."

Akasha blinked only once before smiling. She finally understood his question. He was not asking who she was, but rather, what she truly was. "Almost five hundred years ago in the Principality of Wallachia, there was a small nameless country," she began.

"Okay?" Naruto mumbled softly. He then noticed the darkness of the mindscape brightened up before it faded away completely. A bountiful landscape filled with joyous people quickly replaced it. He narrowed his eyes as some of them weren't entirely human. "I suppose this is the small nameless country?"

Akasha nodded before moving closer to a handsome man with shoulder-length wavy hair. "This is the place I was born, and this person here was my King. His dream was to build a utopia where humans and creatures could live in peace. To show his intention, he revealed himself to be a vampire, but doing so had caused the men of neighboring countries to fear him and his people."

"And what they feared, they destroys," Naruto said as if he had seen and heard it before.

Akasha only looked at the blond as the landscape around her shifted to illustrate a massive invasion that was destroying her beautiful home, murdering those that she knew. Bloods were constantly streamed out of the piled up corpses, joining many others, forming into a river. "My home was no more, and my King lost his kingdom."

"I'm sorry for your loss," Naruto said almost instinctively.

Akasha smiled at him before looking at her younger self, who'd followed her King to the east, hoping to find a way to rebuild their once glorious Kingdom once more. Sadly, the longer her King lived, the bitter and resentful he became. "Being a Shinso, the first born, my King, cannot die as all mortal would. I, the last survivor of his Kingdom, continued to age and grew. He feared that I would one day be ripped away from him like his people, so he did what a King would – to save the last of his people."

Naruto did not say anything as he watched the mindscape illustrated the pink-haired young girl soaked completely in blood with tears streaming out of her eyes. He knew that the first awakening as a vampire was intense, and the hunger – the thirst – that followed would not quench no matter what.

Akasha rubbed her neck mildly. "That was when I knew he was no longer my King. In my fear, I ran and ran until the seasons changed. When I realized I still wish to be by his side, I tried to return, but it was too late. He cursed god for taking everything he'd loved away from him."

Naruto watched the strange grotesque titanic monster that rampage across the country, slaughtering anyone and everything that came into its path. He also noted three people rose up to fight against the monster, and they succeeded in subduing it. He watched the fall of Dracula, who called himself Alucard, at the hand of Akasha, followed by the event of her lives up to the point when he met her.

"Is that why I feel there are four different personalities in this place," Naruto said after the mindscape returned to pitch blackness.

"Four?"

"Whether it was intentional or not, due to your action, you and Alucard had become one entity. Then there are two Moka from what I could tell," Naruto pointed out while rubbing his chin. "Hmm… four different personalities cannot share the same body. The burden is too great for anyone. I should do something about it…"

"I suppose that is correct," Akasha agreed with a nod, "but there is no other –

Her sentence was cut off when blood erupted from her lips. She looked down and saw her chest was impaled by the blond, who looked at her confusing eyes almost blankly.

"From what I understand, you have already died, Akasha," Naruto said as the hand embedded in her chest balled. "If that is the case, you should have never placed your own mind into your daughter." He pulled his hand out along, ripping her heart out of her chest.

Akasha fell onto her knees before covering the wound with both of her hands. The hole in her chest was not healing as it should. "I… I only wish to protect her."

"Do you really think what you did is protecting her, Akasha?" Naruto asked while shaking his head in slight annoyance. He then raised his hand as flames erupted, turning the heart into ash before swirling into a palm-size sphere before dissipating. "What would happen when the seal completely breaks? Would the real Moka and the fake Moka intermingle together to produce a new personality, or maybe one of them disappear?"

"The personality… I implanted to… protect Moka will disappear," Akasha panted.

"And would Moka, the real one, simply allowed the girl she came to care and love as her sister to simply disappear?" Naruto asked.

The answer was far too obvious so Akasha did not response.

Naruto sighed. "So not only you repressed her memory, but you are playing with her mind and heart. I wish I have a mother like you."

"I…" Akasha uttered as she pondered more on his point of view. "I understand…" she stood up as the wound in her chest closed up completely. Her clothes however, remained ripped.

Naruto slid his eyes down her naked chest and arched a brow before returning them back squarely on her face. "So you figure it out…?"

"Like you said, this is my mindscape," Akasha reminded as new attire seemingly magically materialized out of nowhere and wrapped around her body. It was the armor she'd wore when she fought against her King and father, Alucard. It seemed to her that anything happened in the mindscape only affect her psych. If she died in her mind then her personality – consciousness – would be erased. "Please forgive me, but I cannot disappear yet."

"I see… is that because your consciousness is suppressing that of Alucard?" Naruto questioned.

"Alucard must not allow to be awakened no matter what," Akasha confirmed as her eyes became deadly serious.

"You are more like Alucard than you know, Akasha," Naruto said as his eyes deepened. "Do you know what I think of all this?" Not letting her the time to answer, he continued. "You and Alucard are relic of the past. Why do you keep holding onto a world that no longer needed you? And if you truly care and love your daughter then you should not linger around any longer."

"I don't wish to linger more than necessary, but I fear what would happen if I did," Akasha said.

"The worst that could happen is Alucard wakes up when you are gone," Naruto said. He then inhaled deeply. He did not wish to deal the problem of this world, but he couldn't simply ignore it either. From the memory Akasha had shown him, letting Alucard roamed free was a bad idea. "If he does, I will get rid of him. I probably just get rid of him soon just in case."

Akasha narrowed her eyes at the blond and shook her head. "I'm afraid you are not strong enough to fight against a Shinso."

A tick mark plastered on his face. He then took a second to calm himself. "I said I will show you mine if you show me yours, Akasha." The surrounding shifted, changing into completely destroyed city with black pillar of smokes rising all over the horizon. Every building in sight was crumpling, falling over due to the extensive damage they had taken, allowing their body to bury the numerous corpses that littered the world.

Akasha gasped at the image she saw. "What is this place…?"

"My world," Naruto said as he turned to face the enormous beast in the distance. There was a hint of guilt and sadness in his eyes as if it was his fault. "I don't know the full power of a Shinso, but if it takes Alucard seven days to destroy the world then he shouldn't be a problem."

"How can you say that?" Akasha asked before the entire landscape rumbled. She followed his gaze and landed on the titanic creature as it swung each of its ten tails one after another. Earthquakes, floods, thunderstorms, and tornadoes manifested, ripping the ground and rendering the sky asunder. "What is this thing…?"

Naruto noted the dreadful fear of her voice and wanted to smirk victoriously, but he couldn't find it in himself to do so. He pointed at the creature before balling his hand into a fist. "We called it Juubi, the ten-tails. Each time it swung one of its tails, mountains collapse, cities crumple, and millions die."

"Millions die…!?" Akasha gasped with both shock and dismay. She looked around, realizing there were corpses as far as the eye could see. "How many… have already…?"

– To be continued –

Should get back to Mizore and Naruto soon… since it's their story after all.