Angel: Ah, Christmas break, how beautiful it is. Though my feet hurt from making cookies and candles all afternoon into the evening.

Demon: Quit complaining about it baby, you're sitting down now and that's all that matters.

Angel: *glares at Demon briefly* anyway, I intend on working on my stories much more often during the entire month that I have off so be ready for more of Call of the Wolf, Full Moon: Tides, and Forbidden Desert Love over Christmas break.

Demon: And Sounds of the Slithering Fox!

Angel: I'm not sure if I can think on that story yet. Let's just see what I can accomplish during the first few weeks.

Demon: *whimpering* Okay Angel. Though I really want it up soon.

Angel: I'll get on it listening to the soundtrack I made over and over. Anyway, Readers, I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy Call of the Wolf some more.

Naruto stepped out of his den in human form. His eyes were sunken in slightly and dark rings formed around them. The bright blueness was now dull and filled with emptiness…and it's only been a month since the Vampires had taken his Hinata. He watched his sister, who was now able to be in human form. She was standing with her mate, Gaara, holding hands and standing close. He snarled, phased to Wolf form and left the cavern all together.

He couldn't take it anymore. Everything he looked at…everybody he saw, reminded him of his precious Hinata and how things were so wonderful. What the saying was was true. You don't know what you have until it's gone. Hinata was gone…and he was a mess. He refused to talk casually to people, he just gave his orders to his warriors and hunters and that was it.

He padded up the same hill he's been going up every night. His eyes met the bright moon. The moon was the only thing that he could gaze upon that reminded him of Hinata without angering him. He sighed, threw his head back, and howled mournfully a beautiful song. He sang his song for the one woman he ever loved, in hoping that she'll return to him. If he was in human form, the words would be…

Hush now Baby

Don't you cry

Rest your wings my Butterfly

Peace will come to you in time

And I will say this Lullaby

No though I must leave my child

But I will stay here by your side

And if you wake before I'm gone

Remember this sweet Lullaby

And I'll walk through darkness

Don't you ever stop believing

With love forlorn

With love you'll find your way

My love

The world has turned the day to dark

I leave this night with a heavy heart

When I return to dry your eyes

I will sing this lullaby

Yes I will sing this lullaby

He howled one last time, long and mournful. Into the night, calling for his mate to return.

Hinata laid in her bed in just a black silk night gown that brought her paler than death skin out in contrast. Her long, silken dark indigo hair formed a halo around her face, her pale eyes open. She couldn't sleep, not during the sad howling she would hear every night when she would lay to rest. The wolf seemed so alone, she wanted to find that wolf and end his sorrow. But it was against the rules of her family. She wasn't to ever answer that call for it was a call to "end her existence" as they had told her. She was told that the Wolves wanted to kill her. Right now, she didn't want to believe that to be true.

Nobody would be able to understand that wolf's sadness until somebody actually lived it. It was a shame, but she couldn't do anything to stop it. She wasn't a very strong Vampire. Her sister, Hanabi, had more control of her powers and a stronger drive to feed and kill. While she could barely stand the taste of blood let alone the scent. It was terrible. After being forced to feed, she'd hide somewhere in private and throw it all back up and go out for deer or some wild animal.

She heard a knock at her door. "Who is it?"

"It's me," the voice of Neji called, "May I come in?"

Hinata quickly put a robe around her body. "Come in."

Neji entered, closed the door, and leaned back against it. The lanky man looked a lot like her father…only because her father and his father were identical twins. "Hinata, why do you keep ignoring me when I really want to talk to you? We are betrothed, why won't you just talk to me?"

Hinata sighed, "I'm just really at a time where I'm still trying to figure myself out okay. I'm just having a rough time in my life right now. I don't want to be bothered with the betrothal and my lessons and everything else in my life."

Neji glared at her as soon as he smelled deer blood. "You refused to drink humans again didn't you?"

Hinata stood. "I can't stand the taste of it! The scent makes me want to gag and throw my insides up. At least with deer blood I won't starve to death! Just get off my back about it!"

He charged at her and slammed her body against the wall. She let out a cry in pain. Unlike Hanabi, she wasn't as strong to stand up against Neji. His eyes were blood red with rage. "YOU'RE TURNING INTO THOSE DAMN WOLVES!! HANABI WOULD BE ABLE TO STOMACH THE HUMAN BLOOD WHETHER SHE LIKED IT OR NOT!"

"I'M NOT HANABI!" she screamed back, "I'll never be my twin sister! Don't you remember, I've been in a coma for TEN years. She has TEN years of experience over me! Why don't you go and fuck her!? She's the stronger one!"

Neji grabbed her throat, squeezing. She gasped for air. "We. Are. Not. Those. Wolves! Wolves look for the strongest. We just follow our hearts. The Wolves are monsters, we are pure! Now you better get stronger for us and get over you're distaste for human blood. You are a Vampire, you must act like one." He threw her down and stormed out of the room. Hinata gasped for air as she grabbed her own neck. The air filled her lungs and began to hurt from the lack of breath. She knew she had to get stronger for her family…or die…

Winter passed slowly. Snow covered the land in a beautiful blanket of white. Naruto sat alone in his den. It's gotten to the point that he can't bear to walk outside of his den when everybody else is out. He lost the ability to laugh and enjoy the smaller things in life. He would hunt for his pack, give orders, keep the peace, and then spend his times in solitude. He couldn't stop thinking about her even though she was a vampire. He had saw her hunting. She was just a beautiful as she was when he had her with him in his home. He missed her terribly.

He looked up when he heard Tsunade enter the den. Please, Tsunade-sama, I wish to be alone.

She sighed, "Naruto, never in my entire life have you ever called me that." She knelt by him, stroking his neck. "I know how much this hurts you, it's a terrible thing to know where your mate is but you can't get to them. But believe me, I'm sure she misses you too."

My songs are pointless. I sing them every night, and every night I lay in wait, hoping she will return to me. I think that I'm destined to be alone for the rest of my life or until I take my own life…I've been thinking about joining the Atkatsuki.

"No, Naruto, you have too much to live for here. Joining the Atkatsuki could mean your death if you slip up one time."

That's the point. He growled deeply as he phased back into human form. "I can't live without her, Grandma! I'm feeling colder and colder as the days pass. What if I never find her again? What if she remembers me, but tries to kill me anyways?""Naruto…"

"I would gladly die by her hand, it would tell me whether it was true love I felt for her or a fool's love I felt. If she cried over my death, then she truly loved me but couldn't stop the inevitable."

"Stop saying these things, Naruto!" Tsunade cupped his face, "Tsuki-sama took her away for a reason. She wouldn't take her away from you for an eternity. Maybe she wants you to learn something from this, maybe Hinata is learning to be stronger and to follow her heart. But whatever you do, don't try to end your life to end this suffering. Yes, it hurts, it will hurt, but that means that Hinata truly made you a happy man. If you didn't care about her and she didn't care about you, you both would have already moved on. But it's January now and you are just as lonely as you were when she was taken from you."

Naruto clamped his eyes shut tightly. He hadn't cried since he was just a pup and his mother had died after giving birth to his sister. But he felt the tears threatening to spill from his eyes. All the sadness and anger that had built up all his life…the loneliness, the loss of Hinata, it was all wanting to come out.

Tsunade hugged him close to her like she had done so many times to him and his sister. Her grandchildren had seen a rough life, losing their mother so young, then losing their father to a battle of vampires. Natsumi feared of her mate's safety constantly, and now Naruto has lost his. She rubbed his back as he cried quietly over Hinata.

Naruto prayed to Tsuki-sama hard. He prayed that his beloved Hinata would be returned to him and they would never be separated ever again. He wanted her back so much, he'd do anything to have her in his arms again.

Angel: Yeah, I know, it's a bit shorter than my other chapters, but I didn't want to move too fast through the story.

Demon: In other words, she enjoys leaving you all blue-balled.

Angel: *laughs* yes yes, for once he's right, guys. I intended on leaving the last chapter like that. Leaf Ranger showed me that I was successful *Wink* I hope you enjoyed this chapter and will be begging me for more.