So, as you may have noticed, I'm not big on the entire "Author's Note" thing, mostly because so far I've had nothing to say. But, I was looking at my story's traffic the other day and noticed something...odd. Nearly 400 individual people have read my ramblings. And while I'm thrilled, only 2 of those have reviewed. Please understand, I'm not ungrateful by any means. I love my two lonely little reviews. They make me happy.

So, I would greatly appreciate some form of feedback, negative or positive. Something like "This is bizarre" or "I don't understand your writing style at all." I would even enjoy a "Dear Lord you need professional help!" to let me know I'm on the right track.

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Chapter 3- Transition Phase

Naruto stared in shock at Sasuke's smug face before closing the canopy curtain. He crawled backwards on the bed, slowly so as not to make any sound, and pressed his back into the headboard. He maneuvered the pillows to make a semi fort and pulled the blankets up to his chin. 'Not that a pillow fort will be able to stop a monster,' he thought. He felt like he was five again, waiting for an attack from the monster under his bed.

Outside of his sanctuary, there were no sounds. No rustling of clothes, no squeaking of floor boards, nothing. Naruto was beginning to wonder if he was still dreaming.

A pale, tapered hand finally emerged through the slit in the curtain and grasped the edges. The sound of metal on metal grated Naruto's ears as the curtains were pulled back. Sasuke was walking around the edge of the bed, pulling the curtain open behind him. Finally, he let go of the curtain and leaned against one of the bedposts, crossing his arms and simply observing Naruto.

Naruto, for his part, may or may not have squeaked. He burrowed himself further in the bed and pulled a pillow in front of him, like a shield. It wouldn't shield him from much, but Naruto was willing to take what he could get.

A long five minutes passed and neither of them moved or spoke. Naruto, finally, fidgeted. With Sasuke not attacking, the adrenalin was leaving his body, leaving his muscles aching. He looked more closely at his capture. His eyes were black, not the fearsome red of his nightmares. There were no claws at the end of long fingers, and no fangs pulling at his lips. 'But there could be fangs.' Naruto tended to be a bit slow, but he wasn't willing to risk his life on the chance that he had imagined last night. Sasuke's posture was relaxed, as if telling Naruto that he was no threat to him. Maybe, Naruto had misunderstood. Maybe…

"So…can I go home now?" It was worth a shot.

Sasuke snorted delicately. "You are home. This is your home now."

Naruto's jaw dropped. No, he understood the situation. He pointed a shaking finger at Sasuke. "You kidnapped me!" Sasuke had the audacity to shrug. "You won't get away with this!"

Sasuke smirked. "Who will report you missing?"

"Karin." The reply was out of Naruto's mouth before he could stop and consider the question. As soon as he saw Sasuke's smirk widen, he knew that Karin wouldn't be reporting him missing. She probably already new that he was here. Probably, Naruto thought bitterly, helped Sasuke kidnap him.

"My boss. When I don't show up for work today he'll…" he was cut off by Sasuke shaking his head.

"I am sorry, but Karin was kind enough to take in your letter of resignation to your boss this morning. You apparently received a better job else where. Your boss was remarkably quite happy for you and wishes you all the best."

Naruto's mouth went dry. "My landlord then, when I don't pay the rent."

"I personally went by your apartment earlier this evening to collect your meager belongings and to inform your landlord that his tenant was…"he paused and inclined his head every so slightly towards Naruto. "…moving in with a friend. The man seemed happy that you had a friend at all, and so was more than willing to break your lease."

"You…" but Naruto was speechless. He racked his brain trying to think of someone, anyone, who would miss him, report him missing, but he was coming up blank. He didn't know which was worse- that there was no one to save him or that he was stuck here with a monster.

Sasuke let his smirk drop as he realized the conclusion that Naruto had come to. He broke his stare and turned away to lean against the far wall. He kept his gaze adverted as he spoke. "There will, of course, be rules that you must follow while you are here."

Naruto whimpered. Sasuke took that as a sign to continue.

"You will be allowed free reign of this house. You may go anywhere that you please, day or night. You will not be allowed outside, however, except at night and always with an escort." Sasuke paused and turned to Naruto to impress upon him the importance of that last rule. "It would be unwise, Naruto, for you to wonder alone in vampire country. While you are in my house, you are under my protection. None will hurt you here, and my coven is under strict orders. Outside, however, you are fair game."

Did that mean that there were more of them? Naruto remembered his night at the club, the lines of stoic, beautiful people, and finally, finally, realized where they were taking those other people. He swallowed. Where he had been taken when Sasuke interfered.

Sasuke let him digest what he had been told before continuing. "My coven will provide you with anything you desire. Make a request of any of them and they will give it to you. We are not accustomed to the living walking among us, and so we may over look something. We are only basing our knowledge of your necessities off of hazy memories of our past. Karin," Naruto flinched at the name, "has gone shopping for you. She has stocked the kitchen with food she has assured me that you will like. She also went clothes shopping as your selection was," he inclined his head to Naruto's orange crate, confirming that he had cleared out his apartment, "lacking. She tried to stay in the same styles and color scheme as what you already owned, but if there is something you would like, let her know."

Naruto's mind was reeling. It sounded almost as if he was a guest, rather than a prisoner. He had to keep reminding himself of the terror that he felt the night before. Sasuke was analyzing him before he seemed to come to a conclusion.

"And now I believe that we have hit a wall. I do not wish to overwhelm you on your first night. I will leave you now."

Sasuke turned and headed towards the door. He stopped with his hand on the doorknob before he turned to speak over his shoulder.

"For what it is worth, I am sorry for what happened in the alley. It was a knee jerk reaction."

Naruto's jaw dropped. "Your 'knee jerk reaction' is to rip someone's throat out?"

Sasuke turned to face him completely. "Yes. Though usually, I have much better control over my instincts. You seem to override my control."

Before Naruto could think of a reply, Sasuke was out the door.

Naruto didn't dare close his eyes for the rest of the night. He remained in his awkward position squeezed between the mattress and the headboard. Every once in a while, he would hear voices in the hallway outside of his door. By the time the sun rose, Naruto was exhausted. He fell asleep still propped up behind his pillow fort.

He woke a couple of hours before sunset to the sound of his stomach growling. He weighed his options before deciding that if he was going to die a horribly brutal death, he'd die on a full stomach. He opened the door to his room carefully. There were no sounds at all. But now he was faced with a worse problem. He had no idea where the kitchen was! And he just knew he was going to get lost. He twitched before closing the door and backing up into the room.

Instead, he decided to explore his new room. Luckily, there was a bathroom attached to his room.

He paced from one end of the room to the other. It took him 23.6 seconds. This room itself was more than twice the size of his own tiny apartment. And that was before he opened the walk in closet. His clothes had been removed from his orange crate and already hung up. There were several outfits that he didn't recognize as well. Those must be the clothes Karin bought him.

He sighed before collapsing face down on the bed. He might as well get some more sleep. It was going to be a long night.

"Are you going on a hunger strike?"

Naruto shot up in bed. He hadn't realized he had fallen asleep. It took a moment for his mind to wake up enough to realize that he had been spoken to. He turned around to face the person.

"Because if you are, I'd be glad to force feed you." Naruto recognized that creepy grin. He sorted through his drunken memories to find a name.

"Kiba."

And there was that creepy widening of the grin, just like Naruto remembered.

"That's right. Glad to see that you remember me. Now then, are you going to answer my question?"

Naruto tried to remember what question he was asked. "No, I'm not on a hunger strike. I just…I didn't…um…"

"You didn't feel like going out into a house of vampires?" Naruto flinched. "Well, you could have gotten out during the day. It's true we sleep at daytime."

"I was worried that I'd get lost and wouldn't be able to find my way back. Is everyone in this house a…," Naruto hesitated. "…a vampire?"

Kiba nodded. "Yup, everyone. Well, except for Karin, but that's not for lack of trying. She and Suigetsu have been trying to convince Sasuke to let Suigetsu change her for a while now, but he's been holding out. Probably because he needed someone to watch over you during the day. Now that you're here, he probably won't have an excuse to hold out for much longer. Come on, I'll show you the way to the kitchen."

Kiba moved closer to the door, but Naruto stayed sitting on the bed. That must be what Sasuke had that Karin wanted. Wait, if everyone in the house was a vampire, than did that mean that Kiba was too? Naruto eyed the man carefully. Yup, he could see that. Despite that knowledge, though, he didn't seem nearly as scary as Sasuke.

Then there was Kiba's face in his. "Look, if you don't come willingly, I'm going to have to force you. In your best interest, of course. And if I touch you, Sasuke may just rip my head off. Literally." Naruto slid sideways off of the bed. Kiba's grin reemerged. "Wonderful! Now, let's go get you something to eat." Kiba walked towards the door again and held it open for Naruto.

Naruto was trying to keep track of the turns Kiba took to get them to the kitchen, but he finally gave up.

"Kiba? You made it sound like Sasuke was in charge or something." Kiba nodded.

"Yup, he is. It's like how in wolf packs, there's an alpha wolf, yea? Well, in this coven, Sasuke's the alpha wolf."

His curiosity was peaked. "Why Sasuke?"

"Well, this is his coven. He's the oldest. And as vampires age, they become stronger. So, since Sasuke's the oldest, he's also the strongest. Also, everyone in this coven is only here because of him."

"So, he turned all of you?"

Kiba shook his head. "No. In fact, there's only one of us that he turned, and even then, it was only partially. Ah, here we are. Karin bought a ton of food, so hopefully you'll be able to find something you like."

The kitchen was relatively smaller than what he thought it would be. But, it would make sense. No one else in this house would be using it, except maybe Karin. He walked to the cabinet and opened it before he smiled. It was full of ramen. Karin's peace offering.

He fixed a cup before sitting down at the table across from Kiba. "So, how does one only partially turn into a vampire?"

"Well, he's a full vampire. But, I think that Sasuke had to have help to turn him. It was pretty soon after Sasuke was turned and that was centuries ago. I think that Sasuke was too young and too weak at the time. But I'm not sure. That was before my time."

Naruto slurped some of his ramen before he asked his next question. "So, how is everyone else here because of Sasuke?"

Kiba sighed. "Well, that's all really complicated. See, Sasuke had an older brother. He was Sasuke's sire. Probably half of the turned here were turned either by Itachi or by a fledgling of Itachi's. When Itachi was…removed, it was just Sasuke left. He held the coven together. He also ended up picking up strays- those from other covens or those that didn't have a coven. Like me. Due to certain circumstances, I was no longer welcome in my birth coven. Sasuke took me in. Or, once the Uchiha coven became one of the most influential covens, other covens sent ambassadors in order to strike up alliances. Like the Hyuga coven. They decided to send someone named Hinata from their coven to be a member of this coven in the hopes that an alliance would be formed."

"And she just left her coven to come here? Can you just switch covens like that?"

"Not usually, no. Covens are generally for life. But, the Hyuga coven has it's own special brand of crazy. Hinata was a bit too gentle for their coven. So, when they heard that the Uchiha coven's a no-kill coven, they figured it'd be a good match. And, lucky us, we got two Hyugas for the price of one. Neji made it very clear that wherever Hinata went, he would too."

Naruto digested that a bit. "A no-kill coven?"

Kiba laughed. "Well, we try. Sometimes we get a bit carried away. It's hard, and we have troubles satiating our hunger, but what can you do? Sasuke has given us orders, and so we obey."

He knew he was going to regret asking, but his curiosity had been peaked. "So, how do you eat?"

Kiba looked at him out of the corner of his eye. "Well, we all have different tactics, I suppose, depending on our own strengths. The younger ones, like me, just make sure our prey is very, very drunk. If they pass out, then there's no chance that they'll remember what happened. Some of the elders have mastered the ability to slightly mesmerize their prey so they don't notice what's happening. Either way, it means that we have to take blood from three or four different people, as opposed to one, and we have to feed more often, every other night as opposed to once a week."

"And there's no side-effects?"

"Well, a temporary case of anemia, but other than that, no. Are you done?" Naruto looked up from finishing his twelfth cup and nodded. "Then let's go introduce you. Everyone from the other house came over to see you."

The lid of the trash can clattered closed and Naruto turned to face Kiba. "Other house?"

Kiba nodded and headed out the door. "A couple decades ago, our coven became too large to fit into this house. Sasuke decided that he would split it half and send the other half into a house on the other side of the territory. That way, we can control a larger territory more efficiently. Sasuke stayed here, in the first house."

"Why didn't he just add on?" That seemed the most logical move to Naruto.

"Well, when too many vampires are put into a confined space with each other for extended amounts of time, fights start to break out. It's not pretty. If we're in two different houses, even if it's just during the day, we all have a little more space to breathe. Most of us come over during the night though. Especially now that you're here!" Kiba turned to grin widely at Naruto. Naruto supposed that was supposed to be a compliment. Knowing that so many vampires were interested in him, though, made him a little uneasy.

"So, um, which house do you stay in?"

Kiba puffed his chest out in pride. "I am honored to live in the second house. Sasuke only puts the people he trusts in that house."

That really didn't make sense. He would have put the people he trusted close to him. "Why does he do that?"

Kiba shot him a grin. "Have you heard of the phrase 'Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer'? If he put all the people he didn't trust in a house away from his supervision, they'd more than likely rebel against him."

Well, put like that it made sense. He thought about all he had been told before voicing his next question. "But why does he keep people he doesn't trust in his coven?"

Kiba frowned a bit before he answered. "Well, the people he doesn't trust are those left over from when Itachi was still here. They are either his fledglings or the fledglings of his fledglings. When Itachi was in charge, he led the coven into some of the worst blood baths of history. They fed unchecked, wiping out entire villages. I suppose Sasuke feels responsible for them. If he were to make them leave and they got into their old tricks again, he would feel responsible for the trouble they would cause. And, he doesn't want to risk them finding Itachi, because that'd be really, really bad. And we all know how Sasuke feels about killing."

Naruto pouted. He supposed that made sense too. He was trying so hard to find some illogical part of the this entire fiasco. And what was worse, Sasuke was starting to sound like a good guy. Naruto had to remind himself of the terror he felt the past couple of days to hold onto his anger at him.

They entered what looked to be a large lounge. The seats were large and overstuffed and Naruto knew that this was were a majority of the time was spent for the occupants of the household. Of course, having the occupants of the household all staring at him as he entered was a big clue as well.

The entire room had stiffened as he had walked in, but now everyone was relaxed back into their seats and looking away from him. Well, everyone but a weird looking guy who seemed to be bouncing in his seat. Naruto assumed that their behavior was done to try and put him at ease. As if! He was standing in a room full of vampires! He thought he might be sick.

Kiba was walking towards the group. Naruto followed, but only because he knew that Kiba would drag him there anyway.

"So, whirlwind introduction time. Everyone, you already know who this is." Grins, nods, and a few winces were the answer. Kiba turned to Naruto. "Naruto, everyone here right now is from the second house, so Sasuke trusts them. So it's okay to associate with them. If ever you need an escort, ask one of them." Naruto nodded and Kiba turned back to the group. "So, who wants to introduce themselves first?"

The guy bouncing in his chair immediately shot up and ran over to Naruto. Naruto took a step back, but the guy was already in front of him, shaking his hand rather enthusiastically.

"Naruto! I am Rock Lee! It is most wonderful to finally be able to meet you!" Lee's head fell forward and Naruto noticed that someone had whacked him on the back of his head.

"Lee, you idiot. Stop shaking his hand. You're going to hurt him and you're scaring him." Lee stopped shaking his hand immediately.

"My friend! I apologize for my behavior. Your youthfulness overwhelmed me and I forgot the rules. As punishment I will do 100 laps around the house. On my hands!" And with that, Lee was gone.

Naruto was left standing, wide eyed and with an aching arm. "Uh, sure?" Kiba snorted. The woman who had smacked Lee was standing in front of Naruto now, shaking her head.

"Please excuse him, Naruto. He gets a little excited." She extended her hand and waited for Naruto to take it. She shook it much more gently than Lee had. "I'm Tenten." She was pretty, Naruto decided. She looked elegant, and foreign. She smiled. "If you'll excuse me, I should probably go stop Lee before he annoys Sasuke any more." With that she followed the path the Lee had taken. Naruto looked back at Kiba and raised an eyebrow in question. Kiba shrugged.

"Lee was sent here by his sire, some freak named Guy. Lee said that Guy sent him here to help Sasuke and to train to become stronger so that he can better help people. Tenten came here from China, alone, on a spiritual exploration. We don't know much about her, but we don't think that she had a very good first couple of years. Sasuke offered her a home where she could be herself, and she's stayed ever since. Anyway, next?"

Another man stood and smiled warmly at Naruto. He had a scar running across the bridge of his nose, but it did not make him look fearsome at all. Naruto hesitatingly smiled back at the man. He had a feeling that they'd be friends.

"Naruto, my name is Iruka. It's a pleasure to meet you. I hope you will be very happy here." The man sat down, but continued to smile at Naruto.

"Iruka's the youngest here. His sire is the man I was telling you about, the one that Sasuke turned." Kiba looked around. "Speaking of your sire, Iruka, where is Kakashi?"

Iruka's smile faded a bit. "Sasuke sent him to talk to Gaara about negotiating a compromise. He should be back by the end of the week."

Kiba nodded before turning to a small girl with short black hair. "Naruto, this is Hyuga Hinata, formerly of the Hyuga coven that I was telling you about. The scary looking guy sitting next her is Neji." Said scary looking guy narrowed his eyes at Kiba.

Hinata eyed Neji carefully for a moment before standing and bowing slightly to Naruto. "P-p-pleasure," she was able to get out before she sat back down. Neji stopped his glare long enough to nod to Naruto before he returned to glaring at Kiba. Kiba gulped before turning to the next person.

Kiba was about to introduced a pretty blond, but she beat him to it. "I'm Ino. It's so nice to finally be able to see you. Sasuke's told us all about you. Well, mostly it was a 'Do not touch the blond on pain of death,' but still, it's nice to finally see who got under Sasuke's skin. I haven't seen him this riled up about anything, ever! Well, except for that one time when Kiba decided it'd be a good idea to…"

"Anyway!" Kiba interrupted. "Ino is formerly of the Yamanaka coven. They sent her here because she talked too much and they wanted to get rid of her." Ino hissed at him. Kiba smirked back at her. "And where's your shadow?"

"Sakura?" Kiba nodded. "Sasuke sent her with Kakashi. He thought it'd be better if she wasn't here when Naruto got here." Everyone collectively winced and then nodded in understanding. Confused, Naruto turned to Kiba for an explanation.

"Well, Sakura was one of the strays that Sasuke picked up. He had received reports of a sire-less fledgling wondering around the countryside and he decided to go and bring her here. She doesn't remember much of her life before Sasuke, and even less of her life before she was turned. But ever since Sasuke brought her here, she's been dead devoted to Sasuke, and tends to get a bit jealous of anyone he gives his attention to. Mainly, you. Don't worry though," Kiba was quick to reassure him, "she won't hurt you because Sasuke's told her not to. But she may be a bit nasty to you. Just ignore her."

Naruto nodded and, satisfied, Kiba moved on. "The large guy there is Choji, formerly of the Akimichi coven. Wave Choji!" A very large man waved back. "He left his birth coven because he disagreed with their eating habits. It tends to be a common theme among those that left their birth covens to come here. That's also what Shikamaru, formerly of the Nara coven, did. Though, we all think that it's just because Shika's too lazy to hunt." A man with spiky hair pulled high into a pony tale grunted at the comment, nodded at Naruto, and then let his head fall back onto the seat. Naruto strangled back a chuckle. He didn't look like he could hurt a fly! "They both left on good terms with their birth covens, though, and so act as negotiators back and forth."

Naruto nodded and Kiba moved on. "The creepy guy over there is Shino, formerly of the Aburame coven. He is acting ambassador between the two covens, like Hinata is." The man Kiba motioned to had a high collared jacket and sunglasses on. He didn't even flinch when Kiba called him creepy. He nodded to Naruto and Naruto decided that he agreed with Kiba.

Kiba looked once more around the room before nodding to himself. "Well, that's everyone that you should be familiar with. Come have a seat." Kiba walked forward and sat down on the other side of Hinata, earning a growled warning from Neji. Naruto shifted slightly before he noticed that Iruka shifted over on his seat on a sofa and was motioning Naruto to sit next to him. Naruto smiled back at him and joined him on the sofa.

"Where's Karin?" He directed his question to Iruka, but it was Neji who answered.

"She's outside with Suigetsu." Neji motioned towards a window.

There was a patio outside of the lounge that Naruto hadn't noticed before. There was another group out on the patio. He saw Karin, who waved back to him, and Suigetsu he recognized from the bar. He didn't recognize any of the others, but he did notice that they were all staring at him. No, not staring, they were glaring at him. The anger in their faces was unmistakable. And Naruto noticed that, unlike the group he was sitting with, they did not advert their glares when they noticed he was looking at them. Just like when he was back in the club, he couldn't turn his eyes from them. He felt a shiver run down his spine. Neji, who was sitting across from him, finally shifted and blocked Naruto's view.

"Who are they?" Naruto had a good idea who they were, but he wanted to confirm his suspicions.

Kiba answered him. "Those are the members of this house. The ones that Sasuke doesn't trust. They aren't very nice. I would avoid them if I were you. Hell, I even avoid them if I can." Several nods around the room confirmed that Kiba wasn't the only one.

Ino leaned forward to whisper to Naruto, though it was mainly for show. Everyone could hear what she was saying. "They call themselves Akatsuki. They're sort of like their own little gang. Did you know…"

"Ino," Shikamaru interrupted, "He doesn't need to know anymore than that. They've been given orders that they aren't even allowed in the same room as you, so you don't need to worry about them."

Iruka patted his shoulder. "Though, it might not be a bad idea to have one of us with you during the evening." Naruto agreed. He definitely didn't want to meet up with any of them in a dark hallway.

A breath passed before, collectively, they all stood. Confused, Naruto stood too. Iruka smiled at him. "Bedtime."

He felt a pull at his elbow. It was Kiba. "I'll show you back to your room. You should stay there until the sun's up, then you can go exploring if you want." Naruto yawned. Kiba laughed. "Or you can go to sleep too." Naruto tried to keep track of the turns to get back to his room, but soon found that he was completely lost, again. Kiba thought this was hilarious. "I'll have Ino draw you up a map tomorrow."

Finally, they made it back to his room. With a cheerful "Good morning!" Kiba disappeared down the hallway. Exhausted, Naruto leaned against his door. He watched the sun rise through his window before collapsing on his bed.

The next few days followed the same routine. True to his word, Kiba had Ino draw a map of the path from his room to the kitchen to the lounge. The rest of the map was a blank outline of the house. Kiba said it was to encourage Naruto to explore his new home. Naruto had scoffed and mourned the empty space on his map. But, by the third day, boredom had sat in and he started to explore the hallways between his room and the kitchen. His best find so far was a study library. The walls were bookshelves filled with books. Naruto had "borrowed" a few. There was a single desk in front of a large window overlooking the large gardens. Facing the desk were several large, overstuffed chairs and lounge sofas. Naruto concluded that vampires were big on luxury.

His worst find were the several bedrooms he came across. Out of respect for the vampires he found himself living with, and out of fear for his life if he accidently killed one of them, he made sure to be careful not to let any sunlight in. He had nearly screamed when he pulled the curtain back enough to look in and see a huge, shark like man lying dead like in the bed. The next day, he saw the same man standing outside on the patio giving him a particularly nasty glare. Naruto wondered if vampires could tell if someone found them while they were sleeping. He decided not to risk it anymore, so when he found a bedroom, he marked a large X through that spot on his map, and then closed the door firmly behind him.

Sasuke, however, was no where in sight. He had asked Iruka where Sasuke was. Iruka told him that he was holing himself up in his study, either doing research or sending out treaty letters to neighboring covens. Iruka had eyed him carefully before telling him that Sasuke was making himself scarce on purpose. Naruto forced himself not to think about that and returned the books he had borrowed the next morning.

The most surprising thing of the first week in his new home was the close friendships that he had formed with his new housemates. Kiba and him had a great time talking and telling each other jokes. Iruka was the first person he had ever opened up to about his childhood. Iruka had even cried with him. Even Hinata would sit with him and talk to him, with Neji and Kiba present of course. She answered a lot of questions he had about vampires and their abilities. And once he got past the stuttering, she was very interesting to talk to.

He had grown, not comfortable, but less on edge in his environment. He was even going to go meet with Iruka to go for a walk ourside. So it was a surprise to him to see someone new on the stairs one evening as he was walking down to meet Iruka. She was tall with light pink hair. She was headed up the stairs, but when she noticed him, she stopped. She eyed him carefully before her pretty features scrunched up in a complete and utter look of loathing.

Naruto had thought that he couldn't be frightened of anyone more than he was of Sasuke, but this girl came a close second. He found himself unable to move as the girl smoothed over her features and came up the rest of the stairs to stand across from him.

"I don't believe we've met," she said haughtily. "My name is Sakura. You must be Sasuke's new chew toy." Naruto's jaw dropped. New chew toy? Sakura eyed him up and down before a smirk spread across her face. "You won't last much longer. I give you a week before Sasuke grows tired of your whining and rips your throat out."

And with a swish of her hair, she disappeared down the hallway, leaving Naruto to stare at the empty space she had been.