6. Explanations and the off to War

"Jiji... You are one of the very few people I trust in this village and it's time to explain to you what I have become..." The blonde paused for a moment. "I'm no longer human... I've become a creature of the night, one that's consumes blood of others to sustain my life. You can guess when the change had happened... Anyways, I had inherited these abilities from my Father's side."

"Then why didn't your father have these abilities?" Sarutobi asked.

"It's most likely it had skipped him and went on to me. That and the fact Kyuubi must have had a hand in activating my vampiric side for it as well." Naruto lazily waved his hand.

"Moving on, but still on the subject of Kyuubi. He's no longer sealed within me and before you ask questions. He has become what you call a summon to me now and my possible family in the future."

Hiruzen sighed and rubbed his temples and gazed at the Uzumaki-Namikaze heir with a tired look in his eyes.

"You really are full of surprises. Aren't you?" He wearily smiled at the young male.

"Then I wouldn't be me, now would I?" Naruto smiled.

"Yes, that is indeed true. Is there anything else?"

"In matter of fact, yes. Haku here is now officially apart of my clan and my wife. I had asked her if she would become my first spouse and turn into what I've become, roughly a week ago and she came to her decision last night. Now we need to go to her home land to collect some soil for her, so she doesn't weaken over time." Naruto paused for a moment.

"The reason is that for any vampire from my line has to sleep in a coffin with the base filled with the dirt of their birthplace, so the said vampire would not lose their powers over time, as they haven't consumed a certain amount of human blood. Which is roughly 100 different people that you have to kill and since I'm already passed halfway, why not finish it? And that Haku needs it more than I do, since she's not native to our lands."

"Hmm... You do prove a point, but why the Civil War in Kiri?"

"It's the only place we can have free rein to fight to test our abilities and get away with it. Also... War sounds like fun!" Naruto maniacally laughed in glee.

Then caused the other two occupiers a cold shiver downs their spines. The Undead King managed to calm himself down to a large fanged grin.

"Well?" Another sigh from the old man and he looked Naruto in the eyes.

"Very well... Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, Haku Uzumaki-Namikaze. You are being given a S-ranked mission to aid the Rebellion in their Civil War in Kirigakure. Do you accept?"

"Hai! Hokage-sama!" The two teens straightened up.

"You two will leave in 2 hours."

"Hai!"

"Then I'll inform your team that you'll be away for the next few weeks." The robed man wrote don't a note to remind him.

"Thank you Jiji."

Hiruzen pulled out a blank scroll and began to scribble down the necessary information they needed and finished it off with the official stamp of the Third Hokage. He rolled it up and tossed in to the blonde.

"I'll also send the fastest bird to the Rebellion, to inform them that you are coming to they aid. Good luck."

"Thanks, I'll see you when we come back." He grinned.

"Good bye Hokage-sama." Haku bowed and the two teen left.

-Konoha's Main Gate-

"All ready Haku-chan?"

"Yeah..."

"We'll be alright. If anything bad happens, I'll be there to protect you my Ice Queen." He kissed the anxious partner.

"Thank you."

"No problem. Let's go."

With that, the two of them dashed through the gate and leapt into the trees surrounding Konohagakure. Hoping to get to their destination in under a week, so Naruto could observe his future prey. Making the vampire grin excitedly for the bloodshed that's about to come.

-With Team 7-

"Ugh! Where's that Baka?!" A certain pink haired teen screeched in frustration.

"Hn..." Was the only reply she got, as the Uchiha was annoyed that he was with one of his fan-girls.

*POOF*

"Yo!"

"YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura yelled at her sensei.

"Ma, ma... I thought there was a wasp in my room, so I hid under my bed for hours, before I realized it was just the neighbors vacuuming." He gave them an eye-smile.

"LIAR!" The same girl screamed once more.

The silver haired man inwardly sighed to himself and asked where their last team member was. To only received a shrug of shoulders and a 'I don't know'. He sighed out loud this time and spoke-

"Let's go find him." With that being said, they went on for 3 hours looking for him and had no such luck, so they headed to the Hokage Tower to ask their leader, if he knew where Naruto could possibly be.

"Ah, Team 7. I must infirm you that Naruto is currently out of the village and won't be returning in a few weeks, so there's no need to wait for him for team training." The old man smiled at the tired/frustrated group.

"So we won't be able to take missions?" Kakashi asked?

"No, no. You'll be able to continue your missions, just D-ranked, which are within Konoha. So don't worry about that."

"That's good to hear Hokage-sama."

"Here's your mission for today." Hiruzen handed the jounin a scroll.

"Thank you Hokage-sama, we'll be off now."

The small team left the office and Sakura growled to herself, that Naruto was skipping out on their useless tasks. But on the other hand, she was ecstatic that she would be alone with her 'Sasuke-kun'.

-With Naruto & Haku-

The sun was setting and the two vampires decided to have a short break, as they were going to travel easier during the night, as they were creatures of darkness. Having a drink of blood and rest under the shadows of the trees, Naruto and Haku got back up to continue on their way to Kiri.

~11:47PM

"Naruto-kun... I'm getting tired." The brunette panted, tiredly.

"Alright, my Dear. We'll stop for the rest of the night." Naruto came to a stop.

"Thank you." She smiled at him.

The two of them jumped to the ground and set a tent for them to rest in. Haku slipped into the dark colored tent and spoke up.

"Are you coming in?"

"No, my Dear. I'll be staying up for a while longer." He replied.

"Okay. Good night Naruto-kun."

"Good night my Love." A small smile graced his usually harsh features.

After a few moments of shuffling, there was silence and Naruto let out a quiet sigh to himself. He gazed up to the stars above and hoped things would go well for them and wondered if there was a chance of meeting his missing clan members that were scattered.

"Will I ever find you?" [I was so attempted to end it here]

-Next Day-

"Haku-chan. It's time to get up." The blonde lightly nudged her.

"Mmm..." She mumbled.

"Come on now. We need to get moving." He spoke once more.

"... Okay."

A chuckle was heard and the pair had something to eat/drink and packed up their things, removed any traces of them being there and continued on their way to Kirigakure.

Hours went by, as the two vampires traveled silently through the trees and had to abruptly stop, as they had sensed a few humans nearby. They looked at each other, nodded and stayed in the tree that they had stopped on.

"Hahaha! This is the best raid we've had in a long time!" A fat bandit boasted with a laugh.

"Yeah! And look at the women we've got too! Quite the lookers." Another eyed the frightened women.

"Quiet! You might attract unwanted attention to us!" Their apparent leader hissed at them.

"Don't be like that Boss! There's no one around for miles!"

"Yeah, no need to worry!"

Their 'Boss' sighed in irritation and walked away from his fellow bandits. Naruto looked over to Haku to see what her reaction to all this and her eye were glowing red from anger. A smirk spread across his features, wondering how she would deal with these mongrels.