Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Kishi... You get the fucking point just read it.
Naruto stared at the girl sitting across from him.
Aria was her name, apparently. A black haired, red eyed vampire who was dressed in a white sailor uniform. Blue ribbon and everything. Naruto certainly found it odd. He didn't remember Konoha being home to any particular schools aside from ninja academies.
Then again Naruto was never the expert on stuff like that.
Naruto suddenly realized that the girl was talking.
"Whaddya think?" She suddenly asked.
"Um…' Did she catch him staring? Naruto looked away and scratched his cheek. 'I think it's kind of cute. Though I'm not really into that type of stuff."
Was he blushing?
"….Huh?"
She didn't follow.
"…" Naruto realized he'd completely messed up. He'd figured she'd been reading his mind again. Hell he wasn't even sure why he was bothering (attempting) to have a conversation with her.
She'd technically broken into his apartment. In fact….
"Don't vampires have to be invited into homes and stuff?!" He decided he needed some clarification on the rules of being a vampire.
Or at least that's how he made sense of it.
"Well…' Aria seemed to ponder the question for a moment. 'I'm pretty sure that's not the case.'
Why'd she seem unsure? How long had she been a vampire?
"God you're useless if you don't even know that! How can you be something your entire life and not even be sure on something?!"
"W-well…" She tried to defend herself.
"Forget it. Next question."
"A-actually…."
"How does a person become a vampire?" Naruto interrupted again, though this honestly should've been his first question.
Naruto could already guess but he needed to be sure. The thing about stories and myths is that they could always be modified or represented in some way that didn't exactly hold up with reality.
Take the Kyuubi for example. Naruto was pretty sure it couldn't simply cause tsunamis or flatten mountains with a single tail.
He hoped anyway.
Aria eyed Naruto strangely.
"You don't remember your own birth?" She seemed genuinely confused.
Naruto wasn't sure how to respond to that.
Actually no he was.
"I wasn't born a damn vampire moron!" He was getting a little fed up with this.
She was still giving him that dumb look. Except now she looked a little upset.
"I didn't mean it like that. When one vampire creates another we consider it a newborn vampire." She seemed to be shrinking into his couch.
"And I was supposed to know that?"
"So basically you're saying you don't remember ever being bitten and suddenly being told to bite back?"
"Huh?" Naruto felt like he was repeating himself for some reason.
"Vampires drain the blood of the human they're transforming and then the human consumes the flesh of the vampire."
"…No, I don't remember anything like that. I just remember being attacked."
That was when he was bitten. He still had the bite marks. At least he was pretty sure.
Naruto saw that Aria was looking at him even more strangely now. He could definitely tell, considering how close she suddenly was.
"Um…. You're a little close."
She really was short.
"So you weren't properly transformed? You were only bitten?"
"I think I said that already.' Naruto didn't like how she seemed to just ignore him. 'And I'm pretty sure I'm a vampire, I don't have fangs, but I…..' Naruto checked.
"I don't have a shadow, I was able to break a log with a single punch.' What else was there? Oh right. 'And I've been able to see in the dark! It's not bad actually."
Was he smiling? Naruto shook his head and inched away from Aria.
"So yeah I'm pretty sure that something about me changed." He looked at the girl to see her frowning. He didn't think she was very expressive for the time he'd known her.
"You should be dead."
"Don't say that so ominously!"
"I-I'm serious! Whenever a human's bitten by a vampire even if they've still some blood left they've already been poisoned and would die within… Well they'd die!"
Poison? In their saliva? Gross.
"It's not gross!" Was she reading his thoughts again? Not cool Aria.
Though Naruto didn't show much of a reaction (at far as he knew) he was honestly kinda satisfied with himself. Not even vampires could kill him. That was kind of awesome.
"What's with that big grin on your face?"
"Are you reading my thoughts or not? Make up your damn mind." Naruto hated when the Kyuubi seemed to do it, but it irritated him even more when it constantly seemed to switch its mind reading powers on and off and on and off….. It made it harder for him to guess when the fox was doing it and she was doing the same thing.
"...Ahem."
Naruto looked at the girl. She was still frowning.
"What?"
"I've still got something I need to ask you…." She practically whispered it.
Naruto wasn't sure if he cared to listen. So far she hadn't really helped him much.
Author's Notes: I gotta stop writing these at 02:00 in the morning. Still hope you enjoyed though.