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Chapter seven: Unlocked
"Alright so here we are back on the road." Naruto spoke into the camera on his phone. Thank you for your idea Loveless, but this locket unfortunately hasn't really helped, and thanks fullmoonwolf950, we are about to take a pit stop at this diner up the road, hopefully we can look it up more on Gaara's laptop. We stopped at a gas station, and the guy behind the counter gave us directions. I think they are totally wrong though, for we have been driving for over the 20 minutes he said it would take to get there." Naruto rolled his eyes, but smiled. "We will find Mikoto though." He smiled. "So I've had a few changes so no one will recognize me." Naruto said.
"You still look the same." Neji said from the front seat.
"No way, look at his outfit I mean,"
"Guys!" Naruto snapped at the two boys, "You are going to blow my cover."
"If that's your cover then it's already been blown." Neji said with a snicker. Naruto stuck his tongue out at the boy, before turning back to the camera.
"Well I'll Vlog you later!" Naruto grinned before turning off his phone, and posting the video on his webpage. "You know what fuck the undercover look."
"No Naruto you look good." Gaara said as he turned back to his best friend.
"I highly doubt some eye liner, and a new outfit will really change the way I look." Gaara pulled out a hat and put it over his hair.
"Now it will, everyone knows you for your blonde spiky hair, if you hide that and change your look a bit, no one will recognize you."
"Alright, but it's too hot for a hat right now. When we go into the city again I'll wear it." Naruto shook his head as they saw a sign saying, Welcome to Roseville Valley. Neji took a turn off, a small dirt road; there was a small hotel area, gas station, and diner. "Gosh I'm so hungry." Naruto said as his stomach rumbled. "Do you think they have ramen?"
"It's a diner blonde, which means French fries and burgers." Neji got out of the car and went in.
"Hey wait up!" Naruto said as he started to shimmy out the window as they left him there. "Stupid butt holes." He said before he dropped out the window and fell onto the floor with an, ouch. He grumbled as he got up and quickly followed the two boys.
They took a seat in a booth, and saw that they seemed to be one of the few people in there. There was an elderly couple at the bar area, and a small family of four off in the corner. "This place looks dead." Naruto said as they waited for a waiter. Gaara was next to the window, with Neji sitting down next to him, while Naruto had his own seat.
"It's a small little rest stop area, what did you expect?" Gaara said before a waiter came up.
"Hello, what can I get you boys?" she asked with a smile. The boys turned to the boy with the money and smiled. Neji rolled his eyes before he looked at that menu.
"Let's get three large fries, three cheese burgers, and three small orange juices." Neji said as he put the menu down. The waitress wrote it down and walked away quickly.
"Did I ever tell you how much I love you?" Naruto asked with a big grin.
"You just like my money." Neji said with a roll of his eyes.
"Well right now I do, yes." Naruto nodded his head. Gaara pulled his laptop out of his bag and logged onto it. It wasn't much longer until their food came in, and they began to eat. "I swear we haven't had something to eat since yesterday, and that was a cookie!" Naruto moaned.
"Not my fault you always skip breakfast." Gaara said. "But I am happy to be eating." He was eating a frie while typing on his computer. "I can't find anything about Mercy now. It says that in the past it used to be a hotspot for people disappearing and there was a lot of talk about vampires."
"Well I think we got where Mikoto got the idea of vampires from, they were like a local legend." Naruto said.
"Yea, but I can't find where it used to, or is at now a days. Only that it was in southern California." Gaara groaned and closed his laptop with an evil glare. Naruto laughed at his friend as he shoved a few fries in his mouth.
"Hey I'll be outside at the car." Neji said as he threw some money down on the table, this should cover the bill." Neji got up and made his way to the car, and sat on the hood and began to read the book.
"Ok so what is going on Naruto?"
"Alright, so remember that guy from the hotel, well I had a dream about him, and in that dream he gave me this necklace. When I woke up it was on me, like what's up with that. How else do you explain it being on me?" Naruto asked as he played around with the necklace around his neck.
"Listen Naruto, I bet you just saw it sometime and put it on without knowing it. Don't let it get you're your head. Even if he did give it to you in your dream, there is no way it would have ended up around your neck." Gaara took another French Frie and ate it, as he looked out the window at Neji.
"Yea I bet your right." Naruto said with a sigh, his friend wasn't really helping him out.
"Oh my gosh." Gaara said as he watched the boy laugh at the book in his hand. "Look at him he is totally loving confessions."
Naruto smiled at the red head boy in front of him, "Yea, and you are totally loving him." He put another French frie in his mouth and watched Gaara glare over at him.
"What? I am so not." Naruto gave him a look and grinned as Gaara let out a huge sigh. "Ok I am, just please don't say anything about it."
"You know I wouldn't." Naruto looked out the widow and did a double take. There was the mysterious stranger walking into the small rest area with a dark black jacket, with the hood pulled up, and a pair of jeans. "What in the world?" Naruto squinted his eyes to make sure it was the same guy. There was no doubt, for he could make out the duck butt hair underneath the hood.
"What is it?" Gaara asked as he looked to where his friend was looking.
"Nothing, just a… I'll be right back." Naruto nodded as he quickly got up and made a run for the door. Gaara watched him with a suspicious look, but continued to eat his fries and look at Neji read.
Naruto walked out and looked around the small complex area, until he saw the boy putting money into a machine to get a coke. Naruto slowly approached the boy, while looking him over to make sure he was in fact the boy from yesterday and his dreams. When he confirmed it yet again, he ran up beside him. "Hey." He said as he watched the other boy bend down to get the coke, and his hood fell back showing his crazy hair style.
The other boy turned around to look at him with a weird look. "Hey?" he said as he looked the boy up and down as though he didn't know the blonde. He started to walk away.
"Hey wait, no don't go yet. I wanted to thank you for yesterday at the hotel without you I have no clue what would have happened."
"Do I know you?" he asked. Naruto felt a pain in his stomach, he didn't recognize him? He wanted to believe that he made some kind of impact on the man in front of him, but it sort of hurt to see that he wasn't affected at all. "You must be confusing me with someone else."
"I don't think so; I mean your hair is one that I wouldn't easily miss." He said pointing up to his hair. Naruto then put his hand on the locket.
"Sorry, but I don't have any idea who you are." Naruto nodded and pulled on the locket a bit too much, and it dropped to the floor.
"Opps." He said as he bent down to pick it up, but the other boy already bent down to retrieve it. Their heads bumped together, and Naruto pulled his head back. "Ouch that hurt." He said while he rubbed his head. It felt like he just bumped into a hard brick wall.
The other boy stood up, without any pain and handed the necklace over to him. "Sorry about that."
"No it's ok, it's not that big of a deal." Naruto said.
"Here turn around I put it back on." Naruto blushed, but did as asked. Naruto almost shivered as his cold hands touched his skin. It felt much like it did in his dream. "There you go." He said after it was around the blonde's neck. Naruto turned around and looked at him.
"Thank you." He said as the other boy started to walk off while shaking his head and drinking the coke he just got. Naruto watched him walked away and sighed. "So not a vampire." He said with a roll of his eyes. He giggled a bit, before he made his way back to the car where Neji and Gaara where talking.
"Oh but what you don't know is that in book three there is a –"
"No I don't want to know."
"I won't tell you the big secret." Gaara said as he tried to remove Neji's hands.
"No I refuse for you to mess up the books for me." Gaara rolled his eyes at the boy.
"But I was just trying to say that,"
Neji pointed over to where Naruto was walking. "Looky, looky, at Naruto's necklace thing." He pointed. Gaara turned to him, and Naruto looked down. It was opened.
"When did this happen? I thought you couldn't open it." Gaara asked as he got off the car and made his way over to him.
"Me either." Naruto said.
Gaara held the locket in his hand, and inside it am symbol was written. "Hey, I think I've seen this before." Gaara said as he looked over at Neji. He started to walk away from the car, and so the other two followed.
"Where are you going?" Naruto asked as Gaara kept quiet and just quickly walked all the way back to the main road. There was the sign they passed before, and underneath the writing on the sign, there was the symbol that was in the locket. "Why is this symbol on the necklace?" Naruto asked.
Gaara shrugged his shoulders and looked at the two signs. "They are exactly the same."
"Hey guys." The two boys looked up to see Neji behind the sign. "I think you will want to come see this." Naruto grabbed Gaara and they made their way behind the sign. There mostly covered, but seeable in red paint read, welcome to Mercy.
Naruto started to laugh as he put his hands in the air. "We finally found it!" he jumped up and down. "We are getting so close to finishing up this adventure." Naruto smiled. The group made their way back to the car. "So we were here for a long time, and we didn't even know it."
"It's weird." Gaara said as he looked around. "There is something off about this place."
"Come on we are about to do what we came out to do." Naruto said before pulling out his cell phone. It was time to vlog. He pushed record and started to talk to the world. "Things just keep getting weirder and weirder! I can't believe that this locket helped us find where Mikoto's town is at. I also can't find out the connection between the town sign and the locket. Then there's that guy from the hotel, and my dreams and today. At first I was all I might be imagining all this weird stuff about him, but now I'm certain that that guy was in fact the guy from yesterday." Naruto sighed.
"It's making me think that he might just be a, you know what. However he was out in the sunlight, well partly he was covered up and all, but still. He was really awkward, hot but awkward. It looks like Gaara is all wrapped up into Neji right now, and I don't think this is all really sinking in for him." Naruto said as he moved the camera to take in both boys leaning up against the side of the car flirting.
Naruto laughed and pulled the camera back to him, "I think I'm going to need you all more than ever. How do you know if someone is a vampire? I mean I know about the garlic and the crosses, and the mirrors and all that stuff. You are confessors and all, so I know if anyone can help me you can. "
OK so another chapter! Two hours of writing this out lol so anyway, the question is:
How do you know someone is a vampire?
Read and review and answer the question please!
*~ashley~*
