Amethyst Love Chapter 9

Promise

Disclaimer : Don't own anything. Not Naruto, nor Rosario + Vampire.

Well! Here I am after a long period of not updating Amethyst Love because other projects seemed so interesting. Although interest in Fata Morgana seems to be falling I still have ALOT of plans for that one story. Oh and though I expected it, I was still surprised that almost nobody knew the significance of Metatron. Google Zone of Enders if you want to know. Especially ZOE 2.

The reason this took so long was coz I found it hard to visualize where I wanted the story to go, and when I did, quite frankly if I went with it, this would be my first and shortest completed story. Meh... will worry about it after this arc. Oh and remember that odd even number question I asked? Congrats to the winner. Who is the winner? READ ON.

Oh and Sword art online FTW! 5 years ago no one even knew that novel; I thought I was weird for liking it. Now it's like I'm so proud to be one of the first people to read it. The guy makes absolutely powerful romantic scenes, though some of my readers probably already realized I tend to emulate that particular element in my own stories.

Good and actual romance stories are so friggin rare nowadays. That's what sets his work apart from the rest. Name me 5 other works that have a clear cut heroine with clear cut romance, that ISN'T a mainstream work and yet isn't full of Wangst like most romance stuff. None I tell you.

Right sorry for that, let's get on with the show. *By the way I always appreciate those who thank me for the song recommendations, god knows I spend at least an hour choosing each song to fit perfectly*

Soundtrack List

Ayumi Hamasaki - Missunderstood

Two Steps From Hell – Black Blade

Two Steps From Hell – Strength of a Thousand Men

****Amethyst Love****

Moka briefly glanced at the stormy faced blonde who sat beside her in worry before lifting her hand to rub his back soothingly with a comforting smile.

Naruto simply offered her a half smile that didn't wasn't particularly sincere before slumping back into his chair and hiding his face back behind his book once more. It was only the day after he um... tamed Kuyou but he could practically feel the worshipping/jealous/fearful stares from his classmates' eyes burn the back of his neck even though he sat right at the back of the class with Moka.

Even the cat youkai who was his homeroom teacher seemed to frequently trail away mid lecture to stare at him; half in awe, and half in fear.

And lust.

No he didn't want to think about why his teacher's tail kept wagging like that... then drooping... then wagging... huh... white with pink stripes... he was tempted to lift his hand and tell her that all that wagging was lifting up her skirt for the male students in the front row to ogle.

His teacher wasn't the only one but at least she tried to pretend to main some semblance of normality. The other girls in his class on the other hand, had no such reservations and most of them were openly ignoring Nekonome-sensei's half hearted teaching in favour of drooling on the floor and eye raping him.

Moka wasn't particularly happy either. In fact, that was probably the reason why she hadn't let go of him even before their foot made it through the threshold, preferring to cling to his arm, hissing and glaring at any horny female youkais that managed to get closer than 5 feet to him with ulterior motives burning in their eyes. It was actually rather endearing to see the normally passive Moka be so fierce while the normally fierce one mulched around like a clingy cat. Always a teasing touch here or a brush there or purposely stretching in bed, wearing nothing but his oversized shirt, lacy panties and a sultry smile.

The vixen knew what she was doing of course; she also happened to be having a lot of fun wearing down Naruto's steel will. Some obscure vampire thing.

The males on the other hand looked like they wanted nothing better than to take his place, after they disposed his corpse that is. The disgruntled blond was just thankful they had the good sense not to openly show it. He wasn't in a very merciful mood but was too reluctant to start a massacre.

Not even 10 minutes had passed after leaving the dorm to pick up Moka when the first idiot of the day, a third year youkai, had tried to challenge him.

Emphasis on tried.

Normally, Naruto would just brush him off, but then the idiot demanded to have Moka if he won.

He would live.

Barely.

The second one wasn't so smart. He challenged Naruto in class. That one got thrown out the window with enough power to twinkle in the horizon. The rest took the hint and shut up.

Gin was enjoying this. He could practically feel the bastard's smugness at watching him struggle emanating from the ceiling above him. Tsukune just looked like he swallowed a particularly large lemon.

Good.

He looked like he needed the fibre.

A small sigh escaped his lips as blue eyes noticeably dimmed. This was no different from what he had experienced in Konoha, what he had left behind. Equally feared and worshipped; the man behind the reputation would slowly and gradually become a nonentity. From reading his old man's journals, he knew his father had suffered from the same thing; as time passed and the elder Namikaze's achievements grew and grew with each retelling, Minato Namikaze the man was slowly forgotten and overshadowed by the Fourth Hokage. Namikaze the elder had once expressed an secret niggling in his journals that the people of Konoha would completely forget his name and just start calling him the Fourth Hokage.

To a certain extent, his small fear had actually come true. Outside of the few in the know, many of civilians had actually elevated him to near deity status and only knew him only as the Yellow Flash, or the Fourth Hokage after his passing. Thankfully, most Konoha's military arm escaped this ailment.

Still... if this persisted, what was the point of staying here then?

A small and soft hand slipped into his, immediately clearing away his self doubt like a strong wind on a cloudy day.

Naruto squeezed the dainty hand softly in return and lifted it up to brush his lips on it gently.

Tsukune started looking like he REALLY needed a toilet.

To the exclusion of everything else, Naruto gratefully gripped that small hand like a life line and focused on getting through the day.

****Amethyst Love****

Play Ayumi Hamasaki – Miss(understood)

"Finally! It's OVAH!"

Moka giggled as she followed behind and enthusiastic Naruto to what had become their hill and pond. The blond had nearly shot out of class the moment the bell had rung, signalling the end of the day, leaving her to roll her eyes in a long suffering manner, pack up his books and trail after the desperate blonde after a quick good bye to the rest of the Newspaper club, "It wasn't that bad." She snuggled into his side with a sly smile, "I actually had fun."

Naruto gave her an incredulous look, "Not bad? You damn near flipped when that girl with a toast in her mouth tried to run into me this morning." Moka blushed; a little guilt bloomed in her chest at reacting so badly.

"I don't think I've seen anybody kicked that hard." Naruto joked half seriously. Considering who his adopted grandmother was; that was actually saying a lot.

Moka huffed and ranted, "It wasn't my fault. Did you even see what she was wearing? I swear her skirt was designed to fall off the moment a stiff wind blew." She glared at the blond, "You saw it didn't you?"

Naruto laughed loudly, "Saw what? All I saw was you moving your leg and the sound of somebody flying off at supersonic speeds."

The two of them began chuckling guiltily at the memory of the shocked expression on the girl's face shortly before she flew away, slowly falling quiet and snuggling into each other under the tree growing on the banks of the small lake.

"It won't always be this bad, they're just a little shell shocked. Give them some time. Even if they don't settle down, you still have us..." Moka softly said, knowingly addressing her boyfriend's worries, a slight pleading note entered her voice, "You still have me..."

Naruto buried his face in her sweet smelling pink hair, "I know, I know. It's just... I just reacted badly; it seemed so familiar to what I've been trying to avoid."

Moka giggled at the feeling of Naruto's breaths tickling her ear and neck, "Then you're lucky. The club trip starts this Friday. We'll be away from the school for the weekend; things should have settled down by the time we get back. Don't fret about it so much."

"Yeah, it was nice of Mizore to invite us to something like a coming of age ceremony though. It sounded really special and important to the yuki onnas."

Moka nodded and mumbled sleepily, drifting away to dreamland while she was surrounded by the warmth of his arms. The warming late spring weather and the soft tinkling of the wind on water pulled at the edges of her senses like a lullaby, "Don't... you have to go study or something?"

Naruto shrugged casually, "This morning Gamayan – sensei said she had to go back to Myobokuzan to report something. Said she would give me the week off for the trip as well." He half grinned at Moka's sleep expression, "So I'm all yours for the next week."

"Good. Pillow." Moka managed to mumble a few incoherent words and promptly fell asleep on his chest, causing the blond to roll his eyes.

Softly he lowered his head to brush his lips gently on Moka's full ones, "I'll be right here when you wake up."

"Munya..."

Neither of them had actually gotten a lot of sleep the night before, both Mokas had taken turns to spend the night cuddling in his arms, nursing a warm cup of cocoa while the blond softly narrated his life in a detached manner, everything from his early life in orphanage, the actual details of Sasuke's capture, his one and only failed romance with Hinata after her attempted sacrifice, the end of the Fourth Great Shinobi War and his status as the ninja equivalent of a nuclear deterrent was narrated in a soft and detached monotone.

By the time he had finished, the cup of melted chocolate in her hands had cooled down into an undrinkable sludge while the vampire clung to him. Both of them had fallen asleep lightly barely an hour before dawn and were rudely awakened by a certain purple toad's ruthless ruler.

In an introspective moment under that tree, he admitted to himself that he had known early on after maturing that he truly appreciated the little details, the small stuff that made every second he spent with her truly meaningful unlike during his youth where he would have actively jumped in, rushing even, especially to the so called good parts. He really enjoyed connecting to Moka on such a deep level, but the level of depth sometimes frightened him.

Because the thought of losing her after that scared him like nothing else.

"Don't worry kid. We're not going anywhere."

Naruto chuckled at the comment despite the gruff and offhanded tone it was delivered in. His connection with the Kyuubi was a weird one though they always took the chance to rail at each other. The easiest way he could think off to put it was that they influenced each other.

"Yeah, we'll be right here."

That was a promise of a lifetime.

****Amethyst Love****

"Ooooh~ its co-cold!" Yukari practically had to push her words out through chattering teeth as she hopped around to keep warm, beside her, Kokoa looked around with wide eyes, "Uuuuah! Its sooo pretty!" Kokoa exclaimed as she immediately jumped into the snow and began making snow angels in the thick snow.

Standing as close to the bus' engine as possible was Kurumu who was using a thickly dressed Tsukune and the engine as a heater, beside them was the completely calm Mizore.

"Mou, you skipped the class on conjuring items didn't you?" Ruby lightly reprimanded the younger witch with a slight smile.

"I-I already knew ho-how to conjure! I didn't know conjuring sweaters were so different."

"Yeah... conjure pots and pans." Kurumu muttered in a disgruntled manner, just in time for Yukari's sensitive ears to pick them out even through the ice howling wind and use her special attack on the busty succubus.

[PANG!]

"Ow! You brat!"

As Kurumu started chasing the small witch, Naruto smiled from where he was leaning on the bus' side, dressed in nothing but his usual slacks and a shirt when he heard a slight shifting from beside him.

"You seem to be fitting in pretty well. When I first saw you, I thought you'd be dead within a week."

Chuckling depreciatingly at the backhanded compliment, Naruto shrugged, "I like my head where it is."

The bus driver began chuckling ominously, glowing white eyes peeked out from under his bus driver cap. "Fufufu, lucky for you. Youkai academy is a veeeerrrrryyyy scarrrryyyy place."

Naruto grinned humorously and matched the man's creepy laugh and glowing eyes, only his were a steaming blue, "Kekekeke... I'm even scarieeer." This managed to stun thebus driver for a moment before he immediately grinned and began laughing again. This was the first time a student had actually reacted this way instead of just crapping their pants or mouthing off stupidly.

As the two men stood facing each other in some sort of weird standoff that consisted of glowing eyes and creepy laughter, Moka rolled her eyes and smacked the back of Naruto's head with her off hand, "Enough posturing you idiot. Come help me carry the bags."

Naruto scratched his head sheepishly and started to follow the shorter vampire, just as he was leaving hearing range, he heard the bus driver quietly mutter "Whipped." at him.

"Better than fapping with the Headmaster every night." Naruto shot back at him equally quietly.

He left a gaping driver standing in the snow. When the blonde was finally out of sight, the man puffed his cigarette and chuckled lightly, "Interesting guy."

Carrying 3 huge suitcases on his back with nary a huff, Naruto casually walked up to the waiting members, causing Kokoa to look up to him, "Isn't that heavy Nii-sama? Let me carry one too!"

"Its lighter then you," Naruto teased the younger vampire with a grin and a chuckle as he wiped some snow off the girl's thick jumper and ruffled her hair affectionately.

"Muuu!"

Meanwhile Moka walked up to Kurumu, Mizore and Tsukune, "This is a nice place isn't it?"

"It'd be nicer if it wasn't so friggin cold," Kurumu grumbled, "Speaking of which, why aren't you and the blondie cold?"

Glancing to his side where Moka was dressed in a tight form fitting blouse and trousers, something he could definitely appreciate. Naruto shrugged, "I didn't notice. The weather is something I tend to ignore."

Moka on the other hand looked a little surprised; she truly hadn't noticed that it was that cold. True, she felt chilly, but despite the howling blizzard and snow piling up on them, it wasn't cold enough to warrant dressing up in furs and jackets the way Ruby, Yukari and Tsukune were, 'Did you do something Ura?'

'I... don't know...' the pendant glowed for a moment before going silent again. Moka simply shrugged and picked an easy explanation, "S-rank monsters are tougher than most." She pointed at the lightly dressed werewolf, Even Gin is feeling alright."

Naruto clapped Gin on the back with a wide grin, "That's cause the pervert has a nice fur coat, why don't you shave him off when he transforms? I'll even help." He offered jokingly.

"Don't you dare! Naruto? Oi Naruto!"

The blond in question waved the frantic werewolf away with a laugh and the couple followed Mizore without a question, as the four most suited for this weather broke a trail through the hip deep snow for the rest to follow.

To his surprise, it didn't take long before they broke through a final drift into a basin shaped valley where the lack of the harsh cutting wind was immediately noticeable. The weather had even cleared up with a fairy tale like single beam of sunlight pouring down on a crystalline structure.'

Mizore took in a deep and refreshingly nostalgic breath of winter chilled air, "This... is what I wanted to show you."

Naruto felt a small hand slip into his as he watched the breath taking crystalline village in the near distance. Incredible ice spires made of the skeletons of frozen trees ringed the village that seemed to be made solely out of think cloudy ice blocks, causing the sun to glint off the tall structures as if they were made of pure diamonds. At the side of the village, the tallest structure with some sort of thin roadway completely made of ice spiralled around it, made to look like a massive ice castle with two spires stood magnificently, reflecting the sunlight off its transparent towers.

Gently pulling the small frame into his side, he whispered, "It's... beautiful."

He could feel the speechless Moka nodding along despite the understatement.

Mizore glowed in pride as her friends made approving comments about her hometown, as she led them down an almost unnoticeable trail towards the villages' entrance, "It's small. But please make yourselves at home."

"Mizore, welcome back." A cool voice greeted the ice girl. "Everyone else is greatly welcome as well." Naruto stood back as everybody else rushed forth to greet the statuesque lady in a beautiful pale white kimono and her glittering hair done up in a mature bun. As the greeted her, he took the chance to surreptitiously glance around town, noting all the exits and entrances, assess the attitude of the inhabitants of this ice village as well as defensible positions.

It was something of a bad habit borne of his experiences during the wartime footing.

"Naruto?"

Jumping a little since he hadn't noticed the girl come close, he peered down at his friend, "What's wrong?"

Mizore shook her head slightly and replied with her usual soft tone, "You were standing here alone like an idiot." She scolded him softly, "Come meet my mom. I'll introduce her to you."

Naruto gave her a sincere smile, "I'd be glad to. Your mother is beautiful by the way."

Mizore's grin grew half an inch wider.

"Well... since you are here, I should start making dinner. Then we can get Tsukune and Mizore started with making babies. This year's snow peaches are absolutely blooming; I can make your favourite dish Mizore."

Naruto blinked. Wait a second; did he just hear something bizarrely misplaced in that one calm sentence?

"Waaa! Mizore! Heeaalp!"

"Mother!"

****Amethyst Love****

"Thank you for letting us come here, Tsurara-san." Moka politely bowed after taking the last bite of her special snow yak steak that Tsurara had prepared for dinner. Beside her, Naruto nodded along enthusiastically as he finished swallowing his last bite of peach stew, it had been great!

The elder yuki onna smiled mysteriously, "Oh it's no problem at all. Thank you for being such good friends to my daughter. However, now that we're all full and rested, why don't we retire to the living room and let Tsukune make a few babies with Mizore while we talk?"

Tsukune immediately spat out his ice cold green tea all over the table. "T-T-Tsurara-san?"

Naruto leaned into Moka and quietly muttered, "Is she always like that?"

Moka concealed a small giggle, "Ever since we met her at last year's school festival she was asking him to do it with him."

"Weird."

Moka elbowed him hard, "Look who's talking."

Naruto rubbed his sore side with a half smirk, "Thats what you like about me though."

Ignoring the whispering couple, Tsukune frantically tried to bring the topic to safer waters. As in somewhere where he wasn't destined to get married in a week, "Wh-what's this ceremony about that Mizore-Chan mentioned about?"

"Oh my? You mean Mizore didn't tell you?"

The yuki onna in question looked away from her mother's penetrating stare and slowly chewed her lollipop to avoid the question, "It's a special coming of age ceremony, unique to us Yuki Onnas. It's when a yuki onna who has just reached the age of seventeen dresses up in the traditional kimono and makes the track up that ice road to the temple in order to offer flowers that are called Snow White's and pray for blessings." Tsurara said.

"Snow... White's...?" Naruto asks.

Yukari nodded energetically as a sleepy Kokoa crawled onto Naruto's lap, "It's a type of flower that is said to have the power of match making. Desu"

Kurumu pouted, "It's unique? Are we even allowed to watch something like that?"

The mature Yuki Onna quirked her lips in a conspiratorial smile, "Normally outsiders are forbidden from watching the event, but thanks to a few people I know, I can get you girls in to participate in the event. Our event is especially famous for being accurate when it comes to blessings romance and marriage."

All the girls immediately leaned in with more than a few sneaky glances being thrown over at where the men were sitting, "Really?"

Gin, Tsukune and Naruto winced as they all excitedly screeched that one word simultaneously.

"That's right, so everyone should go to bed now. Tomorrow is going to be a big day if you plan on joining the ceremony." Tsurara said as she started cleaning up the dishes. As the girls got up to help their host, chattering excitedly as they did so, the men all sat in one corner of the room looking like pretty paperweights.

****Amethyst Love****

While Kurumu and Mizore were talking downstairs, Moka quietly snuck up the stairs to where their lodgings for the night had been prepared. She had seen the blond quietly detach himself from the chatting with a neutral look on his face and retreat upstairs.

"Naruto?" Moka hissed quietly, tip toeing down the dark landing, not wanting to switch on the lights and let the rest know that she and Naruto were up here.

"Mhhmh. Changing."

Moka giggled at the muffled reply from behind the traditional shoji door that presumably led to the resting quarters. Sitting on the floor with her back leaning against a wall, Moka grinned, "You looked so cute, sitting there in one corner like a confused puppy."

"At least I was cute. Speaking of which. You really want to do this ceremony?" The blond pouted, "Am I not cute enough?"

Moka blushed, "I... I don't want to do the ceremony, but I've never worn a kimono before. Do you think I'd look good?"

The shoji door quietly opened and Naruto gently lowered himself onto the floor, dressed in a white shirt with a typical red swirl on the front and orange shorts.

Smiling softly, he leaned in to peck her cheek, "No matter what you wear, you'll be the only one I'll be looking at."

Moka huffed, "So cheesy."

"Honesty is the best policy." Naruto immediately answered diplomatically, "But seriously speaking; I really do want to see you in a kimono."

Moka blushed brightly and leaned into his chest to hide it, "Pro-promise you'll look at only me?"

"Yeah. Promise."

"She was right. Cheesy as hell. Good popcorn though."

'Shut up you.'

****Amethyst Love****

"Tsu...ne... Tsuku... TSUKUNE!"

"Hmp? What?" Tsukune bewilderedly snapped awake, "Mi-Mizore?" he questioned quietly as he tried to stay awake.

She nodded slowly with a weird expression, "I need a favour... Will you come with me Tsukune?"

The brown haired boy grumbled and groaned but agreed, quickly dressing up in the ridiculously cold weather to follow his classmate out into the freezing night air.

"Whe-where are we g-g-going?" Tsukune asked, his question almost incomprehensible because of how hard his teeth were chattering.

"Up... I have something I want to show you."

****Amethyst Love*****

"Aaaah! Mizore is gone!"

The sleeping girls all immediately jumped up in shock at Kurumu's loud screech, jumping again a second later when the shoji door was forced open by a frantic Naruto, "What happened?" He demanded, "I heard Kurumu scream."

The blabbering succubus pointed at an unmade bed where a straw doll was lying instead of Mizore.

Behind Naruto, a sleep Gin appeared, "What's going on? And where's Tsukune?"

Everyone silently exchanged glances.

"That ! $!%! She slipped us a fast one and took Tsukune out! ! $%"

Naruto decided not to ask where Kurumu learned all those colourful words while Moka immediately covered a sleepy Kokoa's ears the moment Kurumu started turning the air blue.

"Even if they slipped by us, where would they go? It's in the middle of the night on a freezing mountain." Ruby reasoned calmly.

A timid Yukari held up her hand, "Ano... I think they went to get those flowers desu."

"What? Why?" Kurumu demanded angrily.

"Actually.. I know about that flower. It's used in certain properties used in special potions," She glanced nervously at Moka.

Ruby narrowed her eyes at her younger counterpart, "Like...?"

Yukari fidgeted nervously, "Like hallucinogenic properties in that love potion I gave to Moka earlier this year."

Ruby face palmed while Kurumu started cursing again.

"Oh my... why is everyone up and going out?" a calm voice intruded on their frantic movements, shocking everyone into frozen poses. Though that was more or less because of the large gun that was currently being aimed at them.

Ignoring the gun, Kurumu charged at the snow woman like an angry bull, "You must know where we can find that Snow White flower! Mizore's taken Tsukune there!"

Tsurara simply side stepped the charge, "I do. But I can't allow anyone to go out. There's a monster alert out there now, that's why I was patrolling the area with this gun." The mature Yuki Onna hesitated a moment before wincing at what she was about to say and lowered the gun, "But I can't save my daughter alone, not with that monster around. I must confess that part of the reason I was going to allow you to join the ceremony was because I knew how strong your group was, I believed that if it was Mizore's friends, they would be able to defend a group of weak Yuki Onnas from a monster."

She bowed lowly in a dignified manner, "Can you help?"

"OF COURSE!"

****Amethyst Love****

"MIZORE! You cheater! You said you would play FAIR!" a loud scream of anger emanated down into the valley, disregarding the danger of an avalanche entirely and stopping Mizore short of a not so innocent kiss with Tsukune. Behind her was the entire Newspaper Club, silently and worriedly watching the confrontation between two friends.

Mizore heaved a sob, "I-I'm sorry Kurumu... but I had to."

"What the hell does that mean? No one's forcing you to do anything but you!"

"Don't you understand! If I don't have babies by the time I reach 17, I'll be forced to get married with someone I DON'T LOVE!"

Stunned silence.

"Wha-what? You m-must be joking!"

Mizore lowered her eyes to the ground, "... It's true... Yuki Onnas don't stay fertile for long, so much so that the Yuki Onna population is slowly dying out... To keep my race alive... we force any fertile female who has reached their majority of 17 to get married as soon as possible. Thats why we have the ceremony, the Snow Priestess makes accurate predictions about the men that would fit us best, assigning a fertile male to each of us as breeders with maximum potential. I wished... if I must get pregnant, at least it would have been with someone I knew and was attracted to rather than someone I didn't..."

None of them had anything to say, to rebuff and claim that one person's love outweighed the survival of an entire species. No matter how much one wished, some things couldn't be changed. That was reality. Exchanging sad looks were all that they could do while Kurumu, Yukari and Moka rushed forwards to surround Mizore in a hug.

Seeing Kokoa look desolately lonely at her sister's friends, Naruto slipped his arm around her shoulders and pulled her close in a brotherly hug before gently pushing her towards the group of crying girls.

Kokoa gave him an appreciative smile and nuzzled his torso before running off to join the female group hug.

Needless to say, the three men stood around awkwardly again. Gin made a disgusted face as Naruto opened his arms to him in a gesture for manly hug, "Touch me, and I'll rip your balls off."

"Fine. Be like that. Tsukune?"

"Hell no."

"Wow. You guys suck."

All three of them laughed at the banter before Naruto froze, something Gin immediately noticed and tensed up as well, "What? What is it?"

But before Naruto could reply, the howling wind intensified and the mountain itself seemed to rumble in anger, dislodging a massive tidal wave of snow.

"AVALANCHE!"

Naruto immediately threw Tsukune on his shoulder before racing towards the girls with Gin hot on his tail, trying to reach to girls before the tidal wave of snow were almost there when a gust of intensely solid, cold wind barrelled into their side like a freight train, knocking all the air out of their guts and throwing all three deep into the snow, only able to watch struggle helplessly as the cold, almost solid wind gathered all the screaming girls into its engorged arms.

For a moment, Naruto swore he could see a female like face forming in the solid wind to smile condescendingly at him and lift a ghostly hand in a provoking gesture.

As if to say come and get them back if you can.

He only had time to see Moka move her mouth.

'Help us.'

Then the avalanche hit, and everything went black.

****Amethyst Love****

The weather which had been violent and harsh barely minutes ago was now calm, as if the presence of that unnatural snow spirit had agitated it. The silence though was shortly broken by a fierce roar and a massive pillar of fire that melted a hole through the flat expanse of newly buried snow, revealing a panting blonde, an banged up werewolf and an unconscious human.

"Gi-gin... can you... detect them?"

The werewolf lifted its nose to the air and sniffed hard for a few moments but was reduced to shaking its head futilely, "It's no good. All Snow women smell the same as snow, and we're buried in it. The avalanche also swept away any of their scents. I can't track them, not like this." Its muzzle working to reply in an understandable but growly voice.

The blond nodded curtly and heft the unconscious Tsukune onto his shoulder again, "We'll have to regroup back at Tsurara-san's place. She might know what we're up against."

The werewolf slowly melted back into its more human form and Gin nodded as he made a reappearance.

It took nearly an hour before they managed to trek back to the small wooden cabin that belonged to the Shirayuki family, but a surprise awaited the in the form of an anxious and incredibly pale Tsurara. Naruto growled the moment he heard her first words.

"The Snow Priestess called. She has the girls and she wants you to come get them."

****Amethyst Love****

Play Two Steps From Hell – Black Blade

"Why... Exactly. Does. She. Know. About. Me?"

Tsurara wrung her hands nervously as a 6 feet tall wall of muscle towered over her with a hint of barely restrained power glowing in his disdainful orbs, "I-I don't know. Sh-she rarely ever shows herself to anyone in person. I've ne-never even told her anything about Mizore's friends coming. Even then I didn't know you until to-today." She cursed herself for stammering to someone that was probably two decades younger than her.

She cursed herself again because it also happened to be turning her on immensely.

When she had first met the unassuming blond, she had assumed that Tsukune had simply added a new member to the Newspaper Club. The laid back blond looked like he didn't have a worry in life and focused on lazing around and didn't carry his own weight. She thought that he was just a lazy slouch.

She was wrong.

Right now as lightning sparked around the surface of his skin, wind swirled in sharp uncontrolled blades and moisture repeatedly froze and unfroze in beautiful vapour crystals that constantly hovered around him, he looked like anything but a lazy slouch.

He looked like he was about to mow down the Snow Priestess's Shrine.

And he looked like could do it too.

Gin was behind them winding bandages with herbal paste around the bruises on his body while Tsukune sat limply in a corner with a despairing look on his face.

"Mrrgh, I don't like this, there's too many unknown factors."

Tsurara looked up hopefully, "But you can save them right?"

Naruto looked down at her like she was crazy, "Of course I'm going to save the-"

His words were abruptly stopped by a hysterical cry from a panicking Tsukune.

"We can't do this. We can't save them; she's got all the girls! How are we supposed to stop her?"

Tense silence flooded the room.

"Tsukune?" Gin tensed at the malice hidden under a VERY thin veneer of calm, "Have you EVER done ANYTHING without those girls HELPING you?"

"..."

"No? Didn't think so."

Tsukune gritted his teeth and clenched his fist, "What the hell would you know? I'm not like you! I don't have any special powers! You're not even human! You're a bastard that just came into our lives and messed everything up."

"Tsukune!"

Naruto stopped Gin's anger with a wave as he took a few deep breaths, not bothering to get upset. He stalked over to the door, stopping briefly to throw a few words over his back, "So you will sit here while the girl that loved you so much that she was willing to have your baby, die? You will stay here while the succubus that thinks you are God himself, die?"

Naruto cracked his neck.

"Then you can stay here. You can stay here and slowly rot, unwilling to move forward because you won't even try. I don't care if I'm not human or whatever. I'll do what I can, as long as I can. As long as Kurumu needs me, I'll destroy any wall. As long as Mizore needs me, that Snow fortress will fall. As long as Moka needs me, I'll bring down the Gates of Hell itself, with or without power. I promised."

Gin gave Tsukune a fleeting glance before silently following the tall blond out of the room. The elder Yuki Onna gave the youngest boy there a hesitant look before chasing the other two men.

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As the two steadily walked out of the house, a cry stopped them, "Wait!"

Both of them looked behind to see a panting Tsurara, "If you're going to save them, you're going to need disguises and a plan."

Both of them gave her a weird look.

Whatever she was expecting, it wasn't laughter, "Don't need one." The blond pointed at the apex of the spiralling ice road where two massive cloudy gates made of thousand year ice could be seen, "That's the front door right?"

"Ye-yes, but it's only ever open for the ceremony."

"Good. I was planning on stopping that shit anyway."

"Huh?" Tsurara watched the two of them continue walked, "Bu-but what are you going to do?"

"We're gonna knock of course. We're cultured men."

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[BOOOM!]

Gin gave him a dry look.

"What? I knocked."

Gin glanced into the chamber where he could faintly see fragments of two once perfectly stout and powerful gates made of thousand year old ice, a substance said to be made from the purest spirit fused water and froze for a thousand years deep in the mountain.

Unbreakable and immovable.

The biggest fragment was the size of his palm.

"Aaannnnd the door exploded."

"Don't blame me. Blame the builders. All I did was knock."

Meanwhile, behind them, a certain Yuki Onna was starting to get hysterical, "T-T-That's impossible! N-no one could have broken that!"

Gin picked up a small fragment of a door the size of his pinky and pressed it into Tsurara's palm, "Here. A souvenir."

"Who are you?"

All three of them turned to peer into the darkened hall.

"Wow. That's a lot of people." The blond commented blandly.

"They're not... villagers... I've never seen them before." Tsurara tensed at seeing the entire hall filled with strange men, all dressed in black suits and leering at them.

"So... expendable?"

"Huh?"

"He means, will you mind if he massacres them."

Naruto gave his werewolf friend a pained look, "Couldn't you have at least put it a little more nicely?"

"Errr... no?"

"Ass."

"I said IDENTIFY yourselves!"

All three of them looked at the biggest man in the hall who had stepped forward and repeated his question. He looked like he was the meanest as well as the leader. Bald with ripped muscles that were barely contained in his human form, much less his strained shirt.

"We're tourists." Naruto replied with a polite bow, "How bout you?"

The bald man actually started looking rather flustered.

Naruto assumed he had been dropped on his head as a child.

Several times.

"W're uhm... the Fairy Tale 1st Subdivision!"

"Boss..." one of his subordinates hurried up to him and showed him a piece of paper, gesturing at the patient Naruto and the paper.

"You LIED! You're not TOURISTS!"

Gin face palmed, "What clued you in? The exploding door?" stepping backwards, he shook the catatonic Tsurara's shoulder gently so as to not shock her more than necessary.

"Wha-what?"

"I was just curious, this fort or shrine or whatever, do you mind if we... yea know, damage it a little."

"Uh... I don't mind?"

Play Two Steps From Hell – Strength Of A Thousand Men

Gin gave her a suave smile and relayed the information to Naruto with a clear shout. Naruto's only reply was to give him a thumbs up as the hall started shaking from the force of nearly 300 men charging at Naruto.

"He was right you know. You're not human. You never were. It's about time you accepted it isn't it?"

Naruto chuckled sadly, "Perhaps... I am not human." He pouted, "It's your fault though."

"Probably. Do you regret it?"

He looked up to stare at the incoming horde.

"Nah. It was fun while it lasted but I am not human."

A burning crimson aura started to surround him, "WE ARE NOT HUMAN!"

One eye turned bloody red while the other was a chip of coldest ice, with a massive roar, the blonde lifted one hand and punched it deep into the ground, causing the entire castle to quake and shake as the ice that made up the shrine screeched under the stress. Slowly, the blond hauled a massive double sided war axe out of the ground with one hand, while the other expertly unrolled a scroll to summon a long spear, a gleaming naginata, all the while insanely cackling.

The axe's handle was so huge that his palm was unable to wrap entirely around it yet the horde faltered when the blonde wielded the naginata in one hand and swished the axe around in sync with the naginata like they had no weight whatsoever.

It got even worse when the blonde looked up.

It looked like his face had split down the middle, a fanged and deranged smile with thickened whisker marks on side with the slit pupilled red eye, on the other as a wide insane smile with a rolling crystal blue eye and smooth cheeks void of whisker marks.

"Don't hesitate! Kill him!" the baldie leapt high into the air, intent on bringing his own axe down on the mad looking blond.

"KAHAHAHAHA!" Naruto laughed insanely as he leapt up into the air, meeting the bald leader head on with the edge of his massive war axe, even as the other arm twisted around like a creepy independent third limb to fend and stab other enemies using the naginata, even without him needing to look.

The look of surprise was permanently etched onto his face as the absurdly sharp edge of a massive obsidian axe cleft straight through his own lochaber before cleaving his body in half like a hot knight through butter.

Naruto landed agilely without needing to look.

"Who's next? I'm Huuuuuuuungryyy..."

A head landed next to him and rolled away like a deformed football.

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"Kukuku... So you're supposed to be my bride huh?" Miyabi slowly lifted his fingers to caress Mizore's pale white ski, stopping short as he dodged a kick and a claw swipe.

Moka pushed a shivering Mizore behind them, as if to shield her from the extremely dangerous man in front of them while Kurumu hugged the Yuki Onna tightly. They all knew that it was futile to fight him but they had to try although earlier, he had subdued all of them without hurting them, immobilizing them to the spot helplessly through some unknown method.

The red haired man laughed, it was a creepy laugh, it reminded Moka of laughing hyena.

"Don't worry, I have no intention of taking that girl as my bride, she is spoiled goods. Imperfect."

Moka could feel Mizore stiffen behind her, before starting to tremble even more violently, "She's far better than what someone like you would deserve!" Moka boldly declared as she shielded the two girls.

"Ah... that famed Shuzen arrogance. You know, I was actually hoping to marry you, out of the 4 Shuzen sisters, you are the most perfect one..."

"Go to hell."

"Fufufu... so brave. Why aren't you scared? You know can't resist me. Your boyfriend will die trying to sa-"

[BOOOM!]

Moka smirked, "Sorry, what was that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of my boyfriend knocking down the door. Speak up."

Miyabi's face wrenched into a disgusted expression, "That puny human? What can he do?"

The entire castle shook as every one of them in that mockery of a wedding chamber watched the entire horizon get dyed a bloody red from the window.

The world fell silent, as If it was taking a deep breath, before the stun was broken by a massive red beam that devoured everything in its way, destroying the second tower that was barely 50 feet away from theirs.

The sound of ice screaming and groaning as the tower fell apart in massive chunks of frozen water was deafening.

"..."

Moka smirked at the expression on the red haired man's face.

Miyabi watched in shock as the girl, the second youngest daughter of the Shuzen family, supposedly the most submissive perfect of them all gain a confident and taunting smirk. Unnoticed, one of her eyes shifted in to a blazing crimson, while the other remained a deep emerald.

"Why are you scared, puny monster?"

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