"That was a human scream right? I'm getting nervous." Sakura spoke. Her voice was shaky. I smirked as realization hit me. I could scare her as much as I wanted here and not worry about the adults punishing me for it. I walked over to Sasuke.
"Hey Sasuke...I'll show you the true strength of a vampire once we get attacked." I whispered as I headed for a bush to go to take a piss. Sasuke watched me walk away in confusion. Suddenly I was tied up... okay so I let myself get tied up but I needed to see how good Sasuke had become recently. A kunai landed next to me. I smiled to myself as I crawled over to it and untied myself.
I ran out of the bush and knocked the guy out with a punch to the stomach. Sasuke and Sakura gasped.
"I'll go tie him up know." I said and dragged the body far enough away where they wouldn't hear him scream. I was about to bite into him but then felt like my clone from earlier was gone. It wouldn't be long now before they find the corpse of the official.
I bit into the ninja who attacked and sucked his blood until he stopped breathing. I returned to find them we huddled together.
"If we get separated next time...even if its one of us...don't trust them. This could happen again." Sasuke stated.
"Then what do we do?" Sakura questioned. I kept quiet and waited for Sasuke to respond.
"We'll make a code word just in case. Listen...if they get it wrong...even if it's one of us... assume they are the enemy not matter what hey look like. Listen carefully. I'll only say this once...The nin song "Nin Machine"...when this is asked answer with...'A large amount of loud enemies is a friend of the shinobi, hide and remain silent. A shinobi must understand the proper time...when the enemy is tired and ill prepared'
You got it Naruto?" Sasuke asked smirking totally forgetting that I had just saved his sorry ass and that I could kill his sorry ass at any given moment.
"I got it Sasuke-kun!" Sakura smiled hoping to get his attention. He ignored her and I said what was expected.
"Wait...that's impossible to remember!" I shouted.
"I've already memorized it." the pink haired fangirl stated proudly. I rolled my eyes.
"Hey is this code word-" Sasuke bastard cut me off.
"I'll hold the scroll." he stated getting up. Suddenly a strong gust of wind came.
"You guys just play around over there...I'll take care of them myself." said a guy that appeared out of no where. I glared at the man. I had a really bad feeling about him. A huge gust of wind came it separated us. I sighed as I stood up rubbing my sore head. I looked around and saw something that would be considered dunked in radioactive goo. It attacked me and wrapped its tail round me. The only word that popped into my mind was...
"Shit..." The snake opened its mouth and swallowed. I quickly did Kage Bushin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Jutsu) and as soon as the snake exploded I quickly ran off to find Sasuke and Sakura.
When I found them Sasuke, Sakura, and that guy that makes me feel edgy were standing around. I hid in a bush until I saw Sasuke start reaching for the scroll. I quickly raised out of the bush and grabbed both Sasuke and the scroll before the creepy bastard did.
"Sasuke what the hell are you doing!" I snarled at him.
"You idiot! He'll kill us! He's to strong!" Sauske snarled back.
"What makes you think he'll let us live even after we hand him over our scroll!" I sighed. This was annoying and wasting time.
"Very good deduction Naruto-kun..." The creepy man said looking at Sasuke like he was a piece of meat. That was extremely creepy. Sure Sasuke and I were never close but I don't want him being raped by his creepy ass. I glared at the smirking creepy man.
"Hey...what's your name?" I asked him smirking. He blinked in confusion.
"Why do you want to know?" he hissed out. Creepy man's a snake man.
"It would be nice to place a name with a soon to be corpse is all." I smiled at him. He glared and when he was about to attack I quickly moved behind him with a speed the sharingan wouldn't be able to catch and quickly replaced his heart with my hand. "Say hello to the Shinigami for me..." I said as the creepy guy took his last breath. I sighed at the thought of hoping for a decent battle being completely ruined.
Sakura had passed out from the gory scene and Sasuke stood paler than usual.
"Sasuke...would you like to join me and Hinata?" I asked. He nodded and I took him to an isolated area and did the same ritual I had done with Hinata. I quickly did a shadow clone and transformed it into Sasuke since the real one was knocked out as well as take the scroll from the creepy dead man. I also made a genjutsu so anyone in a 5 meter area wouldn't see the real Sasuke on my back.
Once Saukra woke up we headed toward the creek to get some food. I made sure to leave Sasuke where it was the most covered in shadow.
Sakura didn't even say anything about the genjutsu I put up even though she's supposed to be the best one on the team. I wonder if she knows that the Sasuke she's talking to right now is a fake.
"Naruto...I think we're being followed..." Sakura whispered in my ear. I looked up at her before taking a bite out of one of the fish "Sasuke" and I caught and cooked.
"Why do you say that Sakura chan?" I asked her wondering what she knew.
"There's been a genjutsu up since I woke up. I think that maybe "his" comrades may want to get even since know they won't be able to pass." She stated. I forgot about that rule...damn. Oh well...if the creepy snake-like guy was their strongest then I have nothing to worry about...that is if they are following us. I know the genjutsu Sakura senses is my own but I completely forgot about the comrades. Let's see...right know Sasuke is out of the count and Sakura isn't strong enough to defeat them even with help...maybe later in life yes but at the current time she can't do much.
"Wow Sakura-chan! I didn't sense it until now. Your really good at this stuff aren't you." I said smiling at her. She was at a loss for words. Later that night Sasuke woke up and I let him have some more of my blood telling him that we had to be careful for creepy pedophile snake-like man's comrades. He nodded.
"Hey Sasuke...well need to feed again soon so we'll have to keep attacking people...we'll just tell Sakura we might need extra scrolls and weapons later on." Sasuke nodded in agreement. After a while we saw the tower and even an hour later it felt like the tower was the same distance away as before. I sighed at the obvious trap we fell for.
"Come out!" I shouted. Sasuke and Sakura looked at me before they noticed people appear. I sighed again as our enemy was taking the cowards way to fighting their enemy. Waiting until they were tired and then strike. Good strategy and all but that also means that your not confident in the strength you currently posses.
"Lucky..." said one guy as he made his way over to me and my team as well as some others like him.
I quickly made several clones and had them all attack while Sasuke and Sakura hid to attack later. While my clones were fighting I found the real ones by listening to their heart beats. The beats of their heart were annoyingly calm. I'll just have to fix that. I quickly went behind the area where they were hiding and snuck some explosives behind them. When I left the explosives to join where my clones were...or what was left of them there was an explosion forcing our enemy out into my general area. Sasuke and I quickly took care of them after that. We told Sakura we were going to strip search them so we left her area and quickly fed ourselves. We came back a while later with more scrolls and more weapons. Sasuke, not being used to the fine art of drinking blood, ended up getting blood all over himself. I tried to stifle a laughed as he licked the rest of the blood off as much as he could before heading toward a puddle to wash the rest off.
After that we met back up and headed toward the tower. Once we got in we read a giant scroll that was on a wall before opening the scrolls slowly hoping that we were supposed to do that now.
"Put them down now!" Sasuke yelled as the scrolls started to smoke. With a puff Iruka-sensei was there.
"You guys made it! I'm glad." he smiled before telling us what the giant scroll on the wall meant.
"Congratulations on passing the second test." He smiled at us. I smiled back and hugged him.
"Hey Iruka-sensei...what would have happened if we opened the scrolls before we got here?" I asked. I've been wondering about it for a while now.
"If you had opened it before you got here I would have had to knock you guys all out." Iruka-sensei stated. "But you didn't and passed. I'm proud of all of you." He said before telling us that there were rooms waiting for those who had finished earlier than the others. Sakura immediately went to sleep saying something about no more rocks and sticks. Unknown to her I had placed a jutsu on her that forced her to sleep. Sasuke and I sat around watching the moon.
"I wonder if Hinata-chan is alright..." I said. Sure we could us telepathy but if I used it now and she were in a battle I would just be distracting her and could get her seriously injured...because if she was then she'd need to drink a lot more blood and then we would be noticed if we weren't already.
"I'm sure she's fine...So why are you a vampire?" he asked. I'm guessing he had more questions but now it doesn't really matter anymore.
"When I was about five the villagers made another attack on my life because the Fourth Hokage sealed the nine-tailed fox in me. I was almost dead when master found me and asked if I wanted to be protected. I, of course, said yes...that's when and why I became a vampire." I stated. He watched me before asking another question.
"Your journey...now whose all going and why take it after the exams?" He asked.
"The journey is because our food supply is running low here and my plan...my real life goal will truly begin then...and for whose going with me...Hinata, master, and yourself...we'll take three years to train our bodies since both you and Hinata are new vampires and master has yet to teach me everything about being a vampire. During that time we can track down that person you want to kill and kill him. After those three years are up then we'll come back for my goal to be accomplished..." I said smirking. He watched me carefully now.
"And what is your goal?" He asked me nervously.
"To destroy Konoha." I smiled again. "Are you having second thoughts Sasuke?" I asked.
"No...I was just wondering why you chose Hinata and myself but now the reasons obvious. Your just going to use us..." He spoke. His voice wavering from hurt and anger.
"Your right and your wrong..." I told him truthfully. " I choose you two because of your kenkai genkai but I also chose you because...even though you and me never got along in the past...I feel like your part of my family...I choose Hinata because I honest to God...I really love her." I spoke again. Then Sasuke asked me a question that almost made me slit a rib.
"Do we have a God?" he asked me. I shrugged my shoulders.
"I've been trying to figure that out as well... So your still coming with us right?" I asked looking at him now.
"Yeah...the girls here are to clingy and I also feel that way bout you..." Sasuke said still looking at the moon. I smiled at Sasuke then continued looking back at the moon.
"We should think of a name for our soon to be group." I suggested. "We can always have Hinata help us when she comes here."
"Well... how about... Kyubi..." Sasuke said looking at me. I looked at him and smiled.
"Yeah. That would be awesome. The once feared Kyubi coming back to finish the job...I like it we'll just have to asked what Hinata thinks of the name." I said now looking at the moon. "You know...some people think that human life is like the moon...life begins and ends...for us we don't have to worry about that...our life will last us forever...like the Hokage faces..." I said. Sasuke didn't say anything but I knew he was thinking about something.
"Naruto...what are we going to do after we destroy Konoha?" Sasuke asked me. I shrugged my shoulders before looking at him again.
"We can become shinobi for some other village...one that hated Konoha. They'd welcome us as heroes." I said nonchalantly. Sasuke nodded his head as the sun came up. "Guess it's bedtime..." I said as Sasuke and I headed for the two extra beds in the room.