I'm so sorry! I hate being late and I'm nearly two months late! Just so much has happened in the last few months and I haven't had time to write. But because it's been so long I made this chapter a lot longer! So it was a lot more work for me too. Yeah but I had to plan homecoming, then my Birthday, and volunteering, then my grandfather died and I'm so sorry for being so late! U-U I'm so sorry! For now I'll try to return to my old schedule but it might take two weeks for me instead of just one.
This is not a date yet U-U but the rest of it you can use you're imagination for~
Okay so I added,
~/SasuNaru P.O.V/~
Basically it's just a time skip signal, and there's no specific P.O.V or it shifts a lot throughout the reading. Then there's also
~/Iruka P.O.V/~
This won't be so common but it's just to kinda give Iruka's P.O.V on a few things and how Naruto's changing.
What's already happened?
Since it's been so long, I'm gonna do a quick what you've already read kinda thing.
Naruto is a vampire hating hunter, Sasuke was a close friend with the long past Uzumaki-Namikaze family. To whom were completely wiped out by vampires, excluding Naruto whom was staying at Iruka's. In Chapter 1 Sasuke saves Naruto from a vampire who's chasing the hunter, and Sasuke realizes how weak Naruto sensing ability is compared to others. In Chapter 2, Sasuke learns that Naruto has video's made by Naruko about her life and advice for her little brother. Sasuke also observes Naruto's swordplay. In Chapter 3, Naruto is invited out to a club and while there he's drugged by a vampire and taken to the back alley where his blood is sucked. Sasuke saves him from the vampire as well as two of her companions and takes him home. Naruto wakes up early and walks in on Sasuke talking with Tsunade and Iruka. In Chapter 4, we meet Suigetsu and Naruto wonders about Sasuke and their meeting. In Chapter 5, Sasuke learns that the Akatsuki are still alive and Naruto learns about Sasuke and that he's a vampire. In Chapter 6, Sasuke tells Iruka and Kakashi about the Akatsuki. Suigetsu realizes Sasuke hasn't fed in a while and sends him to feed while also informing Itachi about his brother's health. Naruto also learns that Sasuke was close with his sister, Naruko, by watching the videos she had made. When he asks Iruka about meeting Sasuke Iruka says no, leading Naruto to run away in rage. While out he gets attacked by two vampires he takes out one but is surprised by the second and saved by Sasuke. They fight but when Sasuke leaves he tells Naruto that Naruko and him were alike. In chapter 7, Tsunade tells Sasuke that Neji is coming and talks about Itachi and Kyuubi's relationship. While leaving Sasuke runs into Ino, Sakura, Gaara and Naruto. Finally in Chapter 8, Neji comes into town and meets everyone. While everyone is at a meeting Naruto and his friends go to Naruto's house and drink. While there Gaara reveals that Naruto is being watched by Sasuke and Neji. Sasuke talks to Naruto about it and whereas Neji also reprimands Iruka for relying so much on Sasuke.
*Important*
I'd like to clarify the time line in here is much different from the Naruto universe and even modern time. For instance modern technology has only been so important in our world for about 50 years, maybe a little more, whereas in this universe it's much older, a couple thousand years actually. So just to clarify it's much more stretched out in the story and there no real proportion to our timeline, it's really what's more convenient, definitely since certain factors expand for hundreds of thousands of years.
~/Sasuke P.O.V/~
"Everything alright with Naruto this morning?" Sasuke asked as he held the phone to his ear, lying on the black leather couch in the middle of his living room.
"More or less," The Hyuuga replied. "What could've happened?"
"I don't know. That's why I'm asking," Sasuke replied, glancing over at his tea on the coffee table.
"Nope nothing, so you got him this afternoon?"
"Yeah," Sasuke replied, forcing himself to sit up as he reached for his tea.
"Great, then tomorrow morning we switch out again?"
"Yeah."
"Got it, by the way, you know, if you're so worried you can pick him up in the morning."
"Drop all the work on me?" Sasuke commented, taking a drink of his tea,
"No, you just seem worried."
"Well he's my charge, originally at least."
"Okay, hey, I wasn't trying to say anything; you just seem uncomfortable with me being here."
"Since when do you care," Sasuke glared at the phone, curious about the Hyuuga's sudden concern. Then realized, "You're not trying to lengthen you're night after, are you?" Sasuke asked.
"I'm offended," Neji faked disbelief, then smiled, "Gaara has school, so I don't really get a night after, and anyway you just seem worried."
"Neji,"
"What?"
"Mind your own business."
"Well then, sorry," Neji mumbled. "Someone woke up on the wrong side of the coffin."
"Seriously?"
"Aw come on, stop being such a scrooge, I was just joking."
"Hn."
"I wake up in a coffin every night," Neji joked.
"You make your boyfriend sleep in a coffin, how aren't you single?"
". . . I hate you."
"Hn," Sasuke replied giving a slight smirk.
"Whatever, I gotta go, keep me up to date?"
"Maybe," Sasuke replied.
"If you guys suddenly get killed, tell me," Neji rephrased.
". . . I swear Neji."
Neji gave a small laugh, "Later Uchiha, tell our little blond I said hi."
"Hn," Sasuke replied, hanging up the phone.
~/Naruto P.O.V/~
"He's so hot," Sakura squealed as she sat with Kiba, Naruto and Ino at lunch.
"And he hasn't changed a bit, he's still so mysterious too," Ino squealed, using her hands to cover her mouth.
"What I would do to be with him," Sakura sighed, lying her head on the school lunch table.
"Tell me about it, but he's mine forehead."
"Hah, why would someone like him, go for a pig like you?"
"Please, your forehead is big enough to hold an advertisement."
"Bitch, he's mine," Sakura yelled jumping to her feet.
"Hell no," Ino followed.
"Are they still going on about that Sasuke guy?" Kiba questioned looking at Naruto and Shikamaru.
"You guys know him?" Naruto asked looking at the two.
"We're still part of the hunter's association," Kiba said looking at Naruto.
"And even then Sasuke and his brother Itachi were in the lesson about the founding of the hunter's association." Shikamaru yawned.
"Really?" Naruto asked looking between the two, "Seriously how old is he?"
"Old, you'd have to ask the man personally for a specific number," Kiba answered.
"Don't you dare," The three boys jumped as Sakura yelled at them.
"What?" Kiba asked looking at her.
"Sasuke's such an amazing and sincere guy, well for me at least, who cares about his age!" She smiled, twirling her hair as she sent a sharp glare at Ino.
"Please he's flirtatious and caring for me," Ino replied sending a teasing glare at Sakura.
The three boys looked at each other, "Really?" Naruto asked the two boys in disbelief.
"No way in hell." Kiba told him, "He's a complete and utter bastard to everyone."
"Don't talk about him like that!" Sakura and Ino screamed in unison, turning to face him. Kiba jumped, hiding behind Naruto.
"I'm sorry!"
"He's a powerful, beautiful and gentle soul." Sakura yelled at the boy.
"And he's a tortured, mysterious soul, he's so breathtaking!" Ino followed.
"Well I don't know about all that but from what I can tell, he's not a complete and utter bastard. He's still a bastard but there's something more to, at least I think there is." Naruto went on, getting confused glances from those around him. "What?" He asked looking at them.
"Dude you okay?" Kiba asked.
"Sorry? I just, you know?" Naruto replied giving a slight shrug.
"Troublesome." Shikamaru mumbled, sitting up and leaving the table.
"Don't leave me with these people!" Kiba called.
"See! So shut up Kiba!" Sakura yelled.
"Naruto! Bro!" Kiba exclaimed.
"Sorry!" Naruto exclaimed as Kiba grasped his collar, then slightly laughed as Sakura and Ino pulled Kiba away. His smile slightly faded as he turned looking at the two girls while they went on yelling at Kiba, he kinda felt sick. His stomach was in knots and his throat was constricting. Was he jealous? Who was there to be jealous of? He stopped, realization coming to his eyes, 'Oh right, I use to like Sakura, do I still like her?' He thought, so he was jealous of Sasuke? Of how much Sakura was going on about the boy. But why did he feel like there was something wrong with that deduction; there was nothing else for him to be jealous of so it had to be of Sasuke, for Sakura. Or maybe he ate something bad and was actually sick? He wanted to throw up. He glanced at the others, then sighed, he wasn't in a very good mood anymore.
~/Naruto P.O.V/~
Naruto skimmed over the groups of cars parked in front of the school. He had to ride home with Sasuke every afternoon and ride to school every morning with Neji.
"Where is he?" Sakura pouted as she stood next to him, scanning the crowd. Naruto felt his vein pop out of his head, Sakura and Ino were always waiting with him so they could ambush the raven. Finally the Cadillac ELR came into sight, sticking out like a sore thumb among the soccer mom vans and SUV's.
"Oh there he is!" Ino exclaimed almost immediately running for the car, alongside Sakura. Naruto sighed, making no attempt to increase his pace as he headed for the car. He listened as he came up to the car, opening the door and throwing his stuff in the back.
"Come on," Sakura whined, "just a bit?"
"He'd rather go with me forehead!" Naruto listened to the conversation, had they asked him out?
"Come on just an hour, no, thirty minutes." Sakura begged, "We can get ice cream?"
"Hn," Sasuke glanced at Naruto, waiting for the boy to get in the car.
"Well what about me?" Ino asked, Sasuke paying no attention to the girls, "Sasuke," Ino whimpered. He returned his glance to the girls as Naruto got in the car.
"For the hundredth time, no." The two girls pouted,
"Well next weekend then?" Sakura asked hopefully,
"Or maybe after school one day, with you and Naruto, and me and forehead?" Ino smiled.
"No." Sasuke simply said, then began driving off. Naruto felt his anger alleviate slightly, maybe it was because Sasuke formally turned down Sakura, now she could give up. And though he knew her well enough to know she wouldn't give up, he felt better, if only a bit.
Sasuke spared a glance at the blonde, he looked bothered by something, "What's wrong?"
"Hm?" Naruto replied, turning to the raven as he came back from his La La land.
"What's wrong?"
"Oh nothing, just tired." Naruto looked at Sasuke, he kinda felt bad for the girls though. They were constantly being turned down by the man they loved, he could relate to constantly being turned down no matter how hard you tried. "You know it might not be so bad to go out with them once, it's not like we're doing anything." Naruto stopped, feeling a sudden heart wrenching disgust. Was it because of Sasuke or Sakura? Because he didn't want Sakura to be with Sasuke, or because he knew Sasuke would say no and he was worried Sakura would get hurt?
"Hn. If I say yes they'll expect something and either way I have something to do today," Sasuke glanced at Naruto, his expression looking disheartened and solemn. Sasuke glanced at the time then back at Naruto, "So what do you say?"
"Hmm?" Naruto asked glancing at the raven.
"Wanna go shopping with me?"
"What?" Naruto asked looking at the boy, surprise evident on his face.
"I was gone from my house for a while, most of my clothes are now ruined, and most of my good clothes are in my other houses around the world. I've been able to deal with what I've had but I really haven't had time to stop anywhere, so what do you say?"
Naruto looked at the raven, his face lighting up as he laughed, "I would've never expected you of all people to ask me that."
"It doesn't really matter, I still need clothes so I have to go anyway and we pass the mall on the way to your house, it's pretty far out from my house, so?"
"Yeah, let's go! Can we get ramen first?!"
"It's at the mall, so yeah we could."
"Let's go then!" Naruto cheered.
"Hn." Sasuke nodded.
~/Sasunaru P.O.V/~
He was genuinely surprised that Sasuke invited him along, but he was undoubtedly ecstatic that he was invited along. "Why'd you wait so long to go shopping?" Naruto asked as he got out of the car, slightly jogging in order to catch up to Sasuke as he walked through the parking lot.
"Just busy, I had enough clothes to hold me over but I don't really care for having to run a load of laundry everyday so I can have clean clothes."
Naruto looked at the raven curiously then back at the mall, "Spoiled rich kid," He muttered then chuckled. Sasuke spared a glance at the blond, deciding to ignore the comment. "So what stores are we going to?"
"I don't really care."
"Really? I expected you to be the type to shop at Hot Topic and Spencers," Naruto smiled.
"Hn? Well I expected you to be the type to shop at Claire's and Justice, but I'm probably wrong." Sasuke smirked slightly, Naruto stopping frozen in embarrassment.
"T-those are good stores! There's nothing wrong with that!" Naruto yelled, then ran to catch up to him, "Either way I was with Sakura and Ino, it was only jewelry and it looked nice on me!"
"You know I was just kidding and had no idea about any of that," Sasuke smirked as he opened the mall door, allowing the blond in first.
"Teme!" Naruto pouted, walking through the door.
"Come on let's check out J.C Penney."
"What about my ramen?" Naruto asked, turning to look at Sasuke.
"Now?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah, I haven't eaten since lunch."
Sasuke looked at the time once again, he had a meeting at 5:00 and it was about 2:30, so they had time. "Fine."
"Yay!" Naruto cheered, hastening his pace as he went in the direction of the food court. Sasuke stared at the boy, making no attempt to keep up with him. Why was he doing this exactly? What was the point? It wasn't a lie that he needed some new clothes and hadn't had time to buy any, but still why would he bring the blond along? Just because he looked a little upset? "Hurry up!" Sasuke looked forward, nearly being overcome by the radiance of the boy in front of him that held a blinding smile, directed at the raven.
"Hn." Sasuke looked at the rows of clothing around them. Paying little attention to his blonde companion. Naruto gave a small whimper, running forward and grabbing Sasuke's wrist, forcing him forward, "Dobe!" Sasuke exclaimed as Naruto dragged him through the mall.
"Come on!" Naruto smiled, turning to face Sasuke with that brilliant smile of his. Sasuke gave in, allowing himself to be dragged through the mall, at least he didn't look so upset anymore.
"You're too enthusiastic." Sasuke said as the two stopped in the ramen line.
"It's ramen!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Hn," Sasuke turned, glancing at two girls who were watching them both. They gave flirtatious giggles, waving at the raven and signaling for Naruto and himself to come over. Sasuke gave an annoyed glare, daring the girls to act on their fantasies, they froze immediately returning to their lunch.
"What is it?" Naruto asked noticing Sasuke's glare. He looked, trying to follow wherever the raven was looking.
"Nothing," Sasuke replied turning back to Naruto. He groaned uncomfortably, using his hand to block the rays of light coming in from the glass doors, leading out of the food court and into the parking lot.
"Oh, right, the sun probably isn't good for you." Sasuke glanced at the boy, instead of the usual venom in his eyes there was a deep curiosity.
"Newborns can't survive in the sun for the first 5 months of their turning, then older turned vampires can handle the sun for certain periods of time depending on their age then at a certain point it gets to be much to handle and if they aren't careful they burn to death. For us pureblood's, we're born with an innate resilience to the sun. However unlike turned vampires, no matter how long we're in the sun it doesn't kill us though it is uncomfortable. And the less blood in our system the worse it gets."
"Have you not drunk blood in a while?" Naruto asked, Sasuke could sense something in his voice, but it wasn't anger or hatred, it sounded more . . . awkward? Yeah, uncomfortable.
". . . It's been a week and a half, maybe a little longer but that's not much. Most of the older purebloods can go months without eating, granted the effects are a completely different topic."
"Could you explain purebloods to me? I mean I've never heard much about them." Naruto asked glancing at the raven.
"Later," Sasuke said glaring at the eyes that were stuck on the two. Naruto blushed as he noticed the eyes on them, they may have talked a little too loud.
"Next!" The two brought their attention back to the ramen.
"Miso ramen with roasted pork fillet please," Naruto smiled.
"Miso ramen." Sasuke followed.
"Okay 5 minutes please." The cook smiled. The two boys nodded moving from the line.
~/Sasunaru P.O.V/~
"Where are we going after this?" Naruto asked as they sat at the table.
"Just look around?"
"Let's go check out Hot Topic!" Naruto cheered.
"Are you still on this?" Sasuke asked referring to their previous conversation.
"No, but I wanna check it out." Naruto pouted as he took a mouthful of ramen. "So purebloods?"
Sasuke looked at the blond, up from his ramen, "You have three types of vampires, newborns, turned vampires and purebloods. Newborns are recently turned vampires, they become 'turned vampires' when they begin walking in the sun. Their thirst for blood is at its strongest, their senses are at their highest and without a mentor many don't even know how to transform. Turned vampires have a higher level of experience and really that's it, they start gaining control over their instincts. Then purebloods, unlike turned vampires, are born vampires. Purebloods are the creators of the species, they created the first turned vampires. Then unlike turned vampires, purebloods can have children granted we can only have children with other purebloods, in medieval times our species was dominated by incest, however as times changed and morality followed the practice was stopped. Due to that most purebloods are related and so they began mating outside of our species, leading our species to endangerment. Now, besides my clan and the Hyuuga's, I don't know any pureblood vampires."
"So what set's apart a pureblood? I mean I get they're born vampires, and have a resistance to the sun but is there more?"
"Purebloods are like a perfected version of turned vampires. We're faster, stronger, smarter, and have a much better control over our instincts-"
"Wow conceited much?" Naruto muttered to himself jokingly. Getting a sharp glare from Sasuke, he stiffened and apologized, "Sorry!"
Sasuke closed his eyes slightly, shaking the comment from his mind and continuing with the conversation, "We also have bloodline abilities unlike turned vampires."
"Bloodline abilities?"
Sasuke spared a glance at the boy, "Wow you really don't know anything do you?" Naruto looked at the raven then shyly turned away. "Every hunter and pureblood vampire has a bloodline ability. What they are is basically abilities that are passed down through the bloodlines. The most basic pertaining to the four elements, water, earth, fire and air. These are said to stem from the father of both the hunter and the vampire species,"
"Father?"
"Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, it's said his mother was the god of our world. She was the one who introduced, I guess you could call it magic, into our world. Then Hagoromo fathered the very first pureblood vampire and hunter. From the very beginning they were at odds and then their children, their grandchildren and even up to modern times nothing's changed. The basic elements, water, earth, fire and air, passed onto his children. Every single hunter and pureblood vampire has the ability to awaken those four elements. However the elements changed as they passed down the bloodlines and mixed. These enhanced bloodline abilities set apart the families, as these abilities only awoke in direct descendants of the parent ancestor who held the ability. Even then they only awake in certain generations. Sometimes they're shown by changes in appearance and other times they're not so obvious. Bloodline abilities are extremely hard to awaken and it takes a lot of training, that, or a life-threatening situation. Many people start training their kids from about age 5 to awaken their bloodline abilities, if they have any."
"How are they awoken?"
"Usually at the most inconvenient times. One of mine awoken while I was eating dinner," Sasuke gave a small smirk, "everyone was pretty surprised when lightning suddenly shot through the house, I was only trying to grab the fork that fell off the table"
Naruto gave a small laugh and looked at the raven again, "Lightning? So is that unique to your family?"
"I come from the Uchiha clan, the most famous pureblood vampire clan as well as one of the few clans that are direct descendants of the very first pureblood, the Hyuugas can also trace their family back to the first pureblood. Due to that we have much stronger and much purer blood, so we usually awaken more than one bloodline ability, granted overtime and ours are usually much more powerful than the average clan's abilities. The longer one lives the more likely they are to release multiple bloodline abilities."
"So you can have multiple?"
"Depends on the family you come from, the training you've had, the amount of experience you've had and most importantly the ability to utilize your powers."
"Then, are there descendants of the very first hunter?" Sasuke smirked at the boy,
"Course."
"Really who?"
"Doesn't really matter now does it, Uzumaki." Sasuke finished throwing his cup away. "Come on."
"Wait! I still have questions!"
"Ask while we walk to Hot Topic."
"Mmph!" Naruto tried calling to the raven as he stuffed the leftover ramen down his throat. He threw the trash away and finally chased after the raven. Glaring as he finally caught up. "Okay, next question,"
"Seriously what do they teach you in that school?" Sasuke questioned.
"Mostly fighting, actually that's it and strategies, anyway so you have bloodline abilities?"
"Course, I'm a pureblood."
"Well, then, what are they?" Sasuke glanced at the boy, they're couldn't be much harm in telling him, could there?
"I have an eye technique, something which changes the appearance of my eye and gives me enhanced senses and certain sub powers, and then I control black flames and lightning."
"You gotta show me!"
"In a mall?"
"No, but, like later,"
"Hn," Naruto angrily puffed his cheeks then sighed,
"What about my sister? My parents? Maybe that could tell me what I might be able to do." Sasuke glanced at the boy, again, what could it hurt?
"You're father controlled wind and had a special bloodline ability, teleportation. Then you're mother controlled wind and had an innate skill when it came to sealing, and a higher than normal life-force and power force. Despite that she also had a dormant special bloodline that hadn't fully awoken in her but had awoken . . ." Sasuke stopped for a second, closing his eyes he went on, "It had awoken in your sister. It was an almost demonic ability, often it was represented by a rabid Kitsune. I personally can't explain what the full extent of this power was, however your sister was able to materialize this, almost, crimson fire, onto her skin and control it like a second body. Create hands and heads and separate body parts and, and, she," Sasuke clenched his eyes as the memory forced itself onto him, the oddly beautiful ability. He set his hand on his forehead, slightly moaning as he remembered, the power, the stance. He could remember how Naruko stood when under the Kitsune's influence. Her dead face, her lifeless glare, the overwhelming power was amazing but the effect wasn't worth it. He could remember how it would change her. For days she would be tired, exhausted, uninterested, easily angered but what stuck most was the blood, the sensation, the smell; it was always so strong afterwards because the power would rip away her skin, she would be in the hospital for weeks but she would never stop using it, never and despite what he said, what Minato said and Kushina and Tsunade and everyone who cared for her said she would never listen.
"Sasuke!" Sasuke was brought back from the memory by Naruto's voice. "Are you okay?" He asked, concern etched into his features despite how he tried to hide it. "You've been holding your head and just stopped talking." Naruto explained.
"Sorry, I was just remembering something. Anyway, what I was saying, um, the power, she used these extra hands, extra body parts I mean, to attack multiple enemies at once, confuse them. Oh, and, she, she also inherited her father's ability of fire." Naruto could tell immediately he was very awkward, uncomfortable in the way he was talking, something was wrong.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Naruto questioned.
"Fine." Sasuke coldly said brushing off the question, paying little concern to the blonde,
"You sure?" Naruto asked, Sasuke seemed . . . off? Granted Naruto didn't really know Sasuke well enough to say how he was normally, mostly a bastard.
"Yeah, anyway what were you saying?"
"Um, okay, I was just gonna ask if you knew what my powers could possibly be?"
"You tell me?" Sasuke replied, though he was rather detached now, well compared to his previous composure during their conversation.
"In class we learn hand-to-hand combat and weaponry, I've never even known about bloodline abilities."
"Well most kids learn about it from their parents, but still you never saw any of your friends' use there's?"
"I've never particularly challenged my friends to a serious fight and would a vampire even be stupid enough to attack a group of hunters?" Sasuke glanced at the boy shrugging slightly,
"If they're desperate enough."
"Well sorry I didn't get technical." Naruto pouted, then smiled as they finally reached the store; and like a kid in a candy store he ran into the store, diving into the racks of clothing and surprising the raven.
"Hn," Sasuke mumbled watching the blonde as he stopped at the nearest rack, pulling at the clothes. Sasuke looked at him curiously, but overall ignored the action and moved to the rack opposite of the boy.
Naruto turned glancing at Sasuke, he hadn't thought about it but, after seeing his reaction, maybe Naruko was a touchy subject for him too. He did seem more distant now, even though it was something as vague as Naruko's powers. Naruto stopped admiring the clothes again, granted he wasn't even really looking at them as he found his eyes following Sasuke again. Maybe that was why Sasuke never talked about it, not to piss Naruto off but just avoid the subject. Naruto turned back to the clothes, in time then, Sasuke was his bodyguard so they'd spend more time together, and maybe one day they'd be close enough that Sasuke would freely talk about it. How close Naruko and Sasuke were, maybe Naruto could get to that point. It wasn't a bad idea, Sasuke was renowned and strong; it couldn't be too bad to have him as an ally. Naruto pulled at one of the shirts, it showed vampire fangs with the words, DON'T DENY THE BITE! Naruto's eyes went big as he violently swiped to the next shirt. What was he thinking!? Sasuke, he, Sasuke, he was a vampire! Why would Naruto want to be his friend, why was he even here, why couldn't he remember, why couldn't he listen to himself! This guy was a vampire! A fucking bloodsucker! What was wrong with Naruto? Sasuke had killed people! Naruto stopped, that never occurred to him. Was it because Sasuke told him about the blood banks? Sasuke was old enough it'd be weird for him not to have drained people. So what exactly was Naruto doing there? Talking on and pretending it was all okay? And still, why couldn't he despise Sasuke, why couldn't he completely and utterly despise the raven even though he was a bloodsucker, a killer, why was he so happy about spending the rest of his day like this? He stared down slightly, disappointed in his own naivety. He shook his head slightly, moving to the next shirt, who was he even kidding anymore? One vampire. Just one, maybe it was okay for now. If it someday meant information on Naruko and for information on his parents. He unconsciously set a t-shirt aside, Sasuke had his own standards didn't he? He had his own limits and rules; he was on a leash, so he could never do anything to Naruto, or his friends, or Iruka and Kakashi or anyone he knew. So it was fine right? Naruko had trusted him so why couldn't Naruto at least deal with him. How sad was he, letting a vampire shake his interior so much, and how sad was he for being okay with it. As long as nothing changed, as long as Sasuke followed those rules then everything was okay as it was. Naruto just had to go through the motions, and once Sasuke strayed and the other foot dropped Naruto would be ready. So for now, it was okay like this, right? "How about this?" He called to the raven. Sasuke turned looking at what'd he chosen. First, a striped dark-red and white t-shirt which reached to Sasuke's shoulders, with a gray-black jacket that zipped up, with a hood hanging off the back and a red cross on the left pectoral then finally a pair of black jeans.
"Not bad for a Claire's guy." Sasuke smirked gathering up the outfit.
"Teme!" Naruto exclaimed, embarrassed then he sighed awkwardly rubbing his head, "You know, for you something as simple as a long sleeved darker colored shirt, or even a white button-up would look nice. Granted if you wore a white-button up it would look better with a dark jacket. You're so pale any dark color would fit nicely. Oh! Or try a black undershirt with a white low v-neck and black pull-over! Oh! Oh! Or-" Naruto stopped as he caught sight of Sasuke's teasing glare, and went a bright red.
"Well someone knows clothes," Sasuke teased, giving a slight smirk.
"Ah! Shut up teme!" Naruto exclaimed.
"No, please, go on." Sasuke said emphasizing the please and pissing Naruto off all the more.
"Teme!" Naruto exclaimed once again, catching the attention of those around them. He looked at all the eyes now stuck to him, and pretending not to notice them he returned to the racks, looking for more clothes to fit the raven.
Sasuke used his hand to cover his mouth, in an attempt to hide the small chuckle forcing its way through his lips; he really just couldn't help it anymore. He glanced at the time, it was almost already 4:00, and at this rate he wouldn't make it to the meeting. It wasn't like the meeting was about the council or anything, it was actually a work meeting, just some allied companies welcoming the promotion of their 'new' CEO. Granted he's been CEO before, about 200 years before, but still. He sighed, it really wasn't that important and he couldn't exactly leave when they hadn't even really accomplished what they came to do. He pulled out his phone dialing his secretary.
"Uchiha Corporations, how may I help you?"
"It's Sasuke."
"Ah sir, good afternoon."
"Afternoon, I need you to give my condolences, something has come up and I won't be able to attend the meeting."
"Understood sir."
"Thank you." He finished, hanging up the phone. Then looking up as Naruto had a large number of clothes draped over his arm, gathering up more. He struggled not to laugh at the blonde struggling to handle all the clothes. "Need help?" He asked, walking over to the boy.
"Try these on!" Naruto demanded, throwing all of the clothes into the vampire's hands.
"Whoa! Wait." Sasuke began but was simply pushed towards the changing rooms. He inaudibly moaned, now he remembered the main reason he avoided clothes shopping up till now. He glanced over, a bright orange long-sleeved shirt catching his eye. All he could wonder is who would wear that, then his eyes caught sight or an annoyingly bright Naruto. He looked between the two and shrugged. Dropping his clothes off in the changing room and walking to the shirt. He sighed comparing the orange to a nearby black jacket. He grabbing the two and threw them on the blondes head, nonchalantly returning to the dressing room.
Naruto froze as the clothes surprised him. He pulled them off, glancing back as Sasuke returned to the changing room, he laughed slightly at the gesture, smiling as he compared the clothes to his body type.
~/Sasunaru P.O.V/~
Sasuke and Naruto stood at the cashier as the woman behind the counter rung them up. Naruto pulled out his wallet, pulling out the cash for his clothes, having gotten much more than he planned and wasn't even sure he had enough. "Damn the mall is expensive!" He mumbled.
"It's fine." Sasuke said.
"Hmm?" Naruto questioned looking at the raven.
"It's too much work to pay separately, I'll just pay for your stuff."
"Thanks, then here." Naruto said handing his money to the man.
"Don't worry about it." Sasuke replied blowing off Naruto's gesture.
"No way, you know how expensive that is!?" Naruto exclaimed.
"It comes to about 400 with all our stuff, how's that expensive?" Naruto stopped and frowned, angrily muttering,
"Damn bloodsucking spoiled teme with his stupid money and successful fucking company." Sasuke smirked at the reply, "Where next?"
"I think we've gotten enough clothes," Sasuke replied.
"Yeah." Naruto replied, despite it though he was rather disheartened. He buried the odd feeling, gathering up the bags of clothes as Sasuke paid.
As they left Naruto noticed Sasuke looking at the receipt, "What is it?" He questioned, leaning over to peak at the receipt and noticing the long number at the bottom, "So the girl gave you her number?" Naruto asked, his tone more upset than he intended. He shook his head surprised, what was that? The same as earlier wasn't it? Jealously? Naruto was jealous again. This time though, he knew why, Sasuke got more girls than him! He was jealous of the teme's game. He sighed, not like it mattered anyway. "You gonna call her?" Naruto asked.
"Hn," Sasuke simply replied, ripping the girl's number off of the receipt and throwing it away.
"Well that was rude." Naruto joked, once again surprised by his uplifted tone, this time he didn't understand why, and for some reason he didn't think he wanted to know why. He shook his head, willing the thought away as he noticed an arcade. "We should go to the arcade," He unconsciously said.
"Hn? When do you gotta be back?" Sasuke questioned.
"It should be fine since you're here too," Naruto replied, "But I should probably call." Naruto replied as he pulled out his phone.
Sasuke surveyed the boy, he didn't want to make things awkward or uncomfortable, the more Naruto trusted him the less complicated things would be and that was that, at least, for now, that's what he'd believe.
"Iruka-sensei, its Naruto."
"Where are you?! You should've been back hours ago! It's nearly six!"
"Sorry Iruka-sensei, Sasuke and I ended up hanging out at the mall. I was just wondering if we could stay out a bit longer."
"Its fine I guess, but don't forget you have school tomorrow."
"I know, but I'm learning more with Sasuke than I ever did in school so."
"Naruto!"
"It's true."
"You ungrateful!" Naruto listened to the small laugh that came across the phone. "Fine, fine, you're good. Have fun."
"Okay, later."
"Later."
~/Iruka P.O.V/~
"What was that about? You look pretty happy." Kakashi said.
"Yeah I really am," Iruka smiled.
"So where's Naruto?"
"He's with Sasuke. Believe it or not, willingly!" Iruka smiled, his eyes watering.
"Oh really?" Kakashi questioned.
"Finally Kakashi, finally," Iruka smiled, closing his eyes as he wiped his hand down his face, stopping as he covered his mouth, falling to his knees in relief.
"What?"
"He's finally opening up, thank god, thank whatever being made this possible." Iruka prayed, sniffling.
"Sasuke," Kakashi joked.
Iruka have a small laugh, wiping at the tears streaming down his face, "What's with these Uzumaki-Namikaze's and Sasuke. I'll never understand why they're always so attracted to him, but we owe him, so much!"
"What do you expect from the Uchihas?" Kakashi joked.
"I don't even care if it was an Uchiha, I'm so, so happy right now. I don't understand how Sasuke did it and at this point I couldn't care, Naruto opening up to a vampire. What sorcery," Iruka laughed between his sniffles.
"So now, when will we tell him about us?"
"What about us?" Iruka asked.
"We're vampires or we're lovers, either or,"
"Pretty sure he already knows about one of those but still. I want Sasuke to decide when we should say something. At this point I'm content with him opening up to anyone."
"So how long will the lovebirds be?" Kakashi asked.
"Haha, now that would be something to see. Sasuke and Naruto, I really can't see it but what I would do to see it. Granted I'd definitely kill Sasuke." Iruka laughed slightly. "They said maybe an hour or so."
"Hmm, small margin but I can deal." Kakashi smiled, knelling next to Iruka and using a gentle hand to brush away his lover's tears.
"Small margin for what?" Iruka questioned.
"Celebration." Kakashi smirked, pulling his lover into his arms.
~/Sasunaru P.O.V/~
"How the hell dude!" Naruto exclaimed as the two stood in front of one of the games. Sasuke shrugged, typing his name into the leadership board. "Okay, my turn!" Naruto exclaimed pushing Sasuke aside and depositing his tokens. "I will not lose this time" He told himself and concentrated on the game. Sasuke spared a glance at the clothes, situated next to the arcade game. His attention brought back to the blonde as he went on, "Left, left, left!" He exclaimed then cheered. "Haha fucker! Wait, wait! No!" He sighed, "Damn" He finished, moving aside so Sasuke could try.
"Dobe you suck" Sasuke frowned.
"What was that teme!?" Naruto yelled.
"Keep it down dobe." Sasuke replied glaring at the eyes now following the two. "Anyway you're just moving the guy too much. It's not gonna help you anyway by hitting the buttons harder. See look," Sasuke explained moving so Naruto could see his hands. "See when you're about to be hit, you lightly move the handle and move enough that you just avoid the bullet, then move back. You dive right into the bullets but you need to find a single space with limited attacks being directed there. Here try," Sasuke said moving out of the way, and letting Naruto take control of the game. "Okay, forward, little lighter, back, good." Sasuke leaned his arm around Naruto, to the left, pressing it against the other side of the arcade game, shifting his weight onto that arm but still keeping his eyesight over Naruto's right shoulder.
"Now what genius!?" Naruto exclaimed as he was cornered within the game.
"Move forward, no, no, you idiot!" Sasuke went on quickly grabbing the handle over Naruto's hand and yanking the handle in two quick sharp movements, to the left then forward.
"Hah~ Good catch teme," Naruto sighed then awkwardly shifted. Feeling Sasuke's arm lightly pushed against his left side, the vampires' body pushed against his back and his chilling hand set against his own. It was awkward, uncomfortable but at the same time Naruto was secretly more accepting of the contact than he would ever openly admit. Maybe because he knew Sasuke was his bodyguard, so it was safe, right?
"Okay now move here." Sasuke said moving Naruto's hand over the handle.
"But what about," Naruto asked using his free hand to point to something on the screen, leading to him accidentally pushing himself further into Sasuke's hold.
"Just," Sasuke followed, moving Naruto's hand once more.
"Oh okay," Naruto replied.
Sasuke looked down, getting a face-full of fluffy blonde hair. Catching him off guard as the enticing scent spiked his senses. He was stuck between pushing the blonde away and sinking his teeth into the pale flesh. He finally felt the warm skin making his fingers tingle, the slight pressure on his torso that shaped with his body so perfectly; and the overwhelming scent pushing at his control. It smelt fresh, like the time after a rain-storm but with a mix of slight honey and caramel; it was fresh but sweet, overwhelmingly so. He felt himself stiffen slightly, concentrating on the sensation; he wanted a taste. He took a quick sniff, relishing in the smell, how could one little bite hurt?
"Sasuke?" Sasuke was brought back from his thoughts, slightly pushing away from the blonde, not enough the blonde would misinterpret it as an insult or make things awkward but enough he was no longer buried in the blonde's smell.
"Hn?" Sasuke questioned looking down at the blonde.
"We won." Naruto said pointing to the screen.
"See it's easy," Sasuke replied, moving away from the blonde completely cutting off any precious contact.
"Tch. You're just inhuman teme," Naruto replied. Then turned away as he looked back at the screen, struggling to hide his crimson face. That had been so embarrassing! When the game finished Sasuke just stood there! He didn't move or anything! It took Naruto nearly a minute to realize Sasuke had zoned out again, and that entire minute they were just there, in each other's embrace; his face went darker. In each other's embrace; hah, what a joke!
"Hn dobe," Sasuke replied. "We should probably start heading back." He checked the time, it was almost 7:30, they had about an hour before it started getting dark and it took about half-an-hour to get back to Naruto's. "Yeah"
"Okay, but we're coming back here and even if it kills me I'll find a way to beat you're score!"
"Hn, please." Sasuke said sarcastically
"Teme," Naruto mumbled.
"Dobe," Sasuke finished as he gathered their bags.
~/Sasunaru P.O.V/~
"So even you can have some fun." Naruto joked as Sasuke drove him back.
"Hn."
"Hey, hey,"
"Yeah?"
"You should let me drive tomorrow!"
"Like hell."
"Guessed as much." Naruto frowned, shifting uncomfortably at the silence, "Say is there anything else I should know?"
"About?"
"Vampires, hunters, powers, all that fun stuff?"
"I'm pretty sure you at least got the basics."
"I guess." Naruto replied, leaning back in the seat seemingly contemplating something, "So how much does having, or not having, powers affect a hunter's abilities?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well in class I'm the best at hand-to-hand combat. We've never really concentrated on spiritual skill, or well magical or whatever you wanna call it."
"The technical term would be chakra, it's basically the molding of both physical and spiritual energy allowing you to manifest it in different forms, usually based in the bloodlines."
"So spiritual skill, anyway, I'm the best at hand-to-hand combat out of all my classmates but I've never really learned the spiritual aspect of hunting whereas my friends have, so am I at a disadvantage or well, am I weak compared to them?" Sasuke looked Naruto over curiously but shrugged the odd behavior off,
"Well using your bloodline abilities is really a kind of weapon built into your very core, and you can control it to synch with your own skills. Honestly, yes, you're extremely weak compared to your friends. You can fight, hand-to-hand, I've seen that, also you're human senses are extremely enhanced; but you're sword fighting is easily defeated, you have no powers, weak sensing, you are behind." Naruto seemed to flinch as each word hit him, he never realized it himself. Of course he understood, to an extent, that certain people had something more than him but for the most part he's never been in a situation where someone else has used their powers and blatantly proved to him there was something more he didn't know. He hadn't even realized his own weakness. . .
"Sasuke you said you have bloodline abilities right?"
"Yeah?" Sasuke replied getting slightly suspicious of the conversations direction.
"How would I learn what I could do?"
"I don't really know. Each family has their own way of awaking their innate abilities. For you I'd say ask someone you know who has a connection to your family. Iruka and Kakashi don't have any abilities but they might know some tricks or picked up something. Jiraiya or Tsunade maybe?" Naruto looked at Sasuke, Jiraiya was never around, Tsunade was busy with her Hokage work so who else was there. Someone who was strong, with connections to his family, free time and he knew he would be able to get ahold of and the answer really pissed him off. He slightly groaned to himself, but it wasn't as bad as he wanted to make himself believe. He'd realized today that he loved their conversations, where they continuously insulted each other but no matter how much they said it the words kept some unspoken meaning and no trace of insult. And even when everyone though Sasuke was a complete and utter bastard Naruto could see that different side once again; Sasuke had answered every question Naruto had had even when he was uncomfortable with the topic; instead of looking for his own clothes, like they were there to do, he'd got Naruto a bunch while Naruto looked for clothes for him then Sasuke paid for all of Naruto's clothes; and when Sasuke had helped Naruto play that arcade game, the way their bodies so perfectly fit together and despite how cold Sasuke's skin was Naruto had oddly been so comfortable and warm, the thought that would never leave Naruto, that'd he never admit to and that made him blush without fail. Naruto could complain, whine and lie to himself all he wanted. But now he knew he didn't hate Sasuke, and for some reason he'd never be able to. Maybe it was the cold demeanor that hid a surprisingly sincere heart, or that small smirk that Naruto was so happy at seeing, even more so being the cause of; whether it was the constant small remarks that pissed Naruto off so much or the constant embarrassment that forced itself onto Naruto whenever the raven was around. Sure he could never accept Sasuke as a vampire, but as a person maybe he wasn't so bad.
"Could you train me?" Sasuke turned to the boy, surprise making itself known on his normally dead face. "I mean you gotta know something and no one else is really available." Sasuke surveyed the boy, it wasn't the worst idea he's ever heard. Really, it was kinda uncomfortable because of how much Naruto and Naruko looked alike. A lot of memories would come to him whenever he was with Naruto. Memories he didn't want to see. A lot of the stuff he did, he finally realized why, because Naruto was so much like Naruko. Yet so different. Naruto was so much louder, so much more dynamic and he would always smile. Naruko would smile like that, but she held more of her father's composure, his sincere aura. Naruto was so much like his mother, so different from Naruko in that way. Sasuke understood now, from the very beginning, he didn't want to see it, but now he couldn't not see it. How alike they were, but also how much different they were. It's been a while since someone forced a laugh from him. And it was something unique to Naruto, his personality and actions, which forced a laugh from Sasuke. He was scared. Naruto was already chipping away at Sasuke's shell, faster than even Naruko. He understood that Naruto wasn't Naruko, that Sasuke shouldn't let him in. But those similarities kept Sasuke weak and those differences forced Sasuke to accept Naruto. Naruto was dangerous, being with him was dangerous, the faster Sasuke got rid of him the better it would be. Yet Sasuke wasn't sure how he felt about that, and if he let things stay as they were then of course they wouldn't be around each other as much but they'd be together longer and if Sasuke said yes then they'd be together a lot more, and the likelihood of Iruka even letting Sasuke get out sooner was close to zero.
"You're getting a little too comfortable with me." Sasuke spoke.
"Hey you invited me out." Sasuke looked at the blonde, he had invited him out. The look of sadness and anxiety so evident on the boy's face had hurt Sasuke, and it just wouldn't go away as long as the look was on Naruto's face. So he tried to cheer him up, make things better for both of them. Because he looked like Naruko, because that depression was so uncommon on his otherwise cheerful façade. No matter what Sasuke had done, for some reason or another that look would return. It hurt. Still, though he'd never say it, he had enjoyed himself. Whether it was all of the less than subtle insults, that held no venom, or the constant stares caused by the blonde's loud demeanor; how excited Naruto had gotten as they looked at the clothes and created the several outfits or how every time Sasuke gave Naruto clothes he would stand for a minute, smiling stupidly as he compared the clothes to his own body type; maybe it was how at the arcade he would constantly curse the games yet when they had been pushed together, despite everything, Naruto was the calmest Sasuke had ever seen him and he had simply melted under Sasuke's hold. Though he knew Naruto would never admit it, and Sasuke would never admit to feeling a similar comfort.
"Because it was convenient dobe."
"This would be too right? I mean once I can protect myself, and convince Iruka I don't need a babysitter, ah, bodyguard, my bad."
"Smartass." Sasuke mumbled to the blonde's amusement. Subtle insults that held no venom.
"But it works right? The quicker we convince him the faster we can get out of each other's lives." Naruto smiled, but it didn't seem genuine. Though he meant to act in his usual loud and dynamic demeanor, his words came out low and awkward. Even more a familiar knot came to his stomach, he felt sick, for some reason it'd been happening a lot to. The look Sasuke couldn't seem to get rid of, and every time he saw it, it made him feel just as sick.
Sasuke turned surveying the boy, either way, at some point he had to learn. And maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't be as bad as they thought it would be. "Fine, I'll train you."
Fav, follow, review. I'd enjoy feedback because I was really unsure about this chapter.
Last chapter we kinda see Naruto and Sasuke accept each other. Then in this chapter, now that they've accepted each other they started feeling the first brushes of love and overcoming the thing they hate the most and seeing each other more subjectively. Naruto is seeing Sasuke as more of a person and Sasuke is seeing Naruto as Naruto instead of his relation to Naruko.
But I kinda felt like this chapter was too rushed or more that I just suddenly dived into their feelings rather than giving them time. But the story has happened over a series of months, up to this point it's been more than half a year since the first chapter, so in that way I feel this is long overdue. And when I was trying to think of maybe more of a lead in to this point I was completely stuck, because I felt this was appropriate and when I went back and reread it (Yes the entire story, like twice _ part of the reason it took me so long to upload cause I was really unsure about it) it sounded right to me. So I don't know, so please tell me what you think.
No but we were on a small road trip, about 3 hours in the car, and I was writing the arcade scene, and my brother was right next to me reading it over my shoulder. And it was really awkward then at one point I think he realized I was just doing my gay thing and decided not to continue on.