Rose was pouring a glass of scotch for Elena who was sitting in a chair staring a nothing, as Naruto attacking her played over and over again in her head, when she walked over she held out the glass, "Hey, have some bourbon. It'll help you forget." she said
Elena took a sip but made a face, "Yeah, it's strong." Rose said as Elena pushed her hair out of her face, "You know I can help you forget, too. At least the memories you don't want to keep."
"No. No compulsion. I need to remember. All of it." Elena replied shaking her head
Rose nodded and held up Elena's necklace "Here." she said
Elena looked at it, before she looked away and said "He's really gone this time. I watched it happen. After everything that we went through to get... to help him. Now he's just... Gone. Where were you, Rose?"
"Katherine and I may have found someone to help us with Klaus. We will get him back." Rose said causing Elena to frown
"Well, isn't this cozy?" Naruto said from the doorway, as Rose stood up and looked at Naruto while Elena looked surprised
"I thought you'd have skipped town by now." Rose said
"I wish." Naruto said before he walked in and poured himself some scotch "Klaus is gone, but he's asked me to keep watch on you until he returns. From now on, you're under my protection." he continued looking at Elena, "You may want to get on home."
Elena looked like she wanted to say something but Rose looked at her and nodded slightly, before she got up and walked sway looking at Naruto who waved at her as she went,
Once Elena was gone, Naruto downed his glass, "Please tell me we aren't going to have a repeat of last time you shut it off?" Rose asked
"I just need to watch the girl long enough for Klaus to release me of my compulsion then I can began working on my revenge." Naruto said
"Revenge?"
"He stripped me of my freewill, made me attack my girlfriend then out me on babysitting duty. Did you seriously think I was going to let him get away with that?"
"What about Elena?"
"Her blood is the only thing that can give him his hybrids, she has a part to play whether she likes it or not." Naruto said before he walked over to Rose and kissed her which she returned as he pulled away and caressed her cheek, "We all have a part to play, even you and Katherine."
Rose looked confused before a sharp pain made itself known in her chest, before she looked down to see a stake in her heart, "I might be compelled to obey him, but that doesn't mean I can't get my ducks in a row, because as soon as I'm free, I will become an Original, and the game will finally be fair."
Rose died in Naruto's arms before he picked up her corpse and carried her up to his bedroom
Day Later
Bonnie made her way to the Salvatore Boarding House but paused when she saw the street packed with cars, curious she walked into the house and entered to see people she's never seen before mingling she even spotted some famous individuals when Rose walked over
"Bonnie, you need to leave." Rose said
"Why, who are all these people?" Bonnie asked
"These are vampires descended from Naruto, whenever one of them reaches a 100th year he throws a party."
"I thought his humanity was off?"
"It is but Naruto has come through for everyone here humanity on or off, he always looks out for them, its why they're loyal to him without question.
" Where is he?"
"It's not a good idea, Naruto is fixating."
"What?"
"When Klaus compelled him to turn it off then had him attack Elena, it gave Naruto reason to keep his humanity off, and while he is forced to remain here, he is fixating on his opportunity to get revenge. He killed me to turn me into an Original last night, I don't know what he will do to you, so you have to go."
Bonnie frowned as she wanted to talk to him but reluctantly she left, as Rose watched her
"Smart." Naruto said causing Rose to look at him, "Bonnie would be a powerful weapon against Klaus, but she needs to stay as far away from me as she can."
"Why?"
"Death doesn't stop a Bennett witch from getting revenge." Naruto shrugged before he rejoined the party with his family/army, brothers and sisters even a few lovers that he had help when he was fighting against The Strix and a few other vampire organizations
Day Later
Gilbert's House
Elena was wide awake, when her alarm went off, looking at the clock she saw that it was 5:15 AM, sighing she got up and looked at herself in the mirror, before she saw the bite marks on her neck, before she sighed and applied makeup to hide the wound
Downstairs
She came down the stairs fully dress, with Alaric nursing a hangover as he walked into the kitchen "Good morning." she said only for Alsric to raise a hand
Woods
Alaric showed Elena how to use the sleeve of stakes he made on a mannequin, before she tried it, and nothing happened causing Alaric to smile
"That's weird." Elena said, before she tried again but it didn't work, Elena started banging on the sleeve "Must be jammed or something."
Alaric who was still smiling said "You're not strong enough. Better start lifting some weights, put some meat on your bones."
Elena shook her head as she had been training with Naruto so she took off the sleeve and got a new one before she tried again and the stake embedded itself into the mannequin, "See, it was jammed." she said causing Alaric to nod before he took something out of his bag and showed it to Elena
"You know what this is?" Alaric asked
"A vervain grenade." Elena said
"The element of surprise is your only advantage when it comes to a vampire." Alaric said before he pulled the pin out of the grenade and tossed it into Elena's hand "Surprise."
"Oh my god." Elena said before she threw it in the air and it exploded, before she turned to Alaric "This isn't a joke to me, Ric." she said taking off the sleeve
"You think I'm joking? Vampires will take whatever they want. They will hurt whoever they want. And they'll do it without remorse. It's their nature." Alaric said
"You don't have to some in riddles you can say Naruto."
"Listen, I know Naruto hurt you and you don't want it to happen again."
"But you think I'm crazy to think I can protect myself from a vampire who has abandoned his humanity." Elena interrupted
"I think that you found a reason to get out if bed this morning, and I think that your the strongest person I know." Alaric said causing Elena to nod
Later
Salvatore Boarding House
Naruto was sitting on the couch as 3 nude college girls sensually danced on the table bite wounds littering their bodies when Rose walked down, "Shouldn't you be at school?" she asked
Naruto groaned laying his head back on the couch, "Dammit!" he sighed before there was a ring at the door causing the two to look over,
Rose raised an eyebrow and walked over before she opened it to see Rebekah, "Hi Rose, where's Naruto?" Rebekah asked walking in where she saw Naruto on the couch, "He left me here. My brother actually left me here."
Naruto shrugged, "I can't do anything about that."
"Where is your room?" Rebekah asked
"5th door on the right." Naruto said before Rebekah left with her shopping bags,
"Your ketting her stay here?" Rose asked
"She's my sire." Naruto said standing up before he walked over to Rose, "I have to go to school."
With a kiss on the cheek he left
Mystic Falls High School
Elena walked to her locker when her phone rung, she picked it up to see it was Rose "Hey. Are you checking up on me? Because I'm fine." she said
"Yeah. So... You might not want to come here for a while. We have a new housemate. " Rose said sitting on Naruto's bed as Rebekah had dropped off her stuff and left after seeing Naruto gone
"Rebekah? She's living with you now? Why?" Elena asked
"She's stranded. Apparently Klaus left her in the dust after I name-dropped Mikael. And Naruto has no problem with her." Rose replied
"What about Naruto? What is he up to?" Elena asked before her phone was taken, quickly she turned around and saw Naruto smirking at her
"Ask him yourself." Naruto said
"What are you doing here?"
"Babysitting apparently." Naruto shrugged as he leaned forward while Elena flinched, "Your afraid?"
Elena frowned at him
"Smart." Naruto smirked
Alaric arrived "Leave her alone." he ordered
Naruto smirked and looked to Alaric, before he held up his resurrection ring, "Piece of advice Alaric, we're not going to act like it isn't easy for me to end you. Get in my way, we will see just how good of a hunter you really are."
Alaric frowned as Naruto looked to Elena, "Do yourself a favor Elena, while I'm forced to watch over you. Don't do anything stupid, because like it or not your stuck with me, and as soon as Klaus releases me of my compulsion you won't have to worry about me ever again."
Naruto kissed Elena's cheek causing her to flinch before he walked away as Elena and Alaric watched after him not seeing the look of anguish on his face before it was gone in a blink, as he fought if the guilt from trying to fight its way in,
Later
Alaric and Elena were in Ric's classroom "What the hell is he doing here?" Alaric asked
"Klaus compelled him to watch over me. Apparently I'm one of Klaus's assets now that my blood is the only way to create a hybrid." Elena said
"Now he's a bodyguard?" Alaric asked with a raised eyebrow
"I don't know what he is. But he's definitely not Naruto." Elena replied before the school bell rung "Look, his being here is not good for any of us. We have to do something."
The students entered the classroom as Elena went to her chair, as Caroline sat behind her, as a guy sat next to Elena but Naruto entered and went toward him "You're in my seat."
The guy got up, and Naruto sat down and smiled at Elena, and Caroline who looked at him, "Hey Blondie."
"Coming from a blonde." Caroline said
"Touche." Naruto smirked as Caroline smiled at him
"Welcome back, seniors. Let's turn our brains back on, starting with this country's original founders... the Native Americans." Alaric said before Rebekah entered the classroom
"What about the Vikings?" she asked before she sat on the other side of Naruto as Tyler, Caroline and Elena looked at her
"There's no evidence that Viking explorers actually settled in the United States. Who are you?" Alaric asked
"My name's Rebekah. I'm new. And history' is my favorite subject." Rebekah said as Alaric started the lesson
Naruto leaned over and whispered to her, "What are you doing here?"
Rebekah smiled and said "I wanted to go to school instead of sitting in that big house, with Rose all day."
Naruto nodded "Well there's a bonfire tonight, I'm sure we can find someone to eat and entertain us."
"Fantastic." Rebekah smiled
Later
Everyone was outside, cheerleaders were stretching, and the football players were doing suicides, while Elena, along with other students were jogging around the track,
A cheerleader suddenly asked "Has anybody seen Dana?" Caroline was stretching when Rebekah arrived
"Sounds like you have an opening on the squad." Rebekah said
"What are you doing?" Caroline asked
"Naruto has made a life for himself here, I'm going to do the same. You can either accept it and stay out my way, or get in my way, annoy me and I rip your heart out." Rebekah said stretching as she turned away from Caroline who frowned
Elena was running, when Naruto joined her and ran alongside her, "Look at you being all fit. Hey, you going to the bonfire tonight? Sounds like fun, right?"
"Seriously, Naruto, leave me alone." Elena said as she turned around and ran the other way, but he backpedaled beside her
"You think I'm annoying now? Wait till homecoming. Hey, who you bringing, by the way? I don't want it to be weird." Naruto said before a guy ran into Elena accidentally
"I'm sorry ab-" the guy tried to apologize but Naruto shot forward and sunk his fangs deep in the boys neck and bit his head off,
Elena watched horrified taking note that no one was reacting, as Naruto turned to her wiping the blood from his chin as he shifted his foot and the ground opened up beneath the corpse and swallowed it leaving no evidence
"So, want to run some more?" Naruto asked only for Elena to scoff and leave, "What?"
Pickett Mausoleum
Katherine was holding the body of the man above Mikael so the blood can fall into his mouth, as a groundskeeper held a dagger while he stood in the shadows awaiting for Mikael to get out of the chains as Mikael awoke and his face returned to normal
Mikael looked up and saw the man's body before he demanded "No! Get it away!"
"You need blood." Katherine said
"Get it away from me!" Mikael demanded
Katherine sighed before she threw the body aside "Happy?" she asked
"Thank you." Mikael said
Katherine leaned down and looked at Mikael's face closely before she said "I remember you. Chicago, 1920s. You were looking for Klaus." before Mikael closed his eyes again "You're not so scary for a... badass vampire vampire Hunter."
Alaric's apartment
Elena is lifting weights on a bench, when Rose arrived "What? Are you going to bench press a vampire?" Rose asked
"Do you actually know what's happening right now? Naruto killed someone just for accidentally bumping into me. He's a completely different person." Elena said putting up the bar
"So what do you want to do?" Rose asked
"I want to lock Naruto up, at least until this Mikael guy comes, kills Klaus, and the compulsion breaks. Or until Lexi gets here."
"Naruto has been to compelled to watch over you, something he has been doing since he saved you from your parents accident. And when Naruto is set free his humanity will still be off, till he decides to turn it back on." Rose replied
"So what we do nothing?" Elena asked
"He is still Naruto, he is just worried about his revenge, and locking him up won't change that." Rose frowned
"We have to do something. Will you help me or not?"
Later, Mystic Falls High School
Alaric, Rose, Elena, and Caroline were in Alaric's classroom "So lets review your plan, because if it doesn't work, I'll just snap his neck and chain him up at the old Salvatore Estate" Rose said
Elena nodded and started "I'll lure Naruto away from the bonfire. Then when he's distracted…"
"I'll shoot him." Alaric jumped in
"Can't Bonnie just ju-ju him or something?" Caroline asked
"Bonnie doesn't want any part of this." Elena said
"You're forgetting a key player here. Rebekah?" Rose said, "Rebekah, and Naruto have a long history and she will not let him out of her sight."
Tyler arrived, "Sorry I'm late. What's going on?" he asked
"We need you to raid your mom's vervain supply. Enough to keep Naruto down for a while." Elena said
"You can't do that to Naruto." Tyler said
"Why not?" Caroline asked
"Trust me, Tyler, it's in his best interest." Elena said
"Yeah. It's not in Klaus's." Tyler said getting Rose's attention
"But Klaus is the bad guy, Tyler. You know, why are you acting like some freaky, hybrid, slave minion." Caroline said as Rose watched intently
"Klaus made me who I am, Caroline. I owe him everything." Tyler said
"Oh, boy." Rose sighed before she soed forward and broke his neck
"What are you doing?!" Alaric asked
"He's been sired." Rose said
"What?" Caroline asked beside Tyler
"Sired. He feels loyal to Klaus because Klaus's blood created him." Rose said
"Loyal how?" Elena asked
"He'll seek acceptance from his master. It's really rare. But maybe not so much in hybrids." Rose said
"So how do we fix him?" Caroline asked getting a shrug from Rose
"Never heard of anyone with a way around the issue." Rose said
Later
Rebekah was at the bonfire, trying to pour herself some beer, when Naruto joined her, "You all right there?" he asked
"I'm bored." Rebekah replied
"Well we'll have to change that." Naruto smirked as he poured Rebekah some beer before Elena arrived and poured herself some beer
"Excuse me." she said
"Elena, hi. What are you doing?" Naruto asked as Rebekah raised an eyebrow
"I'm having fun, Naruto. You have a problem with that?" Elena asked before she drunk her whole cup of beer
"All right, take it easy. We both know you're kind of a lightweight." Naruto said as Elena put her cup down
"Uh-huh. Really? You think I'm going to let a blood addict tell me how to drink?" Elena replied before she walked off as Rebekah laughed
"Feisty." Rebekah said
"Hm." Naruto frowned looking over to Rebekah, "Now that she is here, I'll have to watch over her to make sure she doesn't slip, fall and die. With her luck she just might."
"Go." Rebekah smiled before Narito kissed her chastely, "I'll see you at home."
Rose was sitting with Rebekah who was trying to roast the marshmallow, when she saw that she burnt it, so she slapped her hand and took the twig from her "Hey, I want to do it." Rebekah complained
"That was 10th one you messed up." Rosensaid as she took of the burnt part and held the twig for her to eat it
"It's good." Rebekah said smilimh
"Yup." Rose said as she moved to get some more marshmallows
Mystic Falls High School
Elena was laying on the bleachers and looking at the sky, when Naruto arrived, Elena drunk spoke "I used to know every constellation. How did I forget them all?"
"You're drunk. You need to go home." Naruto said as Elena got up
"Fine. Unh. Let me find my car." Elena replied
"You're joking, right?" Naruto asked
"Come on I thought that ripper Naruto was supposed to be the life of the party." Elena said
"Well, all right, I'm driving you home. Come on." Naruto said as he turned around and was about to walk down the bleachers, when Elena climbed over the ramp, "What are you, 5? Get down." Naruto ordered
"Why? Are you afraid that I'm going to…" Elena started before she almost fell "Oh. Ha. That was close. Klaus would not be happy with you."
"Elena." Naruto warned frowning growing irritated
"Look, Naruto, no hands." Elena said as she removed her hands but almost fell, again while Naruto was no longer amused, as Elena laughed before she finally fell, and screamed before Naruto sped down and caught her "I knew you'd catch me."
They looked at each other, before Naruto released her and Alaric arrived and shot at him with darts, Naruto blurred around and caught them
Alaric wide eyed took a step back before Naruto rushed over to kill him, when Bonnie got in his way
"Move." Naruto said
"We have a problem." Bonnie said
"When I brought Jeremy back from the rest, I cracked the wall to the Other Side, according to my Grams a very old Witch is not happy that Klaus has figured out the way to make hybrids."
Fire suddenly erupted around the parking lot, surrounding the 4, "Oh my god." Elena gasped as the fire grew closer and quickly Naruto grabbed Elena and Bonnie, holding them close he pulled water from the air causing an orb of water to surrounded them before it shot forward striking Alaric sending him flying into a car as the water rolled head on to meet the flames and doused them
Elena looked up at Naruto in shock as she saw the pain and anguish in his eyes when he grabbed her and Bonnie before his eyes quickly went cold
"You ok?" Bonnie asked looking to Elena
"Yeah. I'm... Fine." Elena said
Alaric groaned clutching his dislocated shoulder as he spat up water
Naruto looked down at the two and walked off without a word as they watched him,
Pickett Mausoleum
Katherine was lighting candles, as she glanced over to the coffin when Mikael woke up "I apologize for my outburst." he said as Katherine walked over to the tomb and leaned against it, "It would have made more sense had you known that I've been denying myself human blood for as long as I can remember. Why is it that you awoke me?"
"I thought you might know how to kill Klaus. But something tells me that I've been sorely misinformed." Katherine said
"Would you mind helping me with these? I can assure you there's no way I can kill Klaus from beneath them." Mikael said straining against the chains
"Does that you mean you do know how to kill him?" Katherine asked
"I can kill Klaus. And I will." Mikael replied before Katherine took the chains off his body "Thank you."
"A little blood will grease those muscles up real quick. Just saying..." Klatherine said
"I don't feed on living things." Mikael replied
"Then what do you eat?" Katherine asked before Mikael grabbed her and bit her
Finished