So to begin with, I want to thank those that have stuck by me with the bios. I know they got tedious, and I know quite a few people hated them. And I am trying to apologize. I did that for my sake to do a necessary retcon if necessary (IE Kyoko Belnades). But to make it clear, I am only writing this one chapter until I get a co-author. I do not think of myself as a very capable writer of all my projects without a little help. However, I'll write what I can.

Chapter 1: We Finally Begin

The year is 2016. The place is Japan. There's an eclipse that will be seen soon and everyone in Konoha Village is swarming to watch it.

I'm Naruto Uzumaki, I attend high school with some of my friends. One of my friends, Hinata Hyuuga, asked if we could watch the eclipse together. Part of me thinks she asked me out, but another part thinks she's too out of my league to even consider it a date. But what's strange is...I don't remember anything else.

Anyway, I wake up on a stone cold floor, with my head sitting on a warm pillow. It's when I open my eyes that I realize I'm in Hinata's lap. I awake quickly in shock. She giggles, "T-Thank goodness you woke up, Naruto-Kun."

I look around and realize that I'm in some strange place with brick walls, and an opening where smoke is flowing out of...whatever it is. I ask, "Um...Hinata-Chan, where are we?"

"You are where we are meant to be. Welcome to Castlevania."

I turn to look behind Hinata to see two strange people. On the left is a woman with fair, if pale, skin, a lot of blonde hair, in an emerald sweater and jeans. On the right is a man with pale, almost grey skin, and black hair, really black like it was dyed, dressed like a businessman. But they share one thing in common: Their eyes. Those unnatural golden eyes. Given the more mature voice that spoke I'd wager that it was the man that spoke. I confusingly say, "Um...Hi?"

The girl bows and speaks with a sultry voice, "Greetings."

The man introduces himself, "My name is Genya Arikado. This is my daughter, Leila. Now I have a question to ask...What are you doing here?"

I answer, "Um, I was going to watch the eclipse, with Hinata-Chan, then I woke up here. I don't remember anything between that."

Leila notes, "So that means someone brought you here."

I confusingly ask, "Um, I know you said we're in 'Castlevania,' but what is that?"

Genya explains, "It is the castle of Dracula, sealed away in an eclipse."

I just get a brain fart, "Wuh?"

I noticed something behind them, and it's a monster, with blue skin, curved horns, leathery wings, and a spear about to be lunged into Arikado's back. I rush to push him out of the way, screaming, "Behind you!"

Arikado moves out of the way, but I still push the monster off its feet. It hits it's head on the hard floor, it's head cracked open. It had black blood, oozing out of the wound, with what looked like bits of crystals somewhere in there. And all of a sudden, a blue flame rises out of the wound, and the fireball suddenly hits me. I scream and close my eyes, expecting to be lit on fire. I fell on my butt and start thrashing. I realise that the only pain I feel is from landing on my butt. So I look over and ask, "Where'd the fire go?"

Hinata stammers, "I-I-Inside you, Naruto-Kun."

Leila explains, "That blue fire you saw was the spirit of the monster you just slew. It's now apart of you, and thus you can call upon its power. In this case, you can summon his spear for combat."

Arikado tells me, "Concentrate on a spear, and it will be in your hands. This will continue with more monsters you might face in this castle."

The two leave, but I clear my throat, "Wait, you can't just leave us here!"

Leila snickers, "Do you think you're the only one's here in this castle? There are others from your town here, as well as our friends."

Arikado warns, "But be careful, take in too many souls, and I'll be forced to kill you. Find the throne of Dracula, slay the master of this castle, and you'll be saved."

Arikado and Leila swipe their hands in the air, and Leila states, "This courtyard is now protected from monsters, so if anyone is in here, they're safe."

After they leave, I turn to Hinata and swear, "Hinata-Chan, I'll be right back. I'm going to find out what's going on and then I'll get us out of here."

Hinata nods in approval, "I believe in you, Naruto-Kun."

I run off...Towards my destiny.

Jeez that sounds more stupid than it did in my head.

ROTM

So Naruto ran out of the courtyard into a stone hallway. And there are zombies, right out of a movie staring at me. They start limping towards me. So he decided to see if he could summon the spear. And out of black smoke, a spear shoots right out of his hand and hits a Zombie in the face. It fades away in black smoke as the Spear returns to my hand. Naruto swings it around, slicing off the heads of zombies. Eventually, there's no more left in the room and Naruto proceeds to the next room. By the door he sees a hole that's too high to jump into it. He might look into that later.

In the next room, there is a flight of stairs. The layout is strange, like some just cut off to a drop, others beside others yet out of reach even by jumping. There are a few bats lingering on the ceiling, which creeps Naruto out. Down a flight of stairs is a body of water. And there are frogmen swimming in the water. Naruto goes down the stairs, where they attack me, and Naruto defends himself, gaining a new soul. This one seems to be a BACKDASH.

However, Naruto realizes that what he killed wasn't the frogmen, when he immediately gains a second soul called WATERSPOUT from another frogman. Naruto swims until he comes across another doorway.

More zombies in a hallway. Naruto just slices through them and heads to the end of the hallway. Suddenly, a knight in purple armor with a red shield appears. It throws an axe at Naruto, who jumps to the side, throwing the spear at the opening it made. The suit of armor falls apart in a ball of fire. He goes past a blue door and into the next room.

On the other side, is a Colossal skeleton, without its legs, and one arm swinging around the other arm. And it starts breathing fire. Naruto groans, "You gotta be kidding me."

He charges at the monster anyway. The spear is used to stab at the monster's skull as it swings the bone left and right. He's lucky to dodge it so often. When it tries to breath fire, Naruto fires off a blast of water, nullifying the fire. After that, a swing of the spear took off the monster's jaw, making it shatter into every little bone. He runs down the hall into yet another strange array of stairs. On the floor is some paper. Naruto looks at it and realizes, "A map? This could help."

Naruto looks over it, and from what he sees it's unfinished, with only a handful of halls and giant rooms with stairs. From what he sees, it looks like he only explored a couple of rooms. Naruto groans, "None of these rooms have names. How am I supposed to know where I'm going?"

Naruto just groans and walks into one of the rooms. It's strangely small, with only a chair and a statue of a praying woman. He sees a plaque and it reads, "To Elisabetha and Lisa, the only two women I ever loved. Please hear my prayers in a world I can never enter and restore my strength."

As Naruto reads this, a surge of energy flows through him, he's no longer tired or exhausted, like he could run a marathon all of a sudden. Naruto leaves and continues down a flight of stairs. As he continues down the flight of stairs bats fly by. And then a giant eye with a scorpion tail just floating in the air comes at Naruto. He takes the spear and throws it at it's eyeball. The spear goes through and hits a wall, smashing in a secret hallway. Naruto enters and finds a bottle with red liquid inside. Naruto pales, "Is this blood?"

He goes to pick it up, and the bottle looks more orange in the torch light. Naruto reads the label, MIND UP. Naruto pops the cork and takes a swig. Naruto notes, "Not bad, not great. Don't feel any different, though."

Naruto leaves the hidden room, and comes face to face with the scorpion tailed eyeball thing. Naruto runs past it into another room. There is a stairwell into another moat. In the water, he can see Piranha. It didn't take Naruto much motivation to jump above the water. But the next platform is too far for a jump, so he jumps as far as he can and swims the rest of the way. It didn't take long for them to bite onto his legs. The waterway leads to a deadend, so Naruto swims back, knocking off the piranha with his spear. He makes it back to the previous room with no issue.

Naruto travels through the stairway, passing by the bats. At the end of the flight of stairs is a series of walkways with skeletal archers aiming their arrows at him. He runs up the stairs, throwing spears at them before they can shoot him, and some arrows do go flying, but Naruto is quick to dodge. As he climbs higher and higher, dark blue crows try to peck at him. Then suddenly, a glowing wheel with a lion's head crest in the center of the wheel starts rolling towards Naruto. He moves out of the way and grabs the lion's head crest, throwing it up the stairway as a Shuriken. Naruto comes across a ladder and at the top there's nothing except a walkway on the other side. Naruto jumps over and grabs the other ledge, hoisting himself up into another hallway.

Inside the room is a bottle of blue liquid, with a colossal skeleton of a snake bouncing off the walls. As the skeleton is swarming along the ceiling, he grabs the bottle, with the word POTION written on it. As Naruto takes it, the skeleton lunges at him, that's when he sees it. It's not floating around the ceiling, it's tail is nailed to the frame of the exit. And it suddenly breathes fire. With a throw of his spear Naruto slices the snake in half at a joint, with it catching on fire. After it turns to ash, Naruto leaves the room through the exit.

On the other side of the door, Naruto finds a soldier, but his uniform is out of date. His helmet is too old, his suit went out of continuation since around World War 2, oh, and he's a zombie. Naruto takes the spear and lops off his head. Naruto slices through another zombie soldier at the end of the hallway and finds another door. Naruto climbs up a neighboring flight of stairs into another hallway.

In this hallway, is a purple armored knight like the one from before. This time, Naruto is able to fight it without it even get a chance to pull out its axe. Behind it is a skeleton archer, whose head gets lopped off. Naruto runs off into the next hallway.

Naruto finds himself going up another flight of stairs. But it leads to a door. Naruto tries to pry it open, but it's locked shut. He backtracks to a hallway he saw earlier, and inside he finds those "Peeping eyes" and zombie soldiers. He fights through them until he reaches a doorway, and inside it are zombies and skeleton soldiers. He slices and dices through them to the next door. On the other side is a dull brown colored suit of armor, holding a boulder larger than it's entire body in one arm. It throws the boulder, but Naruto dives under it, knocking the armor at the side. It falls out the window beside it, and breaks apart. Naruto ran into the next room, coming across a big drop, he avoided it for a room on the other side.

It's another resting point, and he gladly accepts the rest. After the rest, he goes to jump into the big drop, falling maybe three stories, yet landing safely. Naruto looks at his hands, and notes, "Am I even human anymore?"

He goes to walk through one of two doorways. Inside, he finds a fountain encompassing the entire room. Inside, there are several frogmen. Naruto ignores them as he makes his way to a doorway.

On the other side, Naruto sees someone he didn't expect. He's a little kid, probably ten, with pale skin and platinum blonde hair that is slightly messy. He's wearing a white button up shirt with a green vest, and black dress pants. And once again Naruto sees gold eyes. The boy looks to him, and speaks in an accent Naruto can't place, "Ello."

Naruto waves to him, "Um, hi. I'm Naruto, who're you?"

The boy shrugs, "Adrian. Can ya help me find ma father?"

Naruto nods, "Sure, do you know where he is?"

Adrian explains, "Tha throne room. This is his castle after all."

Naruto's eyes widen, "Wait, you're dad's Dracula?"

Adrian explains, "He is, but he isn't in his right mind. He needs help before he goes back to tha old him. He got worse after his final death in 1999 when the castle was sealed in an eclipse. He's now more a ghost haunting the place than a vampire."

Naruto assures, "Alright, I'll do what I can, here, lemme get you somewhere safe."

Adrian shakes his head, "No worry, I know where ta go."

And just like that, he vanishes. Naruto looks around in confusion, but finds the room only has a pool of water that looks too deep for him to swim through. So heads back and goes through the other doorway he saw when he fell. On the other side is a man in a white business suit with his silver hair in a ponytail, with a pair of glasses on his face. The older man looks up from the book he's reading in shock, "What the...How did you get in here, friend? It's dangerous."

Naruto explains, "I dunno, I was watching the eclipse with my friend. Name's Naruto Uzumaki."

The man introduces himself, "Kabuto Yakushi. I'm with a company that was on a business trip in Konoha."

Naruto tells him, "Alright, well there's a safe place over here," he pulls out his map, pointing to where Hinata and Adrien should be, "It should be safe there."

Kabuto assures him, "Sorry, but I can't leave yet. I have coworkers out here somewhere. I have to find them myself."

Kabuto walks through the doorway behind Naruto, and Naruto goes forward. On the other side is some sort of chapel. Naruto looks at the sculptures of a bearded man holding a body with a sheet over it. Naruto keeps walking, seeing white masses floating in the air on fire. As he walks past them, he sees some broken staircases.

Past them, Naruto sees a giant flaming skull. That's when he goes, "That white stuff was skulls?"

A third eye opens on the forehead, and Naruto jams his spear into it. The skull shatters, and down the stairway, Naruto sees a six armed woman with blades for hands walking towards him. She's dressed in disks to cover her decency, which for some reason makes Naruto think of India. Regardless, Naruto took his spear and blocks four of her blades, while the other two slices him across the stomach. Naruto dives back to avoid them making too terrible a wound. So Naruto decides to make a shot of pressurized water to pierce her throat. As she falls off the stairs, Naruto comes to a room with a prayer statue.

Naruto prays for a little bit and then at the end of the stairway is a tower that is full of bats. Naruto gets to the top where he sees something out of a greek myth story: A manticore. A lion with bat wings and a scorpion tail. It spits out a fireball at him. He jumps out of the way, but the scorpion tail almost stings me. As he rolls behind it, it turns around and shoots a fireball, which scorches Naruto. Naruto rips off his school shirt to stop the fire, and starts summoning spears to throw at it. Eventually, Naruto's seventh spear finally pierces the skull of the Manticore and it dies in a ball of fire.

Naruto walks down a hallway and finds himself face to face with a stone throwing golem. In three strikes with the spear, the golem goes down. Naruto gasps, "Whoa, I'm a lot stronger now."

Naruto continues the hallway until he comes to a door. There, he finds some sort of a library, or study, given that the floor is littered with all sorts of books. Naruto sees the multiarmed indian woman again. Naruto just shoots the water spout, and she falls dead in between the eyes.

He continues walking until he finds a new hallway. There, he finds a drop with a ladder, and as he starts to climb, he sees a teenage girl with red hair and a purple dress riding a broom. She flies by, but not before summoning a purple cat that lunges at Naruto. It scratches at his face and he loses his grip on the ladder, falling on his butt to the bottom. He looks over, and finds a ledge near the bottom, too high for him to jump, and groans, "You gotta be kidding."

He climbs up the ladder and returns to the previous room. He finds an apparition forming, and it becomes the six armed woman. Naruto's eyes widen, "So I have to fight you guys again!?"

Before she can do anything, Naruto lops off her head with his spear, as he's walking, he notices a trap door, and opens it, finding a bunch of pallets jutting out of the walls for him to jump onto. He jumps down into a small hallway. There, he finds a hunched over green monster taller than him with a human mask, and the giant flaming skull with three eyes. The green monster pulls out a knife and throws it at Naruto. Naruto swipes his spear across it, before throwing it through his head and into the flaming skull. Naruto walks down the hall until he comes across a box. He pushes it past an opening to a half ladder, but when he tries to jump off the box to it, the ladder is out of reach. So Naruto pushes it into the opening and watches it fall. Naruto climbs down a ladder, and finds the box landed near a hallway with a door on the other end. Naruto starts pushing it down the hall, seeing an unfinished ladder nearby. The ladder is so badly broken that Naruto cannot jump to it, so he groans, "Alright, if I find a pen or pencil, or whatever writing tool Dracula used, I'm gonna remind myself to go back here," He looks at the map he has, "Though wherever here is has stumped me at this point."

Naruto decides to walk back down the hallway to the door he spotted earlier. There, he finds a library guarded by a giant spider with the body of a woman for a head. Out of her mouth, she starts shooting spider webs at Naruto. Naruto gets his leg stuck to the floor but uses the spear to stab the monster in the mouth. As the spider monster burns away, Naruto sees a floating spectre of various faces lagging behind it. Naruto throws his spear at it, cracking it like a vase. Past the fading ectoplasm, Naruto spots a doorway.

On the other side is a magenta bull made of metal. It stands there, oblivious to Naruto. Naruto walks by it, and it's vacant eyes turn red, starting to charge at Naruto. Naruto runs as fast as he can away from the bull, jumping onto a nearby ladder. Naruto climbs it as the bull passes under his feet. At the top of the ladder is a stone golem, throwing rocks at Naruto. Naruto rushes up the ladder, and pushes it over the edge, landing in front of the charging bull. The bull shatters it into a thousand pieces. Naruto climbs to the ledge, but finds nothing but a wall with weathered bricks and sloppy cement. Naruto struck the wall, and lo and behold, there was a hidden hallway. On the other side is a small room, and inside is a simple whip. Naruto picks it up, and finds that it has a steel end. Naruto guesses, "Hm, this'll come in handy. Better than the spear I was lugging around."

Naruto does a couple of practice swings, and comments, "Versatile, good for close quarters and range. Perfect."

Naruto leaves the room, finding the Stone Golem has been restored. With one swipe of the whip, the Stone Golem bursts into flames. At that, Naruto touches the whip, and finds it's coated in something. He rubs his fingers, "Water?"

As he ponders this, three ectoplasms surround him. Naruto spins his whip around and destroys the three monsters. Naruto jumps across to another walkway. However, at the end there is nothing but a bag, Naruto opens it, and finds a lot of gold coins inside. Naruto begs, "Please let me keep this, oh merciful one. Please let me take this home."

Naruto jumps down the ladder to see the bull motionless again. Thinking quickly, Naruto spots a hole in the floor and jumps into it. It's not a long drop and Naruto immediately spots a walkway, and inside, he finds another praying room. As he heals his whip starts glowing. He looks around and spots a bowl of glowing water, and under it it reads in english two words.

Holy Water

Naruto leaves the room and finds that looking across from where he was there is a skeletal archer. He whips at the skeleton, shattering it's bones. Naruto walks past the broken remains and walks down the hall.

Inside is a woman, with long orange hair, with a yellow long sleeve shirt with red and white lines, blue denim skirt, and thigh high boots. The woman looks at him curiously, "Hmm...Are you Naruto Uzumaki? He told me about you."

Naruto scrunches his eyebrows, "Who told you about me? And who are you?"

The woman curtly bows, "Kyoko Belnades, I work with the church on fighting supernatural monsters, like that Hellsing anime. A mutual friend, Aluc-" she stops to rephrase, "Arikado, the father and daughter pair, told me about you. Asked me to help, worried you might have trouble with your dark powers."

Naruto sarcastically bites back, "Nice of them. Wait...Dark?"

Kyoko bunches her eyebrows together in confusion, "You didn't know? I believe I said something they didn't want you to know. Well, let me explain...You were born in 1999, correct?"

Naruto nods, "Yeah."

Kyoko continues, "That was the year Dracula was finally destroyed, when the church and United Nations worked with a family of vampire hunters to seal him away in an eclipse that year. However, Dracula's castle is the source of his power, and is meant to be eternal, like a pocket of hell seeping into the real world. And well, those born that year have an aptitude to harness that power, even just a little bit…"

Naruto's eyes widen, "...And yet can become the new Dracula!"

Kyoko shrugs, "More or less, yeah."

Naruto freaks out, "A lot of my classmates were watching that eclipse! They could be in here becoming the new vampire king! Or is it shogun since we're Japanese!?"

Kyoko rests a hand on his shoulder, "Calm down. Listen as long as you have the willpower to defy Dracula's influence you will be fine. And don't forget, you are as susceptible as them. If anything, the fact you are more worried about them than you will say a lot about you. But be careful, there has been a cult made from the remnants of Dracula's servants to summon him back. Like this guy Kabuto, has the nicest smiles, but is a monster behind those glasses."

Naruto's eyes widen, "You mean that guy I just told where Hinata was!?"

He starts running back, "I have to save her!"