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99% of humans could not see him.

So simple solution... Naruto started to seek out non-humans, but most non-humans lacked the ability to comprehend him. They could see him in the most shallow of ways possible, being unable to see him for what he was due to their lack of a human nature. That narrowed things down to the 1% of humans that could see him, and the mix breed children between the supernatural and humans.

"... Hi."

"AH!"

"Oh good, you could actually see me, I thought you were just a weird girl for a second." Naruto sighed in relief as he sat down in a chair. The chair didn't so much as budge or show he was sitting in it, but a small girl had jumped back in shock when he phased through the floor of her room.

She was beautiful, like a doll.

Pale blond hair, with red eyes, and pointed ears with small fangs showing. She had a thin body with delicate features, but he could tell that she had above average magical reserves, much higher than a human of this world naturally had. She also had the special trait that he sensed from some humans, showing that she was a half breed.

He had never seen a non-human with the special trait before.

"I'm... I'm a boy."

"... Wow... this is like the second of third time I've made this mistake." Naruto looked at the boy more closely, and saw that he was wearing clothes... that could belong to either gender. He leaned forward, before he shrugged his shoulders. "So... want to be friends... you seem lonely, and I'm a wandering ghost... I've been wandering this world looking for somebody who could see me for... about... 40 years now."

He guessed 40 years, maybe it had been longer, or shorter.

He never slept.

"A friend... you want to be... my friend... but I'm a weirdo... and a dhampire... but I'm worthless, and weak... and I can't control my Sacred Gear..." The boy was pushing his fingers together and looking away from Naruto.

Deja vu.

"I have no clue what a dhampire is, or a Sacred Gear... and I don't care if you're worthless or weak... and I'm a bit of a weirdo myself." Naruto saw no reason to be driven off by such shallow reasons for denying friendship. Well, the weirdo thing could be a good reason for some, but all kids were a little weird.

"You're weird?"

"Yeah... actually, I'm not just a ghost... I'm an Alien Ghost from Another Dimension, who was Banished by my world's Shinigami, because I came from the family who Enslaved him, and I was too powerful... I'm a super freak."

"What?"

"So, tell me about yourself." Naruto didn't repeat himself, even though the boy seemed to not know how to respond to that. Naruto hummed to himself as he patiently waited for the boy to begin his introduction. "How old are you?"

"I'm Gasper... I'm... you're scary, I'm sorry."

The boy surprised Naruto by running away from him, but Naruto noticed that the fire in the fireplace had stopped. Naruto raised an eyebrow, and he saw the clock in the room had stopped as well.

"Time stopping powers... you know, I exist outside of the flow of time, so... I don't know HOW you are doing this, but it won't work." Naruto put two and two together, and he saw that Gasper's eyes were glowing, and markings had appeared in them. His pupils glowing yellow in the middle of the black lines that spread to the edge of his iris. Since his eyes were red, it was almost like he had a Mangekyo Sharingan in appearance, other than the glowing part.

Naruto saw Gasper stopped backing away.

Naruto just waited more patiently as the boy seemed to not know how to react.

Abuse victim.

'Dhampire... not Vampire, so half human... I bet he faced neglect and abuse, and he has some good spiritual power inside of him. No doubt he has faced some serious fear and abuse... those born with great power are either praised, or feared.' Naruto didn't say anything and just smiled at Gasper. He crossed his legs in front of himself and made himself comfortable, while waiting for Gasper to slow his heart rate. "... Deep, calming breaths... and try and think about lowering your voice... it will calm your nerves, but speak clearly."

Gasper followed the instructions.

-3 Months Later-

"I'm Gasper Vladi... I hate blood and liver... also fish... and I'm half vampire." Gasper finally worked up the courage to speak with Naruto.

Gasper lived his normal life during the three months, and Naruto didn't speak up again. He just sat patiently in the chair, and allowed Gasper to get used to him at his own pace. He felt sorry for the boy, but despite how long it took for him to properly introduce himself, Naruto only responded with a smile.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto, call me Naruto. Lets be friends..."

"Actually... I'm going to run away... my friend... my friend Valerie is going to make a chance for me to run away. My family, they sleep during the day... I can't be here anymore... I hate it. I... I just wanted... can you help me?" Gasper didn't just introduce himself to be nice. He wanted the help of somebody who seemed like he had experience, somebody who was happy to help somebody as weird as him.

Run away.

He was abused enough to want to run away, which was a sad thing that he was being pushed towards this extreme. Naruto stood up from the chair he sat in for the first time in months, and he looked down at Gasper with a gentle smile.

"That's what friends are for."

"... Is there anything I can do for you?" Gasper asked, since Naruto didn't actually say he wanted anything for the help.

He got a shake of Naruto's head.

"Nope, I'm just going to help you. No deal, no trade, nothing... I can't do much more than give you emotional support."

"You're not going to ask for anything?"

"Nothing." Naruto affirmed, just wanting to help the boy. "... I understand exactly what it feels like to be feared by people who don't understand... to be neglected, abused, hated... the feeling that you want to run away." Naruto didn't even need that reason to want to help the boy. Gasper was hiding it, but he had bruised under his clothes, the way he moved showed it. He faced emotional and physical abuse.

He needed out of this place.

Gasper's smile was the first smile he had seen from the boy in 3 months.

"You understand what I'm feeling... I mean... I'm sorry you were ever born into a position to understand this stuff."

'That was badly phrased.' Naruto thought, since Gasper unknowingly just said he was sorry that Naruto had been born. Naruto let the subtle, unknown, insult fly though since the boy seemed to have no social skills to be had.

-2 Weeks Later-

'For an escape, this is going too smooth... then again, vampires don't like sunshine.' Naruto walked at a brisk pace as Gasper was running away. He was already out of the castle, but Naruto just had the feeling that something was going to go wrong.

They always did.

Things would always go wrong in his life whenever he tried anything, and somehow, he felt that this boy would share the same luck as him. He did not want to voice his thoughts on the chance that his thoughts would cause Gasper to give up and return to his abusers.

The feeling grew stronger.

"Gasper... keep your guard up." Naruto just stated that.

Naruto jumped in front of Gasper and reached to grab an arrow, but the arrow went through his hand, and his body, before it pierced the ground next to Gasper, a miss. Naruto saw people that were hiding were starting to come out, and Gasper finally noticed the arrow that had missed him.

"Eeep!"

"Gasper, activate your time stop powers, and stop them, then escape..." Naruto saw Gasper try, before he saw the fear take over for Gasper. The boy just turned and started to run once everyone who had been in hiding had come out of hiding. Naruto just moved next to Gasper, and he could see the boy was breathing heavy as he ran at full speed away from the charging mob of people.

They were gaining on Gasper slowly.

There was a nearby village, but going there would not end well for Gasper.

"Naruto, please, save me... save me... I don't want to die... I don't want the vampire hunters to kill me."

"Ah... there isn't anything I can do, just keep running." Naruto looked at the approaching group. There really wasn't anything he could do with his limited abilities as a ghost.

Gasper did not have the skill to fight.

Even if Naruto coached him right now, Gasper was not skilled enough to actually be able to follow his instructions in the middle of high stress, life or death, combat. It was a simple fact of the matter that Gasper was not going to be able to survive.

Gasper was going to die.

A spear pierced Gasper's body moments later, and he rolled onto the ground. Blood was already coming out of his mouth, but his strong vampire life force was keeping him alive when he suffered a usually instantly fatal blow. Now that was something Naruto felt sympathy for, sometimes surviving your wounds sucked worse than just being killed by them.

Gasper wasn't able to fight back.

"Please... Naruto... save me..."

"Get the vampire, slay him before he can heal!"

A hunter pulled the spear out of Gasper's body, and stabbed it back into him again. Gasper managed to look at the hunters, and he stopped time on them. He struggled to his feet and started to run away again, but without any of the speed he had before. His escape attempt was doomed to end in failure and death.

'If he had my experience...'

"Ah." Naruto realized that there was something he could do. Gasper lost control over his power and time resumed on the hunters, and they noticed he was running away. Gasper collapsed as a spear passed over his body, missing him, but the boy threw up blood, before he landed face first on the grass.

He had experience.

Even if the situation was hopeless, he could at least save Gasper from the pain.

"Gasper... hold your breath..." Naruto placed his hand inside of Gasper. Naruto closed his eyes and allowed his chakra to leave his soul, and he grabbed onto Gasper's soul. Gasper felt it and tried to hold his breath, before his soul was pushed out of his body.

The young dhampire's soul went inside of his own shadow.

Naruto sank inside of Gasper's body.

"AH! The boy is standing up!"

Flames of yellow power burst out of Gasper's cheeks, three flames appeared out of each cheek and engraved feral whisker marks into those cheeks. Naruto was in full control within moments, and he felt the pain that Gasper was in. The boy's liver and lung had both been pierced by the spears, wounds that were both exceedingly painful, and extremely fatal.

"I'll trade my chakra to try and save you... you just stay safe and sound inside of your shadow." Naruto felt Gasper's soul had been transferred properly.

He turned to face the Vampire Hunters.

No chakra.

Naruto raised up his hand as a spear came for him, and he felt the tip cut his hand for a moment, before he twisted it and the spear stabbed into the ground. He grabbed the pole, before he kicked the man who had thrown the spear in the neck with both feet. Naruto watched the man stumble back, before he pulled the spear out of the ground. He spun it around and knocked an arrow off of it's course.

Instead of piercing his eye, it pierce his shoulder.

He slammed the butt of the spear into the ground and kicked the back of the man who was holding his throat, and the man stumbled forward, and his own spear was pierced right through his eye, going directly into his brain. Naruto killed the man, before he raised both of his arms up and blocked an arrow that pierced his forearm.

"Everyone, run away now, or I'll kill you all! I can't run away, but I can fight for my life, and I value my own life over your lives!" The flames covering Gasper's cheeks finally died down, revealing whisker marks had fully formed underneath them.

A bluff.

"You killed my husband you demon child!"

The group got their fighting courage back, and started to charge towards Naruto.

"Naruto..."

"Stay safe in there Gasper, I've got this." Naruto lowered his stance and grabbed the back of the dead man's shirt. With a flip, he flipped the man over and used his body as a shield to block several arrows from the range support. He pushed the body forward and into the first man that would have attacked him. 'This is going to be tough though.' Naruto thought as he ducked a sword slash to the face.

These people were playing for keeps.

Naruto grabbed the man's arm and sank his teeth into his forearm, biting him hard enough to drop his sword to the ground. The man roared in pain and punched Naruto, or at least made the attempt, but Naruto rolled across the ground and collected the sword. The man reacted to try and get away, but Naruto took the handle with both hands. He turned and face an archer, before he overhead flung the sword. The archer took the sword to the chest, leaving the swordsman hunter shocked.

'This isn't a one on one battle, don't just assume I'm going to attack you first.' Naruto thought as he took the man's surprise as a chance. Naruto yanked an arrow from his shoulder, and jumped forward, before he stabbed the man in the throat with the arrow. The arrow went all the way through his flesh. 'My connection to Gasper's body is weak... my life force isn't healing his wounds.' Naruto kicked off of the man.

A axe wielder took his chance.

Naruto held his arm back by instinct.

"Die!"

"Rasengan!" Naruto swung his arm forward, and nothing happened when no chakra came out of Gasper's body, and the technique failed completely. Naruto jumped back as soon as he realized that his instincts had failed him, and the axe tore through his chest, a wound cutting into him as Gasper's blood splashed against the ground.

"Naruto, it's okay... don't get hurt because of me... you don't have to suffer."

"Of course I do, I'm your friend." Naruto grabbed the wound and squeezed it as the axe wielder stepped forward and prepared for a second swing. Naruto saw a few more hunters were joining the fray. Naruto stepped forward and tackled the axe wielder in the stomach, too close for him to attack with his axe. He knocked the man off balance and onto his back, before he saw another sword wielder swinging at him.

He kicked one of the man's feet, knocking him to his knee and causing his sword to go flying out of his hand. Naruto grabbed the axe from the grass, and before he could swing, the axe wielder grabbed Naruto by the throat.

"Gotcha hell spawn."

Naruto was stabbed through the chest, and coughed out blood. He spat blood in the man's eyes who was holding him, and got dropped to his feet. Naruto lifted the axe up and brought it down on the man's head as the sword was yanked out of his chest. Naruto saw more vampire hunters were coming to back up the ones who were already fighting.

'Magic... it is controlled by magic energy, which is made of spirit energy... I've never used vampire abilities before. Still, I can feel Gasper's magic power in his body... instead of treating it like chakra...' Naruto turned his head and pulled on Gasper's magic reserves. He pulled them into his eyes and tried to focus his sight on the sword wielder. He knelt down and placed his hand on his shadow and ducked underneath a sword strike. '... come on... come on... come on, come on, come on..."

"COME ON!" Naruto's eyes changed as the black markings spread across the red, and his pupils glowed yellow. The man froze in time before he could take another swing, and Naruto grabbed the axe from it's dead wielder and slashed the man's throat out. He changed targets and looked at the ground of approaching hunters, freezing them in time as the man he stopped looking at resumed his place in time.

He collapsed, grabbing his throat.

The blood loss started to get to Naruto and his vision blurred for a moment, allowing the crowd to resume their assault.

Naruto picked the sword up from the ground.

"Naruto... please... you just met me... you don't have to do this."

"Yes I do... because I protect my friends till the end. Even if I fail to save your life... at least I can protect you from the pain." Naruto dropped to his knees, before taking a deep breath. He coughed out the blood in his lungs, before standing back up.

Gasper could watch from his place in his shadow.

"Stop getting hurt for me!"

"I promised to help you, and I never go back on my word. I never give up, and I never go back on my word... because that is how I've always lived my life." Naruto roared as he summoned all of the strength in the body he possessed and charged into battle. He flung his sword at the ground, and he paused time on the person he aimed at. The sword sank into his flesh and Naruto felt a bullet pierce through his belly, and the man resumed time as a sword went through his head and killed him.

Naruto felt two more bullets pierce him.

He grinned.

"The demon is grinning, stake his heart!"

'I'm starting to get used to this body...' Naruto was losing strength, but he could move his body better than before. Small and weak didn't matter to him as he dodged three sword slashes by walking backwards, and he hid behind the grown men and out of the line of sight of the gunner. He pulled the spear out of the first corpse, and leaned backwards to dodge a swipe.

The sword stabbed the spear and got stuck when Naruto froze time on it, before the man let go of his sword. Naruto grabbed his sword and lost control over the time stopping eyes, before he ran the man through with the sword. He pushed deeper when the man took out two daggers and stabbed them into his back.

"Roooooooo!" Naruto roared and pushed forward.

He stabbed the gunner while pushing forward, impaling two people on the sword, before he fell to his face on the ground, the two corpses falling onto their side, connected by the sword. Gasper just watched in horror, but something else was growing inside of him.

He watched his body doing amazing things.

Naruto stood back up.

"How can you still stand..."

"Because, I'm protecting my friend..." Naruto yanked the daggers from his body and wielded both of them. He threw one of them and then he threw the second one.

A woman dodged the first dagger, but as she dodged, the second dagger got her by surprise, hiding in the shadow of the first. Naruto looked had a rope tossed and wrapped around his neck, before it was pulled tight. He yanked the sword out of the corpses and cut the rope as he was yanked off of his feet.

He rolled to his feet and faced down the last hunter.

"How are you still alive... you've been fatally wounded so much... not even a vampire can survive this much."

"Heh... it's just a scratch... this is nothing compared to when my best friend fisted me..." Naruto realized how that sounded. "... shoved his fist into me... when he stabbed me with his lightning fist, through the chest." Naruto made the final correction so that what he said didn't sound sexual.

Naruto's arms dropped to his sides.

He lost the ability to move them, and he was standing on pure willpower.

The last hunter dropped his weapon out of fear when Naruto gave him a larger grin, and lowered his body into a more firm attacking stance.

"Immortal... are you... undying"

"Yes."

Naruto watched the man turn tail and run away as fast as he could, before Naruto collapsed onto his back, his eyes closing. He coughed out more blood, before he looked down and saw just how horribly wounded he was. He could feel Gasper in his shadow, and he smiled when he could sense that Gasper was in no pain.

"Are... am I dying..."

Gasper got no answer from his body, and saw Naruto had blacked out from bloodloss, and even in his shadow, his own vision was fading away.

The last thing he saw was red.

Then blackness.

Chapter End!
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