Hope you liked how fast the last chapter was updated. Sorry, this one took so longer, I don't write well in humid weather and I had a lot to do these two weeks, the next one should come out this weekend or the middle of next week.. I finally got some of my ideas sorted out, because this is where my ideas start affecting the storyline more, so I have to make the right choices the first time around.
If you've noticed, I've revised the earlier chapters a little, just to make the chapters seem about the same, since I've gone through some formatting changes. I did it sort of fast, and I think I got the formatting down but like when I made those smiley faces, they didn't come out well. Now they have this thing against indenting, sigh
Btw, can someone tell me what's Naruto's age on the latest chapter of the scanlation of the manga (chapter 224 I think), the part where he goes after Sasuke? Thanks.
1. I wanna see Hinata in the story with Naruto!
Well, if I see some sort of opportunity to add her, I will. But I first need to get some more ideas about her and Naruto. The thing is, in all the fanfics I've seen about NaruHina, I had a hard time buying it completely. The only place where I've really bought it is in fanarts about the two of them. I just need to find a way to good way to bring them together and build up their relationship. Her problem is she's too shy in the original story, I really want OOC through process and experience build up, and I think it'll be really slow with her. So suggestions on how I may go about it would be greatly appreciated. Until then, I'll focus on the other two girls.
2. Why didn't I do the battles for the other characters?
Well, since nothing has changed for the other characters, I didn't want to waste time to divert from the original plot. I mean I didn't see the point in writing out the original battle sequence or taking the effort to change them in anyway since those characters haven't changed at all.
3. Who is the other voice?
I'm guessing you mean the first one. Well remember what I said about it being a complex story, so I'm adding a lot of info that doesn't add up yet, but will eventually.
4. Will Naruto be able to walk in light? What abilities will he have?
I used to be a big fan of amazing powers and I still actually am, but I can see that it will be too cliché if I gave him too much. So instead I've opted for a compromise which you will see as we move the story along; I'm sure you won't be disappointed..
5. So have you decided on the other pairings? What about yaoi?
Well it all depends on the idea of a third girl. Right now I'm thinking of SasuIno, cause I already have some ideas for them. So basically, if you want me to do a particular pair, please give me some suggestions on how to go about it, and I'll see if it will fit into my original story line. Personally, I've recently seen something of JiraiyaTsunade and I thought it was funny, but then its like two people in their fifties, I mean that's like grandparent age… Maybe some other original pairings, KakaHina or something, we'll see.
As for yaoi, I'm sorry but I'm uncomfortable with the subject. I have nothing against people who write them or read them, I just don't think, as a guy, I have the level of confidence to write one.
6. Is the pairing for the fights going to stay the same as the original?
Well, for the preliminary, it will. But I think I will change the finals a little bit, but we'll see.
7. You're getting faster and faster with updates, will this continue?
Hmmm, that's hard to say. I just happened to have some free times these days. Once after August 20th, I will be at college, and it'll probably an update every two-three weeks, I don't know how busy I will be. But I do have a proposition for you all that I think is pretty funny (I got this idea from the story Rurouni Naruto, also found here on , great story btw):
If I get 50 reviews per a chapter, I will update within a week.If I get 75 reviews per a chapter, I will update within 3 days.
If I get 100 reviews per a chapter, I will update within 24 hours!
But seriously, I'll try to devote as much time as I can to the writing of this story. It's only that if you give me lots of reviews, I'll just prioritize this more. I will follow this rule and see how well it goes. So if by chance I update then two days later I got 100 reviews suddenly, you can expect the next update in 24 hrs, and etc. Please try to make a review on each chapter so when I go back and do revisions, I'll know what to correct.
Disclaimer I don't own Naruto, and if I really did own Naruto, wouldn't I be trying my hands on the original story than be here doing something about vampires and a slightly controversial pairing? Well, I do think it's an interesting twist though.
Formatting style for this chapter:
"Blah" – Talking
"Blah" – Talking in Unusual Way
'Blah' – Thinking
"Blah" – Mystery Person A Talking
'Blah' – Mystery Person A Thinking
"Blah" – Mystery Person B Talking
'Blah' – Mystery Person B Thinking
NEW Note: When the mystery voices are talking, its always in Naruto's head only for now, so basically if they are talking, Naruto can hear it, but if they are thinking, the thoughts are private. Sorry if this a little confusing.
Anger
Nostrae dexterae iam inficitae sunt.
The two fighters came down to the arena and looked over each other. Kiba always had very little opinion of Naruto; he simply saw him as a worry free prankster. He figured the only reason why he had it so far in the exam was thanks to his teammate, the rookie genius, Uchiha Sasuke. He felt lucky that he was to be paired against someone whose nickname is actually "Dead Last." Sensing an easy victory, he thought he'd taunt his opponent a little, just for the hell of it.
"To think, of all the people I could fight, it had to be dead last," Kiba shouted arrogantly.
Naruto would have normally lost it by just that, but right now, he had a headache. He has felt a dulling sensation ever since he left the infirmary in that awkward manner, and instead of going away, it simply got stronger. It didn't feel like any sort of headache he has ever felt before. Rather than a sense of pain, he felt as if someone was wrapping a blanket around his head. He could barely make out the words coming from Kiba's mouth.
"Cat got your tongue, Dead Last?" Kiba was beginning to get annoyed at the lack of an outburst from the normally loud-mouthed boy.
Meanwhile, everyone else in the arena was making their own predictions as to the match.
'I don't quite know the full capabilities of this boy, but if Kiba fights fully and seriously, he should have no problem.' Kurenai concluded with confidence.
'What the hell is Naruto doing?!?' Inner Sakura was screaming as Sakura watched the match with worry. 'Start insulting the dog boy.' She still had trouble remembering names of any other boy other than Sasuke.
'Kiba-kun, you really should stop hurting Naruto-kun's feeling like that.' Hinata was watching with worry and confusion, trying to decide whether to support her friend and teammate or her crush. 'Uzumaki Naruto, huh? I wonder what fate holds for you.' Neji thought. 'Show me what you can do, kid.' Anko thought with a smirk, then frowned, 'Why are you so quiet all of a sudden?'
'What was that thing on his back awhile back?' Shikamaru furrowed his eyebrows and crossed his arms to contemplate, however, no feasible answer came to mind, so he sighed and went with his signature remark. 'This is so troublesome.'
He was not the only one to remember the sight some of the people in this arena had seen earlier. Some had automatically put it in the back of their minds so they could concentrate in the matches, while others tried to forget like normal humans by trying to deceive themselves to think it was some sort of illusion. The shock from the scene had still not worn off from their minds. '
I hope this match won't go by worse than Sasuke's.' The Hokage prayed to himself. He then suddenly felt the aura of someone with a immense amount of chakra behind him, and finally, for the first time today, he smiled.
"The boy sure knows how to say all the wrong words at the wrong time." The voice came from behind the Hokage and the examiners. They turned around to find what the Hokage had recognized instantly, one of the Legendary Senin, Jiraiya.
"Welcome back, Jiraiya, your timing couldn't have been better." The Hokage told his former student.
"Well, this is the season when girls start using the bath house…" Jiraiya suddenly forgot whose presence he was in front of and coughed. "Ahem…Is that boy who I think he is?" To which the Hokage gave a small nod.
'Looks like I was right to stop by the village, even though I missed the annual bikini judging competition at the Water Country.' As the Hokage and others watched the Senin suddenly daydreaming and blushing, those who didn't know the legendy Senin had questions hanging from their face, and the ones who knew him well could only shake their head.
After awhile, the Hokage's attempts at coughing seemed to have snapped Jiraiya out of his fantasies and back into reality. It's really a wonder how quickly the man can go from a pervert to a Senin in 60 nanoseconds flat. Soon, their attention was soon on the match once more.
"What the hell is wrong with you, huh? Speak up!" Kiba felt himself in such a fury over the lack of emotion over Naruto's features that he decided it was time to attack. He yelled out "Gatsuuga! (Piercing Fang)" and put himself in a spin, aimed at Naruto, who meanwhile had his head down and showed no response to this attack at all.
The force from the attack pushed Naruto's back into the stone wall. The dent his body created in the concrete wall had blood stains on it, many of the spectators had a guess to where the blood came from. For awhile he showed no sign of trying to get up, so Kiba assumed with the evidence of the blood that this was it.
"Hey, ref, you might as well call it a match now." He announced with a smirk.
As the ref, annoyed at the loud mouth kid telling him what to do, came between them, prepared to announce the winner, he suddenly noticed Naruto's hands twitching.
"Why?" Naruto said in a whisper, barely loud enough for anyone else to hear. He then proceeded to stand up, the debris falling off his shoulders and hair as he raised himself to his legs once more, with his head still down. Those in the arena strained their ears to listen.
"Why does it have to be like this?" Another soft whisper came.
"What are you an idiot?" Kiba, angered more so by the way Naruto shrugged off his best solo Piercing Fang attack than by his attitude at the minute. So he got ready for his favorite style of attack.
Giving a small node to his canine companion, Akamaru, he made a quick seal and called out, "Juujuin Bunshin no Jutsu! (Beast Human Form no Jutsu)" Even with two Kibas now on the field, Naruto still showed no sign of any emotion at all.
'Be patient, Kiba, don't let your frustrations control you,' Kurenai was now trying her hands on telepathy; she was truly frustrated by how quickly Kiba had started using this move.
'I hope Naruto is behaving this way on purpose.' Many others were having similar thoughts as the Hokage as they watched the canine pair continue to attack relentlessly at Naruto.
'What the hell is the kid doing? It can't be the seal, I can clearly see that it has not been activated yet.' Anko found herself worrying about the genin she had not even knew existed 12 hours ago.
Sakura was trying to worry about Naruto, but found herself torn between her worry for him and Sasuke. Even when she finally decided to just worry about the teammate that she might actually help a little with, she found herself at a loss to what words of encouragement she could utter. 'The only person I've ever cheered for and supported has been Sasuke-kun. Gosh, even the bad-first-impression Lee-san got more support from me than I ever showed Naruto. It'll be weird if I suddenly do it now, so maybe its better if I just support him spiritually.' And for the first time ever, Inner Sakura glared at herself.
As the battle went on, the confusion and looks of worry on some of the faces couldn't be hidden any longer. Whenever the spectators got a clear look at Naruto before Kiba proceeded to attack again, the favorite orange jumpsuit on his body would be shredded a little more and a little bit more bruises would show up on his body. Yet he would get up again and again, every once in awhile whisper some more. The repetitions of these full fledged attacks was even tiring Kiba and his little companion out by now.
Some were beginning to wonder if Naruto had fallen unconscious by now and was only getting up through shear willpower. None of them knew how close to the truth they were as Naruto fell on his hands and knees, still with his head down. Naruto no longer heard any of the insults or felt any of the attacks of Kiba anymore. All he truly took notice was of the fact that, as usual, not a single voice spoke out in his defense nor a single soul came out to his aid. This has always been his life…
.:Flashback:.
A 5 year old Naruto is timidly walking down the street when he notices a young couple in front of him dropping a wallet. Seeing a chance to do a good deed, he picks it up and runs toward the young couple.
He lightly taps them, puts on his best smile, and holds out the wallet. "Ano sa, I picked up this-" A cold slap met his left cheek.
"Not only are you a monster, but a thief as well? You sicken me." The female uttered in disgust.
"N-No, I didn't!" The young Naruto stuttered in panic.
"It's alright, darling, I'll protect you from this fiend." Her male companion spoke up and wrapped one of his arms around her.
'Why do you hate me so?'
People nearby came near them and joined in.
"What's going on here? Oh, YOU, go back to your own kind!"
"He stole this nice couple's wallet!"
"It's not true!" Naruto wanted to run away. He looked around, not a single heart came to his defense. Only a wall of contempt surrounded him with absolutely no way out.
"What?!? And after all our generosity toward you, allowing you to actually live in our village and, in the process, endanger our safety and that of our children? You will still do something like this?"
'Why is my existence a curse?'"Stop!" Naruto was in tears.
"Well, it is to be expected of a creature like him."
"Stop…" Naruto felt his knees give out under the pressure of the crowd.
"Why is he even still alive?"
'Why was I born?'"Curne nascor?"
"I guess the Hokage wants some sort of trump card if the village ever goes to war."
'Am I not like you?'
"Sumne smiles te?"
"Oh, so he's just a tool, right?"
"Isn't that obvious? We humans are the Children of God, how can this thing be one of us?"
'Where is God?'
"Unde estne Deus?"
"Why even try to ignore him? I never acknowledged his existence before in my life."
'Why do I exist?'
"Quidne existo?"
.:End of Flashback:.
'What was my sin?'
"Quidnam estne meus nefas?"
Everyone in the arena could now hear Naruto perfectly and it was startling. Even if the fact that he is speaking in an unrecognizable tongue is ignored, the dramatic change in the sound of his voice couldn't be.
'Why must I suffer so?'
"Quidne egeone dolerere?"
It was a tone of one who has given up all hope of living and a mood of hatred so deep it could make the flesh bleed. Paired this all up with a voice that possessed a madman's depth and an angel's serenity, the result was one that did not belong to a 12 year old boy.
'Does God have no mercy?'"Habetne Deus ne clementiam?"
"Oy, ref, I think you should stop the match now, the boy's hallucinating." Kiba tried to ignore what was happening and just waved it off as a last desperate trick done by the prankster.
On the bleachers, however, all eyes were still on Naruto. He had his head down and was on his hands and knees, as if in a trance. His shirt was just about gone by now, including the bandages wrapped around his scar.
For the first time, Kiba and some of the others in the arena saw the scar. Those who did not feel a little queasy had a stunned impression on their face.
Suddenly, they could see that the seal Anko had made earlier, suddenly appearing again on Naruto's neck. Then it began to glow a bright orange color. Then, like a paper in flame, it began to burn itself off the skin and disappear.
'Can my tainted hands ever be cleansed?'"Purgati erantne semper infecti mei laevi?"
'That was a seal I spent years on developing, how did it just disappear just now?' Expecting the Cursed Seal to now appear, Anko got ready to signal for the match to be stopped. But then she noticed the scar on Naruto's back beginning to glow a deep red as blood began to flow from it once more. Instead of just freely flowing down, it collected itself right at the bottom of the scar, in the middle of Naruto's back.
An ear shattering scream of pain from Naruto prompted all of them to notice that the scar was beginning to move. While the base at the middle of his back stayed there, the upper end was beginning to swirl clockwise. It was then that Anko and a few others noticed, it had become something resembling the swirl of the cursed seal. As the scar stopped swirling, the edge of it suddenly made a slash backward, creating a hook pointing in the other direction. (A/N: To see the rendering I did myself, go to the link in my profile page. )
'It's been a long time since I've seen something like that, I wished it had been an eternity.' Jiraiya watched with dread. 'However, there is something odd about this particular one.'
'What is happening to you, Naruto? Please be ok.' Sakura prayed under her breath. 'WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT EARLIER?!?' Inner Sakura was shouting in her mind.
'Or must I rebel against God to break free?'
"Autne indigeo insurgere contra Deum ut abrumpavi liberam?"
With those words, a hint of light began to be emitted from his body. The people around him saw only a snarling mouth under his lowered head. His hair then began to grow longer and darkened slightly, soon it had grown long enough that it no longer spiked like before and had grown into a dirty blonde type of color.
It was then that the transformation on his back stopped and his hair stopped growing. Suddenly, his snarl turned into a fox-like grin, however, it was not the same friendly and cocky type they were used to, and he began to raise his head. In place of his once gentle blue eyes was now a set of scorching red.
'He looks just like…' The Hokage and Jiraiya stared wide-eyed at the replica of the Fourth's image in front of them. The other jounins recognized the similarity as well but not all of them understood why the eyes were red.
'Those eyes…he was the only with those eyes. Why do you have them, Naruto?' Anko felt herself going weak from just the sight of those eyes.
For awhile Kiba was just plain stunned, the same can be said to all the genins and even ninja present. It was then Kiba felt a fear in him that he had not experienced before. He felt himself panicing over what to do, so he decided to trust his instincts and attack.
However, as he got ready, he felt Akamaru, in his bunshin form, violently shaking his head in fear. Normally, Kiba would have listened to his canine companion, but right now, he wasn't his normal self. So he took his stance alone and attacked.
The dust covered half the arena as the attack continued. Then as suddenly as it had started, it stopped. Not a single sound could be heard from below as the spectators all leaned against the rail in suspense.
When the dust had cleared, everyone can see Naruto just standing there with cuts all over his body, the smirk never leaving his face. Naruto slowly moved his arm into the air, looked at a particular wide wound, now gushing out blood under the bright lights of the arena, admiring how it glistened in the light. Then with a graceful movement, he brought it to his face and, with eyes of hunger and lips of lust, he trailed his tongue over the wound, soaking up all the excess blood. He then closed his mouth, apparently savoring the taste before swallowing the blood, and then brought his arm back down. As he formed a wicked grin of contentment, his face, mixed with the tiny trickle of blood leaking down the left corner of his lips, looked liked the manifestation of the devil itself.
"Hmmm, it really has been too looonnng since I tasted something this gooodd," he uttered in slurred speech, then for the first time he turned his scorching gaze toward his opponent, who cringed under the abyss. "Buuuttt I bet there are things that tastes muuucch better."
Then with a smirk on his face, he got into an unusual stance and said in an eerie smile, "Oy, dog breath, you ready to start this slaughter?"
Translation:
'Nostrae dexterae iam inficitae sunt.' – 'Our right hands have already been tainted.'