AN: This is the edited version, enjoy chapter three should be along…in about a week.

Summary: Family? How would one define such a thing? Is it people you see and live with everyday, or people who you are related to? Marriage? Children? Are they the things that make up the components of a family?

Would the same hold true for vampires? When you change a mortal and give them a new start new life, do they become your child, or another thing? If you live together for centuries unchanged by time, are you a family then?

Naruto asked this question so many times that he lost count. His family consists of his Sire, a lecher (from his point of view anyways), and the first Childe that he turned in his many years of life.

Man what was he thinking?

Life or Something like it

Chapter One: Two lechers and a Childe

A light grumble filled the air as a blond young man walked down the hallway of an immense mansion. Balled fists were shoved into the pockets of his jacket; and the young man sulked down the hallway.

The fair-haired man stopped at a simple oak door and rough gave a kick to it. "Hey! Get your ass up! It is already past dusk Sasuke-bastard!"

Only response the vampire received was the soft song of crickets.

Naruto paused for a moment and gave another kick – knock.

Nope, this time not even the crickets answered him.

'I shouldn't open it… nope… that would be wrong.'

Naruto reached for the door handle and opened the unlocked door. As blue eyes scanned the dim room, Naruto found it lacked the undead body of its owner.

"Great so the bastard took off again, I shoulda figured as much." There was a slight hiss in his voice as he marched down the hallway. The anger in his steps slowly faded as he approached the next room. Ever so gently did he knocked on the door and waited.

Little by little it opened to reveal a ghost of a girl. The shoulder length of soft dull pink locks framed her face; there was a small smile on her lips as monotonous green eyes met blue.

He could only smile back and hold out a reassuring hand to her. "Come on, your hungry right?" Naruto voice was tender as if he spoke to a child.

A slight nod confirmed the question. A fragile hand snaked out of the darkness and took the blonde's. Smoothly Naruto pulled her from the room and down the hallway. Even though he talked vividly to his Childe, his mind was else where.

Naruto was the eldest here – well his Sire who was never around was the eldest but he rather not dwell on that. He was the eldest here at the time, the stray he and his Sire stumbled on was 80 years younger, and the pink hair creature that walked beside him was only a few years changed. Despite the facts they were among the undead wasn't their biggest problems. They were wealthy surprisingly enough, so money wasn't a problem either. No their problems run among domestic affairs.

Sasuke has the power to come and go as he pleases, along with the trouble that follows him. Kakashi – Naruto's Sire was just another lecher who just comes and goes as he pleases as well. Then there was Sakura, his first childe who has a crush on the bastard! He in turn treats –his- Childe as garbage and causes so much more drama.

Not to mention Sakura's slight personality problem…

"Naruto?"

She could really be a problem once the other personality takes over. Aggressive, dominating, and a lot of other things could be used to describe her.

"Naruto…? Hello?"

It was like a hair trigger on a gun if you weren't totally careful with it and the gun would go off. If that were to happen well you wouldn't only be shot but very, very dead or worse. Crazy personality plus vampire powers was not a good thing to be matched with.

"Hello? Earth to Naruto come in Naruto"

"Huh? Oh sorry lost in thought."

"Hmm.. hmm… Sure… Can I go out tonight?" Sakura gave him another smile as she took a seat at the dining room table.

"How are you feeling?"

" a bit better.."

A blue eye watched her for a moment before it shifted to the task at hand, breakfast. Naruto pulled out a few pouches of blood and poured them into two bowls. He placed the first one into the state of the art microwave and punched in the time.

" Why don't I believe you? Last time I let you go out, you nearly ended up well road kill." Back towards the girl, blue eyes watched the bowl spin in the microwave.

Around and around….

" … I know… so that's why I wanted all of use to go out… You, me, Kakashi, …and Sasuke you know… have some normal fun? Movies? I saw on the TV last night a really neat preview!"

On his lips a small smile tugged at the corners. It was really cute how Sakura still lived in the living world. Then again, she livened up this old house with three old souls who just over angst a tad too much.

A beep sounded that the blood was done.

"How about just you and me? ya know like a date"

"…." Naruto turned around once he put the second bowl in and saw just in time the sour look on Sakura's face.

"Come on! Sakura-chan! I am so much cooler then that bastard!" He couldn't help but whine in the name of whining.

There was a mild sigh on her part, even though she didn't need to breath Naruto noted. Sakura still did it out of habit, or maybe to make herself feel more human. Naruto wasn't sure which.

"Alright."

"What?" Naruto almost dropped the bowl in pure shock.

All she did was smile up at him as he placed the bowl in front of her. "I said alright, plus I know Sasuke wasn't here, he got up before sunset. I heard him"

Sakura stirred the red substance with a spoon and began to eat the red soup. "Plus I know you won't let me out by myself… and I have been stuck inside this gloomy house for over a month!"

The sire sat when his bowl was done and began to eat as well. "Okay so just you and me then Sakura-chan!"

The girl smiled and nodded. Little did Naruto know that Sakura had a million of unanswered questions and he took the bait into answering them.

.o.o.o.o.o.

Sakura walked with her sire through the busy outside mall. Everything seemed to come to life after dark here, couples laughing and flirting, Mothers and fathers on a secret outing from their kids, friends enjoying the time away from noisy parents. Yes it truly buzzed with life here.

Green eyes watched with amusement the living humans. They had no idea of the dangers that lurked within the masses, and the darkness of betrayal that followed behind the danger. It amazed Sakura to no end to see life through these new eyes and senses. How breakable and fragile a human life truly was. All it took was a simple snap of the neck or a punch a little too powerful to the back of the head to kill these creatures.

These creatures thrived in the day but often preferred the darkness of night.

A small voice wished to show them how fragile they were and how horrible the night could be. It was the literal devil on the shoulder; maybe her inner self might make her snap – her greatest fear.

But, Naruto would always be at her side, he was her teacher, sire, father, brother it was a connection that Sakura could never find the words to explain. It wasn't that sort of love you feel for a mate but stronger, deeper and maybe even wild.

Naruto explained it once to her after he changed her a few weeks later.

His blood was strong, very, so very strong. Since he never changed anyone before her it sat and stewed within his vines. So when he - in not so many words gave her a second chance at some kind of life, their Sire/Childe connection was unbelievably potent. Or that was how he explained it to her.

Naruto had a habit of leaving out important facts that could change the information.

For all Sakura knew, He could had lied about it just to psyche her out. Little by Little though, she slowly understood the connection and how powerful it was. She was unsure if it was in fact Naruto's blood that did it or if it was normal for all Sire and Childe.

Naruto gently intertwined his fingers with Sakura's, then promptly dragged her into 'their' bar. The smell of smoke coated everything and turned the atmosphere thick. Alcohol laced the air heavily along with the drunken mummers of the patrons.

"the normal?" The lanky bar tender asked.

"Yup we will be in our booth" Naruto answered and headed towards the back.

The only truly clean booth in the whole place was reserved for them. Plush blood red leather coated the seats and the table made of finely polished oak. There was even a small shelf with reading material nailed to the wall. This small spot in the bar looked terribly out of place, but no one questioned it too much. They maybe give a jealous look, or even a fearful one, it all depended on who sat there.

"So Sakura what movie is it?"

"The Return of My little Ponies."

Sakura couldn't even phantom how Naruto could ever get paler then he already was. His eyes widen in pure fear and his mouth tried to ask if she was joking.

"Of course I am joking, but really what do you have against kid movies anyways?"

"Oh that I am about 200 years old? Doesn't really count for the kid age."

"You still look like one"

"Hey! you do too if you want to play that game!"

"Pff," Sakura waved a hand when a bottle of wine appeared on the table. Sakura quickly paid the man; she knew how Naruto was with money. Yet for some reasons he called Kakashi and Sasuke lechers.

He was the lecher from her point of view.

"so… where is Sasuke anyways?"

"Off chasing his brother's ghost most likely." Sakura noted how his voice dropped to a mild grumble.

"You said that before" She poured the drinks and passed him the glass.

"Well it's true, that guy's got a serious brother complex they both do."

Her hands froze from a moment as she poured the second drink. "Brother Complex?" A little nudge to figure out the truth wouldn't hurt anyone would it?

"It's not my place, but enough about him!" Oh great, Sakura thought for a moment, he was sulking now.

"So.. It's been a few years huh? I think it will be three come November right?" She took a delicate sip.

"Since….? Oh ya… "And he took a sip from his.

"So… what were your first years like?" Finally! The courage to ask him! Something along the lines of pride swelled up in her chest. Being forceful was never her nature in public, so this was killing her shy girl image.

"My first years? Oh god that was so long ago." And he took the bait hock line and sinker. " I was about.. 22? No 23 when that teacher of mine finally decided to change me." Sakura noted the fond smile on his lips.

"What do you mean… Finally?"

"Well, I am sure now you believe in all sorts of demons and other things that go bump in the night?" He waited for her nod. "Well ya see I was in… a sort of Ninja village.. and there was this bad ass Demon who thought he could take them all on, you know the typical mass destruction murder and pillage sort of deal."

"What does this have to do with you? Was it Kakashi?"

"Oh hell no, worse. It was a tricky fox demon with a worse attitude then a pmsing woman. My father gave up his life protecting the village from the demon by sealing it inside my stomach of all places. Ya sure you don't know this?" Blue eyes glazed over the rim of the glass to the green ones a crossed the table.

"No… but go on!" Sakura urged him, hey this was better then some of the novels she read.

"Well Mr. Bad Ass Fox Demon is stuck in my stomach right? Well the town hated my guts, but I slowly worked my way up to a good ninja. That was until I went a little on the nutzoid side for a while. Ya see… I had well not really a wife but… soon to be. She was like a little sis to me really but I loved her a lot. I get home from a mission to find her dead…" His voice dropped slightly his eyes downcast and a layer of sorrow formed over the blue.

" I left to find her killer, without permission mind you so they village saw me as a traitor. Other villages hunted me along side them and so I was always on the run looking for her killer and running from them. You know now small the world is after you keep running and keep being found. Anyways I ran into that lazy teacher of mine about a year later I was 20." There was another fond smile as he poured another glass of wine into the glass.

"He told me that I have two choices, one," Naruto held up a finger "I could go with him find whoever I was looking for, after some serious training, and then kill him. Why he wanted to teach me was beyond questionable, or two" Naruto held up his second finger, "be hunted like a wild animal for the rest of my sort life. Well I took the bait and choose to go with him. So for about two years and a half I think I trained hard with him, and this other bloke. Finally after I hunted down the killer and made his life a living hell for what he did to mine, I planed to go die in some hole and find some sort of peace in the after life." He downed the glass and poured another, a good thing about a vampire they don't get drunk easily.

"Of course that teacher of mine stops me and asks another question. You know being human your kinda dense to the strange, I never noticed how we trained or traveled at night only, or the fact he was never in the sun or how we stayed deep, deep within caved. My mind just went over that as ways to hide. He told me that it would be better to live; really I think he was lonely as hell. To stop other crimes like this from happening, see the world. That's when he spilled the beans, apart of me still craved more power. So again I took the bait, but he had a rule. If I let him turn me, He would be my teacher for the next hundred years."

That's when Naruto laughed, and Sakura couldn't help but smile.

"I tried to bargain him down a few 20 years but damn that guy was stubborn! I think we were ready to rip each other throats out when I finally gave in."

"Did you regret it?" It was an innocent question.

"Sometimes. However the old fart is still around causing trouble. I was like a son to him, guess I am still a son to him. At first I think I amused him then he got attached – so did I. But, I think if he didn't promise me to stay, I would have turned into a soulless blood thirsty killer. I had the demon still inside me, not to mention the new power and all the stuff attached to it, and the furry, hate, and pain from before. So he taught me the value of life, and gave me a lot of inner wisdom I think I would be lost without today."

"Wow…and this is the same pervert we all know and love?" She smiled and leaned back.

"Don't know about love, strongly like? but love naw." Blue eyes widen when his Sakura broke out into a fit of giggles.

"I dunno I think I love him, not strongly like." The pink hair girl tossed back.

"Hey! You just love how he spoils you rotten like a grand child! I swear…" He muttered darkly.

"So?" Sakura tossed back and pointed a finger at Naruto, "You're my Sire, and he is your Sire so in a way he is my Grand Sire, and I am his Grand Childe. So in a way I am his granddaughter."

"Oh god and your on a date with me? Let me guess you got an Electra Complex" Oh did that ever earn him a sharp kick in the shin.

"This isn't a date. It's an outing. Papa." Sakura hissed through clenched teeth and stalked out of the bar. "Hurry up we are going to be late for the movie!"

AN: well hoped you enjoyed the edited version. If there are still mistakes and any of you nice kind readers would like to beta it for me, my email is in my bio.

Well that is all she wrote until next week. Enjoy chapter two that shall follow shortly tonight or tomorrow.

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