A/N: Sorry about the typos/errors. There is always some, I'm not perfect.
I just stared blankly at where Garra had been not believing what the fuck I just witnessed.
I looked left then to the right to make sure I was truly alone and that I didn't just die and not realized it. Disbelief forced me to the couch because I should have died. That fucking asshole really just knocked my best friend out and just took him. Not just any ass hole though, that cloak pattern was the symbol of the fucking Akatsuki.
Fuck! We're screwed! How the hell did this happen?
For one, I would never tell the stuck up raccoon, but his defense was pretty troublesome. Hell, Garra's body was coated in hard ass sand all day everyday. Not only that, I could still see Garra's sand in the air, so he had been on his guard, but a bloody Akatsuki got passed it! How? Lee almost died trying to out run Garra's sand. Hell, I had to use my dad's justu to-, I paused because something didn't feel right.
I got off my ass and surveyed the office. In the left corner of Garra's office my kuni marker stood there; impaled in the ground and faintly glowing with chakra. With a frowned I stormed over there and yanked it out. The tag wasn't glowing anymore, but I swear it had!
I stared at it for a minute or two, trying to figure out how my kuni helped a fucking Akatsuki get in.
The tags on my kuni's were special. My father had taught me how to write them when he was teaching me his justu. Some of them where even infused with his chakra...
"Son of a bitch," The kuni in my hand suddenly weighed a ton and I could no longer hold it. No fucking way. They were dead! No fucking way!
I had accepted their deaths. I had said goodbye. Their names are etched on a fucking stone because no one could find their bodies!
A deep growl shook my chest with rage. I lost my ability to speak because this whole time I thought my parents were dead. This whole time I thought that they were resting in peace. What hurt the most though, was that they let me think they were dead this whole time. How could they not come back to me? I clenched my fist and tried to swallow back the flood of emotions I was choking on. Tears stung my eyes as I tried no to weep.
After a few minutes, I took a deep breath to compose myself. Now was not the time to lose my shit because Garra needed me.
Shadow Clone Jutsu!
I didn't want my dad to use his tags against me, so I sent shadow clones after the remaining kuni's I had in the sand village. Then I sent a shadow clone to my teammates and Garra's siblings to warn them we were fucked.
The academy always drilled in our heads that a team would keep i alive. It took at least three genin to kill a vampire that's never practiced ninjutsu. If a vampire wasn't a particularly strong ninja in their human life, one or two chunin could handle it. Three chunin and a jonin were needed with a strong vampire. The Akasuki were supposedly extinct, but it was taught that it took four or five jonin to take one out. My father wasn't just a strong ninja or any regular ninja when he died, he was the Fourth Hokage.
We're fucked. I stared at the dark skin and made up my mind. I preyed to Kami that it was just a fluke. That the one I was about to hunt down was just a student he taught it to.
Suddenly, the shadow clone to my team dispelled with a message from Kakashi, 'On our way, stay where you are.'
Yeah like that was going to happen.
I jumped out the window into the night. Reaching for a kuni from my weapons pouch. I clenched it tight until it opened my hand and bled and I didn't let go.
A growl rumble in my head with irritation.
Do you want me to burn away the rest of your precious humanity? the fox said angrily, bleeding us will only make the cravings worse and piss me off.
I dropped the kuni allowing my hand to heal. That was fine because I didn't need it anymore. Vampires always gave off a killing intent when they scent potential prey. Blood was the easiest way to bring it fourth and I felt his off to the east of the village.
A two story sand building stood against the backdrop of a layered blue and orange sky, so the face of the building was to the west. The circular building looked liked every other sand structure in this village, only this one felt cold despite the oppressive dry heat. Normally when I visited the Sand Village, thirst wasn't an issue, but now with more then half my seals gone this was the worst place for me to be in.
Briefly, I thought about waiting. I was at a disadvantage with the rising sun, but so was he. Just in case I left a newly marked kuni in the tree lines. Quietly, I snuck in through a back door and left it open. Soon the sun would be a glaring beacon in the dark factory and I needed all the advantages I could get.
A few steps inside and relief loosened the stress that had my shoulders in knots. I followed the sound of the singular heartbeat that was Garra's, but I didn't let my guard down If I could hear Garra's then the vampire could hear my heartbeat. Even so. I still tip toed with silent steps because I'd don't know if that Akatsuki was awake.
Dad or not, there was no way I could beat an Akatsuki member by myself. The goal wasn't to exterminate, but to grab Garra and run outside into my open door way, where the sun was now trying to break through the shadows. The kuni in the shade was a last resorts.
A cloaked figure stood at the entrance of the stairwell to the second floor where I heard Garra's heartbeat. The Akatsuki's faces was shadowed by his hood, so I couldn't make out his face. Shock made me hesitate in my steps. Why wasn't he asleep?
"I don't know who the hell you think you are, but you're going to give me back Garra or so help me you'll regret it!" I growled.
Instead of answering me, the vampire sniffed at the air and frowned, "and here I thought a meal was coming my way."
A jolted of familiarity cemented my feet to the ground. Strong emotions chocked me from speaking and suddenly all I could think about was how I waited for him and my mother to come home that faithfully night. His voice was all too familiar. I watched as he scented the air again. His faced morphed into one I didn't recognized.
All color drained from his face as black cracks broke across his skin as if he was made of sand. The whites of his eyes faded until they were inked pitched black and his baby blue eyes bled red like blood. "No, no, no, no, NO! He growled in anger. His nose scrunched up as he snarled and dropped to his hands preparing to attack.
Nausea rolled through me in waves. Who had I been kidding? How did I think I was prepared for this? My knees shook like my world was collapsing under my feet. I bent over an heaved my guts out. Which wasn't a pretty sights considering what my new diet was.
Now is not the time to lose your shit kid. Came the fox's groggy voice, your father intends to kill you where you stand and I am in no shape to help you with the sun risings. RUN! He commanded.
His order ripped my feet from the ground and I sprinted to the door I left open.
Suddenly my dad appeared on my right. His claws headed for my neck. I blocked the blow of his talon with my own kuni, but the force of his attack sent me flying into a wall.
"He can't find you," he hissed, "he can't find you! You must not complete the transition."
The blow to my back knocked the wind out of me halting my next breath. Pain shot up my spine like electricity, paralyzing my body as it crumpled to the ground. I landed in my back in a shower of dust. I needed to get a grip of I wanted to get out of here alive.
By he I assumed he meant Oorochimaru. It was said that every vampire had a connection to the original vampire and their sire. Since my sire was dead, thanks to my God Father, I never felt such a connection. Nor did I ever feel one for Oorochimaru, but according from my dad I can assume I wouldn't until I fully transitioned.
In an attempt to stand, my legs crumpled under me. Again, without any warning, my dad appeared above me. His arm pulled back for a punch.
Substitution Justu
Minato's hand smashed into a piece of wood while I hid behind a pillar close to the stairs. Shit, this was harder then I thought. "Why not let me live my life then, I yelled. I don't intend to live any other life than that of a human." I peaked around my pillar in an attempt to locate, but he was gone. "Shit! Shadow Clone Justu."
I ducked, suddenly feeling him behind me while my four shadows clones split up, each with a newly marked kuni. His fist punched through the sand column like it was paper. He growled, irritated that he missed me again. Swiftly, I kicked out knocking his feet from under him. In the same move I twisted onto my hands and kicked up. On of my shadow clones waited above in the air with an explosive kuni headed for his chest.
"Flying Thunder God!" My second clone had mange to get a kuni as close to the stairs as he could. An explosion went off behind me. I didn't look back. I sprinted towards the stairs with everything I had because I knew he wasn't dead. I only had enough chakura to use that justu one more time and I was going to use it when I had my hands on Garra.
I halted at the top of the stairs for a second story opened upgraded platform above the factory floor. Towards the back where there were no windows laid a sleeping Garra. I didn't see any marked kunis near so I hauled ass. I felt the last two of my shadow clones disappeared. I pushed myself to go faster.
Garra's chest glowed with my father's familiar marking. My eye widened in shock. Suddenly, I was starting into my father's blood red eyes. It was too late to stop. I ran into my dads arm and he shoved his hand through my stomach. He ripped his arm out of my torso and all the strength bleed out of me.
I coughed, trying to expel the blood that was quickly filling my lungs. I took in painful gasping breath and I tears spilled over my eye as I watched the vampire with my father's face lick at the blood coating his hand.
"I would have drained you dry son, it would have been a lot less painful, but I can't risk you turning. I won't let Oorochimaru have you too."
Without another word, he picked Garra up and walked towards one of the windows- into the sun like it was nothing.
I felt myself fading. "No! Garra! Garra," I coughed up more blood, "Garra wake up!"
He never did.
I applied pressure to the wound to try the ebb the flow of bleeding, but I was too weak to hold it for long. My heart raced and the faster it beat the more blood poured out of my body.
"You Idiot!" Yelled Saskue's familiar voice, and I couldn't help but chuckle through my pain.
"Naruto! Hinata, quicky, come help me," cried Sakura.
"Kiba and Shino, go with Tamari and Kankuro to search for Garra. Saskue, protect the girls while Kakashi and I secure the building," ordered Kurenai sensei.
My ears were filled with the sounds of hissing snakes. I could feel them slithering in between my fingers, through my hair, and wrapping tightly around my neck as they bit into every inch of my skin. I felt his venom as it corroded every artery, vein, and capillary. I was dying and this pain was far worse then the wound inflicted by my father. I couldn't scream. All I felt was the pain. My body begged for blood as it attempted its last ditch effort to stay alive. I couldn't move though. It looks like my father's wish would be granted.
"Naruto-kun."
Strangely, I was at peace with it. I didn't get to live the life that I wanted. It may have been full of self limiting restrictions on myself, but it was worth it in the end. I didn't hurt anyone. I was able to protect my team mates while they slept at night. I got to eat a ton of delicious ramen at Ichiraku's Ramaen shop. If I could find my voice I would laugh because the thought of human made me nausea even now.
"Naruto-kun!"
The one thing I would regret the most is pushing Hinata away, but for what ever reason I could stand being around her when she bleed. She just smelled too damn good.
A painful laugh, caused the snakes to constrict around me painfully. I let out my own hissed and cursed at the fox, "What's so damn funny."
That Kunoichi might be our other half. Just like your father was to your mother.
What?
Its phenomenon that's appeared with you Jinchurikis. There's something in our host that cause us tailed beast to react strongly to certain humans. However none of my hosts have ever been bitten by a vampire. To think that I would go out like this is laughable. Normally I would have done everything in my power to protect our mate, but this thirst makes its hard to see anything human as nothing but food," the fox declared with a moan.
"Please don't die."
Suddenly the snakes released me, but all I could do was open my eyes and I didn't know why.
Hinata Hyuga stood over me. Her pale smooth wrist hovered over my mouth with a kuni pressed firmly against it. I pleaded with my eyes for her not to do what she planned to do. Hinata looked around panicked, then without warning she parted her pale skin with kuni until it bloomed red. She held her bleeding wrist above my mouth. I didn't know when I opened my mouth, but the first drop of blood was like liquid honey on my tongue.
I stopped breathing, anticipating the pain, but no amount of mental fortification could have prepared me for it. The seal burned like fire on my stomach until suddenly it was gone. It wasn't as nearly bad as that time in the cave. I pushed Hinata away with an snarl filled with agony stabbed me in the neck. Right wear the fucker bit me years ago. Then it priced through my chest as if she stabbed me herself.
With a laugh the voice in my head said, Kurama.
Rage so black in its hate consumed me, and I forgot who I was as I shouted, "You bitch!"
I slapped a hand over my mouth. I couldn't believe I just said that to her, but I hatted her in this moment because she took my human death away from me. A blade of pain so sharp stabbed at my chest again. I felt my heart stop for a second. Then it kicked started again in its erratic beats as if trying to stop the transition. Hunger confused my consciousness and I wavered between staying awake and passing out.
In a moment of clarity I whispered, "Kurama."
An angry growl nearly pushed me over the edge into the abyss, but I had to stay awake a little longer.
I'm going to kill her, he laughed, you shouldn't have done that. She'll be dead before she can utter my name.
I needed to make sure she heard me before we killed her.
"W-What?"
"If-if I attack you. Say-say his name. Do not," I begged, "do not tell anyone else." I tried to shout at Hinata as blackness spotted my visions.
Without waiting; before I lost myself to the thirst, I ran away from Hinata.
Okay guys, I've been working on this chapter all day and I still feel like its subpar. Sorry for the delay. It wasn't suppose to end here, but I can't get the rest of it typed like I wanted. I promise you will not have to wait as long for the next chapter as you did for this. Sorry about the typos/errors. There is always some, I'm not perfect.
R&R
Your Lunatic,
ANGELHINATA25
