Chapter 4

Marin House

Ashley was talking to a policeman, while Hanna was by the bushes, watching as her mom shook the officers hand before she came over to her "I never wanted to see another police car in front of this house. I thought we we're done with that!" Ashley said upset.

"Mom I didn't total his car, they can fix it." Hanna said.

"There is nothing I can do about this, do you understood me?" Ashley asked before storming into the house causing Hanna to sigh before she left.

Inside

Naruto was at the table signing some documents, when he looked up to see Ashley walking toward the kitchen with an angry look on her face "That bad huh?" he asked.

"Why didn't you stop her?" Ashley asked.

"Hey, I saw her crying and asked her what was wrong but she lied about it and said she missed Tom, and I didn't want to push it, so I let it go. I saw her take the car, and followed her to make sure she was ok."

"Then you took her to the movies." Ashley said, her disapproval clear.

"I'm not her father or boyfriend. It's not my place to lecture her." Naruto replied causing Ashley to pause as he was right.

"What are you doing?" Ashley asked sitting next to him.

"Paperwork." Naruto grimaced causing Ashley to smile.

"Your mom used to hate that too."

"Who doesn't?" Naruto asked rhetorically, laying his head down "I need a drink." he groaned.

"It's too early, and you're too young." Ashley replied.

"I'm worth 10 billion dollars and run a private multi-billion corporation, not to mention watched my mom die right in front of me. I'm adult enough for a lot of things." Naruto retorted.

Ashley went to reply to that, but caught herself as she was going to say something inappropriate "I need to call someone, I'll be back." she said before she got up and walked away.

Naruto watched her go before his phone rung "Hello?"

"Hey there, stranger." Teased an older woman's voice that Naruto recognized.

"Tessa," Naruto said. "What's up?"

"Nothing, just thought I should warn you. Aria needs to be told about her powers soon. Before she accidentally kills someone, or worse, attracts his attention." Tessa warned.

"You don't really think he could find her here, could he?" Naruto asked. "I already adjusted the barrier to make it so he couldn't sense her while she's inside it."

"You and I both know she is either a descendant of Morgana Pendragon, or she is her direct reincarnation. I won't know for certain until she is brought to me," Tessa said.

"And what do you want with her?" Naruto asked in concern.

"Just to help my fellow witch. It would be a shame to let a practice as old and powerful as the Old Religion die out when there is a chance to revive it. Think about it." She said as she hung up.

Naruto sighed and looked at his paperwork with a frown as he remembered the conversation he and Hanna had last night.

Flashback

Naruto and Hanna got into his car, and he sped off toward the nearest theatre, and after a moment of silence he spoke "Are you sure Sean is the guy for you?"

"What do you mean?" Hanna asked

"Well if he wants to wait, for marriage and you don't, that is a big deal. Maybe you guys just aren't meant to be." Naruto said.

"I love him." Hanna replied.

"I'm not questioning that, but this is something that won't be going to go away. You're going to have to seriously consider if waiting for marriage is something you want and can live with. And if not, then you should call it quits." Naruto advised.

"Are you taking his side?" Hanna accused.

"I am not taking his side. The asshole neglected you most of the time at the party, but he does get points for at least having enough respect for you to not sleep with you in a dusty old cabin. He could've worded his reasons for not wanting to sleep with you better though." Naruto said

"I don't want to talk about this anymore." Hanna replied looking at her phone.

"Ok, so what are we going to see?" Naruto asked.

"Oh, Vampire Academy is out." Hanna said.

"What?" Naruto asked before Hanna explained what Vampire Academy was, to his utter dismay.

End Flashback

Park

Hanna, Emily, Aria, and Spencer were in the park walking toward a bench "So how bad did your mom, bust you for wrecking Sean's car?" Emily asked.

"I didn't wreck his car, I damaged it, and everybody is being really matured about it." Hanna said.

"Oh."

"There is no, Oh, we're just being grown ups that's all."

"Ok, so the town is going to put in a new bench, flowers will be planted and a pathway of art tiles." Aria said.

"Art tiles?" Spencer asked sitting down.

"Messages, pictures, and memories of Alison." Emily said.

"Aw like the little headstones." Hanna said.

"Hanna!" Aria hissed.

"What!"

"We should each do a tile." Emily said.

"You know what, I have had Alison's bracelet since the day we found it in the woods and I do not want the responsibility anymore." Hanna said, holding up Alison's friendship bracelet.

"I don't want it." Aria said stepping away.

"Seriously, one of you take this." Hanna said while Emily looked away, so with a sigh Spencer took it.

"Look at us, bunch of babies! There is nothing that A can do or say to get us into trouble without making trouble for herself too."

"You sure it's "her"?" Hanna asked.

"She, he, I don't care." Spencer replied before she pulled out her laptop.

"What are you doing?" Aria asked.

"I'm going to block all messages from people I do not know. IMs, Texts, Emails. Screw A. Okay, who's next?" Spencer asked turning the computer toward her friends, before Emily took it.

Spencer stood up and looked around before she saw Ezra on his bike "I spy with my little eye something that begins with F." she said getting their attention allowing them to see Ezra.

"Hey Mr. Fitz." Hanna waved causing Ezra to look over and wave back.

"Looking good Mr. Fitz!" Spencer yelled, while a mortified Aria sat beside Emily taking the laptop.

"My turn." Aria said while Emily stood up.

"There are teachers you don't want to see on a bike, and there are teachers you do want to see on a bike." Spencer said.

"I wouldn't want to see Mr. Glory on a bike." Hanna said.

"I don't want to think of Mr. Glory in motion of any kind." Emily replied causing Spencer and Hanna to laugh.

"Mr. Fitz." Hanna said still looking at him.

"Hanna! It's your turn." Aria with a small blush said handing the laptop to Hanna.

"Have you talked to Ben since he and his family abruptly moved away?" Spencer asked.

"I have nothing to say." Emily shrugged.

"So your really done?" Aria asked.

"It's ok, I'm fine." Emily said.

"Okay, if you say so." Aria replied.

"I wish we had a drum roll for this." Hanna said causing Aria to snicker "Alright here goes." Hanna clicked the mouse and with a smile said "We are officially A proof."

"Listen, all those messages zipping through the air, all around us."

"Yup, and none of them from A." Aria said.

"This feels like a good thing." Emily said sitting beside Aria.

"Of course it's a good thing, out of sight, out of mind." Hanna replied before they gave a sigh as a piece of paper blew over to them and landed at their feet.

Picking it up Aria looked at it and they all gasped as it was a photo of Alison with celebratory remark on it: "Ding Dong the Bitch is Dead."

The girls looked around before Aria balled up the paper and they walked off.

That Night

Aria was driving on her way home after she picked up dinner for her family, passing by the school she noticed that the lights were on in a window. Curious what was going on and unknowingly being drawn to the place, she parked the car, and walked into the school.

Classroom

Naruto was in a classroom feeding on a teacher. He had ran out of blood bags and was on the way to get some but he was craving something more fresh, so he found Ms. Blakely, the art teacher getting ready for tomorrow's lesson, and decided to just feed on her real quick.

With a sigh, he released her, and healed her wound by giving her some blood. "Why don't you go clean yourself up, sweetheart?" Naruto said watching the teacher nod, wiping his mouth. Naruto paused as he heard a panic breathing and a rapidly rising heart-beat. Wide-eyed, he looked to the small window in the door to see Aria looking at him in fear before she ran.

"Fucking damn it." he groaned, realizing she must have been drawn to him by her innate magic somehow.

Hallway

A terrified Aria ran as fast as she could, not realizing that she was actually blurring through the hallway. She had just seen someone she had thought was a friend drinking the blood of a teacher and had demonic eyes. She needed to get away before he hurt her too.

Turning the corner she gasped and held her hands up as there he was blocking the exit.

"Calm down Ari-ack!" Naruto started but Aria who was about to stop running raised her hands up defensively, her eyes flashing golden, and a telekinetic force sent him flying out the door.

Aria in shocked looked at her hands before she ran to her car and sped off

Naruto was folded in the gym where Aria's telekinetic push had flung him, his spine was bent around the basketball pole. "Yeah, that happened." he groaned out as he forced his body straight causing his spine to snap back in place "Well, lunchtime tomorrow is going to be interesting."

Montgomery House

Aria placed down the keys, and takeout food, before running up to her room while her parents and brother looked after her in confusion.

Pacing the floor, Aria tried to rationalize what she has just say and did before she came to a decision "I can't tell anyone, they'll just think I'm crazy." she said to herself before she got on her laptop and searched up anything and everything on Vampires.

At school

Aria sitting by herself at lunch, waiting for her friends to show up as she was looking around having haven't seen Naruto all day. She had run into Ms. Blakely who was fine, and didn't remember a thing about last night, which made her believe Naruto had some mind control power. She jumped when she looked up and saw Naruto sitting across from her.

"Hello Aria." Naruto greeted with a smile.

"We're in the cafeteria. You can't kill me in here without letting everyone know what you are." Aria said, although she looked scared.

"And what am I, Aria?" Naruto asked.

"Vampire." Aria said, getting a shrug from Naruto.

"Close enough I guess. Did you tell anyone what happened last night?" Naruto asked.

"No, who would believe me?" Aria asked in return.

"Good point." Naruto said before he leaned forward causing her to lean further back into her seat "You have nothing to fear from me Aria, I'm not going to hurt you."

"Why would I believe anything you say?" Aria asked.

"Because if I wanted to hurt you, you wouldn't be here right now. After all, you live right across the street." Naruto said.

"Are you feeding on Hanna and her mom?"

"No, I would never hurt them, Hanna is my oldest and closest friend." Naruto said.

"What about Alison?" Aria asked.

"What about her?" Naruto asked in return.

"A is targeting you too, because you knew Alison, what happened between you two that summer?" Aria asked.

"We slept together once before she disappeared, and she had a pregnancy scare. She said I and some other guy could be the father, and I told her that if the child was mine, and she was planning on keeping it, that I would take care of it." Naruto said with a shrug.

"Was she?"

"No. The night of your sleepover, I stopped by to see Hanna but I ran into her, and she told me she wasn't pregnant. I told her it was ok and I left town." Naruto said before he reached over and touched her hand, causing Aria to tense but she relaxed as something was telling her that she was very safe in Naruto's presence. "I am not the villain here, Aria. You, Hanna, Emily, and Spencer are the only friends I have in Rosewood amongst all the acquaintances I have here. I will never hurt you, you have my word."

Aria looked Naruto in the eyes seeing that he was serious before she nodded and with a smile and nod, Naruto stood up "Wait." Aria said causing him to look at her "Are you like Edward from Twilight?"

Naruto opened his mouth to speak, but he shook his head in chuckle and walked away. Aria wondered if she offended him, but put it out of her mind when Spencer, and Hanna tapped her shoulder.

Outside

Emily was walking toward the cafeteria when she ran into Maya "Hey."

"Hi. I got something for you. I saw this and I thought it was the greatest color on the planet." Maya said wrapping a red scarf around Emily's neck "I was right it's spectacular."

"It's ... it's great. Thank you." Emily said a little uncomfortable.

Maya who didn't notice smiled and the two embraced "Catch you later." she said before walking away as Emily waved before she looked into the cafeteria to see her friends who were talking.

Cafeteria

Hanna looked over to Spencer "Spence, why didn't your parents take you to New York with your sister, I mean you need some retail therapy too."

"Not as much as Melissa." Spencer said not wanting to reveal that her parents were hardly speaking to her since she kissed her sister fiance, noticing Emily walking over she commented on her scarf "Hot scarf, Em."

"Thanks." Emily said.

"Is it new?" Hanna asked.

"No." Emily lied before Hanna's phone began to ring.

Taking out her phone Hanna looked shocked and glanced to her friends "Go ahead answer it, we know who it can't be from."

Hanna remained still "Hanna?" Emily asked.

"It's my dad!" Hanna said with a soft smile before she answered her phone and walked away "Hey dad."

Emily looked to Spencer and Aria "Wait, has she even talked to her dad, since he walked out on them?"

"I don't know." Aria said.

"Yeah, you know with Hanna her dad is one of those don't ask, don't tell situations." Spencer said.

"Guys let's not stare." Aria leading her friends away.

Later

"He has to be in New England for a few weeks but before he goes, he's going to make a trip here to see me." Hanna told her friends.

"That's great, Han." Naruto said in disinterest.

"What's the matter, Naruto? I mean, aren't you happy? You and my dad used to be close." Hanna asked.

"Before he walked out on you and your mom." Naruto said looking her in the eye, causing Hanna to sigh and look down before he placed a hand on her shoulder as if to say 'sorry'.

"Do you think your dad is here to see you because of the thing with Sean's car?" Emily asked.

"No, he's not." Hanna said stepping in front of them and turning to look at them "Look I asked, absolutely not. Besides even if he was, at least he's coming to see me."

Naruto nodded "Look I got to go. I'll see you guys later." he said walking off.

Hanna, and the girls waved but before they could go back to their conversation Mr. Sheldrake, Spencer's Russian history teacher walked up to them, before he let Spencer know that her essay was excellent and that he had submitted it to an essay contest called The Golden Orchid.

"What's the Golden Orchid?" Hanna asked.

"It's a national competition on historical writing." Spencer said.

"Which means it's more academic bling for Spencer." Emily said with a smile before everyone congratulated her and walked off toward their classes.

Montgomery House

Aria was in her room sitting across from her desk in her bed, concentrating on a cup, raising her hand held her hand up and focused, after a moment the cup began to wobble before it shot into her palm, causing her to gasp.

"What the hell, is happening to me?" Aria asked herself, before she put the cup down and grabbed her purse, and walked into the kitchen to see her mom cooking "Hey."

"Hi." Ella said cutting up carrots.

"Chicken? Oh My Gosh, in the middle of the week?" Aria asked.

"Yeah, I felt like making a treat for your dad." Ella said walking to the stove "Are you ok with Veggie burgers?"

"Actually, I said I'd have dinner at Spencers." Aria lied.

"Oh okay, actually Mike is going to be out too, so I guess me and your dad are going to have the place to ourselves." Ella said with a grin.

"That's great." Aria said with a frown as she flashed back to when she saw Byron kissing Meredith in his car, and how Naruto told her that it would better that her mother heard it from her and not someone else. Taking a deep breath, Aria spoke, "Mom!"

Ella looked to her daughter "Yes?" she asked.

"I have something to tell you, and up til now, I have been too scared to tell, because you're not going to like it." Aria said placing her bag on the counter.

"What is it, sweetie?" Ella asked.

"Before we left for Iceland," Aria began...

Later that night

Naruto walked into the house with a bag, and tossed his keys into the bowl. Walking into the living room, he stopped when he saw Ashley in her red dress, drunk, "Ash? I thought, you and Hanna were going out with Tom?" he asked walking over to sit beside her.

"So did I, but he only wanted Hanna." Ashley said with a slight slur as she refilled her glass of whiskey "I was an idiot to think he'd want me."

Ashley raised her glass to take another gulp of her drink, but Naruto took it and dumped it out in the sink. "He's the idiot. You are a catch. Any man should consider themselves lucky to be with you." he said placing the glass down and when he looked back to Ashley, he was surprised when she kissed him.

Unknown to Naruto and Ashley, a picture of them was taken as they kissed, before the person who was clad in a black hoodie walked away.

Pulling away, Naruto placed his hands on Ashley's shoulders "First off, you're drunk. Second-." he said but was interrupted.

"I've been wanting to do this since you came to Rosewood, it's ok." Ashley drunkenly said before she kissed Naruto again and stood up as she was about to let her red dress fall off when Naruto pinched a pressure point in her shoulder and caused her to fall unconscious. Naruto caught her and carried her up to her bed and tucked her in.

"Secondly, I don't feel that way about you. And finally, I would never do that to Hanna." Naruto said as he let out a sigh.

Next Day

Aria didn't know what to do. She had told her mom the truth finally, and while her mom only looked sad, there was this look in her eyes that she couldn't put into words.

She and her mother had always been close, while with Mike and Byron it always felt like she wasn't really meant to be with them, but she had tried to make the most of ignoring the feeling, but yesterday she had thought she would chicken out on telling her mom everything like she has so many times before, but the words flew out of her.

Her mother had been thankful for her telling her and sent her on her way, so she went to see Ezra and vented to him. When he made a remark that caused her to feel offended and they had their first argument before she had stormed off.

Today, he might have made people suspicious when he jumped down a classmates throat when he made a comment regarding her thoughts on the book "To Kill a Mockingbird". She could tell Naruto, who usually was drowning out everything in class, had paid close attention to the exchange.

Deciding to put it all out of her mind, she walked up to Naruto, who was walking to his locker after school was let out "Hey Naruto." she greeted.

"Hey, what's up?" Naruto asked.

"Um, so I told my mom the truth." Aria confessed causing Naruto to look at him in surprise.

"You did?" Naruto asked turning to her as she nod "How'd she take it?"

"She thanked me, but she looked sad." Aria said.

"Not sure you expect a better response than that, Aria." Naruto said.

"I just need to take my mind off it." Aria said with a sigh before she looked at him curiously "So vampires. Can they all walk in the daylight?"

"No, not all of them." Naruto said glancing around to make sure no one was around "I'll answer your questions, but not here. This place is too open. Come on."

Aria and Naruto would spend a couple hours talking about Vampires, with Naruto putting to bed her Twilight references, before he dropped her off at a coffee shop, and went to a meeting he had with a business man from Abu Dabi.

Restaurant

Hanna was zoning out the boring story that apparently her future step sister was telling. She was furious with her father but she was keeping under control for the moment. 2 years he's been gone! Not a word, not even a birthday card, and after one night at some lame ass amusement park, he drops the bomb that he is getting married. Worse yet, it's to some ugly woman named Isabel who had a daughter same age as her named Kate.

This man just replaced her and her mom with these two ugly bitches. "Hanna do you sail?" Isabel asked getting Hanna's attention.

"No." Hanna said with a tight smile.

"Oh you should, Kate could teach you, she's a very good teacher." Isabel said smugly.

Kate looked to Hanna "Especially with beginners."

"I think it would be so much fun for the both of you, going out on a boat together." Isabel said.

"To see which one comes back." Hanna joked darkly, only for her dad and his new family to not get it.

"Oh um, Hanna I had a talk with Sean's father." Tom said.

"You spoke with his dad?" Hanna asked with a raised eyebrow as she clenched her fist under the table as yesterday the man was just saying he wasn't going to bring it up, while she saw Isabel smirk at Kate.

"Hmm hmm. He gave me an estimate of the damage you caused to the car and we agreed to fix the problem without the insurance companies. So I will write him a check and you're going to be working off the amount, assisting his mom."

"That's unnecessary." Naruto said behind Tom with a brief case getting everyone's attention "Hey Tom, um sorry to interrupt but I was wondering if Hanna wanted a ride home."

Isabel and Kate looked at Naruto wide eyed "Naruto, I didn't know you were in town." Tom said looking at the boy he used to go fishing with.

"Yeah, I've been staying with Hanna, and Ashley. Oh I just ran into Mr. Acker and paid him for the damage done to his car, so you can keep your check."

Instead of looking relieved, Tom frowned while Hanna smiled at Naruto "Um, Mr. Uzumaki, it is an honor to meet you." Isabel said standing up and shaking Naruto's hand.

"Um, thanks. Who are you?" Naruto asked.

"Oh, I'm Isabel, Tom's fiance, and this is my daughter Kate."

Kate stood up and smiled at Naruto who glanced to Hanna to see her frowning "Nice to meet you." Naruto said neutrally with a nod.

"Naruto you didn't have to pay for the damages that wasn't your responsibility." Tom said.

"Well I make it my responsibility to help out my friends when they are in need. I honestly thought you couldn't care less about what happened, so I took it upon myself."

"How could you say that?" Tom asked

"I'm sorry. Am I not to talking the same self-absorbed cunt who abandoned his wife and daughter, and is just resurfacing after 2 years, with their replacements!?" Naruto asked rudely with a clenched fist.

"Naruto..." Hanna started getting his attention as she looked at him "It's ok, I'll work with Sean's mom."

"If you want to, that's fine by me." Naruto shrugged, his anger forgotten, before he motioned to the exit "Do you want a ride?"

"I'll take her." Tom said.

"No that's alright dad, I wouldn't want you to go out of you and Isabel's way." Hanna said grabbing her things before she and Naruto left while Tom sighed.

Hanna was walking toward the Ferrari as she checked her phone to see she had got a text from Spencer 'S.O.S'

"You drive." Naruto said handing her the keys as he got into the passenger seat, Hanna opened the driver door and looked up just as he Dad, and his new family walked out, not saying anything she got into the car, and sped off when she saw Tom about to come over.

Chapter End