Night Walker

Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN NARUTO. My OC's are Yoru and Kuro.

Chapter 6

…Sasuke's POV –7:00 AM next morning-…

I woke up and found everyone just as they'd been the night before. Hinata cuddled up in Naruto's lap, Sakura laying on the couch by herself, and Yoru. She was still asleep. I could tell because her breathing was still steady. She was cuddled up to me our bodies melded together, her head only coming up to my chest. She looked so fragile in my clothes which were to big for her and her small hands and feet. Her hair was still damp from the rain last night but I could not take my eyes of off her stunning beauty.

I didn't want to wake her but if I moved she'd wake up so I sat there listening to the sleeping people around me breathing. After a couple minutes, Yoru's body began to stir and I looked down at her as she opened her eyes to reveal beautiful baby blue orbs.

When she saw me she smiled, and said, "Good morning Sasuke." I smiled back at her and replied, "Good morning Yoru-chan." I stopped and turned away. Did I just say that? I know I didn't just say that. Damn I just said that.

She blushed and said, "Don't worry about it. Your secret is safe." "Okay, want some breakfast?" I asked relieved at her trustworthiness. She nodded her head excitedly and I smiled at her before getting up and going into the kitchen to make breakfast.

I made enough for Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura to eat when they woke up. Now that I thought about it, it should be any second now. Perfect, right on time. I thought as their eyes began to open up.

Hinata was the first to fully wake up. When she realized whose lap she was curled up in, her face turned as red as a cherry and she quickly got up out of the chair. Naruto laughed at this and got up to give her a hug. Yoru was sitting on a stool by the snack bar and turned to watch them as she heard their shuffling.

Sakura woke up and yawned loudly which caused Naruto to laugh again. "Sakura, you cuddle up to anything don't you," he said pointing at the pillow that Sakura was hugging. She, in turn, chucked it at his head. He yelped as it hit him and knocked him over onto the couch that Yoru and I had slept on.

Hinata giggled and she and Sakura walked over to the snack bar to smell the food that I had cooking. They giggled again as I turned my back to them and I spun around to see the three girls making innocent looks so I turned back around. "Shhh…" one of them said and I guessed it was Yoru. When I'd turned back around, they started giggling and whispering again and I spun around to face them again with my eyes narrowed. But once again, they had innocent looks on their faces. Okay whatever they're whispering about has to be me, I thought as I turned around.

This time instead of hearing them whispering, I felt someone's hand pinch my butt. I narrowed my eyes, paused for a second, and then continued what I was doing. Hinata and Sakura broke out into full laughter. I turned around to see them laughing and Yoru sitting in the stool with her hands placed on her knees and an innocent look on her face. It broke into a grin and finally she started to laugh also. Girls, I thought as I finished cooking the eggs and took the sausage and bacon out of the pan turning both burners off.

I placed the scrambled eggs on a plate and set them down in the center of the snack bar and put the sausage and bacon platter down beside it. Just as I did, a sighing Naruto walked into the kitchen. "Whew, that feels better," he said and I smacked my hand into my forehead. "Hehe." I went over to the fridge and got out milk and orange juice, set it down on the bar with the food, and then got glasses and handed them to everyone.

I sat beside Yoru, and Naruto sat on the end next to Hinata and we all served our food and ate. "Uh…Sasuke according to the story that you told us last night, Yoru's dad doesn't know where she is," Naruto said in a serious voice. I thought about it and then said, "Oh crap." I looked around nervously. I hadn't meant to say that out loud.

Yoru was smiling however. "Don't worry he'll understand and probably thank you when you bring me back." Phew, I thought. "Why did you run away in the first place Yoru?" Sakura asked looking at her nervously.

"I don't know," she answered. "It was just such a shock and I mean…My whole life. I'd just found out that it was all a lie. I mean how could he keep the biggest secret about me secret from me for so long? Why couldn't I have figured it out sooner? I always knew that I was adopted because he told me when I started school but I thought my parents were humans like him. Then it turns out that they were killed by some evil guy who I don't even know and it was all because they were vampires."

I looked at her as she put her face down in her hands. I knew she was fighting back tears so I put my hand on her shoulder and rubbed it gently. She looked back up and finished her story. "I guess that even though I'd wanted to ask him before I came in the house, it was a shock to hear him say that. I've never been good at handling shock. It wasn't just shock though. I was scared." She was staring off into space now.

"I was scared of what would happen if everyone found out about it and then I remembered my dream and I couldn't take it so I ran away to let it all out." At this point, she turned around and looked at me. "I'm sorry Sasuke, I forgot to thank you for getting me out of the cold. That was…really nice." I looked back at her as she lowered her head and I could tell it was because she was trying to hide the fact that she was blushing. "Don't worry about it. You're welcome," I said.

"Well, I guess I better take you home huh?" I asked after a minute or so. "Yes, my dad will worry about me if I'm not back soon, and I don't want it to be any worse," she answered looking down again before she ran to get her clothes that she'd rung out and had hanging up over the bathtub. She returned after a couple of minutes with them in her arms, wrapped in a dry towel.

"I don't want them to get your car seat wet," she said blushing some more. I smiled at this. Yoru had changed a lot starting last night. Before she was acting as though she was trying to hide her feelings and some deep dark secret of hers away from the world, but now that her deepest secret had already been confirmed it was as if she was another person. She was opening up to us, her friends and I could tell she was happier this way.

I walked toward the door, getting my keys off of their hook and went into the garage where my car was parked. She followed me and then we got into the car and I back carefully out of the driveway. It was still raining a bit and the sun wasn't showing through the clouds so it was fairly dark. As I drove across town to her mansion, I noticed that she had her head leaned against the window and was staring out at the rain.

…Yoru's POV…

I was thinking about the whole ordeal with my head leaned up against the window, my hair the only barrier between my head and the cold glass. I hope Dad won't be angry with me for leaving and then staying at a boy's house all night long. Of course, it's not like I have anything to feel guilty about we didn't do anything, just watched a movie.

I turned my head around to face Sasuke and said, "I'm glad that you came when you did Sasuke. I'd already nearly cried myself to sleep by the time you got to me. It was really hard for me to take the stress and fear all at once. I normally don't feel like that though, nor do I normally feel like I do now."

I could tell he was listening but the rain had gotten harder and so he had to pay closer attention to the road. He finally asked, "What do you mean by 'like I do now?'" "Like when I'm with you," I answered not holding back since we were alone. "Sasuke, I need to know for sure. Are you helping that evil guy that killed my parents or are you here to protect me? My dad said that--."

He cut me off by saying, "I could never take my brother's side." "Your brother?" I interrupted. He nodded his head and then continued, "Ever since he killed my parents and all of the royal family, I've hated him. I've been searching for you this whole time, of course I didn't always know it was you I was searching for. Niiro, a vampire who was one of your father's subordinates, told me that they weren't sure when they found your mother's dead body as to whether or not the heiress—that's you—had survived. When he came back here to tell me after I'd started grade school about what had happened, he told me about Sakura being a healer and from there our team was formed. When we learned about Hinata's story, we also found out that she was a training scholar and she was focused on these prophecies and such. One of them regarded the demon and the angel, Naruto and her."

"What prophecy is that?" I asked. "Well, you see although demons and angels are naturally mortal enemies there was a prophecy that stated that two of them would not grow to be enemies and they'd form a treaty by marriage that would put the angels and good demons, those whose purposes are not to kill and/or torture, on good terms with each other. From the moment that Hinata met Naruto she liked him but once this prophecy was revealed they became more than just friends. It wasn't like it wouldn't have happened anyways; the prophecy just sped up the process."

"So what is the prophecy about…us?" I asked thinking of our pendants. "It's a long story," he said as he came to a stop in front of my driveway. "I'm pretty sure he can wait," I said referring to my dad. "Okay so where to begin…"

"For many years the vampires and werewolves fought each other as enemies because of one of the royal son's hatred toward the other kind that had led to him trying to kill his parents and killing numerous vampires. Then there came a werewolf by the name of Ookami, his younger brother, who fell in love with the most beautiful vampire of the time, Lady Nobara. They were very much in love and Ookami being the heir of the werewolf pack with Nobara as the heiress of the vampire clan made their relationship forbidden at the time. However they continued to see each other in secret until one day Nobara's controlling father caught them together and he put Ookami and Nobara in prison. After about a year of torture, he came to ask if she still loved Ookami and when she replied yes, he gave the order for her to be beheaded. Ookami was sent to witness it, but the king was foolish. He'd waited until the night to commit the deed and it was a full moon. Needless to say, Ookami turned into his full werewolf form, was able to break his shackles, and he stopped Nobara from being killed by jumping underneath the guillotine as the blade fell. By sacrificing his life for the woman he loved, Ookami showed everyone that werewolves and vampires didn't need to fight to survive together. Nobara and Ookami's son came to claim the thrown of the werewolves in his father's place as heir. They signed a pact and they went to live in peace for many more years."

"Then after many generations of vampires and werewolves, you, my brother, and I came into the picture. My brother was first though. He saw the way the world was with us living as equals and he said that it wasn't right for us to take credit for attacks from the vampires that had been made on the humans. He eventually joined the Akatsuki, a group of people that felt the same as he did. He was young back then, but my brother was so strong at the time that no one could beat him. They joined forces with the vampire-hating humans and he killed my parents, the leaders of the werewolves and later he attacked and killed your parents. Now the vampires and werewolves are on the verge of war because they believe that all of the werewolves are with my brother since he is the only known royalty. That is where the prophecy came from. You are a vampire descendant of Nobara and I am the werewolf descendant of Ookami. We serve the same purposes as them, you are the heiress as was Nobara and I am the heir as was Ookami. I also have an evil older brother like Ookami did so therefore the prophecy simply states that history will repeat itself."

When Sasuke finished the story, I finally understood it. Then I looked at my necklace and asked, "What about these? How are they relevant to this prophecy?" Sasuke nodded his head and looked at his. "These necklaces are the same ones that Ookami and Nobara themselves wore. We had exactly the same eyes as them, so it was decided from that who the heir and heiress would be."

"Oh…" I said holding the moon pendant in my hand with my eyes sad at the thought of what had happened to Ookami. "But when you say history will repeat itself, does that mean that you…" Sasuke seamed to understand what I was asking and he laid his hand on my shoulder and said, "I don't know." "But I don't want to lose you! You've helped me so much and I…just can't lose you." "If the situation presents itself, I will sacrifice my life to save you and I'm sure you'd do the same for me but we'll try to stay out of those situations okay?" I tried to smile and nodded my head.

The rain had almost stopped by the time we were through talking. We eventually got out of the car, and Sasuke walked me up the driveway and took me to my house. Once we got to the door, he said, "Your dad might not like the idea of you staying at my house all night so I better go." "Wait Sasuke," I said. He turned around and came to stand in front of me. I smiled at him and then reached up and kissed him on the lips before running into my house. He stood there for a few seconds with his finger on his lips in shock before he turned around and walked back down the driveway.

I watched him leave my house from the window in the large oak door with a smile on my face and then turned around to see the house just as it was yesterday. My dad was nowhere to be found and I guessed that he was in his room worrying about me. I took my shoes off and walked silently, almost gliding, up the stairs. When I peeked through the crack in his bedroom door, I found that I was correct. Slowly, I pushed the door open and squeezed into his room without a sound. However, if he was a vampire or a werewolf like me and Sasuke, he would have heard the small noise made by the opening of the door.

"Dad…" I whispered softly so I wouldn't scare him. He turned around and his face had a relieved expression on it. "Yoru, I was so worried!" he exclaimed as he came to give me a hug. He backed away and noticed that I was completely dry and then he asked, "Whose clothes are these?" I blushed and replied, "They're Sasuke's. He came to the park and found me. He took me to his house and got me some dry clothes." "Oh, and you stayed at his house all night?"

"Well our friends Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata came over and we watched a movie together," I explained. He shook his head, a suspicious expression on his face. "Don't worry Dad, we didn't do anything. He just wanted to know what had happened and…" His expression turned into fear as he asked, "You told him?!" "I had to Dad. I told him at first that I'd found out about my real parents but he saw through my lie and I told him the truth."

"So let me guess, you had to walk home?" my dad asked angrily. "No! If I'd walked home, do you think I'd be this dry? Sasuke brought me home." "What? He did that even after he found out about you?" I shook my head. I wasn't going to say anything else about what had happened because I didn't want him to think Sasuke was too dangerous to be my friend.

"If I were you, I'd stay away from him then," my dad said confirming my fears. "Why?!" "There are only a few creatures that wouldn't be afraid of vampires and they are werewolves, demons, and angels. They don't fear vampires because werewolves are their equals, demons are stronger, and angels are immune to them. So if he's not scared of you, he must be one of them and I don't think Sasuke is an angel so he's either a werewolf or a demon! Stay away from him!"

"Dad, what are you talking about? Sasuke's normal, and he's not dangerous. He—he likes me…a lot and he won't hurt me no matter what." "How do you know this? He could be lying to you. He might be trying to get close enough to you so he can kill you." "Dad, no! Sasuke won't do that! I—trust him." My dad looked at me, an angry expression still on his face. Finally he gave up on trying to persuade me and said, "If you think that, then there's nothing I can do about it."

I was quiet for a moment. I didn't think my dad would be that angry about it, I thought he'd be happy that I had friends who didn't care about what I was. Finally after about ten minutes of silence, both of us thinking about Sasuke, he asked, "He's coming to your birthday party isn't he?" "Yes sir." "Well I guess I'll get my chance to see him then won't I?" "Yes sir," I said looking down. He's starting to sound like Nobara's father now. I shuddered at the thought of my dad turning into a man like Nobara's father. The scariest part of that was what Nobara's father did to her and Ookami.

"Well then we'd better get everything ready for your friends shouldn't we?" he asked changing the subject. Although on most cases doing that would be annoying, I was glad he had done so.

…A few hours later (Party Time!)…

Preparing for my party put me in a happier mood and I got dressed being sure to pamper myself as much as possible for my guests. I wore a sleek sleeveless form-fitting black dress with a V-neck. I had my hair wrapped around and stuck with chopsticks. I had curled the few long bangs on the sides that hung loose and I had a white rose ornament placed on top of the black chopsticks. My shoes were black high-heeled ones and I wore under them dark stockings.

My first guest arrived at seven o'clock. The doorbell rang and I opened it to see a smiling Ino and a bored (as usual) Shikamaru. "Happy Birthday Yoru!" Ino greeted. She elbowed Shikamaru and he said, "Happy Birthday." "Thanks for coming," I replied addressing both of them. I ushered them into the house and they entered together.

About ten minutes later, Naruto and Hinata arrived and afterwards Sakura came in. When Sakura got in the house, I asked her, "Where's Sasuke?" She replied, "I think he's coming." She whispered in my ear, "He's probably getting all dressed up nice for you." I laughed at this but knew it was a possibility.

Now I had to wait for Sasuke to arrive. Had he gotten home safely considering my parting gift, or gotten home then passed out? That would be funny, I thought laughing to myself. When the doorbell rang, my heart started pounding, but when I opened the door I saw Kiba and Akamaru. "Kiba?" I asked. "Hinata told me about your party so I decided to come check it out." I laughed and then replied, "Just make sure he behaves." I pointed to Akamaru and he laughed a little. "Okay."

Right so now an unexpected guest had arrived but still no Sasuke. We'd already started having the party by now. My friends had put the gifts for me in a stack beside the couch and I was surprised to see how many I had considering how little guests I had. We played music and the couples got up to dance to the hip hop and rock music. Naruto and Hinata danced together, while Ino forced Shikamaru to dance. I looked at everyone having fun and wished that Sasuke was here.

After they'd been dancing for about ten minutes, my dad called from the kitchen, "Food's ready!" Everyone ran to the kitchen and smelt of the warm, inviting scents of my dad's cooking. He'd made plenty of hot dogs and burgers for everyone and we all dug into our food like hungry animals, except for Hinata and myself. I wished to maintain my cool composure with me being the birthday girl and all. We were in the middle of eating when the door swung open. I turned around to see a dark haired Uchiha in a black tuxedo. Sasuke, I thought to myself sighing lovingly.

Sakura and Hinata, who were seated next to me heard and started laughing. Sasuke walked over to me and Sakura and Hinata moved down to let him sit beside me. Everyone stopped staring and continued eating their food. "Hey Sasuke," I said looking down because of my red face. "Hello, Yoru. Sorry I'm late, traffic." I grinned and replied, "Sure." He grinned back at me.

From the corner of the kitchen where my dad was eating, he watched me talk to Sasuke with a protective father instinct about him. I cleared my throat so only Sasuke could hear and he glanced at my dad and smirked.