Night Walker

Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN NARUTO. My OC's are Yoru and Kuro, who is now deceased and I will now only refer to my OC's as Yoru.

Chapter 8

…Sasuke's POV…

Yoru was sleeping in my lap once again as I woke but this time I wasn't happy, nor was she. The entire mood of this house and the house itself had become so cold. Her breathing wasn't as smooth as it had been the night at my house. After having her first transformation in which she allowed herself to get a taste of werewolf blood, it was easy to see why. The blood of a werewolf was said to have a stronger animalistic effect on a vampire than any other kind of blood. It could make a vampire go completely insane if they consumed enough of it.

For Yoru, it only added onto her anger and hate for him. Of course, being able to cause pain to the one that had killed her father must be more satisfying than allowing them to escape without a scratch. Yoru knew Kuro hadn't been her real father but she loved him as she would have her real father if she'd ever known him. Besides that, for all she knew he could really have been her real father and he could have lied to her about it, therefore it cut her deep down in her heart. I'm just not sure if I can save her anymore.

I heard the sound of police cars in her front yard and I attempted to set Yoru off of my lap so I could go downstairs but she stirred as I moved her. "Yoru, the police are here. You might want to stay up here until they clean this place up." She looked down at her feet and nodded her head. I looked at her sitting in that dazed state that she was in and had to prevent myself from breaking down and crying for her. I had to leave before I completely lost my cool.

I walked out of the room and closed the door behind me. When I got down the stairs the police were at the door which I'd busted down the night before. They raised their guns as I walked into the living room and I put my hands into the air. One of them narrowed his eyes suspiciously at me. He had dark red hair and brown eyes and appeared to be quite a strong dude. "Who are you and why are you here at the scene of the crime?" he asked me in a deep voice. (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger or something)

I stood in the middle of the living room beside Kuro's body with my hands up in the air. "That was…my girlfriend's dad. Someone…really evil…killed him and he ran away when I got here." "How can I trust you? Where's the girl?" "She's upstairs, but you better not mess with her." "Are you threatening me?" he asked with an attitude. I continued to talk in a calm voice not allowing myself to look at Kuro's body. "No, but she's just having a hard time trying to handle this." I held my bandaged hand out. "This is her work."

He looked at my bandages which had spots of blood on them and nodded. "I see. Is she going to be stable?" He asked coming into the house. Obviously he trusted that my story was true because he lowered his gun and I lowered my hands. "I'm…not quite sure. Yesterday was…her birthday." "That's when it happened?" "Yes—yes sir," I answered correcting myself. He nodded his head and looked at Kuro's body. Some of the other police officers were examining it.

A brown-haired one pointed to his neck and said, "Hey boss, look at this." The red-headed man walked over to Kuro's body and observed the large bite wound on his neck. He turned back around and asked, "Is this the cause of death? These wounds are made by a--." "Werewolf, yes," I answered. His eyes opened wide in shock and he asked under his breath, "We have werewolves here? Oh my god."

All of the men were in shock now. One of them had a phone and was calling for someone to come out to clean up the scene. There was really nothing they could do about the werewolf problem so there was no point in investigating the crime any farther. They couldn't fight against a werewolf and hope to survive and they knew it.

…About two hours later…

I had gone to the bedroom to stay with Yoru while the people downstairs cleaned up the living room. She was still sitting on her bed silently and not looking at me. I sat beside her with my hand on her shoulder. I was waiting for her to speak before I said anything to her. Finally the silence was broken when Yoru asked, "Sasuke?" "Yes, Yoru?" "Do you love me?" She still wasn't looking at me and I put my right bandaged hand on top of hers.

This made her look at me. "Yes, Yoru. I do love you. If I didn't do you think I'd be here for you like this?" "Good point," she said her face brightening up a little bit. She leaned over and hugged me with an unusual gentleness considering that I almost suffocated the last time she hugged me in the aftermath of her transformation.

After a couple seconds we heard someone knock on the door. Yoru released me and sat on the bed like before. I looked at her and she nodded so I said, "Come in." I was surprised when I saw Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura come into Yoru's bedroom. They obviously had snuck past the police because the red-headed guy came in and asked, "Are you three friends of theirs?" I answered for them, "Yes sir. They're our friends." "Oh okay. By the way, we're finished cleaning up Sasuke but I don't know what to do about that door." I nodded my head and the man left. A few minutes later, I heard the noise in the living room fade and finally dissipate completely.

"We just heard about it on the news," Naruto said with unusual seriousness in his voice. "Y-Yoru are you okay?" Hinata asked reaching out to put her hand on her friend's shoulder. I stopped her by putting the bandaged hand in front of hers. When she saw the blood, she gasped and so did Sakura. Naruto simply nodded his head understandingly.

Sakura looked at it and said in a worried voice, "Are you okay Sasuke?" "Yes, it doesn't really hurt anymore," I lied. When I looked at Yoru with her head down, I noticed droplets of tears falling one by one onto her pajamas. "But she really couldn't help it, this was the first time she…you know." All three nodded. Sakura sat down on the opposite side of her from me and Naruto and Hinata sat down in the lazy boy chair she had near the door in her room.

Naruto asked cautiously, "Who did it?" "Itachi," I spat with hatred in my voice for my brother. "You weren't kidding about him being evil, were you?" "Why would I ever kid about that?" Naruto looked down and then at Hinata in silence at the tone of my voice.

Sakura looked at me and motioned for me to go outside with her. I followed her out of the room despite the glares from Naruto and Hinata. Once we got outside of the bedroom and closed the door, Sakura walked down the stairs about halfway and I followed. "What do you plan to do Sasuke? You can't leave her in this house with the state that she's in. I've never seen her depressed like this or anywhere near it for that matter."

"I know Sakura, and keep you voice down," I said in a hushed voice. "Listen, I'll take her back to my house and then I can make sure she's safe from Itachi. I don't know what I can do really. It'll just take time."

"You're afraid she's going to go crazy aren't you? I would be too if she'd done that to me," she said pointing to my hand. "What did you do to her that made her hurt you?" "I told her that she had to get a bath before the cops came or they'd figure out about her being a vampire. I went to take her hand and walk her up the stairs and she just grabbed onto my wrist and squeezed it. Her claws were still sharp enough to penetrate the skin and so they just went straight through."

"I better make sure it didn't slice a vein or something," she said in her normal voice as she held out her hand and I put mine in hers. She unwrapped my bandaged wrist and then passed a glowing blue hand over it. After a couple seconds some of the blue light drifted into my skin and some of the pain went away. She finally stopped and let go of my hand. "I can't heal it completely but I can take away some of the pain. It's the type of wound that takes time to heal but it should heal faster now that the veins are back intact. I don't know why I can't heal it like I do most injuries. Let me wrap it for you."

I held out my hand as she reached into her accessory belt and pulled out a gauze bandage roll and some cotton pads. She placed the cotton pads on the deepest of the wounds and then wrapped my wrist with the gauze bandages. When she finished I said, "Thanks Sakura. It does feel a bit better."

She nodded and said, "Sasuke, I'm worried about her. I-I know you like her and she likes you but do you really think you can help her?" "I won't find out if I don't try will I?" I answered in question form. "I…guess not."

We walked back up the stairs and returned to the bedroom to see everyone in almost the exact same positions as before only that now Yoru was lying on the bed asleep. I didn't want to wake her but she needed to know what we were going to do. I tapped her shoulder gently and as slowly as possible so as not to startle her. Her eyes opened up slowly and she asked, "Sasuke? What is it?" What should I say? I don't want her to get mad at me for waking her. "Uh…well since your house doesn't have a door, I was going to say that you could stay at my house for a while. Then I could keep my promise to you." "Okay," she responded rather quickly compared to five or ten minutes earlier.

"Well, we better go now Naruto," Sakura said punching him in the shoulder as she walked past him and out the door. "Wha—Why?" he asked. "Just come on," Sakura said slightly annoyed. Hinata got up and followed Sakura. "B-bye Yoru and S-Sasuke," she said on her way out. Naruto was pouting as he left but he still went out of the room. Once the sound of their footsteps stopped, I took Yoru's hand again.

"Thank you," she said quietly. "You're welcome. I simply can't leave you here after last night." She nodded her head and then looked at me. She still had the faint green color in her eyes and she looked sick. Her face was pale and her lips were chapped. "Yoru, I know what it's like to lose someone precious to you. I know how you're feeling right now because it happened to me."

"What's your point?" she asked in a rather cocky voice. "My point is that I don't want it to happen again." She looked at me this time and there were tears in her eyes. "I-I'm so sorry. You're right, I should try and overcome this but it's just so hard." "Yoru, I know it will take time to completely overcome this but you have to start today. In the aftermath of the death is when it's the hardest to deal with but you're strong and I know you can do it."

She nodded her head but it was hard to tell whether she was listening or pretending. After sitting there for a couple minutes in silence, I asked, "What exactly happened before I came in your house last night?"

She blinked away her tears and replaced her expression of sickness with one of strength and anger. "When I came in, my dad's body was in front of the stairs and Itachi was standing over it. He was in his human form at the time as the light of the full moon hadn't struck him yet. I told him that he was going to pay and he said that I couldn't kill him. I'd already started transforming myself when he threw a weird shaped knife at the curtains and it pulled on the string causing them to open. As soon as the light hit him, he started transforming. Once he was done he said, 'Now fight me girl,' and I charged him. He was able to dodge my attack and he turned around and attempted to slash my back but I jumped out of the way in time and get on top of his back. I bit down into his flesh and his blood flooded into my mouth and made me stronger. He was able to throw me off of his back but I landed with ease on my feet. When he started charging towards me, I waited until the last second to dip underneath him and claw his stomach. He was about to bite my neck for the kill, when he heard you at the door and he left me lying there and ran up the stairs. By the time you got through the door, he was gone."

"So you fought my brother? You could have been killed," I said in a worried voice. "Yes, and I would have if you hadn't showed up when you did. You saved my life." She had replaced her angry expression with one of her more girlish expressions of love. I finally knew what had happened and now I find out why she was so sorry about hurting me.

"Sasuke, why do I feel so weak? My body is just so exhausted and I feel like a mouse or something." "That was your first transformation right?" "Yes." "That's what I thought. You see, the first time is always more painful than those that follow. It's the first time that your body has changed its form and your bones have to rearrange and grow to become what they are in your vampire form. So naturally, with your body not used to it, it will take a while for it to readjust. After a couple of transformations, you'll see that the pain and weakness doesn't last as long."

"So I'll always have this feeling only sometimes it will only be for a little while instead of a long time?" "Well, you'll have some of that feeling. There was another factor in your equation that you are unaware of. You said that when Itachi's blood got in your mouth and you tasted it, you got stronger. He's a werewolf and he was in his werewolf form at the time. The blood of a werewolf is strong and it takes a really strong vampire to be able to consume it without completely losing their mind. When you swallowed some of that blood your bones got thicker and stronger so now you're feeling more weakness than you would normally since your bones are extremely weak compared to what they were during those couple of minutes that you were in that form."

"So what about your blood? You're a werewolf but it didn't do anything to me," she said referring to when she penetrated the skin of my wrist. "I wasn't in my werewolf form at that time so it didn't have all of its strength." "You're stronger when you've transformed then?" "Yes."

She sat there for a little while obviously thinking about something before she asked, "You said that after I went back to normal, I was weaker right? So why did I still have so much strength when I grabbed your hand?" "You still hadn't completely changed back because you still had your claws." "Oh," she said before standing up and going to her closet. "If I'm going to stay at your house for a while, I better get my clothes."

"Okay, I'll help you," I said standing up and walking up behind her. She was taking clothes out of her closet and putting them into a blue suitcase. I helped her put some of them into the suitcase and once it was full of clothes and other necessities, we left her house and headed for mine.

End: I just stopped here becuz I felt like going ahead and posting this chap and I think its long enough so blah :P I know Yoru's going like way emo and crazy-ish but that's for a very good reason and she will be normal again soon.