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It was hell.

But she endured it all.

Throughout the weeks she spent in her prison Hikari never once let her mind, or her hope, slip away. She had confidence that she would be rescued. But now she was beginning to doubt she would ever make it out of this laboratory alive.

The icy water to lower her body temperature, electric shocks, they even probed her dozens of needles. It was a wonder they haven't dissected her yet.

Now she sat in her cell, heavily chained up, sitting with her back against the wall and her head in her hands. Her mind was clouded with that one incident, that one memory what was forever plastered in her head.

The scientists had chained her down to a cold, metal dissection table, running so many different tests on her it made her head spin in ten different directions. But she'd grown used to that. It's not what got to her.

On the other side of the one-way mirror stood her ticket to freedom. He made his appearance with the mayor, Tsunade, and was shocked to find the she-wolf in her current state; barely conscious and half dead.

But the look she gave him was one of pure hatred. Hikari never asked to be put through this. It was his fault anyway. But Minato could have gotten her out of there in one piece, and with her sanity still in tact.

But here she sat alone, waiting, hoping to be set free before the full moon that same night.

The chains rattled as she slowly looked up at the all too familiar scent of a vampire. The putrid scent she had come to love, and the even more horrid scents of his father and brother.

"Oh my god," Naruto whispered. He was down on his knees in an instant. "Hikari, forgive me," he mumbled as he pulled her into his embrace.

She hugged him tighter and started sobbing into his neck. "Naruto, I thought you had abandoned me."

He pulled away for a brief second, eyes wide in pain. "No! I'd never do anything like that!"

Minato kneeled beside him and pinched her eyes open. "Her body's just in shock." He snatched his hand away when she went to bite him.

"I'm sorry Hikari. I shouldn't have let you go like that. I don't know what hell you've been through here, but I swear to you, you won't have to endure this after tonight," Naruto pledged.

He used his thumbs wo wipe the tears off her cheeks and kissed her lightly.

"Kyuubi," Minato said, not taking his eyes off the she-wolf, "can you heal her?"

The red-head kneeled beside his brother and looked the girl over. "I'll see what I can do." He ran his fingers lightly over any visible cut on her arms and neck that he saw.

Hikari watched, amazed, as her wounds closed up and the pain dissolved. She flexed her arm and winced. Minato put a little pressure on it and said, "Fractured. I'll take care of that later."

They looked up at a nearby creaking sound. Light shone faintly from under the door.

"Listen to me Hikari," Naruto whispered into her ear. "This will be the last time you ever see this place again. He looked up at the small window. The full moon was rising fast. "The scientists will see what you are, but they wont be able to use it against you. We'll make sure of that." He kissed her again and stood.

"We wont be far from you," Kyuubi added, "so there's nothing to fret over."

The door creaked open, and when she looked back the vampires were gone.

The light hit her eyes and she flinched away instinctively, the men taking the opportunity to swarm the room and replace the chains even more heavily. She was pulled roughly to her feet and marched out the door into a smaller room. The doors behind her were barricaded and heavily guarded. Her captor shoved her to her knees. The moon was clearly visible through the window above the heads of the town council.

The voices she had recognized earlier to be Sarutobi and Orochimaru walked in her line of vision. Minato was also seen standing among the council members. He nodded ever so slightly at her.

Sarutobi squatted down and grabbed the girls' chin. "You see that moon? Isn't it beautiful? Now, normally you'd try and conceal yourself, but now, we all get to see the spectacular performance of a werewolf!"

The scientist released her and stepped back. Hikari looked up. Her heart rate increased dangerously and her eyes narrowed strangely. A deep whine escaped from her parched lips as she lowered her head and struggled against the chains. The scientists stepped back a few feet as her bones snapped and her fangs grew longer. The chains snapped under the pressure and the she-wolf stood and howled loudly, shattering the glass in the doors and window.

The council made a beeline for the exit, but the guards refused to let them out. Hikari leaped at them and ripped them apart. Heads rolled on the floor, limbs were sent flying, and the blood puddles on the floor could match a lake. Taking one last sniff she knocked the doors down and crushed the guards under her weight, leaving the distraught vampire alone in the room with a cowering Tsunade. He waled over and looked down at her.

"If you know what's good for you," Minato growled, "you will never speak of this again."

The blond woman nodded and inched away from him.

The Namikaze's looked in from the window. "She's not as stupid as we thought. She found her way back to the forest, do you want us to follow her?"

Minato nodded. "Make sure her pursuers don't catch up to her. I'll take care of the situation here."

She ran, far from the town and everything in it. But she was being followed. The hunters were on her trail, and they had hunting dogs.

The dogs barked and sped out of sight. Their trails were lost. The hunters were confused but pushed onward. The vampires of the Namikaze clan pulled them away and snapped their necks.

But Naruto wasn't with them. He had gone after his girlfriend. And he found her near the top of the cliffside where she had wrestled Madara off.

Hikari stood growling at him, flexing her claws, apparently waiting for him to move. He took one step forward and she pounced on him, pinning him down in the dirt, the same way she had on the first day they had met.

But this time was different. This time he knew what to expect. He stared up at her, but she was pressing too hard on his throat to let him speak.

Hikari growled lightly and rubbed her furry cheek against his. Her grip loosened and her arms moved off to the side of him.

Naruto was shocked. He sat up and kissed her roughly, trying to avoid her freakishly large fangs when she kissed back. Her head snapped up when the vampires approached, and it took all of Narutos strength to keep her from leaping at them.

"You tamed a werewolf," Minato mumbled.

Hikari snarled at him and pressed herself closer to Naruto. Snorting, she jumped to her feet and slid down the rocks. Naruto stood and ran after her again. Once again he followed her scent. It led him down to the lake, as usual.

She sat there on the grass like a dog waiting for its master, and ran up on all fours to meet him. She jumped up on her feet to look him in the eyes. Her claws caressed his chest and she let out a deep whine. Naruto pulled her closer and waited as her wolf form slowly melted away, and he was left with a shaken girl in his arms.

"I'll take you home," he breathed into her ear. "You need to rest."

Hikari looked up at him. "Thank you, Naruto."

He kissed her lightly before picking her up bridal style and beginning the trek to her manor.

CHARACTERS I OWN: Hikari

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