A.N/ HI GUYS! SORRY FOR THE DELAY. LIKE I SAID IN MY PROFILE, A VIRUS INVADED MY PC AND WOULDN'T LET ME GET ONTO ANYTHING AND I GOT IT FIXED NOT LONG AGO AND I FINALLY FINISHED THIS CHAPTER! MUST BE NEW YEARS LUCK OR SOMETHING! PROBABLY NOT BUT WHO CARES!

DISCLAIMER: DO YOU HONESTLY THINK I OWN NARUTO? THE THING I OWN IS THIS STORY AND MY COOKIE! SAD, ISN'T IT?

WARNINGS: MEH, IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW, READ THE LAST CHAPTER'S WARNINGS, THEY'RE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! 2012, HERE I COME!

CHAPTER 5

DOBE VS TEME - PART 2

Naruto's body started to shake. Anybody could tell what was happening to him was painful; they didn't even know the half of it.

Naruto's mother was a fox demon and his father was a werewolf, a full werewolf. Because his mother and father were different species, Naruto was made a phaser. Phaser's are usually what they are and what they can do because of what happened in the history of werewolves. Before she died, Naruto's mother sealed the rest of her life-source in Naruto when he was a child, enabling him to use some of her power whenever he wanted. That included phasing by will.

Naruto's head was bowed down, touching the ground to look like he was worshipping someone or something. Too bad the direction he was facing was where Sasuke was.

"I made the almighty Naruto bow down already? Only with one punch you can be taken down, how sad. I really was looking forward to beating you after a longer period of time. Well, at least I know something about you that others don't; you're all bark but no bite, literally, you stinking mutt!"

Naruto growled, it sounded feral and wild. Sasuke noticed that Naruto had stopped shaking and was starting to get up. After Naruto was standing upright Sasuke and the rest of his team gasped and stared with fear at the transformed Naruto.

Naruto's once blue eyes were now a glowing blood red, not Gaara's fur colour but a bit lighter than that. His fur was the same colour, but just more shiny. Naruto's fangs glinted dangerously in the dim light of the sunset, as did his claws. Sasuke did not want to get in the way of Naruto now but he had to uphold his pride, not only his Uchiha pride, but his clan leader pride as well.

"Hn, even if you change breed you'll never be able to defeat an Uchiha," Sasuke stated cockily, and being an Uchiha he decided to clarify that with a few, simple words, "it's a fact."

"Says who, Uchiha?" Sasuke checked his hearing. Was that really Naruto's voice? It seemed more . . . evil and demonic than the dobe's normal voice. The amount of KI Naruto had in his voice alone had been enough to make Sasuke stutter.

"W-well, says me, of c-course! I-I'm an Uchiha." Yep. Sasuke still had his arrogance. No matter what, he would always have his arrogance.

"I don't care if you're the stick that's shoved up your ass! That doesn't mean I can't shove it further so it comes out your mouth!"

Gaara and Sasuke's group snickered while Sasuke's face reddened in rage.

"Why don't we just fight already? You scared of my skills?" Sasuke snorted then muttered a nearly incoherent, "Weakling."

Sasuke, being the idiot he was, failed to notice that wolves naturally have supreme hearing. At the moment Naruto was in his wolf form so he gained those advantages. Hell, even if he wasn't in his wolf form, Naruto would have heard it anyway.

"Ready to be pulverised, Uchiha?" taunted Naruto as he slipped into his clan's phased fighting stance, with one paw, usually the left one, forward and leaning slightly into a crouch. Naruto bared his teeth threateningly, daring the vampire to come and meet death itself. Not that Naruto would let him have that pleasure. No, Naruto would humiliate Sasuke first, and then send the bloodsucker back to his parents (1) in an airtight box, alive, of course.

Sasuke slipped into his own stance, one foot only slightly forward, arms raised half-way, hands tensed to strike. (A.N. Think of what Sasuke's hand looks like while striking with the Chidori.)

Suddenly, Sasuke took off, already impatient enough as it is. A blue energy surrounded his hand and Sasuke smirked, enjoying his opponent's obvious surprise. His grin faded when he noticed that the werewolf's own paw was surrounded with red energy.

'Hm. Sasuke knows how to manipulate his Chakra (2) quite well. Unlucky for him, so am I.' Those were Naruto's last thoughts before charging at the raven. Sasuke jumped over Naruto, doing a series of flips that barely helped him escape the wolf-boy's teeth, they just lightly grazed over his shoulder. He was very thankful for that. He wasn't very keen of the idea of being used as a phaser's personal chew-toy.

Sasuke landed gracefully in Naruto's former position, while Naruto was in his.

Naruto suddenly disappeared in a burst of speed. Sasuke didn't have time to react when Naruto bowled him over from behind and stood on the raven's back, his fangs mere inches from Sasuke's throat. Sasuke thought about calling a truce but that thought was immediately extinguished when he thought about his minions watching his reaction. Sasuke growled in irritation, 'How DARE he show up an Uchiha in front of his comrades! I should be the one making HIM submit, not the other way round!'

Naruto got off Sasuke while the latter looked at him in surprise. "Wait, you aren't going to eat me?"

Naruto snorted in amusement, "Eat you? When did I say anything about me being a cannibal? Anyway, you'd probably taste like a duck's ass. And for the record, I don't like duck." Naruto changed back into his human form and offered Sasuke a hand. To the surprise of everyone there, including Naruto and Sasuke, Sasuke accepted and Naruto helped pull him up.

"Shut up, dobe. Well, whether I like it or not, you do put up a pretty good fight. Maybe we can do this again some time? Without the whole 'urge-to-kill' thing going on, of course."

"Sure, just remember to bring your skill along with you, since you probably left it with Ero-Hebi in your latest make-out session."

Sasuke looked a bit green, like he was about to throw up right there. "That's not funny, that- that's just . . . disgustingly creepy." Sasuke shuddered and punched Naruto in the arm, hard.

"Sorry, sorry! You're right, that is disgustingly creepy. All though-"

"You will not finish that sentence, Namikaze." Sasuke glared at Naruto and released a bit of KI. Naruto shrugged it off and replied with a nonchalant, "Whatever."

"So...no fighting? OR killing? Wait- a truce, of some description?" Jirobo asked, clearly annoyed that he didn't get to beat up the little red headed mutt.

Sasuke stifled a sigh. Why did he ever let an idiot like Jirobo into his team?

"No, Jirobo, there will be no killing, fighting, maiming, decapitating, burning, blowing up, of any sorts. At the moment, anyway," Sasuke said, exasperated. He was ready to do all those things to Jirobo, hopefully one of his teammates would save him, but he doubted it.

If a wolf could smirk in any way, Gaara would be doing it right now. That seemed to really rile Jirobo up, and the big brute couldn't do anything about it, thanks to Sasuke.

Naruto coughed, trying to break the obvious tension between the two groups. It worked and Sasuke asked something that had been eating away at the back of his mind since the end of their fight, he hadn't been the only curious one.

"Dobe, why didn't you kill me or at least rip a limb off during the fight? I would've done it to you."

Everybody unconsciously leaned in, wanting to hear his answer and wondering what it would be.

"Simple, I don't kill when it is not needed. And I have no doubt whatsoever, that you would rip or kill me without hesitation, during the fight." Then, without warning, Naruto walked up to Sasuke and put a hand on his shoulder. Sasuke flinched and started to move away, Naruto caught on to this and gripped tighter.

'It's no use, he's too strong!' Sasuke thought as he struggled. He gave up with a sigh. 'He won't kill me, he said so himself. But, he could be lying. I'll have to be cautious, just in case.'

"Sasuke, I'm not going to hurt you, you can trust me."

'It's as if he can read my mind. It's creepy.' Sasuke decided to test his theory by thinking of blood, human blood. Whenever he thought of human blood something came over him and made him feel strong emotions like, hunger, greed, lust and other things that were related in one way or another.

He looked up at Naruto and thought, 'Dobe, if you can read my mind, you'll know what I'm thinking about and you'll know what'll happen if I keep thinking what I am.'

Naruto was sweating bullets on the inside. 'Crap! Stupid, smart, duck-ass! Why me? Why NOW? If he continues to think about human blood, he'll go into frenzy and attack everything with a heartbeat in sight! The bloodsuckers will be okay, but Gaara and I won't! But, if I reveal that I'm kinda psychic, the council will put me into their breeding program! But, there are LIVES at stake! Consequences damned! Hopefully Sasgay doesn't blackmail me, but with my luck, he surely will.'

"Sasuke, stop," Naruto ordered firmly, all traces of the blonds happy-go-lucky self gone. "It's dangerous! If you were wrong, what do you think would happen? Gaara and I could've DIED, Sasuke, died!" Naruto was in a rage, and if someone didn't stop him soon, Sasuke was about to be roasted and served up for Christmas dinner.

Luckily or unluckily, however you want to put it, Gaara intervened. He phased back to his human form and ran up to Naruto who was stalking towards a scared looking Sasuke. Gaara would've laughed his ass off if Naruto didn't look so scary at that moment.

"Naruto, stop! What's going on? And why was Sasuke looking at you and me like we were food? His eyes darkened even more and he looked...hungry." Gaara was angry. He was not a bloodsucker's buffet! Actually quite the opposite, he was the one they feared, the one they didn't even look at!

Naruto sighed heavily and began his explanation. "Gaara, a few days ago I found a hidden ability of mine. That ability was to read minds." This caused Gaara to obtain a shocked expression. Naruto continued, ignoring all the looks they were giving him. "I didn't want to intrude people's thoughts; they were private and not my business. That's why I didn't tell you, and I wanted to be sure."

"Then why didn't you know Kakashi was a Hunter, then? Hm? Can you explain that?" Gaara asked exasperated.

Naruto's face was expressionless, void of any emotion at all, and it was creeping Gaara out. Naruto had changed so much during these past few years that Gaara was one of the only people to see Naruto cry and show his true self. He wondered when the Naruto he knew began to hide himself behind a mask. But, mask or no mask, Naruto would always be his best friend and he would always be kind, loving and accepting of all people.

"Well, I found out a way to block people's thoughts with my mind. However, if someone," he sent a glare at an indifferent Sasuke, "experiences strong emotions, I cannot help but listen. Emotions that can get past my barrier are, fear, anger/rage, deep sadness, lust, hunger (the bad type, like, when a vampire hungers for blood. If there's a chance of being dangerous.), and immense joy."

"What does that have to d with Sasuke-kun?" The other red head asked in an annoyed tone, not that Naruto cared.

"Who're you?" Gaara asked instead.

She just took her glasses off and struck a, what she thought was, cute pose. "Karin."

Naruto and Gaara rolled their eyes while Tayuya snorted in amusement. Unfortunately Karin heard her and started chasing her around in circles while Tayuya laughed loudly.

"Well, what this has to do with 'Sasuke-kun' is that he guessed that I could read minds," at this comment Karin looked towards Sasuke with hearts in her eyes, "so he wanted to test his theory by putting Gaara and I in a life and death situation. He thought about human blood, which made his eyes go darker with hunger," Naruto looked at Gaara, "and forced me to reveal my secret that I wanted to stay a secret."

Karin still hadn't lost the hearts in her eyes.

"But, it would not have mattered if Sasuke-kun killed you anyway; you're not much to lose." Karin put her glasses back on and walked to stand next to the duck-ass raven who was now wishing he never picked her for his team.

A white haired guy with purple eyes and shark-like teeth, decided to announce his presence to the rest of them.

"And if anybody wants to know who I am, I'm Suigetsu! Wielder of an awesome sword which I'm not going to tell you the name of! Ha!"

The grey haired one scoffed, "You mean Kubikiribōchō? The sword that you stole from a dead man's grave?"

"Shut up, Sakon! At least I don't have my dead brother stuck to my back!"

"Hey, Ukon is not dead! He's sleeping!" Sakon defended.

"Really? Could've fooled me!"

"We already did, dumbass!"

"Hey-!"

"SHUT UP, BOTH OF YOU!" Sasuke yelled, already fed up with their constant fighting. It was a wonder Sasuke didn't have a headache yet.

"Sorry, Sasuke," both of them muttered then went back to glaring at each other silently. Sasuke rolled his eyes and chose to ignore them.

"Naruto, I have a proposition for you."

Naruto turned from Sakon and Suigetsu to Sasuke. Before Sasuke could say anything though, Naruto asked a question.

"Duck-ass," Sasuke scowled, while Naruto ignored him, "does he really carry his dead brother on his back?"

"HE'S NOT DEAD, DAMMIT!" Sakon yelled angrily at Naruto. Sasuke just blinked while Gaara finally got the opportunity to laugh long and hard, and he took it.

"Can I see him?" Naruto asked curiously.

Sakon grumbled a bit before turning around and showing his brother, twin brother, to both werewolves and vampires alike.

"Wow. He really is dead." Gaara stated.

"NO I'M NOT!" Sakon yelled angrily. Wait, Sakon? But he turned...around.

"HOLY-!" Gaara covered Naruto's mouth with his hand before turning to Sakon's twin.

"My name is Ukon, not Sakon and no, I am not dead. I am Sakon's twin brother and have been alive all this time. Ah, you must be Suigetsu." Ukon spotted Suigetsu staring open-mouthed at him, "Sakon has told me all about you and how you thought I was dead. What kind of freak wears his dead brother on his back? Don't you think I would've begun to stink and rot?"

"Well, since the both of you wear lipstick I figured Sakon would've been spraying perfume on you to erase the stench." Suigetsu yawned. "Can we leave now, Sasuke? I wanna sleep!"

Most of the group nodded in agreement.

Sasuke sighed and continued to ask Naruto something that would be very beneficial to almost everyone.

"Naruto, Gaara, how would you two like to join Akatsuki?"