The next day when Kiba and Shino woke up, one Naruto seemed dead again, and Hinata was still alive. They were surprised, she shouldn't still be alive, not with her injuries. Shino then noticed something on her that wasn't there before, a bite mark that was now on her neck. His first thought was cures mark but it didn't quite resemble it and it wasn't there when he went to sleep. Then he looked over at Naruto and checked him, he sported a similar one as her, What dose this mean? Shino asked in his mind.

They again tried to wake up Naruto and again having the same trouble as last time. When they finally gave up Shino began talking to himself trying to see if he could make sense of anything better that way "Naruto and his team come back near dead from a mission. After awhile they all seem to have died, but they wake up. They begin to sleep in everyday. They are never seen eating or drinking anything. They are able to finish missions that should take days in one. Naruto was able to come back from fighting Orochimaru without a scratch. Hinata should be dead by now, yet is not. Naruto seems dead. And both of them have similar marks on their necks. What dose this all mean?" "Sounds like something I read once in a-" Kiba began but was cut off by Shino "What? Where have you read something like this before?" Shino asked "In a magazine. It was a vampire mag." Kiba said laughing. Shino didn't believe that was what happened but for now it was all they had to go by.

They checked various things that Kiba said were signs of vampires starting with Naruto's teeth to see if he had fangs. They found them slightly longer then noraml but not by much, and in their eyes it could have just been the nine tails work. Then they checked his hands to see if he had claws, no claws that could be seen. Then Kiba decided to give one last thing a test, he took out a kunai and made a small cut on his hand, just deep enough to let some blood out, then he put his hand just in front of Naruto's nose. His nose began to inhale faster, and he even licked his lips. Kiba looked at Shino "That doesn't prove anything. He could be having a dream about ramen or something." Shino argued, Kiba then made the cut a little bit bigger to let some more blood out and put his hand in front of his nose again. Again his nose began to inhale faster and he licked his lips but this time they began to notice that his nails were growing larger and sharper. One more try with the cut a slight bit bigger and Naruto's head began to follow the hand as it moved and at one point his hand shot up and grabbed it and brought it back to his mouth where he began to lick the blood up, while still asleep. Kiba was unable to get out of Naruto's grip till the wound was fully healed, thus making the blood stop flowing. They looked at him again, still asleep but with two fangs now just poking out of his mouth. "That good enough?" Kiba asked holding his hand in shock, "Yeah." Shino replied.

"So does this mean Naruto bit Hinata?" Kiba asked still holding his hand, "Most likely. Perhaps he just got hungry." Shino said "Does that mean he may come after us next?" Kiba asked "I don't know, maybe." Shino said "Bug I think we should trust him for now, in any case." Shino continued "What? But he is a vampire. What if he tries to bite us like he did Hinata?" Kiba asked "We have know Naruto for a while now, we already know what he is like when it comes to his friends. He doesn't want them to get hurt non the less die, perhaps to keep her from dying he bit her." Shino said calmly "You were the one that said that he may have just got hungry!" Kiba yelled pointing at him "That is in the past. Besides if I am right then he has been a vampire ever since he and the others returned from that mission and were put in the hospital. If that is the case then he hasn't attacked anyone even once. For all we know the others that came back could have also been turned as well, and if so non of them have hurt anyone. We should trust them, after all they are our friends." Shino said, Kiba sighed and said while smiling "Your right." and they came up with an idea.

Several hours went by till Naruto finally woke up, but he was covered by something and he felt like he was moving. He was able to get the, blanket?, off of him and look to find that he was being dragged around by Akamaru and another, sleeping bag?, was being dragged on his other side. "What is going on?" Naruto said waking up a bit more "Ah, your finally up!" Kiba said smiling, Akamaru then stopped so Naruto could get out and move on his own. "So what is it like to be a vampire?" Kiba asked "It stinks, always waking up at night and I can't even eat ramen any mo-...WHA, what are you talking about?!" Naruto asked trying to sound clueless "We know Naruto." shino said "How did-?" Narutoo began "Long story short, we saw that Hinata was still alive, I noticed she had a bit mark on her neck, then I saw you had one too, then Kiba tested you to see if you were a vampire, and we found out." Shino explained "Oh." Naruto said

"So how did it happen? Were turned or born this way?" Kiba asked curious "I was turned." Naruto answered depressed at the memory "What about the others, were they turned as well?" Shino asked making Naruto jump "Listen you can't tell anyone what I am or anything." Naruto said "Don't worry we wont but what about the rest of team Kakashi? Are they also?" Kiba asked Naruto didn't answer, it was bad enough that he was discovered but if he told them about the others they may not forgive him.

They stopped asking him about the others after awhile and decided to ask a different question "Were you the one that bit Hinata or was it someone else?" Shino asked "I did, I couldn't stand to let her die, not like that. I felt like I had to do something to save her, anything, and that was all I could do." Naruto replied slightly sad about what she will have to go through now because of what he did. Shino and Kiba both saw that it was bothering him but didn't know exactly what to say to cheer him up any.

They continued on their way to the village, now silently where they didn't know what to say, till Hinata began to move in her sleep and make noises like she was in pain. When that happened Naruto just seemed to black out, like something over powered his consciousness and took control on its own. On Kiba and Shino's side however all they saw what was going on with Hinata then they saw that Naruto's eyes were now black. "Naruto...Are you alright?" Kiba asked freaked out at the sight in front of him. Naruto then lunged at them, turned grabbed Hinata, and ran off. They followed him as far as they could till they lost them entirely.

"What do you think came over him?" Kiba asked as they looked around for him "I don't know, in any case we should find him. I don't think he is currently in control of his actions, so we had better be careful." Shino replied. They soon found where Naruto had gone when they came to a small cave in a mountain, not far from where they were, before he went ballistic that is. They then watched him from a distance to see what he was up to, from what they could tell all he was doing was watching Hinata. They watched for awhile till they heard something, a twig snap, when they looked they saw Naruto about to attack them baring his fangs and claws out. "HOLY!" Kiba said running away as did Shino, who actually looked scared for once.

When they got a certain distance they looked back to see Naruto disappear into smoke, "Shadow clone. He can still use his ninja arts." Shino said "I have seen something like this before." Kiba said trying to catch his breath "When?" Shino asked curious "I saw it one time with Isamu when his mate Misaki was in a great deal of pain. He wouldn't let anyone near her unless she went to them, he didn't want anyone to hurt her even accidentally." Kiba explained "So Naruto is trying to protect her? As a mate?" Shino asked confused "It would seem so." Kiba then began to laugh. "Here we thought that Hinata was chasing after someone who didn't feel the same way for her." Shino said smiling for once which scared Kiba and Akamaru.