This night the team felt uneasy as they woke up, like a old wound had been opened, but they didn't know what it was. They grouped up together all their friends and looked for what it could be. Naruto went to the south with Hinata, Sakura went North with Sasuke, Kakashi went west with Sai, and all the rest went east. No one knew what they were even looking for though but after a few moments even Hinata and Sasuke began to feel like something was bothering them.
The others on the other hand didn't know what was going on what so ever so while the others were looking around Shikamaru went to research what it could be that was affecting them so. He went back to the library and went to the mythology section again and began researching what it could be. After searching a few books he was able to find something that maybe the cause, not that he liked it one bit. He went some where, where he then sent up a signal for the others to assemble.
"What is it, did you find what it was?!" Neji asked as he came up followed by the other living people, and soon after the rest came from different directions. However you could clearly see they were slowly growing more and more antsy in their pacing and look of their slowly blackening eyes. "What did you find?" Sasuke said trying to keep calm and failing as bad as the rest were. "I think I found what you all maybe suffering from. By what I read vampires have covens made out of people that they like that are vampires as well and in rare conditions human. When a vampire they don't know trespasses on what they consider their territory they grown defensive and try to fight them off their territory. However if they already know the vampire and don't like them they can sense them even farther from just their territory and feel the effects even stronger." Shikamaru relayed what he discovered in the library. "So their is a vampire that isn't one of us here, and we know him?" Kakashi said, his eyes almost completely black at this point "By what I can tell." Shikamaru said nodding "You don't think it is 'that person' do you?" Sakura said "Who?" Hinata asked "The one that turned us." Naruto said his eyes completely black now.
Now all of their eyes were black, and they were going purely on instinct again. All of them began to worry that they may get attacked with how things are, however they turned around began to run at a speed that made them near invisible. It took Neji's eyes to see them to follow where they were heading, then he saw the person they were heading for was about to attack Iruka-Sensei. Iruka was currently being thrown against a wall as the man was coming up like he was about to finish him off when the others arrived.
"Long time no see you three, how have you been? Busy by the looks of it, but you could have done so much more. I mean only two? Small coven." the man said and began laughing hysterically, "N-Naruto do you guts know this man?" Iruka asked trying to stand up, but he didn't even get a response from him "Naruto?" he asked again, and this time Naruto turned around and hissed at him baring his fangs at him. Iruka jumped and backed away "Oh, threatening your old friends are you? Glad to see." the man said evilly grabbing Naruto's attention again.
Iruka was terrified of what he was seeing right in front of him, a stranger broke into the village undetected and attacked him and now his student and friend had a similar look the enemy had and looked like he was going to kill him over something. He was standing against the wall he had been flung against previously to get as far away as possible from them all. Then a group of others showed up, and before Iruka could warn them about how weird the others where acting Naruto and the rest acted like they were also going to attack them and even cut one of them open with their claws, licking the blood off them after wards.
"What are you four up to?! Sasuke, why did you cut him he is your comrade?" a man yelled as he held the injured man, and then he paled when he saw the look on Sasuke's face while he licked his nails clean. They were all about to fight them when others showed up, "Stop, just keep your distance for now and they won't harm you!" Shikamaru told the men. "What?" one of them asked "Lets just say that they can't tell much between friends and foe right now, all they know is that they want to get rid of that guy." Shikamaru told them, and at about that time Naruto and the others came up to them.
Shikamaru was not sure what to do at this point, after what he read and saw so far the best choice seemed to be run as far away as possible or face getting killed, but something in him was telling him stand your ground. The others also had a similar feeling as the others came up to them and began sniffing them. It was very weird being sniffed like this to all of them, all except Kiba who felt this felt slightly familiar somehow. It hit him how it felt normal to him when Akamaru barked and sniffed back when he was sniffed. "Guys, I think they are identifying us. Like they can't see normally and are using scent to make up for that, like dogs do." Kiba said. "What?" Ino said "So what happens when they are done?" Choji asked concerned "Not sure, I would say if they find us as a friend we are good but if not we might be a snack instead. However, usually if dogs smell fear they feel they are not friends and will strike so that should be avoided. Just think of it as being sniffed by dogs that may try to kill you afterwards." Kiba told them, and those words would obviously not calm someone down.
They continued to get sniffed as they tried to keep from being frightened by the action. Ino felt very uncomfortable though considering she had Sai sniffing her, it made her feel very embarrassing and weird but tried to stay still. Neji also found it strange to have Sasuke sniffing him, and the small bit of blood on the corner of his mouth didn't add any comfort either. Shikamaru watched Naruto's eyes trying to read them, but found nothing in them. After a while he began to feel that he wouldn't find any change in his eyes no mater how long he looked so, rather then just let things remain the way they are, he decided to trust Naruto even with his life but raising his head up to expose his neck further for Naruto. He knew it could have been a terrible move to have done that, as Naruto could decide that he was not close enough and bite down on his neck but he was going to trust his friend.
"Shikamaru, what are you doing?!" Ino asked, but he didn't answer. After awhile he felt something sharp on his neck, not piercing, just there. However Shikamaru decided that if that was the decision then it was to late to turn back anyway and only raised his head higher and accepted what ever was going to happen to him. When he did that however the fangs disappeared, Shikamaru opened his eyes and looked at Naruto who looked back at him. He could see it, something had changed in his eyes. He now had this look that, rather then indifferent, looked like he was looking at someone he had respect and trust in. He looked at the others real quick to see their expressions, and he could clearly see that they were being looked at the same way but different. For example Kakashi looked at Choji as an equal, while Sakura looked at him like a friend, Sasuke looked at Neji like a person he would watch out after, and Sai looked like he was...Sai, it is hard to read that guy but he felt like he was also a friend.
"Naruto can you guys understand what I am saying?" Shikamaru asked "Yeah, of course I can, why?" he asked confused "Can you understand the others as well?" Shikamaru asked "You mean them? Yeah." He said referring to his friends. "What about Iruka?" Shikamaru asked being more specific, "Where is he at?" Naruto asked looking around, that is when Shikamaru finally looked around again and noticed that his eye sight had changed slightly, and Naruto and the others eyes actually looked normal.
What is going on, just moments ago it was like Naruto was going to bite me. Now it is like I am- Wait dose this mean I, or maybe all of us are part of their coven even though we are human? Shikamaru thought It doesn't matter that you are human, you protected, trusted, and cared about us even when you knew what we were Shikamaru could hear a different voice in his head The only other person we might let in is bushy brows, I think he would accept what we are. After all, you know what he is like. Right everyone? although the voice was different he could tell by how he talked it was Naruto in his head this time. Are we reading each others minds? Shikamaru thought Yeah. I know it is weird at first but you get used to it after awhile. Kakashi was who he guessed said that. Don't worry, we already know what you all are seeing right now. After a few minuets your seeing goes normal again. It was hard to tell who said that one but it felt right to guess Sakura. Any case, welcome to our group. We will be able to read each others minds, slowly able to make out which of us said it, and talk without saying anything out loud if we need to. They all came to a guess it was Kakashi again.