I Want Your Blood: Remake

by SmexxiAnime115

After Hinata Hyuga's family died in a tragic car crash seven years ago, she learned to take care of herself over the years. All was going well for her, she made friends that became close enough for her to call family and even discovered love. Yes, all was going well for her, until a strange voice beckoned her to an abandoned church and changed her life forever.

7. The Witch's Reason

"So you know this person?" Haku asked.

I didn't respond. I let my eyes wander elsewhere. Why did it have to be Naruto who had what we needed? Getting him to give us the talisman was not going to be easy in the least. I knew Naruto well enough to know that he must still be angry after finding out that the person he hates, Sasuke, and I slept together. Not only that, Naruto and I once shared an intimate moment that almost led into us having sex. After that, our romantic moments were very brief and the feelings we shared were slowly becoming one-sided. Despite having loved Naruto for years, I began to love Sasuke even more after only a few months of spending time together. When I told Naruto that I was in love with Sasuke he became upset and hasn't bothered to contact me. I'm not sure he will again, but he'll have to talk to me soon because of the talisman.

"Yes. He's a boy who's infatuated with my girlfriend," Sasuke said. He then got off of thinking of Naruto quickly before he became angry again from being reminded of yesterday afternoon. "What does the talisman look like?"

"From what I saw, it's a light blue colored shard. The boy carries it around his neck all of the time. It must be precious to him," Haku answered.

"Should I just take it from him?"

"Do whatever you believe is necessary."

My eyes widened. That talisman was given to him by his parents. It was the only thing he had that was left by his parents. Whether to give it up or not was no choice at all. If I were also in that position I'd never even think of handing it over. And now that I know what the talisman is I don't want to pursue Naruto. Having no parents, I know what it's like to hold onto the only thing they left behind. I'd rather have the witch kill me than Sasuke and me forcing Naruto to give up the talisman.

"Thank you, Haku," Sasuke said as he stood up. "We should be on our way."

My heart stopped. I didn't want to do this anymore and I was going to tell him. However, Haku beat me to it. He shot up from the floor and grabbed onto Sasuke's long sleeved shirt.

"Wait!" he said. "Maybe you should rest for tonight? You'll need your strength for what is to come. And besides," he looked at me. "Hinata seems exhausted."

Sasuke frowned. "I don't want to waste any more time. Sorry."

"I understand where you're coming from, but…" The beautiful gypsy furrowed his perfect eyebrows. "If you really want to get this talisman you'll rest. You need your strength! If you act irrationally you and Hinata will die."

The last words he said surprised me. How much did Haku see in that crystal ball? Was there a chance that he saw into the future as well? Whatever he saw, Haku was taking care to try to not let anything slip. He was hiding something but not because he wanted. He couldn't tell us as much as he wanted to.

Sasuke realized it when I did. He sighed and gently rested a hand on his friend's hand. "Alright, but it'll only be for one night."

Haku smiled sweetly and sighed from relief. "Thank you. I already have rooms prepared since I expected your arrival." He then smiled at me. "I'd like to get to know you a little more too. You're a very interesting individual, Hinata."

"You too."

Haku was an interesting creature who I would like to find out more about, but I found myself wanting to know more about how he and Sasuke met. They were attached to each other and I never saw Sasuke act as warm with another person other than me. Haku acts like an innocent child with Sasuke but when he talks to me, I can see how insightful and independent he really is. Recalling how fragile I thought he was, I can now see that he must be nowhere near his assumed fragility.

Sasuke's and my head snapped in the direction of the front door when we heard it open and then close. The heavy footsteps travelled across the wooden floor and headed towards the room we were in. I noticed Sasuke's body tense slightly as the person got closer to the room. I jumped when the person roughly opened the tatami sliding door with such a force that it slammed against the wall with a loud bang.

This man was the exact opposite of Haku. His skin contrasted to Haku's snow white skin and his facial features were rough and masculine. His eyes were smaller than Haku's large ones and this man's eye color was black. His hair was short and dark brown. Normally I don't look at teeth, but this person's was an exception. Out of all the things on his face, his teeth stood out the most. Just from looking at his sharp teeth, I knew he wasn't human. He wasn't a vampire either though. Warmth dwelled in skin and his teeth reminded me more of a shark. Not a vampire.

As for his body, he was well over six feet tall and he bore large hands and feet from his massive height. The man was wearing a T-shirt tight enough to display his well-defined six pack. His muscles on his arms were also well-defined and large. He looked like the perfect warrior in my eyes. And with the gigantic sword on his back, it only added onto my amazed impression of him. Maybe this was Haku's bodyguard?

"Who's this?" Sasuke asked. Judging by the tone of his voice, he didn't like him.

"This is Zabuza Momochi," Haku said. "He may not look like the kindest person in the world, but don't let appearances fool you. He's very friendly. Right, Zabuza?"

The man didn't respond at first. He walked into the room and with each step; I heard the floor creak under his heavy feet. Zabuza strolled over to one of the corners in the room and lifted the mat. He pulled out a few bottles of alcohol and chugged a bottle down like a glass of water. My jaw dropped in amazement.

After he finished the bottle he turned to Haku and asked "What the hell's a vampire doing in my house?" His voice was deep and sounded inhuman.

"Sasuke Uchiha and his girlfriend, Hinata Hyuga, are staying with us over night," Haku said calmly as he walked over to Zabuza. "Please be kind."

"Whatever."

The large man collected some more bottles and tucked them under his arms. He didn't bother to look at me, but he gave my boyfriend a glare full of hatred before he exited the room. We heard his heavy feet on the floor and Sasuke decided to speak once the sound disappeared.

"You're right," Sasuke said sarcastically. "He's very friendly."

"Please forgive him." The young gypsy frowned. "Zabuza's a water nymph. His clan was slaughtered by a pack of vampires a decade ago. He's not very fond of vampires as a result."

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "I'll just avoid him then." He left the room and I heard him go in the same direction that Zabuza did.

"I guess he's going to bed," I said.

"Yes." Haku sat down opposite of me on the tatami flooring. He fixed me with a gaze that seemed to be seeing into my soul. I shifted uncomfortably under his stare. What was he doing? He suddenly spoke and my heart jumped. "I'm sorry for your loss. Your family members were great people and their passing was hard for you. They did not die in vain though. Your parents raised a wonderful daughter."

"W-What the… What did you just do?"

"I reached into your memories. You wanted to ask me how I met Sasuke, right? I thought it seemed fair to know more about you too." I opened my mouth to ask why he didn't just ask me about my life, but he read me before I got the chance to get the words out. "It's a difficult topic for you to talk about. You only ever told Naruto about the tragedy but it was only a fragment. Even though he understands you it's still hard to talk to anyone about what happened that day." After he finished speaking, his soul-seeing gaze faded.

"You can do that?"

"Yes." He then frowned. "I would like to tell you more about what happened that day, but I'm not allowed. Not yet anyway. There's more that you need to know about that day…" He looked downward and the frown still played upon his lips. It was as if someone was whispering something in his ear. "When I'm able to tell you more about the tragedy I'll come to you."

"O-Okay…" I was a little freaked out. Were all gypsies like this? I wanted to get off of this topic immediately so I brought up the question that I'd been dying to ask. "You and Sasuke are pretty close. How did you meet?"

His trademark sweet smile returned to his beautiful face as he fixed me with his innocent eyes. "Sasuke and I met about five years ago when I was ten years old." His smile faltered. "In Kirigakure, my homeland, gypsies were greatly feared by all of the townsman. I inherited my gypsy blood from my mother and she did a good job at keeping it a secret. But somehow my father found out about us." He paused for a brief moment. "My father killed my mother once he discovered our secret and he almost killed me. In order to defend myself, I casted a forbidden spell that killed my father and I was able to escape. It was only a matter of time before all of Kirigakure found out what I had done so I journeyed as far away as I possibly could." He smiled again. "I ended up in Konohagakure where I met Sasuke Uchiha." He shifted his weight to get more comfortable. I decided to do the same. Clearing his voice, he continued the story. "Having no money and being underage, I had nowhere to go and I certainly didn't want to go to an orphanage. I didn't know what kind of people were in this city, so I had to be careful."

"So how did you survive?" I asked. "You had no money, food, or shelter."

"My parents were only farmers so we were very poor. I was used to having no food for days and as for shelter, the roof in my childhood home was falling apart, so I was used to sleeping in bad weather. I got by fine for a few days. But when it got to be too much for me, Sasuke found me and took care of me. He saved me." Haku's smile softened a little. "I knew Sasuke wasn't human as soon as I saw him, which eased me even though he was a blood sucking monster to most people. After what happened in Kirigakure, I felt comfortable around someone who wasn't human." He looked at me. "Sasuke took me to a church that was run down, dirty, and abandoned. At first, I thought he was going to eat me, but he bathed me and fed me instead. I stayed with him for two years before he sent me off on my own. He bought this house we're in for me and everything in it. Sasuke did so much for me. I can't repay him for all that he's done."

It took me a while to say anything. "Why did he save you? When I met him he only seemed interested in blood."

"I believe he had intended on eating me, but he said that he didn't like the way gypsy blood tasted. Not only that, I was the last gypsy so he found me too valuable." He paused and seemed to be recalling something. "When I first met him, I sensed how lonely and bitter he was due to living two-hundred and ninety-five years alone and from being constantly surrounded by death. When he took me in, I saw how that loneliness disappeared. He cared about me and I cared about him." He smiled largely. "You are very lucky to have someone like Sasuke and I can sense how happy you are to be with him."

I smiled back. Haku was an interesting person. Out of all of the creatures I met, I was curious about Haku the most. I never imagined someone could be this insightful and observant. It both frightened me and made me want to learn more about his abilities. But I couldn't be the only one who was curious about what he could do. There must be others. Since he is the last gypsy and also very powerful, there might be a time when someone will try to take him for themselves. If such a thing were to happen, Haku would know about it before it'd happen though.

"We should head to bed, Hinata," Haku said as he stood up.

When he stood, he covered his ears and looked around the room frantically. He turned swiftly and looked so confused and helpless. It occurred to me that he was hearing something. Maybe voices? If so, where were they coming from? Why were they attacking Haku? I stood up to help him somehow, but when I did, Haku removed his hands from his ears and sighed heavily.

"Are you okay?" I asked when I approached him.

"Y-Yes…" he responded as he tried to stand straight. When he was finally able to regain his composure, he hunched over and covered his ears again. He sunk to the floor on his knees, whimpering as he went down. His body was shaking, but not from fear. He appeared to be shaking from pain. But what part of him was in pain? His ears? That's what it looked like to me so I knelt down beside him and gently rested a hand on his small back. However, when I did, he let out a scream and collapsed.

I panicked, but only for a short moment. I had to see if he was alright so I turned him over so that he was lying on his back. I felt for a pulse and sighed in relief when I found it. His pulse wasn't irregular and his respirations were normal. The only thing that caught my attention was his pale skin. He lost some color from whatever he just experienced. What the hell happened?

I could always get the answer to that tomorrow. Right now, I had to get Haku to a room where he could lay down on a bed. Haku may not weigh very much, but I still had trouble carrying him. I felt bad that I ended up having to drag him upstairs to what I suspected was his bedroom. I normally would have gotten Sasuke, but Zabuza might've suspected that Sasuke did something to him. And without Haku awake to explain what really did happen, I doubted Zabuza would've believed me even if I was the one to tell him what really went on.

After laying the gypsy down on his bed, I went to one of the guestrooms that Haku had prepared for us. When my head hit the pillow, I instantly fell asleep. I was awakened the next morning by a loud, deep voice calling out Haku's name. I shot up from the soft bed and ran to Haku's room. I froze when I saw Zabuza gripping Sasuke by the shirt and pulling him off from where he sat on Haku's bed.

"What did you do?!" The water nymph cried as he reached for the large sword attached to his clothes.

"Stop!" I cried. "Sasuke didn't do anything!"

"Shut up!" He yelled.

Zabuza drew his sword after he shoved Sasuke away. When he thrusted it toward Sasuke, Sasuke calmly held his ground. He timed the strike and when it got to where he wanted it to be, Sasuke caught the blade. He glared at the water nymph before he snatched the sword out of Zabuza's hand.

"I didn't do anything," Sasuke said, clearly annoyed. "You water nymphs always jump to conclusions. I found him here like this." My boyfriend turned to me. "What happened to Haku?"

"I'm not sure," I said. "He collapsed last night once we finished talking."

Moments later, the gypsy moaned and slowly sat up. He held onto his head and looked around at his surroundings in confusion. Sasuke moved to heal him, but Haku held up a hand to stop him from doing it.

"It won't work, remember?" Haku said in a whisper. "We tried this before…"

Sasuke dropped Zabuza's sword and sat beside his friend. He rested a hand on Haku's hand which made the boy look up at Sasuke. "Are you hearing the voices again, Haku?" he asked in a gentle voice that I never thought he was capable of. Jealousy gnawed at me when he spoke to him like that. And on top of that, Haku stared at him like he was a god. Seeing them together tore at me. They adored each other. I already knew Haku would do anything for Sasuke, and now I was beginning to think the feeling was mutual for my boyfriend. This shouldn't bother me, but it did terribly. I felt awful about it. Haku still needed Sasuke so I shouldn't be feeling these selfish feelings. There's nothing intimate between them. Sasuke doesn't feel any romantic feelings towards Haku and Haku doesn't feel anything romantic towards Sasuke, right? Yet, why do I feel so uneasy and jealous about their relationship?

"What voices?" Zabuza asked.

"It began happening a few years ago." Haku's gazed was still fixated on my boyfriend, but he turned to Zabuza when he said, "It occurred before I met you."

I tried pushing my jealousy far away, but it came right back. I asked with noticeable an effort of me trying to hide my burning envy, "What do you mean when you say Sasuke can't heal you?"

My lover and the young gypsy exchanged glances with their hands still touching. It annoyed me to see them still in that position. Sasuke must've sensed my emotions or heard my irritated tone because he turned around to meet my eyes and reassured me with his gaze. It eased me a little, but I still wanted them to at least let go of each other's hand.

"Sasuke can't heal me because he's impure." Haku was reluctant to say "impure" and put in a lot of effort to spit the word out. "Vampires are considered impure creatures because they live off of human vitality and they are the walking dead. While gypsies, on the other hand, are pure creatures. We bring life and love wherever we go. I guess you can say vampires are the opposite of gypsies."

"I wish I could do something to help you," Sasuke said. "You've been in pain for a while now."

"I know." Haku reached up and stroked my boyfriend's hair and then placed that hand on Sasuke's face. I found myself biting my bottom lip when I watched him do that. "I'll find out what's going on. I'm close to discovering what's wrong with me. I'm not weak, remember?"

That earned a smile from Sasuke. "Yes. I remember, Haku."

Zabuza interrupted what was going on between Sasuke and Haku. He was obviously uncomfortable when watching them. "Now that we know what happened, I think you should go now," he said.

To Haku's disappointment, Sasuke released Haku's hand and removed the boy's other hand from his face as he stood up. "Yeah. We have to pay Naruto a visit."

I nodded in response. Now it was time to do what I dreaded most about our mission to find this witch. We had to tear Naruto from the only link he had to his late parents.

"Will I see you soon?" Haku asked. He directed the question to both of us but I couldn't help but feel that he really wanted Sasuke to return the most. After witnessing how much Haku adored my boyfriend, I would be coming along whenever Sasuke came back to see him too.

"Yes." Sasuke smiled. "We'll see you soon."

"It was nice meeting you both," I said as we gathered our belongings and left the house to head back to Konohagakure.

The journey back home didn't feel as nearly as long as when we were heading to Haku's house. The same amount of time was consumed, but it felt shorter to get back home somehow. On the way back, we didn't stop to take breaks even though Sasuke asked if I needed any. We also didn't speak much even though the Haku thing was weighing on my mind. I wanted to ask him about it, but not now. The question will have to wait until later when all of this is settled.

Somewhere along the way home, Sasuke walked beside me and gave me a kiss on the cheek and he told me that he loved me. The only explanation for that had to be that he read my thoughts or felt what I felt. It made me feel a little better, but the envy never left. As much as I didn't want to think about it, Haku was a rival.

When twilight hit, Sasuke and I arrived at the church. Both of our mouths dropped when we saw that the lobby's floor was trashed by countless bottles of alcohol. Our eyes then wandered to the loveseat where Deidara sat with his face buried in his hands. He mumbled to himself "Why can't vampires get drunk?"

"Deidara?" Sasuke called. He immediately shot up from the couch. He hadn't heard us coming? That's unusual. His senses were better than Sasuke's. "What the hell is all of this?"

"This?" Deidara extended both of his arms as he asked the question. "An experiment. Apparently vampires can't get intoxicated." He then mumbled to himself, "No matter how much they want to."

"Clean it up. We have someone to see."

My heart leapt from both surprise and relief. "I'm not going with you to see Naruto?"

"No. You're exhausted from the long walk. Go home and get some sleep. Deidara will fill you in tomorrow at school."

I didn't bother to argue. I already wanted to question him to no end about Haku. There was no use in getting angry and then not being able to fall asleep because of how angry I am. Instead I said, "Don't force Naruto to give up the talisman. That talisman is very important to him. His late parents gave it to him and if you take it from him by force I won't be able to forgive you. You and I both know how it feels to lose someone you love and have nothing left to remember them by."

He was silent for a while and I couldn't read his face. He hid his emotions from me well. When he opened his mouth to answer me I didn't expect him to say, "Okay." He frowned, but I knew he understood. "Deidara, let's go."

Not long after they left I went home. I took a much needed shower and washed my hair. Like usual, I didn't dry it and laid down on my bed to go to sleep. I wanted to fall asleep right away, but too many things ran through my mind. Things like Haku, Naruto, the talisman, and the witch. All of them worried me, but I think what Haku said to me last night worried me most of all.

He said that he'd like to tell me more about my family, but he couldn't yet. What more was there to know? My family died in a car crash seven years ago when we were hit by a drunk driver. They're all gone so the only thing that I can think of that he'd want to tell me was the car crash wasn't an accident after all. If it wasn't an accident then… it'd be hard for me, but I'd feel as though I'd have to find that driver who hit us and question him to no end. I'd feel obligated to find out more. I just hope that isn't what Haku wants to tell me and it's just my curious assumption getting the better of me.

After thinking that over, I became sleepy and fell asleep not too long after I finished thinking about Haku's vague words. When I woke up the next morning I was faced by a blonde, pale vampire staring at me with eyes full of wonder. Startled by his entry, I shrieked and backed away. It took me a moment to realize that it was Deidara.

"How the hell did you get in here?!" I asked as I clutched my rapidly beating chest.

"Uh, it's called picking locks," he said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Get up. We're going to be late for school and if we're late, I'm not going to tell you about Naruto."

I frowned and furrowed my eyebrows. Once I got Deidara to leave my bedroom, I got dressed in my uniform, brushed my teeth and hair, and met him in the living room. On the way to school, Deidara filled me in on what went on at Naruto's apartment.

"When we got there, Naruto didn't let us inside of his apartment and forced us to talk from outside. When Sasuke mentioned the talisman, Naruto refused to hand it over. Sasuke wanted to pry the talisman from his neck, but he remembered what you told him and didn't."

"Did you tell Naruto why we needed it?" I asked.

"No. We were going to go bother him about it again tomorrow and try to convince him to give it up. We don't want him to know what's going on."

I nodded. Do they really believe that Naruto will hand it over without needing an explanation?

When we got to school, Sakura and Ino gave me hugs and scolded me for not hanging out with them for so long. With all that's been going on, I had completely forgot to at least contact them. Being with them now felt like I hadn't seen them in years. My guess is that they felt the same because we were inseparable, and they filled me in on all of the recent gossip. Truthfully I didn't want to hear it, but I endured it for their sake. Gossip was the only subject that I didn't particularly enjoy discussing when I was with them.

Some things they said caught my attention though. Rumors were spreading through Konoha High like wild fire about one particular subject. The Kazekage of Sunagakure was supposedly going to visit Konohagakure for a few days when the summer vacation starts. I never knew what he looked like because he's not written in our history books, but Ino says he's around our age and very handsome. And since he's been recently crowned Kazekage, Sakura and Ino assumed that he'd be naïve and planned to find him to meet him when he arrived, and they wanted me to come along for the hunt. Most of the rumors that spread through this school are not true so I doubted that the Kazekage of Sunagakure would visit us. I decided to tag along for the hunt because I doubted he'd come.

Also, Naruto looked back at me during our classes a few times when we had classwork to do. To me, it appeared as though he had something that he wanted to say to me, but we never got time alone today for him talk to me. Sakura and Ino had me all to themselves today. Even when the school day ended, my friends wanted me to hang out with them at Sakura's house. I, unfortunately, had to decline. My refusal earned me some complaints so I promised them that I'd spend all of my time with them during vacation. Satisfied, they went to Sakura's house and Deidara met with me outside of Konoha High. To both of our surprise, Naruto also chose to come along.

Deidara didn't dare mention the talisman in front of him and stayed silent during our walk. Even if Deidara didn't want to mention the talisman that normally wouldn't stop him from not speaking. Taking a closer look at his features I noticed that he was paler than yesterday. Much paler. And the dark circles under his eyes were darker and more noticeable. I also took notice to him clutching his stomach quite often. And usually, no matter what he's doing, Deidara is focused and alert to everything around him. Seeing him now, his eyes weren't focused on anything and I sometimes had to called his name more than twice to get his attention. Am I the only one to notice this? Naruto doesn't like vampires, but I know that he'd ask what was wrong with Deidara. Sasuke also never asked about Deidara's unhealthy condition.

"What's wrong?" I asked Deidara.

He exhaled before answering. "Nothing," he said as he looked at me and smiled. When he looked at me, it appeared that he was looking through me and not at me. He was completely unfocused. "I'm just… a little tired. That's all," he breathed.

"Do you need a drink or something?" I asked.

"No, no. I'm fine, Princess." He looked at Naruto who was walking on the other side of me. "Why don't ask your friend why he's suddenly talking to you again?" He whispered in a barely audible voice.

That was a good point. I was a little curious as to why Naruto suddenly decided to stop being mad at me. I turned to him and asked, "How are you feeling, Naruto?"

He exhaled deeply. "I've seen better days." He gave me a wry smile. "What about you? You seem to be busy lately."

"I have also seen better days and I've certainly been busy."

An awkward silence fell between us after that. It seemed that Naruto felt more awkward being with me than I did with him though. He didn't really look at me, his hands were always stuffed in his pockets, and he kept a distance between us as we walked together. Something was weighing on his mind, but I couldn't tell what. I was hoping that he wasn't thinking of when he discovered Sasuke and I had sex. I was soon relieved to find out that he wasn't, but he brought up a topic that I also didn't want to talk about.

"Sasuke and Deidara came to my apartment last night," he said with a frown. "They wanted to know about this." He touched the talisman around his neck. "Sasuke said that he'd take it by force if it weren't for you. I wanted to thank you." He paused. "I also wanted to apologize. It's not my place to interfere with your personal life and I know that you love Sasuke. I just couldn't help myself when I found out what you two did together."

I felt my face get hot. "H-How did you find out?"

He furrowed his eyebrows and looked down at the ground for a moment. When he looked back up at me he said, "It's a little crazy to say, but I smelled your scent on him. I became enraged. I never got that mad before. It took all of my self-control to stop myself from ripping Sasuke's head off."

I was a little scared to ask "Do… Do you usually get that angry?"

"No." He paused briefly and hesitated to tell me what he wanted to. "It… It happened after my parents died. I can't explain it."

Is it possible that Naruto isn't human? It makes sense. When he went up against Deidara his strength seemed to match his and even Sasuke seemed hesitant to get on Naruto's bad side. I haven't met a creature stronger than a vampire yet, but I'm starting to think that one might've been sitting right under my nose. If Naruto isn't human he doesn't know it. Deidara might know if he's human or not. During all of those centuries of living, there could've been a time when Deidara came across whatever Naruto is.

"So…" I wanted to get off of this mystery creature topic, so I asked softly, "Are we… okay? Are we still friends?"

He stared at me and actually met my eyes for the first time today. My heart leapt, but not from my timid nature that was always brought forth when Naruto looked at me. It leapt in fear because I worried what his answer would be. If he chose to not be my friend I think my heart would crush and it would take a while for me to recover. When he opened his mouth to respond my heart stopped.

"Yeah," he said with his beautiful trademark smile. "We're still friends."

I returned the smile and swallowed hard so I wouldn't end up crying. I was so relieved, but it was short lived.

All three of us stopped walking when we saw a big, black portal-looking thing pop out of nowhere a few feet away from us. I barely noticed that Naruto grabbed onto my arm and tried to pull me behind him. Deidara was alert now and his eyes were wide from shock.

"What the hell is that?" Naruto asked.

"It's a portal made from strong black magic," Deidara answered. "As long we don't go near it we should be f-"

He wasn't able to finish his sentence. The portal began to suck in whatever it could with amazing strength. Things around us like pots, chairs, and plants were consumed by the portal, but none of us were taken by it. At least, Deidara and Naruto weren't taken by it. I appeared to be its target. My feet were lifted from off of the ground and it tried to suck me in. I would've been pulled in immediately if it weren't for Naruto holding onto my arm. I could see him struggling to try to save me from whatever was in the portal. Despite how strong he was, the magic was too strong for him to fight against. He ended up losing his grip on me and I went flying into the unknown world of the magical portal.

It took me a while to regain consciousness. When I woke up I found myself handcuffed to a stone wall. The handcuffs weren't metallic though. They were made out of some kind of black magic. The magic cuffs didn't leave me any extra room to move my hands around. They felt so tight around my wrists that I felt as though my circulation was being cut off. And with my body being suspended from the floor, it only added onto the torment my wrists were feeling.

For now, I had to ignore the pain. I had to figure out where I was. Judging by my surroundings I suspected that I was below ground. There were no windows and the stone room had a musty feel to it. Was I in a basement?

It was dark down here and hard to identify the items in the room. In front of me, I was able to make out a table a couple of feet away from me. On the table sat spices, toxins, and chemicals of some sort jarred in bottles. Not too far from them were bottled eyeballs, lizard tails, snails, toads, bat wings, and other things that I wasn't able to identify. It made me sick looking at them.

Not too far from the table was a cauldron. Something pink was boiling in it and the liquid was spilling out from the large pot. It smelled foul, but not as foul as the corpses hanging from the wall. Some of the corpses looked centuries old and the others looked recent. In the newspaper, there were reports that bodies were missing from their graves. This must be where they ended up. What caught my attention about the corpses the most was there were six racks on the wall but only five bodies hung in the room. That zombie that I met before must be one of the witch's henchmen. Probably her favorite too. The others look like they weren't used very often.

It was too dark to scope out the rest of the room so I just waited for my captor to appear. While I waited I realized that I felt exhausted. It could've been the portal that sucked up my energy so I couldn't fight back. I also realized that, aside from the darkness of the area, my vision was a little blurry and I felt dizzy. I found myself nodding off multiple times as I was suspended from the wall, but I refused to fall asleep. That's probably what the witch wants.

Despite how tired I felt, I was suddenly forced out of my lethargy when I heard a scream. Not too long after the scream I heard a sharp blade slicing through flesh and a heavy thud. I felt sick to my stomach as soon as I heard the blade forcing its way through the flesh and bone. I was very unfamiliar with that sound, but I was certain that that was what it was. I wanted to vomit, but I fought it.

After the awful sound echoed throughout the dungeon-like basement I heard soft footsteps treading down the hall. The person opened the door to the room I was being held captive in. My heart beat spiked as the person got closer and closer to me. Despite my nervousness, I squinted to try to see the face of my captor before my captor reached me. But it took the person to stand in front of me in order for me to see the culprit's face.

The witch was a stunning woman. She had brown hair with long bangs that she parted in a way so that they wouldn't cover her face and she wore it in a clip. She was five foot six and fair skinned. She was beautiful, but her eyes killed some of her supernatural beauty. They were brown, like her hair, but they looked so cold. When I looked into them I felt like I was going to freeze to death. I always knew that evil people possessed cold eyes, and people often said that looking into them felt like looking into death's eyes. People also said that the eyes are a mirror of one's soul. But I never bothered to put much thought into that until now. I felt like if I stared too long at her brown orbs that she'd kill me right there. This witch had no mercy for anyone.

"Sorry for the disturbing scream," she said. Her voice carried no emotion in it. It was cold.

I swallowed hard. "Who are you?"

The woman walked over to the table and began assorting the bottles on it. She gave each bottle a quick glance and then set them down where she wanted them. The witch removed some of the contents in particular bottles and sat the ingredients in the center of the wooden table. She sniffed some of them, picked up more jars, and then added more to her little pile of… things.

"Anko Mitarashi," she answered.

Anko walked across the room and into the darkness. She returned momentarily with an old, dusty book. She sat the large book on the table next to her ingredients and opened the book to the spell that she was preparing the ingredients for. She then gathered the items and walked over to the cauldron. After she dropped an item in the cauldron she stirred the liquid thoroughly. As she did this, Anko didn't bother to check on me periodically. I took that as an opportunity to look at her spell book.

I couldn't read the title of the spell because it was in Latin, but I could read the ingredients required for the spell. It needed five bat wings, one Eye of Newt, three strips of wolfsbane, frog's breath, human hair, and a talisman. She had everything she needed besides the talisman.

"What are you going to do with the talisman?" I asked. I fought my fear, but it was obvious that I was scared. The witch smirked when she heard my voice tremble.

"Destroy all humans?" she said.

My eyes widened. "What? Why?"

Anko finished dropping the ingredients in the cauldron and finished stirring the contents. "Because," she faced me. "You humans are all ignorant fools. You destroy things that you don't understand because you fear it. You shoot first and then ask questions later." She sounded angry now. "I'm terminating our threat. It's what's best for all mythical creatures."

"I've learned to accept you. Others can too."

"Not enough," she said. "Your kind will just experiment on us first because they don't understand. I will not risk it."

"Look at what you're doing!" I shouted. "You'll be killing innocents and children! Don't you care?!"

"You killed our innocents, children, and took our land!" Anko snapped. "Why should I just forgive you?!"

"Anko…"

"Enough!"

Anko was done with talking. Her hatred for humans was too great to see reason. There was no convincing her to change her mind about us. To her, we were the greatest evil in the world. It's sad to think like that. There are more people on earth who would understand her than she thinks. There are even some mythical creatures living in the human world. She won't let me explain though.

"You're annoying," she told me.

Walking over to me, Anko's hand glowed black. It was the same color of the cuffs around my wrists. When her hand glowed, the handcuffs became tighter. My hands stiffened and pain shot through my hands, wrists, and arms. The constriction was too much to bear. I let out a scream and begged her to stop through my screams and tears. She gave me a twisted smile and cocked her head to the side in satisfaction. Anko loved the sound of my screams and she desired to hear more so she tightened the cuffs even more. I screamed louder and threw my head back. Tears rolled down my face.

When Anko was satisfied enough, she loosened the cuffs, but she loosened them a little too much. Her eyes widened in astonishment at her mistake. I didn't look at her for too long and I ignored the excruciating pain shooting through my arms and ran for where I assumed the door was. I reached the door within a matter of seconds, but when I turned the knob to escape, the witch grabbed me by the hair and pulled me back. I yelped when she grabbed my hair and when she slammed me against the wall.

"Are you that eager to find my guillotine?" she asked with a bit of twisted amusement lingering in her cold voice.

I shook my head with wide eyes.

Her hand left my hair and found my neck. I thought she was going to choke me at first, but then I felt her other hand caressing my face. It soon travelled back to my hair and she pulled out a few strands of hair. She patted my face and then left me cringing against the stone wall as she added my hair to the cauldron. She mixed it slowly and kept an eye on me.

After how fast she caught me and how strong she turned out to be, I decided that I wasn't going anywhere. When she slammed me against the wall it injured my back anyway. Anko wanted to kill me and my annoying behavior was only diminishing her patience faster. If I kept quiet, maybe I could stall for a little longer.

I coughed and used my hand to cover my mouth. Pulling my hand away after I finished coughing, I noticed a fair amount of blood on my hand. Where had that come from? My back injury certainly wasn't great enough to make me cough out blood. Has Anko done something to me?

"So you're starting to feel the effects of my spell?" Anko said with satisfaction. "Even though it's not complete without the talisman, it's still pretty strong. If you stay here long enough you'll die within a matter of minutes."

I shot her a glare but it was short lived when I coughed again. The blood slipped through my fingers and landed on the floor. I stared at it for a moment and I was astonished at how much came out. Not long after I coughed, my dizziness returned to me. I staggered and used the wall as support to find a place to sit down. Before I found a place, I tripped over my own feet and fell to the floor. I was too weak to rise and ended up staying there. I was going to die here and my friends would never find me. I'd never be able to hang out with Sakura and Ino, I'd never be able to laugh with Deidara and Naruto again, and I'd never be able to see Sasuke again. It angered me, but I had to accept it. This was going to happen whether I liked it or not.

When I closed my heavy eyes I heard a voice. It was soon followed by a few more voices. I couldn't rise to see who it was. All of my strength was gone and I didn't feel like fighting to look. It turned out that I didn't have to though. Soon after the voices called out in the basement I heard the door open and footsteps. One of the people who entered the room came to me and pulled me into his lap. The familiar voice said something in fluent Latin and suddenly I felt better. I opened my eyes to see who it was. It was Deidara.

"Deidara?" I said. I was uncertain.

"In the flesh," he responded with a mischievous smile.

"Don't do any more damage, Anko!" Another familiar voice said. Sitting up, I saw that it was Sasuke and Naruto was with them. "We have what you need." Sasuke pulled the talisman out from his pocket.

"No!" I shouted. "She's going to destroy humanity!"

My boyfriend didn't listen to me though. He tossed the necklace to the witch without even glancing at me. My heart sank and I stared at Sasuke in disbelief. I felt betrayed. How could he do that? He didn't even hesitate. And on top of that, he didn't look like he cared. Naruto also just stood there without looking at me. His face was unreadable. How could he let Sasuke do that? That talisman was precious to him and he cared about humanity just as much as I did. If not more.

"How?" I asked with a tone so desperate and full of hurt that it startled me. "How could you just do that?!" I wanted to punch Sasuke for the first time. I wanted to punch him, shake him, and demand to know what the hell he was thinking.

I stood up to go over to him, but Deidara grabbed my arm. My eyes widened in question. Deidara too?

"What the hell are you doing?!" I shouted. Naruto looked at me with wide eyes. He only looked at me for a few seconds before turning back to the witch. That was the first time that I cursed in front of him. He was probably shocked. I wanted to curse more, but the witch dropping the talisman into the cauldron caught my attention.

Anko stirred the cauldron with a scary smile on her face. She chanted something in Latin. As she said each word, the bubbling liquid in the cauldron thickened, the liquid in the cauldron overflowed, and smoke rose from the contents in the pink liquid.

Anko cackled like a witch into the air. "After all of these years!" she shouted with what seemed like excitement. "A new world will be born!"

My anger spiked even higher when I saw Naruto and Sasuke exchange smirks. What the hell are they so happy about? Humanity is going end. People that we know are going to no longer exist. I will no longer exist. I thought that they cared about me. But I soon found out why they made those satisfied expressions.

The witch's cackling died when the smoke disappeared and the cauldron ran cold. The contents inside of it stopped bubbling and the active liquid settled down and turned still inside of the cauldron.

"What did-" Anko said in a panic. Her panic turned to anger. "A fake?!"

"Keep yelling and you'll lose your voice," Deidara said with a smile.

"Shut up! I'll kill you all!"

"You're not listening, lady."

Annoyed, Anko's hands glowed black. Using the power of her psychokinetic abilities, Anko lifted the vials from the shelves and tossed them at Deidara. Deidara pushed me out of the way and dodged each vial with ease. When the vials hit the floor, the concoctions inside turned into some kind of gas. It looked toxic and I prayed that Deidara didn't get hit with one.

When Anko ran out of vials to throw Deidara laughed. "Is that all you can do?" he asked. "Surely you aren't that untalented. You can't even-"

His speech fell short. His eyes rolled into the back of his head and he was beginning to fall backwards. I got to him just in time before his head hit the hard floor. In my lap, the color was gone from his skin, his hair became dull, and his lips were dangerously chapped. I tried gently shaking him and tapping his face, but he wouldn't come to.

"What happened?" Naruto asked.

"I don't know," Sasuke said.

"One down," the witch smiled, "two to go."

I was shocked a lot today. Naruto suddenly forgave me, I thought Sasuke, Naruto, and Deidara were throwing humanity away when they actually weren't, and our strongest vampire collapsed from an unknown cause. But none of that compared to the shock I felt when I saw Naruto get pissed. And when I say pissed, I mean the kind of pissed that made people want to run away, go for cover, and cower in fear. Not many people could bring that about, but Naruto Uzumaki sure could.

My eyes widened as I watched him transform. I drank in every change to his body and features. It was unbelievable. It felt like a bad dream when I saw his once ocean blue eyes turn into a crimson red. The crimson color pulled me into their gruesome trap. In the trap was a sea of blood that belonged to many others before my time. His eyes were animalistic and they only aimed for one target. The enemy. But by the way he looked around the room; it appeared to me that everyone was his enemy. He just wanted to get rid of the biggest threat in the room before he moved onto the weaker ones.

The whisker-like scars that Naruto obtained the night his parents died thickened like actual whiskers. His gorgeous, straight teeth transformed too. Naruto's canines became larger in size, became sharper, and hung out of his mouth. His nails on his hands grew longer and sharp like claws. His hair also grew slightly longer and it was wild like a beast's unruly fur.

Aside from his appearance, the demonic presence he carried sounded throughout the room. It suffocated us all as all of our eyes widened and our mouths dropped in astonishment. Our eyes widened, if possible, even more when the beast roared into the air, breaking everything made of glass and cracking the metallic cauldron. After the monstrous roar, Naruto crouched like an animal about to pounce on its prey. In a heartbeat, Naruto leapt at Anko.

Naruto's long nails slashed at Anko and she dodged each attack gracefully, but it was obvious that she was having trouble getting away. When Naruto clawed at the witch, they made the same sound as a razor sharp blade slicing through air. If he actually hit her one of Anko's limbs could be cut clean off. She knew this and after she lost her rhythm she created a shield out of black magic to protect herself. Naruto mercilessly slashed at the shield with eyes full of bloodlust. Anko looked bewildered and frightened under the demon boy. She was running out of options. The witch didn't want to risk going on the offense, but she had to in order to survive.

The shield grew razor sharp spikes and it pierced through Naruto's flesh. Some drove right through his skin and bone. Anko was able to get away from the injured Naruto, but only for a moment. She expected that he'd died from the hemorrhaging wounds she gave him, but she was wrong. The wounds began to heal on their own. Naruto was back in the game before Anko got the chance to come up with another plan.

With demon-like speed, Naruto rush towards the witch with his fist clenched tightly. He drew the fist back and then extended it when he approached the frightened Anko. When his fist made contact with her face, her body flew across the room. She flew towards the wall head first, but before she reached her demise, Naruto grabbed a hold of her wrist. He yanked her towards himself, grabbed her face with his other hand, and then slammed her body onto the stone floor. As her head made contact with floor, fragments of stone shot up and I heard cracking sounds. Naruto released her, but continued to hover over her motionless body.

My mouth continued to hang open. I couldn't look away no matter how hard I tried. How could this be Naruto? My Naruto? Naruto wasn't like this. He was one of the kindest people that I knew. He couldn't become this enraged. He couldn't be so merciless. And he couldn't kill. He couldn't. He just couldn't. The boy I knew couldn't do any of those things. Right?

Deidara stirring in my arms brought me back to reality. I looked down at him with the tears that weld up in my eyes when Naruto attacked Anko. I bet I still looked bewildered, but Deidara didn't notice. He was trying to say something. He needed something. I leaned closer to my friend so I could hear what he needed.

"B-Blood…" It was barely audible, but I was able to figure out what he said.

I presented my wrist to him. "Here," I offered.

He sunk his teeth into my flesh. I flinched from the pain, but it was brief. I looked down at my sickly friend to see that he only took a little.

"You need more blood," I told him.

"And you need more iron," he retorted.

"Deidara!" I scolded.

He rolled his eyes. He slid his hand through my hair and when the hand rested at the back of my head, he brought me down so that I was closer to him. With his other hand, he moved my hair out of his way, sank his teeth into my neck, and began to drink. I flinched from the pain and tried not to let out any sounds. This hurt more than biting into the wrist.

He drank more from my neck than he did from my wrist. And when he finished he rested his hands on his stomach as he lay back down on my lap. He looked healthier now, but still weak. When I saw his appearance, I realized that he was in that condition because he wasn't feeding. I became angry.

"Why haven't you been eating?" I asked.

He didn't respond at first. It took him a while to answer my question and I was about to ask again when he finally opened his mouth. "I didn't want to eat because you hate it when vampires feed. They take away a life to save their own."

"But you have to eat!" I scolded. "You need blood to survive. Why would you care about how I feel about what you eat?"

He fixed me with a gaze that I couldn't identify. Like Naruto and Sasuke earlier, I couldn't read Deidara's expression. What was he thinking? What was going through his head as he searched for an answer to give me? He was a fool if he thought he could trick me with a lie. If he planned to lie to me I wasn't going to fall for it.

"I care because…" He swallowed hard and shame clouded his beautiful face when he looked at Sasuke, who was still focused on the battle. He then turned back to me. "Because I've fallen in love with you, Hinata."

My eyes widened and I nearly dropped him. But before I did, my attention was taking away from Deidara when a sound near Naruto and Sasuke captured my attention.

Anko was getting up. How could she still be alive after all of that? Her face was bloody and cut up pretty badly. She also struggled to stand up. That was Naruto's chance to attack her again, but he didn't. He just stood there hunched over her with his arms dangling. And his animalistic gaze was now a spaced out daze. Anko must've done something to him while she was on the ground. While she was pretending to be unconscious, she probably casted a spell.

Sasuke realized immediately and sprang into action. He performed a perfect roundhouse kick, but Anko caught his ankle and shoved him away. Sasuke staggered for only a moment and went back at Anko. He attacked her with blindingly fast punches. The punches were followed by couple of powerful kicks. The perfectly executed attacks would've been proven successful only if Anko hadn't blocked each one.

With the power of telekinesis, the witch picked Sasuke up and slammed him against the wall behind him. She made sure that she had him pinned securely when the dark witch approached my boyfriend with her arms extended. She gave him a twisted smile when her hands glowed black. Nothing happened at first, but then Sasuke soon cried out. Something invisible was clawing at him. It ripped his clothing and drew massive amounts of blood.

I stood up and prepared myself to jump into the fight, but Deidara grabbed my wrist and said, "Watch."

Sasuke's eyes turned blood red as he let out his suppressed rage. With a struggle, Sasuke pried himself from Anko's telekinetic hold. When Sasuke was freed from her hold the wounds that were being inflicted upon him ceased. In seconds, Sasuke's wounds healed and he was back on Anko again.

She casted quick spells in Latin. Black magic attacked Sasuke but he dodged each spell with his incredible speed. Anko tried everything she could possibly muster, but everything proved useless against him. She began to panic and attempted to escape, but my boyfriend's speed completely outmatched hers. In an instant, Sasuke appeared in front of her with eyes full of rage and hate. I could tell that if he got a hold of her he'd sink his teeth into her neck and rip out her jugular.

Fear consumed her as she stared at death. She attempted to run again, but Naruto came to and blocked her path. He was just as enraged as Sasuke but he wasn't going to let her go either. Anko had to fight back if she wanted to survive. So that's what she did.

Mitarashi aimed for the weakest out of the two. Sasuke. She performed a high kick that he easily dodged by ducking. That attacked followed by her elbowing Naruto in the chin. He hadn't expected her to do that and he let out a roar that made the room shake. He scratched at the witch but she suddenly disappeared into thin air. Naruto ended up scratching Sasuke's face instead and he yelped from the pain. He staggered, but regained his balance when the accidental injury healed.

"Where'd she go?" I asked.

"Not sure," Deidara said as he stood up and walked around the room. "Her presence is gone."

I caught a glimpse of something move in my periphery. I turned to face whatever it was and I saw Anko charging at me. I reacted too late and I couldn't get away. With a blade she forged out of black magic, the witch stabbed me in the chest. My blood spattered on her face and the floor. I coughed out blood and it landed on her hands. I stared at her in disbelief as the burning pain spread throughout my chest. She smiled, drove her blade in farther, twisted her blade, and then roughly pulled it out of my body. My shaking hand reached up to touch the fatal wound as I clumsily staggered backwards. I looked around the room at all of the faces who also stared back at me. We all shared the same expressions. Shock. Disbelief. Astonishment.

I removed my shaking hand from my wound and looked at it. There was blood on it. My blood. And there was so much of it. My legs gave way soon after I saw my blood and I landed on my knees. It was suddenly hard for me to breathe as I coughed out more of my blood. "This isn't happening…" I thought to myself. I kept repeating the statement over and over in my head as my vision faded and my body hit the floor.