Chapter 2- Leaving Marseilles
Naruto was in one of the chambers for the De Martel's. He was teaching Lucien how to properly learn "Snatch-Eat-Erase". It had been nearly 2 weeks since he turned Lucien. Unfortunately, his pal was having trouble with his new hunger and emotions.
"No, no, no. That's too sloppy of a bite." Naruto groaned before he walked up to the girl and took her from Lucien. "Here, like this." Naruto says as he heals the girl up and then bites the other side of her neck and slowly drinks from her, and unlike Lucien, who had blood flying everywhere, only a small trickle of blood escaped Naruto's lips down his victims neck. After drinking for a few moments, Naruto pulls off the girl with a small trail of blood down the right side of his mouth, and heals her up again before inspecting her.
He gives her back to Lucien and says, "Now like I did. Slower drinking makes less of a mess, lets you drink more, and lets you enjoy it more." Lucien bites her again and tries to drink more slowly, and he is rewarded with less of a mess this time.
Naruto smiles proudly at his pupils progress but that smile drops when he sees Aurora enter the room. She was horrified and stunned speechless by what she's just seen.
Lucien, concerned, vamp-speeds toward Aurora, but before he can get close, Rebekah vamp-speeds into the room out of nowhere and blocks his path as Lucien glares at her.
When Rebekah turns back to check on Aurora, her newborn vampire hunger gets the better of her, and her vampire face comes out, scaring the human noblewoman so much that she shrieks and runs away. Rebekah, terrified, turns back to Naruto with a panicked look on her face, and Naruto decided to let Aurora leave.
"Nik, I'm sorry. I-" Rebekah tried to apologize but Naruto held up his hand.
"Take Lucien back to his den. I'll handle this." Naruto told her as he walked past them.
Next Morning
Aurora was laying on her side in the middle of a patch of wild lavender, sobbing from what she witnessed the last night. Naruto watches her sadly from a hill far behind her, holding a folded piece of parchment with writing on both sides in his hand. He had planned to give this to her today anyway.
Naruto vamp-speeds toward Aurora, who hears the wind blow past her and sits up in alarm. However, Naruto actually ran past her, leaving behind only the letter he had written for her. She opens the letter and begins to read it.
'I never meant for you to know me. I never meant to let anyone in. But then, perhaps I should not have kissed you. Not the first time. Certainly not the second. Or the many times after. There is a light in you so pure and innocent, it makes me feel like the man I once was... and forget the monster I am. I am forced to feed on blood to survive, and have damned another to my fate... You've seen what we do. We feed. We kill. But what I am, you won't find in your castles library. As, while I named our species as vampires, my family and I are the first. But despite all that, I am still a man. With a man's desire and a man's love. No matter what may come between us, know that I love you'
Aurora finishes reading it and her heart is touched deeply, even as tears from earlier fall freely from her eyes.
That night
Naruto was at their usual meeting spot, waiting patiently for her to either come alone or come armed with guards.
Naruto hears the door open and close gently, hearing only one pair of soft feet that he recognized. He turned around and smiled lovingly at Aurora as he got up and walked to her slowly. They stopped a few inches apart from each other. The air was thick with emotion, waiting to boil over.
Finally, Aurora spoke with the most loving expression she could muster, "I love you as well."
She pulled him down for a passionate loving kiss. They continued to kiss passionately as Naruto lifted her up in the air carried her back to her room so they could continue expressing their love in private.
1 ½ hours later
Naruto and Aurora are lying naked in Aurora's bed after having just finished making love. Naruto is still braced on top of her as he smiles happily.
"Oh... wow...!" Aurora sighed happily. Naruto had been holding out on her previously in order to not expose himself. Yet with his secret as a vampire now known to her, he was not holding out on her as much when it came to their lovemaking.
"Now, that was fun!" Naruto said as he kissed from Aurora's shoulder up to her mouth, "Delightful... delirious... delicious fun."
Aurora hums happily, "Mmm... And yet, you would appear to want more. I fear I've not satisfied you. "
"You need not fear anything my love. I am immensely satisfied. 'Tis not your fault that I have tremendous stamina." Naruto said with a smile and he leaned closer to her face.
Naruto kisses her on the lips and Aurora giggles while Naruto laughs. Then, Aurora suddenly flips them over so Naruto is on his back against the pillows while she straddles his waist.
"I'm not fragile, you know. You do not have to treat me so gently." She told him. Now that she had a taste of what he could really do, she wanted to feel all of it. He was still holding out on her, but for a good reason.
"Oh Aurora, I do not wish to hold back when I'm with you." Naruto whispered as he sat up and wrapped his arms around her waist, "I want to love you with every ounce of strength in my body when we are together like this."
"But," Naruto said, "I have to remember what I am. I am so strong that I can decapitate a man with a single slap and tear their bodies apart with little to no effort. I treat you, not as cracked glass that will break at the slightest touch, but as treasured lover that requires a gentler and more loving touch than what I use for my prey."
"Well, then make me like you! Do to me what you did to Lucien." Aurora requested of him.
Naruto is actually a little surprised at her request, not expecting it, then groans as he lays back. "Oh Aurora, you do not know what you ask of me." Naruto sighed. He did want to turn her, but he was still unsure about it. With Lucien, it had been simpler. He knew Lucien would go after Tristan once he was healed up, and he saw no reason to stop him. But then again, Lucien was starting to show signs of mistrust towards Naruto.
"Well, I know we'd no longer have to hide our love- not from my father, my brother. Not from anyone. If I were like you, I would be beholden to no one, and we could be together, truly, with no boundaries." Aurora said, not truly understanding what he would be doing to her if they went through with it, but enough that they wouldn't have to hide their secret affair from the world.
"Aurora, listen to me," Naruto said as he stared her in the eye, "Yes, there are benefits to being a vampire. Yes, you'd be immortal apart from a few things, immune to the disease, and the throes of time. You would become strong and fast like my family, and you would experience everything in a new light. But there are downsides as well. First is that you would be a normal vampire. A decapitation or having your heart ripped out will still kill you. Werewolf Venom is toxic and lethal to a normal vampire and a wooden stake in the heart is fatal. The sun will burn you to death without a daylight ring. Vervain burns at the touch and prevent humans from being compelled if they wear it or ingest it. And we have to be invited into private homes, otherwise we literally cannot enter. Not to mention, you need to consume blood and there's the fact that your emotions will be heightened beyond that of a human. And I'm fairly certain a vampire can't have children."
"Truly?" She asked.
"With how many times a week we make love? You should have gotten pregnant by now. The fact that you are not…I can only assume that means that Vampires are incapable of creating new life."
Naruto sits up again so his torso is pressed against Aurora's, and he reaches up to run his fingers through her waist-length red curls. "Besides, you are beautiful and amazing just the way you are. Take, for example, these lovely long locks, hmm? Now, how did you manage to capture the scent of a summer's day in the tresses of your hair?"
"Do you know why I fell for you Aurora? It wasn't for your beauty, though that did draw me to you at first. I fell for you because of your compassionate, kind, selfless, and loving nature." Naruto said as he cupped her chin and they both looked lovingly into each others. "You don't need to be a vampire for me to love you."
Aurora looks at him intensely for a moment before kissing him. She pulled a bit and whispered sadly, "But I still want it. To be a vampire so I can be with you. Otherwise, I will grow old and die while you remain unchanged."
'I suppose that is the inevitability of being in love with a vampire. You either turn so you can be with them, or you leave to spare them the heartbreak.' Naruto thought solemnly.
"Okay," Naruto said, "but before I do turn you, I want you to think long and hard about what I told you tonight before you make a final decision. I want you to be absolutely certain that this is what you want. Promise me."
"I promise," Aurora said.
"Now, let us turn our thoughts towards more pleasurable ones." Naruto said as he laid back on the bed and she leaned down and kiss him.
2 weeks later
Naruto was in a dark cell experimenting on compulsion.
"Okay, so lets try something here. When I show you my vampire face, don't scream or move a muscle." He compelled the woman.
He showed his face and she did nothing.
Naruto then placed his hands the side of her head and they glowed red as he siphoned the magic compulsion away. He then showed his vampire face and this time, the woman screamed and tried to run. Naruto bit her throat and covered her mouth while he drank her blood.
Later that night
Aurora was sitting on in the chapel, sobbing loudly and sniffling into the sleeves of her dress. After a moment, Naruto walks in with a large bouquet of wild flowers.
"I always thought the day of one's birth was an event to be celebrated." Naruto said in concern.
Aurora quickly wipes the tears from her cheeks. She sniffles, "And yet, I wish I'd not been born."
Naruto sits down next to her on the bench and looks at her with concern, placing a hand on hers and stroking the back of her hand lovingly, "What saddens you so?"
Aurora continued to cry, which made Naruto worried. "Aurora, what is it? Please, tell me." He pleads with her.
She told him through he sniffles, "The day of my birth is no occasion for joy. My mother died giving birth to me. That's my first act on this earth, was to kill the one who gave me life. It makes me cursed and broken, an abomination. I.."
Aurora breaks into sobs once again, and Naruto wraps his arm around her shoulders and holds her hand in his to comfort her.
"You believe that you are cursed, but you are not alone. There is a thing that I have done that I never told my family." Naruto took a deep breath and told her a condensed version of the truth about how Esther died, where he had been there when Mikael killed her.
"…And so I made him kill her." Naruto revealed.
Aurora gasped in shock from this confession, and Naruto's voice grew quieter as he continues talking until it becomes only a whisper. "Twice she birthed me- once as a bastard, and then once as a vampire. She crippled me in life so I couldn't defend myself against Mikael and again from becoming who I was meant to be, and then she turned her back on me in shame, as if it was my fault for how I was born. And so, I made Mikael kill her. And then I did something else that I haven't told the others about."
Flashback
Mikael had just put Esther in a coffin and clenched his fist in anger over what had happened.
"I swear to you, bastard. That on my honor, my wife's grave, and the graves of my forefather's, I will not rest, until I have made you pay for what you have taken from me!" Mikeal shouted to the heavens.
Then he gasped, pain erupting in his chest, as an arm stuck out the front of his chest, Mikaels heart in hand.
"Going to be a little difficult where you're going." Naruto whispered his ear as he pulled his arm back out as Mikael temporarily died.
"That should keep him down for a few days." Naruto thought as he picked up Mikael's desiccated corpse.
He sped him out to a lake that would one day be called Lake Ontario, after wrapping him in thick rope, rowed him out to the middle of the lake, and dropped him in, watching as he sank beneath the surface. He then cursed himself, realizing he had forgotten to take the White Oak Stake from him. Naruto sighed as there was nothing he could do about it now, and rowed back to the shore before speeding back over to village, and together with Rebekah and Elijah, burned the village to cover their tracks and left for the old world.
Flashback End
"And we have been moving from place to place ever since. Until now. Until you. So, you see, however tormented you think you are, there is always someone out there that has it worse." Naruto admitted as he held her close to him.
Aurora is stunned by Naruto's regained her composure at the prospect of their shared grief. "Well, then, let us share this gift with each other! You will forever hold my deepest shame, and," Aurora caresses Naruto's face lovingly with her hand, "I... I will hold yours. Never again shall we speak them to another soul, and never again will they have any power over us."
Naruto was touched a little by Aurora's proclamation, and she pauses for a moment before continuing, "Would you think it too much of me to ask one more gift on my birthday?"
"I would give you the world." Naruto said sincerely.
"I have thought long and hard about what you told me weeks ago. I love you, Niklaus. When I am with you, I am at peace. I don't want to ever be parted from you. Not by my father or my brother, not by society or even the ravages of time." Aurora told him passionately.
"Can you live with it though? Not being able to have children with me?" Naruto asked, as he believed that could be a major deal-breaker.
"I have never felt the way I do about you with anyone else. With you, I feel as though I am whole. As long as I have you, I don't need anyone else. And if I truly wish to raise a child, we can adopt one as our own in the future. Please, turn me Niklaus." Aurora pleaded with him.
"Okay," Naruto whispered as he reached behind the bench and pulled out a goblet. He bit his hand, and made a fist, squeezing a good amount of his blood into the goblet.
"Drink all of it," Naruto told her as she took the cup and slowly drank the blood out of the goblet.
She placed the goblet down and said, "The next part I am admittedly, frightened of."
"I know. Dying and wondering if you will come back can do that. Do you trust me?" He asked.
She nodded and he said, "Close your eyes. I will make it painless."
She closes her eyes and hold him close as he counts down,"3…2…1". At 1, he breaks her neck, killing her, and gently lays her down. He then grabs and compels a guard to stand in the room quietly and not move while he waited for Aurora to wake.
It was then that Rebekah Elijah walked in...for some reason. They saw the body of Aurora laying gently on the bench and Rebekah covered her mouth in horror. "Nik, wha-what is this? What have you done?" She demanded.
"I'm giving her what she wants." Naruto said.
"What she wants!? Nik, you've killed her!" Rebekah shouts.
"She drank goblet full of my blood. She's merely in transition." Naruto states.
"You've turned her!? Nik, we have many torments. None that I would dare wish on another." Rebekah shouted at him.
"Niklaus, she is the daughter of the man that owns this castle. Father will surely hear of this! We will have to leave now!" Elijah angrily said.
"Then it's a good thing I've already compelled every living human within a 10 kilometer radius to ignore and never speak of our feeding." Naruto revealed, shocking Rebekah and Elijah.
"What?" Rebekah and Elijah asked.
"I knew that teaching the new method was going to take time, especially with Kol and Lucien's lack of control, so I compelled everyone in this castle, in the town, and those living in the countryside with 10 Kilometers to ignore it. I have bought us another year here at least." Naruto said as he stood up and walked over to them.
"And as for Mikael? Well, I know for a fact he hasn't pulled himself out of that lake that I dropped him in yet." Naruto said.
"Niklaus, what do you mean?" Elijah said.
"Did I forget to mention that? Before we burned down the village to cover our tracks, I temporarily killed Mikael and dumped him in the deepest lake I could find. I had a witch check and she confirmed that Mikael is still drowning over and over again in that lake I dumped him in back in the New World, which means we can relax for a while." Naruto said.
"But Nik, she was human. She didn't have to suffer through what we have to. Why would you put her through that?" Rebekah asked.
Naruto turned to look back at Aurora and said, "Because that woman makes me feel things that no other woman has ever made me feel." Naruto even turned around and said, "Not even Tatia."
Elijah looked a little uncomfortable while Naruto continued, "This is the moment of truth every single one of us must face at some point. We are immortal apart from a weapon made of white oak. Aside from that, we will live until the end of time. Yet, when there is someone we love, we have a choice to make. Turn them if they are important enough and keep them in our life, or let them go to spare them the pain of being with someone who will never die. When you love someone as strongly as I love her, you will understand." Naruto turned around and walked back to Aurora. He stroked her face lovingly with one finger and a smile on his lips.
"She's going to wake up soon. The minute she turns, I imagine it's going to get very…uh, loud in here." Naruto said suggestively, causing Rebekah to good-heartedly roll her eyes.
Elijah smiled, seeing as there was nothing here for him to help with, and left. Rebekah watched Naruto with Aurora for a moment, wishing that she could find someone to love her the way Naruto loved Aurora, before leaving.
It was then that Aurora woke with a gasp. Naruto was instantly by her side. "Aurora," Naruto said.
"Nik, I have been remade into your equal." Aurora said happily, and Naruto chuckled.
"Getting ahead of yourself, love. One more step to make," Naruto said as he looked at the guard he had compelled earlier. "Come here." He ordered, and the guard walked over to them.
"Don't move, and don't make a sound." Naruto compelled him. Naruto then walked around and vamped out before biting the side of his neck and taking out a big chunk of flesh. Aurora sat up, the smell of the blood invading her nose, the desire to consume it overwhelming her.
"Drink, and then, we will be together forever," Naruto said and Aurora gripped the guard, licking his wound, which caused her to complete the transition and her true face emerged. She then bit the guard again and began to drink him dry. Naruto vamp sped over to the doors and locked them making sure that nobody would bother them.
Naruto walks back over to Aurora, who finishes her first meal and tosses the corpse of her victim aside. "Beautiful," Naruto said as he wraps his arms around her waist and kisses her lip.
"Yes, and now we need never be alone." Aurora agrees as she pulls Naruto down for another passionate kiss, biting his lip so hard she draws blood. When he pulls away, a dribble of blood running down his chin, Aurora's vampire face comes out, and she licks her bloody fangs with relish. Naruto's vampire face comes out as well, and he vamp-speeds them over to the nearby wall, where he pins her as he begins to kiss her roughly. After a moment, Aurora spins them, speeding them against one of the support beams, where Naruto's back slams against the stone as they continue to make out.
Hours later
The two could be seen cuddling in Aurora's bed, as they had moved from the chapel into her room.
"That was so-" Aurora sighed pleasurably as she tried to find the right words.
"Amazing, satisfying, divine?" Naruto offered with a smirk and she playfully slapped his chest.
"All of that and more. Though I think the priest will be in a mood if he saw the mess we made on the altar." Aurora said.
"Yes, we are quite the sacrilegious couple, aren't we?" Naruto asked in amusement. "I can just hear it now. 'Demons have defiled God's holy church! The end of times is near!'".
The both of them laughed goodheartedly and they slept in each others arms.
2 years later
1004 AD
Naruto smiled in contentment. It had been three years since they came here. Three years since he made this place a home for them. Thanks to the massive amount of compulsions he had placed on the populace, he had been able to extend their stay, since Kol's eating habits were still very sloppy. He had stopped being friends with Lucien, as the former servant was getting more rabid, losing himself in his delusions of grandeur.
There was something else. Recently, whenever someone lies to him, he would hear a ringing in his ear and the back of his head. He was certain it was not a vampire ability, as none of the others seemed to have it, so he wagered it was the infamous werewolf ability of 'Lie detection'.
Aside from that, everything had been smooth. His relationships with his siblings were strong, and he had the love of Aurora, who had chosen him over her father and brother 2 years ago when he turned her. He was even ready to take it one step further with Aurora.
But he needed to do it soon. He had used a scrying spell and found that Mikael had managed to pull himself out of the lake yesterday, and would soon be scouring the New World for Naruto and his siblings. Mikael wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed though, so he probably wouldn't figure out they had gone back to the Old world for at least half a century, so that gave him plenty of time to come up with a contingency for Mikael.
But right now, he was enjoying himself, just spending time with Aurora during noon, picnicking in the meadow where they first began their relationship.
The two of them were sipping blood from chalices as they recounted tales of their bloodletting. "And do you remember the look on that poor mans face? When I compelled him to dance on his brother's corpse, yet understand what he was doing?", asked Aurora.
"The look on his face was priceless. Oh, then he proceeded to lose his lunch all over you, the nerve of the man," Naruto chuckled.
"Yes, he was very rude. He ruined my favorite dress" Aurora agreed.
Naruto sat up and grasped her hands. "I don't particularly enjoy having you go through those acts with me. But the worlds a cruel place, and the only way to survive it is to be crueler. One day, you will have to get those lovely hands of yours dirty, and I want you to be ready when that happens," He says as he kisses her hands.
"Well, you have been a wonderful teacher," Aurora said with a hint of teasing in her voice.
"Ohh, I'm a just teacher now, am I?" He teased back as he pulled her to him and flipped her on her back for a kiss while his hands trailed suggestively along her body.
"Oh, we're doing this now? And what if I did this," She asks suggestively as she kissed.
"Cry out for help," he smiles as he kisses her.
"And this?" She asks as she deepened their kiss while fondling his cock through his pants.
"Beg for mercy," He smiled before he flipped them over again so she was straddling his waist.
"There is something that I need to tell you." He whispered to her.
"What is it?" She asked.
"Mikael got out of his watery prison yesterday. He's going to eventually make his way back to the Old World. It may be prudent to leave soon." Naruto told her.
"Well, then I will come with you." Aurora said simply, not willing to abandon the love of her life.
"Would you?" Naruto said with a hopeful tone.
"Yes, my father is a monster and my brother will never let me be happy. I've even had to compel him a few times when he got on my nerves." Aurora admitted without shame.
"Well, that makes this easier." Naruto said to himself as he got up.
"I know that my family didn't grow up in the old world, but certain traditions were taught to us." Naruto said as he pulled out a small brown leather pouch from his breeches pocket.
"For example, if there was a woman that I loved, and I wanted to spend the rest of my life her, I would get down on one knee," Naruto says as he falls to one knee, "And present her with a ring."
He pulls the ring out of the pouch and places it in his open palm. "I made this myself," He says as she looks at the ring with tears of joy. It was a simple gold band with a diamond on the outer part of the ring and a smaller diamond on each side of the larger one. It was simplistic yet elegant.
"Aurora deMartel, I have loved you for so long that I cannot imagine my immortal life without you, and I don't want to. If you would have me, I would love you for the rest of eternity. Will you marry?" He asked her.
"Yes, of course," Aurora said as she hugged her new fiancée. The two stayed there, just basking in their happiness.
Unfortunately, that happiness was about to be soured.
That Night
Finn rushed into their family's meeting in the courtyard, looking panicked as Rebekah, Elijah and Naruto look at him with concern. Finn furiously says, "I knew it would come to this! Be it Kol's antics or Niklaus's, or those creatures he has created."
Elijah worriedly asked, "What is it?"
"Word has spread. Travelers from afar talk of beasts who feed on blood, and if those country imbeciles know..." Finn ominously said.
"Father will come. We need to flee." Elijah said panicked.
Naruto was more concerned about Aurora and went to find her.
Elijah is about to go and get his stuff when a confused Aurora approached and asked, "Where are you going? "
He hurriedly told her, "Father is coming. We have to flee."
"Well, then I will come with you!" Aurora said.
Elijah shakes his head and says, "No. No, his curse is ours and ours alone to bear."
Aurora is hurt by that and protests, "But I am like you now."
"You are not our blood." Elijah firmly states and Aurora scoffs.
"What difference does blood make? All this talk of your sacred family bond, when I know things about him that you never will, even that which weighs heaviest on his heart." Aurora declared, shocking the elder Mikaelson.
Elijah angrily walks over to Aurora, demanding, "What could you possibly know about my brother that I do not? What, precisely, did my brother say to you?"
When she remained silent, he furiously stepped forward and compelled her, "SPEAK!"
After Aurora tells Naruto's secret about making Mikael kill Esther.
"He... He killed our... mother? Niklaus?" Elijah asks in shock.
Aurora, realizing what she's just done, begins to cry, ""Why did I tell you? I swore to him I would keep his secret."
Elijah is so distracted by processing this new information that he isn't paying attention to Aurora, muttering to himself. "So, he... he lied to me. He's lied to us all."
"And yet, I love him in spite of it." Aurora passionately said.
Elijah, now furious, once again lunges toward Aurora, grabbing her and forcing her against a pillar, "He does not deserve your love!"
Elijah compels her again while Aurora is powerless to resist, "You listen to me. You must only see him as the wretched, deceitful monster that he truly is."
Aurora, dazed, repeats his statement in a confused voice, " I see him as the monster that he is."
20 minutes later
Naruto was in Aurora's room, explaining to her that they need to leave. "Run away with you? Leave my brother, this house?" Aurora oddly was saying.
"The world is bigger than this one castle. You'll see that when we leave," Naruto said, though he was curious why she was acting odd.
Aurora frowns and says, "How? As we hide, fleeing your brute of a stepfather? Always on the run, living like dogs? I think not."
"What? Who has turned you from me?" Naruto said, too in shock to recognize the ringing in the back of his head.
"No. I turned from you, because I do not love you! I... I thought I did, but it's as if I see you clearly for the first time, and I find you a cruel, wretched thing. Pathetic, really, and unworthy of anyone's love, let alone mine. After all, your own mother turned against you. If she who gave you life could come to loathe you and then be snuffed out by your own hand, what hope is there for you? We are not alike, and I could never love you." Aurora said monotonously.
It was finally then that he recognized it. The ringing had gotten very loud, as if a gong had been hit right next to him. He realized that while it might seem like she was being truthful, everything she had said were lies. And that tone in her voice…
Suddenly, Naruto is very angry with himself. He should have recognized sooner. After all, she had been the expression of joy itself when he had proposed to her earlier and yet only hours later she's done a complete 180 about how she feels about him!?
"You've been compelled." Naruto realized as he closed the distance and placed both of his hands on her head and began to drain the magic of the compulsion away. Aurora cried in pain as it hurt tried to wrench his hands free but he was too strong, and drained the compulsion away. She collapsed to her knees when he did.
"Aurora?" he asked, hoping she was okay.
Suddenly, she burst into tears, and hugged her fiancée tightly, sobbing against his chest. Naruto hugged and rubbed her back as she begged for forgiveness, "Oh Nik, I'm so sorry. I…I couldn't stop the words flying out of my mouth- words I swore I would never tell to another living soul. He compelled me to give voice to your secret, then compelled me to despise you. "
"Shhh," Naruto whispered in ear. "You are okay. You are safe."
"But I need to know," Naruto said as he made her look at him with those beautiful teary eyes, "Who did this? Who compelled you to despise me?"
"Before you came to me, I saw your brother," She said between her sobs, "Elijah."
In the courtyard
Elijah, Finn, Rebekah, and Kol were gathered.
"Where is Niklaus?" Elijah asked, expecting him to be back by now.
"I do not know. He probably went to find Aurora." Rebekah offered.
"Right, well then-" Elijah tried to say but was interrupted by and enraged roar.
"ELIJAH!" Naruto roared as he sped to Elijah and gave him a swift upper cut that sent him flying, knocking over a torch stand.
Naruto vamp sped over to Elijah as he was about to land, gripped him by the neck and slammed his face into the ground. Naruto kneed him in the face as Elijah got up. They both gripped each others shoulder's and Elijah headbutted him, causing Naruto to stagger. Naruto pushed him into a stone column. Elijah ducked as Naruto threw a haymaker, impacting the pillar and breaking off some of it as his fist went through it. Elijah kicked him in the side and leapt up, pushing off the pillar, and punched downward, hitting Naruto's face and causing his head to swivel. Elijah grabs him and throws him over his shoulder, sending Naruto flying into a wall.
"YOU HAVE SOME NERVE, BROTHER!" Naruto roared. "What you did to Aurora! What you tried to do to me! It was evil!"
"I'm was trying to protect this family!" Elijah shouted back. "Aurora is the sister of lunatic, and a powerful one at that. Father is in pursuit of us! What was I supposed to do!"
"You should have apologized for compelling her! Instead, you compelled her again! To make my fiancée despise me!" Naruto shouted, shocking all of his Mikaelson siblings as Naruto punched Elijah in the face. Elijah stumbled but recovered and kicked him in the stomach. Elijah nad Naruto gripped each other's opposing arms, struggling to overpower each other. Naruto let his vampire fangs out and bit Elijah, causing him to shout in pain. His head lowered and Naruto kneed him in the face, before leaping up and slamming both of his legs into Elijah's chest, making him fly towards the stone stairs. Naruto sped over to him right before he hit the stone stairs and slammed him fist into Elijah's face, making him it the ground, causing cracks to form on the stone tiles where Elijah collided.
"You know," Naruto growled, "Mikael might hate me, but he would only kill Aurora to hurt me. But compelling her to hate me? That's low, even for him. What possible justification could you have for trying to turn the woman I chose as my wife against me!?"
"You murdered our mother!" Elijah shouted, shocking Finn, Kol, and Rebekah.
"Oh, that," Naruto said in annoyance as Aurora came out onto the scene as stood next to him, hugging his arm. "What I told Aurora was a condensed version of the truth. Here's what really happened."
Flashback
The day Esther died
Naruto was at the village of werewolves, learning about their ways and history. Night had fallen when Naruto smelt blood and quickly raced to the source only to find Ansel, the alpha of the werewolves impaled on a spike, causing his eyes to widen.
Naruto looked over Ansel and saw the resemblance between Niklaus and the man. With a growl he sped out of the clearing toward his old home.
Mikaelson Cottage
The Mikaelson children all had left as Mikael had returned covered in blood and proceeded to yell at their mother. "You made me think that whelp was mine! You've betrayed me and because of you Henrik is dead!"
"You can't put that on me! What happened with Henrik was an accident!" Esther yelled only to be slapped by Mikael.
"An accident! The bastard took him from us, and when I find him. I will rip his head off!" Mikael yelled before he turned to leave but heard a gurgle and turned to see that Naruto had arrived and was choking Esther with one outstretched hand, glaring at him.
"You murdered my birthfather." Naruto growled having actually looked forward to meeting Ansel.
"Release her!" Mikael yelled rushing forward with the White Oak stake extended forward but Naruto moved Esther in the path of the strike, so that Mikael stabbed his wife in the heart causing the couple to go wide eyed.
"Now, you lost someone too." Naruto said, speeding off as Mikael cradled Esther's corpse.
Flashback end
"When I came upon them that night, Esther was being beaten by Mikael." Naruto told them, as they listened to him in shock. "And yes, I moved her in the way of Mikael's attempt to stake me, but none of you know what stake it was."
"It was a White Oak Stake, the only thing that can kill us!" Naruto exclaimed as they were all enraptured. "I may have panicked a little and moved the closest thing in my reach to stop it from reaching me, which just happened to be Esther. I'm certainly not broken up about it. Like you, Elijah, she had a hand in crippling me as a hybrid." Elijah lowered his head in shame at that. He didn't have the courage to stand up to Mikael when it mattered most.
"And then, before we became vampires, before I was even an adult, there was this," Naruto said as he flicked his hand and the Starling necklace appeared. "Do any of you recognize it?"
"That's the starling necklace mother made for you as a boy." Finn said as he had watched her give it him.
"Yes, it's the same necklace. And whenever I gripped it tight, it would call her to me. However this necklace had a far more nefarious purpose than that." Naruto said. "Did you know that werewolves, even untriggered, excel in physical tasks? For example, all untriggered werewolves are great hunters. Yet, I could not shoot a bow to save my life. It was after what happened some weeks before we became vampires, that I began to suspect why that was."
Flashback
Klaus's pained cries can be heard throughout the forest. Esther rushed toward the sound of his voice until she finds him. He was pinned to a tree with Mikael's sword, which had impaled him through the shoulder.
"Tell me what happened!" Esther asked worriedly.
"I challenged him." Klaus said in pain.
"What were you thinking?" Esther said as she began applying pressure to Klaus's shoulder.
"I thought if I could just best him, just once, he would see that I am worthy." Klaus weakly said.
"You need to hold still!" Esther said in a panicked voice. She struggles a bit but was able to pull the sword out and dropped it onto the ground and immediately begins pulling bundles of moss from the tree, which she uses as a rudimentary bandage for his wounds.
Klaus groans in pain and Esther tells him, "Niklaus, calm down! Everything is going to be fine."
Klaus tells her what happened as he held up the Starling necklace, "He laughed at my challenge. He said he would take this from me as a prize, after defeating me. We began to fight, and he knocked me down. He cut the bird from my neck, and I grew so angry, I hit him. Again, and again. I cut him!"
"What happened next?" Esther asked with a sense of dread at what might have happened.
"The look on his face, I'd never seen it before. And I was so proud. Mother, I held this up." Klaus holds up the necklace, "to show him I kept my prize. And then, he- Why would he-?"
"Your father, in his rage, struck you with his sword?" Esther asked.
"I wouldn't let him take this from me. It was your gift to me!" Klaus exclaimed.
"You're a good boy, Niklaus. You did the right thing." Esther said.
Flashback end
"It was while we were here that I took this to a witch and told her what the incantation was." Naruto said, though really, he had inspected it himself. "That was when I learned the necklaces true purpose."
Flashback
Right before she called Klaus into the room, she cast a spell upon it.
"Onon de es sinj unctas, on gu ol de" Esther chanted.
"Promise me you will wear it always." Esther later requested of the young Klaus.
Flashback end
"It wasn't meant to protect me. It made it so I could never get angry and suppressed my physical abilities. I mean, think about it for a moment. Ever since I wore the necklace, I struggled to do anything physically demanding. Yet the moment I lose it, I get angry and I'm able to best Mikael, the best warrior in our village? It should have been obvious. Esther made me weak and docile, everything that Mikael hated, and left me to suffer at his hands, my life constantly in danger every time he beat me. And to think, I actually liked this necklace," Naruto said nostalgically as he threw it in one of the nearby torches.
"If even his own wife wasn't safe from Mikael's wrath, what chance do you think any of you have on your own? He has a white oak stake. He will use it to hold you hostage and keep you in line, and if you disobey him, he'll kill you. So, are you with me, or would you prefer to take your chances with your abusive father?" Naruto asked.
They all stood still as statues. Rebekah was the first to move join him. Kol was the next. Finn and Elijah were last to join him, though Finn was because he had nowhere to go and Elijah was out of guilt.
"Alright then," Naruto said. "Get ready, we leave tonight. Elijah, Rebekah, both of you stay, I need to speak with you for a moment."
Kol and Finn slowly left to get their stuff.
Elijah tried to apologize to Naruto, "Niklaus, I-" Naruto held up a hand to stop him.
"I am not interested in hearing any excuses, Elijah. What you tried to do was cruel and it was wrong." Naruto looked at the solemn and regretful expression on Elijah's face and sighed, "If you want to make up for it, go find Tristan, turn him, make him kill his father and then compel him to think he's you. I'm going to do the same to Lucien. Rebekah, I need you to go turn that girl Lucien took a liking to in the last month. I think her name was Serena. Turn her and compel her to think she is you."
"What are you planning to do Nik?" Rebekah asked.
"They will be decoy's, to draw Mikael's attention away from us. They will lead him on a wild goose chase around the world while we live out our lives in relative peace," Naruto said.
Rebekah left to find the girl and Elijah moved to look at Naruto as he held Aurora to him. Elijah sighed in shame. Naruto had been right. What Elijah had tried to do was worse than anything Mikael would have done.
'I swear I will earn your forgiveness and redeem myself in your eyes, brother. Both for this, and for helping seal your hybrid nature away,' Elijah silently vowed as left to enact Naruto's plan.
Chapter End
Serena will take Aurora's place in the trinity that would have consisted of Lucien, Tristan and Aurora. She will be played Blake Lively.