Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Vampire's Kiss ❯ What a Long and Unpleasant Birthday ( Chapter 6 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

"blah" - talking
blah - Kyuubi
blah - inner thoughts

Sasuke followed Naruto until they reached the office. Sasuke went up to the desk before Naruto had a chance to walk through the door. He motioned for Naruto to sit down before giving off his smile he had put on for the class earlier that day. “Hello, Shizune-san.”
 
The woman at the front desk looked up from her computer and blushed. “Hello, Uchiha-san. I was not expecting you until noon.”
 
“The company called and asked if I could come in a bit earlier than planned. Apparently, the photographer has to leave early today.” Sasuke said it in a light friendly tone. “I know it's against the rules to leave early without guardian consent, but this shoot is really important to the company.”
Naruto could tell Sasuke was forcing his tone and took great pleasure in knowing that Sasuke was suffering. He could feel himself calming down as his red aura began to slowly fade away.
“Of course it's okay, Uchiha-san. Just sign this,” Shizune placed a clip board in front of Sasuke. “I'll send a note to your next period teacher explaining the situation.”
“Thank you, Shizune-san. I appreciate this.” He picked up the pen in front of him before faking a forgetful expression. “Oh, I forgot to tell you that I'm checking out Naruto-san as well.”
“Naruto-san? I'm sorry, but you can only check out yourself, Uchiha-san.”
“Really? Did my manager not give you the note from Sarutobi-san?” Sasuke looked confused for a second before checking his pockets. “Oh, here it is.” He handed a neatly folded piece of paper to Shizune. “Naruto-san was caught trespassing on my property last night. Since he didn't do anything, I offered to be his warden for the next week instead of letting him go to prison. He'll be accompanying me to work from now on.”
Shizune scanned the paper real quick and saw Asuma's signature on the bottom. “Okay Uchiha-san. I'll give this to the principal. You go ahead and sign yourselves out.” She got up and left the room.
Sasuke dropped his smile the moment she looked away. He pulled out his phone and pressed the speed dial button. Sasuke did not have to wait long before the person on the other end picked up on the first ring and his panicked voice was heard.
“Sir, are you okay?! Did you get discovered? You called earlier than I expected. Just stay where you are, and I'll come and get you. Just tell me where you are and-” Tobi never got to finish his sentence before Sasuke cut him off.
“Shut up, you idiot. I'm fine. I coming out with Naruto so bring the car around front,” Sasuke said in a fairly annoyed voice before ending the call. He glanced at Naruto who was already leaving the room before following. “Where do you think you're going, Dobe.”
“Don't call me that, Teme. And what did you mean you're my warden, and where the hell did you get that note?” Naruto was annoyed, but not as annoyed as he was on the roof.
“It was forged. A quick two minute job. Tobi is good at copying things.” The two teens walked out the front doors where a large black limousine awaited them with a beautiful but dorky looking man holding the door open. He looked like the kind of man who would where orange mask everywhere he went.
“Sir, I hoped you had a good first day at school.” The man grinned at his boss until he saw Naruto. “You must be Naruto-kun. I'm sorry about last night. I didn't like locking you and your friend inside the house, but Sasuke-sama told me to. Normally, I'm a good boy and-”
“Tobi, get in the car before I hit you.” Sasuke was already in the car telling the driver their destination.
Tobi smiled at Naruto and said, “After you.”
Naruto hesitantly got into the car. What was the worse that could happen if he got into the car? Let's see. They could drink his blood again. They could drive off somewhere where they could gang rape him. Or they could kill him. Well the options were not that bad. Naruto chuckled nervously to himself as he got into the car.
The car ride was silent, and it was not the comfortable silence either. It was more like the silence between a girl and a mass murderer locked in the same room together against their will. It was that weird and creepy. Being Naruto, he was naturally talkative and the silence was killing him. “So, Tobi is your name right? What is it like working for the bastard?”
Tobi sat silently glancing over at Sasuke, expecting him to kill Naruto on the spot. When he didn't, a look of amazement appeared on his face, and he grinned. “Not that bad actually. Despite the fact he will not allow me to wear my orange mask, he's a pretty cool boss.” He leaned closer to Naruto and added, “Though he can be a prick sometimes.”
A wine class shattered against Tobi's head, and Tobi immediately bent down to cover his injury. The direction of where the wine glass came from was suspiciously close to where Sasuke was sitting as he sat as if he was staring out the window the whole time.
“Bastard, what did you do that for!” He glared at Sasuke, but Sasuke decided to ignore him.
Silence passed again before Naruto broke it again. “So you like orange?”

Tobi and Naruto became good friends on the way to the hospital. The two seemed to have a lot in common surprisingly enough. The bad boy and the goody two shoes, who would have thought. By the time they all reached the hospital, Sasuke felt that his head was going to explode if they didn't stop talking about ninja weapons and how orange is really the best color to have on your person as a ninja. I mean who ever heard of a ninja dressed in orange.
Sasuke and Naruto left Tobi in the car as they went inside. It wasn't hard to find Kiba since there was only one room in the hospital that had doctors fighting with a patient about a dog.
“You are not talking, Akamaru. I don't care if you get fined by the goddamned health inspector. If you take Akamaru, you will regret it.”
“I think you should just leave the dog before the dog's pet decides to wreak havoc in the hospital which I will gladly help.” Bright blonde hair could just be seen over the doctor's shoulder.
“About time, Naruto. I thought you left me here to rot by myself.”
The doctor finally decided to give up about the dog and left the room leaving the brunette and the blonde in the room. “Man, you wouldn't believe the dream I had last night. There was a vampire and you were bit and-”
“What's with you people and thinking everything is a dream.” Sasuke walked into the room watching a gaping Kiba. He plopped himself into one of the chairs and waved his hand. “Don't mind me.”
“ . . . Naruto, please tell me that the dream is not actually true, and it's just a horrible coincidence that he looks like the guy from my dream.”
“I wish I could say that, but I have to say no.”
Kiba checked Naruto's face to make sure he wasn't lying. When he saw none, he freaked. “But, then you should be dead! Are you a vampire now?! Did you come here to kill me!?”
“Kiba, man, calm down. He did not drink all my blood, so I'm still alive. I came here to see if you were okay.”
Sasuke raised an eyebrow noticing that Naruto didn't mention what he was turning into. He thought about mentioning it but decided against it.
Kiba settled down a little but not much. Akamaru was still growling quietly at the raven hair man that sat watching them. “I'm fine. They bandaged up my arm, gave me some blood and pain killers, and put my arm in a sling. I'll be out by tomorrow.”
“That's good. You definitely had worse. Like the time you and Shino went to that club and you both-”
“Hey! You promised you would never mention that incident again.” Kiba was a bright red color.
“I lied.”
Kiba grumbled as Naruto laughed.
“Dobe, it's time to leave. I'm going to be late for my shoot.” Sasuke stood up and headed for the door.
“You go on then. I'm staying here.”
“Nice try. You're coming.” He grabbed Naruto roughly by the arm. “Nice meeting you again, Inuzuka.” He proceeded in dragging Naruto out of the room; Naruto barely getting to say goodbye himself.
“What was that for, Teme? I barely got to say goodbye, and I didn't even get to talk to him that much.” Naruto yanked his arm from Sasuke, but continued to follow him.
“I told you I was going to be late if we did not leave.”
“Stuck up, rich, bastard,” Naruto mumbled as they left the building. Sasuke waited for Naruto to get in. While he waited, he glanced up at Kiba's window and watched as the raven flew away.

“Now, I want you to listen to me carefully, Dobe. Don't speak, don't act stupid, and don't touch anything, or it's my ass on the line which in turn will become your ass. Got it?”
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go already." Naruto stepped out of the car and walked up to the entrance of the Akatsuki Co. Studio. He followed Sasuke to the man at the front desk where he saw a giant man with lots of bandages wrapped around his the bottom half of his face. Naruto could have sworn that he saw a giant sword sitting next to him.
"Zabuza, is the photographer here?" The man at the desk shook his head and pointed to the studio number. He looked at Naruto with his eyes narrowed until Sasuke waved him off. "He's with me." Zabuza nodded and went back to looking at the security monitors.
Sasuke began walking with Naruto in tow. "Who was he? He looked like some ex yakuza follower or something."
"His name is Momochi, Zabuza. He is a security guard here and has worked for the Uchiha family for over twenty years." Sasuke answered simply as he scanned the area for the photographer. "Where the hell is he?"
"Sasuke, there you are. Deidara will be here in a few minutes. Hurry up and get ready. Time is money and I mean it in a literal sense." Another strange man came out of nowhere and began pushing Sasuke to the dressing room.
"It's not like you don't have enough money, Kakuzu."
"Nonsense, you can never have enough money. Now get change before I kill you." Kakuzu pushed him into the dressing room and slammed the door shut.

After Sasuke was pushed into the dressing room, a long blonde hair person burst in through the doors. At first Naruto thought it was a girl, for the person had a slender body, and a slightly girlish face, but when the person talked in his crude manner all thoughts of the person being a girl flew out the window. "I'm here, un. Why isn't my camera set up, and where is my model, un. I'm an artist for God sake. I'm not the stupid babysitter, un. I go out for a quick bite and chaos erupts, un."
"Sorry, Deidara-sensei. We'll have it ready in a few minutes," one of the assistants bowed and ran off.
Deidara mumbled something about useless people and how they could get nothing right when a certain blonde hair teen caught his eye. "Now that's a thing of beauty, un." Deidara walked up to the teen and circled him. "Perfect face, good body, in shape but not overly muscular, perfectly symmetrical, bright, friendly, eyes contradicts the tanned tone to his nicely, very nice indeed, un."
"Do you need something, or do I need to punch your face in. I'm not interested in guys."
Deidara stared at him for a second before laughing. "And you have spunk too. Don't worry, un. I'm not interested in little kids, un. I just thought that you would make a good model, un."
"Do you have to say 'un' at the end of every sentence?"
"Yes, un. Keeps me in an artistic mood, un," Deidara smiled before taking a large breath of air and pausing. "You're human."
"No, duh. What did you think I was? A vampire?" Naruto stopped to think about that for a second before he said, "You did, didn't you."
Deidara smirked. "Well since you apparently know our secret, I'll tell you a little bit of information, un. Akatsuki Co. is pretty much made up of vampires: the models, the top executives, the photographers, and the managers, un. The only ones who might not be and would not know this are a few of the chefs. The security guard Zabuza is human as well, but he is an exception. So you see it is a surprise, un."
"Deidara, stop saying unnecessary things, and let's start already." Sasuke had emerged from the dressing room.
Naruto almost drooled at the sight of him. Sasuke wore a tight black sleeveless shirt, with tight black leather pants that hugged low on his hips. The pants were accompanied by a black belt that had metal skulls on them. He also wore a necklace that was made up of two strands of silver that seemed to dance around each other. He looked like the ultimate punk/ biker that girls and maybe even guys would die for. He looked perfect or so he thought.
Deidara looked over him once before saying, "Go fix yourself, un. The hair needs to be ruffled slightly more, the pants need to be lower, and the shirt needs to be slightly more wrinkled, un. How can I make explosive art if the people I'm working with can't even create the proper looking punk, un? I mean look at this one here." He pointed to Naruto. "Kid, what's your name, un."
"I'm not a kid," Naruto automatically responded. "And it's Naruto."
Deidara smiled again at his energy. "Good attitude, just what I'm looking for, un. Sasuke-kun, check out Naruto-kun, un. He's the exact type of punk I'm looking for, un. His attitude, his clothes, the hair is absolutely perfect, un. If he wasn't human, I would have him model for me, un."
Naruto smirked at the compliments, thinking that Sasuke would be angry about Naruto showing him up at his own job, but to his surprise, Sasuke just smirked. "I'll go fix myself right away then." Sasuke disappeared into the dressing room once again.
"Okay, people. Shoot begins in two minutes, un. Everyone better be in their positions by the time Sasuke-kun comes out, un." At Deidara's words everyone scrambled to their places.

. . . Meanwhile . . .
A short red hair man stood in front of a blonde hair man who lay frozen on a cold metal table. "This is him. It took a while to find it, but I found it."
"Thank you, Sasori-sama. Orochimaru will be pleased." A young silver hair teen stood behind Sasori looking over his shoulder. He pushed his glasses up with is middle finger before moving around him to get a better look. "The legendary hunter that many would pay millions for. I'm surprised you were able to track his body."
"There are not many that I can't find." He covered up the body with a sheet before continuing to place the body in a body bag.
"You know his son goes to the school I attend."
Sasori raised an eyebrow at this. "So you found him for me. Did you get his records?"
"Of course, it's not hard to get into the system when the teacher is constantly late to class. I had over twenty minutes to hack his computer, and the students don't care. The record is already in your file along with Orochimaru's plans for this body."
"Good work, Kabuto. I expect you to locate the other two vampires I asked you to find as well."
"Of course, Sasori-sama. I am working on that as we speak. It's hard to trace them."
"Right." Sasori zipped up the bag. "The money."
Kabuto handed a small envelope to Sasori, who pocketed the money without checking. "Is it possible for me to get two corpses for myself?"
Sasori kept his face void of emotion. "I'm afraid not. My morgue is under restriction of the council. I am only allowed to give one body to each immortal unless proof of the destruction of the first. I'm in enough trouble as it is with my corpses going missing."
"Going missing? Immortal corpses?"
"No, human corpses that have been involved with immortal affairs. Most immortals would not want those types of corpsesmaking it harder to find the culprit."
"I do not understand why you bother keeping those types of corpses, Sasori-sama."
Sasori gave a small smile. "Because it's fun to have human sized puppets, don't you think?"
Kabuto had to smile too. "Corpses are fun to play with indeed."
Kabuto turned to leave. "Kabuto, make sure Orochimaru doesn't kill you. Don't forget you are only human, and it's hard to find spies like you."
"Of course, Sasori-sama," and with that he walked out.

. . . Back at the Akatsuki Co. Studio . . .
Sasuke wiped his forehead with a wet towel and sat down. Being a vampire did not make those lights any less hot. In fact, he swore it made it worse. Sasuke took a look at Naruto, who was happily chatting with the intern chef Chojo Akimichi. Sasuke concluded that the Akimichi boy was human as he saw the boy continually stuff himself with the food that he had made with Naruto. Honestly, Naruto can make friends anywhere at anytime. Even the vampires who didn't even really like humans have started taking a liking to him. Even Kakuzu, who secretly killed humans because he believed they would steal his money, did not threaten him.
Sasuke shortly decided to head toward Naruto to tell him it was time to take him home. He got to Naruto quickly while trying to ignore any and all girls who were currently drooling over him. And Tobi keeps asking him why he preferred an all male staff.
"Come on, Dobe. It's time to take you home before some one reports you missing."
"I don't want to, Teme. They have free ramen and cake here."
"Yeah, and all that sugar and salt will go to your head and kill off the little brain cells you have left," Sasuke smirked as Naruto opened his mouth to retort, but Tobi ran up to them with a phone in his hand shaking.
"Sir, there is someone on the phone, who wants to speak to you."
"Tobi, I'm sure it can wait until tomorrow."
Tobi shook his head fiercely. "No, sir, it can't.
"Why not?" Sasuke had previously did not care about anything or anyone at the moment, but the way Tobi was acting was not good.
"It's . . . Itachi, sir." Tobi whispered trying to be quiet enough, so Naruto could not hear, but Naruto caught the name.
Sasuke froze for a second before sticking out his hand for the phone. "Give it here." He waited for a second before putting it to his ear and asking, "What do you want bastard?"
Sasuke was unnaturally still for a good ten seconds, before anger crossed his features and threw the phone hard into the wall, leaving it broken and stuck in said wall.
Choji decided he should leave before something was thrown at him and said a quick bye to Naruto.
Naruto on the other hand was slightly afraid. He did not know if it was for the Teme or if thought that the Teme might kill him, he wasn't sure. "Are you okay, Teme? Who's Itachi?"
Sasuke sent a full out glare at Naruto before saying in a cold, hard voice. "It's none of your concern."
"Well, I need to know what's wrong, so I can determine if you're going to go all homicidal and decide to kill me." Naruto tried to glare back, but it was no where near the intensity Sasuke's had.
"I said it was none of your goddamned business! Tobi, take him home before I really do kill him this time!" Sasuke snapped at Naruto and Tobi.
"Come on Naruto-kun." Tobi tugged at his arm.
Naruto left but not before retorting, "Fine, bastard! I hope whatever happens eats your undead soul!" And Naruto stomped out.
Many of the other vampires in the room didn't like the undead part of Naruto's statement, but they couldn't help but look back and forth between Sasuke and the door that Naruto had went through.
Sasuke on the other hand had not heard what Naruto had said before he left. The only thing that went through his head was the voice of a certain Uchiha that kept repeating in his head."I'm coming for you."

Naruto was furious on the car ride home. He was trying to be nice to the bastard, and the bastard decided to bite his head off for it. The bastard can just wait and see if Naruto will ever try to be nice to him again. Naruto just stared out the window until he saw one of his favorite clubs and kindly asked the driver to stop.
"Are you sure you don't want us to drive you to your house, Naruto-kun?" Tobi asked looking at the dark streets that surrounded them.
Naruto gave a confident smile of reassurance. "I'll be fine. I come here all the time. I just want a stop for a quick drink then I'm going straight home. I promise."
Tobi looked slightly unsure, but allowed Naruto to go.
Naruto walked towards the club looking forward to having one of his favorite drinks and forgetting about a certain someone when there was a strong tug on his arm.
"Hey, buddy, me and my friends saw you get out of that nice car just a second ago, and we wanted to know if you wanted to share some of that cash. The man who had grabbed his arm smelled strongly of alcohol and was extremely dirty. His friends did not look that much better.
"Sorry, but it was not my car, try asking someone else." Naruto tried to walk away, but the hold on his arm only got tighter.
"Don't play us as fools, boy. We aren't asking; we're telling." The two other men with him pulled out knives and the man who had his arm pulled out a gun.
Naruto chuckled. "What's your name?"
The man blinked before answering, "Atusha."
"I'm sorry for your bad luck today, Atusha. You just so happened to catch me in an awfully foul mood." Naruto grabbed the man's arm that held the gun and twisted his arm out of the man's hold. Both of Atusha's friend charge in with their knives that Naruto side stepped while also grabbing the gun from Atusha. He pulled the trigger when the gun faced one of the friend's feet and kicked the other guy's stomach. One of them yelled in pain as the other one collapsed from the sudden lack of air. Atusha fell to the ground.
"You're that infamous punk from Konoha High aren't you?"
Naruto smiled and answered proudly, "That's me!"
Atusha laughed. "You're that monster child that everyone was talking about. That's a surprise; I thought you would look scarier." Naruto's smile dropped and anger appeared on his face. "You just like you pathetic father. Tell me are you going to be a murderer like him," the man laughed, but he did not laugh for long for his air way was cut off.
Naruto held his hand around the man's neck with a sadistic smile. His eyes were red and his teeth had grown sharp as if he had grown fangs. "Why don't you say hi to him for me in hell," Naruto's voice was not his own. It had grown deeper as if he was someone else. Naruto slammed the man's head into a wall, and a sickening sound of a skull cracking was heard. Naruto released the man and watch him slide to the ground. The man's eyes were wide open in fear, and before long, blood began to puddle around his head.
Unlike all the other times, when the threat was gone, the change of his features did not fade away. His crimson red eyes stared at the red liquid puddle that continued to grow. Naruto took a deep breath and the smell of blood reached his nose. His mouth twitched in anticipation of drinking the fresh blood. He moved toward the puddle, bending down next to it. His lips were less than an inch away when he realized what he was doing. He backed away so fast he slammed himself against the opposite wall. He looked around and realized that the fight had ended up in a nearby alley. His eyes turned once again into that beautiful blue and the fangs had disappeared. He was himself again.
He looked at the body and realized it was not moving. A chill went up his spine. He couldn't breathe or move. His eyes were glued to the body.
You killed him, kit. You did this.
Naruto shook his head fiercely. No, I-I didn't do this. It was you. I'm not a killer.
Of course, you are because I am in you. Admit it. You wanted to kill him for the comment about your father. You are a killer. The demon laughed, echoing in his mind and repeating the word killer.
No, No!
"Noooo!" Naruto got up and ran. He ran as far away as he could.