XD always wanted to do a vampire fic XD

Narrator is Naruto.

This is sort of gory, don't read if you're sensitive (or at least don't complain to me if you do ^^)

May contain some OOC-ness

Disclaimer: naruto belongs to Kishimoto-sensei

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The Washing

Chapter- 1

I'd know him for as long as I can remember, because he has obsessed my dreams and my thoughts since birth. Yes, I've known him even before I meet him. My heart has seen him long before my eyes have, and I've known also that he was something that was supposed to possess me just as much as I will possess him.

The system in our world is very simple; the vampires are stronger than the mortals so they rule. But they must also protect us; if they keep us safe from other vampires then we give them what they want. And well, they're vampires, so you must already know what they want.

I live in Fire Country, there are six vampire lords who reign here, along with a body of a few dozen subordinates that regulate over different districts. These vampires are called Hogosha and ever since I gained the confirmation of his existence, outside of my dreams, I've been obsessed with them. So much so that a few years ago I told my parents that I wanted to become a lawyer so that they would send me to Konoha, where he and all the Hogosha live, so that I could go to this school that mortals and vampires share. While at the school I studied the vampire's history and the system they had built how many thousands of years ago that still protected us now. I learnt about the rules that stretched beyond species and power to bind even him.

I felt closer to him.

But I wasn't alone, many others desired him too and it became like a blind race because we were all fighting for a goal we didn't exactly know how to obtain. But I worked hard, and one day there was some hope.

"You're kidding? Another test!"

"Yeah, Sasuke-dono hasn't had one of those in five centuries."

My classroom was buzzing that morning, the girls were especially loud, running up and down the halls to other classrooms as they spread the news they had heard making it was impossible for me to sort out who had voiced it first. But then Sakura came and told me herself, in that duplicitous way she always spoke to me knowing that I was her only friend and at the same time her most creditable rival.

"It's true, he announced it last night. I'd heard rumors that he had come out of seclusion and was active again on his search but you know how it is with Sasuke-dono, there are always rumors." We sat side by side, Sakura doing the homework she hadn't finished, I guess because of all the excitement, you wouldn't have known that she was talking to me if you didn't understand that the two of us don't like to look into the other's eyes-

"So what type of test then? Is he going to use the Tsukuyomi or…"-because when we did we felt the sting of the other's desperate enmity.

Sakura cut me off when she laughed, it made my anger spike because she didn't even try to hide the condescendence in it, "Don't you know that he always uses Tsukuyomi? It's because it's the most powerful illusion so he can do whatever he wants and no real physical harm will come to you. Not that Sasuke-dono is being considerate, that technique is known to erode the mind."

"I know that." I bit, as I turned away from her to watch a group that were in a tense discussion, probably talking about the same thing, the Tsukuyomi. It's a technique that only his bloodline could use, and it's frightening.

"You scared?" she asked with a smirk in her voice and I turned back to find her still playing disinterested with me.

"Never, he is mine."

Our eyes meet then, only for a moment, but enough to share the oath that burned furiously in the both of us, it was the only thing we had in common really. The desire was sharp and lethal in both of us, but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to lose to her.

He's different from the other five vampire lords merely because of the fact that he is still alone. In all of the centuries he's been part of Hogosha he's never chosen a lover, in fact for a while now he has been the only lord without one. But what really makes him peculiar, and what causes all the commotion among young mortals, is that he is the only lord that has ever searched for a human lover.

I guess it must cause a lot of commotion among the Hogosha too, an Uchiha wanting a mortal lover, but he never seems to care. Every couple of centuries, when he feels like it, he holds his test and even though they know that it is notorious, that he is supposedly cruel and cold to the affects it leaves on them, or that no one ever passes to the end, they still come. Lined up along the street outside the ivy walls that encircled the Hogosha's private district, hundreds of eager people waited day and night in the cold.

The older ones went in first so as Sakura and I were just sixteen we were almost at the end, not that that daunted us. Seeing the losers stumble back home, some even being taken away by ambulance, others just giving up right there in the line, it was like fuel to our resolve. I didn't know what the test was, but I had decided on my own what it might be assessing and if it was the extent of my love for him he wanted to know then I wouldn't leave room for doubt.

Because I have always loved you.

On the third day we finally got inside. We were taken to a building that was supposed to be a meeting hall, and lead to a wide room that was darken by tightly shut windows, dark carpeting and deep red drapes. And he and his brother were there, his obsidian eyes not caring enough to even glide along the row of us properly, we were nothing more that another group, he must have just wanted this to end.

I have been around vampires before, especially here in Konoha they're everywhere, but the Hogosha are different. The potent energy that hovers around them makes your skin prickle and your ears ring until you've adjusted. You feel hot inside, and if you're not careful you'll find yourself moving closer, like moth to fire, it's an inherent need to touch.

"Don't come any closer." His voice cut through the silence though it was no louder than a mutter, and Ino stopped in her tracks. She blinked herself out of the stupor as she wiped at her burning and redden face with her palms.

"I-I'm sorry." She said weakly before she moved back in line with the rest of us.

Sakura snickered.

But I was enchanted also; I'd never been this close, in the same room, with his attention so near to possibly being mines. I've only ever seen him on the highest balcony of Konoha's head office with the other Hogosha, making announcements or on the television. This was almost unbearably overwhelming.

"Do you know what you're here for?" Itachi spoke now; his bluntly ominous eyes raised pores and made my palms sweat.

We all nodded.

"You understand the effects of the Tsukuyomi?"

Yes.

"If you have any doubts about this test then leave now, you'll only be even more of a waste of my time." Sasuke spoke now, he was serious, his voice edged with that infamous callousness.

I glanced to the side to find them all stiffen, some trying to hold back worried expressions, there were also the few that didn't appear that intimidated. My eyes narrowed at that, those are the ones that are my true competition.

But then he smirked at us like we were all ridiculous and I felt Sakura shift nervously at my side, "Look into my eyes," he told as the two onyx bulbs began to bleed, deep red. "I'll take you to hell."

Blood tainted night sky was the canvas upon which hung a crimson full moon which shun down on everything a sanguine light. Stained clouds, and dull stars. And then the shrieking, it gurgled thick and piercing out of the throats of these doglike beasts that were suddenly attacking us. My eyes widened as the thing, with teeth that were so large it overflowed out of its mouth, ripped a boy apart right next to me. His blood erupted and flew onto me like burning drops of rain, and I could hear each bone as it cracked under every bite.

"Naruto!" Sakura's scream broke the ringing stun that was holding me in place and just as the boy's still body began to dissolve into a scarlet fog and the beast's interest shifted to me, I ran.

"Sakura! SAKURA!" I glimpsed her disappearing behind a corner. We were in some sort of abandoned neighborhood, the ghostly broken shells of houses lied like bleak skulls with their black dimed windows, glowing eyes peeking menacingly through their darkness.

There's no way I'm going in there, all I could do is run. So I went after her, whisking passed others who either were being eaten or fighting for their lives. I could tell that some were following me because I could hear their fleeting pants, gliding footfalls and some of them even whimpering. But I could also hear the beasts so I didn't look back.

When I finally got to the end of the street, the same place Sakura disappeared; I continued on and was taken into thick darkness. The sounds stopped and all I could hear now was water, it broke apart under our feet and sloshed as we cut a path through the body of it.

Where am I? I panted as I tried to discern an image in the formless blackness that was surrounding us. But then it broke and as if it were some sort of tunnel, we ran through an opening and saw a forest ahead.

"Ah." I gasped when I looked down and found that we were running on a lake. Not believing it I closed my eyes and clenched my fists hoping that the laws of reality wouldn't suddenly decide to return on me as I ran even faster for the bank.

Sakura was there, she stood watching me as I bent over trying to catch my breath, her dull eyes looking fretful. I wondered if she regretted helping me, but then I smiled, even if she did it's too late. Sasuke and Itachi appeared before the heavy shroud of trees that was the woods; they looked unamused at the shrunken group.

"I see the Inugami has wiped off a lot of you." Itachi said, "Don't be concerned, they are safe, returned to reality."

"They're losers, you all are too but you're just a bit luckier." Sasuke told us and then his eyes fell on me pushing the breath out of my chest and sending a cold shiver down my spine. "Especially you."

My face colored as I felt crushed, he'd seen when Sakura had called out to me and inadvertently assisted my still being here and not back in the real world with the others. Sakura didn't look at me but I knew she was satisfied.

"Hn, first test done then, twenty-nine to go."

I understand now.

It's because we all love him, we all believe that we deserve him. But really, to what extent does love reach? How deep does it run? When will it not be enough? After the third test? The tenth? How about the seventeenth? When you're in agony how will your mind blur and your resolve tumble? Many gave up, and with each test it felt like a part of me died and I was shoved closer to the edge where I knew I couldn't go on either.

Do I really deserve you? I can't take anymore tortures so does that mean that I'm not worthy of you?

The twenty-ninth test was a sixteen hour scourging, I only survived because I didn't have the energy to even whimper my defeat, and as I laid on the rusted, blood soaked floor feeling the raw wounds heal themselves gradually in preparation for the next time, I knew that I was done.

But it occurred to me that if this was all it took to make me give up all I had worked for then maybe it wasn't enough to just love him. My cold tears gathered then seeped down my checks as I gazed up at the red moon that was as indifferent as his eyes were when he'd watched us be tormented for him. I could hear Sakura's weak crying nearby, she had survived also along with two others, but their eyes were just as empty as mines.

"This is unexpected." Itachi said from where he sat casually on a large boulder close by, "This is the first group that has ever gotten this far."

"Doesn't matter aniki, no one has ever passed the last test."

"Hm." I whimpered, his voice made my insides cringe. After what has felt like weeks right now I just wanted to get away from him, partly because of the new associations but also because I have failed him.

A new sound filled the area, it was like hundreds of birds, and when I pulled my head to fall to the side I saw that meters away something was lifting itself out of the ground. It looked like a narrow silver paved path and as it rose it formed a wide circle as it stopped where it began.

"Look closely, this walk is paved with needles." I did as Sasuke said and I noticed that he was right, there were millions of small gleaming needles spiked out of the ground so close together that they looked like a solid mass. "The last test is to make ten laps on that path, this person who does this-deserves my love."

It hurt just looking at it, and the fact that I knew I couldn't do it hurt more than anything else. My eyes stung from my tears when I looked to him, he was so close and I've come so far but-

"None of you?" he asked, and for the first time his tone fell somewhere a bit warmer, his brows tightened as he studied each one and it almost felt like he was maybe pushing for something, or asking for some type of movement. But then he chuckled bitterly, his head falling slightly as he shook it in a disregarding way. "If you never truly loved me then why did you come?"

His words was like a blade, the most painful torture throughout this entire ordeal, my tears fogged my sight now as I watched him turn away from us and I could tell that he was done.

So that's it, I thought you didn't care but you're very disappointed aren't you?

"Wait." My voice cracked from my throat. A new stone hard resolution fell to the pit of my stomach as I struggled to get to my feet. I wasn't certain at all about what I had just decided to do; in fact this felt as firm as a death wish. But that itself was true wasn't it?

Because I really will die for you.

Somehow he managed to look unimpressed as I pulled my tired body, this beaten down illusion of it, towards the track. My breathing deepened as I prepared myself for the inevitable pain, and could feel my finger tips go numb as if my blood had gone cold and frozen still in their veins. I couldn't even sweat. Pausing at the edge, my bangs shadowed my face as I looked down at the sea of needles, and man did it feel like an ocean, like something huge and impossible.

Don't think like that Naruto, think only of him- I glanced to the side so that our eyes met, and- yes!- his attention was on me only and completely, Sasuke was only looking at me.

Ha ha, and he doesn't look that disgusted either.

With my first step I felt nothing but the weary air that ran in and out of my chest and the heavy ache in my knees, because god I was tired. But after that, when the needles began piercing through the same raw places that were only just shredded open before, my screams filled the place. But I shouted to keep myself going insane because I felt like a mad man as I desperately realized that I was going through all of this over a feeling, a sharp and consuming one, but just an emotion none-the-less. If ever I doubted my love for him it was now, at one point, even amidst the inexplicable pain, I almost laughed at how ridiculous I was.

Am I stupid then? That was the question that hung in every moment, breaking my steps into parts that made this torture feel not as endless and when the end came I wasn't there anymore, consciousness left me and I felt empty. But then I felt him too, it was dim and I wasn't sure what was happening but I realized suddenly that it was over, Sasuke was holding me and the pain would end now.

I won.

End of Chapter One

This fic is about Naruto's crossing into being a vampire.

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