Sorry for the long awaited final chapter, remember there is an epi that will tie all the other couples and give more surprices but for now were giving you the last chapter.

warning oocness, boy on boy .

we dont own naruto

ON WITH THE SHOW THE FINAL CHAPTER.

Looking intently at the close door Sasuke raised an eyebrow as his mind puzzled around the vampiress' strange behavior and bizarre request. "I wonder what that was about?" he mused aloud.

"Huh, what do you mean?" A blond head moved from its comfortable rest on the lean shoulder to ask his question.

Sasuke's chest rumbled with a small chuckle, "Nothing, never mind." Yeah he had been right in assuming his mate was oblivious to the happenings.

"Sasuke-Teme?" he whined not understanding what was so amusing.

"It's nothing, forget it."

"Hmph," he glared at the dismissal, offended he turned his head away from the raven, raising his chin out stubbornly.

"Dobe do you want to go swimming with me?" the Uchiha asked trying to get his lover to stop pouting or else they would end up in bed again, then again sex in the pool didn't sound bad.

"Yeah" Naruto's eyes shinned with enthusiasm, his previous annoyance at Sasuke already forgotten.

"And can we have ramen after?" his eyes shined with anticipation as Sasuke pulled him to his feet. "Sure why not?"

"Yay!"

Sasuke's stoic face turned into a small smile at seeing the blond so happy, things had been like before when they lived together, he was hardly sad, now the blue eyes shone with happiness, emotions that when showed by his little mate brought warmth to his emotionless life. There were some problems but despite everything, things were much better and even more gratifying. "Come on teme," the chirpy blond pulled Sasuke along, anxious to have fun.

"Hn," things were definitely better.

"How do I look?" the blond spun around in a full circle then stopped to get Sasuke's judgment.

"Well…?" He pressed when no answer came forward and the raven just continued to watch him.

Sasuke took in his lover's appearance in silence, amused at the expectant answer; what could he say?

Naruto had taken about an hour to get dressed; he took a long shower then spent a few minutes looking in his closet for something to wear. He had tried several suits, he looked better naked in Sasuke's opinion but he didn't approve of anyone seeing him naked other than him.

Several suits later the blond had settled for black slacks, a white dress shirt, black jacket with a silk trim, a baby blue handkerchief showing on his jacket pocket that matched with the color of his eyes, and his sun kissed hair unruly like always now accentuated by his golden skin. The only thing the raven could say was that his little blond always managed to look like a sex god.

Moving from his sitting position in the chair at his faster speed he dashed behind the blond, his lips brushed against the small ear lobe to whisper suggestively, "You look so sexy, its having a really good effect on me." The blond whirled into his arms, a small pout on his puckered lips.

"I love it that I look good, but I know where you're going with this."

"And where is that?" The Uchiha smirked mischievously.

"Sasuke we can't! We have to go to this dinner. We both promised Temari we would be there for her and Shikamaru, and I took forever to get ready; we are not having sex." The blond reached up and bit Sasuke's earlobe before lightly sucking on it. "But I'll make it up to you when we get home," he added sensually.

Then he lightly brushed his lips against the raven's pale lips in a gently kiss.

"Ok, we should get going." he said as he walked in the doors direction, a content smile on his face at leaving his lover in shock.

Sasuke came to by the time that Naruto reached the door. 'Damn that dobe for getting him exited just thinking of what was to come, he was sure he wouldn't let go of the blond until both were satisfied.'

Glancing one more time to make sure that everything was alright with his appearance, he checked his black suit, navy blue dress shirt that accentuated his pale features, his midnight black dark hair silkily combed as his bangs framed his face and the spikes at the back.

Satisfied, he walked out of the room to catch up to Naruto.

"Ne, Sasuke have you seen Iruka?"

"Hn?" Sasuke replied absentmindedly as he half listened to Naruto's chatter as he drove his mustang convertible; they had rejected the offer of having a limo driving them around just to go to a family dinner.

"I mean, he's probably busy but I haven't seen him since the day of the meeting with the elders, I don't think it's anything with work but he has never left without saying anything. Do you think he's ok?"

"I'm sure he's fine, he can take care of himself. Besides he's probably just giving us some privacy, after all you're pretty loud." Sasuke smirked when he saw Naruto turn bright red at the comment.

"That's not my fault." he defended himself.

"No you're right, I'm sorry" Sasuke chuckled.

"Uchiha…" Naruto warned a little peeved. Sasuke immediately stopped teasing the blond, knowing that if he continued to tease his dobe, he would give him the silent treatment; even if he couldn't stay quiet for very long. He would try to keep from making a sound when they were having sex. That was not good, those sounds turned Sasuke on, but oh no, the Uchiha wasn't about to tell the blond just what kind of ecstasy those wanton moans caused for him. So with an apology he concentrated on driving.

Ten minutes later Sasuke let out a sigh as he opened the door, he held the passenger's door open waiting for the blond to get out.

"Naruto, I was joking, I'm really sorry. And I'm sure Iruka is just busy." The blonde hadn't said anything for the remaining time of the drive to the dinner.

"I know, it's ok." He smiled, not really mad. He just wanted to take a revenge on Sasuke for saying those comments, after all it was the raven's fault that he made those noises, he wouldn't let him cum if he didn't call out for him. So who was he calling noisy when he loved them?

"Let's go then." He nodded at the cheerful vampire before taking his hand. "Mm-hm."

Both walked up to the entrance past a smiling person in the door and froze at the wave of applause that assaulted them when they entered the dining room.

After a few seconds of shock, Naruto turned to Sasuke; who even though was surprised he remained his usual stoic self. Both took in the people in the room, they were much less people than in the previous time they had been the same room, obviously this time it was friends of the blond and people who supported him. The room was done to a more conservative style instead of the elegant design it had held previously. And as the applause quiet down both watched the approaching duo.

"Naru-chan, Sasuke-kun," both Haku and Temari approached them with a huge smile on their faces.

"Surprise!!" Temari told them.

"You see we wanted to celebrate your new position and your new mate." Haku said as he took Naruto by the arm and Temari took Sasuke's and walked them to the table that was set up for them.

"Thanks everyone, I can't express how touched I am that I have your support in my choice of mate. It was not what many wanted and expected, yet despite all this you have all been there for me, with your approval and best interest towards our happiness. Thus I honestly thank you. " Naruto addressed the close friends in the private ball room after Temari and Haku explained the surprise party and congratulated them as new mates.

Tsunade and Jiraiya were the first ones to come to their table after the blond had address the crown, they had seated in the decorated table and watched the Hokage and elder approach both with a wide smile.

"So how did you like the surprise?"

"It's really nice Ero-Sennin."

"I guess this is their way of saying their happy with your union." Tsunade added watching both of them.

"Yeah I'm happy that we have great friends who support us." Both elders took a seat in front of the couple.

"When Temari invited us, we wanted to do something to show how happy we are for the both of you." Tsunade explained and Jiraiya grinned from ear to ear. "So we got you a little present."

"You shouldn't hav-"

'"Nonsense it's ok, this is something that I had promised Minato and Kushina. It had to be changed a little given your circumstances but I'm sure your parents would had been happy that you received this." Jiraiya explained as Tsuande pulled a medium size box from her purse and placed it carefully in the table. The blond took the box and opened it, his eyes softening as he took in the gift that was carefully placed in.

"You can't even tell which one was hers so you wouldn't feel bad as the uke." Jiraiya teased.

Sasuke leaned in to see the contents of the box, in the black velvet container; two white gold wedding bands with an ample sparkling blue topaz diamond that matched Naruto's eye color and a red ruby of the same intensity were intertwined, each were held in place by multiple diamonds surrounding the two gemstones, the pair was breathtaking, elegant and showed the thought that went into designing them to show that they were mate bands and to demonstrate the high ranking of the King and…well Queen. Although like the elder pointed out they were the same design, displaying no difference between the male or female.

"It had been Kushina who had wanted Minato's eye color and Minato chose red because of her radiant hair, as their wedding bands." Jiraiya explained to Sasuke. He took the box from the blond's hand and removed one of the rings, gently sliding it onto Naruto's ring finger, startling him. Then he took the other and slid into his own ring finger.

"Thank you this means a lot, especially to Naruto," he told both elders who were smiling at the shocked blond, said male turned to the raven his deep blue eyes displaying his appreciation for both the gift and the ravens actions, his lips turned into a dazzling smile.

"It was our pleasure Naruto, actually it was Iruka who suggested it." the blonde Hokage stated. "Now we will let you talk to the rest of your friends." She stood up from her seat pulling a huffing Jiraiya with her.

"Thank you Jiraiya, Tsunade."

"No problem kid." The elder said as he was pulled away with the tie of his suit, "Come on, stop tugging at it." Jiraiya whined as Tsunade pulled him away from the couple, leaving to go to their own table to enjoy the rest of the celebration.

"It's beautiful." Sasuke whispered low to the now King.

"I always looked at moms when I was with her, it used to have a sleeker band but it's the same nonetheless. I always thought that it seemed to shine more when she was happy," he said brushing the gems with his forefinger.

"Now that is yours I hope it always shines."

(I know Fluffy but I'm working towards the end and let me warn you the end will be super with capital S Fluffy…..so you have been warned.)

The couple intertwined their fingers and Sasuke rested their hands in his lap; a very tender, private action. They watched as the other guests conversed or danced happily, many seemed to enjoy the atmosphere of the event. They exchanged smiles with some vampires, humans and immortals who met their eyes and nodded or toast to their happiness. This time there was no pretences behind those smiles, it was because they wanted to be there and let them know they wished to share their lives together no matter how long that was or who it was with.

The couple also spoke with Kotetsu and Izumo, well Naruto did, the raven was not much for words most hns, yes and no's but both raven and blond were relieved to know they had their support, even if they were at the mansion every day, they hardly talked. Naruto did feel bad for that, but with everything that had happened in the last month he was just happy that both of them were unharmed. The males wished them the best and even commented that they made a really good pair before returning to their table to mingle amongst the other people.

Konohamaru, Moegi, Mizuki and Udon, a new shape shifting friend, also congratulated them.

The blond shook his head at the gushing comment that came from Mizuki, apparently she approved, only because it was to someone as 'Hot as Sasuke-sama.' She didn't mind her prince charming being taken away. Naruto was sure the stoic pureblood had two more fans in both females. He had been pleased by the approval of Konohamaru with his mate decision. The young immortal was still a little depressed about his grandfather's death, but he had put a genuine smile on his face and congratulated them.

"I'm happy to see you smiling again Naruto nii-chan and if Sasuke- nii makes you happy I don't care if he's a guy or an ex-human. He will be my new brother too." The beaming smile that the blond had was mesmerizing at the offer of acceptance.

"Thank you Konohamaru."

"Ja ne Naruto nii-chan, Sasuke-nii." Konohamaru said their goodbyes pulling the two gushing girls away from the couple, yup they had fallen for the new pureblood as well. Udon was shy but had nodded and quietly congratulated the couple.

"I'm glad he understood." The blond sighed in relief. Honestly he had not been sure how Konohamaru would take the news and he had been worried.

"He's happy as long as you're happy, there was never any doubt that he wouldn't understand your choice," Sasuke informed him matter of fact-ly with a smirk.

"How are you doing otouto, Naruto-kun?" Itachi walked up to their table, the mortal Uchiha was dressed in a spotless black suit and a blood red dress shirt. His hair like always was perfectly combed but instead of loose tresses they were arranged in his signature ponytail.

"Itachi-san" Naruto smiled at the familiar face.

"Ah, ah its Itachi Naruto, besides being business partners, now we're practically brother in-laws, you're family. Please don't be so formal."

The blond's smile widened at the approval of Itachi and the elder smirked making Naruto blush slightly. Itachi was content at pleasing the cute blond, so yeah he was his brother's lover but still Itachi found the vampire King charming and simply irresistible, he enjoyed seeing him smile.

"So otouto, how is everything going? How are things going with you now?" He asked trying to change the subject after all he had noted Sasuke's glare, he understood his behavior perfectly; all Uchiha's were possessive and if Itachi himself had someone like the blond he wouldn't let anyone else flirt or in this case let anyone please the blond.

"Hn….It's ok, the constant feeding takes some getting used to."

"I thought you only feed one time?"

"Once my body gets used to the change, but for now I have to constantly feed." the words were forced out not because he didn't want to tell his brother but because making conversation even if it was to his Aniki still didn't come simple to the stoic raven. It had come to his attention that conversation for him came simple when he was with the blond but with other people he was pulled back into his usual silent self.

"Hn" The elder Uchiha nodded sharply in understanding.

'Typical Uchiha conversation' Naruto thought at the multiple hns.

"How's the company?" It was Sasuke's turn to ask after a few silent seconds and a stern gaze from the blond to continue the conversation.

"Everything is going well, we had a few more projects and of course our work with the Uzumaki Corporation is having a good response. The profit of the work has increased and is even better than what we had expected."

"Really?" Naruto asked surprised.

"Were you not aware? I sent a memo with the detailed statistics to Umino-san." The elder Uchiha's eyebrow rose at his shocked response.

"Sorry, I'm afraid I haven't been too involved in the corporation business for the last couple of weeks, and I haven't seen Iruka so I had no idea. However I'm happy that the project is successful. I was sure that it would be what you had expected and more," he smiled, but he still seemed a little sad.

"Thanks." He glanced at Sasuke who was frowning, "I did see Umino-san here earlier so I'm sure that he'll come and see you." he reassured; like his brother not liking seeing the charismatic blond sad, It didn't go with him.

"Naruto-kun, otouto I'm happy for you and I'll see you later. Sasuke please visit the company whenever you want."

"Thanks aniki, I will."

And with his nod of acknowledgement the elder Uchiha walked away, both female and males couldn't help but take in sight of the gorgeous man. The raven walked in the direction of some people he had met ignoring the staring that he seemed to command. His attention was focused on business, after all parties were a good place to make new business or to make important acquaintances.

The younger Uchiha watched his brother conversing with a couple of men 'business men' he was sure, after all the elder Uchiha practically lived for work, the most he had seen Itachi relax or stop working was with the incident that had just passed. Other than that it was nothing but work and concentrating on the Uchiha Corporation. The raven thought that it was time for Itachi to find someone, he wanted him to enjoy life the way the younger Uchiha was now enjoying it with Naruto.

Thinking of Naruto, the raven glanced at his mate who was looking around, he also scanned the room trying to spot the vampire that the blond was worrying over, unfortunately Iruka didn't seem to be anywhere around.

"Do you want to go look for him?"

"Eh?" Confused baby blue orbs turned to meet questioning black, he seemed to not have heard him in his search for Iruka.

"Iruka, do you want to go look for him?"

"No its fine, Itachi said he was here so he's probably busy."

"Why don't you just call him, I'm sure he has his phone with him." He seemed to be thinking about it as he bit his lip.

"No, I'm sure he's fine. I'll call him if I don't see him tonight."

"Call who?" the familiar voice asked. Both males turned their attention to the two vampires that had come from the other side room to come to their table.

"Iruka!" Naruto abruptly stood up. "Are you ok?" His now troubled deep blue eyes searched his guardian making sure there was nothing wrong with the male.

"Yeah, Naruto I'm ok," he reassured him. The pureblood sighed and took his seat at the table, he was relieved that Iruka was ok.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to worry you." His brown eyes soft at seeing the worry in his eyes and whishing he hadn't caused it. Both he and Kakashi took a seat at the table.

"No I shouldn't have overreacted I'm glad you're ok. And…….well thanks for the gift."

"Oh. No problem, I hope you liked it."

"I loved it." The blond smiled at his guardian, "It's the best gift that you have ever given me."

"Hmm. I'm sure I've heard those words before… yup when you got that orange Ferrari Scuderia, you said the same thing."

"But Ruka this tops that present, even the one when you let me into the Hokage's tower and I flushed all the floors."

"That was you?" Kakashi sharply turned to Iruka.

"No that was not me, that was Naruto……I merely allowed him to do the prank for his birthday." he defended himself as Sasuke and Kakashi stared at him.

"I can't believe you let him get away with that." Kakashi shook his head in disbelief. "You really do spoil him too much."

Iruka turned his face to the side, embarrassed while Naruto stuck his tongue out to Kakashi. Sasuke who had a smirk at the blond's prank raised a brow at what he noted on the tanned guardian. As distracted as he was with his embarrassment, Iruka had turned his head and exposed his neck, although it was well concealed it was still exposed; two still red, vampire mate bite marks. There was no mistaking them, after all Sasuke's own mate marks still remained red and if they were feeding marks they would have vanished by now there was no way that the raven wouldn't recognize them.

He contained a chuckle as he turned to inspect Kakashi and it was the same even thought the Ex-ANBU's were better covered by the usual scarf only a part of the left canine was showing. The new pureblood now discovered the reason that the guardian had been MIA.

The silver haired vampire noted the raven's smirk and both met their eyes Sasuke silently turned to Iruka's neck and he raised a brow. Kakashi rolled his eyes and knew that Sasuke would tell Naruto and then he would really hear it from the blond, he sighed preparing himself for what was to come.

"What is it Sasuke?" the raven leaned in to whisper in the blond's ear.

"Ne Iruka, Temari was looking for you." The silver haired vampire lied trying to get him away as soon as possible, knowing that he would soon be embarrassed by Naruto's overprotective nature. "Maybe you should go check and make sure that everything is fine."

"Oh….." Iruka saw that Sasuke was whispering something to the blond. "Oh, ok. I'll be right back," with that the guardian walked off and Kakashi waited…..

"Ne, Naruto do you want to know where Iruka was?"

"Eh you know?" the blond scooted closer to the ravens lips.

"Mm-hm," he nodded.

"Yes, where was he?" He whispered back intrigued, Sasuke noted through his peripheral vision that Iruka had gone to see Temari.

"He was with Kakashi, he was mated. You can see Kakashi's mate mark in his left and Iruka's on his right." Naruto's blue orbs widened and he snapped to look at Kakashi, his eyes narrowed as he spotted the red bite mark, that despite trying to be covered was still noticeable yet it was there nevertheless. With a small gasp Naruto's eyes searched for Iruka and tried to spot his bite mark but the guardian was turning away from him and his neck couldn't be seen. Still that didn't mean that he didn't believe Sasuke.

"Ka-Ka-Shi- Sen-Sei" Naruto's narrowed glare turned to the silver haired vampire. Sasuke sat back in his chair watching as Naruto was about to chew Kakashi out, the raven wanted to make sure Kakashi paid for teasing him after his turn.

"Look Naruto I-"

"No you look Hatake, I know your much older than me, but I'm sure you know that I would do anything and I mean anything for Iruka he's like a….father and mother for me, he's taken care of me since I was 8 years old, that is more than 3 centuries. I know he's happy with you….but if you hurt him in the least possible way, I will make sure you pay." he said his voice although low, it was deadly. "I do mean pay, what Baki went through will look like a walk in the park compared to the torture that you will go through."

Kakashi stiffened at the warning; in no way was it sugar coated, it was blunt and threatening, and he knew that the blond meant every word of it. After all Baki was left three weeks in the torture chamber with Morino Ibiki; a sadist who knew well how to break a person in the most horrible ways. Not to mention his injuries hadn't been just emotional and physiological, every bone in his body had been broken, several times as it healed over and over.

"Look Naruto, I know how important Iruka is to you, just as how important you are to him, and I would never hurt him. As my mate I will protect Iruka no matter what. Just as you will protect Sasuke and Sasuke will protect you. There's nothing to worry about." the blonde relaxed his tense position at the reassuring words, and with a sharp nod he turned to Sasuke. The raven had listened to his lover's deadly warning and didn't like him tense, he took his hand and urged him to relax as he rubbed soothing circles with his thumb.

"You know Naruto is not like I was hurting Iruka, actually I think he enjoyed himself very much, or I'm I wrong after all I'm sure Sasuke gave you a familiar treatment."

Naruto blushed red completely and closed his eyes at the comment from the pervert, Sasuke smirked remembering when they had claimed each other as mates. Kakashi chuckled at the different reactions.

"Kakashi?" Iruka walked back to the chair with a confused expression. "Temari said she had not been looking for me."

"Oh really, well I must have been mistaken." Iruka could tell he was lying and narrowed his eyes at his new mate accusingly, he glanced at the smirking Sasuke and the blushing red tomato that was Naruto.

"What?"

"Actually Iruka I just wanted to talk to Kakashi-sensei" he tried to will his redness away.

"Huh… what about?"

The now much less red Naruto turned to Kakashi with a loving smile. "I was just asking Kakashi if he'll be like my dad now that he's your mate."

Iruka's eyes widened and he blushed red, both their hue had been strikingly similar. "Na…Naruto..you see..I"

"It's ok Iruka, I'm happy for you. If Kakashi-sensei makes you happy then I'm happy." He said using Konohamaru's accepting words.

"Yes, congratulations Iruka-san, Kakashi-sensei," the last part Sasuke said it more in teasing word.

"Naruto…" Iruka looked lovingly at his King who was like a son to him; it did matter what the blonds' opinion of his mating was but with everything that had happened there hadn't been an opportunity to ask his opinion, but he was thankful that he approved of their union.

"Let's go Iruka." Kakashi took the brown haired vampire by the waist and pulled him away.

"Oh," he stopped and smirked at Sasuke "Tomorrow will be your first training with me Sasuke, looking forward to working with you." The raven glared at the threat and it seemed that he was not the only one; sitting next to him his mate was also glaring daggers.

"Kakashi" Iruka reprimanded and slapped him on the arm.

"I'm just kidding," he chuckled as both walked away.

"It will be fine." Naruto said as he turned at Sasuke with a smile, in truth the new pureblood was not worried about training, he needed to learn these things, but that didn't mean that he liked being threatened.

"So want to go look around, now that you have calmed down and you're not worried about Iruka anymore?" A wide grin covered the blond's face and he nodded fervently, his worries forgotten.

"Come on," Sasuke pulled him up from his chair, and they walked in the general direction of the tables of the other guests.

"I wonder where Gaara is?" Naruto mumbled.

"Hn…I'm sure he's already here somewhere." the raven stated, but his black orbs were already scanning the tables for the redhead or the Hyuuga.

"Ah…" Naruto said loudly spotting the red locks. "Over there" he chirped as he pulled on his mate's arm.

"Neji, Gaara!" Was his enthusiastic greeting as they took a seat at the almost deserted table.

"Naruto, Sasuke."

"Naruto-kun, Sasuke," both greeted, Gaara's lip twitched into a small smile to see Naruto so happy.

"You both knew!" Naruto accused.

"Yeah, but in our defense Temari would have bitten our heads off if we said anything," the redhead gave him an apologetic look.

"Yeah I figured; I know how Temari can be when things don't go her way… speaking of Temari I hear she found out." Naruto grinned at the small blush on Gaara's face.

"And let me warn you she's already planning on telling the Sabaku Clan... She's even dragging me in it."

"What?" Gaara asked in alarm.

"Yeah you know how only close family knows about Shikamaru and before the turning she probably wants to present him…..I guess she will feel less stressed if some of that pressure is put on your relationship. Same as to why she wants us there, to prove her point that human turns are not bad." He added, a little worried seeing Gaara's shocked expression.

"Smart of her to use our situations even if it's not with malice but, I already told her to wait. I'm sure she won't do anything drastic yet. She still has some time to wait for Shikamaru, he's still too young." Neji frowned at Gaara's shock.

"Too young?" Sasuke asked him, he had been following the conversation as he watch the always emotionless redhead pale with each word from his mate. The dobes comment had surprised him.

"Temari won't turn him now; she wanted to wait until Shikamaru aged more." Gaara explained absentmindedly, his mind still going over the implications of his whole clan finding out about his relationship with Neji.

"Temari is much older than Gaara and I. As immortals we do have a rule that birthing have to be at least one century apart; to make sure we don't overpopulate, disregard is punishable." the blond added at the strange looks at from both ravens when he specified it was a rule.

"Why a century?" Neji questioned.

"Ah, well like I said overpopulation can be a dangerous, we might not feed on humans anymore but the Blood banks were not established until 1915 and before that immortals feed on humans. It wouldn't be good if we overpopulated our source of sustenance, so this rule was established to space out the time from one birth to another and one less immortal to feed. Twins or multiples are the only exception, is extremely rare but it has happened only twice that is recorded. "

"Having a child in our case is a great responsibility, if the parents are not qualified to make sure their children protect out existence it can turn out to a mass hysteria and we would be feared and hunted. " Gaara pointed out, "In truth many actually wait longer than the allowed time."

"Yes, there's only two years of difference between Gaara and I, however Temari is older than us by a couple of centuries, you wont notice it because her appearance takes a long time to change. Therefore she is waiting for Shikamaru to look closer to her age before she turns him. That way both will age at the same time and there won't be a visible difference."

"You mean turned vampires still age?" Neji asked. In truth he thought that Sasuke wouldn't age past his current appearance, one thing were born vampires but another thing turned, well according to the movies and known or studied vampirism traits. 'Not that they were accurate' his mind pointed out, after all the information that they had learned.

"Oh no, they do age. That's another myth, even vampires grow old, however it's at a much slower rate."

"How so?" His mate asked the blond.

"Well…..when were born for the first years it's just like a human baby."

"With the exception of our diet." Gaara added.

"We feed just as regular children would but the blood is still essential, and we had wet nurses to feed back then, this was before the blood bags," he explained to them with a nod to Gaara for pointing the fact out.

"You fed of your nannies?" Neji raised a brow.

"It's not like we killed them, we had several and we only took small amounts of blood from each and since they were live-in nannies they were well taken care of." Naruto explained, knowing that it sounded barbaric.

"We don't do that anymore…well we try not to, some old vampires think that for a new born the nutrients of fresh blood is better than bagged blood and still do it even if it's against the law, but it's not allowed."

"So then around twelve our aging slows down and for several years we look pretty much the same, the need to feed of human food diminishes greatly and many stop. However with the larger amount of blood that we take in our cells act differently; the blood heals us faster, not only the physical damage to the body but also it repairs the damage to the cells and any organs and since our cells keep getting restored our age is also almost eternal. Which is why a turning takes long as it has to repair any damage that has been done to the body for that human's life."

"However for born vampires when we reach maturity around 15, our age dramatically slows and each passing year is almost a century. Which is why in Temari's case she looks about 4 years older than Gaara and I but she is almost 710.."

"712" Gaara corrected. "So she will wait for Shikamaru to look around 21 then if he wants to go through the turning both can age at the same time."

"So you see, you shouldn't worry yet," the redhead turned to the blond with a 'yeah right' look..

"When are you going back to school Sasuke?" Neji asked after there was a moment of silence and he had adjusted to the information and looking at both the blond and redhead seemed to be mulling over the problem.

"Hn, I'm not certain, apparently I still have to wait, but I start my training with Kakashi tomorrow."

"Why do you have to wait if you're fine?"

The redhead shook his head at his lovers assessment. "His body is still getting used to the change, he still needs constant blood and that means that his bloodlust in not under control."

"Bloodlust?"

"Since he's been around vampires ever since his turning he's alright, he has been around some humans but he had been feeding and was not hungry. However if he attended school and he was not ready, it could turn out bad, if he gets hungry and loses control it would be like leaving a hungry kid in a candy shop. Only the candy would be slaughtered." Gaara grimaced. "The scent of human blood has a really bad effect on us. Our instincts might take over and it could be devastating." He mumbled and it seemed that all were picturing what that would be like.

"That's why we have to wait until he can fully control his bloodlust." Naruto nodded. "But it doesn't take long so it could be in one or two weeks. You're a fast learner. Kakashi would be in school so you would be safe and always have blood in case you got hungry," he reassured Sasuke who had a frown. Said raven didn't particularly felt good at the thought of possibly slaughtering his schoolmates; he didn't like them especially the fangirls but that didn't mean that he wanted to feed off of them.

"Also in case of emergencies he has to know how to hunt, so he can be able to stop before killing." Gaara told them, it was not the perfect place to actually talk about, but since it seemed the raven didn't know this information the redhead deducted that they had been occupied assisting him to use his fangs to touch the topic. Besides he was sure that if left alone both the blond and raven would prefer to be doing something different altogether.

"Hunt?" Both Neji and Sasuke asked surprised at the word.

"Of course even if the law say that vampires don't feed of humans, if there's ever an accident and he needs blood he needs to feed and must know how to control himself so he doesn't take the person's life; just the necessary blood to be able to stay alive until he can get bagged blood."

"Isn't that wrong?" He asked Naruto, the blond had been the one that passed the law about feeding on humans.

"Vampires are not to feed on humans for food, fun or sporting" he sent Neji an apologetic look as it sounded wrong to use humans as sport. "But in these kind of emergencies, taking these kinds of actions would be understandable and when you learn how to hunt you will just take a small portion, it will not harm them. This precaution is not only for your wellbeing is also to make sure that no one finds out of our existence. Lets say you don't drink because of the rule, yet are weakened due to blood loss and loose consciousness, if taken to a hospital and they find out about restorative abilities and well am sure you can picture the outcome."

"Oh," well even if feeding on a person will probably feel wrong and make the person look like food which was not the case, Neji and Sasuke understood that there would be a need to know what to do in those situations.

"Ne, Neji do you think that we could play paintball some day?" Naruto asked trying to change the topic; after all, talking about going on a killing spree was hardly a nice topic.

"Sure… But I hardly think that three vampires who have exceptional abilities and senses would be fair against a human." Sasuke smirked and Naruto giggled.

In that second Neji froze and his eyes widened in shock, something that was quite a feat given how composed the Hyuuga was. Gaara turned to see what had alarmed the Hyuuga, and both Sasuke and Naruto noted the sunned face and turned as well.

"Hey dude," Kiba smiled waving. That was not shocking, what was shocking was who was with Kiba, Aburame Shino and none other than the Hyuuga heiress; Hyuuga Hinata.

She shyly walked to the table accompanied by both males, one on each side. Her lavender long dress showing her nice curves and beautiful body, long dark blue hair was styled in layers and her lilac eyes gleamed in happiness, as they reached the table.

"Neji nii-san," she smiled and leaned in to kiss his cheek. "Gaara-kun." Then she turned to the blond and raven.

"Naruto-kun, Sasuke-kun; congratulations." She smiled lovingly.

"Eh…thanks Hinata-chan."

Neji had come out of his stupor and was now glaring at Kiba, but he was not the only one; Gaara's killing intent was noted in waves.

"What?" Kiba asked feeling the chilled atmosphere and the killing intent; that for once it didn't come just from Gaara.

"Why is she here? What did you tell her?"

"Oh Neji nii-san, Kiba told me everything." Hinata frowned seeing Neji's worried expression.

"She had a right to know," the always quiet Aburame pointed out in his deep wise voice.

"I don't see anything wrong with me telling my girlfriend the kind of person she's dating." Kiba rolled his eyes at their reaction.

"Well...I guess there was no helping it, but Kiba you should have asked Neji if it was ok with him for his cousin to find out about us." Naruto scolded. "But now that that's done, welcome Hinata-chan. Why don't you take a seat." the blond chirped glad to make a new friend who was aware of their situation.

"Thanks Naruto-kun or is it sama?" the heiress took a seat in the table next to Neji and Kiba sat next to her. The Hyuuga Heiress couldn't suppress her curiosity as she inspected Gaara, Sasuke and Naruto.

"No please, kun is fine."

"Any questions?" the raven noticed her careful inspection and having had the same questions decided to assist the shy heiress.

"Eh, no Sasuke-kun not really. Kiba and Shino explained everything but seeing how Kiba is a werewolf and Shino commands insects they are different than vampires." she said as she attentively watched their mouths trying to spot fangs.

"Um, what about your…" She unconsciously brought her hand to her mouth. Naruto smiled and opened his mouth and right after the action his canines protruded and showed his full extracted fangs.

"Oh," she said amazed at the long fangs.

"No problem." Naruto smiled as his fangs shifted back into position.

"I hope you're not mad that I know Neji nii-san." Hinata reluctantly took her attention from the blond's mouth and turned to the Hyuuga male who had been quietly watching her.

"No its fine, I was just worried that you would be upset or scared."

"Oh no I'm fine, it's a little shocking but other than that the existence of…immortals I guess its possible. Besides regardless of not being human, Kiba is my boyfriend and I have known Shino for years. As for Sasuke-kun he's been your friend since we were five. Gaara-kun and Naruto-kun I've only have recently met but they are good friends and it doesn't bother me at all."

"Thanks Hinata-chan." Naruto's amazing smile brightened at her kind words acceptance of them as friends, it was difficult to make human friends when they were aware of their existence. Gaara nodded at her also agreeing with Naruto.

"So how do you like the party?" Temari walked towards them, with Shikamaru and Haku.

"Thank you Temari, Haku it's really nice, although you could have told us."

"But the surprise was better." Haku pointed out "Oh Zabuza-san sends his congratulations, he wished he could come but he has to meet with a water daemon about some problems that they were having."

"You mean he sent his congratulations, happy that he had an excuse to get out of having to come to another formal party." Naruto translated chuckling.

"Well yeah pretty much, but regardless of his lack of attendance we're both happy for you, he's just not used to going to social events."

"Thanks"

The blonde female vampire looked at the people at the table while Naruto and Haku exchanged pleasantries and a smirk came to her face when she spotted a specific person.

"Oh! What's this mongrel, don't tell me you finally told your girl." Kiba snapped his eyes to the smirking Vampire.

"Well bloodsucker if you must know, I found it necessary for her to know that we live in a world where there's bad things like you. After all she needs to be prepared." Kiba mocked.

Temari snorted and laughed. "Mutt"

"Parasite" Kiba countered "You know is true"

"Here we go again both of you are so troublesome." Shikamaru rolled his eyes at his girlfriend's antics.

"Is that so, and how are mongrels like you better than vampires." Temari disregarded her boyfriend's words.

"Well not all bloodsuckers are good," he accused.

"That's just how they get along Hinata-chan, don't worry this happens all the time." Hinata nodded, she kind of figured it out. She had never seed Kiba mad but by his voice she could tell that he had been teasing Temari with the insults. Besides the Inuzuka and Sabaku both had wide grins as they slashed back and forth.

"Excuse me?" Temari and Kiba stopped their insults and the group turned to the stage were Iruka stood by the microphone.

"I'm sorry everyone, but as the party is coming to an end, I would like to thank both Temari and Haku who organized this lovely surprise to show our approval and happiness with the union of Naruto and Sasuke-sama. This in not only a party for the new couple but is also a representation of the ceremony that would have taken place after Naruto-sama has chosen his new mate, who I'm sure would hate to have to go through the coronation." He motioned to both males who were paying close attention.

"Naruto-sama has already matured into his last stage and with his new mate, not only is he our pureblood but now he will be our new king. Congratulations and we hope that you are truly happy as intended by Minato and Kushina-sama. We know that you will do what's best for the immortals and human alike." The guests and many friends applauded at the words in agreement and support.

Once the round of applause quiet down the guardian continued. "And well I actually have a request to make…. Seeing as how it was not what you desired the last time, I would like to ask both of you to delight us by dancing a special dance."

The soft melody started to play and Naruto stilled realizing the song that was playing. The raven as well noted the familiar soft melody and took Naruto's hand and swept him off his feet towards the empty dance floor.

"Would you dance with me?" the raven whispered in Naruto's ear as he took his hand and brought the blonds body flushed against his.

"Sasuke" was the silent whisper in awe, at what the raven was offering. Sasuke had learned how important this piece was for him and now by delighting him it would remove any bad memories that the blond had experience. Content Naruto accepted his mates gift and leaned into the embrace as he melted in the ravens arms, both males beautifully twirled in the dance floor at the soft melody.

Waves of murmured erupted, "Awws" and "How cute" comments of "What a perfect couple they make" and observations of "How happy they look." and especially many questions at the familiar wedding bands that both wore.

Naruto was immensely happy as he twirled in Sasuke's arms. Everything was perfect, who would had thought given the past weeks, but even after all the horrible things that they had gone through, here he was with the person he loved the most in this world. No matter how many centuries passed he was certain he would always love Sasuke and the raven will always be with him.

Their friends and important people supported their love, their union, and would always be there for them. The possibility of someday having an heir with Sasuke was not as impossible as it had once been, and now he was dancing that special melody that his mother had wanted him to share with his loved one.

Naruto was sure that nothing could be as perfect as how things were now, his heart was so full at all the joy the raven had given him when he came into his once boring, long and complicated life. Now it was the definition of perfect. The applause from the many friends and acquaintances brought the blond out of his thoughts as they had stopped dancing and Sasuke still held him in his arms.

"Kiss him already!" Kiba barked out laughing.

"I love you," Naruto told him. "And I love you," Sasuke leaned in and gently kissed Naruto, showing him that he would never be alone again and that their love would last forever.

THE END

OR IS IT???

So this is the last chapter, I know it was a little fluffy but I was in love mode at the time that I wrote it. Sorry for Sasuke's Occness as well, again in fluff mode.

We appreciate your support for this long time and that you have continued to wait until the story came to an end. I would love to hear your opinion. Thank You.

So there's still the epilogue takes place several years later. Unfortunately I'm still struggling because I hadn't planned a epilogue but yaoihime22 keeps nagging, so I'm humoring her. I know it goes against my own policy of not uploading until the story is done and I'm sorry. This might take a little while since I'm just starting to write it, but thanks so much for your help and patience.

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