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Chapter 2: Circle of Wolves
Sasuke spent the rest of the evening pouring over the mountains of books spread across the kitchen table in his modest one bedroom flat. Tomes of ancient magic and lore, passed down through generations of Uchiha hunters. He was confident he knew how to deal with a werewolf, but just to sure he didn't miss anything, he would review his knowledge. Silver would of course be his most valuable ally, and he had just the sword for the task. The thin silvered katana blade lay across the table beside him. It had once been his favorite sword. Its blade was etched with ancient runes, protecting it with a spell the Sasuke did not yet know. Named Brother, it had been a gift from Itachi, and now carried with it his distaste for his kin. An older and more experienced werewolf maybe able to withstand a blow from this sword, but this one was a mere child.
Still, he would have to wait for the full moon to slay it, and that was a week away. Sasuke yawned and stretched, his mind drifting back to Naruto's words from earlier that day. It wasn't possible for that boy to know what he was, was it? Knowledge of the magical world was strictly guarded. What were the odds that some reject human boy sitting next to him in class not only possessed this hidden knowledge, but was also able to see Sasuke for what he was? It had to be a coincidence. Perhaps he had thought Sasuke was looking at the boy with some sort of lust, and his comment had been mocking what he thought was Sasuke's sexual desire? That was more likely assumption to him than the blond knowing he was Demon Hunter. Sasuke was no stranger to the appeals of both men and women, but this werewolf boy had held none for him. Not to mention the fact that he was a monster, a creature of darkness that should be eradicated from this earth.
Sasuke neatly gathered the heavy volumes and placed them reverently back on their respective shelves in the living room. He might as well get some rest. He would need to begin learning more about his target in the morning. Where it lived, what its habits were, where it went when he transformed. He could probably get the information he needed from the schools computers, but he would need to get the passwords somehow. His hand lingered on the last book as he made a mental list of things he would need set in motion the next day. When he was finally satisfied that he hadn’t missed anything, he retired to his bed for the evening.
The next day at school, he arrived early again, though today only his lazy teacher was in the room, and Sasuke took his seat at the back next to Naruto’s empty chair. Without the boy sitting there today, Sasuke could now read the faded words either carved into the desk or stained there my permanent markers that someone hadn’t been fully able to remove, for someone had certainly tried to erase the cruel words and comments. Things like: loser, monster, whore, slut, leave this school, no one wants you here, do the world a favor and kill yourself. And various other things that Sasuke couldn’t quite make out. Who was this boy to attack so much hatred? Sasuke shook his head and began removing his school supplies from his bag. Five minutes before the morning bell was due to ring, Naruto entered. He wore the same clothes as the previous day, only now they were lightly spattered with blood. There a split in the side of his slightly swollen lip and cut under his very tired looking eyes. An almost indiscernible flick of his hand as he past the front desk as he tossed something to their teacher, who caught it without looking up. Sasuke’s eyes didn’t miss the movement, however discreet he had tried to be. Naruto flopped into the seat beside him and promptly fell asleep. Sasuke also didn’t fail to notice the large bruise on the back of his neck that appeared to teeth marks. Whore, the desk had read. Was there truth to that? Sasuke shook his head. It didn’t matter to him what the stupid boy did, he would just be greatful that Naruto would be leaving him alone today. The pink haired girl also left him alone, she had glanced over once or twice, but Sasuke didn’t get the feeling that it was him that she was looking at.
When they were dismissed for lunch, Sasuke headed for the school library in hopes of finding a year book from the previous year in order to identify the werewolf. There were probably easier ways, like going to the cafeteria and sitting near it in hopes that some called it by name, but that would involve socializing with his peers and the thought didn’t appeal to him.
Sasuke found the old yearbooks in the back corner of the library. There were books for each year dating back nearly one hundred years back. It was odd to him, this school didn’t looks as though it was that old. Pulling the book off the shelf, he made himself comfortable sitting crossed legged on floor. The quiet corner was ideal to Sasuke to search without being bothered. He opened the heavy cover and began turning the pages, of course if the boy was a freashman this plan wouldn’t work. He took his time, searching the face of each individual student, thinking it would be a lot easier if his sharingan worked on photographs. Just as the bell sounded he found what he was looking for. Kiba Inuzaka. He was a Sophomore in this book so he would be Sasukes same age now.
He quickly closed the book and placed back on the shelf. Now that he had a name, he could find address in the schools computer, or maybe a phone book. Did they even still make phone books? Internet white pages maybe. Inuzaka couldn’t be that common of a name. Sasuke hurried back to his class. Naruto had vacated his seat and did not return the rest of the day. Sasuke used his absence to search for Inuzakas in the area on his cell phone, hiding it under the desk as to not draw attention to himself. He found four different possibilities. They were fairly close together so he could hit them all tonight. Then he could begin learning the creatures habits. He would need to kill him away from prying eyes. When a werewolf died, their body would revert back to human form. He would appear to be just another grizzly murder victim to the police. But Sasuke could avoid that too if he could kill it outside the city and hide the body.
At home, Sasuke passed the time waiting for nightfall by watching the evening news. New murders and disappearances were reported weekly in this city, and Sasuke knew that there were like more the police hand not informed the media of to avoid a panic among the general population, and more still that the police probably didn't even know about. An hour or so after the sun had set, Sasuke grabbed Brother, a necklace infused with wolfs bane, and a small pistol housing quicksilver bullets and climbed into the black unmarked car gifted to him by the clan. This car, too, had once been Itachi’s. Sasuke turned the key and it rumbled to life, his first stop was less than a block from his own apartment. The thought that he was living so close these monsters made his skin crawl. The Uchiha compound where he grew up was a fortress, a small city in and of itself and had always acted as barrier to Sasuke, a wall between good and evil. With that wall was gone and he felt oddly exposed and alone.
He pulled up to a curb down the street from the house and turned of the lights of his car. Even from this distance Sasuke could see werewolf energy signals all over the place. This must be the one, but he would wait for visual confirmation to be sure. He’d expect a long wait, but there was sudden movement to his left. The darkened windows of the car meant he was virtually invisible as the boy walked passed him to the house. Well that was easier than expected.
Sasuke would spend the rest of the week following him on foot. The boy didn’t do much, just a normal teenager. He went to school, hung out with friends, spent a lot of time with his dog. Sasuke wasn’t sure what he thought the boy should be doing. Ripping the throats out of innocent by standers? Maybe a little over the top, but Sasuke was growing bored. On Thursday, he followed the beast into the forest at the edge of the city. Followed him for miles. He was walking alone and carried a large backpack. At the top of the trail was a small well, which the boy climbed down into. Sasuke waited, hidden the trees for him to re-emerge. It wasn’t long, and when it came back up the backpack was gone. It turned and left the area back down the trail. Sasuke stayed where he was until the footsteps disappear. When he was sure the wolf had gone he went to climb down the well himself. There was a small rope ladder laying against the inside wall. It was deep. At the bottom he tilted head back and looked up. Daylight was but a small ring in the distance. He whispered a spell into his hands and the runes for light materialized into a small yellow ball that rose up to float next to Sasukes head, illuminating a path in from lot of him. He could see a faint aftertrail with his sharingan that marked where the creature had gone, like faint red smoke that glowed in front of him. He hurried after it, it wouldn’t last long and had already started to disappear. The trail ended in a small chamber. Sasuke moves his ball of light higher into the air and froze. There were heavy iron chains on the wall. Too big for any human to be bound by. He smiled.
Friday and the night of the full moon arrived. Sasuke went to school as usual, thought he couldn’t pay attention to anything being said. He was growing anxious and impatient. Every tick-tock of the click echoed in his ears. At home was no better. He packed his things quickly and went to the the well to wait. The boy arrived around well before dusk and descended the ladder. Just as he’d thought. This was where it went to change. Just after the sun had finished with day and given way to the moon, Sasuke heard distant screaming driffting up from the darkness before turning into growls and howling, marking the transformation. He moved to the edge of the well and look downwards, but just as he was about to climb down he stopped, something was moving in the tunnel at the bottom. Something big, and it was coming quickly, the growls and howling we’re getting closer.
Sasuke lept backwards and drew Brother with his right hand and a shield tune in his left. Just as his feet hit the ground, the top of the well exploded. He moved the shield rune infront of him to block the spray of bricks. The werewolf stood in front of him, yellow eyes fixated in his direction. It neared seven feet tall and towered menacingly above him. Sasuke adjusted his stance and darted fowards, slashing Brother at It’s throat. It caught the blade in his claws, howling in pain at the touch of silver, and Sasuke slammed the shield into its torso, sending it flying backwards. It hit the ground with a loud thud, but quickly rolled into all fours and whirled around for another attack. Sasuke caught its claws with the blade, whispered the tune for force into his shield and hit the wolf with it again. This time it flew much further, slamming into a tree and crushing it. The creature attempted to get up again but collapsed. It was over. Sasuke walked over to where it lay prone across the ground. Yellow eyes stared up at him, full of fear, and Sasuke raised Brother above its throat and swung downwards. But his blade didn’t hit flesh. A metal clang sounded in the clearing. His blade was forced backwards and so was he. Sea blue eyes were now looking into his own. Naruto stood before him, a black blade that appeared to be made of swirling shadow held in hand.
“Sorry, but I changed my mind.” He took a small charm with a wolf carved on its surface from his pocket. He turned it over in his fingers and dropped it on the werewolf’s chest. “Run back to your cage, dog.” He said. The wolf began to change, and now the boy lay infront of them, panting, bloody, and bruised. Naruto stepped over him towards Sasuke. Kiba scrambled to his feet and away from Naruto.
“Whatever monster you think I am,” He panted out with great effort, clinging to a tree for support, “I am nothing compared to what you are.”
The words shocked Sasuke, as they were not spoken to himself, but the Naruto.
The blond smiled ruefully. “For once, Kiba, I agree with you.” The boy ran off into the forest, and Naruto’s attention went back to Sasuke. “I was planning to let you kill each other. You’re stronger than I thought you’d be, poor bastard didn’t stand a chance, did he?”
“You planned this?” Sasuke was outraged. His hunt was ruined, and the werewolf had escaped thanks to this idiot.
“Yes. Who do you think let him out? Kiba is always such a good boy to lock himself away on the full moon. Doesn’t want any accidents.” He crosses one foot infront of the other and stepped slowly to the left, blade still at the ready. “I also disabled the spells in the well when you went exploring yesterday. They would have killed you. You should be greatful. You’re also lucky that it was only Kiba I released.” He grinned and ran his index finger across his lower lip, stepping again. This time Sasuke stepped too. They were slowly circling each other. “You did well against one, but how would you have faired against the whole pack?”
Sasuke attacked, but Naruto caught his blade with the shadowed one. “What are you!?” He yelled at the blond. He swung his shield rune again, but Naruto caught that too, with a second blade that he’d drawn out of thin air. They both pushed forward throwing the other backwards so that they stood apart again.
“You can’t figure it out?” Naruto mocked him. “Aren’t you a hunter?” They stepped again. “You’re a stupid one if you are. It’s obvious your not part of the local clan, they would have recognized you.” Step. “What kind of hunter, hunts in another’s territory I wonder.”
“Territory?” Sasuke stopped moving. “What are you on about? How do you know what I am?”
Naruto also stopped moving and blinked at him, tilting his head to the side and dropping his stance, confused. “How do you not know?”
Sasuke was finished with the conversation. He sprung at Naruto again, but as he landed in front of the spot where the boy should be, he was gone. Sasuke looked wildly around, but the clearing was empty.
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