Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Loki The Vampire Kunoichi ❯ The Beginning Of Aprhodite ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

No one in Konoha would ever forget that day. Many boys had dubbed the day with the brilliant title “The Beginning of Aphrodite” which referred to the day, a most memorable day, when ‘Aphrodite’, a name that was later given to the village’s resident girl with a model’s body, first made her appearance in the village.
The genin class and Team Gai were all assembled in an auditorium where the Hokage would give all their important notices or statements to large amounts of people. Naruto sat with his team, constantly whining how hungry he was. Sakura reprimanded him, even though she had no place to since they were basically equals, that it was his fault for waking up late and forgetting his lunch in his hurry.
It was raining that day, so the genin were all thankful for the roof over their heads and the day off, even if the mission-free day was very dull. Everyone there would remember, both girls and boys, and even the indifferent Hyuuga Neji and the apathetic Uchiha Sasuke had the memory etched into their genius minds, when the auditorium doors were thrown open, letting in a freezing wind.
There stood a pale boy, wearing a white t-shirt and hack-off jean shorts with frayed ends. The shirt stuck to his toned body, his perfectly toned body was defined by the close wet cloth.
He was barefoot, his long legs were toned, adding to his height which was approximately 5’4”, with his shaggy and spiky hair, disheveled and messy.
His shaggy fringed bangs hung over his eyes, the parting in her hair was barely visible. On his cheeks, whiskers were present just like Naruto’s and around his neck was a Konoha hitai-ate.
His hair was dirty blonde with red tips on his bangs and bright blood red highlights on the rest and his gleaming eyes were bright sky blue, exactly like Naruto’s but were more feline and seemed to glow with the silvery edges in her sparkling irises.
As he breathed heavily, his fang like canines showed and he grinned as he held up the clutched bag in his right hand, his long, claw-like nails were colored in seamless black, “Naruto, you forgot your lunch.”
Naruto laughed and leapt up, rubbing the back of his neck as he grinned, “Thanks si- I mean bro, I was dying here!”, he said to the mysteriously handsome boy before offering him his jacket.
He shook his head, his shaggy hair swinging around, and gave it to him, “Naruto I swear, I rushed over here so fast I’m way tired. I hate being awake during daylight hours.”
“Yeah yeah, Kaito.”, they laughed and Kaito reached into his black backpack for a change of clothes.
“You think I can change here and hang with you guys? The rain is killer.”, Kakashi rolled his eye, “Kaito you’re an idiot. You can change back now.”, he stood infront of him, arms crossed.
Kaito pouted rather girlishly, blinking with long ashen lashes, and shook his hair like a dog, spraying water all over the sensei, “Oh but Kashi-ojii-san, I’m Naruto’s half brother, remember? If I change back, that’ll completely shatter the image.
They had a stare down before Kaito sighed and lifted his hands to make a sign but Sakura came out of no where, “Hi! My names Haruno Sakura and I’m your brother’s bestest friend!”
Ino pushed her over and winked, “Forget billboard brow, Yamanaka Ino is where the party’s at!”, she said and Kaito blinked and kinda just looked down at the two shorter girls, then gave Kakashi a pleading look.
He ignored it and Kaito sighed, “Uh girls, that is...well Kaito isn’t er….”, Naruto started but the two girls snapped at him to shut up.
Kaito grabbed them harshly by the collars of their shirts (or whatever) and growled like a savage animal, “NO ONE and I say NO ONE commands my brother! Hear me?!”, they nodded fervently and Kaito made the ‘release’ signal before being engulfed by a cloud.
From the cloud emerged a girl who looked just like Kaito except with perfect breasts, a small waist, and long hair that passed her shapely hips. The shorts and shirt had disappeared and what was left was a soaking girl with small black shorts that barely fit her with its frayed ends at her mid thighs and studded belt with a chain on the right, a tight, black and red, striped tube top with a lace up back, and black and red, checkered suspenders.
“……”, the entire room was silent. She stretched her slender, toned arms which were covered from knuckles to elbow with black and red, striped, fingerless gloves, and lifted a graceful, toned leg with nice powerful thighs and perfect calves, and stretched them.
During the silence, she stretched the other and grinned, “Hey there.”, she said in a distinctly female voice which sounded like singer’s, “I’m Kurosu Uzumaki Kukai, Naruto’s older half sister. I’m new here and I am a chuunin who will most likely be following my brother around.
She shook her long, soft hair again and smiled and Naruto. Kukai hugged him and then lifted him up, “So where’s your seat?”
They sat down. Boys admired that chest, wishing for the rain soaked white t shirt on her instead of Kaito.
That’s how it all started, the Aphrodite of Konoha, who was given other names like Mercury, for her speed, Selene, for her seemingly lunar eyes and mystery, Loki, for her mischief, and Athena, for her strength.
From that day on, she kept true to what she said. She followed her brother almost all the time, but usually she followed him a while after sunset or on cloudy days.
Guys all over the village asked Naruto about his sister like if she was single or what kind of guys she liked or even things like asking him to snap photos of her in the shower. He would answer the questions honestly then would go overprotective and want to kill them.
Whenever he had a mission, Kukai would follow and wouldn’t talk to anyone in the group but Naruto, and sometimes Kakashi. Some days she made scathing remarks to Sakura and scoffed a lot but her and Sasuke never spoke to each other except a few times when Kukai would shove him and coarsely say, “Move.” or a simple grunt.
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Early morning and Naruto Uzumaki would be late. His sister, Kukai, was practically dead in her bed under the pile of dark black bed sheets. Her walls were black, carpet was red, and her curtains were thick black ones. The kind of curtains that blocked out all sun.
She had a sliding glass door opposite of the door to her room that opened to an elegant balcony that she would never be seen on unless it was night or near sunset. Black curtains blocked the sun from there too.
Kukai’s bed was horizontally aligned to a window with a large sill that had pillows and a place to sit by the cool window, which was on the right of the room. Her closet took up most of the left and were long glass mirrors, rimmed with silver sliders. It was full of her clothes and weapons were hidden within it along with a drawer of other clothes.
Since the “bento incident”, as it had been called, her fangs had grown longer, her body was a little more developed and she had cut her hair.
Her fan boys mourned the day she had cut it to the length it had been when she was ‘Kaito’, which was the name of the form she was in when she transformed into a male version of her and went on missions as him, with her fringe just the same. It was messy and spiky with shaggy bangs and renewed highlights while her bangs were just dirty blonde with blood red tips.
Lazily, she heard Naruto scream and run into a wall. She sat up on her soft bed and shook her hair in that lazy way she had. Her eyes were half open as she rubbed them and walked into her connected shower. Her apartment was on the side of the building and Naruto’s was on the right of her apartment, if you were in the hall outside, and a door connected his smaller apartment to her big one with an empty guest room.
In five minutes she was out with wet hair, smelling of strawberries and roses, then brushed her hair while in her black towel. She shook her hair again and messed up her semi-spiky, damp hair then went back into her room to get dressed.
Wearing nothing but her black and red, lacy, under things and some loose boy shorts, she walked into the kitchen to start up a ramen breakfast for her half brother, who was hastily bumping around in his apartment. Of course, she would tell him that she had set his clock and hour fast so that he’d wake up on time but that would wait.
Kukai yawned as she stirred the ramen with her slender hands, gloved by plain black, fingerless gloves reaching her elbows with cuffs sown onto the wrists and steel knuckles hidden in the cloth over her knuckles of her long, slender fingers with claw like nails in seamless black nail polish with green sparkles.
Her headband was on the floor next to the couch where she had fallen asleep, ’Hmm Naruto must’ve carried me room. I have such a sweet little brother.’
~Kukai POV~
Naruto crashed in through the connecting door and fell face first onto the wooden floor behind the couch. He mumbled a little and crawled to his feet.
“Speak of the devil, here comes my cute little brother.”, I smiled, “Morning.”, I said, filling a big bowl with ramen, “You sleep well?”
“Morning…”, he rubbed his face and sat down, “Okay, I guess.”, Naruto looked up with his pretty blue eyes, “And you?”
“I slept fine thanks to my responsible little brother carrying his totally wasted sister to her room.”
“You’re not old enough to drink.”
“And yet I couple wine with ramen and candy.”
He sighed with concern as I filled my bowl and turned off the stove. I carried the bowls to the table and then walked back to the kitchen and opened the fridge, “You’re only fourteen.”
“Technically, I’ll be fifteen soon enough.”, I pulled out the orange juice and carried it to the counter as I opened a cupboard.
“No difference, you’re still underage.”, Naruto warily watched me pour the orange juice into red glasses and set them on the table with the orange juice in the center of the table.
“Ah, but I’m that much closer to it.”, I picked up my chopsticks at the same time as my brother and we muttered “Itadakimasu.” together before beginning to eat.
We broke our chopsticks and dug in. I gazed at my little brother. We looked a lot alike but my hair was a different shade of blonde and my eyes were…different. The only reason I was awake right now was to eat breakfast with him.
“It doesn’t matter. Kai, I know you don’t have a problem because you only drink because you want to but still, what if you’re caught?”, he twirled a huge ball of ramen around his chopsticks as if it was spaghetti and put it in his mouth, chewing with his eyes closed in thought.
I smiled a little, “Doesn’t matter, you know I’m allowed to.”, I said and then swallowed down a huge ball of ramen of my own.
He chased down his with juice before speaking again, “Guess so.”, Naruto shrugged then opened his eyes and grinned at me.
“You’re so responsible at home but when you’re outside you’re an idiot.”, I smiled and rested my head on my right hand. I could see myself in the mirror on the wall beyond Naruto. What I saw was my tattoo on the right side of my neck, barely covered by bandages, of a tribal crow in flight with a knot work dragon wrapped around my left upper arm, red eyes glaring back at me from the mirror.
I tilted my head to look at the rose on my right shoulder with his silver outlined dark blue petals and green thorny vines wrapped around my shoulder. On my left breast was the roman numerals for thirteen, which was a tattoo that had been done over a scar which had been carved onto my skin with burning knives during confinement long ago.
Naruto was watching me as I did this and his voice tore me away from my reverie, “Will you be coming to training with me today? It’s going to be sunny though.”
“Yeah, I think I will.”, I replied as I slurped up a waterfall of ramen noodles from between my thin wooden chopsticks.
“Then will you at least put on a decent shirt that does not reveal too much? I hate when guys ask you out in front of me and I especially hate it when they ask me about you.”
“Aw my little brother is so cute when he gets all overprotective over his big sister.”, I got up to put my bowl away then leaned down and kissed him on the cheek, “I love you little brother.”
He blushed a little then focused on his bowl, “I’m finished.”, he said and I grabbed his cup and bowl with mine then dropped them into the sink.
I stretched again then lazily made my way to my room. Naruto moved to relax on the couch and picked up my hitai ate, setting it on the table by the couch.
After closing the door, I made my way swiftly to my closet, opening it silently, then selected from the hangers a silk and satin, black dress. It had a choker attached to it with to thin straps holding onto the dress with lace trimmed onto the top. The dress was backless with a lace up back over the small of my back.
The hem of my dress almost reached my knees and my thigh was revealed by a slit on the right side of the hem from my hips. Under the hem I wore small black shorts that attached itself to long, thigh high black socks with lace on the top.
At the top, the dress had shoulder-less, sleeves revealing the tattoo on my shoulder. The sleeves were tied at the elbows with small, thin black satin ribbons into little bows. Under my sleeves I wore short, fingerless black leather gloves and around my hips I wore a studded belt loose and at a diagonal angle.
I put in all seven of my ear piercings on each ear, using four rings, two ruby studs with one as a rose and the other as a small skull, and a backless wing on each ear at the bottom.
Dangling from the collar was a little heart with an X over it and a skull at the crux of the X. I attached the utility belt-like pouches to my belt, strapped a kunai holster on my right thigh and a dagger on the left one with two straps on it.
I grabbed a long black leather coat and threw it over my body and zipped it up from the waist to my collar bone with the hood down and put my swords in a holster attachment on my back, crisscross over my hips.
After brushing my teeth, I went back out, picking up our lunches, and grabbed my hitai ate, quickly tying it around my neck loosely and grinned at my little brother before abruptly picking him up and jumping out the window with him flailing in my arms. So adorable.
At inhuman speed, even faster than the speed of a trained jounin, I was on the bridge where my brother’s team met for training. We were early and the only other person there was Uchiha Sasuke. He and I never spoke before and he was leaned back on the railing, gazing at the water opposite of him.
I let Naruto run into the woods to throw up his breakfast and I adjusted my coat a little. Silently, I walked next to him, “Brooding as always I see.”
He looked up at me with those obsidian eyes. Hell, Uchiha was pretty hot for a guy one year younger than me and he would be so adorable if he just cracked a smile every now and then.
“Hn.”, was his apathetic reply before he resumed his gaze on the water. I looked at his neck from over the collar since I was taller than him and felt that tightness in my throat.
I pet him slowly, stroking his raven hair as I worked my fingers around to mess it up, “Staring at the water doesn’t draw in the one you hate most.”
He snapped up at me and swatted away my hand, “I know that!”, Sasuke glared at me and I leaned down close to his face, “I hate that man as much as you do and I’ve seen him many times before I came to this village last year. I understand how much you want him to come here so you can kill him but he’s your brother and you just… you’ll regret killing him.”
Sasuke was about to snap at me when he looked up and probably saw how sad my expression was since that was how I felt. I was never one to hide my emotions too much unless it was necessary. We locked gazes for what seemed like a long time until we heard a loud screech.
“SASUKE!!! HAS THIS WHORE SEDUCED YOU!?!?!”, the familiar voice screeched. I sighed. Just great, Sakura. She never forgave me for humiliating her by being ‘Kaito’ but I don’t get why she does that. I hate people who think its never their fault and blame it on someone else when it was entirely their fault. That Kaito thing was her fault for being such a wannabe whore.
I began to pull away but Sasuke held onto my coat and we realized that it looked like we would kiss at any moment. I could see how sad Sasuke looked, almost liked a puppy, and pulled him close to my chest, despite Sakura’s complaints and kept my hand on his head.
Kakashi and Naruto appeared at the same instant and we parted, Sasuke leaning on the rail and me lazily stretching again with a long yawn. Naruto ran up and hugged me tightly, glaring at Sasuke evilly as I hugged my little brother back and stroking his hair, “So cute…”
I rolled my eyes and they began training. Naruto and Sasuke began sparring in the clearing while Sakura was practicing her chakra control and jutsu, well not much because she was too busy watching Sasuke sweat.
While I watched them, I found a nice tree to nap in and leaned up against the trunk while sitting on a thick branch that could support my weight, even though I was very light, I liked a strong tree.
Just before slipping into sleep, I jumped from the branch and watched as a shadowed person lunged at where I had been then turned instantly and leapt up after me. I spiraled around to block him with a kunai and twisted my torso around so that me legs kicked up and I was horizontal, parallel to the ground.
Kakashi quickly activated Sharingan but I glared at him before flipping around vertically, kicking the attacker and launching myself off of his body. Naruto cried out my name before I disappeared into the trees, fending off the attacker.
We exchanged several blows in the air before finally touching ground. I drew a sword and clashed my steel with his, sparks flying from the impacted connection. Angrily, I bared my fangs at him and my eyes began to glow brightly, changing to full silver and was surprised to meet blue violet eyes turned to a bright and shimmering amethyst.
I saw how he looked for the first time and what I saw was actually very satisfying to look at. His hair was night black with dirty blonde bangs, messy and spiky with a shaggy fringe. Fangs protruded from his mouth and it was obvious that the sun made him hurt.
His skin was pale like porcelain and he had a tense yet innocent look to him. His clothes were not much more than grey rags with patches, tears and holes. Threads were bare and the shirt and pants were pathetic and hopelessly dirty. His feet were bare and there were bandages over cuts from being barefoot.
There was a reopened wound on his left abdomen and I realized that there were rope burns. I pushed him off then ran behind him, glimpsing parts of his back that showed signs of abuse by a whips. I could see on his slender wrists the scars where shackles had cut into his skin.
On his face there were few scratches and around his neck were more rope burns and reddened marks. He’d been strangled recently, most likely this week.
His clothes were damp and his hair was soaked. I could hear his breathing still irregular as he attempted to catch his breath. He had also been drowned and there were bite marks on the side of his neck.
I could tell that he hadn’t been what he was for very long, maybe a week or two at most, and his healing powers were extremely weak, if not non-existent, and whoever made him drank from him often and most likely was the one who abused the poor boy.
He had a black eyes and there were purple-ish bruises everywhere and then I realized that he was only half vampire because his maker hadn’t been a complete vampire. The boy, who was probably older than I was, lunged at me and I grabbed him by the neck with one hand while the other hand dropped my sword to seize the wrist of his armed hand.
I succeeded and twisted his arm around behind his back with my other hand wrapped around is neck as I tackled him onto the dirt. Kakashi appeared, “I’ll take care of him.”, he said, pulling out a kunai and I snarled at him, “Back off.”
He blinked, “What? You’re going to protect the person trying to kill you?”, I nodded and looked up at him with a grin, “Tell Naruto I’ll see him at home, ‘kay?”, he nodded slowly, “Go resume their training.”
Kakashi disappeared and I looked down at the boy, “So what’s the deal with you?”, he looked away then fell unconscious under me. I relaxed and let go of him then hefted his body up on my back after retrieving my sword and replacing it in its sheath.
I ran back to my apartment with him on my back then walked into the guest room. I set him on top of a towel on the bed then filled a big bowl with ice cold water and floated herbs in it. I used my power of fire to heat it up until it bubbled then brought in several rags, bandages, ointments, and a spare set of clothes that I wore when I was Kaito.
Slowly, I removed his shirt and began to wash his well toned abdomen. His body seemed conditioned to be a shinobi, even though he was weak against me, it was only because he had been injured severely.
I leaned down and licked up his blood. Delicious, as I thought. I kissed the wound and silver light glowed from my lips as the silver in my eyes returned to the edges of my irises and the blue returned. Thin silvery threads like spider’s thread began to emerge from the orb of light I left when I moved my lips.
The orb melted into a liquid that sunk into the wound, threads emerged from the watery substance and began to slowly sow his skin together painlessly. I watched as I continued to wash the rest of his torso and then used the herbs and ointments for the other injuries since they weren’t potentially fatal.
I wrapped his arms in bandages and kissed his wrists with a low level healing power that only glowed purple. The scars stayed but were now more healthy and hopefully felt better. I pulled off his pants, leaving him in his boxers, then bandaged up his legs, which had similar rope burns and scars left by shackles.
I could see the scars that looked as if he had been hit with a chain so hard that it left marks and cut into his skin. After that, I turned him around and kissed every gash on his back, the silvery threads working like magic, as always.
It gave me a headache to use the silver threads but they were more effective than ointments were. I waited until the threads finished their work and for my head to stop spinning before I leaned into close to his neck then felt the indecision roll through me.
As I inwardly fought myself, trying to choose between healing the puncture wounds or drinking from his neck myself, he awoke with a start and sat up suddenly.
He cried out in pain and I helped him down. I smiled as he looked at me warily, “Where….”, I cut him off by placing a finger on his lips.
“You’re in my guest room on the bed. I have just healed most of your wounds but the puncture wounds on your neck have sent me wondering what I should do with them. You’re weak right now from the lack of blood and from exhaustion, so I took you home and decided to heal you because of your immense beauty and I would like to mine instead of your master’s.”
“Why…?”, he replied weakly and I sighed, “You shouldn’t speak. Now, to answer your question, you are beautiful. Its as simple as that. I can see that your master abuses you without regard for how he is shortening your life span. I hate when beauty is left unappreciated and is degraded.”, I said simply.
“Well, yes or no?”, I asked and he nodded. Yes. I grinned wolfishly, “I’ll do the entire ritual tomorrow night. For now, rest because my adorable little brother and his team will soon come out of nowhere to secure me for whatever reason.”, my eyes went dull and my face spaced out, looking far away with my mind’s eye.
“Oh, that should be my brother now.”, I said and walked away. Right on time too. As I walked out, Sakura walked in through the window Kakashi had opened and Sasuke entered through the front door. I looked around, “Where’s….”, I heard a crash and walked into the guest bedroom.
“Naruto….you broke my window…again.”, I said, before grabbing my brother by the collar of his jacket while the boy lied there, amazed at our exuberant but very violent relationship, “Don’t you love each other…as brother and sister…?”, he asked.
I grinned again, “This is called loving violence. Its our form of love.”, I said before throwing him into the wall through open door of the guest bedroom. I watched my brother fall onto the couch, dazed, before looking at the boy, “You should sleep….Dante.”, I said. He smiled, realizing that I had just named him before closing his eyes to sleep.
“Okay, Kakashi-sensei, why don’t you send your team out. I need to speak with you about official business and I think you would like to hear my explanation.”, I said and Naruto was amazed at my business-like tone.
I shattered the image quickly, “Well Kaka Scarecrow!?”, he sighed and did as I asked. They looked at him before following orders. Naruto went to train somewhere, Sakura bugged Sasuke by asking him for a date, Sasuke rejected her and probably went home after that.
“Well, Loki, lets hear it.”, Kakashi said and sat down, putting his book away. I sighed and nodded, sitting down with him to talk.