Another Wolf in the Pack, a Naruto and Underworld Crossover

AN: I based the beginning of this chapter off of Selene's intro in the first Underworld movie, but mine will be a bit longer since I am writing with the opinion that you have watched at least the first and third movies. Since the third movie was a prelude to when my story takes place, I will not write a chapter for that but instead reference it like one would something from a history book.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Underworld

Chapter 1, Recruiting

I am Naruto Uzumaki and I am what one would call a werewolf, or a more appropriate term given to those of us bitten and turned by Lucians pack, a Lycan. I have been alive for many centuries and I have fought in many battles but I have never come to loathe it as much as I did when Lucian played his 'trump card'.

The tide of the war had changed overnight, and it was only due to Lucian's new alliance that we were not wiped out entirely. Lucian was the most powerful and cunning leader to have ever ruled the pack, but for the past six centuries we have had to fight without our leaders aid. Lucian's alliance called for a blood in a position of power, and what better way to obtain that then killing the enemy leader.

Lucian has been underground since then, both figuratively and quite literally as more and more of our brothers were forced into the sewers and tunnels underneath the cities that rose over the ages. After that night, with the supposed death of Lucian we have lost many of our numbers, and have not been able to claim many of the bloods.

We understood what the reasoning behind the plan was, but at the same time, it does not prepare you for the death of your brothers, your mates, your sons, your daughters or even the newest members of the pack. Yet over the years more and more of the older wolves began to develop the ability to change without the use of the moon. In the last century we remained underground with less contact against the enemy than at any point of this war, and it only served to make the blood suckers more confident and content with themselves while we raged and waited.

While some of us were content with waiting, others like me were not, so we scattered to the winds and began to create our own packs. Most of those that tried failed and we have either lost contact with them or they have been confirmed dead. I was cleverer than some of the others, who wanting to build a large pack quickly, headed straight for the large cities. They were lucky to survive the first week; I on the other hand when to the woods outside of the castle of the First Scrape, which is what we had begun referring to the beginning of the war.

I was always curious as to what happened to the wolves created by William, the Wild Ones, the Damned Dogs or any multitude of names that they had acquired over the years. After the First Scrape their presence in Lucian's tales began to dwindle and fade until they were no longer included at all. I used all the stories from Lucian's stories to build a basic map of the woods and surrounding towns of Castle Corvinus, and within a year I was able to locate the den that Lucian had described when he recruited the Wild Ones.

For the next few decades I was trying to see if there was any hope of them regaining their humanity, but it seems that it simply took me years to see what others had seen in only an instant. There was no hope for them, at least not with simple actions like trying to teach them to speak or sit at a table for dinner. If there was any chance of them returning to normal it must have had something to do with the curse of William. I theorized that it was because of Williams own lack of control that made it to where anyone that he infected also had that lack of control.

It was like a strong form of the rabies virus that the humans were talking about a couple of centuries ago, although he heard that they had created a vaccine for it a while back. Because William had the 'werabies' then anyone that he bit also had the 'werabies', while at the same time Lucian, who was immune to the 'werabies' or adapted to them or even something as simple as a mutation to prevent them, would pass on this 'vaccination' to the ones that he infected.

But it matters not as so far all attempts to cure William's Breed were in vain, I had attempted to recreate Lucian by biting the young wolves shortly after their birth but that only earned him the parent's wrath. That was when I was forced to become the alpha of the pack; I say forced because I did not want to and because the alpha just happened to be one of the upset parents that I spoke of. With my wolf form being larger than most of William's Breed, I was slightly surprised when the alpha was larger than me.

The fight had been vicious but when one took into account the fact that the alpha fought more like a wolf than a human it was easy enough to see how I was able to grab him and flip him repeatedly until I got the chance to deliver the killing bite to his neck. As quick as the fight sounded it still took over half an hour to finish, and that was mainly due to whenever I would go for a death bite the alpha would use it's free hind legs to kick out and gore me with his claws. I had to retreat long enough to heal so that I could finish the fight with as much strength as I could.

In Lycan packs it is not uncommon for a new pack leader to be killed in the first ten minutes of being pack leader; it would be much easier to kill a half dead wolf than to fight it at full strength. So I had to make sure that I would be strong enough to fight off at least one other wolf, but judging by the size of the pack it would be more like fight off five to ten. Thankfully none of the wolves attacked me after the fight between me and the former pack leader was over, but that then raised the problem of me being the alpha and having no mate.

I thought about it for a while and finally chose one of the younger females that were born into the pack instead of turned; I used her young age as the reason that she and I had not mated yet. I would admit that after spending almost two and a half decades in that forest with the only females around being the she-wolves, there were moments that I almost gave in and mated. I never did and I found that if I could resist until the next day the feeling would normally fade, so I believe that it was some sort of mating practice that occurs within the Wild Ones.

But enough talking about how I almost screwed a wolf the size of a gorilla, I found that as pack leader I was in charge and that all disputes over food, land and females fell onto me to solve. Most were easy enough but there were times that I had to knock some of them down and fewer still that ended in me killing one of the others. In return for that power I gained the loyalty and trust of the pack and I even expanded our territory into more populated areas with more food. I was due to the recent expansion that I believe my old friend was able to find me so quickly, and I had a feeling that I would not like his reason for being there.

"So Lucian what brings you to my neck of the woods, *ahem* no pun intended of course." Naruto said to seemingly no one. That changed when a pale man with black hair stepped out from the cover of the trees. He wore a set of black clothes that was preferred by both Lycans and the bloodsuckers, with a black trench coat covering the specifics of what he was wearing.

"I was just checking on you," Lucian said with a slight hint of humor in his voice as he spoke, "after all you have been gone for a couple of decades. I was worried that living out here may have caused you to forget your humanity."

"My 'humanity' was lost when I asked you to bite me." Naruto responded with the same amount of humor in his voice as Lucian had displayed earlier. "But as you can see there is still enough human in me for a joke every odd decade."

"I seem to remember your high jinxes to be much more frequent than every decade." Lucian said with the same amount of humor in his voice. "Although after your first real battle, I seem to remember you calming down a lot."

"Well what is that saying, 'The only thing that changes a person faster that experience and age is the present and nativity.'?" Naruto asked Lucian with a knowing grin that Lucian returned.

"Just because your father said that and you continue to use it," Lucian said with a little bit of humor seeping into his tone, "that doesn't make it an 'old saying'."

"If it is older than I am then it must be an old saying, but I highly doubt that debating my father's words of wisdom was the reason that you came looking for me after all these years." Naruto said while leaving the unasked question of 'Why are you here?' hanging in the air.

"True, although I did want to see how you were doing I was coming to see if you were ready?" Lucian's face took on a grave look and his tone matched it if not exceeded it. "The plan is coming to fruition, but we are being hindered by the vampires more than we had originally anticipated. We are gathering all of those that we can for the final portion of the plan."

"Are you going to tell me what the plan is, or am I to be as confused as the bloodsuckers?" Naruto said and it was easy to hear the anger that was just smoldering under the surface of his calm demeanor.

"You will be informed once we make it safely back to the hideout, and then we can talk about your role in the plan and where we are in the plan." Lucian said in a serious tone, and it was not lost on Naruto how he had spoken. Making it seem as though he had already said that he was going to with him.

"Let me ask this before I make a decision, why should I waste my time helping you with a plan that does nothing to help me with my goal?"

"Oh right I never told you what we found during our most recent information trade with our inside man," Lucian said with his tone easily revealing that he had not forgotten but was waiting for Naruto to bring it up. "To be frank we have not found the names, but I have discovered that there is a log from back during the First Lycan War. If we can get our hands on it then we can find the vampires that were in that area and learn who it was that killed your family."

"That plan doesn't fill me with a lot of hope for finding the ones that killed my parents, so let me ask why I should risk my life for something that may not even yield any usable results?" Naruto said while watching Lucian to determine whether his answer was the truth or not.

"Because in the past hundred years this is the first lead that we have found that has the potential to give you the answers that you are looking for." Lucian replied and Naruto could see that Lucian truly believed that it was the best chance that he had. Not only that but the confidence that Lucian was showing in believing that Naruto was going to join him was pissing him off. Giving in and knowing that it was true that his best hope of finding the murderous vampires involved him going with Lucian all he could do was sigh.

"Okay then let me ask one final question before we start on our trip," Naruto started in a neutral tone before his rarely seen sadistic grin appeared on his face, "do you still have my sword."

END

AN: Sorry about being silent for so long but I have had a few family deaths to deal with and then we have been fighting with the bank over our right to receive the inheritance, so I was not in the best of writing moods recently. But I have finished paying off a car and am looking into a new apartment, without roommates, so I might be able to get some work done. I hope you all had a Merry Christmas(read between the lines and insert the holiday that you celebrate in place of Christmas if need be) and a wonderful New Years.