Well then, its time to begin my new project. Wonder how it will be received

Up front, Kakashi and Sakura will be bashed. Sasuke is the good one in this fic. Konoha civilian and elder councils are also to be bashed, aside for Danzo as is my policy

This story is also further from Canon then Mysterious Power was

Begin

Konohagakure Forest (Iruka's POV)

We find ourselves in a darkened forest, with an injuried Iruka, a tanned man with a scar on his nose, leaning against a tree to stay up, as two people were about to clash.

One, a silver haired coworker of his, and now shown to be a traitor to their village, Konohagakure No Sato, Mizuki. He tricked the other, a tanned blond boy with odd whisker marks on his face, a result of, unfortunate issues with his past and blond hair, Uzumaki Naruto.

Naruto, after failing his Genin test, which might not have even been his fault if Iruka's suspicions were correct, Mizuki tricked the boy to steal the forbidden scroll of seals under the pretext it would allow him to graduate.

Get executed, maybe, but graduate, not so much.

Mizuki was a staunch Naruto hater, as he found out today. He hated the boy with all the fiber in his being, and he didn't even really have a true reason to...

After all, Naruto and his parent's death have some connection, but he actually liked him quite a lot. While he didn't exactly like him to begin with, Naruto grew on him quickly. Not the king of grades, but still an enjoyable student. But Mizuki's family was never harmed by...

"PREPARE TO DIE..." Mizuki yelled out, drawing a kunai, having lost his giant Fuma Shurikan that was formerly on his back...though before he said anything more to continue to break the Sandaime's law...

"MULTIPLE SHADOW CLONE JUSTU!" Iruka and Mizuki's eyes went wide as out of nowhere, hundreds of Naruto clones surrounded Mizuki. And this from the boy who couldn't even make a simple Clone Jutsu back in the academy.

More reason to suspect Naruto had been sabotaged.

Mizuki just screamed as the Naruto's swarmed him, like flies. Seeing as Mizuki would be, occupied, Iruka thought back to his suspicions

Flashback, Hokage's Office (Sandaime's POV)

Iruka was reporting his findings to the Sandiame Hokage, the leader of Kononagakure no Sato and one of the few who didn't want to remove Naruto's heart with a dull pin. The old man blew into his pipe with sorrow.

"So, a chakra disrupting seal below the table?" Iruka nodded.

"I only noticed it when Kiba-san found it" the boy had been serving a detention by removing gum from the bottom of the desks when he found it "I had a few ANBU run it over, and reported its brief activation and deactivation. All around the time Naruto-kun was taking the genin exam" The Hokage removed his pipe from his mouth.

"The Yondiame would be ashamed at this village's behavior" the Hokage commented "It almost makes me wish I agreed with Danzo" before Naruto was to be sent to the orphanage, Danzo had offered to take the boy and train him. He had refused, mainly because of Danzo's, methods.

Danzo would have trained him like he trained his old ROOT agents; destroying their emotions by making them kill their closest friend. While creating powerful Shinobi, something Hiruzen admitted about ROOT, such methods were inhumane.

Though, seeing how Naruto was so openly scorned, and the difficulties it created for him, it could have almost been better.

Naruto was hated by most of Konoha, for such foolish reasons. As such, most stores wouldn't sell him anything but kill me orange jumpsuits, rotten food, spoiled milk and defective ninja tools. Ichiraku's was virtually the only exception. He was kicked out of the orphanage as soon as possible, and it took all Hiruzen could do to prevent him from being mugged.

He had to place his most trusted ANBU, rotationally Tenzo and Yuugao these days, and in the past, Itachi, before it happened, on Naruto protecting duty . He'd have put Kakashi on it too, but he didn't trust him with Naruto.

Kakashi was a suspected Naruto hater, and the most powerful and loyal minion of the 'Axis of Evil' that was practically the entire Civilian and Elder councils, Danzo excluded.

Danzo at least, understood that Naruto with regular training, and not ROOT style training, was better than no Naruto at all. Naruto's potential matched the Jinchuuriki powers of Kiri and Iwa, made Suna pale in comparrison, and left only Kumo with any potential on that front to overrule them.

Thus, Danzo was the vote that had kept Naruto from being executed, in the 79 times it was brought up to debate in the Council meetings. No shinobi clan head had voted to kill him either.

For unlike regular laws, the civilian council couldn't just use their, far too numerous, numbers to overrule the Shinobi, with their two elder aids.

However, in order to secure what, meager, aid to Naruto he could, Hiruzen had to make far too many sacrifices. The Clone jutsu for one being a test requirement, a weakening of the Education standards, for Civilian benefit, a removal of 'Shinobi only' establishments, though no 'Civilian only' establishment bans were around, and protection for those Tenzo, Yuugao or Itachi caught trying to poison or indirectly kill Naruto.

Now then, back to the present

"Understood, Iruka-kun, be ready to hunt Naruto down and try to figure out what he's up to. I have a bad feeling he's been manipulated" it was always a marvel to see how Naruto was still so trustworthy, kind and loving.

It took a strong person to remain like that with everything he'd been through. Truly worthy of his dream, to become Hokage.

End Flashback (Iruka's POV)

After Naruto finished pounding the traitor into the dirt, Iruka smiled, and presented Naruto something, on his head.

A Hia te.

"Congratulations Naruto, you graduate" Naruto cheered and hugged Iruka tightly.

"THANK YOU, THANK YOU..."

"Um, Naruto. My ribs" Iruka coughed. Naruto chuckled

"Oh, sorry". Now, hopefully Hiruzen had calmed the mob down before they called for lynching.

Of course, they had no idea they were being watched

Watcher (Anko's POV)

The sexy, net wearing, brown jacketed Mitarashi Anko, a Konoha Tobektsu Jonnin with purple hair, had a big grin after watching that piece of trash getting clobbered.

Served him right, for what he said to her destined mate. For years she had, dealt with, the scores of assassins who tried to kill him when he slept, ever since she knew for certain that he was her destined one. For both his safety, and her hunger related needs.

"Just a while longer, Naruto-kun. Then, we will be together, forever" she commented, before noticing Iruka's gift to him. She smiled.

"I knew you were always a good guy, Iruka-san. Seeing as your so close to Naruto-kun..." she had wanted to teach him, but for some odd reason even the Hokage was hesitant to give her the job.

Something about dress codes, and possible mental damage to the students. "I'll spare you from my wrath" she licked her fangs, and vanished into the shadows (A/N, If any one has read Percy Jackson, think Shadow Travel)

Anko's Lair (Anko's POV)

Anko reappeared in a darkened room, beneath Konoha, specifically the Dango shop. After all, if no one was going to use this prime property, why not move in.

Better than her own 'residence' anyway. At least her destined mate was able to secure a rather well to apartment, hers was in the rattiest part of Konoha. She didn't even live their really, she had a shadow clone use it as a mask.

Clapping her hands, light returned to the room via several torches with Infinite Torch Seals. Despite the rumors about her kind, she couldn't see in the dark. As the light returned, she noted her lair.

A large round room, the walls were gray stone, with a large seal with ROOT written on it at top. Hence why she choose this old ROOT base.

It was quiet, hidden, and protected. Even if ROOT was still active, they couldn't get in here without using a single entrance, which she caved in when she moved in. After all, its not like she needed oxygen anyway.

The room had a few things she had collected; a few clothing racks with her body mesh clothing and similar accessories, a book case with several books, ranging from histories of her race to Icha Icha books, some stylish red and black wall banners she found on a mission, a writing desk for the dreaded mission reports...

And of course, her large and comfortable midnight black coffin, with its red inside coatings, and the cute stuffed Fox plushy of hers. Plenty of room for more than one person...

Anko felt a prescience, someone was in her lair, where no one was welcome, aside for her destined mate, when the time would come she would be able to have him.

Problem was, the ANBU watching him, or the Hokage himself with his Crystal Ball, could see her abduct him, and even if they didn't, they'd notice Naruto's disappearance and set a manhunt.

That, and it would hurt her destined mate if she removed him from those he knew that cared for him.

Using the Hiding with Camouflage technique, she rendered herself invisible as a ninja wearing a blank mask appeared in the room...

' That's not an ANBU...' Anko thought, before giving the intruder a punch to the back of the head. With surprising force, the man was sent flying into a wall, breaking it through and revealing a sealed room, filled with dead human remains.

Anko felt momentary disgusted, not from just the dead mass of bodies, but the fact that most were children, and all were decomposing, revealing green tinted muscles and bones here and there.

They must be the ROOT rejects...could her destined mate be tossed away like that? Or was he too valuable as a Jinchuuriki.

"Identify yourself" the masked ninja commented. Anko chuckled, before slamming her hands into the ground.

"SEALING; FULL ROOM SEALING!" a shimmer began to form on the walls around her. While no Yondiame when it came to seals, she had some skill at it, more than most of the ninja in Konoha anyway. Anko dropped her disguise jutsu.

"I don't know who you are, or why you are here, but your not leaving this place" she began forming hand signs, before breathing in, showing off her D's.

"FIRE RELEASE; PHOENIX FLAME SURGE!" rings of fire began to spew from her mouth like energy waves, all ready to strike the Ninja down, but he avoided it, instead the fire attack struck the dead bodies, setting them on fire.

Not pleasant, but a good way to clear that room out. She did need a private bath for herself after all, the hot springs were not only occasionally visited by kabuki perverts, but were owned by the Hyuga, whose eyes she didn't trust at all. The mysterious ninja drew a tanto from his back and charged at the female ninja.

With unnatural speed, she avoided the tanto strike, and tripped the ninja, toppling him to the ground, before she drew several Kunai, piercing the man's palms to the ground.

"What the hell are you, bitch!" the man yelled. This was supposed to be a sweep of an old base, not this...

"I, am a vampire. And you, are my meal" she bit his neck, and began sucking away the liquid inside.

While she only had to have blood once every two weeks, and able to sustain herself in between with regular food, such as her prized Dango, and only having feed 4 days ago, Anko didn't really have to feed on the soon to be dead man.

But seeing as her destined mate just became a Genin, she could afford a celebratory feast.

Drinking her fill, and the men beneath her dead, she hid the bite mark and pierce marks via the mystic palm technique, as she did with all her victims, to make them appear to have died from a natural cause, and not as her food.

This guy was going to be caught in the tunnel, that collapsed completely. Whoever sent this guy should be satisfied by that.

Its not like the man would rise as a vampire and report to his boss, she couldn't change the opposite gender. If she could, she'd have changed her destined mate ages ago.

Creating her own shadow clone, she had it deal with the bodies disguised fate, as she slipped into her coffin for the night.

Another thing that the media had gotten wrong about her kind, they could stand the sun. It just made them hungrier, hence her constant Dango stream. Hugging the little fox stuffed animal into her chest, specifically her chest, she closed her eyes, and began to think to herself.

It had been 12 years since she had developed her latent vampire traits, when her, evil sensei, Orochimaru of the Sannin, applied his curse seal to her. It's appliance stirred remnant genes inside of her, her vampiric genes.

Her race once lived in the shadows, never too numerous but still there. What she knew only came from a few books she had read, and later retrieved from ANBU who had seized them, that Orochimaru possessed.

The vampire race had been decimated from an attack of a gathering of them by the Hachibi, the Giant Ox, before the establishment of Konoha, and the few that remained bred into human populations.

The Nidaime Mizukage and Orochimaru were also descendent of the ancient vampires, though Orochimaru had manipulated himself far too much to ever hope to activate the genes. Too bad really, should he have unlocked his distant genes and become a vampire, he'd of had his immortality much easier than his current methods.

Suck to you Orochimaru

She'd hid her actual race from the ninja of the villages, as the only way to really tell her true nature would be to see her drink blood with her retractable fangs or to steak her with a wooden stake. It also helped that she normally had Tsunade's Henge jutsu activate, hiding her true appearance, which was taller, longer haired, and a hell of of a lot sexier than she was now.

But that would be saved for her destined mate to, experience.

Her race didn't just breed randomly, but could detect a 'destined mate', or someone who was a perfect match for them. If the destined mate was human, like hers was, she could have a male vampire change him, provided she transferred most of the chakra used to do it.

If a human was changed, they not only were bound as the servant of the vampire who turned them, but they also had to be compatible to the vampire's destined mate.

By compatible, that meant hey had to be able to have a relationship with him or her like the vampire who changed them could. This was mainly a survival mechanism, as female vampires could only have one child, this helped to ensure their race didn't die out easily.

If not compatible, they'd die.

The transferred chakra fixed the loyalty and destined one related issues, and bound the human to said vampire. However, as she was the last possible user of the vampire blood, so this wasn't an option.

Her destined mate would have to be made immortal, another way. For if a destined mate died...it had, side effects on his remaining mate or mates.

This included, and wasn't limited to, depression, mass murdering, loss of sense, back pain, wrinkles, mutations, thoughts of suicide and death.

But, luckily she had a plan to fix that, finally put his Jinchuurki condition to good use.

And all it took would be getting that stalker of his under her, vampiric wing, not that she had any. It would take some thinking, with all the Hyuga around keeping an eye on her and the fuss they'd raise if she disappeared from their sight even for a minute.

But still, once she figured out how to get passed that, Hinata would be hers, and through her, her destined mate's. After all, if she had to revive her race, might as well have some help.

Original moves (A/N, some jutsu may be reused from Mysterious Power during this story)

Shadow Travel Jutsu

Rank; D

Description; Only available to Vampires, this jutsu allows one to teleport via shadows. Uses more chakra then Body Flicker

Infinite Torch seal

Rank; C

Description; A seal that creates flames, while at the same time preserving the torch the fire burned on. Turned on and off via the creator clapping his or her hands

Sealing; Full Room Sealing

Rank; C

Description; A room is sealed to prevent body flickering away.

Fire Release; Phoenix Wave Surge

Rank; A

Description; A fire release that strike a wide area with fire jutsu