Hey There Witchdoctor!

First Encounter

Last Time:

Just before he could stake the vampire he was sent flying by a black blur. Orochimaru felt a deadly power that far surpassed his own so he fled. Hiruzen tried to see what scared Orochimaru off, but he only saw a black mass with a pair of fiery yellow-orange eyes in the dark just before blacking out.

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Naruto was in the kitchen mixing some herbs together when he heard his cell phone ring. He picked it up and answered. "Hello father, what's up?"

"Just checking up on you. How is it going fixing up that old mansion?"

"Good, it took a while to get everything cleaned up since this place is huge! Four stories at about 28,000 sq ft with a cellar, a greenhouse and an attic on 500 acres with three other buildings, but the greenhouse doesn't face the right way for some of our other plants so I'm making the attic into a greenhouse. For a house that was built in the 1800s the electricity and plumbing are all up to date and work wonderfully. Oh, I found out more about this village." Naruto commented.

"Really, what's the story with that village?"

Naruto frowned, "Well, apparently this village has needed a doctor for a long time, but no regular doctor or healer is brave enough to deal with all the creatures here."

"What kinds of creatures?"

"A clan of cat demons, a pack of werewolves, some vampires, merpeople and I think some forest demons."

"BLOODY HELL! No wonder no one will help, but it seems like our kind of place. Now what's going on in this village?"

"Well, about 10 years ago a couple came to this village offering help. Everyone was happy and gave them everything they wanted even the owners of this mansion, the Uzumakis, were so desperate they left their home and gave the couple the deed, but they turned out to be con artists. They took everything and kicked the Uzumakis out ... the Uzumakis all died."

"That explains why people in that village aren't fond of people claiming to be doctors. Why were the Uzumakis so desperate?"

"I wondered that to and then I found a secret passage in the cellar and it lead to an underground lake. The lake was so clear it had to be the home of merpeople, which explains the huge house since they would want as much access to the underground water ways as possible, but the Uzumakis were very sick according to the green slime I found near the edge of the lake."

"Green slime ... that has to be The Wishing Well disease ... those poor people, I wish we ran into those creeps sooner ... come on, get out dammit!"

Naruto cocked an eyebrow, "What are you doing father?"

"I'm trying to clean a closet, but it I can't get this box out ... I better go this box is putting up a fight, oh your mother wanted me to tell you to consider creating a contract with someone soon and to not do anything stupid . Gotta go, bye-Shit! Avalanche!"

"Bye father." Naruto laughed as he hung up the phone.

Naruto looked up the beautiful wooden staircase that went to the second floor, "Keeping an injured and sick vampire in my house doesn't qualify as 'stupid', does it? ... Mom is going to kill me."

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Hiruzen groaned as he woke up. The vampire looked around the room and found that he was sitting on a bed in one of the bedrooms of the Uzumaki mansion with his wounds bandaged. He heard someone coming down the hall towards his room.

The door opened to reveal a certain blonde British transfer student carrying a tray with kettle and a cup of tea. "Hello, headmaster." Sarutobi made eye contact with Naruto and tried to use his vampire eyes to hypnotize him. Naruto leaned over and held out the cup of tea. "Tea?"

Hiruzen's eyes widened, (He's isn't affected by my eyes?! How can that be!? Does he know what I am? No ... no if he knew I wouldn't be here.) "Umm I ... no thank you."

Naruto pushed the cup closer, "Oh, but I insist."

Hiruzen mentally cringed, (Oh crap ... I have to drink it. It's going to taste disgusting everything taste disgusting except blood to vampires, but I have to or he'll be suspicious.) The vampire took the cup and brought it to his lips. He poured a small amount of the contents into his mouth, but instead of the revolting ash taste he expected, a delicious fruity taste hit his tongue.

Naruto chuckled as he watched Hiruzen drank the tea in a few seconds, "Care for another cup headmaster?"

"Yes please! What is that tea-?" When Hiruzen gave Naruto back the cup he noticed his ring was gone. That meant his illusion making him look 70 when he really looked 23 was gone, but Naruto called him headmaster, which means the blonde knew this whole time!

Naruto poured some more tea and gave it to Hiruzen seemingly unaware of the vampire's shock, "It's called Blood Orange tea. It's made from a mixture of rare herbs ... you know, headmaster, there's a story that goes with this tea. Long ago, demons used to walk freely amongst humans, but at some point humans became envious of demons. Some humans tried to become demons and they did this through unnatural means. However, instead of becoming like demons they created a subcategory of creatures that were as strong as demons, but retain a human form. The creatures were unstable and they had many weaknesses that they didn't have before so they consulted a healer who told them that it was impossible to truly go from human to demon and their attempts to do so created a virus that takes away certain things from them. The healer made a medicine for the creatures that removed the virus, but not all of them took it. This tea was believed to be that medicine."

Hiruzen was amazed by the story and the possible meaning behind it, "What kind of creatures were they? And what did the virus do?" He asked as he sipped the tea.

"Those creatures are now known as vampires and the virus is what takes away their ability to taste, walk in sunlight, touch certain things like silver or holy water or devils bane and gives them their insatiable desire for human blood. It actually weakens them slightly."

The vampire was sure now that this wasn't a joke. This boy in front of him knew about the supernatural world, but what should he make of this foolish tale, "Soooo, you're saying that vampires are strong, but sick humans?"

"Yep, and taking this at least twice a day for seven days will get rid of the virus and another potion removed the silver in your system." commented the strange student.

"Thank you, Naruto ... " said a slightly skeptical vampire as he stared at the tangy orange contents in the cup. Despite the fact it was the first thing he tasted since he was alive, which was unheard of, and that he was almost all healed he wasn't convinced about the blonde or his potion.

"Don't mention it, but if you want to continue taking that tea you should start eating solid foods soon, otherwise, you won't be feeling well." said Naruto.

"I will ... Naruto, what are you and why did you help me?" asked the headmaster. He knew that no ordinary person should know things like this or treat injured vampires. At least, not without a price.

"I thought that was obvious. I'm a doctor and I only wanted to help, that's all." He said with a smile, but the mysterious blonde offered no more information for the unsure vampire. In the end Hiruzen decided to try it and see for himself, but if he found the young man's claims to be false ... well he hoped for Naruto's sake that this wasn't a trick ...