Nightwalkers

Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto, but you knew that already.

A/N; and here’s chapter three. The one you have been waiting for. I introduce Detective Hyuuga Neji. This chapter has a lot of important information. Thanks for reading.

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Chapter Three


(Two hours later) (Naruto POV)

We arrived at the Tokyo Police Station about two hours after I got off of the phone with Officer Hiragashi. Kisame pulled the bus over to the side of the road and Itachi, Sasuke, and I got out.

We walked through the doors of the station and were greeted by a young female officer with black hair and brown eyes. She bowed in greeting and introduced herself, “Welcome, my name is Yuri Hiragashi.”

I replied with, “My name’s Naruto and this is Sasuke and his brother Itachi. I mentioned them on the phone.”

Officer Hiragashi smiled and said, “Ah yes, your pack mates.” She then bowed to the brothers before addressing me again. “If you would follow me, the detective is waiting in the conference room.”

And with that we followed Officer Hiragashi down a long hallway, before arriving at the room. Hiragashi opened the door and walked in, we followed soon after.
Waiting in the room was a young, nicely dressed man. He had long black hair that fell about mid waist, and light silver eyes. This must be the detective that I would be working with. And if judging by his expression he was not happy receiving help from civilians. I inwardly smirked. This human detective didn’t know what he was getting into, if he thought we were ordinary civilians.

Hiragashi muttered a few words to the detective before turning to us. She then introduced the detective. “This is Detective Neji Hyuuga. He is the one in charge of this case.”

I strode forward until I stood about three feet away from the Detective and held out a hand. I smirked before I said, “The name’s Naruto.”

He shook my hand and replied, “Hello.”

My smirk widened.”It must really bug you, huh?”

He gave me a blank look, so I clarified, “You get put on an interesting case only to get told that you’re not working alone. You think that your partner may be another cop, but the officer here tells you it’s a civilian instead. You’re probably thinking what good having a civilian on this particular case could be.” At his stunned look I finished with, “well, here’s the deal. I’m not just any civilian. I’m a special kind.”

Neji looked down right skeptical at that. “Special? How are you special?”

I grinned before backing away from him. I walked over to where my pack mates stood, before turning back to the good looking detective and saying, “This is how I’m special.”

And right there before them, I shifted. I felt the power rush through my body as I changed. My back arched as my spine changed to accommodate my new form. I then dropped to all fours as my hands and feet turned to paws and my mouth and nose shifted to accommodate the many rows of sharp teeth and sensitive nose.

I sat in my new, white furred body and looked up into stunned silver eyes. I gave a wolfish grin, before I stood on my four feet and sauntered over to the stunned detective. I nudged one of his hands with my nose, and strong fingers sank into the fur at my neck. I nuzzled closer as those fingers scratched behind my ears. I always did love a good scratch.

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(Normal POV)

Neji Hyuuga watched in stunned fascination as the stunning looking blonde turned into a white wolf. The white wolf stretched before he walked over to Neji. A wet nose shook Neji out of his trance and strong fingers sank into velvet soft fur. Neji scratched the wolf behind the ears.

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Sasuke watched his best friend in shock. Naruto never acted like this around strangers. He usually wasn’t this affectionate. But this reaction towards the Hyuuga, he didn’t know what to make of it. With one last nuzzle, Naruto headed over to stand next to Sasuke. Sasuke reached down to scratch Naruto’s ears, as well. Naruto snuggled closer, before turning his attention back to the situation at hand.

Sasuke looked at Naruto before turning to address the Hyuuga. “Now, will you accept the help?”

All Neji could do was nod, he was still a little shocked about seeing a real shifter.

Officer Hiragashi was the one to speak next. “Wouldn’t it be easier if he turned back into his other form? He could at least be able to speak for himself, without having to rely on you to get his questions asked.”

Neji looked confused. “What are you talking about? How can they know what he wants to be said?”

Itachi smirked and answered, “Looks like a little more information about shifters and pack life is needed.” Itachi then turned towards Naruto.

Naruto locked eyes with Itachi for a minute before he nodded. Naruto then walked over to the wall and sat down.

Neji watched in fascination as Naruto once again shifted, turning back into his human form. The blonde male stretched comfortably out on the floor. He drew one leg up so he could rest his arm across it. With a glance at Sasuke and Itachi, he began speaking.

“First off, I’ll explain status.” Naruto paused to gather his thoughts. Sasuke wandered over to his best friend and sat down next to Naruto, snuggling up to the blonde. Naruto looked at him before speaking again, “your status in the pack is measured by how much power you hold. For example, I’m the alpha, the leader, and Sasuke here is a submissive. I’ll get more into that later.

“Pack structure is divided into two groups; purebloods and changed. Purebloods are just what it sounds like, People born with the ability to shift. My father was alpha of his pack, and being his son, makes me his heir. And changed shifters are those who were attacked by a rogue or changed with their permission. But not everybody can become a shifter. There are conditions, but there is no reason for me to get into that now. As I was saying, Itachi and Sasuke are changed shifters. They were attacked by a rogue when they were very young. I’ll explain more about them later, too.

“Anyways, as I was saying. Purebloods usually have more power and therefore more status among other shifters. But since my pack is small, there’s only the three of us, most status rules don’t apply. A pack is usually made up of an alpha pair, a second, and then the rest of the pack members. Submissives usually fall at the bottom of pack structure, but there are some packs that have no submissives at all. They’re considered the weakest link in a pack. But as I said before status rules don’t apply with my pack.”

“What exactly is a submissive?” Neji interrupted.

“Be patient, I was getting to that.” Naruto replied irritated. With Neji’s nod he continued, “A submissive is a wolf or shifter with no power of his own. They are usually dependant on their alpha. Let’s see, how to explain….” Naruto once again paused to gather his thoughts. Sasuke, sensing his mood, moved closer. Naruto looked at his friend before wrapping an arm around his shoulders. Then he started explaining again, “It’s pretty complicated, so be patient. In most cases we are divided into two categories, dominant and submissive. This mostly has to do with BDSM, but the same rule applies here. Alphas are dominant, the leaders, while submissives are the “underdog”. They hold the lowest position in the pack.
“Now as mentioned earlier, status is decided by your level of power. You’re either an alpha or a submissive. It’s the way you’re born or changed. Submissives have no power of their own and need their Alpha’s permission for everything. They literally can’t do a thing without permission first. Most packs only keep submissives around as pets or because they feel sorry for them. As for me, Sasuke’s family and my best friend, so I would never turn him away.” Naruto said that last part with a growl.

Itachi looked at his alpha before taking a seat next to his brother. Naruto began speaking once Itachi got settled, “Now about Alphas; alphas are leaders, mainly because they have certain gifts. Once a pack leader is decided, the wolf is able to bond with all of his pack mates. The bond is mental; it gives the alpha the ability to know where each pack member is at all times, as well as allowing them to speak telepathically with each other.

“Now some shifters have an ability that is passed down through blood. Each shifter of that particular blood line may have one or two distinct gifts. For example, Sasuke is empathic and has the ability to sense spirits. Empathy is really a unique gift, not only can you sense others emotions, but you can sense the emotions in a room as well. An example of that is; let’s say you have a victim of a violent crime, the impressions of that crime are still in the area that the attack happened. Now if one of the people assigned to that case were empathic they would be able to tell you exactly what room the attack happened in. It they were really sensitive they might even be able to tell you exactly what had happened in that very room.

“Itachi has a gift as well. His is clairvoyance; the ability to read the past of a person or object. It’s a really strong gift. In case you were wondering, he can pick up both images and pictures from objects and see a person’s past if he came into skin contact with them.

“Mine is more instinctive than a gift, I know when something bad is going to happen. Mine leads more toward a sixth sense than an actual psychic gift.” Naruto paused to catch his breath, “So any questions?”

“Actually I do have one; how did Sasuke and Itachi get to be shifters? You mentioned that they were attacked. What exactly happened?” Officer Hiragashi asked.
Naruto sighed, “This is going to be a tough one, so again have patience with me.” Naruto sighed, “Where to start?” Naruto paused, “I guess the beginning will have to do; my family was one of the most powerful clans in Tokyo for many years. Along with the Uzumaki-Namekaze clan, the second most powerful clan was the Uchia. Tokyo was divided into two sections, upper class and middle class. Among the upper class was another dividing line, human and shifters. My family was all shifters; pure blooded, and the Uchia clan was all human.

“Now having a lot of power and status means having a lot of enemies also. Both of our clans had plenty of those. Then there were the unknowns, people who were neither shifter nor human. They lived in the lower part of the city, the underground sections if you want to call them that, among those were the vampires; Night hunters. But one of the biggest problems any of the races had was the rogues.”

Neji asked confused, “Rogues?”

Naruto nodded, “yeah, rogues are what we call any of the races that are outcasts. They disobey the rules and attempt to destroy the fragile peace we all share. But more than that, they are killers. Cold blooded murderers. They have no reason to kill, than just because they can. Not very many are strong enough to go against a rogue shifter or vampire.

“I’ll explain more about that later. Right now back to my story.” Naruto once again paused to gather his thoughts, “Where was I? Oh, yeah; one particular group of rogues was lead by a powerful shifter. He had long ago turned against his clan after being denied leadership. He was strong, but didn’t hold much sway over the other members of his clan. In fact, none of the others trusted him. So he set off on his own, but swore to come back more powerful than any of them were, and when he did, nothing would come in the way between him and total control of the others.
“And for a while that was the last his clan saw of him, but all too soon that relief ended. It was about fifty-five years later that he returned, but he didn’t return alone. He had a pack with him. He had managed to find allies in others. Most of his allies were shifters, Werewolves to be exact.

“It was the night of Sasuke’s fifth birthday. The whole clan had celebrated the day together. Sasuke and Itachi were outside with their father. They were getting the barbecue ready. It was about six and the sun was just setting.”
The attack came from the woods behind the complex. It was the screams that let Fugaku and the others know that something was wrong. He told Itachi and Sasuke to find somewhere to hide and he went to investigate the area with a couple others of the clan.

I had gotten wind of a pack of rogues in the area and went to go check it out. I was investigating the woods myself when I heard the cries. I shifted on the run and attacked one of the wolves. I had barely managed to save Itachi’s life. Had I been a couple minutes later he would have been dead.

"Anyways, I shifted back to my normal form to see if he was hurt. I discovered a vicious bite mark on his leg. I treated it the best I could and then we left to find Sasuke.” Naruto paused in his storytelling.

Itachi picked up from where he left off, “Naruto had wanted me to stay behind, but after arguing with him for a while he reluctantly agreed to take me with him. Besides I told him I would be safer with him than on my own.”

Naruto snorted, “I had no choice, and you made a good point.”

Sasuke laughed, “You actually admitted it. You never admit when you’re wrong.”
Naruto just shook his head and continued the story, “The next place I decided to look was the main house. Itachi said that Sasuke always felt safer in their home than with any of their relatives.

We headed towards the house, but were stopped along the way by a few of the higher pack members. I didn’t really want to fight them with Itachi there, but I had no choice. I shifted again and injured most of them, and they fled once they realized what I was.

There was a moment, that I thought that Sasuke and I were in trouble, but Naruto just led me towards the house. That was the first time I saw a shifter actually help one that wasn’t their kind.” Itachi said once again picking up from where Naruto left off.

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A/N: and there’s chapter 3. I decided to end it there so you’d have time to digest the new info.