Chapter 14

Naruto was reading his text book, when Stiles ran into the classroom and sat behind him, "Dude, I just talked to my dad, who just talked to Jackson, and I've got really terrible, horrible, very, very bad news."

"Your over exaggerating Stiles, Issac isn't a threat to anyone." Naruto said still reading as Issac who had been smirking frowned and glared back at Naruto with his glowing yellow eyes

Later

As the bell rung, Naruto and Stiles walked out of the classroom, "All right, I only found one thing online called the Kanima. It's a were-jaguar from South America that goes after murderers." Stiles said

"Yeah, but that thing was not a jaguar." Naruto frowned

"Yeah, and I'm not exactly a murderer." Stiles said

"We can't trust everything we read on the internet. The only sure way right now is to translate the Beastiary." Naruto replied

"Any luck on that?"

"None whatsoever." Naruto sighed

"Great." Stiles said as the two entered their next class and sat down before getting ready for the class to began when Jackson sat behind them

"Hey, what the hell is a Kanima?" Jackson asked causing the two to look at him but before they could say anything Coach Finstock walked up and began to speak

"All right, listen up. A quick warning before we begin our review. Some of you, might want to start their own study groups, because tomorrow's midterm is so profoundly difficult I'm not even too sure I could pass it. Okay, I need a volunteer at the board to answer the first question. Who's got it, huh? Come on, let's go, buddy."

Moments Later

Jackson had filled Naruto and Stiles in on how Derek had used Kanima venom on him, "Paralyzed from the neck down. Do you have any idea what that feels like?"

"I'm familiar with the sensation." Stiles said

"Why would Derek test you?" Naruto asked

"How should I know?" Jackson shrugged

"He bit you, didn't he?" Naruto frowned causing Jackson to look at him for a moment before he shook his head, "Your a terrible liar. Anyway, do they think it's Lydia?"

"I don't know, all I heard was her name and something about chemistry." Jackson said before Coach walked up to them

"Jackson! Do you have something you want to share with the rest of the class?" Coach asked frowning

"Um, Just an undying admiration for my coach." Jackson lied

"That's really kind of you. Now shut up! Shut it!" The coach said before he looked around, "Anybody else?"

"What're we going to do?" Stiles asked

"Protect Lydia." Naruto frowned before class ended and the two got up and left

"Derek is not gonna kill her without proof, right?" Stiles said getting a look from Naruto, "All right, so he tests her like he did with Jackson, right? But when and where?" Stiles asked as he and Naruto walked into chemistry

"I'd say here and now." Naruto frowned looking at Erica and Issac who walked into the class looking at Lydia and the two tried to head for her but Naruto beat them to it, Stiles wanted to sit with them but Naruto shook his head and had him sit with Allison and tell her what was going on

"Hey." Lydia smiled

"Hey, listen I need you to be very careful around Erica, and Issac." Naruto said causing the two to look at him

"A-are they like you?" Lydia asked

"Weaker and pathetic versions. They may be trying to kill you." Naruto said causing Lydia's eyes to widen, before Naruto placed a hand on her thigh, "Relax, I'll rip there heads off before I let them hurt you."

"Why would they be trying to kill me?"

"Because you were bitten by Peter, and something called a Kanima is running around killing people."

"They think it's me?" Lydia asked getting a nod from Naruto, "That's crazy."

"Don't worry about it, Lydia. I promise you, nothing will happen to you." Naruto said getting a nod from Lydia

Adrian began his lesson and began to pair the students together with Naruto sitting beside Erica

"Whatever it is you're thinking about doing, nows the time to reconsider."

"Alpha's orders.' Erica said before she looked to Allison who was watching her and with a smirk, she tried to place her hand on Naruto's thigh but he grabbed her hand and broke her wrist without looking at her as Erica held in her pain by biting the inside of her lip as her eyes flashed yellow

"You hurt Lydia. I'll kill you." Naruto said looking Erica in her eyes

"Switch." Adrian called and people began to move as Allison took Naruto's spot while he ended up sitting besides Issac

"You know I've never actually been to one of Lydia's big, invite-only birthday parties." Issac said as Naruto worked on the project, "I did ask her out once though. It was the first day of freshman year and I thought everything was gonna be different for me in high school, but she said no. She even laughed. Told me to come back when the bike I rode to school had an engine, not a chain."

"Stop talking." Naruto said causing Issac to look at him, "Your voice annoys me. Speak again, and I'll rip out your tongue."

Issac glared at Naruto who ignored him

Allison focused on the assignment as she asked, "What are you gonna do to her?"

"Don't you think the better question is what's she going to do to us?" Erica asked before she got closer to Allison, "I have to say, you guys are cute together. But you know, I've always had this feeling like I'm a little psychic. I just don't think you're going to last."

Allison scoffed, "You think you can hurt me by trying to slide your hand up his thigh?" she asked

"Would you like it better if it were your thigh?" Erica asked while placing a hand on Allison's thigh with her claws ready to puncture her leg, "Come on. Girl fight in the lab. It'll be hot."

After a moment it was time to switch again and Lydia sat beside Issac not speaking as he tried to strike up a conversation before time was up

"Time. If you've catalyzed the reaction correctly, you should now be looking at a crystal." Naruto who was sitting with Stiles pulled up a crystal from the beaker, "Now for the part of that last experiment I'm sure you'll all enjoy, you can eat it."

Naruto handed the crystal to Stiles who put it back in the beaker as the two along with Allison and Erica focused on Lydia who was about to eat the crystal when Naruto noticed the Kanima venom dripping off it as Issac smiled and as Lydia ate the crystal nothing happened to her

Naruto then looked at Derek who he had sensed outside during the entire class

Later, Empty Classroom

Naruto was with Lydia, Allison, and Stiles, "Derek's outside waiting for Lydia."

"Waiting to kill me?" Lydia asked

"If he thinks your the Kanima, then yes, especially after what happened at the pool." Naruto said

"It's not her." Allison said

"We know that but they don't and the first thing we need to do that gets Lydia out of here. I'll leave that to you while I distract Derek. Be careful." Naruto said before he placed a hand on Lydia's shoulder and walked out of the room

"You heard the man, let's go." Stiles said

"Wait I have an appointment with Ms. Morrel." Lydia said

"Seriously?" Stiles asked

"My mom will throw a fit if I skip out on it." Lydia said

"Okay, I'll go with her." Allison said causing Stiles to sigh

"Fine but as soon as your finished come find me, I'll be warming up my jeep." Stiles replied

Outside

Naruto walked out to see Boyd and noticed that all his fat has turned to muscle, "Where's Derek?"

"Talk to me."

"You don't want this fight." Naruto said

"I'm twice the size of you. I can take you." Boyd smirked as Naruto sighed

"You know you and your packmates are really starting to piss me off." Naruto said before Boyd swung on him with a right but Naruto jumped forward and kneed him in the chest sending him stumbling back but Naruto grabbed Boyd's face and blurred into the woods and slammed Boyd's head into a few trees an tossed him into one sending Boyd to the ground before Naruto grabbed him by his throat and hoisted him up in the air off his feet

"Now I'm going to ask one more time." Naruto said as his hybrid features began to emerge, "Where. Is. Derek?"

"Right here." Derek said standing a few feet away from Naruto and his beta who Naruto tossed away, "She failed the test."

"Yeah, which doesn't prove anything. Lydia's different." Naruto said waking up to Derek

"I know, at night she turns into a homicidal walking snake." Derek replied as Boyd massaging his throat walked over, "I don't know why you think you have to protect everyone now, Nate, but even so, Lydia has killed people and she's gonna do it again, and next time, it's gonna be one of us."

"What if you're wrong?" Naruto asked

"She was bitten by an Alpha. It's her." Derek said emphatically

"You saw that thing up close. You know it's not like us." Naruto replied

"But it is! We're all shapeshifters. You don't know what you're dealing with. It happens rarely and it happens for a reason. Sometimes the shape you take reflects the person that you are."

"Lydia is immune to certain aspects of the supernatural." Naruto said remembering how he couldn't compel her even before she was bitten

"No one's immune! I've never seen it or heard of it. It's -It's never happened." Derek replied

"What about Jackson?" Naruto asked as Derek frowned, "He doesn't smell like a wolf, and yet he's still alive meaning he survived when you bit him because we know the bite either kills you or turns you. So how is Jackson not a wolf but still walking around?"

"...I don't know." Derek said before he shook his head, "Look, I can't let her live! You should have known that!"

"I'm not going to let you kill her." Naruto glared

"Who said I was gonna do it?" Derek asked and Naruto's eyes widened before went to go to the school but Boyd tried to tackle him

Quickly Naruto grabbed Boyd's arm and snatched it out of its socket as he tossed Boyd at a branch that ran him through, Derek swung a clawed hand at Naruto who ducked and elbowed Derek in the back of the head sending him flying forward toward a tree but Derek used his claws to stop his momentum and turned with his red glowing eyes at Naruto but saw that he was gone

Naruto's House

Allison, Lydia, Stiles, and Jackson got out of Stiles Jeep, and began to head for the house, "Any word from Nate?" Lydia asked Stiles

"Not yet, but he's fine." Allison said smiling, "I hope." she muttered

Stiles knocked on the door and after a moment Malia answered the door, "Naruto ain't here "

"We know, he's meeting us here." Stiles said

Malia raised an eyebrow, "Why wouldn't he be here with you?"

"Hey, can we do this inside?" Jackson asked the strange girl he's never seen before

"Speak to me again, I'll rip your tongue out." Malia said causing Jackson to clam up

"Malia!" Allison said walking forward, "Derek's pack are trying to kill Lydia, we need to protect her. Naruto stayed behind to detract Derek while we brought her here."

"Why didn't you just say so?" Malia asked letting them in

The four students followed Malia into the living room to see the flatscreen was on American Dad, while open textbooks were on the table and a bowl of Fruity Pebbles was beside the books, "Lydia, follow me. I need to talk to you for a minute." Jackson said as Malia cleaned up her stuff

"Seriously?" Lydia asked with a sigh and made to follow Jackson who jumped as Malia appeared in front of the doorway leading to the bedrooms

"Naruto said you're a dick who doesn't treat Lydia right. I'll be monitoring you and if you so much as say something Lydia doesn't like I'll be coming up there to break every bone in your body." Malia said causing Jackson to frown

Jackson and Lydia walked by Malia who walked over to Stiles and Allison who were looking out the window with Allison holding a small crossbow, and Stiles holding the largest knife he could find in the kitchen

Upstairs

Jackson suddenly groaned clutching his head as he and Lydia stood in the hallway, "You okay?" Lydia asked raising an eyebrow

"Mmm. So you never gave me back my key." Jackson said getting to the point

What? Your key? That's what you wanted to talk about?" Lydia asked aghast

"Why didn't you give it back?" Jackson asked

"You're serious? I'm attacked by some lunatic who bites me. A lunatic who, by the way, was a werewolf. I spent a few hours freaked out of my mind walking around the woods naked. Now I have a pack of werewolves trying to kill me, and you expect me to be worried about some stupid key?" Lydia asked

"So do you have the key or not?" Jackson asked unbothered by everything Lydia just said causing her to glare at him

Downstairs

"Oh, jeez." Stiles said tightening his grip on the knife as Derek and his pack was outside before he looks over to see Allison looking at her phone, "What are you doing?"

"I think I think I have to call my dad." Allison said

"No, but if he finds you here, you and Nate,"

"I know." Allison said taking a deep breath, "But what are we supposed to do? They're not here to scare us, okay? They're here to kill Lydia."

"We can take 'em." Malia nodded assuredly

"We may have to if we want to protect her." Naruto said walking in after entering through the backdoor after coach had caught him at school and he stumbled upon Danny working on something

Naruto tossed Danny's tablet onto the table and walked out the door, "There's nothing here for you." Naruto said as Stiles closed the door behind him while the trio walked out beside Naruto

"I'm not leaving without her Nate." Derek replied

"Well good luck with that. Lydia isn't the one your after." Naruto said as his eyes began to glow as Stiles got into his boxing stance still holding the knife, as Allison aimed her crossbow, and Malia blue eyes glowed and she flicked her fingers allowing her claws to shoot out

"Really the test proved otherwise."

"Lydia was immune to my compulsion way before Peter bit her." Naruto growled as Derek's betas look confused at what he meant, "Besides I know who it is."

Everyone looked at Naruto in surprise

Upstairs

Lydia closed her eyes and took a deep breath, "You want your key. Fine." reaching into her pocket, Lydia retrieved her keys an took off Jackson's and tossed it at him, "I hate you."

Jackson felt his heart shatter as he could tell that she meant it

"You have what you want you can leave now." Lydia said turning and walking away leaving Jackson standing there not knowing what to do and when he made to move he suddenly gasped and braced himself against the wall

Outside

"Now for the last time. Take your pathetic pack and get off my property." Naruto said

Derek was about to speak but the for opened and Lydia walked out, "Guys we ne-"

Isaac immediately ran forward and jumped for Lydia, Allison shot her crossbow sending an arrow into his leg, as Stiles slashed his knife cutting Issac across the gut, while Naruto punched Issac in the face as Malia slashed her claws across his chest sending Issac to the ground

Boyd and Erica were about to run in to help there packmate but Derek stopped them as everyone heard another set of steps and hissing

Naruto ran into the yard followed by his friends to see the Kanima climb out his window, "You guys brought Jackson?" he asked lowly

"He invited himself." Stiles said as the Kanima roared at everyone causing Lydia to jump

"Get Lydia home." Naruto said before in a blur of vamp speed he was on the roof and kicked the Kanima upside the head sending it off his roof and into the street where it rebounded and took off on all fours

Malia jumped forward and landed in her coyote form and gave chase as Derek told Boyd and Erica to take Issac home as he gave chase as well with Naruto beside him as Stiles got into his jeep and drove after them leaving Allison to drive Lydia home.